scarn.¹

Brit.

/skɑː/, U.S.

/skɑr/

Forms: Middle English skerre (Middle English sckerre), skarre, Middle English–1500s skar, Middle English, 1600s scarre, Middle English skyrre, 1600s scarr, 1600s– scar, (1700s–1800s dialect skeer, 1800s Scottish skair). Also scaur n.

Origin: Apparently a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse sker.

Etymology: Apparently < Old Norse sker neuter (Danish skjær , Swedish skär ) recorded only in the sense of a low reef in the sea, a skerry n.¹ (compare sense 3). Compare Gaelic sgeir a rock in the sea (from Old Norse), < Germanic *sker- to cut: see shear v.

†1. A rock, crag. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > crag > [noun]

stonec825

knara1250

scar13..

craga1375

nipc1400

knag1552

knee1590

jag1831

man1897

13.. St. Cristofer 135 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 456 He loked abowte; þane was he warre Of an ermytage vndir a skerre.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 99 Þe mount of Oreb is a partie of þe mounte of Synay,..but hit is harde to come þerto for hiȝe rokkes and skarres [L. propter scopulos præruptos].

1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 1 Sam. xiv. 4 Scarris brokun bifore [L. scopuli prærupti].

a1400–50 Alexander 4865 Rochis & rogh stanes rokkis vnfaire, Scutis to þe scharpe schew sckerres a hundreth.

c1450 Mirks Festial 206 For þer was non erþe to make a graue, he layde hit vndyr a honging skyrre.

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 415 Ane fair castell standand on the se skar, Is callit now the castell of Dumbar Efter his name.

2. A lofty, steep face of rock upon a mountainside; a precipice, cliff.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > cliff > [noun]

cliffOE

cleoa1300

cleevec1300

rochec1300

clougha1400

heugha1400

brackc1530

clift1567

perpendicular1604

precipice1607

precipe1615

precipit1623

abrupt1624

scar1673

bluff1687

rock wall1755

krantz1785

linn1799

scarp1802

scaur1805

escarpment1815

rock face1820

escarp1856

hag1868

glint1906

scarping1909

stone-cliff1912

ledra1942

1673 in J. Raine Depos. Castle of York (1861) 196 She and Jane Makepeace of New Ridly had trailed a horse of the said Geo. downe a great scarr.

1721 A. Ramsay Ode to Ph—— i O'er ilka cleugh, ilk scar, and slap.

1776 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. ii. 347 Wensley-dale, a beautiful and fertile vale..in many parts cloathed with woods, surmounted by long ranges of scars, white rocks, smooth and precipitous in front, and perfectly even at their tops.

1845 J. Phillips & C. G. B. Daubeny Geol. in Encycl. Metrop. VI. 703/2 The magnificent ranges of scars which begird the hills of Derbyshire and Westmoreland.

1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) 70 O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!

1888 W. E. Henley Bk. Verses 157 And in the silver dusk you hear, Reverberated from crag and scar, Bold bugles blowing points of war.

3. A low or sunken rock in the sea; a rocky tract at the bottom of the sea.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > land mass > reef > scar > [noun]

scara1712

the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > region of sea or ocean > [noun] > rocky undersea tract

foul bottom1598

foul ground1598

rim1795

scar1823

sunker1896

a1712 T. Halyburton Mem. (1824) ii. 74 We were in imminent danger of shipwreck on the scars of England.

1791 ‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsemanship ix. 42 My horse..ran straight on for the cliffs above the Scar.

1823 W. Scoresby Jrnl. Voy. Northern Whale-fishery 6 A bank or ‘scar’ stretches from Kirkholm Point on the west side.

1882 J. B. Baker Hist. Scarborough 329 The bottom [of the sea] from hence all the way to the edge of the Dogger Bank is a scarr.

a. The rough burnt-out cinder left in a furnace; = clinker n.¹ 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials produced from metalworking > [noun] > slag or scoria > mass of

slag heap1757

clinker1772

scar1852

1852 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (new ed.) 62 Scars, clinkers.

1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Scar, a piece of furnace slag, scoria, or clinker.

b. A lump or cake of imperfectly fused ferrous sulphide formed in the burning of iron pyrites for the manufacture of sulphuric acid.

ΚΠ

1879 G. Lunge Manuf. Sulphuric Acid I. 155 It does not happen so often that fused masses, ‘scars’, are formed in the burner.

1905 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict.

Compounds

scar-limestone n. a carboniferous rock occurring in the Pennine Range.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > limestone > others

lias1404

stone marrow1681

stone marl1682

saint's head stone1763

Kentish rag1769

watericle1776

kankar1793

Cotham1816

mountain limestone1817

tosca1818

cornstone1819

burr1829

coral-limestone1831

scar-limestone1831

Wenlock limestone1834

bavin1839

curf1839

Solenhofen slate1841

Beer stone1871

miliolite limestone1872

Clipsham1877

reef limestone1884

Hopton wood1888

thermo-calcite1888

Kilkenny marble1930

micrite1959

1831 A. Sedgwick in Trans. Geol. Soc. (1836) 2nd Ser. 4 70 Great scar limestone.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

scarn.²

Brit.

/skɑː/, U.S.

