Infest - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: infestInsect-infested
Insect-infested, the expression 'insect-infested' was not defined in the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act and has, therefore, to be given its ordinary meaning. The word 'infest' appears to have been derived from the latin word 'infestate' which meant 'to assail or molest'. According to the Oxford English Dictionary (Volume V at page 259) the word 'infest' means 'To attack assail, annoy or trouble (a person or thing) in a persistent manner', 'to visit persistently or in large number for purposes of destruction or plunder', 'to swarm in or about, so as to be troublesome'. In the same dictionary the word 'infestation' is stated to mean: 'The action of infesting, assailing, harassing, or molesting'. It is also mentioned that the word is now used especially for 'insects which attack plants, grain, etc. in large swarms'. Thus an article of food would be 'insect-infested', if it has been attacked by insects in swarms or numbers, Municipal Corporation of Delhi v. Kacheroo Mal, AIR 1976 SC 3...
Infest
Infest, according to Webster's New World Diction-ary 'infest' means 'to overrun or inhabit in large numbers, usually so as to be harmful or bother-some, swarm in or about'. According to that dictionary an 'insect' means 'any of a large group of small invertebrate animals characterised, in the adult state, by division of the body into head, thorax, and abdomen, three pairs of membranous wings: beetles, bees, flies, wasps, mosquitoes, etc. are insects'. According to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 'worm' means 'a slender, creeping, naked, limbless animal usually brown or reddish with a soft body divided into a series of segments; an earthworm'. According to that dictionary an 'insect' means 'a small invertebrate animal, usually having a body divided into segments, and several pairs of legs, and often winged'. According to Webster's Illustrated Contemporary Dictionary (Encyclopedic Edition), 'infest' means 'to overrun or spread in large numbers so as to be unpleasant or unsafe', St...
Infestation
The act of infesting or state of being infested molestation vexation annoyance...
Infester
One who or that which infests...
rotenone
A chemical substance C23H22O6 extracted from the root of the derris Derris elliptica Derris malaccensis and other species used in treatment of scabies and as an insecticide for external infestation by chiggers in human medicine and in veterinary medicine for the treatment of infestations with fleas ticks and lice...
Bark louse
An insect of the family Coccidaelig which infests the bark of trees and vines...
Bedbug
A wingless bloodsucking hemipterous insect Cimex Lectularius sometimes infesting houses and especially beds See Illustration in Appendix...
Bots
The larvaelig of several species of botfly especially those larvaelig which infest the stomach throat or intestines of the horse and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments...
Bugginess
The state of being infested with bugs...
Buggy
Infested or abounding with bugs...
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