morphew

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An ill-shap'd face, with morphew overspread,

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  1. A scurfy eruption. Dunglison. A morpheu or staynyng of the skynne. Elyot, Dictionary, under Alphos, ed. 1559. (Halliwell.) No man ever saw a gray haire on the head or beard of any Truth, wrinckle, or morphew on its face. N. Ward, Simple Cobler, p. 23.
  2. To cover with morphew. Whose bandlesse bonnet vails his o'ergrown chin And sullen rags bewray his morphew'd skin. Bp. Hall, Satires, IV. v. 26. Do you call this painting? No, no, but you call't careening of an old Morphewed lady, to make her disembogue again. Webster, Duchess of Malfi, ii. 1.

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  • An ill-shap'd face, with morphew overspread, —  The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)
  • -- There is nothing valiant or solid to be hoped for from such as are always kempt and perfumed, and every day smell of the tailor; the exceedingly curious that are wholly in mending such an imperfection in the face, in taking away the morphew in the neck, or bleaching their hands at midnight, gumming and bridling their beards, or making the waist small, binding it with hoops, while the mind runs at waste; too much pickedness is not manly. —  Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems
  • In a scar after a wound the integument is only opake; but in these blotches, which are called morphew and freckles, the small vessels seem to have become inactive with some of the serum of the blood stagnating in them, from whence their colour. —  Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
 

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  1. Also morfew, morpheaw, morpheu; from French morphée, morfée = Spanish morfea = Portuguese morphea = Italian morfea, morfia, from Middle Latin morphea, also morpha, a scurfy eruption, prob. for *morphæa (cf. equivalent morpha), prob. from Greek μορφή, form, shape.
  2. from morphew, n.
 

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