/skɑr/

Forms: Middle English–1600s scarre, 1500s scare, 1500s–1600s skar(re, 1600s scarr, Middle English, 1500s– scar.

Etymology: Probably aphetic < Old French escare (French escarre , now written eschare ), = Spanish escara , Portuguese escara , Italian escara , < late Latin eschara , an eschar n. or scab formed in the healing of a burn or wound, < Greek ἐσχάρα lit. ‘hearth’. The English sense has probably been influenced by association with scar n.³

a. The trace of a healed wound, sore, or burn; = cicatrix n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > scar

wama1000

wem1297

arra1300

nirtc1400

scara1425

cicatricec1450

fester?c1475

list1490

stool1601

cicatrix1641

cautery1651

seam1681

cicatricula1783

welt1800

sabre-cutc1820

stigmate1870

scarring1898

whelp1912

Mars bar1971

the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > [noun] > a disfigurement or blemish > trace of

scara1425

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Lev. xxii. 22 If it is blynd, if it is brokun, if it hath a scar [L. cicatricem]. [Gloss in 5 MSS. c1420–30: that is a notable fouleness dwellinge after the helinge of a wounde].

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 265/2 Scarre of a wounde, covsture.., trasse.., cicatrice.

1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Salisbury xii Of cured woundes beset with many a skarre.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Seneca in Panoplie Epist. 307 That wound neuer groweth to a skarre, which is not plyed with playsters.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. v. 98 A scarre nobly got, Or a noble scarre, is a good liu'rie of honor.

1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 63 The Warrior his deere skarres no more resounds, But seems to yeeld Christ hath the greater wounds.

1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. x. 87 At the Throat usually happen gross scarrs.

1672 R. Wiseman Treat. Wounds i. viii. 73 He presently stript himself of his shirt, and shewed the Doctor, who both see and felt their scars [1676 the Cicatrices] and replied they are well.

a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 69 A great scar upon his Arm, which he told us was the mark of a wound.

?a1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 196 I am a Son of Mars who have been in many wars, And show my cuts and scars wherever I come.

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iii. 101 His naked arms and legs, seamed o'er, The scars of frantic penance bore.

1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost viii. 216 If you had ever been wounded, there would be a scar left behind.

in extended use.1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 19 As, from the Wing no scar the Sky retains.1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn ii. 24 We..pulled down the river..to the big scar on the hillside, and went ashore.1929 W. Faulkner Sartoris iv. 305 He sat his horse in the faint scar of the road.1946 R.A.F. Jrnl. May 172 Their repair work had been so rapid that we could find few scars in the main part of the city.

b. figurative. A fault or blemish remaining as a trace of some former condition or resulting from some particular cause.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > [noun] > a disfigurement or blemish > trace of > in immaterial things

scar1583

flaw1586

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [noun] > an imperfection > defect or fault or flaw > other

fault1377

error1398

scar1583

flawc1616

1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. ix. 455 Let no proofe be brought for it, and neuer so much against it, yet stickes the scarre of suspition still.

1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 169 There is now no longer meanes to cover this skarre which dishonoureth the face of State.

1710 H. Sacheverell Speech upon Impeachment 57 The Prosecution wou'd leave a Scar upon his good Name.

1820 P. B. Shelley Fragm.: Satire upon Satire 19 The leprous scars of callous Infamy.

1860 R. W. Emerson Worship in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 185 Another scar of this scepticism is the distrust in human virtue.

†c. In phrases to bring, to draw, to cure to a scar, to treat a wound until it cicatrizes; to induce healing. Also figurative. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > treatments uniting or replacing parts > unite or replace parts [verb (transitive)] > unite fractures, wounds, etc. > heal a wound > cause wound to heal over > by forming cicatrice

festera1500

to bring, to draw, to cure to a scar1532

cicatrize1563

scar1609

1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 440/1 Penaunce..plastereth and patcheth vp, and maketh muche woorke to cure the wound and bring it to a scarre.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxxix. 57 The leaues..doth cure and heale olde woundes, that are harde to close or drawe to a Scarre.

1629 J. Gaule Distractions 285 Bold Heart and Braue! that hath already curbed his Passions and cured them to a skarre.

2. Natural History. A mark or trace indicating the point of attachment of some structure that has been removed; Botany and Conchology = cicatrix n. 2, 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > physical arrangement or condition > [noun] > union, junction, or attachment > point of attachment

scar1793

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > mollusc or shell-fish > parts of mollusc

ungulaa1382

mantlea1475

trunk1661

diaphragm1665

lid1681

operculum1681

ear1688

beard1697

corslet1753

scar1793

opercle1808

pleura1826

pallium1834

byssus1835

cephalic ganglia1835–6

opercule1836

lingual ribbon1839

tube1839

cloak1842

test1842

collar1847

testa1847

rachis1851

uncinus1851

land-shell1853

mantle cavity1853

mesopodium1853

propodium1853

radula1853

malacology1854

gill comb1861

pallial cavity1862

tongue-tootha1877

mesopode1877

odontophore1877

pallial chamber1877

shell-gland1877

rasp1879

protopodium1880

ctenidium1883

osphradium1883

shell-sac1883

tooth-ribbon1883

megalaesthete1885

rachidian1900

scungille1953

tentacle-sheath-

1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. K Hilum, the external mark or scar of the umbilical chord on some seeds, where they adhere to the pericarp.

