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Lousiness   /lˈaʊzinəs/   Listen
Lousiness

noun
1.
Infestation with lice (Pediculus humanus) resulting in severe itching.  Synonym: pediculosis.
2.
The quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions.  Synonyms: loathsomeness, repulsiveness, sliminess, vileness, wickedness.






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"Lousiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... the skin due to local irritants, such as the various forms of trade eczema, scabies (itch), and pediculosis (lousiness), but the fact remains that nearly all skin diseases fail to develop if the individual eats properly, and most of them can be cured, after they have developed, by proper diet and attention to hygiene generally. If the diet is such that irritants are manufactured in the alimentary ...
— Maintaining Health • R. L. Alsaker

... fruit-bearers) are infested with the measels, by being burned and scorched with the sun in great droughts: To this commonly succeeds lousiness, which is cur'd by boring an hole into the principal root, and pouring in a quantity of brandy, stopping the orifice up with a ...
— Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) - Or A Discourse of Forest Trees • John Evelyn



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