PUS
ADJECTIVES
► DEMICKY suppurating; discharging pus → 1879 Eng. dial.
► MATTERED full of pus → 1590
► MATTERY containing pus → 1398
► QUITTERISH containing pus → 1668 obs.
► QUITTEROUS containing pus → 1543 obs.
► QUITTERY containing pus → 1398 obs.
NOUNS
► AMPER an inflamed swelling, a pustule; a varicose vein; matter, pus → 1790 Eng. dial.
► ATTER morbid matter from an ulcer or wound → 1691 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BADNESS pus → 1943 Amer. dial.
► BAGGAGE purulent or corrupt matter; pus → 1576 obs.
► CORRUPTION pus → Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
► FIERY WATER the watery matter that often comes out of a sore with pus → 1950 Amer. dial.
► GEAR corrupt and foul matter; pus → 1562 obs.
► GISM pus → 1943 Amer. dial.
► QUITTER ► QUITTOR pus; suppurating matter; a purulent discharge from a wound or sore → 1297 obs.
► PUTREDE rottenness; putridity; also, pus → 1400 obs.
► RUNNING a sore or wound that discharges pus → c1384 obs.
► SEPARATION pus from a boil, etc. → 1968 Amer. dial.
► WARE pus, matter → c1200 obs.
VERBS
► BREAK ► BREAK OPEN to discharge pus → 1965 Amer. dial.
► MATTERATE to form or discharge pus; to suppurate → 1917 Amer. dial.
► MATTERY to discharge pus → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► QUITTER to form pus; to fill with pus → 1382 obs.
► RENDER to discharge pus → Bk1904 Sc.
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