Definitions for: Scab

[n] the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion
[n] someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
[v] form a scab; of wounds
[v] take the place of work of someone on strike

Webster (1913) Definition: Scab, n. (Bot.)
Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases
attacking cultivated plants, and usually forming dark-colored
crustlike spots.

Scab (sk[a^]b), n. [OE. scab, scabbe, shabbe; cf. AS.
sc[ae]b, sceabb, scebb, Dan. & Sw. skab, and also L. scabies,
fr. scabere to scratch, akin to E. shave. See Shave, and
cf. Shab, Shabby.]
1. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule,
formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased
part.

2. The itch in man; also, the scurvy. [Colloq. or Obs.]

3. The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep. --Chaucer.

4. A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface,
caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies).

5. (Founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces
the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a
part of the mold.

6. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow. [Low] --Shak.

7. 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. [Cant]

Scab, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scabbed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Scabbing.]
To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.

Synonyms: blackleg, blackleg, cicatrise, cicatrize, rat, rat, scab over, strikebreaker

See Also: cutis, do work, eschar, heal, skin, solid body substance, tegument, work, worker

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