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Webster 1828 Edition


Achor

A'CHOR

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Noun.
[Gr., sordes capitis.]
1.
The scald head, a disease forming scaly eruptions, supposed to be a critical evacuation of acrimonious humors; a species of herpes.
2.
In mythology, the God of flies, said to have been worshipped by the Cyreneans, to avoid being vexed by those insects.