English

Noun

king's evil ‎(uncountable)

1. (archaic) scrofula
   • 1806, Robert Willan, On vaccine inoculation

     Suppose the person the matter is taken from, has the king's evil, the pox, madness, or some other inveterate disease — I am sure the inoculator can give no reason why it should not convey one distemper as well as the other.