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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lice
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
head
▪ How do I know if my child has head lice?
▪ So scratching the scalp is usually the first sign that a child has head lice.
▪ How can I get rid of head lice?
▪ And head lice can cause other, more serious infections if they are left untreated.
▪ What's the treatment for head lice?
▪ Keep a look out for head lice and treat if necessary.
▪ What can I do to avoid catching head lice?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All the children huddled under an old coat made of animal skins, which was full of lice.
▪ Body lice and bacteria and fleas were dying by the billions.
▪ Inside a decade it grew into a national organization with an affluent governing board and a Washington lobbying of lice.
▪ Never before have I seen lice by the bushel.
▪ Residual scenes from dreadful other memories play like lice inside veins I hardly dare look on as mine.
▪ The insecticidal and bactericidal properties of aromatic plants helped ward off disease by killing air-borne bacteria and deterring fleas and lice.
▪ The same Southern private wrote graphically of another problem he and his comrades had to contend with, that of body lice.
▪ Tropical fish lice are sometimes found in fish tanks - higher temperatures kill native lice.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lice

Lice \Lice\ (l[imac]s), n.; pl. of Louse.

Lice

Louse \Louse\ (lous), n.; pl. Lice (l[imac]s). [OE. lous, AS. l[=u]s, pl. l[=y]s; akin to D. luis, G. laus, OHG. l[=u]s, Icel. l[=u]s, Sw. lus, Dan. luus; perh. so named because it is destructive, and akin to E. lose, loose.] (Zo["o]l.)

  1. 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 ( Pediculus vestimenti), and the crab louse ( Phthirius pubis), and many others. See Crab louse, Dog louse, Cattle louse, etc., under Crab, Dog, etc.

  2. 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.

  3. Any one of the numerous species of aphids, or plant lice. See Aphid.

  4. Any small crustacean parasitic on fishes. See Branchiura, and Ichthvophthira.

    Note: The term is also applied to various other parasites; as, the whale louse, beelouse, horse louse.

    Louse fly (Zo["o]l.), a parasitic dipterous insect of the group Pupipara. Some of them are wingless, as the bee louse.

    Louse mite (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of mites which infest mammals and birds, clinging to the hair and feathers like lice. They belong to Myobia, Dermaleichus, Mycoptes, and several other genera.

Wiktionary
lice

n. (en-irregular plurallouse)

WordNet
louse

  1. n. wingless usually flattened blood-sucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals [syn: sucking louse]

  2. a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect [syn: worm, insect, dirt ball]

  3. any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants [syn: plant louse]

  4. wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds [syn: bird louse, biting louse]

  5. [also: lice (pl)]

lice

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Wikipedia
Lice (The Office)

"Lice" is the tenth episode of the ninth season of the American comedy television series The Office. The episode was written by Niki Schwartz-Wright and directed by Rodman Flender. It originally aired on NBC on January 10, 2013. The episode guest stars Julius "Dr. J" Erving as himself.

The series depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. In this episode, Pam Halpert ( Jenna Fischer) accidentally brings lice into the office but lets Meredith Palmer ( Kate Flannery) take the fall while Dwight Schrute ( Rainn Wilson) vows to destroy the parasites. Meanwhile, Jim Halpert ( John Krasinski) spends a great day in Philadelphia with a potential business associate (Erving); Nellie Bertram ( Catherine Tate), Phyllis Vance ( Phyllis Smith), and Kevin Malone ( Brian Baumgartner) interfere with Darryl Philbin's ( Craig Robinson) love life.

"Lice" received mixed reviews from television critics; many reviewers enjoyed the emphasis the episode placed on Flannery's character, although others felt the story did not work. The episode was also viewed by 4.54 million viewers and received a 2.2/6 percent rating among adults between the ages of 18 and 49, ranking third in its timeslot. The episode ultimately ranked as the highest-rated NBC series of the night.

Usage examples of "lice".

We now formed the acquaintance of a species of human vermin that united with the Rebels, cold, hunger, lice and the oppression of distraint, to leave nothing undone that could add to the miseries of our prison life.

To be compelled, at such a time, to lie around in vacuous idleness-- to spend days that should be crowded full of action in a monotonous, objectless routine of hunting lice, gathering at roll-call, and drawing and cooking our scanty rations, was torturing.

It did not even seem exaggeration when some one declared that lie had seen a dead man with more than a gallon of lice on him.

As the weather grew warmer and the number in the prison increased, the lice became more unendurable.

We began to have a full comprehension of the third plague with which the Lord visited the Egyptians: And the Lord said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice through all the land of Egypt.

As we realized what the whole affair meant, we relieved our surcharged feelings with a few general yells of execration upon Rebels generally, and upon those around us particularly, and resumed our occupation of cooking rations, killing lice, and discussing the prospects of exchange and escape.

Every part of his clothing was gray with the lice that were hastening his death with their torments.

The haggard, distressed countenances of these miserable, complaining, dejected, living skeletons, crying for medical aid and food, and cursing their Government for its refusal to exchange prisoners, and the ghastly corpses, with their glazed eye balls staring up into vacant space, with the flies swarming down their open and grinning mouths, and over their ragged clothes, infested with numerous lice, as they lay amongst the sick and dying, formed a picture of helpless, hopeless misery which it would be impossible to portray bywords or by the brush.

They were worn solely to afford convenient quarters for multitudes of lice, and in deference to the prejudice which has existed since the Fall of Man against our mingling with our fellow creatures in the attire provided us by Nature.

I removed these, scraped out from each of the dozens of great folds in the legs about a half pint of lice, and drew the garments over my own half-frozen limbs, the first real covering those members had had for four or five months.

During the warmest part of the day everybody disrobed, and spent an hour or more killing the lice that had waxed and multiplied to grievous proportions during the few days of comparative immunity.

We were still chuckling at having seen Lionel from HELP, paged by the nurse, checking out the room numbers and then, with a spiffy straightening of his Blazer and forelock, entering the room of the Lady of the Lice, the room crawling with the crabs.

Lady of the Lice, or to Sam the hungry pervert, Putzel, the Blazers, the Nurses, the BMSs, to Tina or Harry or Jane or the Roses that Hooper keeps killing.

The point-sources were indeed stived as densely as lice on the head of a harijan, but I could find no mappings to the point-exits in the nebula which lay before me, the nebula called the Solid State Entity.

The other members of my family became infested as well, although they seemed to have fewer lice and a greater tolerance for this petty torture than I did.