Obs. Also 6 lepored, lypored. [f. LEPER a. + -HEAD, -HOOD.] Leprosy.

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1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., VII. lxiv. (1495), 279. The fourth manere leprehede cometh of redde Colera corrupte in the membres with Melancoly.

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1493.  Festivall (W. de W., 1515), 101 b. He was heled of a leperhode that he had.

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1542.  Boorde, Dyetary, xxxi. (1870), 293. The .xxxi. Chapytre treatyth of a dyete for them the whiche haue any of the kyndes of lypored. He that is infectyd wyth any of the .iiii. kyndes of the lepored [etc.].

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