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Webster 1913 Edition
Itch
Itch
(ĭch)
, Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Itched
(ĭcht)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Itching
.] [OE.
icchen
, ȝicchen
, AS. giccan
; akin to D. jeuken
, joken
, G. jucken
, OHG. jucchen
.] 1.
To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.
My mouth hath
itched
all this long day. Chaucer.
2.
To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long for;
“An itching palm.” as,
. itching
earsShak.
Itch
,Noun.
1.
(Med.)
An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite (the
Sarcoptes scabei
), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact. 2.
Any itching eruption.
3.
A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by the itch eruption; – called also
scabies
, psora
, etc. 4.
A constant irritating desire.
An
itch
of being thought a divine king. Dryden.
Baker’s itch
. See under
– Baker
. Barber's itch
, sycosis.
– Bricklayer's itch
, an eczema of the hands attended with much itching, occurring among bricklayers.
– Grocer's itch
, an itching eruption, being a variety of eczema, produced by the sugar mite (
– Tyrogluphus sacchari
). Itch insect
(Zool.)
, a small parasitic mite (
– Sarcoptes scabei
) which burrows and breeds beneath the human skin, thus causing the disease known as the itch. See Illust. in Append. Itch mite
. (Zool.)
Same as
– Itch insect
, above. Also, other similar mites affecting the lower animals, as the horse and ox. Sugar baker's itch
, a variety of eczema, due to the action of sugar upon the skin.
– Washerwoman's itch
, eczema of the hands and arms, occurring among washerwomen.
Webster 1828 Edition
Itch
ITCH
, n.1.
A cutaneous disease of the human race, appearing in small watery pustules on the skin, accompanied with an uneasiness or irritation that inclines the patient to use friction. This disease is supposed by some authors to be occasioned by a small insect, a species of Acarus, as the microscope detects these insects in the vesicles. Others suppose the pustules only form a nidus for the insects. This disease is taken only by contact or contagion.2.
The sensation in the skin occasioned by the disease.3.
A constant teasing desire; as an itch for praise; an itch for scribbling.ITCH
,Verb.
I.
1.
To feel a particular uneasiness in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part.2.
To have a constant desire or teasing inclination; as itching ears. 2 Tim.4.