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Webster 1913 Edition
Wart
Wart
,Noun.
[OE.
werte
, AS. wearte
; akin to D. wrat
, G. warze
, OHG. warza
, Icel. varta
, Sw. vårta
, Dan. vorte
; perh. orig., a growth, and akin to E. wort
; or cf. L. verruca
wart.] 1.
(Med.)
A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them.
2.
An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically
(Bot.)
, a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants. Fig wart
,
Moist wart
(Med.)
, a soft, bright red, pointed or tufted tumor found about the genitals, often massed into groups of large size. It is a variety of condyloma. Called also
pointed wart
, venereal wart
. L. A. Duhring.
– Wart cress
(Bot.)
, the swine’s cress. See under
– Swine
. Wart snake
(Zool.)
, any one of several species of East Indian colubrine snakes of the genus
– Acrochordus
, having the body covered with wartlike tubercles or spinose scales, and lacking cephalic plates and ventral scutes. Wart spurge
(Bot.)
, a kind of wartwort (
Euphorbia Helioscopia
).Webster 1828 Edition
Wart
WART
,Noun.
1.
A hard excrescence on the skin of animals, which is covered with the production of the cuticle. In horses, warts are spungy excrescences on the hinder pasterns, which suppurate.2.
A protuberance on trees.Definition 2024
wärt
wärt
Tocharian A
Etymology
From Proto-Tocharian *wärtto, *wärttonta, probably an extension of from Proto-Indo-European *wértis/*wŕ̥tis (“enclosure”), from *wer- (“surround, cover, contain”). Cognate with Old English worþ (“enclosure”).[1]
See also Tocharian B wartto.
Noun
wärt
References
- ↑ Adams, Douglas Q. (1999), “wartto*”, in A dictionary of Tocharian B (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi.