Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TER-MIN'THUS
TERM-IN-OL'O-GY, or TERM-ON-OL'O-GYTERM'IN-US
TER-MIN'THUS, n. [Gr. τερμινθος, a pine nut.]
In medicine, a sort of carbuncle, spreading in the shape, and assuming the figure and blackish green color of the fruit of the pane, called pine-nut. Good.
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