Scar

n. [Dan. skaar', a cut, notch, slash, from skäre, skäre, to cut. Cf. Fr. escarre, an eschar, a dry slough, Gr. ἐσχάρα. See ESCHAR.]

1Sense 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.

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

2Sense 2. A bare and broken place on a side of a mountain, or in the high bank of a river; a precipitous bank of earth. [Written also scaur.]

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

3Sense 3. (Bot.) 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 stem.

v. t. [imp. & p. p. SCARRED; p. pr. & vb. n. SCARRING.] To mark with a scar, or scars. His cheeks were deeply scarred. Macaulay.

v. i. To form a scar; to be covered with a scar; as, a wound scars over.