Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WART, n. [waurt; Sax. weart; D. wrat; G. warze; Sw. värta; L. verruca; Fr. verrue.]

1. A firm, arid, harsh, insensible extuberance of the common integuments; found chiefly on the hands. – Good.
2. In horses, warts are spongy excrescences on the hinder pasterns, which suppurate. – Cyc.
3. A protuberance on trees.