Scab

[Scab]

Kids who fall and skin their knees know what a scab is: it's the crusty patch of skin that forms when a scrape or cut is healing.

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An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.

Noun
the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion

Noun
someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike

Verb
form a scab; "the wounds will eventually scab"

Verb
take the place of work of someone on strike


n.
An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.

n.
The itch in man; also, the scurvy.

n.
The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep.

n.
A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies).

n.
A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.

n.
A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.

n.
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.

v. i.
To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.


Scab

Scab , n. [OE. scab, scabbe, shabbe; cf. AS. sc'91b, sceabb, scebb, Dan. & Sw. skab, and also L. scabies, tr. 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 iregular 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]

Scab

Scab, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scabbed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Scabbing.] To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.

An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.

To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.

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