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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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..
Loimic :: Loimic (a.) Of or pertaining to the plague or contagious disorders.
Infect :: Infect (v. t.) To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the 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..
Plagueless :: Plagueless (a.) Free from plagues or the plague.
Plague :: Plague (v. t.) Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass.
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..
Tease :: Tease (n.) One who teases or plagues.
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..
Pestilence :: Pestilence (n.) Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating..
Plague :: Plague (n.) That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation..
Plaguer :: Plaguer (n.) One who plagues or annoys.
Plagueful :: Plagueful (a.) Abounding, or infecting, with plagues; pestilential; as, plagueful exhalations..
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.
Plague :: Plague (v. t.) To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind..
Plagued :: Plagued (imp. & p. p.) of Plagu.
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..
Tablet :: Tablet (n.) A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague..
Impest :: Impest (v. t.) To affict with pestilence; to infect, as with plague..
Rage :: Rage (n.) To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo..
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