Word Meanings - ENFESTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To fester. "Enfestered sores." Davies .

FESTERMENT
A festering. Chalmers.
ENFESTER
To fester. "Enfestered sores." Davies .
FESTER
1. To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers. Wounds immedicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. Milton. Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester.
INFESTER
One who, or that which, infests.
FOSSORES
A group of hymenopterous insects including the sand wasps. They excavate cells in earth, where they deposit their eggs, with the bodies of other insects for the food of the young when hatched.
SCANSORES
An artifical group of birds formerly regarded as an order. They are distributed among several orders by modern ornithologists. Note: The toes are in pairs, two before and two behind, by which they are enabled to cling to, and climb upon, trees,
RASORES
An order of birds; the Gallinæ. Note: Formely, the word Rasores was used in a wider sense, so as to include other birds now widely separated in classification.
CURSORES
An order of running birds including the ostrich, emu, and allies; the Ratitaæ. A group of running spiders; the wolf spiders.
STRISORES
A division of passerine birds including the humming birds, swifts, and goatsuckers. It is now generally considered an artificial group.
INSESSORES
An order of birds, formerly established to include the perching birds, but now generally regarded as an artificial group.