Lues vs Clues - What's the difference?
lues | clues |
(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 nouns the difference between lues and clues
is that lues is a plague or disease, especially syphilis while clues is plural of lang=en.As a verb clues is
third-person singular of clue.lues
English
Noun
(-)- 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.