Meaning of wartish | Babel Free

Definitions

Resembling (that of) a wart.

Examples

“1876, The Poultry World, Hartford, Connecticut: H.H. Stoddard, Volume V, No. 5, May, 1876, p. 129, The “scales” are occasioned by myriads of small insects, invisible to the naked eye, but clearly made out by the use⟳ of the microscope. They huddle in scales, or whitish-gray blotches, at first, upon the shanks of the fowl; and if not removed or destroyed early, will increase⟳ very rapidly until they form⟳ in wartish lumps like⟳ the caruncle on the neck of the turkey cock in appearance […]”

“The sacristan was a strange little creature, with a pinched Mongolian face⟳ and only a few wartish hairs blossoming on his chin.”

“Day and night she seethed with unyielding hatred that poisoned all her thoughts, ruined her digestion, and even inflamed her wartish blemish, a disfiguring defect on the temple beyond her left eye, too deep-rooted to be taken off.”

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