Now dial. (see Eng. Dial. Dict.) [Prob. f. WAX sb.2, either with the sense of ‘a growth,’ or with reference to the growing-time of children (cf. wax-pain dial. = growing-pain); but associated with WAX sb.1] A hard glandular swelling in the neck or armpit or under the jaw. Also called WAXEN-KERNEL, WAXING-KERNEL.
14[?]. Nom., in Wr.-Wülcker, 707/29. Hoc glandulum, a wax-kyrnylle.
1569. E. Fenton, Secr. Nature, 38 b. As knots in wood, waxkernels in men, or seede in herbes.
1576. Newton, Lemnie’s Complex., II. iii. 110 b. Wherupon happen … sometime behinde the eares Impostumes, botches and wexe-kernelles.
1825. Jamieson, Wax kernel.
1889. Wagstaffe, Mayne’s Med. Voc. (ed. 6), Wax-kernels, popular name for irritated submaxillary glands.
