Covered with scales or scabs; hence, very coarse or rough.
After the incident with the gasoline, Noel’s burnt arm remained scabrous and was susceptible to infections.
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(figurative) Disgusting, repellent.
I was ſurpriz'd to ſee Mars continue quite round, though hardly, to Appearance, disjoin'd from the ſcabrous Edge of the Moon; but that Inſtant I thought it began to loſe its Figure.—Clouds.
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(figurative) Salacious, scandalous; concerning oneself with lurid or lascivious substance.
Lumbricus ſcaber. The rough Lumbricus. The Sea-worm. This ſpecies grows to a foot, or more, in length, and to the thickneſs of a man's finger. It is of a pale red colour, and is compoſed of a number of rings or annular joints, as it were…
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