Bible Dictionaries
Pest

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague.

(2):

(n.) Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Pest'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/pest.html. 1828.