LICE

Definitions: LICE

LICE

Noun

1. Pl. of Louse.

Plural

1. Of Louse

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "LICE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Specialty Definitions: LICE

Domain	Definitions
Bible	Lice (Heb. kinnim), the creatures employed in the third plague sent upon Egypt (Ex. 8:16-18). They were miraculously produced from the dust of the land. "The entomologists Kirby and Spence place these minute but disgusting insects in the very front rank of those which inflict injury upon man. A terrible list of examples they have collected of the ravages of this and closely allied parasitic pests." The plague of lice is referred to in Ps. 105:31. Some have supposed that the word denotes not lice properly, but gnats. Others, with greater probability, take it to mean the "tick" which is much larger than lice. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
	Lice on stock, foretells famine and loss. To have lice on your body, denotes that you will conduct yourself unpleasantly with your acquaintances. To dream of catching lice, foretells sickness, and that you will cultivate morbidity. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Health	A general name for small, wingless, parasitic insects, previously of the order Phthiraptera. Though exact taxonomy is still controversial, they can be grouped in the orders Anoplura (sucking lice), Mallophaga (biting lice), and Rhynchophthirina (elephant lice). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Lice

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Lice (singular: louse) (order Phthiraptera) are an order of over 3000 species of wingless parasitic insects. They are all obligate ectoparasites of mammals and birds.

The order has traditionally been divided into two suborders; the sucking lice (Anoplura) and chewing lice (Mallophaga), however, recent classifications suggest that the Mallophaga are paraphyletic and four suborders are now recognised:

Anoplura - sucking lice, including head and pubic lice (see also Pediculosis)
Rhyncophthirina - parasites of elephants and warthogs
Ischnocera - avian lice
Amblycera - chewing lice, a primitive order of lice

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lice."

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Synonyms within Context: LICE

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Sharpness	Beard, chevaux de frise, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle; comb; awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: LICE

English words defined with "LICE": Adelges, Adelgidae, Amphipoda, Anoplura, Ant-cattle, Aphididae, Aphidoidea, Aphidophagous ♦ beggar lice, beggar's lice, Boraginaceous ♦ Chermidae, Coccinella, crabs, Cyamus ♦ delouse ♦ family Adelgidae, family Aphididae, family Chermidae, family Pediculidae, family Phthiriidae, family Phylloxeridae, family Psyllidae ♦ genus Adelges, genus Cyamus, genus Hackelia, genus Lappula, genus Menopon, genus Pediculus, genus Phthirius, genus Phthirus, genus Phylloxera, Green fly ♦ Hackelia, head lice, Hemiptera, Homoptera ♦ Jumping louse ♦ Kwell ♦ Lappula, Louse mite, lousiness, lousy ♦ Mallophaga, Menopon ♦ order Amphipoda, order Anoplura, order Hemiptera, order Mallophaga ♦ Panorpid, Parasita, Pedicular, pediculicide, Pediculidae, Pediculina, pediculosis, pediculosis capitis, pediculosis corporis, pediculosis pubis, Pediculus, Phthiriasis, Phthiriidae, Phthirius, Phthirus, Phylloxera, Phylloxeridae, Psyllidae ♦ recurrent fever, relapsing fever, rickettsial disease, rickettsiosis ♦ suborder Homoptera, superfamily Aphidoidea, Syrphus fly ♦ trench fever, typhus, typhus fever ♦ Wood louse. (references)

Specialty definitions using "LICE": blepharitis pediculosa ♦ Carbaryl, CHATTS, CREEPERS ♦ Lice, LIVE STOCK ♦ pediculous blepharitis ♦ Rickettsia prowazekii ♦ Santa Maria, SCOTCH GREYS, SILVER LACED ♦ TRICHILLIA ACUTANTHERA. (references)

Non-English Usage: "LICE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Macedonian (face), Serbo-Croatian (character, countenance, face, front, kisser, pan, person, puss, visage).

