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A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. [Obs. or Dial.] Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.

A bad quality or disposition in a disease; an incurable ulcer.

Hardenes; indurated. "A callous hand." Goldsmith. "A callous ulcer." Dunglison.

Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term it now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelia…

A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma.

A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat.

Ulceration of bone; a process in which bone disintegrates and is carried away piecemeal, as distinguished from necrosis, in which it dies in masses.

A compound medicinal powder, used by the ancients to sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc. Dunglison.

A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre. Soft chancre. A chancroid. See Chancroid.

ed by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration.

To heal or induce the formation of a cicatrix in, as in wounded or ulcerated flesh. Wiseman.

and hard; to unite and become solid; as, moist clay consolidates by drying. In hurts and ulcers of the head, dryness maketh them more apt to consolidate. Bacon.

-- called also pulmonary consumption. Consumption of the bowels (Med.), inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.

A disease in the West Indies. It is a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges. See Yaws. Dunglison.

An ulcer on the coronet of a horse. Bailey.

ed by the shoe of one hind foot striking and cutting the other leg. It sometimes forms an ulcer.

A kind of scab or ulceration on the skin of lambs.

To cleanse; to purge away, as foul or offending matter from the body, or from an ulcer.

A substance which cleanses the skin, as water or soap; a medicine to cleanse wounds, ulcers, etc.

To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.