lues noun. ['lu:i:z, 'lju:-] M17.
[Latin = plague.]
Syphilis (also more fully lues venerea [vǝ'nɪǝrɪǝ]). Formerly also, a plague, a pestilence.
lues Boswelliana [-,bɒzwɛlɪ'eɪnǝ, -'ɑ:nǝ] joc. [mod. Latin, formed as BOSWELL + -iana (fem.) -IAN] a biographer's tendency to magnify his or her subject, regarded as a disease.

■ luetic [-'ɛtɪk] adjective L19.

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