itch

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. An irritating skin sensation causing a desire to scratch.
2. n. Any of various skin disorders, such as scabies, marked by intense irritation and itching.
3. n. A restless desire or craving for something: an itch to travel.
4. v. To feel, have, or produce an itch.
5. v. To have a desire to scratch.
6. v. To have a persistent, restless craving.
7. v. To cause to itch.
8. v. To scratch (an itch).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To feel a peculiar irritation or tingling of the skin, producing an inclination to scratch the part so affected.
2. Hence To experience a provoking, teasing, or tingling desire to do or to get something.
3. n. A tingling sensation of irritation in the skin, produced by disease (see def. 2) or in any other way.
4. n. An inflammation of the human skin, caused by the presence of a minute mite, Sarcoptes scabiei (see itch-mite), presenting papules, vesicles, and pustules, and accompanied with great itching; scabies.
5. n. Hence An uneasy longing or propensity; a teasing or tingling desire: as, an itch for praise; an itch for scribbling.
6. n. See the qualifying words.

Wiktionary

1. n. A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch.
2. n. A desire or want.
3. v. To feel the need to scratch.
4. v. To want or desire.
5. v. To cause to feel an itch.
6. v. To scratch or rub so as to relieve an itch.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.
2. v. To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long for.
3. n. An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite (the Sarcoptes scabei), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact.
4. n. Any itching eruption.
5. n. A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by the itch eruption; -- called also scabies, psora, etc.
6. n. A constant irritating desire.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. have or perceive an itch
2. v. have a strong desire or urge to do something
3. v. cause to perceive an itch
4. n. a strong restless desire
5. n. an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch
6. v. scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
7. n. a contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite; characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation