WART

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English wearte; akin to Old High German warza ~, Old Church Slavic vrědŭ injury Date: before 12th century 1. a horny projection on the skin usually of the extremities that is caused by any of several papillomaviruses, any of numerous similar skin lesions, an excrescence or protuberance resembling a true ~, 3. one that suggests a ~ especially in smallness, unpleasantness, or unattractiveness, defect , imperfection , ~ed adjective ~less adjective ~y adjective