Category:Scar

Scar, n. Etym: [of. escare, f. eschare an eschar, a dry slough (cf. It. & sp. escara), l. eschara, fr. Gr. Eschar.]

1. 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. T. Burnet.

2. (bot.)

Defn: 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. See illust. under axillary.

Scar Scar, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scarred; p. pr. & vb. n. Scarring.]

Defn: to mark with a scar or scars. Yet i'll not shed her blood; nor scar that whiter skin of hers than Snow. Shak. His cheeks were deeply scarred. Macaulay.

Scar Scar, v. i.

Defn: to form a scar.

Scar Scar, n. Etym: [scot. scar, scaur, icel. sker a skerry, an isolated Rock in the sea; akin to dan. skiær, sw. skär. Cf. Skerry.]

Defn: an isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare Place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth. [written also Scaur.] O sweet and far, from cliff and scar, the horns of elfland faintly Blowing. Tennyson.

Scar Scar, n. Etym: [l. scarus, a kind of fish, gr. ska`ros.] (zoöl.)

Defn: a marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.