Word Meanings - SCARIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To stir the surface soil of, as a field. (more info) 1. To scratch or cut the skin of; esp. , 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.

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• BLOODSUCKER
  Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
• SCRATCH COAT
  The first coat in plastering; -- called also scratchwork. See Pricking-up.
• FIELD
  The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules , while the fess is argent . 6. An unresticted or favorable opportunity
• BLOODSHEDDER
  One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
• OPENNESS
  The quality or state of being open.
• SCRATCHBACK
  A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons.
• FIELDING
  The act of playing as a fielder.
• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• BLOODULF
  The European bullfinch.
• SCARIFICATOR
  An instrument, principally used in cupping, containing several lancets moved simultaneously by a spring, for making slight incisions.
• BLOODROOT
  A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• SCRATCHING
  With the action of scratching.
• FIELDY
  Open, like a field. Wyclif.
• OPEN SEA
  A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
• BLOODY-MINDED
  Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
• BLOODSHEDDING
  Bloodshed. Shak.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• BLOODINESS
  1. The state of being bloody. 2. Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness. All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature. Holland.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• BESCRATCH
  To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.
• 'SBLOOD
  An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak.
• HOMEFIELD
  Afield adjacent to its owner's home. Hawthorne.
• PROPENE
  See PROPYLENE
• INFIELD
  To inclose, as a field.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• PROPENSE
  Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.