A North Atlantic fish of the cutlassfish family Trichiuridae with an extremely elongated, eel-like body, Aphanopus carbo.

superlative form of scabby: most scabby

present participle of scab

Affected or covered with scabs. / (by extension) Vile; worthless.

simple past tense and past participle of scab

The sheath of a sword.

(intransitive) To become covered by a scab or scabs. / (intransitive) To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin. / (transitive) To remove part of a surface (from).

An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing. / (colloquial or obsolete) The scabies. / The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.

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.

To put an object (especially a sword) into its scabbard.