an eruptive disease, especially one attended with fever, as smallpox or measles.
Origin: 1650–60; < Late Latinexanthēma < Greekexánthēma skin eruption, breaking forth, literally, a bursting into flower, equivalent to ex-ex-3 + anthē- (verbid stem of antheîn to blossom; see antho-) + -ma noun suffix
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.