[Note: Parts of this entry were previously at dew sore.]
dew boil n VA
1884 Baldwin Yankee School-Teacher 92 VA, “It’s so cur’us,” quoth Simeon. . , “that the wet grass should make dew-boils on bare feet. I never knew such a thing up North.” [DARE Ed: The speaker is from upstate NY.] 1909 State (Columbia SC) 17 Oct 36/4 VA, There used to be a regular round of these fevers in those good old days. And every boy was supposed to have them in season, just as he was expected to have dew-boils and stone-bruise. 1961 Progress–Index (Petersburg VA) 4 June 4/7 VA, Into feet left bare continuously for any length of time come stone bruises, dew boils, splinters, thorns and other things foreign to human flesh, but lancing the bruises and the boils and treating them with bichloride of mercury . . and extracting the splinters soon brought surcease from sorrow. 1989 Statesville Rec. & Landmark (NC) 8 Nov sec B 8/1 VA, Impetigo, also known as “summer sore, tetter, and dew boils” is a pus-like skin infection.