SCAR'IFY, verb transitive [Latin scarifico. Gr. Latin facio, to make. But the Greek is from a pointed instrument, or a sharp pointed piece of wood.] To scratch or cut the skin of an animal, or to make small incisions by means of a lancet or cupping instrument, so as to draw blood from the smaller vessels without opening a large vein.
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