Definition for TET'TER

TET'TER, n. [Sax. teter, tetr; allied perhaps to L. titillo.]

  1. In medicine, a vague name of several cutaneous diseases.
  2. In farriery, a cutaneous disease of animals, which spreads on the body in different directions, and occasions a troublesome itching. Cyc.

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