tetter
Example Sentences
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Mrs. Bains put a hand on the taller boy’s hair and fingered it lightly, absently searching with her nails for tetter spots.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
It is crusted and scabbed with yellowish tetter, like sulphur or the rancid fat on meat.
From The Old Front Line by Masefield, John
His cheeks were pallid and lank, his eyes sunken, his forehead overshadowed by coarse straggling hairs, his teeth large and irregular, though sound and brilliantly white, and his chin discolored by a tetter.
From The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American by Hawthorne, Julian
The patients had both been subject to rheumatism; and, in one of them, this had been supplanted by an eruption Of tetter: on the disappearance of which last the globus appeared.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin
The most common of which is the tetter, or ring-worm, that seems to affect almost one half of them, and leaves whitish serpentine marks every where behind it.
