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A sweating; a profuse or morbid sweating, often succeeded by an eruption of small pimples.

A cutaneous eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed base. Dunglison.

nflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc.

An eruption of pustules.

An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever. Dunglison.

Of, relating to, or characterized by, exanthema; efflorescent; as, an exanthematous eruption.

An eruption of the skin; cutaneous efflorescence.

of firearms in succession by a line of troops. -- St. Anthony's fire, erysipelas; -- an eruptive fever which St. Anthony was supposed to cure miraculously. Hoblyn. -- St. Elmo's fire. See under Saint Elmo. -- To set on fire, to inflame; to kindle. -- To take fire, to begin to burn; to fly into a passion.…

-- Green earth (Min.), a variety of glauconite, found in cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used as a pigment by artists; -- called also mountain green. -- Green ebony. (a) A south American tree (Jacaranda ovalifolia), having a greenish wood, used for rulers, turned and inlaid work, and in dyeing. (b)…

An eruption of the skin, taking various names, according to its form, or the part affected; especially, an eruption of vesicles in small distinct clusters, accompanied with itching or tingling, including shingles, ringworm, and the like; -- so called from its tendency to creep or spread from one part of the skin to ano…

Pertaining to, or resembling, the herpes; partaking of the nature of herpes; as, herpetic eruptions.

An eruptive disease (Varicella globularis), allied to the chicken pox.

rginia; -- called also horned poppy. Gray. -- Horn pox (Med.), abortive smallpox with an eruption like that of chicken pox. -- Horn quicksilver (Min.), native calomel, or bichloride of mercury. -- Horn shell (Zoöl.), any long, sharp, spiral, gastropod shell, of the genus Cerithium, and allied genera. -- Horn silver…

A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin. "A body full of humors." Sir W. Temple.

A cutaneous, pustular eruption, not attended with fever; usually, a kind of eczema with pustulation.

ds, and characterized by palpitation, depression, and general emaciation, with a pustular eruption upon the skin.

An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite (the Sarcoptes scabei), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact.

A kind of eruption upon the skin; lentigo; freckle.

A freckly eruption on the skin; freckles.