NOLI-ME-TANGERE

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Any plant of a genus of herbs (Impatiens) having capsules which, if touched when ripe, discharge their seeds. -- See Impatiens.

2.
n.

The squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber.

3.
n.

A name formerly applied to several varieties of ulcerous cutaneous diseases, but now restricted to Lupus exedens, an ulcerative affection of the nose.


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