Kids who fall and skin their knees know what a scab is: it's the crusty patch of skin that forms when a scrape or cut is healing.
An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.
Noun
the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion
Noun
someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
Verb
form a scab; "the wounds will eventually scab"
Verb
take the place of work of someone on strike
n.
An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule,
formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.
n.
The itch in man; also, the scurvy.
n.
The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep.
n.
A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused
by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies).
n.
A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of
a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
n.
A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
n.
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.
v. i.
To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.
Scab
Scab
An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.
To become covered with a scab;
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