Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
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.
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.
An infestation of parasitic mites, Sarcoptes scabiei, causing intense itching caused by the mites burrowing into the skin of humans and other animals. It is easily transmissible from human to human; secondary skin infection may occur.