資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Plague \Plague\, n. [L. plaga a blow, stroke, plague; akin to
   Gr. ?, fr. ? to strike; cf. L. plangere to strike, beat. Cf.
   {Plaint}.]
   1. That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a
      calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or
      vexation. --Shak.

            And men blasphemed God for the plague of hail.
                                                  --Wyclif.

            The different plague of each calamity. --Shak.

   2. (Med.) An acute malignant contagious fever, that often
      prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times
      visited the large cities of Europe with frightful
      mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London
      plague. ``A plague upon the people fell.'' --Tennyson.

   {Cattle plague}. See {Rinderpest}.

   {Plague mark}, {Plague spot}, a spot or mark of the plague;
      hence, a token of something incurable.