tetter noun & verb. ['tɛtǝ]
[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.
1. verb trans. Affect (as) with a tetter. Only in E17.

2. 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.

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