† ˈemerods, n. pl. Obs.
Forms: 5–7 emeraudes, -odes, (5 emerawntys, -owdys, emoroyades), 7 emrods, emeroids, emerods.
[ad. L. hæmorrhoïdes, a. Gr. αἱµορροίδες: see hæmorrhoids.]
= hæmorrhoids. (Still sometimes used in allusions to 1 Sam. v. 6, 7, in A.V.)
| a 1400 in Rel. Ant. I. 190 A man schal blede ther [in the arm] also, The emeraudis for to undo. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 139 Emerawntys, or emerowdys. 1530 Palsgr. 182 A disease called the emerodes. 1610 P. Barrough Meth. Physick i. xxviii. (1639) 47 If the disease [melancholy] be caused through the stopping of Emerods. 1625 Hart Anat. Ur. ii. viii. 106 Such dust..is thought to signifie fluxe of the Emeraudes. 1631 Gouge God's Arrows iii. 362 He died of..the Emeroids. 1770 A. Mitchell in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. IV. 527 He was seized..with a fit of the gout and the emerods at the same time. 1855 Smedley Occult Sc. 335 The mice and emerods of gold..were essentially charms. |