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

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

His cheeks were pallid and lank, his eyes sunken, his forehead overshadowed by coarse straggling hairs, his teeth large and irregular, though sound and brilliantly white, and his chin discolored by a tetter.

From The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American by Hawthorne, Julian

This is a splendid ointment for a severe case of tetter.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson

A valuable remedy for scrofula, and all scrofulous skin diseases, as tetter, herpes, leprosy, and the like; also a valuable alterative in all constitutional diseases.

From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous