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A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.

ndstone scales by exposure. Those that cast their shell are the lobster and crab; the old skins are found, but the old shells never; so it is likely that they scale off. Bacon.

A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, cut or torn off from an enemy by the Indian warriors of North America, as a token of victory.

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.

To scratch or cut the skin of; esp. (Med.), to make small incisions in, by means of a lancet or scarificator, so as to draw blood from the smaller vessels without opening a large vein.

Of or pertaining to the family Scincidæ, or skinks. -- n.

A tribe of lizards including the skinks. See Skink.

nd tail are covered with overlapping scales, and the toes are margined. See Illust. under Skink.

A skink.

he cutaneous and subcutaneous tissues in the newly born. It is usually fatal. Called also skinbound disease.

A disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin.

Having the integument, or skin, hard, or covered with hard plates.

An hermaphrodite. [Obs.] Skinner.

An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard. Thackeray.

, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may devel…

Any affection of the skin dependent on scrofula.

A clipping from skins; a currier's cuttings.

The nape of the neck; the loose outside skin, as of the back of the neck.

r or the hardness and texture of the surface; to scorch; to make callous; as, to sear the skin or flesh. Also used figuratively. I'm seared with burning steel. Rowe. It was in vain that the amiable divine tried to give salutary pain to that seared conscience. Macaulay. The discipline of war, being a discipline in destr…

emifluid matter, composed in great part of fat, which softens and lubricates the hair and skin.