1836 W. Buckland Geol. & Mineral. I. xviii. 475 (note) Scars of leaves small.

1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iii. 97 The outside of the stem of a Fern is marked with a number of scars.

1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (1875) xlvi. 338 The ‘foot’..is essentially a muscular organ,..its retractor muscles usually leaving distinct impressions or scars (the ‘pedal impressions’) in the interior of the shell.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

scar-bearer n.

ΚΠ

a1701 C. Sedley Tyrant of Crete i. ii Sure, he was scar-bearer to some army.

scar-clad adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar

scotched?c1425

scarredc1440

scarry1653

scar-clad1792

scar-seamed1813

sabre-cutc1820

needle-scarred1854

cicatricular1875

1792 J. Wolcot Lyric Epist. to Ld. Macartney 59 And lo! The scar-clad Veteran adores!

scar-seamed adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar

scotched?c1425

scarredc1440

scarry1653

scar-clad1792

scar-seamed1813

sabre-cutc1820

needle-scarred1854

cicatricular1875

1813 W. Scott Rokeby iv. 157 There rose the scar-seamed Veteran's spear.

C2.

scar-edge n. = hilum n.

ΚΠ

1887 Amer. Naturalist 21 576 Four out of the twenty with the scar-edge up, after exhausting the nourishment stored in the cotyledons, perished in their attempts to make a successful growth.

scar tissue n. the fibrous connective tissue of which scars are formed; also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily substance > connective tissue > [noun] > type of

white tissue1826

interstitial tissue1835

stroma1835

mucous tissue1860

neuroglia1860

scar tissue1875

glia1886

astroglia1925

the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > scar > tissue

scar tissue1875

1875 T. Holmes Treat. Surg. xxi. 386 When the scar-tissue remains permanent, although the scar is ugly and of lower organisation than the natural parts, yet it causes no important inconvenience.

1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 366/2 The cells having (as a characteristic of scar-tissue after repeated healing) brown pigment-grains in their substance.

1910 Practitioner June 786 The application to the endometrium of agents so powerful as to replace the mucosa by a layer of scar-tissue.

1932 F. Beekman Office Surg. xii. 291 Keloids appear most frequently in individuals of races who have a predisposition for the formation of excessive scar tissue.

1957 A. Huxley Let. 12 Jan. (1969) 815 I have just embarked on a new treatment aimed at getting rid of some of the scar tissue on my corneas.

1975 New Yorker 1 Dec. 55/2 ‘It leaves scar tissue,’ one former campaign manager said. ‘There's no way it can't have a deep impact on the candidate's psyche and physical condition.’

1978 J. Irving World according to Garp iii. 53 The brave face was naked, the eyes clear and challenging, the scar tissue every~where.

scar-wort n. ? some species of Lepidium.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > cress

cressa700

pepperworta1500

dittany1548

sciatica cress1562

way-cresses1562

churl's cress1578

churl's mustard1578

dittander1578

cockweed1585

colt1585

green mustard1597

peasant's mustard1597

sciatica grass1597

scar-wort1657

yellow-seed1818

money tree1934

1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden cccxvi. 588 Of Pepperwort or Dittander... There is a kinde hereof called ‘Scarrewort, after the Greek name, either because it maketh a marke in the hand of him that shall hold it, or because it taketh away all manner of Scarres.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

scarn.³

Brit.

/skɑː/, U.S.

/skɑr/

Etymology: Perhaps an altered form of scarth n.¹ ( < Old Norse skarð ), the loss of the th (ð) may have taken place in the plural: compare clo'es /kləʊz/ for clothes . Compare also Old Norse skor score n.

†1. A crack, chink; a cut, incision. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > a crack or breach

chinec888

bruche?a1300

crevice1382

scar1390

scorec1400

rimea1425

riftc1425

riving1440

creekc1480

brack1524

rive1527

bruise1530

crack1530

chink1545

chap1553

riff1577

chop1578

chinker1581

coane1584

fraction1587

cranice1603

slifter1607

fracture1641

shake1651

snap1891

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [noun] > a cut or incision

garse?c1225

chinea1387

slit1398

incisionc1400

slivingc1400

raising?a1425

scotchc1450

racec1500

tranchec1500

kerf?1523

hack1555

slash1580

hew1596

raze1596

incutting1598

slisha1616

scar1653

lancementa1655

slap1688

slip1688

nick1692

streak1725

sneck1768

snick1775

rut1785

sliver1806

overcut1874

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 20 And ek fulofte a litel Skar Upon a Banke, er men be war, Let in the Strem.

c1407 J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte 5427 The tother [bow], hydouse and ryght blak,..Ful of knottys and of skarrys, The tymber is so ful of warrys.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 442/2 Scarre, or brekynge, or ryvynge.

c1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine v. 712 (Arund.) Thei myght see light as it gan creepe Thurgh-oute the scarres.

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler vii. 150 You must take your knife..cut or make an insition, or such a scar as you may put the arming wyer of your hook into it..and..draw out that wyer or arming of your hook at another scar neer to his tail.

