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Vermin
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(Fr. vermine, formed as if from Lat. verminus, vermis, a worm), the collective name applied to various classes of objectionable, harmful or destructive animals. To gamekeepers and those interested in the preservation of game, all animals such as the pole-cat, weasel, stoat, hawks, owls, &c., which destroy the eggs or young of preserved birds, are classed as "vermin," and the same term includes rats, mice, &c. It is also the collective name given to all those disgusting and objectionable insects that infest human beings, houses, &c., when allowed to be in a filthy and unsanitary condition, such as bugs, fleas, lice, &c.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Vermin'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/v/vermin.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Vermin'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/v/vermin.html. 1910.
