See Also: dry tetter(medicine)
tetter(medicine)
tetter(dictionary)
branny tetter(medicine)
crusted tetter(medicine)
humid tetter(medicine)
milk tetter(medicine)
moist tetter(medicine)
scaly tetter(medicine)

tetter (iou)



tetter noun & verb.
[Old English teter cogn. with Sanskrit dadru skin disease; cf. Lithuanian d&etilde;dervin&edabove; tetter; repr. in Old High German zittaroh, German dial. Zitteroch, etc.]
A. noun. Medicine. Any of various skin diseases of humans, horses, etc., as ringworm, eczema, impetigo. Freq. with specifying word. Now rare. OE.
b. verb. rare.
verb trans. Affect (as) with a tetter. Only in E17.
verb intrans. Crack, disintegrate. E20.
Comb.: tetter-berry (now dial.) (the fruit of) the white bryony, Bryonia dioica, variously said to cure and to produce skin diseases; tetterworm (now rare or obsolete) tetter, esp. a form of ringworm; tetterwort (now dial.) the greater celandine, Chelidonium majus, reputed to cure skin diseases.
tettered adjective afflicted with tetter (chiefly fig.) E20.
tetterous adjective (now rare) of, affected by, or resembling tetter E18.
tettery adjective (now rare or obsolete) of the nature of tetter; tetterous: L17.