'Scar' definitions:
Definition of 'scar'
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Definition of 'Scar'
From: GCIDE
- Scar \Scar\, n. [OF. escare, F. eschare an eschar, a dry slough (cf. It. & Sp. escara), L. eschara, fr. Gr. ? hearth, fireplace, scab, eschar. Cf. 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. [1913 Webster]
- This earth had the beauty of youth, . . . and not a wrinkle, scar, or fracture on all its body. --T. Burnet. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (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. See Illust. under Axillary. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Scar'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Scar'
From: GCIDE
- Scar \Scar\, v. i. To form a scar. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Scar'
From: GCIDE
- Scar \Scar\, n. [Scot. scar, scaur, Icel. sker a skerry, an isolated rock in the sea; akin to Dan. skiaer, Sw. sk[aum]r. Cf. Skerry.] 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.] [1913 Webster]
- O sweet and far, from cliff and scar, The horns of Elfland faintly blowing. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Scar'
From: GCIDE
- Scar \Scar\, n. [L. scarus, a kind of fish, Gr. ska`ros.] (Zool.) A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish. [1913 Webster] Scarab
Synonyms of 'scar'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- birthmark,
- blackhead,
- blaze,
- blaze a trail,
- bleb,
- blemish,
- blister,
- blotch,
- bluff,
- brand,
- bulla,
- burn,
- caste mark,
- chalk,
- chalk up,
- check,
- check off,
- checkmark,
- cicatrix,
- cicatrize,
- cliff,
- comedo,
- crack,
- crag,
- crater,
- craze,
- cut,
- damage,
- dapple,
- dash,
- deface,
- defacement,
- defect,
- define,
- deform,
- deformation,
- deformity,
- delimit,
- demarcate,
- dent,
- discolor,
- discoloration,
- disfiguration,
- disfigure,
- disfigurement,
- distort,
- distortion,
- dot,
- earmark,
- engrave,
- engraving,
- escarpment,
- face,
- fault,
- flaw,
- fleck,
- flick,
- freckle,
- gash,
- graving,
- hack,
- hatch,
- hemangioma,
- hickey,
- impress,
- imprint,
- injure,
- injury,
- jot,
- keloid,
- kink,
- lentigo,
- line,
- macula,
- make a mark,
- mar,
- mark,
- mark off,
- mark out,
- marking,
- milium,
- mole,
- mottle,
- needle scar,
- nevus,
- nick,
- notch,
- palisade,
- palisades,
- patch,
- pencil,
- pepper,
- pimple,
- pit,
- pock,
- pockmark,
- point,
- polka dot,
- port-wine mark,
- port-wine stain,
- precipice,
- prick,
- print,
- punch,
- punctuate,
- puncture,
- pustule,
- riddle,
- rift,
- scab,
- scarification,
- scarify,
- scarp,
- score,
- scotch,
- scratch,
- scratching,
- seal,
- seam,
- sebaceous cyst,
- speck,
- speckle,
- splash,
- split,
- splotch,
- spot,
- stain,
- stamp,
- steep,
- stigma,
- stigmatize,
- strawberry mark,
- streak,
- striate,
- stripe,
- sty,
- tattoo,
- tattoo mark,
- tick,
- tick off,
- tittle,
- trace,
- track,
- twist,
- underline,
- underscore,
- verruca,
- vesicle,
- wale,
- wall,
- warp,
- wart,
- watermark,
- weal,
- welt,
- wen,
- whitehead,
- wound