or Bug, in Zoology, a genus of insects belonging to the order of hemiptera. See Entomology Index.

The methods of expelling house-bugs are various, as oil of turpentine, the smoke of corn-mint, of narrow-leaved wild cereals, of herb-robert, of the reddish agaric, of mustard, Guinea pepper, peats or turf, &c. See also Bug and CIMICIFUGA.