2. A fragment, ‘shard’. Obsolete exc. dialect (see Eng. Dial. Dict. at Scard).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment

shreddingc950

brucheOE

shredc1000

brokec1160

truncheonc1330

scartha1340

screedc1350

bruisinga1382

morsel1381

shedc1400

stumpc1400

rag?a1425

brokalyc1440

brokeling1490

mammocka1529

brokelette1538

sheavec1558

shard1561

fragment1583

segment1586

brack1587

parcel1596

flaw1607

fraction1609

fracture1641

pash1651

frustillation1653

hoof1655

arrachement1656

jaga1658

shattering1658

discerption1685

scar1698

twitter1715

frust1765

smithereens1841

chitling1843

1698 R. Thoresby in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 311 I got also some Scars of broken Urns,..which are of the finest blew Clay I have seen.

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scarn.⁴

Brit.

/skɑː/, U.S.

/skɑr/

Forms: See also scare n.³, scaro n.

Etymology: < Latin scarus.

= Scarus n. Also scar-fish.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Scaridae (parrot-fish)

Scarus1601

parrotfish1656

sea-parrot1666

scare1706

scaroa1717

scar1748

parrot wrasse1884

parrot-perch1898

1748 tr. Horace Satires (ed. 3) ii. ii. 117 Those who gorge and cloy themselves by over-eating, can relish neither Oysters, Scar, no, nor the Lagois itself.

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Scar,..3. A fish of the Labrus kind.

1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 380 Zanzibar has a large import trade of dry and salt fish, principally shark and scar-fish.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

scaradj.

Brit.

/skɑː/, U.S.

/skɑr/, Scottish English

/skar/

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s skar, 1500s sker, 1700s–1800s scaur.

Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse skiarr.

Etymology: < Old Norse skiarr (Norwegian skjerr ), whence skirra to scare v.

Scottish and northern (see Eng. Dial. Dict.)

a. Shy, afraid; scrupulous.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > timidity > [adjective] > shy

untrumc1315

scar1559

shy1600

willyarta1796

unadvancing1819

fawn-like1838

1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 126 in Wks. (1931) I That daye Neptunus hid hym, lyke one sker.

1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) i. 211 Quhilkis ar no^t skar to bar on far fra bawrdis.

1573 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlii. 61 The vther sayis: ‘thocht ȝe wes skar, Me think that now ȝe cum ouir nar’.

1786 R. Burns Poems 56 An' faith! thou's neither lag nor lame, Nor blate nor scaur.

b. Of a horse: Shy, easily scared, restive. Of sheep: Wild. [So Old Norse skiarr.]

ΚΠ

?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 50 The cappill..is nought skeich na ȝit sker na scippis nought on syd.

1679 J. Lauder Decisions (1759) l. 59 The horse being scar, he twice threw him off, and so he broke his neck.

1714 in Shirreff Agric. Shetld. (1814) App. 61 That such as had scar sheep might be appointed to tame them.

†2. ? Easily provoked. [Compare Norwegian skjerresinnad (Aasen) in the same sense.] Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxi. 263 Ye ar bot to skar. Good syr, abate.

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scarv.

Brit.

/skɑː/, U.S.

/skɑr/

Etymology: < scar n.²

a. transitive. To mark with a scar; to disfigure by inflicting a wound.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [verb (transitive)] > scar

scar1555

enseama1625

scarify1687

cicatrize1708

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. vi. f. 122 A certayne well learned phisytion of Ciuile..was..scarred with lyghtnynge in the nyghte season.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. ii. 4 Yet I'le not shed her blood, Nor scarre that whiter skin of hers, then snow.

1737 S. Berington Mem. G. di Lucca 35 One of the Balls went thro' my Hair, and the other scarr'd the side of my Neck.

a1797 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1812) V. 510 In the same design of barbarous ornament, their faces were generally painted and scarred.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. iii. 42 She was scarred with the small-pox.

1852 ‘I. Marvel’ Dream Life 219 The old maples are even now scarred with the rude cuts you gave them.

1884 Punch 13 Sept. 122/1 I'm..scarred with brambles from head to foot.

b. transferred.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > disfigure [verb (transitive)] > impair the beauty of

blemisha1500

stain1584

flaw1623

scar1697

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 52 But if the Soil be barren, only scar The Surface, and but lightly print the Share.

1850 E. B. Browning Crowned & Buried xviii I would that hostile fleets had scarred Torbay.

1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) x. 241 It is scarred and gashed by some of the..gullies of the Dolomite mountains.

1908 Outlook 10 Oct. 460/2 Durham has been scarred and blackened by modern industrialism.

c. figurative.

ΚΠ

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 81 Chastitie being once scarred is neuer salued.

a. transitive with up. To heal, cover with a scar.

ΘΚΠ

festera1500

to bring, to draw, to cure to a scar1532

cicatrize1563

scar1609

1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 266 This Antilogie the Antapologer..would salue by a figure in Grammar called Acyrologie, and would scarre vp the wound by an improprietie of speech.

b. intransitive with over. To heal; to become covered with a scar as a sign of healing.

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the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > process of healing of an injury, etc. > of injury, etc.: heal [verb (intransitive)] > of wound: heal > heal over

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1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. cix. 577 Wounds which were just beginning to scar over were reopened by the war of 1812.

