scares
plural of scare
• Crases, SERCAs, caress, carses, casers, crases, sacres, seracs, sĂ©racs
Source: Wiktionary
Scare, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scared; p. pr. & vb. n. Scaring.] Etym: [OE. skerren, skeren, Icel. skirra to bar, prevent, skirrask to shun , shrink from; or fr. OE. skerre, adj., scared, Icel. skjarr; both perhaps akin to E. sheer to turn.]
Definition: To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm. The noise of thy crossbow Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost. Shak. To scare away, to drive away by frightening.
– To scare up, to find by search, as if by beating for game. [Slang]
Syn.
– To alarm; frighten; startle; affright; terrify.
Scare, n.
Definition: Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 January 2025
(noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development; “the political ferment produced new leadership”; “social unrest”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
