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To cease to be or exist; as, the epidemic has disappeared.

disease. Fear, which is an endemic latent in every human heart, sometimes rises into an epidemic. J. B. Heard.

he nature of a disease which attacks many animals at the same time; -- corresponding to epidemic diseases among men.

An epizoötic disease; a murrain; an epidemic influenza among horses.

eads gradually over its surface. It is usually regarded as contagious, and often occurs epidemically.

A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug; esp., one used to hold water for the toilet. Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands. Shak.

The influenza or epidemic catarrh. Dunglison.

ination by morbific particles; the result of infecting influence; a prevailing disease; epidemic. The danger was really very great, the infection being so very violent in London. De Foe.

Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices. Where the infectious pestilence. Shak.

An epidemic affection characterized by acute nasal catarrh, or by inflammation of the throat or the bronchi, and usually accompanied by fever.

febrile disorder characterized by a nonsuppurative inflammation of the parotid glands; epidemic or infectious parotitis.

Affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhere epidemic. -- n.

Inflammation of the parotid glands. Epidemic, or Infectious, parotitis, mumps.

An epidemic disease of the silkworm, characterized by the presence of minute vibratory corpuscles in the blood.

of time; acting, happening, or appearing, at fixed intervals; recurring; as, periodical epidemics. The periodic return of a plant's flowering. Henslow. To influence opinion through the periodical press. Courthope.

A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague. England's sufferings by that scourge, the pest. Cowper.

Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating. The pestilence That walketh in darkness. Ps. xci. 6.

ee 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons. Pink eye (Med.), a popular name for an epidemic variety of ophthalmia, associated with early and marked redness of the eyeball. -- Pink salt (Chem. & Dyeing), the double chlorides of (stannic) tin and ammonium, formerly much used as a mordant for madder and cochineal.…

Prevailing among the people; epidemic; as, a popular disease. [Obs.] Johnson. Popular action (Law), an action in which any person may sue for penalty imposed by statute. Blackstone.

Breaking out again after temporary abatement or supression; as, a recrudescent epidemic.