Louse is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LOUSE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to spoil or bungle
• spoil or ruin something
• remove lice from.
• To clean from lice.
• ruin or spoil
NOUN:
• a parasitic insect
• either of two small wingless parasitic insects that live on the skin of mammals and birds.
• used in names of small invertebrates that parasitize aquatic animals or infest plants, e.g. fish louse.
• a contemptible or unpleasant person.
• Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (Pediculina), now usually regarded as degraded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals; as, the head louse of man (Pediculus capitis), the body louse (P. vestimenti), and the crab louse (Phthirius pubis), and many others. See Crab louse, Dog louse, Cattle louse, etc., under Crab, Dog, etc.
• Any one of numerous small mandibulate insects, mostly parasitic on birds, and feeding on the feathers. They are known as Mallophaga, or bird lice, though some occur on the hair of mammals. They are usually regarded as degraded Pseudoneuroptera. See Mallophaga.
• Any one of the numerous species of aphids, or plant lice. See Aphid.
• Any small crustacean parasitic on fishes. See Branchiura, and Ichthvophthira.
• wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals
• a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
• any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants
• wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds
• wingless parasitic insect

Words related to LOUSE

lice6 loused7 louses6 lousing8

Words that contain LOUSE

blouse8 flouse9 loused7 louser6 louses6 bloused10 blouses9 delouse8 floused11 flouses10 jalouse14 lousers7 deloused10 delouser9 delouses9 jaloused16 jalouses15 jealouse15 booklouse15 calloused12 callouses11 delousers10 jealoused17 jealouses16 lousewort12 woodlouse13 jealouser16 grapelouse13 louseworts13 overblouse15 jealousest17 overblouses16 uncalloused14

How to use LOUSE in a sentence

• In examining the louse with a microscope, its external deformity strikes us with disgust.
• Sometimes house plants, and out-door plants as well, become covered with a small, green insect called the plant louse or aphis.
• The aphis, or plant louse, is often very numerous on out-door plants, for instance, the rose, chrysanthemum, cabbage, and fruit trees.
• I began to search and soon found a big swollen louse.
• A louse so big that I could feel it crawling along stopped and drew blood.
• He even stuck a louse on the lens and located the beast in the heavens, for the benefit of a doubting Cardinal.
• Scarmann was about as big a louse as they came but nobody could put a finger on him because he managed to keep himself as clean as a raygunned needle.
• The louse commonly present is the body louse, and it lays its eggs in the seams of the uniforms and on the underclothes.
• To git him right you need to think of a buck louse with a think-box developed abnormal.
• Before I rose I felt something crawling on my breast, and when I looked I found it to be an insect, slow in motion, resembling a louse, but larger.
• Raw sugar, Captain BATHURST states, cannot be sold on account of the presence of the sugar louse.

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