Websters Dictionary 1828
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Achor
A''CHOR, noun [Gr., sordes capitis.]
1. The scald head, a disease forming scaly eruptions, supposed to be a critical evacuation of acrimonious humors; a species of herpes.
2. In mythology, the God of flies, said to have been worshipped by the Cyreneans, to avoid being vexed by those insects.