A wretched or wicked person.
Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean.
A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
The scabies.
A worker who acts against trade union policies; any picket crosser (strikebreaker), and especially one with devotion to union busting.
Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).
A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
To remove part of a surface (from).
To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
To act as a strikebreaker.
To beg (for), to cadge or bum.
To become covered by a scab or scabs.