Scar

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To form a scar.

II. Scar ·vt To mark with a scar or scars.

III. Scar ·noun A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.

IV. Scar ·noun An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.

V. Scar ·noun 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.

VI. Scar ·noun 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.

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