"scar" Definition

Definitions for the word "scar" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
To mark with a scar or scars.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. i.
To form a scar.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
1 usu. Permanent mark on the skin from a wound etc. 2 emotional damage from grief etc. 3 sign of damage. 4 mark left on a plant by the loss of a leaf etc. v. (-rr-) 1 (esp. As scarred adj.) Mark with a scar or scars (scarred for life). 2 form a scar. [french eschar(r)e]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
8. n.
(also scaur) steep craggy outcrop of a mountain or cliff. [old norse, = reef]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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