This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

• Lexulous
• Wordscraper
• Wordosaur

n. A dry scab or slough formed on the skin as a result of a burn or by the action of a corrosive or caustic substance.

n. A dry, dark scab or scar, especially as a result of burning.

n. A dry slough, crust, or scab, which separates from the healthy part of the body, as that produced by a burn, or the application of caustics.

n. In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams.

n. In pathology, a crust or scab on the skin, such as is occasioned by a burn or caustic application, and which sloughs off.

n. See eskar.

n. Same as slough, 2.

n. a dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin

"On Aug. 25, a nursing home employee noted in a "skin condition report" that the toe was scabrous, swollen, contained pus and had developed black "eschar" -- dead tissue that's a sign of gangrene."

scab   

eskar    esker   

kame    uteri    petrifaction    magnetostriction    impellitur