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bots: disease of horses caused by parasitic worms or maggots Shr. III. ii. 57, 1H4 II. i. 11; in oaths Per. II. i. 128 “bots on'” ∥ ‘Bots’ was used both as sing. (for the disease) and as pl. (for the maggots) in Eliz. times.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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