collective. Animals of a noxious or objectionable kind. Applied to creeping or wingless insects (and other minute animals) of a loathsome or…

Vermin; (in later use) spec. parasitical insects. English regional (Lincolnshire and Yorkshire) in later use. Now rare.

collective. Animals of a noxious or objectionable kind. Originally applied to reptiles, stealthy or slinking animals, and various wild beasts; now…

With a, that, this, etc. In plural in preceding senses. Obsolete.

Used of animals: sometimes apparently in sense ‘noxious beast’, ‘vermin’; sometimes merely ‘poor, wretched, or worthless beast’. Obsolete.

collective. Vermin.

In various extended uses; mostly contemptuous. of vermin, insects, and the like. ? Obsolete.

humorous. Vermin. Obsolete.