FESTER : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: FESTER	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fester n a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus [syn: fester, suppurating sore] v ripen and generate pus; "her wounds are festering" [syn: fester, maturate, suppurate]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fester \Fes"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Festered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Festering}.] [OE. festern, fr. fester, n.; or fr. OF. festrir, fr. festre, n. See {Fester}, 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fester \Fes`ter\, v. t. To cause to fester or rankle. For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate, And festered ranking malice in my breast. --Marston.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fester \Fes"ter\, n. [OF. festre, L. fistula a sort of ulcer. Cf. {Fistula}.] 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.