phthisic

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Volutes, asportation, imbricated, Mnemosyne and phthisic are a few of the others.

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2015

He corned for us ten minutes behind the town clock, and Mammy Dilsie had phthisic, so I had to fix the two twins, and we're done left.

From The Tinder-Box by Daviess, Maria Thompson

Then Dilsie could sleep in the cabin, as she ought to on account of the jimsonweed in her phthisic pipe.

From The Tinder-Box by Daviess, Maria Thompson

All sorts of diseases, Whatever you pleases, The phthisic, the palsy, and the gout; If the devil's in, I'll blow him out.

From "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays by Rhys, Ernest

After going down the line several times and a number of scholars had fallen on some simple word the school-master pronounced the word "phthisic."

From Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul by Moore, Frank