SCARRINGS

Noun

scarrings

plural of scarring

Source: Wiktionary

SCARRING

Scar"ring, n.

Definition: A scar; a mark. We find upon the limestone rocks the scarrings of the ancient glacier which brought the bowlder here. Tyndall.

SCAR

Scar, n. Etym: [OF. escare, F. eschare an eschar, a dry slough (cf. It. & Sp. escara), L. eschara, fr. Gr. Eschar.]

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; a disfigurement. This earth had the beauty of youth, . . . and not a wrinkle, scar, or fracture on all its body. T. Burnet.

2. (Bot.)

Definition: 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 support. See Illust. under Axillary.

Scar, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scarred; p. pr. & vb. n. Scarring.]

Definition: To mark with a scar or scars. Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow. Shak. His cheeks were deeply scarred. Macaulay.

Scar, v. i.

Definition: To form a scar.

Scar, n. Etym: [Scot. scar, scaur, Icel. sker a skerry, an isolated rock in the sea; akin to Dan. skiær, Sw. skär. Cf. Skerry.]

Definition: An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth. [Written also scaur.] O sweet and far, from cliff and scar, The horns of Elfland faintly blowing. Tennyson.

Scar, n. Etym: [L. scarus, a kind of fish, Gr. ska`ros.] (Zoöl.)

Definition: A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition