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Webster 1828 Edition


Green-sickness

GREE'N-SICKNESS

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Noun.
The chlorosis, a disease of maids, so called from the color it occasions in the face.

Definition 2024


green-sickness

green-sickness

English

Noun

green-sickness (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of green sickness

References

  • 1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes