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† ˈscruby north. Obs.
Also 6 scrubby, 6, 9 scrubie, 7 scrobie, scrooby.
[Perh. a metathetic alteration of scorbute or its source.]
Scurvy. Also 16th c. scruby ill. Comb. scruby-grass, scurvy-grass.
1551Turner Herbal I vj, The scuerbuch whyche is called in the North cuntre the scruby ell [1568 the scrubby ill, or the crepel ill]. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. lxxxii. 325 In English it is called Spoonewort, Scrubie grass, and Scuruie grasse. 1655Lamont Diary (Maitland Cl.) 87 This year, Mr. Jhone Duncan..died of the Scrobie. 1676Row Contn. Blair's Autobiog. App. (1848) 593 Scruby, gout, and gravel. 1691Ray N.C. Words 61 Scrooby-grass. |