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Modern Usage: LICE

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Ah, Gotta keep cool, nothings gonna happen, I'm cool, I'm cool I'm ice baby, no cruddy lice gonna sneak up on me no sir, lice don't sneak up on ice, it ain't nice for lice to sneak up on ice, those lice better think twice cause its its no dice for those lice, no dice or ice so take my advice you cruddy lice i am not nice. (Codename: Kids Next Door; writing credit: Mr. Warburton; Tom Warburton)
Movie/TV Titles	Licem u lice (1963) Lice (1962) Sumnjivo lice (1954) Licem u lice (1993) Lice i opuko (1990)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: LICE

Domain	Title
References	The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Pubic Lice (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Head Lice (My Health) (reference) Head Lice to Dead Lice (reference) Lice (Naturebooks Creepy Crawlers) (reference) Rats, Lice and History (reference) The Lice-Buster Book: What to Do When Your Child Comes Home With Head Lice! (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Head Lice to Dead Lice: Safe Solutions for Frantic Families (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: LICE

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Photo Album: LICE

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	EIS officer screening person for head lice.Credit: CDC.		The use of DDT increased enormously on a worldwide basis after WWII, because of its effectiveness against the mosquito that spreads malaria and lice that carry typhus. The World Health Organization claims that the use of DDT saved 25 million lives.Credit: CDC.
	The use of DDT increased enormously on a worldwide basis after WWII, because of its effectiveness against the mosquito that spreads malaria and lice that carry typhus. The World Health Organization claims that the use of DDT saved 25 million lives.Credit: CDC.		[Pediculi: Boy combing lice out of his hair].Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Inspecting for lice and nits after delousing.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		There stood three beggar lice.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Death for lice.Credit: Library of Congress.		Apparatus used for spraying pea vines to eliminate lice near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: LICE

Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	His thoughts were lice born of the sweat of sloth.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	But the most hateful sight of all was the lice crawling on their clothes.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: LICE

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Do not mix head lice drugs. (references)
		To live, adult lice need to feed on blood. (references)
		Retreat in 7-10 days if lice are still found. (references)
Human Rights	Russia	Head lice, scabies, and various skin diseases were prevalent. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: LICE

"LICE" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LICE" is used about 173 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	100%	173	23,656

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: LICE

Expressions using "LICE": beggar lice ♦ Beggar's lice ♦ bird lice ♦ book lice ♦ egg of lice ♦ head lice ♦ Lice Infestations. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "LICE": lice-bags, lice-brained, lice-filled, lice-infested, lice-killing, lice-pickers, lice-ridden.
	Ending with "LICE": wood-lice.
	Containing "LICE": po-lice-men.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: LICE

Language		Translations for "LICE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		thërrijë (egg of lice, nit). (various references)

Arabic		‏قمل (moth, vermin). (various references)

Chinese		虱子 (louse). (various references)

Czech		veš (louse). (various references)

Danish		lus (boil, harness, louse, pediculus, peduncle, seed). (various references)

Dutch		Siphunculata, anoplura. (various references)

Farsi		شپش ها. (various references)

Finnish		peltoleinikki (beggar's lice, corn buttercup, corn crowfoot, goldlocks). (various references)

French		poux. (various references)

German		läuse. (various references)

Greek		ψείρα (cootie, louse, pediculus, peduncle). (various references)

Hebrew		כ� ים (vermin). (various references)

Hungarian		tetvek. (various references)

Indonesian		kutu (louse). (various references)

Italian		pidocchi, Anoplura. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		虱 (louse). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しらみ (louse). (various references)

Korean		이 (louse, teeth, tooth). (various references)

Pig Latin		icelay

Portuguese		líbio (Libyan), piolhos (licence, vermin). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vaške. (various references)

Spanish		los piojos, pl. de louse, piojo (bed bug, human flea, louse). (various references)

Swedish		löss (loess, modified loess). (various references)

Thai		แมลงปรสิตเล็กๆ ที่อยู่บนคนและสัตว์ (คำพหูพจน์ของ louse). (various references)

Turkish		bitler. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: LICE

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	1. uh. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: LICE

Language	Date	Source	1 Thessalonians Chapter 4, Verse 1
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	To loipon oun adelfoi erwtwmen umaV kai parakaloumen en kuriw ihsou kaqwV parelabete par hmwn to pwV dei umaV peripatein kai areskein qew ina perisseuhte mallon
Latin	405	Vulgate	De cetero ergo fratres rogamus vos et obsecramus in Domino Iesu ut quemadmodum accepistis a nobis quomodo vos oporteat ambulare et placere Deo sicut et ambulatis ut abundetis magis
Old English	990	West Saxon	Nu endlice, breþer, we tæccað eow hu ge libban sculon þætte eow God lice, swa ge libbað soðe. Nu acsiað we eower and maniað eow on Hælendes Iesu naman þæt ge don þis æfre mare.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Therfor, britheren, fro hennus forward we preien you, and bisechen in the Lord Jhesu, that as ye han resseyued of vs, hou it bihoueth you to go and to plese God, so walke ye, that ye abounde the more.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Further more we beseche you brethren and exhorte you in the lorde Iesus that ye increace more and more euen as ye have receaved of vs how ye ought to walke and to please god.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: LICE

