a. Obs. [ad. F. variqueux (Paré) or L. varicōs-us VARICOSE a.] Varicose.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 45/1. Greate Armes and great Legges, which are varicouse.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., II. iv. I. ii. Which saith that in melancholy and mad men, the varicous tumor hæmorroides appearing doth heale the same.
1634. T. Johnson, Parey’s Chirurg., XX. vii. (1678), 461. The swelling and blackness of the Tongue, and as it were varicous veins lying under it.
1710. T. Fuller, Pharm. Extemp., 261. This Linament,… contracting the varicous Vessels, reduces them to their due Tenor and Size.
1782. Med. Comm., I. 119. The cutaneous veins were slightly varicous. Ibid. (1786), II. 97. [The veins had] assumed a varicous appearance.
