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noun

Itch n.

1.

(Med.) 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.

2.

Any itching eruption.

3.

A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by the itch eruption; called also scabies, psora, etc.

4.

A constant irritating desire. "An itch of being thought a divine king."

Baker's itch. See under Baker.

Barber's itch, sycosis.

Bricklayer's itch, an eczema of the hands attended with much itching, occurring among bricklayers.

Grocer's itch, an itching eruption, being a variety of eczema, produced by the sugar mite (Tyrogluphus sacchari).

Itch insect (Zool.), a small parasitic mite (Sarcoptes scabei) which burrows and breeds beneath the human skin, thus causing the disease known as the itch.

Itch mite. (Zool.) Same as Itch insect, above. Also, other similar mites affecting the lower animals, as the horse and ox.

Sugar baker's itch, a variety of eczema, due to the action of sugar upon the skin.

Washerwoman's itch, eczema of the hands and arms, occurring among washerwomen.

verb

Itch v. i. (past & past part. itched; pres. part. itching)

1.

To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected. "My mouth hath itched all this long day."

2.

To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long for; as, itching ears. "An itching palm."

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Etymology of 'Itch'

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"Itch" Quotes from Famous Books

... a little itch of fear for the ore-mad people, "legal forms are being put to fearful strains, are they not, with all ...

— Sally of Missouri • R. E. Young

... luxury of the rich; all these features of the poem foretoken the sentimentalism of Sterne and Goldsmith, and the humanitarianism of Cowper and Burns. They anticipate, in particular, that half affected itch of simplicity which titillated the sensibilities of a corrupt and artificial society in the writings of Rousseau and the idyllic pictures of Bernardin de St. Pierre's "Paul and Virginia." Thomson went so far in this vein as to decry the use of animal food in a passage ...

— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers

... no doubt but scholar-craft may be caught, as a Scotchman catches the itch,—by friction. How else can you account for it, that born blockheads, by mere dint of handling books, grow so wise that even they themselves are equally convinced of and surprised at their own parts? I once carried this philosophy to that degree that in a knot of country ...

— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham

... of a horse, which he cannot conveniently rub, when they itch, as about the shoulder, which he can neither bite with his teeth, nor scratch with his hind foot; when this part itches, he goes to another horse, and gently bites him in the part which he wishes to be bitten, which is immediately done by his intelligent friend. I once observed a young foal thus ...

— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... grunted Admiral Paulding. "Not much. He makes my toe itch! I've got a good name for him—'the smoke-room pest.' He's always doing card tricks under your unwilling nose, pretending to sit on somebody's hat, upsetting the dominos! If he can get a laugh out of a waiter, he's perfectly satisfied. I squelched him the ...

— McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 • Various

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