- 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: opted
- 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: opted
- 3. v. t. To mark with a scar or scars. Source: opted
- 4. v. i. To form a scar. Source: opted
- 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: opted
- 6. n. A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish. Source: opted
- 7. n. a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue Source: wordnet
- 8. n. an indication of damage Source: wordnet
- 9. v. mark with a scar Source: wordnet
- 10. 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. 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. To form a scar. 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. A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish. Source: webster
- 11. 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: adambom
- 12. v:26/n:74 n. a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue v. mark with a scar Source: ecdict
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