(astronomy) A sparse, warm-to-hot (105 to 107 K) plasma that cosmologists believe to exist in the spaces between galaxies and to contain 40–50% of the baryons in the universe at the current epoch.

(performing arts) A woman in charge of the procurement, maintenance, and inventory of the costumes and other clothing worn by performers.

(pathology) a rash, verruca necrogenica, of small, red papular nodules in the skin caused by inoculation with Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a previously infected and immunocompetent person.

A bush-cricket, Decticus verrucivorus, once used to bite off warts from the skin

Alternative spelling of bench-warmer

Archaic form of toward.

(nautical) A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed.

(biology) A form of aposematism in which a prey organism has conspicuous colors which function in deterring predators from consuming it.

A kind of ornamental hard-glazed pottery made at Satsuma in Japan.

(sometimes derogatory) Conflict between sociopolitical classes.