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yaws
Part of speech: NounA certain contagious disease common in Africa and elsewhere, consisting of eruptions somewhat resembling raspberries.
Usage examples "yaws":- An' look at de skin under your yaws, an den at de hair on de top o' you' head, an' you'll see straight off how bad you is. - "Old Hendrik's Tales", Arthur Owen Vaughan.
- Two haggard- faced men with bandaged eyes were grinding the wheel to starboard and port, and keeping the brig's yaws within two points each way- good work for blind men. - ""Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea", Morgan Robertson.
- Suddenly she yaws off into the trough of the sea, lurches broad on, and ere she regains her way, a fierce sea sweeps the house from the decks, carrying those within it into a watery grave. - "Our World, or, The Slaveholders Daughter", F. Colburn Adams.