Word Meanings - ECZEMA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter,
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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- CALLOSUM
The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - CALLE
A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer. - TETTEROUS
Having the character of, or pertaining to, tetter. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - TETTERWORT
A plant used as a remedy for tetter, -- in England the calendine, in America the bloodroot. - LEAVE-TAKING
Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak. - LEAVED
Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved. - COVERLET
The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser. - SMALLISH
Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. - COVERCLE
A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne. - CALL
callen, AS. ceallin; akin to Icel & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen 1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak. 2. To summon to the discharge of a particular - DISEASEFUL
1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - LEAVENING
1. The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven. 2. That which leavens or makes light. Bacon. - CALLIOPE
The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. (more info) beautiful) + - CALLOT
A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson. - COVERT BARON
Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill. - CALLIGRAPHIC; CALLIGRAPHICAL
Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton. - TETTER
A vesicular disease of the skin; herpes. See Herpes. Honeycomb tetter , favus. -- Moist tetter , eczema. -- Scaly tetter , psoriasis. Tetter berry , the white bryony. (more info) zittermal, OHG. zittaroch, Skr. dadru, dadruka, a sort of skin - PITCHSTONE
An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch. - HODGKIN'S DISEASE
A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician. - GYMNASTICALLY
In a gymnastic manner. - BELEAVE
To leave or to be left. May. - HYPERCRITICALLY
In a hypercritical manner. - JUMPING DISEASE
A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine. - UNEMPIRICALLY
Not empirically; without experiment or experience. - SCALLION
A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc. - RECOVER
To cover again. Sir W. Scott. - PITCHERFUL
The quantity a pitcher will hold. - UNWITCH
To free from a witch or witches; to fee from witchcraft. B. Jonson. - UNIVOCALLY
In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall. - QUITCH
See TENNYSON - PARABOLICALLY
1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola. - STEREOGRAPHICALLY
In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane. - HEMEROCALLIS
A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.