Itch (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Itched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Itching.] [OE. icchen, icchen, AS. giccan; akin to D. jeuken, joken, G. jucken, OHG. jucchen.]
1.
To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.
My mouth hath itched all this long day.
Chaucer.
2.
To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long for; as, itching ears.
"An
itching palm."
Shak.
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Itch, n.
1. Med.
An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite (the Sarcoptes scabei), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact.
2.
Any itching eruption.
3.
A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by the itch eruption; -- called also scabies, psora, etc.
4.
A constant irritating desire.
An itch of being thought a divine king.
Dryden.
Baker's itch. See under Baker.
-- Barber's itch, sycosis.
-- Bricklayer's itch, an eczema of the hands attended with much itching, occurring among bricklayers.
-- Grocer's itch, an itching eruption, being a variety of eczema, produced by the sugar mite (Tyrogluphus sacchari).
-- Itch insect Zool., a small parasitic mite (Sarcoptes scabei) which burrows and breeds beneath the human skin, thus causing the disease known as the itch. See Illust. in Append.
-- Itch mite. Zool. Same as Itch insect, above. Also, other similar mites affecting the lower animals, as the horse and ox.
-- Sugar baker's itch, a variety of eczema, due to the action of sugar upon the skin.
-- Washerwoman's itch, eczema of the hands and arms, occurring among washerwomen.
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