scab : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: scab	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for scab
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scab n someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike Synonym(s): scab, strikebreaker, blackleg, rat the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion v form a scab; "the wounds will eventually scab" take the place of work of someone on strike Synonym(s): fink, scab, rat, blackleg
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scab \Scab\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Scabbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scabbing}.] To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scab \Scab\ (sk[acr]b), n. [OE. scab, scabbe, shabbe; cf. AS. sc[91]b, sceabb, scebb, Dan. & Sw. skab, and also L. scabies, fr. scabere to scratch, akin to E. shave. See {Shave}, and cf. {Shab}, {Shabby}.] 1. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part. 2. The itch in man; also, the scurvy. [Colloq. or Obs.] 3. The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep. --Chaucer. 4. A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus ({Tiburcinia Scabies}). 5. (Founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold. 6. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow. [Low] --Shak. 7. A nickname for a workman who engages for lower wages than are fixed by the trades unions; also, for one who takes the place of a workman on a strike. [Cant]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scab \Scab\, n. (Bot.) Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases attacking cultivated plants, and usually forming dark-colored crustlike spots.