'Scab' definitions:
Definition of 'scab'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Scab'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Scab'
From: GCIDE
- Scab \Scab\ (sk[a^]b), n. [OE. scab, scabbe, shabbe; cf. AS. scaeb, sceabb, scebb, Dan. & Sw. skab, and also L. scabies, fr. scabere to scratch, akin to E. shave. See Shave, and cf. Shab, Shabby.]
- 1. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The itch in man; also, the scurvy. [Colloq. or Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 3. The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies). [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold. [1913 Webster]
- 6. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow. [Low] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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] [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Bot.) Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases attacking cultivated plants, and usually forming dark-colored crustlike spots. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'scab'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abscess,
- aposteme,
- bed sore,
- birthmark,
- blackhead,
- blackleg,
- blain,
- bleb,
- blemish,
- blister,
- boil,
- bubo,
- bulla,
- bunion,
- canker,
- canker sore,
- carbuncle,
- chancre,
- chancroid,
- check,
- chilblain,
- cicatrix,
- cicatrize,
- close up,
- cold sore,
- comedo,
- crack,
- crater,
- craze,
- crust,
- deface,
- defacement,
- defect,
- deform,
- deformation,
- deformity,
- disfiguration,
- disfigure,
- disfigurement,
- distort,
- distortion,
- effloresce,
- encrust,
- eschar,
- fault,
- felon,
- fester,
- festering,
- fever blister,
- fink,
- fistula,
- flaw,
- freckle,
- furuncle,
- furunculus,
- gathering,
- granulate,
- gumboil,
- heal,
- heal over,
- hemangioma,
- hemorrhoids,
- hickey,
- incrust,
- incrustation,
- keloid,
- kibe,
- kink,
- knit,
- lentigo,
- lesion,
- loricate,
- mar,
- milium,
- mole,
- needle scar,
- nevus,
- papula,
- papule,
- paronychia,
- parulis,
- pastry shell,
- petechia,
- piecrust,
- piles,
- pimple,
- pit,
- pock,
- pockmark,
- polyp,
- port-wine mark,
- port-wine stain,
- pustule,
- rat,
- rift,
- right itself,
- rising,
- scab over,
- scale,
- scar,
- scarify,
- scratch,
- sebaceous cyst,
- set,
- shell,
- soft chancre,
- sore,
- split,
- stalactite,
- stalagmite,
- stigma,
- strawberry mark,
- strikebreaker,
- sty,
- suppuration,
- swelling,
- track,
- tubercle,
- twist,
- ulcer,
- ulceration,
- verruca,
- vesicle,
- wale,
- warp,
- wart,
- weal,
- welt,
- wen,
- wheal,
- whelk,
- whitehead,
- whitlow,
- wound