How To Use Scab In A Sentence

A lot of them were marked, or born wrong, or crooked, or scabious, looking for help from the Nazarene, for some panacea. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
Vitriolurii lW; t\s. ffenwi-l. a) Verbena; b) Centaurea scabiosa. Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen
Oman: three horizontal bands of white, red, and green of equal width with a broad, vertical, red band on the hoist side; the national emblem (a khanjar dagger in its sheath superimposed on two crossed swords in scabbards) in white is centered at the top of the vertical band The 2001 CIA World Factbook
The 'light' canapés include a crab salad, rose veal tartare and partridge escabeche. Times, Sunday Times
Scabbards, broken arms, artillery horses, wrecks of gun carriages, and bloody garments strewed the scene.

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There were still flowers in plenty, pink campion, toadflax, small blue scabious, honeysuckle, and six-inch mushrooms, inedible no doubt, but the blackberries were ripe and juicy enough to quench thirst.
He is wearing a short-sleeved dress shirt and I can see the scab on his elbow.
This is why a unionized workforce is a good thing: Disney World's costumed characters have won the right to wear their own underwear to work, after years of getting crabs and scabies from the Disney-provided articles. Boing Boing: June 10, 2001 - June 16, 2001 Archives
There are diseases of the skin due to local irritants, such as the various forms of trade eczema, scabies (itch), and pediculosis Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency
Many bridges were blocked by demonstrators, and taxicabs and buses driven by scabs were damaged by strikers.
More recently, scab has developed resistance to the strobilurin as well as the benzimidazole classes, and now Alternaria leaf spot resistance to the strobilurin and carboxyanilide (boscalid) chemistries has appeared. Western Farm Press RSS Feed
A violent accession of noise proclaimed that the mob had broken through and was dragging a scab from a wagon. SOUTH OF THE SLOT
This attractive, glossy red apple has some resistance to diseases such as apple scab, cedar apple rust, and fire blight.
However, to continue in this enviable position, he must be prepared at a moment's notice to go scabbing again. THE SCAB
His flesh crawled as if he had a scabies.
Sir, said Galahad, that is no marvel, for this adventure is not theirs but mine; and for the surety of this sword I brought none with me, for here by my side hangeth the scabbard. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
Without an adequate water supply children cannot wash often enough and so contract eye infections and skin conditions such as scabies.
The boy was wearing some black board shorts, showing off the child's scabby knees.
An audible hissing pop accompanied the loosening of the last bolt, and at the sight of my leprous fore-arms and the great plates of scabrous horn which have overgrown my chest, the roust-abouts screamed like a pair of God-damned fat ladies.
Scabies is normally treated with a scrub bath, boiling the fomites (clothes and bed linens), and application of benzyl benzoate. 11: Human health care
More high status examples would have a metal chape scabbard tip. Sudanese Kaskara Swords
Swords needed leather grips, belts, and leather scabbards overlaid with hammered bronze leaf.
All the time that he had appeared so indifferent to what was going on, he had been looking slily about for some missile or weapon of defence, and at the very instant when the swords were drawn, he espied, standing in the chimney – corner, an old basket – hilted rapier in a rusty scabbard. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
The thistles, knapweeds and willowherbs are truer purple, but the bluish nettle-leaved bellflowers and field scabious are also tinged with that mysterious shadow which has more to do with night than golden day. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
The men carry short swords in blunt-tipped scabbards slung around their necks, wear their hair in topknots and sport complicated, swirling facial tattoos.
Dropping the rag over the side of the bedpost, she turned and let the scabrous shard fall into a small bowl on the dresser; it greeted a similarly discordant family with a slight tink of angular metallic collision.
The punctured part on a boy's arm (who was inoculated with fresh limpid virus) on the sixth day, instead of shewing a beginning vesicle, which is usual in the cow-pox at that period, was encrusted over with a rugged, amber-coloured scab. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
Word-final b is rare, occurring mainly in monosyllables (hub, rib, scab), but occasionally in longer words (superb, disturb, cherub) Double B
Purple gentians and orchids, blue scabious and harebells, orange hawkweeds, and cream and pink yarrow provide a kaleidoscope of colour to enjoy at the end of your walk.
The swords have a simple crossguard and most have a languet, a short central extension towards the blade that fits over the scabbard when sheathed. Archive 2009-08-01
When a publisher offers an author better royalties than other publishers have been paying him, he is scabbing on those other publishers. THE SCAB
Entering through the low door, they saw opposite them above a fireplace two swords sheathed in their scabbards, glittering in the gloom.
