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noun

Scab n.

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.

4.

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

5.

(Founding) A slight irregular 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)

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)

8.

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

verb

Scab v. i. (past & past part. scabbed; pres. part. scabbing)

1.

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

2.

To take the place of a striking worker.

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Etymology of 'Scab'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Scab" Quotes from Famous Books

... happily serve To cure the scab of the nation, Whene'er't has an itch to swerve To rebellion by innovation. A lanthorn here is to be bought, The like was scarce ever gotten, For many plots it has found out Before they ever were thought on. Says old ...

— Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 • Charles Mackay

... effusions of a straw-colored fluid between the true skin and the cuticle. The blisters may be of any size from a millet seed to a pea, and often crack open and allow the escape of the fluid, which concretes as a slightly yellowish scab or crust around the roots of the hairs. This exudation and the incrustation are especially common where the hairs are long, thick, and numerous, as in the region of the pastern of heavy draft horses. The term eczema is ...

— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture

... He employed Chinese cooks, and that in the height of the anti-Chinese agitation in Australia, and he was known to have kindly feelings towards the Afghans who, with their camels, were running white carriers off the roads. If an excited Unionist called a man a "blackleg" or "scab" in the Imperial bar he was run out—sometimes with great difficulty, and occasionally as far as ...

— Children of the Bush • Henry Lawson

... like beads on a string watching us through these cracks. My brother had smallpox in this house. We never knew how it came, but come it did. Dr. Murphy when he first saw him said it was measles or smallpox, but he vaccinated us all. It took just lovely. In those days they used a scab from the arm of someone who had been vaccinated. My brother took quantities of penny-royal tea and no other ...

— Old Rail Fence Corners - The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History • Various

... as an enthusiastic collector. Very few would have felt capable of competing with him when it came to giving the name or the geographical distribution of a plant. A blade of grass, a pad of moss, a scab of lichen, a thread of seaweed: he knew them all. The scientific name flashed across his mind at once. What an unerring memory, what a genius for classification amid the enormous mass of things observed! I stood aghast at it. I ...

— The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre

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