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A noxious or mischievous animal; especially, noxious little animals or insects, collectively, as squirrels, rats, mice, flies, lice, bugs, etc. "Cruel hounds or some foul vermin." Chaucer. Great injuries these vermin, mice and rats, do in the field. Mortimer. They disdain such vermin when the mighty boar of the forest…

A native of Verona; collectively, the people of Verona.

The state of widows or of widowhood; also, widows, collectively.

Virtuosos, collectively. Carlyle.

Votes, collectively; as, the Tory vote; the labor vote. Casting vote, Cumulative vote, etc. See under Casting, Cumulative, etc.

A collection of wagons; wagons, collectively. Wagonage, provender, and a piece or two of cannon. Carlyle.

Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.

or lives about rivers, lakes, etc., or on or near the sea; an aquatic fowl; -- used also collectively.

Weapons, collectively; as, an array of weaponry. [Poetic]

Weeds, collectively; also, a place full of weeds or for growing weeds. [R.] Dr. H. More.

or duty paid for the privilege of using a wharf for loading or unloading goods; pierage, collectively; quayage.

Wharfs, collectively.

Women, collectively; womankind.

The females of the human race; women, collectively. A sanctuary into which womankind, with her tools of magic, the broom and mop, has very infrequent access. Hawthorne.

The collective body of yeomen, or freeholders. The enfranchised yeomanry began to feel an instinct for dominion. Bancroft.

The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively. [The egg] bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young. Milton. With young, with child; pregnant.

Young persons, collectively. It is fit to read the best authors to youth first. B. Jonson.

The zooids of a compound anthozoan, collectively.