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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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15 words match “ERODE”

ERODE v.
To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh. "The blood . . . erodes the vessels." Wiseman. The smaller charge is more apt to . . . erode the gun. Am. Cyc.
ERODED p. 2 definitions
Eaten away; gnawed; irregular, as if eaten or worn away.
ERODENT n.
A medicine which eats away extraneous growths; a caustic.
SCLERODERM n. 2 definitions
One of the Sclerodermata.
SCLERODERMA n.
A disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin.
SCLERODERMATA n.
The stony corals; the Madreporaria.
SCLERODERMIC; SCLERODERMOUS n. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to the Sclerodermata.
SCLERODERMITE n. 2 definitions
The hard integument of Crustacea.
XERODERMA n. 2 definitions
Ichthyosis.
BAD LANDS n.
in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by canons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad…
CORRADE v.
To erode, as the bed of a stream. See Corrosion.
EROSIVE a.
That erodes or gradually eats away; tending to erode; corrosive. Humble.
SCLEREMA n.
Induration of the cellular tissue. Sclerema of adults. See Scleroderma. -- Sclerema neonatorum ( Etym: [NL., of the newborn], an affection characterized by a peculiar hardening and rigidity of the cutaneous and subcutaneous tissues in the newly born. It is usually fatal. Called also skinbound disease.…
SCLERIASIS n.
Induration of any part, including scleroderma.
SCLEROMA n.
Induration of the tissues. See Sclerma, Scleroderma, and Sclerosis.