carbuncle

How To Use carbuncle In A Sentence

• A carbuncle is a large boil or abscess – i guess what he called a boil would be what we would call a small boil. Banting’s Letter on Corpulence | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
• It relieves menstrual pains, promotes menstruation, treats rheumatic aches and pains, and ripens carbuncles, sores and abscesses.
• He talks to proprietors, examines the fresher, blueish-white cloudy carbuncles selling for $1.45 per pound and the ashier, aging ones, a few hours older, discounted to sell quickly for $1.18 per pound before they get slimy. Corn Smut Delicacy Huitlacoche Is Good For You
• The common employment of the designation carbuncle for a precious stone and also for a boil was usual from ancient times. Shakespeare and Precious Stones Treating of the Known References of Precious Stones in Shakespeare's Works, with Comments as to the Origin of His Material, the Knowledge of the Poet Concerning Precious Stones, and References as to Where the Precious S
• The figure called an escarbuncle, No. 19, is simply a shield-boss developed into decorative structural metal-work. The Handbook to English Heraldry
• The ripe fruit was used to provide external relief from carbuncles and painful boils and used internally to treat stomach ulcers.
• He added that people suffering from cutaneous anthrax would develop carbuncles on their skin within 10 days after first contact.
• He would often spend a whole day settling and resettling in their cases the various stones that be had collected, such as the olive-green chrysoberyl that turns red by lamplight, the cymophane with its wirelike line of silver, the pistachio-coloured peridot, rose-pink and wine-yellow topazes, carbuncles of fiery scarlet with tremulous, four-rayed stars, flame-red cinnamon-stones, orange and violet spinels, and amethysts with their alternate layers of ruby and sapphire. The Picture of Dorian Gray
• It's that scanner that peeks under your clothing, creating a ghostly but realistic image of your naked body, accurate down to every curve, knurl, protuberance, carbuncle, wen, bleb, wart and wattle and garfunkel. Airport frisk assessment: Gene gets rubbed the wrong way
• Of stones the precious stone called carbuncle is least amenable to fire. Meteorology