What is "itching"

Usage examples of "itching".

He allowed the others to dip their fingers in it when cool and use it to wipe their skins to relieve the intolerable itching caused by the aerosol rain from the trees.

Its prominent feature is an intense itching, so aggravating that, in many instances, the skin is torn by the nails.

Vetch oiled and buffed her morning and evening now, not only to keep her from itching too much, but to keep her skin supple and prevent it from tearing as she grew.

She is chained in such a way as to preclude movement which might tear at the mesh or break it, thus making possible the entry of urts, which might eat at her, lowering her price, and to preclude her tearing hysterically with her hands and fingernails at her own body, bloodying herself, perhaps scarring herself, again lowering her price, in her attempt to obtain relief from the bites and itching consequent upon the infestation and depredation of the numerous, almost constantly active ship lice.

A solution made with borax, two drachms, and morphine, fire grains, dissolved in six ounces of rose-water, makes an excellent lotion to allay the itching.

By the time the apple dumplings were cooked and cooling, with a crust of sugar lacing the brown pastry, she was fairly itching to put her plan into action.

Behrend observed an opium exanthem, which was attended by intolerable itching, after the exhibition of a quarter of a grain.

For this symptom fluid extract of jaborandi was prescribed with the effect of relieving the itching.

The itching stopped, and Anna agreed to wait until the bruising went away to decide whether a lumpectomy was necessary.

Blade, itching horribly under the rough cloth, his sores and cuts troubling him, put a good face on and pulled up at the table and began to match Mok drink for drink.

Thompson let Vanessa and me go ahead, helping us up over the steep sections of rock until at last we were panting, itching with sweat, on top of the world, able to see as far as the river over the top of the gray-hot haze and the mopane trees.

The osmatic suction on his forearm was itching again, as it seemed to periodically, and he thought about calling the nurse.

This is seen in its highest degree in itching diseases like prurigo and pityriasis.

They excreted a poison that caused pustulant sores and an infernal itching that lasted for a week.

For a week while painters rewhitened our walls the five of us in the fountain-facing office squeezed into the other one, desks jammed together in every corner, phone calls made with palms pressed to ears against the noise and even normally placid tempers itching to snap.