Meaning of scare-sleep | Babel Free

Definitions

An insect, a lanternfly (Fulgora laternaria).

obsolete

Examples

“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.”

“The great lantern-fly (Fulgora laternaria), from its noise in the evening—nearly resembling the sound of a cymbal, or razor-grinder when at work—is called Scare-sleep by the Dutch in Guiana.”

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