yaws
- n an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions
- n an erratic deflection from an intended course
- v be wide open
- v deviate erratically from a set course
- v swerve off course momentarily
- Belgian brains and Bantu muscle have thrust back the forest and checked the dread diseases (yaws, sleeping sickness, malaria) which sapped the Bantu's strength.
- Pests that carry typhus, yellow fever, encephalitis, plague, yaws, cholera and tick fever could quickly slip out of human control.
- An ancient problem, native or imported, has been yaws ( a disfiguring, nonvenereal disease caused by a spirochete much like that of syphilis).