Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A pruritic skin disease accompanied by a pustular eruption: common in parts of Africa.

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Examples

  • Then came the plague of boils, and soon after a species of intolerable itch, called the coorash.

    In the Heart of Africa Samuel White Baker 1857

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