wart : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: wart	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for wart
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wart n any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals) an imperfection in someone or something that is suggestive of a wart (especially in smallness or unattractiveness) (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus Synonym(s): wart, verruca
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wart \Wart\, n. [OE. werte, AS. wearte; akin to D. wrat, G. warze, OHG. warza, Icel. varta, Sw. v[86]rta, Dan. vorte; perh. orig., a growth, and akin to E. wort; or cf. L. verruca wart.] 1. (Med.) A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papill[91], and thickening of the epidermis which covers them. 2. An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants. {Fig wart}, {Moist wart} (Med.), a soft, bright red, pointed or tufted tumor found about the genitals, often massed into groups of large size. It is a variety of condyloma. Called also {pointed wart}, {venereal wart}. --L. A. Duhring. {Wart cress} (Bot.), the swine's cress. See under {Swine}. {Wart snake} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of East Indian colubrine snakes of the genus {Acrochordus}, having the body covered with wartlike tubercles or spinose scales, and lacking cephalic plates and ventral scutes. {Wart spurge} (Bot.), a kind of wartwort ({Euphorbia Helioscopia}).
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
wart n. A small, {crock}y {feature} that sticks out of an otherwise {clean} design. Something conspicuous for localized ugliness, especially a special-case exception to a general rule. For example, in some versions of `csh(1)', single quotes literalize every character inside them except `!'. In ANSI C, the `??' syntax used for obtaining ASCII characters in a foreign environment is a wart. See also {miswart}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
wart A small, {crock}y {feature} that sticks out of an otherwise {clean} design. Something conspicuous for localised ugliness, especially a special-case exception to a general rule. For example, in some versions of "csh(1)", single quotes literalise every character inside them except "!". In ANSI C, the "?" syntax used for obtaining ASCII characters in a foreign environment is a wart. See also {miswart}. [{Jargon File}]