D defs.my
Entry 10 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Scab

/(skăb)/ · IPA /skæb/
01 n. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.
  1. 1.
    An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.
  2. 2.
    The itch in man; also, the scurvy.[Colloq. or Obs.]
  3. 3.
    The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep.
  4. 4.
    A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies).
  5. 5.
    A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.(Founding)
  6. 6.
    A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.[Low]
  7. 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]
  8. 8.
    Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases attacking cultivated plants, and usually forming dark-colored crustlike spots.(Bot.)
02 v. i. To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.
imp. & p. p. Scabbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Scabbing
  1. 1.
    To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.
  2. 2.
    to take the place of a striking worker.