Definition of scab

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

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Scabbily :: Scabbily (adv.) In a scabby manner.
Scab :: Scab (n.) A mean, dirty, paltry fellow..
Scald :: Scald (a.) Affected with the scab; scabby.
Scabbedness :: Scabbedness (n.) Scabbiness.
Frostfish :: Frostfish (n.) A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish (Lepidotus) valued as a food fish.
Pommelion :: Pommelion (n.) The cascabel, or hindmost knob, of a cannon..
Scab :: Scab (n.) A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies)..
Scabbing :: Scabbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sca.
Cascabel :: Cascabel (n.) The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring. [See Illust. of Cannon.].
Ipecacuanha :: Ipecacuanha (n.) The root of a Brazilian rubiaceous herb (Cephaelis Ipecacuanha), largely employed as an emetic; also, the plant itself; also, a medicinal extract of the root. Many other plants are used as a substitutes; among them are the black or Peruvian ipecac (Psychotria emetica), the white ipecac (Ionidium Ipecacuanha), the bastard or wild ipecac (Asclepias Curassavica), and the undulated ipecac (Richardsonia scabra)..
Itch :: Itch (n.) An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite (the Sarcoptes scabei), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact..
Trichiuriform :: Trichiuriform (a.) Like or pertaining to the genus Trichiurus or family Trichiuridae, comprising the scabbard fishes and hairtails..
Scabwort :: Scabwort (n.) Elecampane.
Scab :: Scab (n.) The itch in man; also, the scurvy..
Scabbard Plane :: Scabbard plane () See Scaleboard plane, under Scaleboard..
Hair Grass :: Hair grass () A grass with very slender leaves or branches; as the Agrostis scabra, and several species of Aira or Deschampsia..
Confiscable :: Confiscable (a.) Capable of being confiscated; liable to forfeiture.
Breeching :: Breeching (n.) A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged..
Scall :: Scall (a.) A scurf or scabby disease, especially of the scalp..
Scab :: Scab (n.) The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep..
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