Scar
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Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a previous injury; a blemish; a disfigurement.

2. (n.) A mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support.

3. (v. t.) To mark with a scar or scars.

4. (v. i.) To form a scar.

5. (n.) An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.

6. (n.) A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.


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