blow
“my mouth—The flesh-fly,”
THE TEMPEST, iii. 1. 63.
Here, according to Malone,blow means
“swell and in flame;” but, says Steevens,
“to blow, as it stands in
the text, means ‘the act of a fly by which she lodges eggs in flesh.’”
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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