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palsy

In medicine, another term for paralysis.
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And when he would hear Tashtego singing out for him to produce himself, that his bones might be picked, the simple-witted Steward all but shattered the crockery hanging round him in the pantry, by his sudden fits of the palsy.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
why weary, and palsy the arm at the oar, and the iron, and the lance?
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
When he stood before the murdered man, he shook as with a palsy, and he put his face in his hands and burst into tears.
Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context
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