| itch |
verb i. |
To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected., To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long for; as, itching ears., 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., Any itching eruption., A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by the itch eruption; — called also scabies, psora, etc., A constant irritating desire. |