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Definition of Flies

1. Noun. (theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains).

Definition of Flies

1. Noun. (plural of fly) ¹

2. Noun. (pluralonly) The open area above a stage where scenery and equipment may be hung. ¹

3. Noun. The trouser zip ¹

4. Verb. (third-person singular of fly) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Flies

1. fly [v] - See also: fly

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flies

Literary usage of Flies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting by New Jersey Health and Sanitary Association, Council for High Blood Pressure Research (American Heart Association) (1904)
"Lord* made sections of flies fed on tubercular sputum and found bacilli in the intestines, but there was no invasion of the other parts. ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1894)
"SURGEON-GENERAL SIR WILLIAM MOORE (Medical Magazine, July, 1893) regards the dissemination of diseases by flies as a matter looked upon with too much ..."

3. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1911)
"The results of two main lines of experiment upon blow flies are recorded in the following paper. The first was concerned with the duration of the prepupal ..."

4. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1907)
"Simuliidae, the Black-flies. 13. Tabanidae, the Horse-flies. 14. ... the Bee-flies. 22. Therevidae, the Stiletto-flies. 23. ..."

5. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1914)
"twenty-four hours practically all of the flies die. It was found that frequent feeding on a live animal was necessary. The plan finally adopted was to allow ..."

6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"On account of the conservatism of the author, great interest attaches to such statements as he makes concerning actual danger from flies. ..."

7. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"The changes that then occur are much more decided, and very interesting. I will describe them in my next.—Knowledge. HOW flies HANG ON. BT DR. ..."

8. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1894)
"SALMON-flies. THERE is no subject, perhaps, on which more harmless nonsense has ... so long will fishers believe in the infallibility of particular flies ..."

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