Pest \Pest\, n. [L. pestis: cf. F. peste.]
   1. A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the
      plague.
      [1913 Webster]

            England's sufferings by that scourge, the pest.
                                                  --Cowper.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which,
      is troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a
      nuisance. "A pest and public enemy." --South.
      [1913 Webster]

	

	pest
     n : a persistently annoying person [syn: blighter, cuss, pesterer,
          gadfly]

	

	122 Moby Thesaurus words for "pest":
   affliction, aggravation, ambulatory plague, annoyance, annoyer,
   bad news, badgerer, bane, bedevilment, besetment, black death,
   black plague, blast, blight, bore, bother, botheration,
   bothersomeness, bubonic plague, bugbear, bully, burden,
   buttonholer, calamity, cancer, canker, cellulocutaneous plague,
   crashing bore, crushing burden, curse, death, defervescing plague,
   destruction, devilment, difficulty, disease, dogging, downer, drag,
   drip, dry rot, dryasdust, dusty, epidemic, epiphytotic, epizootic,
   evil, exasperation, flat tire, frightful bore, fungus, gadfly,
   glandular plague, grievance, harasser, harassment, harm, harrier,
   harrying, headache, heckler, hemorrhagic plague, hounding, humdrum,
   infliction, irritant, larval plague, mildew, mold, molestation,
   moth, moth and rust, murrain, must, nag, nemesis, nudnik, nudzh,
   nuisance, open wound, pandemia, pandemic, persecution, persecutor,
   pester, pesterer, pesthole, pestilence, pill, plague, plague spot,
   plaguer, pneumonic plague, premonitory plague, problem, proser,
   rot, running sore, rust, sadist, scourge, septicemic plague,
   siderating plague, smut, tease, teaser, thorn, torment, tormentor,
   trial, trouble, tuberculosis, twaddler, vexation, vexatiousness,
   visitation, wet blanket, white plague, woe, worm, worriment,
   worry

	

	PEST
     Parameter Estimation by Sequential Testing

	

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