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stargaser (medicine)


stargaser


1. One who gazes at the stars; an astrologer; sometimes, in derision or contempt, an astronomer.

2. <zoology> Any one of several species of spiny-rayed marine fishes belonging to Uranoscopus, Astroscopus, and allied genera, of the family Uranoscopidae.

The common species of the Eastern United States are Astroscopus anoplus, and Astroscopus guttatus. So called from the position of the eyes, which look directly upward.


fester (medicine)


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." (South) "Hatred . . . Festered in the hearts of the children of the soil." (Macaulay)

2. To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.

Origin: OE. Festern, fr. Fester,; or fr. OF. Festrir, fr. Festre, See Fester.

Source: Websters Dictionary