scar

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SC'AR, noun 1. A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal made by a wound or an ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed. The soldier is proud of his scars. 2. Any mark or injury; a blemish. The earth had the beauty of youth - and not a wrinkle, scar or fracture on its body. 3. [Latin scarus; Gr.] A fish of the Labrus kind. SC'AR, verb transitive To mark with a scar
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