English words for 'Affected with scurvy.'
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adj
noun
- (nautical) A portion of a sail rolled and tied down to lessen the area exposed in a high wind.
- (Now chiefly dialectal) The itch; any eruptive skin disorder.
- A chain or range of rocks, sand, or coral lying at or near the surface of the water.
- (Now chiefly dialectal) Dandruff.
- A reef knot.
- (Australia, South Africa) A large vein of auriferous quartz; hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore.
- a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water
- one of several strips across a sail that can be taken in or rolled up to lessen the area of the sail that is exposed to the wind
verb
- (nautical, of paddles) To move the floats of a paddle wheel toward its center so that they will not dip so deeply.
- (slang) To manipulate the lining of a person's pocket in order to steal the contents unnoticed.
- (nautical) To take in part of a sail in order to adapt the size of the sail to the force of the wind.
- (Australia) To pull or yank strongly, especially in relation to horse riding.
- lower and bring partially inboard
- roll up (a portion of a sail) in order to reduce its area
- reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef
adj
- Affected with scabs; full of scabs.
- (printing) Having a blotched, uneven appearance.
- Working against union policies, working to bust unions; in particular, being a scab (worker who crosses a union picket line).
- Injured by the attachment of barnacles to the carapace of a shell.
- Diseased with the scab (mange): mangy.
- (Ireland, UK, slang) stingy; scrounging.
- covered with scabs
noun
noun
noun
- Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
- (founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
- The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
- An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
- (phytopathology) Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
- A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
- (uncountable) Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).
- (derogatory, slang) A worker who acts against trade union policies; any picket crosser (strikebreaker), and especially one with devotion to union busting.
- the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion
- someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
verb
- (intransitive) To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
- (transitive, UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) To beg (for), to cadge or bum.
- (transitive) To remove part of a surface (from).
- (intransitive) To act as a strikebreaker.
- (intransitive) To become covered by a scab or scabs.
- form a scab
- take the place of work of someone on strike
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noun
verb
- become affected with smut
- affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn
- make obscene
- stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
- (transitive) To taint (grain, etc.) with the smut fungus.
- (ambitransitive) To stain (or be stained) with soot or other dirt.
- (intransitive) To become tainted by the smut fungus.
- (transitive) To clear of the smut fungus.
noun
- any fungus of the order Ustilaginales
- creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire
- an offensive or indecent word or phrase
- destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores
- a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
- (countable) A flake of ash or soot.
- (uncountable) Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.
- (phytopathology) Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused.
- (mining) Bad, soft coal containing earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.
- (uncountable) Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.
- (uncountable) Soot.
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- Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
- (founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
- The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
- An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
- (phytopathology) Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
- A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
- (uncountable) Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).
- (derogatory, slang) A worker who acts against trade union policies; any picket crosser (strikebreaker), and especially one with devotion to union busting.
- the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion
- someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
verb
- (intransitive) To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
- (transitive, UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) To beg (for), to cadge or bum.
- (transitive) To remove part of a surface (from).
- (intransitive) To act as a strikebreaker.
- (intransitive) To become covered by a scab or scabs.
- form a scab
- take the place of work of someone on strike
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verb
- become affected with smut
- affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn
- make obscene
- stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
- (transitive) To taint (grain, etc.) with the smut fungus.
- (ambitransitive) To stain (or be stained) with soot or other dirt.
- (intransitive) To become tainted by the smut fungus.
- (transitive) To clear of the smut fungus.
noun
- any fungus of the order Ustilaginales
- creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire
- an offensive or indecent word or phrase
- destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores
- a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
- (countable) A flake of ash or soot.
- (uncountable) Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.
- (phytopathology) Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused.
- (mining) Bad, soft coal containing earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.
- (uncountable) Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.
- (uncountable) Soot.
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adj
noun
- (nautical) A portion of a sail rolled and tied down to lessen the area exposed in a high wind.
- (Now chiefly dialectal) The itch; any eruptive skin disorder.
- A chain or range of rocks, sand, or coral lying at or near the surface of the water.
- (Now chiefly dialectal) Dandruff.
- A reef knot.
- (Australia, South Africa) A large vein of auriferous quartz; hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore.
- a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water
- one of several strips across a sail that can be taken in or rolled up to lessen the area of the sail that is exposed to the wind
verb
- (nautical, of paddles) To move the floats of a paddle wheel toward its center so that they will not dip so deeply.
- (slang) To manipulate the lining of a person's pocket in order to steal the contents unnoticed.
- (nautical) To take in part of a sail in order to adapt the size of the sail to the force of the wind.
- (Australia) To pull or yank strongly, especially in relation to horse riding.
- lower and bring partially inboard
- roll up (a portion of a sail) in order to reduce its area
- reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef
adj
- Affected with scabs; full of scabs.
- (printing) Having a blotched, uneven appearance.
- Working against union policies, working to bust unions; in particular, being a scab (worker who crosses a union picket line).
- Injured by the attachment of barnacles to the carapace of a shell.
- Diseased with the scab (mange): mangy.
- (Ireland, UK, slang) stingy; scrounging.
- covered with scabs