tetter

Ringworm is a curious form of tetter, in which the inflamed patches assume the form of a ring.

Tetter, tet′ėr, n. a popular name for several eruptive diseases of the skin.

It is crusted and scabbed with yellowish tetter, like sulphur or the rancid fat on meat.

Thus the verses are continued until tetter having “no brother” is ordered to be gone.

He is covered with tetter, a disease of such a sort as to increase his vehemence and his activity.