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Definition of Croups

1. croup [n] - See also: croup

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Croups

croupes croupier croupier's rake croupiers croupiest croupily crouping croupon croupons croupous

croupous croupous bronchitis croupous laryngitis croupous lymph croupous membrane croups (current term) croupy croupy Crouse crousely

croustade croustades crout croute croutes crouton croutons crouts crouzon's disease Crouzon's syndrome

Literary usage of Croups

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1. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"... sea-billows' croups. And follow (an infinite spume-sprinkling train ;) The, on golden axe-tree, rolling, broad divine Wheels, in wide salt sea-flood, ..."

2. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Ephraim Chambers (1870)
"... as he asserts, the вате crystalline : croups in which the existence of isomorphism ha« form. been distinctly ascertained. From these we select Miller, ..."

3. The Sportsman's Dictionary: Or The Gentleman's Companion: for Town and ...Sports (1800)
"od backs, and though their croups are not fo beautiful, being for the moil part pointed, ... croups ..."

4. The Feeding and Management of Infants and Children: And the Home Treatment by Thomas Cation Duncan (1880)
"THE croups: SPASMODIC AND MEMBRANOUS. Of all the diseases to which children are liable, croup is the one most dreaded by the inexperienced. ..."

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