You'll occasionally rip up your hands and generally scab various body parts.
The flowering glume is awned, strongly 5-nerved, nerves scabrid and ciliate, the lateral nerves being marginal. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
For the tamale filling, cubed pork is simmered with whole heads of garlic and onions; the meat is hand-chopped and warmed with a “salsa” — really a thick paste of ancho (dried poblanos) and cascabel chiles, reconstituted and slowly sauteed with garlic and onions — until the moderate heat of the chiles permeates the meat. Cooking for a Sunday Day
Mauve scabious and darker purple knapweed wave their heads in the aftermath of a summer thunderstorm. Butterflies: out of the blue
She heard the singing of a blade being drawn from its scabbard, and dropped into a crouch as said blade sliced the air above her head.
Do stop picking at that scab or the cut will never heal.
Plants are greater stitchwort, bluebell, devils bit scabious, Himalayan balsam, ragged robin, marsh marigold, quaking grass and lady's smock.
Often they bounce around on a truck seat, or maybe ride in a saddle scabbard all day strapped to an unruly mustang, acquiring numerous dings and dents.
Scabies is a contagious parasitic infection caused by infestation of the Sarcoptes scabiei var hominis mite.
The only talk in the ward was of the movement of troops, of victories and heroism here, of defeat and scabrous cowardly enemies there. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
The film is a joy - hilariously funny and unremittingly scabrous.
Or, as some like to think of it, organised scabbing. The 'big society' is collapsing under its inherent absurdity | Catherine Bennett
The man bore dusky skin, dark brown hair with a long, thick ponytail, and an impressive broad sword sheathed within the scabbard upon his back.
During the Water Front Strike, Freddie Drummond was somehow able to stand apart from the unique combination, and, coldly critical, watch Bill Totts hilariously slug scab long-shoremen. SOUTH OF THE SLOT
Despite the subject and the title, there is nothing in the least "scabrous" in it. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
They are traitors, and we delight in calling them scabs as they drive into work.
The _leaf-blade_ is very long 1/6 to 1/4 inch broad, auricled at the base, narrowed into very finely acuminate or capillary tips midrib prominent; scaberulous on both the surfaces and with long hairs on the auricles. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Feeding by the chigger creates scabby, reddish lesions that require two to three weeks to heal after the engorged mites leave the bird.
Since there is a potential mycotoxin threat with scab, growers should determine if scab is present in their fields.
When melancholy gets out at the superficies of the skin, or settles breaking out in scabs, leprosy, morphew, or is purged by stools, or by the urine, or that the spleen is enlarged, and those varices appear, the disease is dissolved. Anatomy of Melancholy
He was already dropping the tanto and reaching for the katana hilt protruding from the scabbard on his back.
The scabbard was leather, with white metal designs of dragons breathing flame imprinted on to it.
He then proceeded to roll up his trouser leg and show me his very scabby leg.
The injunction also prohibits picketers from blocking the scabs' entry to the plant.
A closely related Mediterranean fish, with similar characteristics and uses, is Uranoscopus scaber, the stargazer, so called because its eyes look upwards even more markedly than those of the weevers.
Scabies is diagnosed based on the patient's clinical presentation, including history and physical findings.
It involved fibbing to their parents, sneaking out unchaperoned, staying up past their bedtimes and watching as their fathers became good mates with Rat Scabies of the Damned.
An infected person can transmit it from one to two days before the rash develops, and until the rash stops spreading and is covered by dry scabs (generally 5 days after the onset of the rash).
I'm just finding it a little difficult to assess because anything scabby with that much fur tends to look much worse than it probably is.
For the diagnosis of scabies, skin scrapings have high specificity but low sensitivity.
Women should therefore actively avoid becoming pregnant for at least four weeks after vaccination and until the scab has completely healed and fallen off.
He had left his men at the church door and came alone, his long sword clinking inside its metal scabbard as he walked closer. Sharpe's Havoc
The horses are unsaddled, the Winchesters taken from their scabbards for protection through the night.
This bad water has caused skin diseases such as impetigo, scabies and eczema, as well as chronic diarrhea problems.
Bring the quince escabeche to room temperature before serving. Times, Sunday Times
One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock.
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Over the next few days, my nipples scabbed and cracked so badly they bled. Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms
The scab then separates from the skin about two weeks after inoculation. Smallpox Vaccine
One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock.
