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noun

Scar n.

A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a previous injury; a blemish; a disfigurement. "This earth had the beauty of youth,... and not a wrinkle, scar, or fracture on all its body."

(Bot.) A mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support.

Scar n. (Written also scaur) An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth. "O sweet and far, from cliff and scar, The horns of Elfland faintly blowing."

Scar n. (Zool.) A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.

verb

Scar v. t. (past & past part. scarred; pres. part. scarring) To mark with a scar or scars. "Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow." "His cheeks were deeply scarred."

Scar v. i. To form a scar.

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Etymology of 'Scar'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Scar" Quotes from Famous Books

... he cried; 'he has left his mark on my arm. Rat me, if the scar is healed yet. The sun is on our side of the wall now, gauger. But hullo, mates! Who be this that ye have clapped into irons? This is ...

— Micah Clarke - His Statement as made to his three Grandchildren Joseph, - Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 • Arthur Conan Doyle

... lay back in the chair, motionless, his consciousness slowly returning like an incoming tide. At length he started to his feet with an expression of scorn and incredulity; he was as sound as ever, there was neither scratch nor scar upon him; he had not shot himself ...

— Vandover and the Brute • Frank Norris

... was plain from their appearance that personal assault at all events was regrettably common, for nearly everyone of them wore traces of it in their faces, wore them as if they were particularly becoming. Every variety of scar that could well be imagined was represented, some healed, some healing, and some freshly gory. The youth with the most scars, we observed, gave himself the most airs, and the really vainglorious were, more or less, obscured in cotton-wool, evidently just from the hands of the ...

— A Voyage of Consolation - (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An - American girl in London') • Sara Jeannette Duncan

... the dog on a chair. Lifting Courtenay's cap she brushed back his hair with her fingers, and found that he had covered an ugly scar with a long strip of skin plaster. The tense anxiety in Isobel's face forthwith yielded to sheer bewilderment. These two were behaving with the self-possession of young people who regard the "engagement" stage as a ...

— The Captain of the Kansas • Louis Tracy

... consequence; except that it has cut down to the bone on the brow and cheek. If it had been an inch further back, it would have severed the temporal artery. You have had a narrow escape of it. As it is, you will get off with a scar, which may last for some time; but as it is an honourable one, perhaps you won't so much care. However, I will bring it together as well as I can, and stitch it up, and ...

— A Final Reckoning - A Tale of Bush Life in Australia • G. A. Henty

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