Pimple

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pimple \Pim"ple\, n. [AS. p[imac]pelian to blister; cf. L.
     papula pimple.]
     1. (Med.) Any small acuminated elevation of the cuticle,
        whether going on to suppuration or not. "All eyes can see
        a pimple on her nose." --Pope.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. Fig.: A swelling or protuberance like a pimple. "A pimple
        that portends a future sprout." --Cowper.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pimple
       n : a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule;
           common symptom in acne [syn: {hickey}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  172 Moby Thesaurus words for "pimple":
     abscess, aposteme, bed sore, birthmark, blackhead, blain, bleb,
     blemish, blister, boil, boss, bubo, bulla, bump, bunion, canker,
     canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, check, chilblain,
     cicatrix, coarsen, cold sore, colophon, comedo, concavity,
     convexity, corn, crack, crater, craze, cyst, dactylogram,
     dactylograph, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, dent,
     dilatation, dilation, dint, disfiguration, disfigurement,
     distension, distortion, dot, edema, embossment, eruption, eschar,
     excrescence, fault, felon, fester, festering, fever blister,
     fingerprint, fistula, flaw, footmark, footprint, footstep,
     fossil footprint, freckle, furuncle, furunculus, gathering, gnarl,
     granulate, gumboil, hemangioma, hemorrhoids, hickey, horripilate,
     ichnite, ichnolite, impress, impression, imprint, indent,
     indentation, indention, intumescence, keloid, kibe, kink, knob,
     lentigo, lesion, lump, milium, mole, needle scar, nevus, pad,
     papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, paw print, pawmark, petechia,
     piles, pit, pock, pockmark, polyp, port-wine mark, port-wine stain,
     print, pug, pugmark, pustule, rift, rising, rough, rough up,
     roughen, scab, scar, scratch, seal, sebaceous cyst, sigil, signet,
     soft chancre, sore, speckle, split, spot, sprinkle, stamp, step,
     stigma, strawberry mark, stud, sty, suppuration, swell, swelling,
     swollenness, thumbmark, thumbprint, track, tubercle, tumefaction,
     tumescence, tumidity, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity,
     twist, ulcer, ulceration, verruca, vesicle, vestige, wale, warp,
     wart, weal, welt, wen, wheal, whelk, whitehead, whitlow, wound