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  • 71Shabby — Shab by, a. [Compar. {Shabbier}; superl. {Shabbiest}.] [See {Shab}, n., {Scabby}, and {Scab}.] 1. Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged. [1913 Webster] Wearing shabby coats and dirty shirts. Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 2. Clothed with ragged,… …

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  • 72Squarrose — Squar*rose (skw[o^]r*r[o^]s or skw[o^]r r[=o]s ; 277), a. [L. squarrosus (perhaps) scurfy, scabby.] Ragged or full of loose scales or projecting parts; rough; jagged; as: (a) (Bot. & Zo[ o]l.) Consisting of scales widely divaricating; having… …

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  • 73Squarrose-slashed — Squarrose Squar*rose (skw[o^]r*r[o^]s or skw[o^]r r[=o]s ; 277), a. [L. squarrosus (perhaps) scurfy, scabby.] Ragged or full of loose scales or projecting parts; rough; jagged; as: (a) (Bot. & Zo[ o]l.) Consisting of scales widely divaricating;… …

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  • 74dandruff — noun Etymology: probably from dand (origin unknown) + ruff, from Middle English rove scabby condition, from Old Norse hrūfa scab; akin to Old High German hruf scurf, Lithuanian kraupus rough Date: 1545 scaly white or grayish flakes of dead skin… …

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  • 75ronyon — noun Etymology: perhaps modification of Middle French rogne scab Date: 1598 obsolete a mangy or scabby creature …

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  • 76scall — noun Etymology: Middle English Date: 14th century archaic a scurf or scabby disorder (as of the scalp) …

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  • 77scabious — I. noun Etymology: Middle English scabiose, from Anglo French, from Medieval Latin scabiosa, from Latin, feminine of scabiosus, adjective Date: 14th century any of a genus (Scabiosa) of Old World herbs of the teasel family with terminal flower… …

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  • 78scald — I. verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French *escalder, eschauder, from Late Latin excaldare to wash in warm water, from Latin ex + calida, calda warm water, from feminine of calidus warm, from calēre to be warm more at lee Date: 13th… …

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  • 79Galen — Claude Galien . Lithograph by Pierre Roche Vigneron. (Paris: Lith de Gregoire et Deneux, ca. 1865) Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus (September AD 129 – 199/217; Greek: Γαληνός, Galēnos, from adjective γαληνός , calm [1]), better known as Galen… …

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  • 80Philipp Melanchthon — Portrait of Philip Melanchthon, by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Oil on panel Era Reformation Region Germany …

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