Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The crab-louse, Phthirius pubis. See cut under crab-louse.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A louse.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A louse.

Etymologies

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French, from mordre ("to bite") + Latin pedis ("louse").

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