To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
Imitating a deep bass note, such as that found in suspenseful music.
Of a brownish grey colour.
A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding.
A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.
A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.
A mound or small hill.
A brownish grey colour.
An urgent request or demand of payment.
A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch.
To harass, pester or annoy someone persistently or incessantly.
To afflict with a disease or other calamity.
A group of common grackles.
A widespread affliction, calamity or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution.
The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.
An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease.
A grave nuisance, whatever greatly irritates.