Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Scurvy. See
scurvy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Scurvy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
scorbutus ;scurvy
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Examples
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Evelyn, in his _Pomona_, 1729, to be "in a word the most wholesome drink in Europe, as specially sovereign against the scorbute, the stone, spleen, and what not."
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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