noun. A crust discharged from and covering a healing wound.

noun. Scabies or mange in domestic animals or livestock, especially sheep.

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noun. Any of various plant diseases caused by fungi or bacteria and resulting in crustlike spots on fruit, leaves, or roots.

noun. The spots caused by such a disease.

noun. A person regarded as contemptible.

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noun. A worker who refuses membership in a labor union.

noun. An employee who works while others are on strike; a strikebreaker.

noun. A person hired to replace a striking worker.

intransitive verb. To become covered with scabs or a scab.

intransitive verb. To work or take a job as a scab.

To form a scab or scabby incrustation; become covered with a scab or scabs; specifically, to heal over; cicatrize; repair solution of continuity of a surface by the formation of a new skin or cicatrix.

noun. An incrusted substance, dry and rough, formed over a sore in healing.

noun. The mange, or some mangy disease caused by the presence of a parasite, as an itch-insect; scabies.

noun. A mean, paltry, or shabby fellow: a term of contempt.

noun. Specifically, in recent use, a workman who is not or refuses to become a member of a labor-union, who refuses to join in a strike, or who takes the place of a striker: an opprobrious term used by the workmen or others who dislike his action.

noun. In botany, a fungous disease affecting various fruits, especially apples and pears, in which a black mold appears, often distorting or destroying the fruit.

noun. In founding, any projection on a casting caused by a defect in the sand-mold.

Having to do with “scabs,” or made by them: used opprobriously: as, scab mills; scab labor; scab shoes.

intransitive verb. To become covered with a scab.

intransitive verb. to take the place of a striking worker.

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

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

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

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

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

noun. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.

noun. 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.

noun. Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases attacking cultivated plants, and usually forming dark-colored crustlike spots.

noun. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.

noun. The scabies.

noun. The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.

noun. Several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by Streptomyces -bacteria.

noun. Short form for common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab caused by Streptomyces scabies.

noun. Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases attacking cultivated plants, and forming dark-colored crustlike spots.

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

noun. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.

noun. A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker.

verb. To become covered by a scab or scabs.

verb. To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.

verb. To remove part of a surface (from).

verb. To act as a strikebreaker.

verb. To beg (for), to cadge or bum.

verb. take the place of work of someone on strike

verb. form a scab

noun. someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike

noun. the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion

"They denied that the term scab has been used in a threatening or intimidating manner."

beet-scab  cherry-scab  cucumber-scab  fig-scab  follicular scab  

scabbed  scabbing  

do work  heal  work  worker  

Ab  Bab  Crab  Crabbe  Fab  

anthracnose  blemish  blight  blister  blotch  

abscess  aposteme  bed sore  birthmark  blackhead  

scabbed  scabbing  scabs