sb. pl. Obs. Forms: 5–7 emeraudes, -odes, (5 emerawntys, -owdys, emoroyades), 7 emrods, emeroids, emerods. [ad. L. hæmorrhoïdes, a. Gr. αἱμορροίδες: see HEMORRHOIDS.] = HEMORRHOIDS. Still sometimes used in allusions to 1 Sam. v. 6, 7, in A.V.)

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a. 1400.  in Rel. Ant., I. 190. A man schal blede ther [in the arm] also, The emeraudis for to undo.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 139. Emerawntys, or emerowdys.

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1530.  Palsgr., 182. A disease called the emerodes.

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1610.  Barrough, Meth. Physick, I. xxviii. (1639), 47. If the disease [melancholy] be caused through the stopping of Emerods or menstruis.

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1625.  Hart, Anat. Ur., II. viii. 106. Such dust … is thought to signifie fluxe of the Emeraudes.

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1631.  Gouge, God’s Arrows, III. 362. He died of … the Emeroids.

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1770.  Andrew 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.

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1855.  Smedley, Occult Sc., 335. The mice and emerods of gold … were essentially charms.

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