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crewels, n. pl. Sc.|ˈkruːəlz|
Also cruels.
[f. F. écrouelles scrofula.]
The king's evil, scrofula.
1660J. Lamont Diary (1815) 154 (Jam.) The Lady Balcleuch..had the cruells in hir arme. 1721Wodrow Hist. II. 445 (Jam.) His right hand and right knee broke out in a running sore, called the cruels. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xlvii, Having a beloved child sick to death of the Crewels. 1824― St. Ronan's ii, ‘A puir body's bairn that had gotten the cruells.’ 1880Antrim and Down Gloss., Cruels, the king's evil. |