Hypertext Webster Gateway: "putrid"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sore \Sore\, a. [Compar. {Sorer}; superl. {Sorest}.] [OE. sor,
sar, AS. s[=a]r; akin to D. zeer, OS. & OHG. s?r, G. sehr
very, Icel. s[=a]rr, Sw. s[*a]r, Goth. sair pain. Cf.
{Sorry}.]
1. Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure;
inflamed; painful; -- said of the body or its parts; as, a
sore hand.
2. Fig.: Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed;
very susceptible of irritation.
Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious,
and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy.
--Tillotson.
3. Severe; afflictive; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore
evil or calamity. --Shak.
4. Criminal; wrong; evil. [Obs.] --Shak.
{Sore throat} (Med.), inflammation of the throat and tonsils;
pharyngitis. See {Cynanche}.
{Malignant}, {Ulcerated} or {Putrid}, {sore throat}. See
{Angina}, and under {Putrid}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Putrid \Pu"trid\, a. [L. putridus, fr. putrere to be rotten, fr.
puter, or putris, rotten, fr. putere to stink, to be rotten:
cf. F. putride. See {Pus}, {Foul}, a.]
1. Tending to decomposition or decay; decomposed; rotten; --
said of animal or vegetable matter; as, putrid flesh. See
{Putrefaction}.
2. Indicating or proceeding from a decayed state of animal or
vegetable matter; as, a putrid smell.
{Putrid fever} (Med.), typhus fever; -- so called from the
decomposing and offensive state of the discharges and
diseased textures of the body.
{Putrid sore throat} (Med.), a gangrenous inflammation of the
fauces and pharynx.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
putrid
adj 1: of or relating to or attended by putrefaction; "putrid
decomposition"
2: having undergone infection; "festering sores"; "an infected
wound" [syn: {festering}, {infected}, {purulent}, {pussy}]
3: in an advanced state of decomposition and having a foul
odor; "horrible like raw and putrid flesh"- Somerset
Maugham [syn: {putrefied}, {putrified}]
4: offensively malodorous; "a putrid smell" [syn: {fetid}, {foetid},
{foul}, {foul-smelling}, {funky}, {noisome}, {smelly}, {stinking}]
5: morally corrupt or evil; "the putrid atmosphere of the
court"
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