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Meaning of FLYBLOW

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Fly"blow`\, v. t.
    To deposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to cause
    to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with
    flyblows. --Bp. Srillingfleet.
    
  2. \Fly"blow`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
    One of the eggs or young larv[ae] deposited by a flesh fly,
    or blowfly.
    
 
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