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violent commotion. All Paris was quiet . . . to gather fresh strength for the next day's eruption. W. Irving.

Eruptive. [R.] R. A. Proctor.

A rashlike eruption on the human skin. [U. S.]

A large pustule, or a coarse eruption. Foul scurf and blotches him defile. Thomson.

A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.

of the neck, paralysis of the ocular muscles, etc. It is sometimes marked by a cutaneous eruption, when it is often called spotted fever. It is not contagious.

system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh. Cold sore (Med.), a vesicular eruption appearing about the mouth as the result of a cold, or in the course of any disease attended with fever. -- To leave one out in the cold, to overlook or neglect him. [Colloq.] Cold, v. i.

ntraindication. -- Counter irritant (Med.), an irritant to produce a blister, a pustular eruption, or other irritation in some part of the body, in order to relieve an existing irritation in some other part. "Counter irritants are of as great use in moral as in physical diseases." Macaulay. -- Counter irritation (Med…

A skin disease, common in India, in which there is perpetual itching and eruption, esp. of the groin, breast, armpits, and face.

The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a gevser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.

times, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat. Till some safe crisis authorize their skill. Dryden.

A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.

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.

Attended with eruption or efflorescence, or producing it; as, an eruptive fever.

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.