lues
Americannoun
noun
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any venereal disease
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a pestilence
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of lues
1625–35; < New Latin, special use of Latin luēs plague, contagion
Example Sentences
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Lues is always to be excluded as the fundamental factor in the groups 3 and 4.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier
Some idea of the extent to which Napier suffered from the Lues Boswelliana may be gathered from the fact that he regards even the Claverhouse of that incomparable romance as a libel.
From Claverhouse by Morris, Mowbray
Lues and tuberculosis are possible factors to be eliminated by the usual methods.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier
But of all the rest, I admire Lues Guicciardine's relations of the Low Countries.
From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert
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