cantharid

British

/ ˈkænθərɪd /

noun

any beetle of the family Cantharidae, having a soft elongated body; though found frequenting flowers, they are carnivorous

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Canthar′idal, Cantharid′ian, Cantharid′ic, composed of cantharides.—n.

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Apsid- apsides apsis Cantharid- cantharides cantharis Chrysalid- chrysalides chrysalis Ephemerid- ephemerides ephemeris Tripod- tripodes tripos.

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Van Helmont, like his great master, also boasted, that he could cure all inflammatory and other fevers, and even a pleurisy, without either bleeding, vomiting, purging, clysters, or blisters; and he quarrelled so much with the two last, that he calls clysters "a beastly remedy," and says that blisters were invented by a wicked spirit, whom he calls Moloz, though Beelzebub might have been as good a name, since Dr. Baynard wittily observed, that he believed he was only a great cantharid.

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