pest : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pest	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for pest
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pest n a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal Synonym(s): plague, pestilence, pest, pestis any epidemic disease with a high death rate Synonym(s): plague, pestilence, pest a persistently annoying person Synonym(s): pest, blighter, cuss, pesterer, gadfly any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.; "he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests"; "many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pest \Pest\, n. [L. pestis: cf. F. peste.] 1. A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague. England's sufferings by that scourge, the pest. --Cowper. 2. Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance. [bd]A pest and public enemy.[b8] --South.