oestro

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A form of oestrum — A biting insect; a gadfly or botfly.

Scrabble 6

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noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of oestrum.

    At other times "'flowed easy his unpremeditated verse,' with a certain impetus and oestro

    1879, Stopford Brooke, Milton, quoting Jonathan Richardson's Explanatory Notes on Milton's Paradise Lost (1734) with slight modification, page 79

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Chicago

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