1. To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers. Wounds immedicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. Milton. Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. South. Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. Macaulay.
2. To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.
FESTER
Fes`ter, v. t.
Defn: To cause to fester or rankle. For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate, And fstered ranking malice in my breast. Marston.
FESTER
Fes"ter, n. Etym: [OF. festre, L. fistula a sort of ulcer. Cf.
Fistula.]
1. A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharge corrupt matter; a pustule.
2. A festering or rankling. The fester of the chain their necks. I. Taylor.
FESTERMENT
Fes"ter*ment, n.
Defn: A festering. [R.] Chalmers.
FESTEYE
Fest"eye, v. t. Etym: [OF. festier, festeer, F. festoyer.]