Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Sibbens

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Sibbens


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(n.) A contagious disease, endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws. It is marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body. In the Orkneys the name is applied to the itch.