4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wart \Wart\, n. [OE. werte, AS wearte; akin to D. wrat, G.
warze, OHG. warza, Icel. varta, Sw v[*a]rta, Dan. vorte;
perh. orig., a growth, and akin to E. wort; or cf L. verruca
wart.]
1. (Med.) A small usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by
enlargement of its vascular papill[ae], and thickening of
the epidermis which covers them
2. An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a
true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or
hardened protuberance on plants.
{Fig wart}, {Moist wart} (Med.), a soft, bright red, pointed
or tufted tumor found about the genitals, often massed
into groups of large size. It is a variety of condyloma.
Called also {pointed wart}, {venereal wart}. --L. A.
Duhring.
{Wart cress} (Bot.), the swine's cress. See under {Swine}.
{Wart snake} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of East
Indian colubrine snakes of the genus {Acrochordus}, having
the body covered with wartlike tubercles or spinose
scales, and lacking cephalic plates and ventral scutes.
{Wart spurge} (Bot.), a kind of wartwort ({Euphorbia
Helioscopia}).
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
wart
n 1: any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or
animals)
2: (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin;
caused by a virus [syn: {verruca}]
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
wart n. A small {crock}y {feature} that sticks out of an
otherwise {clean} design. Something conspicuous for localized ugliness,
especially a special-case exception to a general rule For example,
in some versions of `csh(1)', single quotes literalize every character
inside them except `!'. In ANSI C, the `??' syntax used for obtaining
ASCII characters in a foreign environment is a wart. See also {miswart}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
wart
A small {crock}y {feature} that sticks out of an otherwise
{clean} design. Something conspicuous for localised ugliness,
especially a special-case exception to a general rule For
example, in some versions of "csh(1)", single quotes
literalise every character inside them except "!". In ANSI C,
the "?" syntax used for obtaining ASCII characters in a
foreign environment is a wart. See also {miswart}.
[{Jargon File}]
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