Definition of plague

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Plague (n.) An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague..

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Pleuropneumonia :: Pleuropneumonia (n.) Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and fatal lung plague of cattle..
Plaguer :: Plaguer (n.) One who plagues or annoys.
Antiloimic :: Antiloimic (n.) A remedy against the plague.
Loimic :: Loimic (a.) Of or pertaining to the plague or contagious disorders.
Tablet :: Tablet (n.) A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague..
Vex :: Vex (v. t.) To make angry or annoyed by little provocations; to irritate; to plague; to torment; to harass; to afflict; to trouble; to tease.
Plagueful :: Plagueful (a.) Abounding, or infecting, with plagues; pestilential; as, plagueful exhalations..
Wanion :: Wanion (n.) A word of uncertain signification, used only in the phrase with a wanion, apparently equivalent to with a vengeance, with a plague, or with misfortune..
Plague :: Plague (v. t.) Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass.
Plagueless :: Plagueless (a.) Free from plagues or the plague.
Perplex :: Perplex (a.) To plague; to vex; to tormen.
Plague :: Plague (v. t.) To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind..
Infect :: Infect (v. t.) To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague..
Pest :: Pest (n.) A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague..
Tease :: Tease (n.) One who teases or plagues.
Worry :: Worry (v. t.) To harass or beset with importunity, or with care an anxiety; to vex; to annoy; to torment; to tease; to fret; to trouble; to plague..
Impest :: Impest (v. t.) To affict with pestilence; to infect, as with plague..
Tease :: Tease (v. t.) To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague..
Plague :: Plague (n.) An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague..
Rinderpest :: Rinderpest (n.) A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain..
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