资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
3. A familiar spirit; a witch's attendant. [Obs.]
A trifling fly, none of your great familiars. --B.
Jonson.
4. A parasite. [Obs.] --Massinger.
5. A kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for
hire and usually drawn by one horse. [Eng.]
6. The length of an extended flag from its staff; sometimes,
the length from the ``union'' to the extreme end.
7. The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the
wind blows.
8. (Naut.) That part of a compass on which the points are
marked; the compass card. --Totten.
9. (Mech.)
(a) Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a
fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of
machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the
striking part of a clock.
(b) A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends
on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the
motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the
power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome,
is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining
press. See {Fly wheel} (below).
10. (Knitting Machine) The piece hinged to the needle, which
holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is
penetrating another loop; a latch. --Knight.
11. The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a
spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
12. (Weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or
jerk. --Knight.
13.
(a) Formerly, the person who took the printed sheets from
the press.
(b) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power
to a power printing press for doing the same work.
14. The outer canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn
over the ridgepole, but so extended as to touch the roof
of the tent at no other place.
15. One of the upper screens of a stage in a theater.
16. The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers,
overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons.
17. (Baseball) A batted ball that flies to a considerable
distance, usually high in the air; also, the flight of a
ball so struck; as, it was caught on the fly.
{Black fly}, {Cheese fly}, {Dragon fly, etc.} See under
{Black}, {Cheese}, etc. -- {Fly agaric} (Bot.), a mushroom
({Agaricus muscarius}), having a narcotic juice which, in
sufficient quantities, is poisonous. -- {Fly block}
(Naut.), a pulley whose position shifts to suit the
working of the tackle with which it is connected; -- used
in the hoisting tackle of yards. -- {Fly board} (Printing
Press), the board on which printed sheets are deposited by
the fly. -- {Fly book}, a case in the form of a book for
anglers' flies. --Kingsley.{Fly cap}, a cap with wings,
formerly worn by women. -- {Fly drill}, a drill having a
reciprocating motion controlled by a fly wheel, the
driving power being applied by the hand through a cord
winding in reverse directions upon the spindle as it
rotates backward and forward. --Knight.{Fly fishing}, the
act or art of angling with a bait of natural or artificial
flies. --Walton.{Fly flap}, an implement for killing
flies. -- {Fly governor}, a governor for regulating the
speed of an engine, etc., by the resistance of vanes
revolving in the air. -- {Fly honeysuckle} (Bot.), a plant
of the honeysuckle genus ({Lonicera}), having a bushy stem
and the flowers in pairs, as {L. ciliata} and {L.
Xylosteum}. -- {Fly hook}, a fishhook supplied with an
artificial fly. -- {Fly leaf}, an unprinted leaf at the
beginning or end of a book, circular, programme, etc. --
{Fly maggot}, a maggot bred from the egg of a fly. --Ray.
{Fly net}, a screen to exclude insects.
{Fly nut} (Mach.), a nut with wings; a thumb nut; a finger
nut.
{Fly orchis} (Bot.), a plant ({Ophrys muscifera}), whose
flowers resemble flies.
{Fly paper}, poisoned or sticky paper for killing flies that
feed upon or are entangled by it.
{Fly powder}, an arsenical powder used to poison flies.
{Fly press}, a screw press for punching, embossing, etc.,
operated by hand and having a heavy fly.
{Fly rail}, a bracket which turns out to support the hinged
leaf of a table.
{Fly rod}, a light fishing rod used in angling with a fly.
{Fly sheet}, a small loose advertising sheet; a handbill.
{Fly snapper} (Zo["o]l.), an American bird ({Phainopepla
nitens}), allied to the chatterers and shrikes. The male
is glossy blue-black; the female brownish gray.
{Fly wheel} (Mach.), a heavy wheel attached to machinery to
equalize the movement (opposing any sudden acceleration by
its inertia and any retardation by its momentum), and to
accumulate or give out energy for a variable or
intermitting resistance. See {Fly}, n., 9.
{On the fly} (Baseball), still in the air; -- said of a
batted ball caught before touching the ground.
Honeysuckle \Hon"ey*suc`kle\, n. [Cf. AS. hunis?ge privet. See
{Honey}, and {Suck}.] (Bot.)
One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for
their beauty, and some for their fragrance.
Note: The honeysuckles are properly species of the genus
{Lonicera}; as, {L. Caprifolium}, and {L. Japonica},
the commonly cultivated fragrant kinds; {L.
Periclymenum}, the fragrant woodbine of England; {L.
grata}, the American woodbine, and {L. sempervirens},
the red-flowered trumpet honeysuckle. The European fly
honeysuckle is {L. Xylosteum}; the American, {L.
ciliata}. The American Pinxter flower ({Azalea
nudiflora}) is often called honeysuckle, or false
honeysuckle. The name {Australian honeysuckle} is
applied to one or more trees of the genus {Banksia}.
See {French honeysuckle}, under {French}.