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Scab
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases attacking cultivated plants, and usually forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
(2):
(n.) A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies).
(3):
(v. i.) To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.
(4):
(n.) A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
(5):
(n.) The itch in man; also, the scurvy.
(6):
(n.) The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep.
(7):
(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.
(8):
(n.) An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.
(9):
(n.) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Scab'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/scab.html. 1828.
