English

Noun

lousy evil ‎(uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Phthiriasis.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:

     if Heraclitus and Pherecydes could have changed their wisdome with health, and by that meanes, the one to have rid himselfe of the dropsie, and the other of the lowsie-evill [transl. maladie pediculaire], which so sore tormented them, they would surely have done it […].

   • 1652, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician, London, 1816:

     The seed bruised mixed with honey, and applied, or made up with wax, takes away the marks and black and blue spots of bruises, or the like, the roughness or scabbiness of the skin, as also the leprosy, and lousy evil.