Found 3 items, similar to Scab.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: scab
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: scab
scab
n 1: someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
[syn:
strikebreaker,
blackleg,
rat]
2: the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion
scab
v 1: form a scab;
“the wounds will eventually scab”
2: take the place of work of someone on strike [syn:
rat,
blackleg]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Scab
Scab
\Scab\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Scabbed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Scabbing.]
1. To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.
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2. to take the place of a striking worker.
[PJC]
Scab
\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.
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2. The itch in man; also, the scurvy. [Colloq. or Obs.]
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3. The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep. --Chaucer.
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4. A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface,
caused by a minute fungus (
Tiburcinia Scabies).
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5. (Founding) 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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6. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow. [Low] --Shak.
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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]
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8. (Bot.) Any one of various more or less destructive fungus
diseases attacking cultivated plants, and usually forming
dark-colored crustlike spots.
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