tetter

Example Sentences

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Mrs. Bains put a hand on the taller boy’s hair and fingered it lightly, absently searching with her nails for tetter spots.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

This has been highly recommended to me, as a remedy for tetter on the hands, but I have never seen it tried.

From Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers by Lea, Elizabeth E. (Elizabeth Ellicott)

This is a pitiful letter For want of a better; But plagued with a tetter, My fancy does fetter.

From The Journal to Stella by Swift, Jonathan

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

From The Old English Herbals by Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair

Skin: Rough, dry; dry, bran-like tetter in rings; groups of small vesicles, smarting and itching, oozing a yellowish-brown lymph, which soon turns into a scurf, new vesicles appearing beneath.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock