the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A precipitous bank or rock; a scar.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
A Scotch form of scare.
n. Same as scar.
Word Usage
"Three sons he had, three bright and stirring boys; they must to school, and school was far away; — and they must clamber where the hill – track failed, by narrow ledges through the headlong scaur."