Scab

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A crust discharged from and covering a healing wound.
  • n. Scabies or mange in domestic animals or livestock, especially sheep.
  • n. Any of various plant diseases caused by fungi or bacteria and resulting in crustlike spots on fruit, leaves, or roots.
  • n. The spots caused by such a disease.
  • n. Slang A person regarded as contemptible.
  • n. A worker who refuses membership in a labor union.
  • n. An employee who works while others are on strike; a strikebreaker.
  • n. A person hired to replace a striking worker.
  • verb-intransitive. To become covered with scabs or a scab.
  • verb-intransitive. To work or take a job as a scab.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
  • n. The scabies.
  • n. The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
  • n. Several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by Streptomyces -bacteria.
  • n. Short form for common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab caused by Streptomyces scabies.
  • n. Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases attacking cultivated plants, and forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
  • n. A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
  • n. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
  • n. A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker.
  • v. To become covered by a scab or scabs.
  • v. To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
  • v. To remove part of a surface (from).
  • v. To act as a strikebreaker.
  • v. To beg (for), to cadge or bum.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.
  • n. The itch in man; also, the scurvy.
  • n. The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep.
  • n. A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies).
  • n. A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
  • n. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
  • n. 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.
  • n. Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases attacking cultivated plants, and usually forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
  • verb-intransitive. To become covered with a scab.
  • verb-intransitive. to take the place of a striking worker.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An incrusted substance, dry and rough, formed over a sore in healing.
  • n. The mange, or some mangy disease caused by the presence of a parasite, as an itch-insect; scabies.
  • n. A mean, paltry, or shabby fellow: a term of contempt.
  • n. Specifically, in recent use, a workman who is not or refuses to become a member of a labor-union, who refuses to join in a strike, or who takes the place of a striker: an opprobrious term used by the workmen or others who dislike his action.
  • n. In botany, a fungous disease affecting various fruits, especially apples and pears, in which a black mold appears, often distorting or destroying the fruit.
  • n. In founding, any projection on a casting caused by a defect in the sand-mold.
  • Having to do with “scabs,” or made by them: used opprobriously: as, scab mills; scab labor; scab shoes.
  • To form a scab or scabby incrustation; become covered with a scab or scabs; specifically, to heal over; cicatrize; repair solution of continuity of a surface by the formation of a new skin or cicatrix.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. take the place of work of someone on strike
  • v. form a scab
  • n. someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
  • n. the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion
  • Verb Form
    scabbed    scabbing    scabs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    work    do work    heal    worker   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    scabbed    scabbing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    slough    crust    incrust    blackleg    knobstick   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ab    Bab    Crab    Crabbe    Fab    Lab    Mab    Rabb    ab    cab   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    welt    blister    pimple    wart    bruise    swelling    contusion    mildew    ulcer    rot