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of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"

of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"

Vile; mean; low; vulgar; contemptible.

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.

Vile; mean; low; vulgar; contemptible.

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.

A condition due to deficiency of ASCORBIC ACID (vitamin C) in the diet and marked by weakness, anemia, spongy gums, a tendency to mucocutaneous hemorrhages and a brawny induration of the muscles of the calves and legs. (Dorland, 27th ed)

Affected by this disease; mean; paltry.

Scurvily.

Scurviness.

A disease marked by inanition, debility, anemia, edema of the dependent parts, a spongy condition, sometimes with ulceration, of the gums, and hemorrhages into the skin and from the mucous membranes; the etiology of the disease is not definitely established, but it is believed to be due to a monotonous diet of salt meats or an absence of fresh vegetables or vegetable or fruit acids, or not improbably to ptomaines developed in the preserved food.

Disease with salivation, purpura, etc., especially seen among sailors.

A disease essentially consisting in a depraved condition of the blood, which chiefly affects sailors and such as are deprived for a considerable time of fresh provisions and a due quantity of vegetable food. It is characterized by livid spots of various sizes, sometimes minute and sometimes large, paleness, languor, lassitude, and depression of spirits, general exhaustion, pains in the limbs, occasionally with fetid breath, spungy and bleeding gums, and bleeding from almost all the mucous membranes. It is much more prevalent in cold climates than in warm. Fresh vegetables, farinaceous substances, and brisk fermented liquors, good air, attention to cleanliness, and due exercise, are among the principal remedies, but the most useful article, both as a preventative and as a curative agent, is lime or lemon juice.

Scurfy; covered or affected by scurf or scabs; scabby; diseased with scurvy; "Scurvy or scabbed."-Lev. xxi. 20: vile; mean; low; vulgar; worthless; contemptible; as, a scurvy fellow; "A very scurvy tune to sing at a man's funeral."-Shak.; "That scurvy custom of taking tobacco."-Swift: offensive; mischievous; malicious; as, a scurvy trick:.

Low; mean; vulgar.

Mean; low; base.

A disease characterized by livid spots under the skin, and by great prostration.

Scurfy; scabby; diseased with scurvy; vile; low; worthless.

A depraved state of the blood, caused by long continued privation of fresh succulent vegetables, or their preserved juices.

A disease characterised by livid spots of various sizes on the skin, and by a general debility, caused by confinement, want of fresh food and vegetables, and of exercise, chiefly affecting sailors on long voyages-formerly very fatal, but now generally prevented or cured by the free use of lime-juice and similar substances.

Scabby; thin, shabby, or mean.

A disease like purpura, due to improper food.

A chronic disease occasioned by malnutrition, occurring especially after prolonged abstinence from vegetable food. It is characterized by hemorrhagic conditions of the mucous membranes and later by hemorrhages beneath the skin. s. of the Alps. See pellagra.

n. A disease characterized by livid spots of various size paleness, langour, general exhaustion, pains in the limbs, and bleeding from almost all the mucous membranes.