Thesaurus: scurvy

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1. n. Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy.
2. n. Vile; mean; low; vulgar; contemptible.
3. n. A disease characterized by livid spots, especially about the thighs and legs, due to extravasation of blood, and by spongy gums, and bleeding from almost all the mucous membranes. It is accompanied by paleness, languor, depression, and general debility. It is occasioned by confinement, innutritious food, and hard labor, but especially by lack of fresh vegetable food, or confinement for a long time to a limited range of food, which is incapable of repairing the waste of the system. It was formerly prevalent among sailors and soldiers.
4. adj. of the most contemptible kind
5. n. a condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C)
6. 1. Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy. "Whatsoever man . . . be scurvy or scabbed." lev. xxi. 18, 20. 2. Vile; mean; low; vulgar; contemptible. "A scurvy trick." Ld. Lytton. That scurvy custom of taking tobacco. Swift. [He] spoke spoke such scurvy and provoking terms. Shak. A disease characterized by livid spots, especially about the thighs and legs, due to extravasation of blood, and by spongy gums, and bleeding from almost all the mucous membranes. It is accompanied by paleness, languor, depression, and general debility. It is occasioned by confinement, innutritious food, and hard labor, but especially by lack of fresh vegetable food, or confinement for a long time to a limited range of food, which is incapable of repairing the waste of the system. It was formerly prevalent among sailors and soldiers. Scurvy grass Etym: [Scurvy + grass; or cf. Icel. skarfakal scurvy grass.] (Bot.) A kind of cress (Cochlearia officinalis) growing along the seacoast of Northern Europe and in arctic regions. It is a remedy for the scurvy, and has proved a valuable food to arctic explorers. The name is given also to other allied species of plants.
7. A disease characterized by livid spots, especially about thethighs and legs, due to extravasation of blood, and by spongy gums,and bleeding from almost all the mucous membranes. It is accompaniedby paleness, languor, depression, and general debility. It isoccasioned by confinement, innutritious food, and hard labor, butespecially by lack of fresh vegetable food, or confinement for a longtime to a limited range of food, which is incapable of repairing thewaste of the system. It was formerly prevalent among sailors andsoldiers. Scurvy grass Etym: [Scurvy + grass; or cf. Icel. skarfakalscurvy grass.] (Bot.) A kind of cress (Cochlearia officinalis)growing along the seacoast of Northern Europe and in arctic regions.It is a remedy for the scurvy, and has proved a valuable food toarctic explorers. The name is given also to other allied species ofplants.
8. n:100 n. a condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C)