marcour
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marcour (uncountable)
- The state of withering or wasting; leanness; loss of flesh.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- considering the exolution and languor ensuing that act in some — the extenuation and marcour in others, and the visible acceleration it maketh of age in most, we cannot but think it much abridgeth our days.
References[edit]
- “marcour”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.