ovine vs scab

ovine

noun
  • An animal from the genus Ovis; a sheep. 

  • A person regarded as resembling a sheep in character; one who is acquiescent, easily influenced, passive, or willing to follow a leader blindly; a sheep. 

adj
  • Resembling a sheep in character; acquiescent, easily influenced, passive, or willing to follow a leader blindly. 

  • Of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep; also, (not comparable) of an animal: from the genus Ovis. 

scab

noun
  • 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. 

  • A mean, dirty, paltry fellow. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • 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. 

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