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释义	scarn.¹ Brit. /skɑː/, U.S. /skɑr/ Forms: Middle English skerre (Middle English sckerre), skarre, Middle English–1500s skar, Middle English, 1600s scarre, Middle English skyrre, 1600s scarr, 1600s– scar, (1700s–1800s dialect skeer, 1800s Scottish skair). Also scaur n. Origin: Apparently a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse sker. Etymology: Apparently < Old Norse sker neuter (Danish skjær , Swedish skär ) recorded only in the sense of a low reef in the sea, a skerry n.¹ (compare sense 3). Compare Gaelic sgeir a rock in the sea (from Old Norse), < Germanic sker- to cut: see shear v. †1. A rock, crag. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > crag > [noun] stonec825 knara1250 scar13.. craga1375 nipc1400 knag1552 knee1590 jag1831 man1897 13.. St. Cristofer* 135 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 456 He loked abowte; þane was he warre Of an ermytage vndir a skerre. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 99 Þe mount of Oreb is a partie of þe mounte of Synay,..but hit is harde to come þerto for hiȝe rokkes and skarres [L. propter scopulos præruptos]. 1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 1 Sam. xiv. 4 Scarris brokun bifore [L. scopuli prærupti]. a1400–50 Alexander 4865 Rochis & rogh stanes rokkis vnfaire, Scutis to þe scharpe schew sckerres a hundreth. c1450 Mirks Festial 206 For þer was non erþe to make a graue, he layde hit vndyr a honging skyrre. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 415 Ane fair castell standand on the se skar, Is callit now the castell of Dumbar Efter his name. 2. A lofty, steep face of rock upon a mountainside; a precipice, cliff. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > cliff > [noun] cliffOE cleoa1300 cleevec1300 rochec1300 clougha1400 heugha1400 brackc1530 clift1567 perpendicular1604 precipice1607 precipe1615 precipit1623 abrupt1624 scar1673 bluff1687 rock wall1755 krantz1785 linn1799 scarp1802 scaur1805 escarpment1815 rock face1820 escarp1856 hag1868 glint1906 scarping1909 stone-cliff1912 ledra1942 1673 in J. Raine Depos. Castle of York (1861) 196 She and Jane Makepeace of New Ridly had trailed a horse of the said Geo. downe a great scarr. 1721 A. Ramsay Ode to Ph—— i O'er ilka cleugh, ilk scar, and slap. 1776 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. ii. 347 Wensley-dale, a beautiful and fertile vale..in many parts cloathed with woods, surmounted by long ranges of scars, white rocks, smooth and precipitous in front, and perfectly even at their tops. 1845 J. Phillips & C. G. B. Daubeny Geol. in Encycl. Metrop. VI. 703/2 The magnificent ranges of scars which begird the hills of Derbyshire and Westmoreland. 1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) 70 O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! 1888 W. E. Henley Bk. Verses 157 And in the silver dusk you hear, Reverberated from crag and scar, Bold bugles blowing points of war. 3. A low or sunken rock in the sea; a rocky tract at the bottom of the sea. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > reef > scar > [noun] scara1712 the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > region of sea or ocean > [noun] > rocky undersea tract foul bottom1598 foul ground1598 rim1795 scar1823 sunker1896 a1712 T. Halyburton Mem. (1824) ii. 74 We were in imminent danger of shipwreck on the scars of England. 1791 ‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsemanship ix. 42 My horse..ran straight on for the cliffs above the Scar. 1823 W. Scoresby Jrnl. Voy. Northern Whale-fishery 6 A bank or ‘scar’ stretches from Kirkholm Point on the west side. 1882 J. B. Baker Hist. Scarborough 329 The bottom [of the sea] from hence all the way to the edge of the Dogger Bank is a scarr. 4. a. The rough burnt-out cinder left in a furnace; = clinker n.¹ 3. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials produced from metalworking > [noun] > slag or scoria > mass of slag heap1757 clinker1772 scar1852 1852 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (new ed.) 62 Scars, clinkers. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Scar, a piece of furnace slag, scoria, or clinker. b. A lump or cake of imperfectly fused ferrous sulphide formed in the burning of iron pyrites for the manufacture of sulphuric acid. ΚΠ 1879 G. Lunge Manuf. Sulphuric Acid I. 155 It does not happen so often that fused masses, ‘scars’, are formed in the burner. 1905 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. Compounds scar-limestone n. a carboniferous rock occurring in the Pennine Range. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > limestone > others lias1404 stone marrow1681 stone marl1682 saint's head stone1763 Kentish rag1769 watericle1776 kankar1793 Cotham1816 mountain limestone1817 tosca1818 cornstone1819 burr1829 coral-limestone1831 scar-limestone1831 Wenlock limestone1834 bavin1839 curf1839 Solenhofen slate1841 Beer stone1871 miliolite limestone1872 Clipsham1877 reef limestone1884 Hopton wood1888 thermo-calcite1888 Kilkenny marble1930 micrite1959 1831 A. Sedgwick in Trans. Geol. Soc. (1836) 2nd Ser. 4 70 Great scar limestone. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scarn.² Brit. /skɑː/, U.S. /skɑr/ Forms: Middle English–1600s scarre, 1500s scare, 1500s–1600s skar(re, 1600s scarr, Middle English, 1500s– scar. Etymology: Probably aphetic < Old French escare (French escarre , now written eschare ), = Spanish escara , Portuguese escara , Italian escara , < late Latin eschara , an eschar n. or scab formed in the healing of a burn or wound, < Greek ἐσχάρα lit. ‘hearth’. The English sense has probably been influenced by association with scar n.