Pest: alternatives and connections

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity…

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Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.

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Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

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Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.

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The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

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One who persecutes, or harasses.

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One who, or that which, torments; a tormentor.

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One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures.

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An animal, in general.

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That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

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That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

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

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One who pesters or harasses.

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Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating.

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That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

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