Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SKIR'RHUS, n. [Gr. σκίῤῥος, a diseased part affected by a peculiar induration.]

In medicine, a hard, rigid, vascular infarction of glandular follicles; indolent; insentient, glabrous; sometimes shrinking and becoming more indurated; when irritated tending to a cancerous ulcer. – Good.