In 1913-1914, the force was especially interested in the question of communicable disease and the proportion of conjunctivitis, ring worm, impetigo, scabies, and pediculosis discovered and treated was very large. Health Work in the Public Schools
The scabbard occasionally had sheets of silver or gilded bronze applied to it to protect the mouth of the scabbard and the chape.
The _inflorescence_ is a raceme of spikes, varying from 1-1/2 to 3-1/2 inches, with the spikes mostly densely arranged, though occasionally distant and not close-set, on a long; slender, puberulous or scaberulous peduncle; _rachis_ is flexuous, flattened, grooved and scaberulous. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Given the sorry state of the pets for sale in the weekend markets and the indifference of the local population, farangs as well as Thais, to scabrous stray animals this dream was put on hold.
A lot of them were marked, or born wrong, or crooked, or scabious, looking for help from the Nazarene, for some panacea. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
Modi’s office is on an upper floor of a massive, scabby-faced ministry building in Gandhinagar, the planned city of government workers north of Ahmedabad that is a monument to the flawed architectural schemes of formerly socialist India. India’s New Face
When Mickey's body is found, half eaten by dogs, things take a more serious turn, at least for Jill, and the suspects, older literary types, who tend to be pompous and full of their own self importance, are a scabby bunch.
Sloppy jeans, baggy top, red and sore nose, black bags under my eyes and scabby skin all courtesy of the cold virus.
Even though scab and powdery mildew are very different diseases, when you spray for scab, you also prevent powdery mildew.
It is useful in quickly treating minor food poisoning and can be used to heal scabs and scratches.
She watched him strap on the scabbard and long poniard.
No. Pets become infested with a different kind of scabies mite. Scabies
Men who scabbed in the 1926 General Strike were never forgotten or forgiven even to this day and the very mention invokes anger among the old miners.
I'll admit that there's a certain amount of gawp-in-horror entertainment to be had from seeing the scabrous insides of sundry slackers' houses - but the weekly ‘look at the BUGS that were in your carpet!’
This technique, usually called escabeche, was once used to preserve food. Recipe of the Day: Grilled Pork Escabeche - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com
Those measures, which reversed existing anti-scab laws, are being supplemented by new legislation which will make it more difficult to organize and easier to decertify unions.
Conversely, some of Oudolf's perennials are chic enough for Sissinghurst, the cultish Kentish garden made by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson — especially a wine-dark variety of scabiosa, or pincushion flower, that bloomed on the High Line during this spring's inaugural festivities. Up in the Park
Things nonapparent at the moment can be signified by present appearances that remind us of them (admonitive signs), as smoke is the sign of fire, a scab is the sign of a wound (AM SKEPTICISM IN ANTIQUITY
Therefore he is scabbing upon his weaker and less capable brother workman. THE SCAB
Keep that bloody beast of yours away from Scabbers, or I'll turn it into a tea cozy.
I believe I got scabies from the showers by showering in them and, yeah, they're unsanitary; they're filthy.
Therefore hold the upper edge of the scabbard firmly with your palm and fingers but making no finger is placed on the front edge; thumb stretch out over the back edge then draw the weapon out slowly.
Some of the butterflies were seeking nectar from the purple-blue scabious flowers that lined the path. Country diary: Loch Ruthven
Some of our friends here are suffering from communicable diseases like scabies and coughs.
He is constantly picking away at the scab of his own dissatisfaction.
It just exists to keep guitar sales up and basements full of scabby punks pissing their days away into a bucket marked ‘excess’.
For this stupidity I received a couple of stitches on my left knee, my shin is a giant scab, and my right thigh looks as if someone took a baseball bat to it. The Things We Do For Fishing...
Suspected scabies may be confirmed by microscopic identification of the mite or its feces in skin scrapings.
It had been urged by them, that the laws of nations had declared only the estate of an alien enemy liable to confiscation ” but that debts were mere rights ” choses in action ” and therefore not of a confiscable character. Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry
_O. vulgare_, wild marjoram) thyme > (This and origan were used to treat scabs: see 108.47: 3; thyme was also used to treat syphilis) 8 A filthy foul old woman I did view, The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
These fungous growths appear as dark-colored spots, which arrest the growth of the apple immediately beneath, causing it to become distorted, while the expansion and contraction bring on diseased action, which results in the cracking and general scabbiness of the fruit. The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot.
