rare. [incorrect back-formation from fomites, pl. of FOMES.] = FOMES.
1859. R. F. Burton, Centr. Afr., in Jrnl. Geog. Soc., XXIX. 134. In the hollow enceinte the cattle are milked and penned: it is covered with a thick coat of the animals’ earths—dust in the hot weather, and deep viscid mud during the rains. This must be an efficacious fomite of cutaneous and pectoral disease.
