Scab

Noun

 * 1) An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
 * 2) (colloquial or obsolete) The scabies.
 * 3) The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
 * 1882: Scab was the terror of the sheep farmer, and the peril of his calling. &mdash; James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 306.
 * 1) Several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by Streptomyces -bacteria.
 * 2) Short form for common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab caused by Streptomyces scabies.
 * 3)  Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases attacking cultivated plants, and forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
 * 4) (founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
 * 5) A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
 * 6)  A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker.

Synonyms

 * blackleg, knobstick

Verb

 * 1)  To get covered by a scab.
 * 2)  To act as strikebreaker.
 * 3)  To beg (for), cadge, bum
 * I scabbed some money off a friend.

Verbs for Scab
disband—s; lynch—; manhandle prohibit—s; protect—; threaten-fend; sorganize; —rebels; — troubles; —s unite.

Thesaurus
abscess, aposteme, bed sore, birthmark, blackhead, blackleg, blain, bleb, blemish, blister, boil, bubo, bulla, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, check, chilblain, cicatrix, cicatrize, close up, cold sore, comedo, crack, crater, craze, crust, deface, defacement, defect, deform, deformation, deformity, disfiguration, disfigure, disfigurement, distort, distortion, effloresce, encrust, eschar, fault, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fink, fistula, flaw, freckle, furuncle, furunculus, gathering, granulate, gumboil, heal, heal over, hemangioma, hemorrhoids, hickey, incrust, incrustation, keloid, kibe, kink, knit, lentigo, lesion, loricate, mar, milium, mole, needle scar, nevus, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, pastry shell, petechia, piecrust, piles, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, polyp, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, pustule, rat, rift, right itself, rising, scab over, scale, scar, scarify, scratch, sebaceous cyst, set, shell, soft chancre, sore, split, stalactite, stalagmite, stigma, strawberry mark, strikebreaker, sty, suppuration, swelling, track, tubercle, twist, ulcer, ulceration, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, wheal, whelk, whitehead, whitlow, wound

Etymology
sceabb, Old Norse skabb, Latin scabies "scab, itch, mange." Cognate with scafan, Latin scabere "to scratch"

Noun

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 * Hebrew: גלד (geled)
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Anagrams

 * ABCS, ABCs, BACS, bacs, cabs, SABC