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scab


  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Scab  \Scab\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Scabbed};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Scabbing}.] 
  To  become  covered  with  a  scab;  as  the  wound  scabbed  over 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Scab  \Scab\  (sk[a^]b),  n.  [OE.  scab,  scabbe,  shabbe;  cf  AS 
  sc[ae]b,  sceabb  scebb  Dan.  &  Sw  skab,  and  also  L.  scabies, 
  fr  scabere  to  scratch,  akin  to  E.  shave.  See  {Shave},  and 
  cf  {Shab},  {Shabby}.] 
  1.  An  incrustation  over  a  sore,  wound,  vesicle,  or  pustule, 
  formed  by  the  drying  up  of  the  discharge  from  the  diseased 
  part 
 
  2.  The  itch  in  man;  also  the  scurvy.  [Colloq.  or  Obs.] 
 
  3.  The  mange,  esp.  when  it  appears  on  sheep.  --Chaucer. 
 
  4.  A  disease  of  potatoes  producing  pits  in  their  surface, 
  caused  by  a  minute  fungus  ({Tiburcinia  Scabies}). 
 
  5.  (Founding)  A  slight  irregular  protuberance  which  defaces 
  the  surface  of  a  casting,  caused  by  the  breaking  away  of  a 
  part  of  the  mold. 
 
  6.  A  mean  dirty,  paltry  fellow.  [Low]  --Shak. 
 
  7.  A  nickname  for  a  workman  who  engages  for  lower  wages  than 
  are  fixed  by  the  trades  unions;  also  for  one  who  takes 
  the  place  of  a  workman  on  a  strike.  [Cant] 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Scab  \Scab\,  n.  (Bot.) 
  Any  one  of  various  more  or  less  destructive  fungus  diseases 
  attacking  cultivated  plants,  and  usually  forming  dark-colored 
  crustlike  spots. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  scab 
  n  1:  someone  who  works  (or  provides  workers)  during  a  strike 
  [syn:  {strikebreaker},  {blackleg},  {rat}] 
  2:  the  crustlike  surface  of  a  healing  skin  lesion 
  v  1:  form  a  scab;  of  wounds  [syn:  {scab  over},  {cicatrize}] 
  2:  take  the  place  of  work  of  someone  on  strike  [syn:  {rat},  {blackleg}] 




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