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scarred, ppl. a.|skɑːd|
[f. scar v. + -ed1.]
1. Of a human or animal body or its parts: Bearing scars or traces of wounds or sores.
c1440York Myst. xxxiii. 35 Ȝaa, and with schath of skelpys yll scarred. 1872L. P. Meredith Teeth 176, I have seen the scarred hero of many battles cry like a child when called upon to have a tooth extracted. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 22 Especial attention was directed to the exclusion of cases of scarred kidneys, of which there were many.
2. transf. Of inanimate objects: Bearing traces of injury, weathering, or the like. Often of rocks, etc.: Broken as by a convulsion of nature.
1600Marlowe Lucan i. C j, Headles darts, olde swords With vgly teeth of blacke rust fouly scarr'd. 1816Shelley Mont Blanc 71 How hideously Its shapes are heaped around! rude, bare, and high, Ghastly, and scarred, and riven. 1877Black Green Past. xxxvii, In the sheer precipices..scarred with ruddy rocks and sunless woods.
3. Bot. (See quot.)
1793Martyn Lang. Bot., Cicatrisatus truncus s. caulis. A scarred stem. Marked with the remains of leaves that have fallen off. 1839Lindley Introd. Bot. iii. (ed. 3) 468. |
