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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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