wart1 (wart)

[Also dial. wrat, wrot; Upon the cop right of his nose he hade A werte , and theron stood a tuft of heres. Chaucer , Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 555. We Mountains to the land like warts or wens to be, By which fair'st living things disfigur'd oft they see. Drayton, Polyolbion, vii. 78. 2. In farriery, a spongy excrescence on the pastern of the horse.-3. In bot., a firm glandular or gland-like excrescence on the surface of a plant.-4. In entom., a small obtuse, rounded, or flattened elevation of a surface, often of a distinct color from the rest of the part: used principally in describing larvæ. -Fig-wart. Same as ficus, 3.- Peruvian warts. Same as verrugas. Venereal warts. See venereal. - Vitreous warts of Descemet's membrane. See vitreous. - Wart-like cancer, papillary epithelioma. war-tax (war'taks), n. A tax imposed for the purpose of providing funds for the prosecution of a war. wart-cre (wârt'kres), n. See Senebiera. wartet. An old form of ware, preterit of wearl warted (war'ted), a. [ 1. In ing no warts; not warted or warty. wartlet (wârt'let), n. [ IMG:content-2083.jpg:[blocks in formation] Wart-snake (Acrochordus javanicus). The leading species is Acrochordus javanicus. Another, Chersydrus granulatus, is aquatic. These snakes belong to the Oriental or Indian region; they were formerly grouped with the Hydrophidæ, and erroneously supposed to be venomous.