Word Meanings - FESTERMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A festering. Chalmers.

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• FESTERMENT
  A festering. Chalmers.
• 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.
• ENFESTER
  To fester. "Enfestered sores." Davies .
• INFESTER
  One who, or that which, infests.