wart
wawrt
- n any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals)
- n an imperfection in someone or something that is suggestive of a wart (especially in smallness or unattractiveness)
- n (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus
- One unexpected wart, it quickly developed, was a constitutional technicality that seems to make Saxbe ineligible for the office until special legislation is passed by Congress .
- Others suffered for months from hideous warts.
- Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn had definite ideas on the best way to cure warts.