wen

A cyst on the skin; a tumor or wart.

• There was a Fellow with a Wen in his Neck, larger than five Woolpacks, and another with a couple of wooden Legs, each about twenty foot high.
• When I have met an immigrant tottering under a bundle which contained his all--looking like an enormous wen which had grown out of the nape of his neck--I have pitied him, not because that was his all, but because he had all that to carry.

Obsolete form of wynn (“the letter ƿ”).alt-ofobsolete

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