Definitions for: Scar


[n] an indication of damage
[n] a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue
[v] mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face permanently"



Webster (1913) Definition: Scar, n. [OF. escare, F. eschare an eschar, a dry slough
(cf. It. & Sp. escara), L. eschara, fr. Gr. ? hearth,
fireplace, scab, eschar. Cf. Eschar.]
1. A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound
or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is
healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a previous injury; a
blemish; a disfigurement.

This earth had the beauty of youth, . . . and not a
wrinkle, scar, or fracture on all its body. --T.
Burnet.

2. (Bot.) A mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a
leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation
of its support. See Illust.. under Axillary.


Scar, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scarred; p. pr. & vb. n.
Scarring.]
To mark with a scar or scars.

Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin
of hers than snow. --Shak.

His cheeks were deeply scarred. --Macaulay.


Scar, v. i.
To form a scar.


Scar, n. [Scot. scar, scaur, Icel. sker a skerry, an
isolated rock in the sea; akin to Dan. ski[ae]r, Sw. sk["a]r.
Cf. Skerry.]
An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a
bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.
[Written also scaur.]

O sweet and far, from cliff and scar, The horns of
Elfland faintly blowing. --Tennyson.


Scar, n. [L. scarus, a kind of fish, Gr. ska`ros.]
(Zo["o]l.)
A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.

Synonyms: cicatrice, cicatrix, mark, mark, pit, pock, scrape, scratch

See Also: blemish, blemish, callus, cheloid, cicatrise, cicatrize, deface, defect, disfigure, incise, keloid, pockmark, sword-cut, symptom, vaccination

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