Details of word SCAB

Definition of scab

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.
v. i. - To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.
n. - Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases attacking cultivated plants, and usually forming dark-colored crustlike spots.

Word "scab" contains 4 letters : A B C S

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