In the first book in that sequence, "The Sword in the Stone", the magician, Merlyn, changes his young charge, Wart (really Arthur), for a time into a hawk.Like Ms Macdonald, White was intrigued by raptors.
Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe is a wart on the face of southern Africa and deters many who might invest in the surrounding region.An abiding failure of Africa is the reluctance of relatively decent leaders to club together to shame the really bad ones out of office.
A wart on the skin is a benign tumour caused by a virus; it produces no illness and usually disappears spontaneously if given enough time (often many years).
The human wart virus causes epidermal cellular proliferation and hyperkeratosis.
The third suborder of sessile barnacles, the Verrucomorpha, or wart barnacles, differs from the first two suborders in having the plates of the wall and operculum asymmetrically arranged.
Agrimonia eupatoria (common agrimony) from Europe was looked upon in past ages as a general cure for any sort of wound or snakebite and for wart removal, liver ailments, and diarrhea.
A single scale may be very smooth and shiny (as in the rainbow snakes), have a raised ridge (keel) along its centre, be heavily striated, or even have a raised spine in the centre, as in the Javanese wart snake.
The average life of a wart is three to four months, so treatment is usually reserved for long-lasting warts.
Essentially an infectious, benign skin tumour, a wart is composed of an abnormal proliferation of cells of the epidermis; the overproduction of these cells is caused by the viral infection.
The most common type of wart is a round, raised lesion having a dry and rough surface; flat or threadlike lesions are also seen.
