Lies vs Lues - What's the difference?
lies | lues |
(lie)
(Mid-Ulster) Great, wonderful
(dated, medicine) A plague or disease, especially syphilis.
* 1819 , (Lord Byron), Don Juan , I:
* 1983 , (Lawrence Durrell), Sebastian'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 1031:
As a verb lies
is .As a noun lues is
(dated|medicine) a plague or disease, especially syphilis.lies
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(-)- And which in ravage the more loathsome evil is— / Their real lues , or our pseudo-syphilis?
- There seemed to be no history of lues or any other family illness in the background.