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

A valuable remedy for scrofula, and all scrofulous skin diseases, as tetter, herpes, leprosy, and the like; also a valuable alterative in all constitutional diseases.

From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous

It seemed like a pathological chart presenting a face broken out with an unseemly tetter.

From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by Hosmer, James Kendall

It is crusted and scabbed with yellowish tetter, like sulphur or the rancid fat on meat.

From The Old Front Line by Masefield, John

In the fever or the berebarde," "Berbi, O.F., chancre, dartre; a boil, bubo, or tetter, commonly attendant upon pestilent fever.

From Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850 by Various