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- Beetle - v. t. - A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
- Beetle - v. t. - A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine.
- Beetle - v. t. - To beat with a heavy mallet.
- Beetle - v. t. - To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
- Beetle - v. t. - Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up. See Coleoptera.
- Beetle - v. i. - To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut.
- Beetle brow - - An overhanging brow.
- Beetle-browed - - Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen.
- Beetle-headed - a. - Dull; stupid.
- Beetled - imp. & p. p. - of Beetle
- Beetlehead - n. - A stupid fellow; a blockhead.
- Beetlehead - n. - The black-bellied plover, or bullhead (Squatarola helvetica). See Plover.
- Beetlestock - n. - The handle of a beetle.
- Coprophagan - n. - A kind of beetle which feeds upon dung.
- Flea-beetle - n. - A small beetle of the family Halticidae, of many species. They have strong posterior legs and leap like fleas. The turnip flea-beetle (Phyllotreta vittata) and that of the grapevine (Graptodera chalybea) are common injurious species.
- Fire beetle - - A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central and South America; -- called also cucujo. The name is also applied to other species. See Firefly.
- Weaver - n. - An aquatic beetle of the genus Gyrinus. See Whirling.
- Rutilian - n. - Any species of lamellicorn beetles belonging to Rutila and allied genera, as the spotted grapevine beetle (Pelidnota punctata).
- Girdler - n. - An American longicorn beetle (Oncideres cingulatus) which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvae.
- Beetle - v. t. - To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
- Commander - n. - A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc.
- Dynastidan - n. - One of a group of gigantic, horned beetles, including Dynastus Neptunus, and the Hercules beetle (D. Hercules) of tropical America, which grow to be six inches in length.
- Water devil - - The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.
- Anthrenus - n. - A genus of small beetles, several of which, in the larval state, are very destructive to woolen goods, fur, etc. The common "museum pest" is A. varius; the carpet beetle is A. scrophulariae. The larvae are commonly confounded with moths.
- Cucujo - n. - The fire beetle of Mexico and the West Indies.
- Bark beetle - - A small beetle of many species (family Scolytidae), which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great damage.
- Clock - n. - A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius).
- Dor - n. - A large European scaraboid beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius), which makes a droning noise while flying. The name is also applied to allied American species, as the June bug. Called also dorr, dorbeetle, or dorrbeetle, dorbug, dorrfly, and buzzard clock.
- Deathwatch - n. - A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death.
- Suture - n. - The line at which the elytra of a beetle meet and are sometimes confluent.
- Bookworm - n. - Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known.
- Cantharis - n. - A beetle (Lytta, / Cantharis, vesicatoria), havin1g an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine.
- Ambulator - n. - A beetle of the genus Lamia.
- Anthobian - n. - A beetle which feeds on flowers.
- Elater - n. - Any beetle of the family Elateridae, having the habit, when laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of the articulation between the abdomen and thorax; -- called also click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping beetle.
- Melolonthidian - n. - A beetle of the genus Melolontha, and allied genera. See May beetle, under May.
- Colorado beetle - - A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.
- Scarabee - n. - A stylized representation of a scarab beetle in stone or faience; -- a symbol of resurrection, used by the ancient Egyptians as an ornament or a talisman, and in modern times used in jewelry, usually by engraving designs on cabuchon stones. Also used attributively; as, a scarab bracelet [a bracelet containing scarabs]; a scarab [the carved stone itelf].
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