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

It has been found beneficial in cases of tetter and ringworm in the head, using at the same time, as a wash on the part affected, borax dissolved in strong vinegar.

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

Tetter, tetter, thou hast nine brothers, God bless the flesh and preserve the bone; Perish thou, tetter, and be thou gone.

From The Old English Herbals by Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair

It seemed like a pathological chart presenting a face broken out with an unseemly tetter.

From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by Hosmer, James Kendall

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