³ 1. a. The trace of a healed wound, sore, or burn; = cicatrix n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > scar wama1000 wem1297 arra1300 nirtc1400 scara1425 cicatricec1450 fester?c1475 list1490 stool1601 cicatrix1641 cautery1651 seam1681 cicatricula1783 welt1800 sabre-cutc1820 stigmate1870 scarring1898 whelp1912 Mars bar1971 the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > [noun] > a disfigurement or blemish > trace of scara1425 a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Lev. xxii. 22 If it is blynd, if it is brokun, if it hath a scar [L. cicatricem]. [Gloss in 5 MSS. c1420–30: that is a notable fouleness dwellinge after the helinge of a wounde]. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 265/2 Scarre of a wounde, covsture.., trasse.., cicatrice. 1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Salisbury xii Of cured woundes beset with many a skarre. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Seneca in Panoplie Epist. 307 That wound neuer groweth to a skarre, which is not plyed with playsters. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. v. 98 A scarre nobly got, Or a noble scarre, is a good liu'rie of honor. View more context for this quotation 1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 63 The Warrior his deere skarres no more resounds, But seems to yeeld Christ hath the greater wounds. 1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. x. 87 At the Throat usually happen gross scarrs. 1672 R. Wiseman Treat. Wounds i. viii. 73 He presently stript himself of his shirt, and shewed the Doctor, who both see and felt their scars [1676 the Cicatrices] and replied they are well. a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 69 A great scar upon his Arm, which he told us was the mark of a wound. ?a1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 196 I am a Son of Mars who have been in many wars, And show my cuts and scars wherever I come. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iii. 101 His naked arms and legs, seamed o'er, The scars of frantic penance bore. 1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost viii. 216 If you had ever been wounded, there would be a scar left behind. in extended use.1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 19 As, from the Wing no scar the Sky retains.1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn ii. 24 We..pulled down the river..to the big scar on the hillside, and went ashore.1929 W. Faulkner Sartoris iv. 305 He sat his horse in the faint scar of the road.1946 R.A.F. Jrnl. May 172 Their repair work had been so rapid that we could find few scars in the main part of the city. b. figurative. A fault or blemish remaining as a trace of some former condition or resulting from some particular cause. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > [noun] > a disfigurement or blemish > trace of > in immaterial things scar1583 flaw1586 the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [noun] > an imperfection > defect or fault or flaw > other fault1377 error1398 scar1583 flawc1616 1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. ix. 455 Let no proofe be brought for it, and neuer so much against it, yet stickes the scarre of suspition still. 1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 169 There is now no longer meanes to cover this skarre which dishonoureth the face of State. 1710 H. Sacheverell Speech upon Impeachment 57 The Prosecution wou'd leave a Scar upon his good Name. 1820 P. B. Shelley Fragm.: Satire upon Satire 19 The leprous scars of callous Infamy. 1860 R. W. Emerson Worship in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 185 Another scar of this scepticism is the distrust in human virtue. †c. In phrases to bring, to draw, to cure to a scar, to treat a wound until it cicatrizes; to induce healing. Also figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > treatments uniting or replacing parts > unite or replace parts [verb (transitive)] > unite fractures, wounds, etc. > heal a wound > cause wound to heal over > by forming cicatrice festera1500 to bring, to draw, to cure to a scar1532 cicatrize1563 scar1609 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 440/1 Penaunce..plastereth and patcheth vp, and maketh muche woorke to cure the wound and bring it to a scarre. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxxix. 57 The leaues..doth cure and heale olde woundes, that are harde to close or drawe to a Scarre. 1629 J. Gaule Distractions 285 Bold Heart and Braue! that hath already curbed his Passions and cured them to a skarre. 2. Natural History. A mark or trace indicating the point of attachment of some structure that has been removed; Botany and Conchology = cicatrix n. 2, 3. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > physical arrangement or condition > [noun] > union, junction, or attachment > point of attachment scar1793 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > mollusc or shell-fish > parts of mollusc ungulaa1382 mantlea1475 trunk1661 diaphragm1665 lid1681 operculum1681 ear1688 beard1697 corslet1753 scar1793 opercle1808 pleura1826 pallium1834 byssus1835 cephalic ganglia1835–6 opercule1836 lingual ribbon1839 tube1839 cloak1842 test1842 collar1847 testa1847 rachis1851 uncinus1851 land-shell1853 mantle cavity1853 mesopodium1853 propodium1853 radula1853 malacology1854 gill comb1861 pallial cavity1862 tongue-tootha1877 mesopode1877 odontophore1877 pallial chamber1877 shell-gland1877 rasp1879 protopodium1880 ctenidium1883 osphradium1883 shell-sac1883 tooth-ribbon1883 megalaesthete1885 rachidian1900 scungille1953 tentacle-sheath- 1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. K Hilum, the external mark or scar of the umbilical chord on some seeds, where they adhere to the pericarp. 1836 W. Buckland Geol. & Mineral. I. xviii. 