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  • noun plural obsolete See emerods.

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Examples

  • Seekes out a poore knights living from such emrods.

    Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

  • There's not a d---- d froggy left to go to heaven; or if there be so he's a 'battened down below, "old Mike shouted, flourishing his spy-glass, which rattled in its joints as much as he did;" down comes the blood, froth, and blue blazes, as they call the Republican emrods, and up goes the Union-jack, my hearties.

    Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War 1862

  • Philistines supposed that their mice and emrods came, 1 Sam. vi.

    The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842

  • There’s not a d — — d froggy left to go to heaven; or if there be so he’s a’ battened down below,” old Mike shouted, flourishing his spy-glass, which rattled in its joints as much as he did; “down comes the blood, froth, and blue blazes, as they call the Republican emrods, and up goes the

    Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

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