How Charles Davis survives in that wet, freezing, paint-scabbed room of iron in the 'midship-house is beyond me -- just as it is beyond me that the wretched sailors in the wretched forecastle do not lie down in their bunks and die, or, at least, refuse to answer the call of the watches. CHAPTER XXXVII
It'seems not bad. The scabbard was installed afterward. It's rare if it's old and intact Longquan fittings.
From what he had seen already, her arm had been covered with gashes, some more serious than others, close up he saw the dirt and blood scabbing.
Because the British laborer is disinclined to scab, that is, because he restricts his output in order to give less for the wage he receives, it is to a certain extent made possible for the American capitalist, who receives a less restricted output from his laborers, to play the scab on the English capitalist. THE SCAB
Hanging at her waist, the hilt of a dagger protruded from its lacquered wooden scabbard.
I started with red mullet escabeche, which was a little dry but otherwise interesting and well presented.
Apple scab is a fungal disease that causes black splotches on leaves and fruit.
The burn was scabbed and dark, about the size of an egg yolk.
In that night, a vision came to him, not a vision of glory and honor won on the battlefield, but a vision of a sword rusting away in its scabbard, a vision of run - ning errands and posting guard detail over dust and ashes that didn't need guarding. Dragons of a Fallen Sun
In fact every sheep, whatever its age, would be dipped in a plunge bath containing the correct solution of a ministry approved scab dip.
This bad water has caused skin diseases such as impetigo, scabies and eczema, as well as chronic diarrhea problems.
It has broken a lot of people up… to me, a scab is one who worked all through the strike but these ones that went back three weeks before the strike ended, I don't think they're scabs.
Since we see a passion for grammar everywhere, and we know that the discipline, because of the number of scholars that now exist, is now open to the worst students, it would be horrid thing not to write, even if we write only as we are able, and not as we should, about this glory of our time, or even to leave the story hidden in the scabbiness of artless speech. The Deeds of God Through the Franks
At the point of the scabbard is a round knob, and the weapon is so long, that a man when walking cannot swing his right arm. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
Consequently malaria, diarrhoea, scabies and respiratory diseases are rife.
Chicken pox is contagious until all of the blisters on the skin are scabbed over.
The room looks better with scabrous, undecorated walls that it ever did with that uninspired wallpaper.
What had once been a set of four horrible, deep pits in her hand - two on her palm and two on the back - had turned into a scabrous mass of clotted blood.
The chickenpox rash is made up of lots of red blisters, which burst and then scab over.
You'll occasionally rip up your hands and generally scab various body parts.
And while you might pet a stray dog and accidentally touch a scabby sore or some other yuck, the rabies fears seemed unsubstantiated and the cities haven't taken to rounding up the lot for the public safety.
It seems that Alun had decided on a depiction of himself with a Welsh Language scabble board. Archive 2006-10-01
He began arm-to-arm inoculations by taking pus from the scab of a person and transferring it to another. Trivia Corner
The minister who hardens his heart to a call, and waits for a certain congregation to offer him say five hundred a year more, often finds himself scabbed upon by another and more impecunious minister; and the next time it is his turn to scab while a brother minister is hardening his heart to a call. THE SCAB
Four ounces of the clarified juice of Scabious taken in the morning fasting, with a dram of Mithridate or Benice treacle, frees the heart from any infection of pestilence.
Yet most of us have already unconsciously surrendered to the more insidious aspects of modernity long before we even contemplate drawing our swords from their scabbards and inspecting them for rust.
The first lesion goes most of the time unnoticed and the typical cutaneous finding is a sore also called frambesia which is an itching, granulating and oozing ulcer with a thin scab at the top.
They are intentionally, indeed overinsistently, scabrous; and they are conscientiously repetitious in their linear, timeless design.
In the village pub - unmodernised by any rapacious brewery, although in this decade new roadhouses spread like scabs along arterial roads - Donald hears unassuming rustics quote Shakespeare.
She guides your hand to touch the scabby scar that snakes across her head.
Oh, one more thing, please ignore the snide remark some scabrous graffito vandal appended to the end of the article.
