scab
结痂,结疤,疤痕,痂皮
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Definitions
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- : the incrustation that forms over a sore or wound during healing.
- : Veterinary Pathology. a mangy disease in animals, especially sheep; scabies.Compare itch.
- : Plant Pathology. a disease of plants characterized by crustlike lesions on the affected parts and caused by a fungus or bacterium.one of these crustlike lesions.
- : a worker who refuses to join a labor union or to participate in a union strike, who takes a striking worker's place on the job, or the like.
- : Slang. a rascal or scoundrel.
- : Metallurgy. a projection or roughness on an ingot or casting from a defective mold.a surface defect on an iron or steel piece resulting from the rolling in of scale.
- : Carpentry. a short, flat piece of wood used for various purposes, as binding two timbers butted together or strengthening a timber at a weak spot.
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scabbed, scab·bing.
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Examples
Before vaccines, physicians would blow smallpox scabs up people’s noses or stab them with pus-laced needles to build up their resistance to the virus.
Late last week, Baez was successful in scratching the ugly scab of Anthony family dysfunction.
The vesicles dry gradually, and between the fourteenth and twentieth days the scab falls off, leaving a pitted scar.
Across his back there was a furrow through his fur, and a long scab where a bullet had raked him.
I think the colonial surgeons call the disease the "bush scab;" and that it is occasioned by a filthy mode of life.
These continue for a short time, break, discharge their matter, and are followed by a blackish scab.
There is not the least bit of sense in belonging to a union if you are to become a "scab" when you go to the ballot-box.