Now rare. Also 7 lipitude. [ad. L. lippitūd-o (f. lippus blear-eyed), either directly or through F. lippitude.] Soreness of the eyes; blearedness; an instance of this.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 297. Such are Pestilences, Lippitudes, and such like.
1661. Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., 121. The loines bruised and applied help the dry lippitude.
1680. Aubrey, Lives (1898), II. 169. His lippitude then was come even to blindnesse.
1788. J. C. Smyth, in Med. Commun., II. 217. Ointments … are … useful in cases of lippitude.
1822–34. Good’s Study Med., II. 573. An unsightly lippitude and excision of the lower eyelid, are hence a very common result of a scrofulous attack on this organ.
