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Definition
a disease caused by vitamin C deficiency; symptoms include spots on the skin, spongy gums, and bleeding from all mucous membranes
- Well, thou hast a son shall take this disgrace off me; scurvy, old, filthy, scurvy lord!2.3 — Act 2 Scene 3 — Paris. The KING'S palace (78% in)
- Well, thou hast a son shall take this disgrace off me; scurvy, old, filthy, scurvy lord!2.3 — Act 2 Scene 3 — Paris. The KING'S palace (78% in)
- Mine eyes smell onions; I shall weep anon:— Good Tom Drum [to PAROLLES], lend me a handkercher: so, I thank thee; wait on me home, I'll make sport with thee: let thy courtesies alone, they are scurvy ones.5.3 — Act 5 Scene 3 — The same. A room in the COUNTESS'S palace (95% in)
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