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ringworm|ˈrɪŋwɜːm|
[f. ring n.1 So Du. ringworm, Da., Norw., Sw. dial. ringorm.]
1. A skin-disease usually manifesting itself in circular patches, and frequently affecting the scalp in childhood; tinea.
c1425Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 642 Hec cerpigo, re[n]g⁓worme. a1450Mankind 616 (Brandl), I haue a lytyll dishes [= disease]..Wyth a runnynge rynge-worme. 1527Andrew Brunswyke's Distyll. Waters D iij b, The same..is good for the sore called the rynge worme. 1579Fulke Confut. Sanders 659 So superstition crepeth like a ring⁓worme. a1614Donne βιαθανατος (1644) 53 To hide the deformity of a Ringworme in his face. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 101 With oile of bayes, it [sc. fat] helps the Scab and Ringwormes. 1728Chambers Cycl., Serpigo, in Medicine, a kind of Herpes, popularly called a Tetter or Ring-worm. 1756[see 2 b]. 1834T. J. Graham Dom. Med. (1844) 661 Shingles..is a variety of ringworm, or tetter, occupying the trunk of the body. 1876J. S. Bristowe Th. & Pract. Med. (1878) 350 When ringworm occurs on the non⁓hairy skin, it reveals itself first as a slightly raised roundish uniformly erythematous patch. 1887Encycl. Brit. XXII. 124/1 Tinea sycosis, or ringworm affecting the beard, and tinea circinata, or ringworm affecting the body.
b. transf. and fig.
1579Fulke Confut. Sanders 591 A proper ringworm, a doctorlike argument. 1607Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr. i. i. 41 The Idoll is a tempting harlot, the Crosse..a very ring⁓worme that spreadeth mightilie. 1647Cleveland Char. Lond. Diurn. 8, I have not inke enough to cure all the Tetters and Ring-worms of the State. 1705Hickeringill Priest-cr. ii. vii. 67 This Tetter, or spreading Ringworm, cannot be cured..without some Gall in the Ink.
2. attrib., as ringworm fungus, ringworm-porrigo, etc.
1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 490 The Ringworm Scall has been known and described, under different names, from the Greek writers to our own day. Ibid. 494 In the last variety, the ringworm porrigo. 1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases xxvii. 428 note, Yaws coalescing in the form of a ring are called ringworm yaws. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 854 The botanical character of the ringworm fungi is uncertain.
b. ringworm bush or ringworm shrub, a tropical American shrub (Cassia alata). ringworm root, the root of an Eastern shrub (Rhinacanthus communis) used as a remedy for the ringworm.
1756P. Browne Jamaica 224 The Ring-worm Bush... The juice of the leaves or buds is said to cure the ring-worms. 1774E. Long Hist. Jamaica III. 845 Ringworm-bush, Cassia siliquis quadrialatis. 1864Grisebach Flora West Ind. Isl. Col. Names 787 Ringworm-shrub, Cassia alata. |