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▪ I. tetter, n.|ˈtɛtə(r)|
Forms: 1 tetr, 1–6 teter, 4–5 tetre, 5 -yr, -ere, 6–7 -ar, 6–8 tettar, (7 teater, 9 dial. titter), 6– tetter.
[OE. teter:— OTeut. *tetru-, pre-Teut. *dedru-, Skr. dadru a kind of cutaneous disease, f. dṝ to crack; cf. Lith. dedervine tetter. The simple word is not preserved elsewhere in Teut., but cf. OHG. zitaroh (:—*titruha), MHG. ziteroch, Bav. dial. zitt(e)roch, -en, Tyrol zittrich; also mod.Ger. zittermal, zitterflechte, Swiss zitterabel tetter, ringworm.]
1. A general term for any pustular herpetiform eruption of the skin, as eczema, herpes, impetigo, ringworm, etc.
crusted tetter, pustular tetter, running tetter, impetigo; eating t., lupus; honeycomb t., favus; humid tetter or moist t., eczema; milky t., milk-blotch; scaly t., psoriasis.
a700Epinal Gloss. (O.E.T.) 128 Basis, teter. Ibid. 502 Inpetigo, tetr. Ibid. 791 Papula vel pustula, spryng vel tetr. c725Corpus Gloss. (O.E.T.) 128 Balsis, teter. c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xi. 71 Se ðonne hæfð teter on his lichoman se hæfð on his mode ᵹitsunga. c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 150 Heo ofᵹenimð þone scruf & þone teter. a1050Liber Scintill. xxv. 99 Teter witodlice hæfð on lichaman. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 61 Þere beeþ hoote bathes, þat wascheþ of teteres, oþer sores and scabbes. c1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 791/14 Hec serpedo,..a tetere. 1584Cogan Haven Health xxviii. (1636) 48 For a Tettar or Ring-worme a little Mustard laid upon it within a few dayes will cure it. 1602Shakes. Ham. i. v. 71. 1622 Hakewill David's Vow viii. 284 It is good..to kill a Tetter before it spread to a Ringworme. 1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 66 The true Oil of Cedar is admirable for curing Tetters. 1850Blackie æschylus I. 125 A leprous tetter with corrosive tooth [would] Creep o'er my skin, and fasten on my flesh.
fig.1641Milton Reform. i. Wks. 1851 III. 19 What a universall tetter of impurity had invenom'd every part, order, and degree of the Church. 1647,1705[see ringworm 1 b]. 1693Southerne Maid's last Prayer i. i, The mercenary itch in an old woman; 'tis the very tetter of that sex. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 145 In ran the airn by chance, And lat out baith the wind and matter, That lang had lodgit in that tetter.
2. A cutaneous disease in animals, esp. horses.
1552Huloet, Tetter for horse, herpeta. 1575Turberv. Venerie 227 The Tettar commeth vnto many dogs naturally or by kind or by age. 1614Markham Cheap Husb. (1623) 119 To heale any Tetter, or drie scabbe in Goates. 1708Lond. Gaz. No. 4400/4 A black Gelding..a Tetter on the off Breast. 1794Sporting Mag. III. 156 A cure for warts or tetters on horses. 1819Pantologia, Tetter, called by farriers the flying-worm, or ring-worm. It runs up and down the skin in different directions, from whence it receives its name.
▪ II. ˈtetter, v. rare.
[f. prec.]
†1. trans. To affect with, or as with, a tetter. Obs.
1607Shakes. Cor. iii. i. 79 So shall my Lungs Coine words..against those Meazels Which we disdaine should Tetter vs.
2. intr. To crack, to disintegrate.
1911J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 30 My mind began to carp and tetter. 1967T. Keneally Bring Larks & Heroes ii. 16 In dutiful vegetable gardens, the leaves of carrots and turnips had tettered and split, shot full of holes by antipodean summer. |