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green sickness, green-sickness|ˌgriːnˈsɪknɪs|
[See green a. 3.]
An anæmic disease which mostly affects young women about the age of puberty and gives a pale or greenish tinge to the complexion; chlorosis.
1583Greene Mamillia Wks. (Grosart) II. 36 His daughter beeing at the age of twentie yeeres, would..fall into the green sicknes for want of a husband. 1584J. Raynolds Proph. Haggai iv. (1649) 53 Like them that are troubled with the greene sicknesse. 1678Dryden Limberham iv. i. Wks. 1883 VI. 82 Languishing maids in the green⁓sickness. 1707Floyer Physic. Pulse-Watch 225 The Pulse in the Green-Sickness beats 90. 1746R. James Introd. Moufet's Health's Improv. 21 The Mischief that young Girls do themselves, who are inclined to..the green Sickness, by taking great Quantities of Chalk, Lime, and other Absorbents. 1846Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 385 She..had quite lately had the green sickness.
b. transf. and fig. (often with reference to the morbid appetite which characterizes chlorosis).
1596Nashe Saffron-Walden Wks. (Grosart) III. 166 It will then appeare..whose wit hath the greene sicknes. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. iii. 100 A kinde of Male Green-Sicknesse. a1658Cleveland Antiplatonic iv, Virtue's no more in Womankind But the Green sickness of the Mind. 1675Brooks Gold. Key Wks. 1867 V. 142 Curiosity is that green-sickness of the soul, whereby it longs for novelties, and loathes sound and wholesome truths. 1682Loyal Satirist in Somers Tracts (1812) VII. 68 What a desperate green-sickness is the land fallen into, thus to doat on coals and dirt, and such rubbish divinity! 1881Stevenson Virg. Puerisque 104 There is some meaning in the old theory of wild oats; and a man who has not had his greensickness and got done with it for good, is as little to be depended upon as an unvaccinated infant.
c. attrib. and Comb. (= greensick a.), esp. in green-sickness girl, green sickness maid, etc.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. v. 157 Out you greene sicknesse carrion, out you baggage, You tallow face. 1598E. Guilpin Skial. (1878) 46 Bad green-sicknes wines. 1628Ford Lover's Mel. iii. ii, What a green-sickness-liver'd boy is this! 1651Cleveland Poems 42 Why, my Muse, like a Green-sicknesse-Girle, Feed'st thou on coals and dirt? 1733Cheyne Eng. Malady Introd. (1734) 2 Sunk even below the Weakness of a Green-sickness Maid. 1767A. Campbell Lexiph. (1774) 169 Just as a green-sickness girl, when gorged with chalk and trash, nauseates the nicest dainties.
Hence green-sicknessed a., green-sick.
1673F. Kirkman Unlucky Cit. 176 Never did Green⁓sickness'd Girl long with half so much earnestness for Chalk or Oatmeal. c1720Bp. Rundle in Butler Life Hildesley (1799) 185 Thy [sc. Sir R. Steele] works will..cure all the green-sicknessed appetites that will seize on the gay and young, without so friendly a cordial. |