حِكَّةٌ
Root: حك
Full Definition
2 And The جَرَب [i. e. mange, or scab]: or it differs from the latter; and is said to be the dry جَرَب: or anything that one scratches; as the جَرَب and the like: [in the present day particularly applied to the itch:] a certain cutaneous disease; said in the medical books to be a thin humour, causing swelling, originating beneath the skin, not accompanied with pus, but with what resembles bran, and quick in passing away.
3 And hence
def.2 See also حِكٌّ.
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