Definition of Callouses

1. callous [v] - See also: callous

Lexicographical Neighbors of Callouses

callosal sulcus
callose
callosectomy
calloses
callositas
callosity
callosomarginal
callosomarginal artery
callosomarginal fissure
callosomarginal sulcus
callosotomy
callosumectomy
callous
calloused
callouses
callousing
callously
callousness
callousnesses
callout
callouts
callow
callower
callowest
callowness
callownesses
callows
calls
calls in

Literary usage of Callouses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Story of My Childhood by Clara Barton (1907)
"I knew them all, and that work would bring callouses even on little hands. When the work was finished and everything gone, I went to my room, ..."

2. Practipedics: The Science of Giving Foot Comfort and Correcting the Cause of by William Mathias Scholl (1917)
"Ascertain the cause of the callouses and fit the proper corrective appliances to ... For callouses on the sole, apply Dr. Scholl's Anterior Metatarsal Arch ..."

3. The Human foot, anatomy, deformities and treatment by William Mathias Scholl (1916)
"Callouses on the sole are most prevalent and are usually caused by pressure and friction on the Metatarsal heads which go to form, the Anterior Transverse ..."

4. Sunsetby Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1912)
""To be able now to have feet that never ache, never get tired, blistered, swollen, or chafed, or have corns, callouses or bunions, is a glorious recompense ..."

5. The American Red Cross in the Great War by Henry Pomeroy Davison (1919)
"WITH TERRIBLE, SORE, PAINFUL CORNS AND Callouses DR. HUNT'S NEW CORN CURE: Removes by PENETRATION, the New Scientific Method — Do not Gamble on Worthless ..."

6. Portfolio of Dermochromes by Jerome Kingsbury, William Gaynor States, Eduard Jacobi (1913)
"In these localities they are related to ordinary corns and callouses and have ... These callous warts occur much more infrequently than corns and callouses. ..."

7. The Valor of Ignorance by Homer Lea (1909)
"The creation of this martial soul necessitates year after year of sternest labor and toil that callouses not alone the hands and wrings sweat from the brow, ..."

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