† ˈwartle Obs.
[Diminutive of wart: see -le. Cf. OHG. warzala, Ger. dial. warzel, a wart.]
a. A ‘kernel’ in the neck or groin. b. A small wart. c. A hard lump in molten metal.
| 1598 Florio, Ghiandole, wartles or kernels that come in the throte; the glanders in a horse. Ibid., Pallottole, the kernels or wartles that breede betweene the flesh and the skin, about the neck or groine. 1611 Cotgr., Gangules, Kernels, or wartles in the throat. 1659 Torriano, Verr{uacu}ca formicánte, a wartle black like an ant, and therefore called an ant-wart. Verr{uacu}ca pens{iacu}le, a long and hanging wartle. 1725 Bradley's Family Dict. s.v. Antimony, They put it to be melted..in pots..and strain it through a scummer.., that so you may take away the Kernels or wartles thereof. |