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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]

ighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger. A scarecrow set to frighten fools away. Dryden.

An alarm of fire. [Obs.]

ht shawl or handkerchief for the neck; also, a cravat; a neckcloth. Put on your hood and scarf. Swift. With care about the banners, scarves, and staves. R. Browning.

See Epidermis.

The act of scarifying.

An instrument, principally used in cupping, containing several lancets moved simultaneously by a spring, for making slight incisions.

One who scarifies.

tch 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.

Thin, dry, membranous, and not green. Gray.

Scarlet fever. -- Scar`la*ti"nal, a. -- Scar*lat"i*nous (# or #), a.

Free from scar. Drummond.

Cloth of a scarlet color. All her household are clothed with scarlet. Prov. xxxi. 21.

A slight contest; a skirmish. See Skirmish. [Obs.] Such cruel game my scarmoges disarms. Spenser.

Dung. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Ray. Scarn bee (Zoöl.), a dung beetle.

Of or pertaining to the Scaridæ, a family of marine fishes including the parrot fishes.

The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.

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

Bearing scars or marks of wounds.

A Mediterranean food fish (Sparisoma scarus) od excellent quality and highly valued by the Romans; -- called also parrot fish.