Bug: alternatives and connections

A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.

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The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).

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To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.

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To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.

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Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.

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A mound or small hill.

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To stand under the eaves, near a window or at the door, of a house, to listen and learn what is said within doors; hence, to listen secretly to what…

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Defect; want; lack; default.

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A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase.

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Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.

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One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta.

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Any microscopic form of life; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.

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An instrument for intensifying and making audible very feeble sounds. It produces its effects by the changes of intensity in an electric current, occ…

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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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An engine for casting stones.

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Infested or abounding with bugs.

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Infested or abounding with bugs.

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Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies.

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Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies.

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To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.

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To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.

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An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place…

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To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade.

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That which is to develop a new individual; as, the germ of a fetus, of a plant or flower, and the like; the earliest form under which an organism app…

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One of the Hemiptera; an hemipter.

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To take or seize by the way, or before arrival at the destined place; to cause to stop on the passage; as, to intercept a letter; a telegram will int…

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Alt. of Microbion

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To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with petty vexations.

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To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.

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To comb or card, as wool or flax.

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