the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A cicatrix.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A scar; a seam or elevation of flesh remaining after a wound or ulcer is healed: also extended to scars on the bark of trees. See cicatrix.
n. Mark; impression.
n. A cicatrix, in any sense.
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n. a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue
Word Usage
"I remember my favourite English teacher talking about the word 'cicatrice' from My Brother Jack, and how she had looked it up in the dictionary to discover it was the most perfect word in the context it was used."