chancre
(noun) a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
chancre (plural chancres)
(pathology) Skin lesion, sometimes associated with certain contagious diseases such as syphilis.
• chancer
Source: Wiktionary
Chan"cre, n. Etym: [F. chancere. See Cancer.] (Med.)
Definition: A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre. Soft chancre. A chancroid. See Chancroid.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 February 2025
(verb) reach the summit (of a mountain); “They breasted the mountain”; “Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