Tentatively identified by some experts as bounty from one of the wars that racked Middle England in the seventh and eighth centuries, they included sword pommels and dagger hilts, scabbard bosses and helmet cheekpieces, Christian crosses and figures of animals, eagles and fish. Starbulletin Headlines
Grow clematis, alliums, pinks, ceanothus, lilacs and scabious. Times, Sunday Times
For instance, my high-school self — skinny, scabby, giggly, gabby, frantic to be noticed, tormented enough to be a tormentor, relentlessly pushing his cartoons and posters and noisy jokes and pseudo-sophisticated poems upon the helpless-high school — strikes me now as considerably obnoxious, though I owe him a lot: without his frantic ambition and insecurity I would not now be sitting on (as my present home was named by others) Haven Hill. John updike | march 18, 1932 – january 27, 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
The swords have a simple crossguard and most have a languet, a short central extension towards the blade that fits over the scabbard when sheathed. Archive 2009-08-01
The man who built it had flung away his dagger, and already his sword rusted in its scabbard in that little house in Assisi; he conquered the world by love. Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition
I talked to a gentle, softly spoken miner about the strike, the police and the scabs.
Marinate the fish steaks in the lime juice for 15 minute or so while the escabeche is being made. Marinated Fish Steaks: Pescado en Escabeche
The _inflorescence_ consists of two to eight smooth, digitate, green or purplish spikes, 1 to 3 inches long; _rachis_ is slender, compressed or angular, scaberulous. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Head scab, formally known as fusarium head blight, develops when conditions are wet during a key stage of crop development called flowering, which occurs at different times in the spring depending on location. Wet Weather Threatens U.S. Winter Wheat Crop
He had a small wound over the right pectoral area that was scabbed but not infected.
The rear of some scabbards was also decorated and all had loops at the back to take the leather belting which would attach the weapon to its wearer.
She trailed her love on my palm, sucked in her scabbish unlicked lips. Here
The person is contagious to others until all of the scabs have fallen off.
Some of the city's 3,000 Manchester poplars have been infected with the mysterious disease, commonly known as black scab.
The remaining glumes _fourth_ to _seventh_ are borne by the rachilla, thinly chartaceous, broadly obcordate or obovate, gradually diminishing in size, purple-tinged, 3 - to 5-nerved, scaberulous. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
During the last glacial period, Lake Missoula filled and burst through its ice dam some 40 times or more, scouring eastern Washington to create what is called the channeled scablands. Trout and Salmon of North America
Not all the ‘women whom he chose to love’ shared this lady's antipathy, as we learn from the gallant, erotic, or downright scabrous poems they occasioned.
All I can aver is that, if I am not to be permitted to draw the glittering sword of my tongue from the scabbard of my mouth, I shall infallibly, in sheer sickishness at such short-sighted folly, throw up my brief! Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
Put all the escabeche ingredients except the quinces in a saucepan with 500ml water and bring to the boil. Times, Sunday Times
Where the term outsourcing will be thought of much as we think of a scab, a communist or a traitor today. Down to Zero
After all, occasionally I get to see something special like a lumpsucker, and these drifts are infinitely better than the even-scabbier ledges to be found on Lulworth banks.
The name meaning "in place where gives the scabies" is not encouraging. Sahauyo
Spoon over the escabeche vegetables and some of the juices then arrange the red mullet fillets on top. The Sun
To speed the process on rougher surfaces, they also used a scabbling pick, which was similar to an ordinary pick only shorter of handle and stout of casting.
The skin infection scabies isn't necessarily passed on through intercourse, but as it involves close physical contact it's a possible method of transmission.
Norwegian scabies occurs predominantly in elderly, infirm, or immunosuppressed people and in those with mental illness.
Their hatred for a scab is as terrible as the hatred of a patriot for a traitor, of a Christian for a Judas. THE SCAB
A belt was wrapped around their waists, bearing a pair of scabbards and two small, pentagonal shields.
Whenever soil is highly contaminated with sclerotia, growers must rotate to a crop like wheat, which is prone to scab, instead of to other Sclerotinia-susceptible broadleaf crops, such as soybeans, dry beans, or canola.
Love the scabiosa, it’s flowering in my garden too in a lovely deep reddish black. July Bloom Day 2008-A Wide Variety « Fairegarden
Casting amateur actors in these shows is tantamount to using scabs in the midst of a strike, and acting in one of these shows is akin to crossing a picket line.
They weren't only black and blue, they were whipped, and their wounds were full of scabs, cracked and bleeding.
The baculite - Latin for "walking stick rock" - is essentially a vertical ammonite, resembling a petrified scabbard. Billingsgazette.com
A scab formed over the wound after 2 days, and the wound healed completely within 2 weeks.
The bathing had been ordered to control an outbreak of scabies, a skin disease.