475 (note) Scars of leaves small. 1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iii. 97 The outside of the stem of a Fern is marked with a number of scars. 1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (1875) xlvi. 338 The ‘foot’..is essentially a muscular organ,..its retractor muscles usually leaving distinct impressions or scars (the ‘pedal impressions’) in the interior of the shell. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. scar-bearer n. ΚΠ a1701 C. Sedley Tyrant of Crete i. ii Sure, he was scar-bearer to some army. b. scar-clad adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar scotched?c1425 scarredc1440 scarry1653 scar-clad1792 scar-seamed1813 sabre-cutc1820 needle-scarred1854 cicatricular1875 1792 J. Wolcot Lyric Epist. to Ld. Macartney 59 And lo! The scar-clad Veteran adores! scar-seamed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar scotched?c1425 scarredc1440 scarry1653 scar-clad1792 scar-seamed1813 sabre-cutc1820 needle-scarred1854 cicatricular1875 1813 W. Scott Rokeby iv. 157 There rose the scar-seamed Veteran's spear. C2. scar-edge n. = hilum n. ΚΠ 1887 Amer. Naturalist 21 576 Four out of the twenty with the scar-edge up, after exhausting the nourishment stored in the cotyledons, perished in their attempts to make a successful growth. scar tissue n. the fibrous connective tissue of which scars are formed; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily substance > connective tissue > [noun] > type of white tissue1826 interstitial tissue1835 stroma1835 mucous tissue1860 neuroglia1860 scar tissue1875 glia1886 astroglia1925 the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > scar > tissue scar tissue1875 1875 T. Holmes Treat. Surg. xxi. 386 When the scar-tissue remains permanent, although the scar is ugly and of lower organisation than the natural parts, yet it causes no important inconvenience. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 366/2 The cells having (as a characteristic of scar-tissue after repeated healing) brown pigment-grains in their substance. 1910 Practitioner June 786 The application to the endometrium of agents so powerful as to replace the mucosa by a layer of scar-tissue. 1932 F. Beekman Office Surg. xii. 291 Keloids appear most frequently in individuals of races who have a predisposition for the formation of excessive scar tissue. 1957 A. Huxley Let. 12 Jan. (1969) 815 I have just embarked on a new treatment aimed at getting rid of some of the scar tissue on my corneas. 1975 New Yorker 1 Dec. 55/2 ‘It leaves scar tissue,’ one former campaign manager said. ‘There's no way it can't have a deep impact on the candidate's psyche and physical condition.’ 1978 J. Irving World according to Garp iii. 53 The brave face was naked, the eyes clear and challenging, the scar tissue every~where. scar-wort n. ? some species of Lepidium. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > cress cressa700 pepperworta1500 dittany1548 sciatica cress1562 way-cresses1562 churl's cress1578 churl's mustard1578 dittander1578 cockweed1585 colt1585 green mustard1597 peasant's mustard1597 sciatica grass1597 scar-wort1657 yellow-seed1818 money tree1934 1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden cccxvi. 588 Of Pepperwort or Dittander... There is a kinde hereof called ‘Scarrewort, after the Greek name, either because it maketh a marke in the hand of him that shall hold it, or because it taketh away all manner of Scarres. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scarn.³ Brit. /skɑː/, U.S. /skɑr/ Etymology: Perhaps an altered form of scarth n.¹ ( < Old Norse skarð ), the loss of the th (ð) may have taken place in the plural: compare clo'es /kləʊz/ for clothes . Compare also Old Norse skor score n. †1. A crack, chink; a cut, incision. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > a crack or breach chinec888 bruche?a1300 crevice1382 scar1390 scorec1400 rimea1425 riftc1425 riving1440 creekc1480 brack1524 rive1527 bruise1530 crack1530 chink1545 chap1553 riff1577 chop1578 chinker1581 coane1584 fraction1587 cranice1603 slifter1607 fracture1641 shake1651 snap1891 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [noun] > a cut or incision garse?c1225 chinea1387 slit1398 incisionc1400 slivingc1400 raising?a1425 scotchc1450 racec1500 tranchec1500 kerf?1523 hack1555 slash1580 hew1596 raze1596 incutting1598 slisha1616 scar1653 lancementa1655 slap1688 slip1688 nick1692 streak1725 sneck1768 snick1775 rut1785 sliver1806 overcut1874 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 20 And ek fulofte a litel Skar Upon a Banke, er men be war, Let in the Strem. c1407 J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte 5427 The tother [bow], hydouse and ryght blak,..Ful of knottys and of skarrys, The tymber is so ful of warrys. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 442/2 Scarre, or brekynge, or ryvynge. c1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine v. 712 (Arund.) Thei myght see light as it gan creepe Thurgh-oute the scarres. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler vii. 150 You must take your knife..cut or make an insition, or such a scar as you may put the arming wyer of your hook into it..and..draw out that wyer or arming of your hook at another scar neer to his tail. View more context for this quotation 2. A fragment, ‘shard’. Obsolete exc. dialect (see Eng. Dial. Dict. at Scard). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment shreddingc950 brucheOE shredc1000 brokec1160 truncheonc1330 scartha1340 screedc1350 bruisinga1382 morsel1381 shedc1400 stumpc1400 rag?a1425 brokalyc1440 brokeling1490 mammocka1529 brokelette1538 sheavec1558 shard1561 fragment1583 segment1586 brack1587 parcel1596 flaw1607 fraction1609 fracture1641 pash1651 frustillation1653 hoof1655 arrachement1656 jaga1658 shattering1658 discerption1685 scar1698 twitter1715 frust1765 smithereens1841 chitling1843 1698 R. Thoresby in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 311 I got also some Scars of broken Urns,..which are of the finest blew Clay I have seen. