Scare-sleep

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Noun
  1. 1
    An insect, a lanternfly (Fulgora laternaria). obsolete

    "The other was a large fly, which Madam Merian, who gives a drawing of it, calls the vielleur, but which I have generally heard called the ſcare-ſleep by the Dutch."

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"The other was a large fly, which Madam Merian, who gives a drawing of it, calls the vielleur, but which I have generally heard called the ſcare-ſleep by the Dutch."

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