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gadfly
gadfly name for various biting flies, especially those that attack livestock, e.g., the botfly and the horsefly .
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daddy longlegs
daddy longlegs name applied to the harvestman , an arachnid, and to the crane fly , an insect.
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Juan Terry Trippe
Juan Terry Trippe , 1899-1981, pioneering American aviation executive, b. Sea Bright, N.J. A U.S. Navy pilot (1917-18), he graduated (1921) from Yale, and worked briefly on Wall Street. Fascinated with aviation, Trippe founded (1922) a short-lived air taxi service. Two years later he and three frien...
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skywriting
skywriting advertising medium in which aircraft spell out trade names and sales slogans in the sky by means of the controlled emission of thick smoke. The technique was first developed (1922) by J. C. Savage, a pioneer English aviator. Letters a mile high and a mile wide can be formed by the moveme...
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sunbittern
sunbittern common name for a graceful, stout-bodied, bitternlike bird, Eurypyga helias. It is named for its wing markings, an orange-chestnut shield set in an orange-buff circle, which looks like a setting sun. The rest of its plumage is intricately barred, striped, and mottled in black, white, b...
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Belial
Belial , name applied to Satan .
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Hiddekel
Hiddekel Hebrew name for the Tigris .
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methanal
methanal IUPAC name for formaldehyde .
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Baal-zebub
Baal-zebub [Heb.,=lord of flies], a deliberate Hebrew distortion of the name of the god of Ekron in 2 Kings. In the Gospels of Mark and Luke, Beelzebul, the Greek form of the epithet Baal-zebul [Baal the Prince], is encountered. See Baal and Satan .
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Ichabod
Ichabod [Heb.,=inglorious], in the Bible, son of Phinehas and grandson of the High Priest Eli. He was born at the hour of the Ark's capture by the Philistines and was named to commemorate the unfortunate event.
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