Fester /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Festered; p. pr. & vb. n. Festering

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.

1. To cause to fester or rankle.

   For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate, And festered ranking malice in my breast.

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.