Definitions for lice

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lice lice

Spelling: [lahys]

IPA: /laɪs/

Lice is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in lice (ceil).

Definitions for lice

noun

1. plural of louse.
2. any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
3. any insect of the order Mallophaga (bird louse, biting louse, or chewing louse) parasitic on birds and mammals, having mouthparts adapted for biting.
4. plant louse.
5. Slang. a contemptible person, especially an unethical one.

Verb phrases

1. louse up, Slang. to spoil; botch:

verb (used with object)

1. to delouse.

Origin of lice

before 900; 1910-15 for def 4; Middle English lous(e), luse, plural lise, lice; Old English lūs, plural lȳs; cognate with Dutch luis, German Laus, Old Norse lūs

Examples for lice

Some of the images are very poignant, like the one of a boy searching for lice in his clothes.

If you have dead bodies, pestilence, lice, with a 90 temperature--mosquitoes, flies--then you have serious problems.

For they multiply like lice, and are as poisonous as the snakes that crawl in the steppe of Muhan.

Along with the itch are often found parasites of the head, or lice (pediculi).

All of us become covered in lice and insects, which became maddening.

Said he, "If it were lice got you into that state, you'd be crawling with them."

The "lice" winter as eggs under the scale and hatch in late May or early June.

Mosche changed all the dust in Egypt into lice; Ennana did the same.

The sea-lion was very glad to have the lice picked out of its head.

With most diseases spread by rodents, the mouse or rat or vole is only an intermediary (a “host”) for fleas and lice and the like.