ITCH
\ˈɪt͡ʃ], \ˈɪtʃ], \ˈɪ_tʃ]\
Definitions of ITCH
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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have a strong desire or urge to do soemthing; "She is itching to start the project"; "He is spoiling for a fight"
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scrape or rub as if to relieve itching; "Don't scratch your insect bites!"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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scrape or rub as if to relieve itching; "Don't scratch your insect bites!"
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have a strong desire or urge to do something; "She is itching to start the project"; "He is spoiling for a fight"
By Princeton University
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To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long for; as, itching ears.
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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.
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Any itching eruption.
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A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by the itch eruption; - called also scabies, psora, etc.
By Oddity Software
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To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long for; as, itching ears.
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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.
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Any itching eruption.
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A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by the itch eruption; - called also scabies, psora, etc.
By Noah Webster.
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A skin disease causing great irritation; a constant and teasing desire for something.
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To feel a particular uneasiness in the skin, causing a desire to scratch the part affected; have a constant and teasing desire for.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. To be the seat of a peculiar, indescribable sensation which produces an impulse to scratch the part. 2. Scabies. 3. In general, any cutaneous affection, without specific lesion, marked by intense itching or pruritus.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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An uneasy, irritating sensation in the skin: an eruptive disease in the skin, caused by a parasitic animal: a constant teasing desire.
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To have an uneasy, irritating sensation in the skin: to have a constant, teasing desire.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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A disgusting and irritating cutaneous disease; the sensation caused by the disease; a constant, teasing desire, as an itch for novelty.
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To feel a particular uneasiness in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part; to have a constant desire or teasing inclination.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A disease of the skin which inclines the person to scratch the part; any strong teasing desire or longing.
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To feel on the skin the peculiar uneasy sensation arising from itch, causing a desire to scratch the skin; to have a teasing or longing desire for.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Robley Dunglison
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Syn.: pruritus. An uneasy sensation of irritation in the skin, which is relieved by scratching. Applied also to the disease, scabies. Varieties of it are: dhobie itch; ground itch; laundryman's itch; Malabar itch; toe itch [Old Eng.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Anglo–Saxon] A cutaneous disease forming small watery pustules with a sense of irritation, and tendency to scratch the part affected – formerly supposed to be generated by a parasitic insect ; - the sensation occasioned by the disease ; a constant irritation desire for novelty.
