[L. = wolf.]
† 1. A wolf. Obs.
1583. Leg. Bp. St. Androis, 6. God forwairns you … To ken the lupus in a lamb skyn lappit.
2. The wolf, a southern constellation situated to the south of Scorpio, and joined to Centaur.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Lupus,… a Southern Constellation.
1839. Penny Cycl., XIV. 203/1. Lupus (the Wolf), one of the old constellations.
3. The pike or luce.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Lupus,… the Pike, or Sturgeon, a Fish.
1854. Badham, Halieut., 42. Sluggish mugils and the voracious lupus should be selected as easy to rear.
4. An ulcerous disease of the skin, sometimes erosive, sometimes hypertrophous.
[c. 1400. Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 208. Summen clepen it cancrum, & summen lupum.]
1590. Barrough, Meth. Physick, 331. Lupus is a malignant vlcer quickly consuming the neather parts; and it is very hungry like vnto a woolfe.
1693. Blancard’s Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Lupus, a sort of Canker in the Thighs and Legs.
1818–20. E. Thompson, Cullen’s Nosol. Method. (ed. 3), 333. Lupus: Noli Me Tangere.
1876. Trans. Clinical Soc., IX. 165. The comparatively rare … sebaceous Lupus or Bat’s-wing disease.
1897. W. Anderson, Surg. Treat. Lupus, 1. Lupus is still as defiant as in the dark ages.
attrib. 1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., IV. 685. The lupus patients treated by tuberculin.
1900. J. Hutchinson, in Archives Surg., XI. 52. The lupus scar. Ibid., 53. The form of cancer … is very like lupus cancer. Ibid., 218. Lupus patches.
