Scar /(?)/

1. 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.

   This earth had the beauty of youth, . . . and not a wrinkle, scar, or fracture on all its body.

2. 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. See Illust. under Axillary. (Bot.)

imp. & p. p. Scarred; p. pr. & vb. n. Scarring

1. To mark with a scar or scars.

   Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow.

   His cheeks were deeply scarred.

1. To form a scar.

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

   O sweet and far, from cliff and scar, The horns of Elfland faintly blowing.

1. A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish. (Zool.)