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Fester

Fester (fester)
v. i.(?)
Fes"ter
[imp. *** p. p. Festered (?)] p. pr. *** vb. n. Festering.] [OE. festern, fr. fester, n.] or fr. OF. festrir, fr. festre, n.<
  1. To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers.

    Wounds immedicable
    Rankle, and fester, and gangrene.     Milton.

    Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. South.

    Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. Macaulay.

  2. To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.

Fester

Fester (fester)
v. t.
Fes`ter
  1. To cause to fester or rankle.

    For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate,
    And festered ranking malice in my breast.     Marston.

Fester

Fester (fester)
n.
Fes"ter
  1. A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule.
  2. A festering or rankling.

    The fester of the chain their necks. I. Taylor.













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