greensickness
Americannoun
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The earlier fever in her blood had gradually dropped to the greensickness of middle-age, so that she was vaguely repellent to men, particularly the young.
From Ancestors A Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
To these belong Bright's disease, which very often turns into pulmonary consumption, greensickness or chlorosis, anaemia, continued febrile diseases, severe chronic suppuration, chronic catarrh of the stomach, frequent pregnancies, childbed diseases.
From Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated by Brendecke, Fr. (Friedrich)
When a man is in the unsatisfied stages of love he must expect occasional attacks of greensickness, sullen passions intensified by unreasoning fear.
From Black Oxen by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
Her face was of the colour that greensickness imparts.
From Atlantis by Seltzer, Adele Szold
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