Language	1 Thessalonians Chapter 4, Verse 1
Cebuano	¶ Sa katapusan, mga igsoon, kami nagahangyo ug nagapangamuyo kaninyo diha sa Ginoong Jesus, maingon nga kamo nagpakakat-on man gikan kanamo unsaon sa pagkinabuhi ug sa pagpahimuot sa Dios, sumala sa inyo nang ginabuhat karon, nga unta magalabi pa gayud ang inyong pagbuhat niini.
Croatian	Uostalom, braæo, molimo vas i zaklinjemo u Gospodinu Isusu: primili ste od nas kako treba da živite da biste ugodili Bogu. Vi tako i živite pa sve više napredujete!
Danish	Så bede vi eder i øvrigt, Brødre! og formane eder i den Herre Jesus, at som I jo have lært af os, hvorledes I bør vandre og behage Gud, således som I jo også gøre, at I således må gøre end yderligere Fremgang.
Dutch	Voorts dan, broeders, wij bidden en vermanen u in den Heere Jezus, gelijk gij van ons ontvangen hebt, hoe gij moet wandelen en Gode behagen, dat gij daarin meer overvloedig wordt.
Finnish	Sitten vielä, veljet, me pyydämme teitä ja kehoitamme Herrassa Jeesuksessa, että te, niinkuin olette meiltä oppineet, miten teidän tulee vaeltaa ja olla Jumalalle otolliset, niinkuin vaellattekin, siinä yhä enemmän varttuisitte.
French	Au reste, frères, puisque vous avez appris de nous comment vous devez vous conduire et plaire � Dieu, et que c`est l� ce que vous faites, nous vous prions et nous vous conjurons au nom du Seigneur Jésus de marcher � cet égard de progrès en progrès.
Haitian Creole	¶ Frè m' yo, mwen te moutre nou ki jan pou n' mennen bak nou si nou vle fè Bondye plezi. Wi, mwen konnen se konsa n'ap viv vre. Men, koulye a m'ap mande nou, nan non Seyè Jezi a, tanpri chache viv pi byen toujou.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Akhirnya Saudara-saudara, kami sudah memberikan teladan kepadamu mengenai bagaimana kalian harus hidup untuk menyenangkan hati Allah. Memang kalian sudah hidup seperti itu. Tetapi sekarang atas kuasa Tuhan Yesus, kami minta dengan sangat kepadamu dan mendesak supaya kalian lebih berusaha lagi dalam hal itu!
Latvian	Tâlâk, brâïi, mçs jûs lûdzam un pamudinâm Kunga Jçzus vârdâ, lai jûs, dzirdçjuði no mums, kâ jâdzîvo, tâ arî dzîvotu un arvien kïûtu nopelniem bagâtâki, lai patiktu Dievam.
Maori	¶ Heoi, e oku teina, he mea tenei na matou, he whakahau ki a koutou i roto i te Ariki, i a Ihu, kua riro atu na hoki ta matou i a koutou, a e meinga na hoki e koutou, ara te tikanga mo ta koutou haere, mo ta koutou whakamanawareka atu ki te Atua, n a, kia tino hira rawa tera a koutou.
Norwegian	For øvrig altså, brødre, ber og formaner vi eder i den Herre Jesus at likesom I har lært av oss hvorledes I bør vandre og tekkes Gud, således som I også gjør, så må I enn mere gjøre fremgang deri.
Rumanian	Kncolo, frayilor, fiindcq ayi knvqyat dela noi cum sq vq purtayi wi sq fiyi plqcuyi lui Dumnezeu, wi awa wi faceyi, vq rugqm, wi vq kndemnqm kn Numele Domnului Isus, sq sporiyi tot mai mult kn privinya aceasta.
Shuar	¶ Iikia Uunt Jesus akupkamuitji. Tuma asar nu kakarmajai atumniasha ju Túratarum tusan akupeajrume. Atumsha iwiaaku pujarmena nui Yus shiir waramtiksatarum tura tuke pénker Túrukrum wetarum tusar seajrume. Iisha nuik atumin unuiniarmajrumna Nútiksarmek Túratarum.
Swahili	Hatimaye, ndugu zangu, mmejifunza kutoka kwetu namna mnavyopaswa kuishi ili kumpendeza Mungu. Na kweli mmekuwa mnaishi hivyo. Sasa tunawaombeni na kuwasihi kwa jina la Bwana Yesu mfanye vema zaidi.
Swedish	Paulus önskar att tessalonikerna må ytterligare förkovras i vad som hör till en helig vandel, uttalar sig om Herrens tillkommelse och om de dödas uppståndelse.
Uma	¶ Ka'omea-na ompi', kiperapi' bona nituku' hawa' -hawa' to ni'epe-mi ngkai kai', bona po'ingku-ni mpotuku' konoa Alata'ala. Kakoo-kono-na, lompe' -mi po'ingku-ni toe lau. Aga hante kuasa to nawai' -kakai Pue' Yesus, kiperapi' pai' kiparesai' mpu'u-koi bona nidonihii tena-pidi kalompe' po'ingku-ni toe-e.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: LICE

