Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: fleas
IPA transcription: [fl'iz]
Usage examples
  • FLEAS, AND IRRITATION OF SKIN.
  • If your dog lie on straw, burn it once a week, as fleas harbour and propagate in the tubes of the straw.
  • Not otherwise in summer do the dogs, Now with the foot, now with the muzzle, when By fleas, or flies, or gadflies, they are bitten.
  • Fleas can live some time under water; which I have often thought only makes them bite the harder and stick the closer, when reanimated from their temporary torpidity.
  • I have seen animals literally worried to death by fleas, perfectly exhausted from incessant irritation, at last worn to a skeleton, and gradually extinguished by a creeping consumption.
  • If kept in the dwelling-house he should have a place appropriated to his night's rest; this may be an open box, or a basket, with a piece of carpet or blanket, or clean straw at the bottom: if either of the former it should be often beaten, to free it from fleas or nits, which soon infest it, and frequently washed and dried.