SCAB
\skˈab], \skˈab], \s_k_ˈa_b]\
Definitions of SCAB
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
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form a scab; "the wounds will eventually scab"
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases attacking cultivated plants, and usually forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
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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.
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The itch in man; also, the scurvy.
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The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep.
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A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies).
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A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
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A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
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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.
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To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.
By Oddity Software
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Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases attacking cultivated plants, and usually forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
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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.
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The itch in man; also, the scurvy.
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The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep.
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A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies).
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A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
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A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
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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.
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To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.
By Noah Webster.
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A crust formed over a wound or sore; a disease of sheep; a disease of plants in which dark-colored spots of mold appear; cant, a workman who refuses to join a strike, or who takes the place abandoned by a striker.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. Eschar, a crust formed by the drying of the pus on the surface of an ulcer or excoriation. 2. A contagious mange-like disease of sheep. 3. To form a scab.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
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A crust formed on the surface of a sore; also, some similar appearance, as on diseased plants; a blister on the surface of a casting, etc.
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A mean, dirty, paltry fellow; so used by Shakespeare; hence, recently, a workman who refuses to join or acts against a labor-union.
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Scabbed, scabby.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A crust formed over a sore in healing; a disease in sheep resembling the mange.
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To become covered with a scab; to grow scabby.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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An incrustation, which forms upon a sore, owing to the concretion of the fluid discharged from it. An eschar.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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