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ˈsivvens Obs. exc. Hist.
Also 8 cevenns, 8–9 sibbens (-ans, -ins), 9 sivens.
[ad. local Gael. suibhean (commonly suibheag or subhag) raspberry: see quot. 1776.]
An infectious skin disease formerly prevalent in Scotland.
1762Forfeited Estates Papers (S.H.S.) 235 A Distemper commonly called the Cevenns, which is believed to have been brought originally..by Oliver Cromwell's army. 1776Pennant Tour in Scot. ii. App. 447 A loathsome and very infectious disease of the venereal kind, called the Sivvens... Sometimes a fungus appears in various parts of the body, resembling a raspberry, in the Erse language called Sivven. 1792Statist. Acc. Scot. V. 146 The disease called Sibbins..has made its appearance once or twice in this parish. 1798J. Paterson in Beddoes Contrib. Phys. & Med. Knowl. (1799) 410 The sibbens affecting the surface of the body, more than the common lues. 1810J. Adams Hunter's Treat. Ven. Dis. vii. 566 Of this kind [non-syphilitic] is the sivvens of Scotland. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) III. 167 Yaws have been supposed by some writers to be a species of lues, and especially of that which in Scotland is denominated sibbens or sivens. 1822Hibbert Desc. Shetl. Isl. 542 There is a great variety of cutaneous complaints... Sibbens, a disease hitherto ill defined, I saw occasionally. 1851in W. Cramond Ann. Banff (1891) I. 369 A case of ‘Sibbans’ reported by Dr. Whyte in the Gallowhill. |