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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TET'TER, n. [L. titillo.]
1. In medicine, a common name of several cutaneous diseases, consisting of an eruption of vesicles or pustules, in distinct or confluent clusters, spreading over the body in various directions and hardening into scabs or crusts. It includes the shingles, ring-worm, milky scale (crusta lactea.) scald head, etc.
2. In farriery, a cutaneous disease of animals, of the ring-worm kind, which spreads on the body in different directions, and occasions a troublesome itching.
TET'TER, v.t. To affect with the disease called tetters.

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English teter, from Old English; akin to Old High German zittaroh tetter, Sanskrit dadru leprosy, d???ti he tears — more at tear Date: before 12th century any of various vesicular skin diseases (as ringworm, eczema, and herpes)

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. archaic or dial. a pustular skin-eruption, e.g. eczema. Etymology: OE teter: cf. OHG zittaroh, G dial. Zitteroch, Skr. dadru

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tetter Tet"ter, n. [OE. teter, AS. teter, tetr; akin to G. zitter, zittermal, OHG. zittaroch, Skr. dadru, dadruka, a sort of skin disease. [root]63, 240.] (Med.) A vesicular disease of the skin; herpes. See Herpes. Honeycomb tetter (Med.), favus. Moist tetter (Med.), eczema. Scaly tetter (Med.), psoriasis. Tetter berry (Bot.), the white bryony.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tetter Tet"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tettered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tettering.] To affect with tetter. --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Eczema Ec"ze*ma, n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'e`kzema; "ek out + zei^n to boil.] (Med.) An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

tet'-er (bohaq; alphos): The term "freckled spot" in the King James Version is thus rendered in the Revised Version (British and American). The eruption referred to in Le 13:39 is a pale white spot on the skin. This is described by Gorraeus as an eruption arising from a diseased state of the system without roughness of skin, scales or ulceration. It did not render the sufferer unclean, although it is difficult of cure. The disease is commonly known by its Latin name vitiligo. Pliny recommended the use of capers and lupins to remove it.

See FRECKLED SPOT; LEPROSY.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Herpes, fret, ringworm.