Fester
Fester , intransitive verb
[Old English festern, from fester, n.; or fr. OF. festrir, from festre, n. See Fester, n.]
1.
To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers.
Wounds immedicable
Rankle, and fester, and gangrene.
Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester.
Hatred... festered in the hearts of the children of the soil.
2.
To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.
Fester , transitive verb
To cause to fester or rankle.
For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate,
And festered ranking malice in my breast.
Fester , noun
[Old French festre, Latin fistula a sort of ulcer. Compare Fistula.]
1.
A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule.
2.
A festering or rankling.
The fester of the chain their necks.