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shab(be
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Additional spellings:
shabbe
19 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Any of various skin diseases in humans causing itching, skin eruption, loss of hair, etc.; scabies;
drie shab
, impetigo; (b) any of similar skin diseases in animals; mange; (c)
pl.
pustules…
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