(v. i.) To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.
(v. i.) To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long for; as, itching ears.
(n.) An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite (the Sarcoptes scabei), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact.
(n.) Any itching eruption.
(n.) A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by the itch eruption; -- called also scabies, psora, etc.
(n.) A constant irritating desire.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effects of the depth of injection and of skin temperature on the latency, magnitude, and duration of itch were examined.
(2) It was found that medrysone (1%) significantly improved the symptoms of itching, watering, photophobia and hyperaemia, while sodium cromoglycate (2%) was found to be ineffective.
(3) Treatments for jock itch include anti-fungal ointments and lotions, or anti-fungal pills for severe cases.
(4) The speediest effect was registered for sneezing, followed by nasal catarrh, nasal itching, and blocking.
(5) We reviewed 52 reports in the literature of the use of epidural and spinal opiates to assess the incidence of itching and found an overall incidence of 8.5% in patients receiving epidural opiates, and 46% in patients receiving spinal opiates.
(6) Side effects with OTFC were more frequent: nose itching occurred in 65%, body itching in 10%, and vomiting in 30%.
(7) Itching appeared before erythema in 83% of subjects and within 5-8 min after instillation of the allergen.
(8) Topical BDP by both methods of delivery was rapidly effective in decreasing mean nasal obstruction, rhinorrhea, sneezing, and itching symptoms as well as mean eye symptoms with no statistically significant differences between them.
(9) Chlorpheniramine given alone produced no significant benefit whilst cimetidine alone produced a marked exacerbation in itching in nearly half the patients who initially entered the study and was sufficient to require withdrawal.
(10) But the ad any American politico worth his salt would be itching to make would open thus.
(11) The treatment proved to be effective in those with toxicoderma, secondary xanthomatosis, porphyria cutanea tarda, skin itching, and urticaria, particularly in the cases when toxic exposures and gastrointestinal conditions contributed to the disease pathogenesis.
(12) Degrees of itching were estimated before and for 6 months after a fourth dose of ivermectin or placebo was given to 97 subjects in Sierra Leone.
(13) "Itching" was the most frequent complaint, encountered in 20 (69%) of the study patient.
(14) For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths."
(15) And even more scary, I have a drillion moles all over my body, some of which have now started itching, on my back.
(16) PUPP is a specific eruptive dermatosis in pregnancy, clinically characterized by erythematous papules and plaques with intense itching in periumbilical localization.
(17) Severity of itching was determined by a visual linear analogue scale.
(18) Giant papillary conjunctivitis (GPC) is largely a soft contact lens-related syndrome, characterized by the formation of giant papillae on the upper tarsal conjunctiva, itching, excess mucus, erythema, and contact lens intolerance.
(19) Therapeutic response was assessed according to the suppression of symptoms and symptom diary scores of daily itching and frequency, number, size, and duration of hives.
(20) The study which was carried out in 20 patients confirmed the lack of collateral effects on the fetus, mother (except for slight itching in 25% of cases) and the progress of labour.
Witch
Definition:
(n.) A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.
(n.) One who practices the black art, or magic; one regarded as possessing supernatural or magical power by compact with an evil spirit, esp. with the Devil; a sorcerer or sorceress; -- now applied chiefly or only to women, but formerly used of men as well.
(n.) An ugly old woman; a hag.
(n.) One who exercises more than common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person; also, one given to mischief; -- said especially of a woman or child.
(n.) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
(n.) The stormy petrel.
(v. t.) To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.
Example Sentences:
(1) I fear that I will have to go through another witch-hunt in order to apply for this benefit."
(2) "I have been an evil witch, but now I can set light to the house and die happy."
(3) The experience of having had intercourse with the devil has in the past been regarded as evidence that the individual is a witch.
(4) Smith, a climate change sceptic who has also subpoenaed government scientists’ communications, has accused the attorney generals of a political witch-hunt and for causing a “chilling impact on scientific research and development”.
(5) In 2005, four years after Adam's body was found, two women and a man were convicted of child cruelty for torturing and threatening to kill an orphaned refugee who they claimed was a witch.
(6) The Witch Is Dead, the Wizard of Oz song which became the focus of an anti-Thatcher campaign on Facebook, was not just about where it would chart – but how much of it the BBC would play.
(7) A couple have been jailed for life for torturing and drowning a teenage boy they accused of being a witch.
(8) Leave voters, including a soldier, a mother expecting a “Brexit baby” due nine months after the vote, a rare chicken breeder, a witch, and a hammer-wielding Nigel Farage fan, have all been chosen to represent the various faces of Brexit on a new vase by the artist Grayson Perry .
(9) On Christmas Day 2010, Kristy's killer spoke to the boy's father, Pierre, accusing the 15-year-old of being a witch and threatening to kill him.
(10) Social unrest has become more and more likely, leading to an increasingly bold witch-hunt by the government against opposition voices .
(11) Lee denied the charges, saying he had never heard of the Revolutionary Organisation and denouncing the trial as a politically motivated witch-hunt by intelligence officials.
(12) The government has launched a separate royal commission into alleged union corruption, which unions have argued is a politically motivated “witch hunt”.
(13) Sure, the season’s story, which focuses on Vanessa Ives’s struggle to decode the “memoirs of the devil” and fight a hissing viper pit of Lucifer’s witches, may be pure pulp burlesque, but that’s just the first layer of Penny Dreadful’s charm.
(14) I could be the most beautiful drag queen in the world and the most evil witch of a person.
(15) Human rights campaigners have called on South Korea’s military to end its “witch-hunt” against gay servicemen, after an investigation into dozens of men prompted debate among presidential candidates over the country’s poor record on LGBT rights.
(16) "If we don't push home the idea that calling a child a witch will have grave consequences, then we will continue to have these kind of cases," said Ariyo.
(17) At one point, Evans was accused of bullying staff 20 years ago – a claim he said was ridiculous and the result of a witch-hunt.
(18) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
(19) After working in a second-rate singing act with her older sisters and changing her name from Frances Gumm to Judy Garland, she was taken to Hollywood at the age of 13 by her fiercely ambitious mother (whom she later called "the real Wicked Witch of the West").
(20) He tried to capture its character – which he described as a “diabolical contraption, a dusty hunk of electric and mechanical hardware that reminded me of the disturbing 1950’s Quatermass science fiction television series” – in a near-lifesize two metre by three metre Portrait of a Dead Witch, which he also intended as a joke about the contemporary craze for computer-generated art.