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

I had tetter and it all come out.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 by Work Projects Administration

Those also who tetter up and down when they walk, rising an inch or two every step, will have many corresponding ups and downs in life, because of their irregularity of character and feeling.

From The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology by Fowler, L. N.

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