Derivations
	Words beginning with "LICE": licence, licenced, licencee, licencees, licencer, licencers, licences, licencing, licensable, license, licensed, licensee, licensees, licenser, licensers, licenses, licensing, licensor, licensors, licensure, licensures, licente, licentiate, licentiates, licentious, licentiously, licentiousness, licentiousnesses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "LICE": accomplice, anglice, antipolice, booklice, chalice, cilice, complice, fortalice, malice, nonpolice, police, preslice, resplice, semplice, slice, splice, surplice. (additional references)
	Words containing "LICE": accomplices, anthelices, calices, chaliced, chalices, chelicera, chelicerae, cheliceral, cilices, complices, culices, cylices, fortalices, helices, kylices, malices, policed, policeman, policemen, polices, policewoman, policewomen, pollices, presliced, preslices, pulicene, relicense, relicensed, relicenses, relicensing, relicensure, relicensures, respliced, resplices, scilicet, scolices, siliceous, simplices, sliceable, sliced, slicer, slicers, slices, spliced, splicer, splicers, splices, sublicense, sublicensed, sublicenses, sublicensing. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"LICE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bliecq, flice, gice, ilec, Lacle, Laici, lasce, lcd, Lci, Lciii, lcis, lcu, leace, leca, Lecca, Lecco, leco, Lefcoe, lesce, lgco, libe, lic, lica, lican, Liccy, licea, liced, licen, licer, lices, licet, Liceu, liche, licia, licie, licik, licin, licke, licn, lico, licor, lics, licse, lict, Licua, lide, liec, lihe, lije, lik, likew, Liki, likle, likx, lile, limca, Lince, Linco, liqe, lisc, lise, Lisef, lisi, Lissek, lize, llc, Llica, Lochee, locoe, loike, lsca, luca, lucem, lucze, lyc, lycan, lyke, Lykeio, Lynce, oice, Oiec, Olice, uice. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "LICE"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "LICE" (pronounced lī"s)
3	l ī" s	slice, splice.
2	-ī" s	advice, bice, concise, device, devise, dice, entice, excise, gneiss, ice, mice, misprice, nice, precise, price, reprice, rice, spice, suffice, thrice, trice, twice, vice, vise.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: LICE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: ceil.
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-l"
	-1 letter: cel, ice, lei, lie.
	-2 letters: el, li.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l"
	+1 letter: ceils, celli, chiel, chile, clime, cline, ileac, melic, oleic, relic, slice, telic.
	+2 letters: aculei, aecial, atelic, beylic, ceiled, ceiler, celiac, chicle, chield, chiels, childe, chiles, chisel, cicale, cicely, cilice, cineol, circle, citole, cleric, clerid, clevis, cliche, client, climes, clines, clique, clypei, coiled, coiler, colies, collie, coolie, decile, delict, deltic, docile, eclair, elicit, enolic, epical, exilic, facile, fecial, fickle, heliac, icicle, inlace, lacier, lectin, lentic, leucin, lexica, lichee, lichen, liches, licked, licker, luckie, luetic, malice, micell, mickle, nicely, nickel, nickle, nuclei, ocelli, pelvic, pencil, pickle, plaice, plicae, police, recoil, relics, relict, sickle, sliced, slicer, slices, sluice, splice, stelic, tickle.
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