Meanings
adjectivenodous (comparative more nodous, superlative most nodous)
comparative more nodous · superlative most nodous
- obsoleteNodose; knotty.
[T]his [the ring finger of the hand] is ſeldom or laſt of all affected with the Gout, and when that becometh nodous, men continue not long after.
1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Ring-finger”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 4th book, page 157
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