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scarn.⁴ Brit. /skɑː/, U.S. /skɑr/ Forms: See also scare n.³, scaro n. Etymology: < Latin scarus. = Scarus n. Also scar-fish. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Scaridae (parrot-fish) Scarus1601 parrotfish1656 sea-parrot1666 scare1706 scaroa1717 scar1748 parrot wrasse1884 parrot-perch1898 1748 tr. Horace Satires (ed. 3) ii. ii. 117 Those who gorge and cloy themselves by over-eating, can relish neither Oysters, Scar, no, nor the Lagois itself. 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Scar,..3. A fish of the Labrus kind. 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 380 Zanzibar has a large import trade of dry and salt fish, principally shark and scar-fish. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scaradj. Brit. /skɑː/, U.S. /skɑr/, Scottish English /skar/ Forms: Also Middle English–1500s skar, 1500s sker, 1700s–1800s scaur. Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse skiarr. Etymology: < Old Norse skiarr (Norwegian skjerr ), whence skirra to scare v. Scottish and northern (see Eng. Dial. Dict.) 1. a. Shy, afraid; scrupulous. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > timidity > [adjective] > shy untrumc1315 scar1559 shy1600 willyarta1796 unadvancing1819 fawn-like1838 1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 126 in Wks. (1931) I That daye Neptunus hid hym, lyke one sker. 1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) i. 211 Quhilkis ar no^t skar to bar on far fra bawrdis. 1573 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlii. 61 The vther sayis: ‘thocht ȝe wes skar, Me think that now ȝe cum ouir nar’. 1786 R. Burns Poems 56 An' faith! thou's neither lag nor lame, Nor blate nor scaur. b. Of a horse: Shy, easily scared, restive. Of sheep: Wild. [So Old Norse skiarr.] ΚΠ ?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 50 The cappill..is nought skeich na ȝit sker na scippis nought on syd. 1679 J. Lauder Decisions (1759) l. 59 The horse being scar, he twice threw him off, and so he broke his neck. 1714 in Shirreff Agric. Shetld. (1814) App. 61 That such as had scar sheep might be appointed to tame them. †2. ? Easily provoked. [Compare Norwegian skjerresinnad (Aasen) in the same sense.] Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxi. 263 Ye ar bot to skar. Good syr, abate. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scarv. Brit. /skɑː/, U.S. /skɑr/ Etymology: < scar n.² 1. a. transitive. To mark with a scar; to disfigure by inflicting a wound. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [verb (transitive)] > scar scar1555 enseama1625 scarify1687 cicatrize1708 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. vi. f. 122 A certayne well learned phisytion of Ciuile..was..scarred with lyghtnynge in the nyghte season. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. ii. 4 Yet I'le not shed her blood, Nor scarre that whiter skin of hers, then snow. View more context for this quotation 1737 S. Berington Mem. G. di Lucca 35 One of the Balls went thro' my Hair, and the other scarr'd the side of my Neck. a1797 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1812) V. 510 In the same design of barbarous ornament, their faces were generally painted and scarred. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. iii. 42 She was scarred with the small-pox. 1852 ‘I. Marvel’ Dream Life 219 The old maples are even now scarred with the rude cuts you gave them. 1884 Punch 13 Sept. 122/1 I'm..scarred with brambles from head to foot. b. transferred. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > disfigure [verb (transitive)] > impair the beauty of blemisha1500 stain1584 flaw1623 scar1697 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 52 But if the Soil be barren, only scar The Surface, and but lightly print the Share. View more context for this quotation 1850 E. B. Browning Crowned & Buried xviii I would that hostile fleets had scarred Torbay. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) x. 241 It is scarred and gashed by some of the..gullies of the Dolomite mountains. 1908 Outlook 10 Oct. 460/2 Durham has been scarred and blackened by modern industrialism. c. figurative. ΚΠ 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 81 Chastitie being once scarred is neuer salued. 2. a. transitive with up. To heal, cover with a scar. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > treatments uniting or replacing parts > unite or replace parts [verb (transitive)] > unite fractures, wounds, etc. > heal a wound > cause wound to heal over > by forming cicatrice festera1500 to bring, to draw, to cure to a scar1532 cicatrize1563 scar1609 1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 266 This Antilogie the Antapologer..would salue by a figure in Grammar called Acyrologie, and would scarre vp the wound by an improprietie of speech. b. intransitive with over. To heal; to become covered with a scar as a sign of healing. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > process of healing of an injury, etc. > of injury, etc.: heal [verb (intransitive)] > of wound: heal > heal over barka1400 skin1578 cicatrize1582 incarnate1674 scab1683 incarn1689 scar1888 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. cix. 577 Wounds which were just beginning to scar over were reopened by the war of 1812. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹13..n.²a1425n.³1390n.⁴1748adj.a1500v.1555
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