green-sickness (n.) Old form(s): Greene-sicknesse
type of illness supposed to affect lovesick young women
2H4 IV.iii.92[Falstaff alone, of boys like Prince John] they fall into a kind of male green-sickness
AC III.ii.6.1[Enobarbus to Agrippa] Lepidus ... is troubled / With the green-sickness
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