Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various skin diseases, such as eczema, psoriasis, or herpes, characterized by eruptions and itching.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vague name of several cutaneous diseases, as herpes, eczema, and impetigo.
- noun A cutaneous disease of animals, which spreads on the body in different directions, and occasions a troublesome itching. It may be communicated to man.
- To affect with or as with the disease called tetter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To affect with tetter.
- noun (Med.) A vesicular disease of the skin; herpes. See
herpes . - noun (Med.) favus.
- noun (Med.) eczema.
- noun (Med.) psoriasis.
- noun (Bot.) the white bryony.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various
pustular skin conditions. - verb To affect with tetter.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Things NASA Ground Operation designers need to work on is not only technical, like weight, sizes and transportation, but WHEN do humans leave a tetter and how much to they plan on accomplishing when they do.
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Politianus had a tetter in his nose continually running, fulsome in company, yet no man so eloquent and pleasing in his works.
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Why at night both my gentlemen had kibed heels, a tetter in the chin, a churchyard cough in the lungs, a catarrh in the throat, a swingeing boil at the rump, and the devil of one musty crust of a brown george the poor dogs had to scour their grinders with.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Why at night both my gentlemen had kibed heels, a tetter in the chin, a churchyard cough in the lungs, a catarrh in the throat, a swingeing boil at the rump, and the devil of one musty crust of a brown george the poor dogs had to scour their grinders with.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Wicked prongs stuck like fangs from three deadly pinwheels attached to the base, and it seemed to me an instrument of torture, although Katie had told me it was a tetter, used to fluff up the cut hay so that it could dry better before baling.
Plain Truth JODI PICOULT 2000
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Wicked prongs stuck like fangs from three deadly pinwheels attached to the base, and it seemed to me an instrument of torture, although Katie had told me it was a tetter, used to fluff up the cut hay so that it could dry better before baling.
Plain Truth JODI PICOULT 2000
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Wicked prongs stuck like fangs from three deadly pinwheels attached to the base, and it seemed to me an instrument of torture, although Katie had told me it was a tetter, used to fluff up the cut hay so that it could dry better before baling.
Plain Truth JODI PICOULT 2000
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She works at St. Veronica's hospital, lives nearby at the home of a Mrs. Quoad, a lady widowed long ago and since suffering a series of antiquated diseases-greensickness, tetter, kibes, purples, im-posthumes and almonds in the ears, most recently a touch of scurvy.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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A.out the time he wrote the tetter to Miller, he sent a copy of the essay to H.P. Lovecraft, the weird-story writer, with a request to forward it for publication in a fan magazine, The P.antagraph, to Donald A. Wollheim, a fan who later became a science-fiction writer and editor.
Conan Howard, Robert E. & De Camp, L. Sprague & Carter, Lin 1966
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Thou shalt be shunned like a pestilent tetter, nor shall any plague be fouler than thou.
The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo
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