Itch

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Any itching eruption.

II. Itch ·noun A constant irritating desire.

III. Itch ·vi To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long for; as, itching ears.

IV. Itch ·vi To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.

V. Itch ·noun A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by the itch eruption;

— called also scabies, psora, ·etc.

VI. Itch ·noun 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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