A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound. / (by extension) A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience.

(transitive) To mark the skin permanently. / (intransitive) To form a scar. / (transitive, figuratively) To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.

A cliff or rock outcrop. / A rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water. / A bare rocky place on the side of a hill or mountain.

A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish (family Scaridae).

Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand. / (archaic) Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of.

(archaic, literary) Scarcely, only just.

Affected with scabs; full of scabs. / Diseased with the scab, or mange; mangy. / (printing) Having a blotched, uneven appearance. / Injured by the attachment of barnacles to the carapace of a shell.

Covered or abounding with scales. / Composed of scales lying over each other. / Resembling scales, laminae, or layers. / (dated, vulgar or South Africa) low, mean.

(South Africa) The scaly yellowfish (Labeobarbus natalensis).

(transitive) To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely. / (computing, transitive) To inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something.