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Definition of Botts
1. n. pl. See Bots.
Definition of Botts
1. Noun. The disease caused by the maggots of the horse bot fly (Gasterophilus Oestrus Equi) when they infect the stomach of a horse. ¹
2. Noun. (context: by extension) Infection by gadfly maggots (Gasterophilus Oestrus Bovis) under the skin of cows, or by sheep maggots (Gasterophilus Oestrus Ovis) in the frontal sinus of sheep. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Botts
1. bott [n] - See also: bott
Medical Definition of Botts
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Botts
Literary usage of Botts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1916)
"Lawson botts" and Thomas G. Green,3- for the prisoners.03 Mr. Hunter called the
attention of the Court to the neces- In the two extended reports of the ..."
2. A Biographical Sketch of Henry A. Wise: With a History of the Political by James Pinkney Hambleton (1856)
"That Corsican usurper, the squatter from Powhatan, has seized upon the throne of
the Bourbons, and botts, Perrin, Griffin and Crane, have been exiled from ..."
3. The Letters and Times of the Tylers by Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1885)
"Whigs railed against the President, and argued more stubbornly than ever the
issue of a Bank.1 But soon again a change came : botts assumed, ..."
4. Presidential Candidates: Containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and by David W. Bartlett (1859)
"WE have no extended sketch of Mr. botts to present to the reader, ... Mr. botts,
in other words, was in favor of a highly protective tariff, ..."
5. Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1906)
"botts was a noted Unionist of Virginia. [1866] AT the time of the surrender of
General Lee's army and the restoration of peace I think there was, ..."
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