noun.
A naked, detached rock.
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A cliff; a precipitous bank; a bare and broken place on the side of a hill or mountain.
noun.
The word enters into many place-names in Great Britain, as Scarborough, Scarcliff, etc.
noun.
A mark in the skin or flesh made by a wound, burn, or ulcer, and remaining after the wound, burn, or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix.
noun.
Figuratively, any mark resulting from injury, material or moral.
noun.
A spot worn by long use, as by the limpet.
noun.
In botany, a mark on a stem or branch seen after the fall of a leaf, or on a seed after the separation of its stalk. See hilum.
noun.
In conchology, an impression left by the insertion of a muscle; a ciborium; an eye.
noun.
In entomology, a definite, often prominent, space on the anterior face of the mandibles of rhynchophorous beetles of the family Otiorhynchidæ.
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In founding, a weak or imperfect place in a casting, due to some fault in the metal.
To mark with a scar or scars; hence, to wound or hurt.
To become scarred; form a scar.
Same as scare.
noun.
A scaroid fish. See Scarus.
noun.
A manufacturers' name for lumps or cakes of imperfectly fused ferrous sulphid which form in the burning of iron pyrites in making sulphuric acid, due to an insufficient supply of air to the burners. The formation of scars involves waste of sulphur which fails to be fully burned off.