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20 words match “PIMPLE”

PIMPLE n. 2 definitions
ted elevation of the cuticle, whether going on to suppuration or not. "All eyes can see a pimple on her nose." Pope.
PIMPLED a.
Having pimples. Johnson.
BEAL v.
To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple. [Prov. Eng.]
BUBUKLE n.
A red pimple. [R.] Shak.
CARBUNCLED a.
Affected with a carbuncle or carbuncles; marked with red sores; pimpled and blotched. "A carbuncled face." Brome.
CONFLUENT a.
Running together or uniting, as pimples or pustules.
DESUDATION n.
A sweating; a profuse or morbid sweating, often succeeded by an eruption of small pimples.
DISCUSS v.
scuss the beginnings of new affection. Sir H. Wotton. A pomade . . . of virtue to discuss pimples. Rambler.
ERUPTION n.
The breaking out of pimples, or an efflorescence, as in measles, scarlatina, etc.
GOOSE n.
peculiar roughness of the skin produced by cold or fear; -- called also goose skin.goose pimples and goose bumps -- Goose grass. (Bot.)
LICHEN n.
kin disease, esp. to one characterized by the eruption of small, conical or flat, reddish pimples, which, if unchecked, tend to spread and produce great and even fatal exhaustion.
MILIARIA n.
A fever accompanied by an eruption of small, isolated, red pimples, resembling a millet seed in form or size; miliary fever.
PAPULA n.
A pimple; a small, usually conical, elevation of the cuticle, produced by congestion, accumulated secretion, or hypertrophy of tissue; a papule. Quain.
PIMPLY a.
Pimpled.
PRICKLY a.
X. Carolinianum. Gray. -- Prickly heat (Med.), a noncontagious cutaneous eruption of red pimples, attended with intense itching and tingling of the parts affected. It is due to inflammation of the sweat glands, and is often brought on by overheating the skin in hot weather. -- Prickly pear (Bot.), a name given to sev…
PUSH n.
A pustule; a pimple. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Bacon.
RED-GUM n.
An eruption of red pimples upon the face, neck, and arms, in early infancy; tooth rash; strophulus. Good.
SAUSEFLEM a.
Having a red, pimpled face. [Obs.] [Written also sawceflem.] Chaucer.
TWIDDLE n.
A pimple. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
URTICARIA n.
The nettle rash, a disease characterized by a transient eruption of red pimples and of wheals, accompanied with a burning or stinging sensation and with itching; uredo.