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Pesthouse

Pesthouse \Pest`house"\, n. A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease.

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pesthouse

n. An establishment which provides shelter and/or care to sufferers of pestilence or other contagious infections

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pesthouse

n. hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) [syn: lazaretto, lazaret, lazarette, lazar house]

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Usage examples of "pesthouse".

Anderson Chain to pour through Pesthouse, reclaim Home Hive One, and isolate his task force.

Bug forces may appear in Pesthouse at any time, and move in to occupy Home Hive One.

Operation Pesthouse, four years past, when the discovery of Harnah had taken them all into the regions of nightmare.

It was a display uncomplicated by planets, for Pesthouse was a blue giant.

Instead of bothering his subordinates with useless orders to do what they were already doing, Prescott ordered himself to appreciate the priceless gift of every minute that went by with the Bug starships still fully engaged against Warp Point Four and his own ships deploying into Pesthouse in a steady stream.

Bugs into Pesthouse space with tidings of what was going on at Warp Point Four.

It is the first time we see him alone in quite a spell, and finally, Ambrose Hammer asks where is Fergus Appleton, although Ambrose really does not care where he is, unless it happens to turn out that he is in a pesthouse suffering from smallpox.

Second Fleet, Raymond Prescott sat still and silent on his flag bridge, eyes burning, as the survivors of Operation Pesthouse limped brokenly back into Centauri.

The Pesthouse disaster had crippled the offensive capability of the TFN.

TFN to rebuild itself after Operation Pesthouse, and to provide the entire Grand Alliance with expendable munitions which were fully interchangeable between any of its member navies.

Ivan Antonov and Raymond Prescott had ridden their flagships into the meat-grinders of Lorelei, Pesthouse, and Home Hive III.

Bichet had summoned up the ghosts of Operation Pesthouse, but Chung stood his ground.

But I have no intention of rushing back into Pesthouse just because we can.

Zhaarnak walked over to stand beside him, letting his own eyes rest on the glittering icons and light-strings of warp lines stretching from Pesthouse to Centauri.

Seventh and Eighth Fleets were mere centimeters apart in the Anderson One System and Pesthouse, respectively.