Word Meanings - EXULCERATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Ulceration. Quincy. 2. A fretting; a festering; soreness. Hooker.

FESTERMENT
A festering. Chalmers.
ULCERATION
The process of forming an ulcer, or of becoming ulcerous; the state of being ulcerated; also, an ulcer.
FRETTY
Adorned with fretwork.
FESTER
1. To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers. Wounds immedicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. Milton. Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester.
FRETT
The worn side of the bank of a river. See 4th Fret, n., 4.
FRETTER
One who, or that which, frets.
SORENESS
The quality or state of being sore; tenderness; painfull; as, the soreness of a wound; the soreness of an affliction.
HOOKER
1. One who, or that which, hooks. A Dutch vessel with two masts. A fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of Ireland. A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft.
FRETTEN
Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox. Wright.
FRETTED
1. Rubbed or worn away; chafed. 2. Agitated; vexed; worried.
EXULCERATION
1. Ulceration. Quincy. 2. A fretting; a festering; soreness. Hooker.
POCK-FRETTEN
See POCKMARKED
ENFESTER
To fester. "Enfestered sores." Davies .
INFESTER
One who, or that which, infests.
INTERFRETTED
Interlaced; linked together; -- said of charges or bearings. See Fretted.