= leprosy.

= leprosy, n. 1.

Leprosy or a similarly disfiguring skin disease. Cf. mesel, adj. 2.

Medicine. = leprosy, n. 1. Cf. leper, n.1 1.

Leprosy or a similarly disfiguring skin disease; (in extended use) an affliction of any kind.

Originally (frequently with distinguishing word): disease causing scaliness, loss of pigmentation, or scabbiness of the skin; an instance or type…

= leprosy, n. 1. Also figurative.

= leprosy, n. 1.

= leprosy, n. 1. Cf. leperhead, n. Obsolete.

= leprosy, n. 1. Cf. leperhood, n. 1.

A state or quality suggestive of leprosy; taintedness, impurity; contagion. Cf. leprous, adj. 2.

= leprosy, n. literal and figurative.

Leprosy.

Name of a kind of leprosy: see quot. 1547.

= leprosy, n. 1.

A disease producing swelling and alteration of the appearance of the face (usually taken to be leprosy). Now historical and rare.

leprosy.

A form of leprosy in which the face assumes a dusky, wrinkled, and somewhat lion-like appearance.

A form of leprosy once prevalent in the West Indies.

used attributively and in the possessive to designate Mycobacterium leprae, the causative agent of leprosy, which Hansen discovered, and…