mormal
English
Alternative forms
- morrimal
- mortmal
Etymology
French mort-mal (“a deadly evil”).
Noun
mormal (plural mormals)
- (obsolete) A bad sore; a gangrene or cancer.
- 14th C., Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, "General Prologue", lines 387-388:
- But greet harm was it, as it thoughte me, / That on his shyne a mormal hadde he.
- But very ill it was, it seemed to me, / That on his shin a deadly sore had he.
- But greet harm was it, as it thoughte me, / That on his shyne a mormal hadde he.
- 14th C., Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, "General Prologue", lines 387-388:
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mormal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- Marmol