Definition of Itch

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

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