It not only uses the Yucatecan powerhouse chile--the habanero--but also includes the native fruit known as naranja agria, or bitter orange, which is also the secret to great Yucatecan escabeche. Kurt Michael Friese: Chasing Chiles: Xnipec - A Touch of the Dogs Nose
We get out big numbers especially at the peak times in the mornings and evenings to catch the scab buses.
Ground flora species of the semi natural woodlands include: wood anemone, lesser celendine, stitchworts, the tangy, lemon tasting wood sorrel, primrose, violet, devils bit scabious and speedwells.
I used to be a postman but left to find a better job as normal people do i also "scabbed" and crossed the pathetic picket line..... Heads must roll at the Royal Mail
The infection is contagious until the mouth sores are gone and blisters are scabbed over.
And that's the issue that's been lost in this whole campaign Workers being sacked and replaced by casual labour and scabs.
Infection by bacteria living on the surface of the skin can cause weeping of fluid (‘wet’ eczema) and crusting or scabbing.
a pink-coloured benish, lined with satin, a gold-embroidered turban, a rich silk sash, worked with silver thread, and a djombye, or crooked knife, stuck in his sash, the scabbard of which is covered with coins of silver and gold. Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred
Some of the best and most widely adapted annual cut flowers with the longest vase life include alstroemeria, aster, celosia, cosmos, gypsophila, lavatera, rudbeckia, scabiosa, snapdragon, statice, sunflower, yarrow, and zinnia.
His sword had a gold gleam as he drew it from its scabbard.
The garden is actually getting rather tired as the summer progresses, but I still have yellow loosestrife, some alstroemeria, alchemilla mollis (ladies' mantle), meadow-sweet, astrantia (this year for the first time in more than one colour), red and white valerian, lavender, veronica and butterfly blue scabious. Weekend pleasures
If uncovered the wound will a scab faster.
Feathers of infested birds are discolored by mite excrement and eggs, and the skin is scabby.
Try his mackerel escabeche and the assiette of six small desserts. Times, Sunday Times
It is effective in enhancing the pigmentation of skin affected by leucoderma or scabies (ICFRE undated). Chapter 31
At the same time, the outside-the-waistband scabbard might be more comfortable under some circumstances, it won't hide the gun as well under an untucked shirt.
The _leaf-blade_ is linear-lanceolate, acuminate or acute, base rounded, glabrous, smooth below, especially in the lower part, and scabrid above and in the upper part, 6 to 12 inches long, by 1/4 to 3/8 inch; the lower leaves have their blades somewhat narrower at the base than in the middle, but the blades in the upper part of the stem and in the middle are of the same breadth; margins are very minutely serrate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Not surprisingly, malnourishment and illness like fevers, coughs, malaria, scabies and diarrhoea are common.
There were lush slabs of slow-roasted pork belly and meltingly tender duck legs, a piquant escabeche of red mullet and a truly remarkable lemon tart to finish.
This combination of management and heavy, poorly-drained soils favoured characteristic plants such as great burnet, devil's bit scabious, meadow rue and pepper saxifrage.
Three of the ladies made it through the first ward, with its cases of scrofula, scabies, eczema, defluxions, and stinking pyemia, before deciding that their charitable inclinations could be entirely satisfied by a donation to L'HÃ´pital, and fleeing back to the dispensary to shed the rough hopsacking gowns with which we had been furnished. Dragonfly in Amber
I was happy when I didn't see any new cuts, but I did notice some of his older ones were scabbing up.
He, by stark contrast, was scabrous and confessional, sexy, vernacular, and totally unpredictable.
A soapy solution was rubbed all over my scabby, bruised and burnt fingers leaving me with a relaxed sensation you wouldn't have believed possible in this part of your body.
Later, after touching down on the scabby tarmac, I skated through Customs in Lima.
Just as the peaceful country-dweller calls the sea-rover a "pirate," and the stout burgher calls the man who breaks into his strong-box a "robber," so the selfish laborer applies the opprobrious epithet "scab" to the laborer who takes from him food and shelter by being more generous in the disposal of his labor-power. THE SCAB
She produced a short dagger in a leather scabbard that tied to the belt.
Fusarium head scab is common in Ohio wheat fields when rain persists through the flowering period of the crop.
Escabeche of mackerel with potato salad and a smear of tapenade was less good. Times, Sunday Times
Do not touch the eyes after touching blisters and scabs.
The Mexican way of marinating jalapeño chiles, called jalapeños en escabeche, is so common that this is one canned or pre-prepared item found all over the country and was one of the first to cross the border. Pasta salad with jalapeno vinaigrette: Coditos con salsa

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