noun
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an elder sister of one's mother.
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the wife of an elder brother of one's father.
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an acute, highly contagious, febrile disease caused by variola virus, characterized by vomiting, and pustular eruptions that often leave pitted scars or pockmarks, when healed; smallpox.
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a folk-goddess, a form of Pārvati, who is believed to cause and remove this disease.
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an acute infectious viral disease of cattle, characterised by fever and by hemorrhagic inflammation and ulceration of the mucous membrane of the alimentary canal.