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head (Med.), a name popularly given to several diseases of the scalp characterized by pustules (the dried discharge of which forms scales) and by falling out of the hair.

cotland, resembling the yaws. It is marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body. In the Orkneys the name is applied to the itch. [Written also sivvens.]

ction of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time, often leaving a pit, or scar.

A flatulent distention of the belly; tympany.

A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites. Fuller.

Wind; flatulence. [Obs.] Bacon.

Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent. Bacon. The food which is most vaporous and perspirable is the most easily digested. Arbuthnot.

Windy; flatulent. Richardson (Dict.).

A pustule. See 2d Whelk.

A pustule; a whelk. Wiseman.

A papule; a pustule; acne. "His whelks white." Chaucer.

Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind.

Fullness of wind; flatulence.

Serving to occasion wind or gas in the intestines; flatulent; as, windy food.

er, under Woolen, a. -- Wool sorter's disease (Med.), a disease, resembling malignant pustule, occurring among those who handle the wool of goats and sheep. -- Wool staple, a city or town where wool used to be brought to the king's staple for sale. [Eng.] -- Wool stapler. (a) One who deals in wool. (b) One who sorts…