sibbens

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sibbens - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Sibbens \Sib"bens\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Med.)
     A contagious disease, endemic in Scotland, resembling the
     yaws. It is marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and
     by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of
     the body. In the Orkneys the name is applied to the itch.
     [Written also sivvens.]
     [1913 Webster]