Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
scar . - An obsolete form of
scare .
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Examples
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When you haves guns you can scarre other peopl and they giv you respeect.
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GraveDancers, Wicked little Things, Penny Dreadful, and Dark Doors. some of my other favs thast scarre me are
What's Wrong With Horror? Please Scare Me Hollywood! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Bernardino musing awhile with himselfe, remembred, that under her left eare, she had a scarre, in the forme of a little crosse, which happened by the byting of a Wolfe, and but a small while before the spoyle was made.
The Decameron 2004
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I pray thee call to minde, if everthou sawest any scarre or marke about her, which may revive thy former knowledge of her, for my minde perswades me, that the Maide is thy Daughter.
The Decameron 2004
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Where Beauties eye should make the deepest scarre.
The Decameron 2004
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Which done, she sayd these words of course as follow: Behold, his nose is whole, his eyes safe, his eares without scarre, his lips untouched, and his chin sound: all which was written and noted in tables, and subscribed with the hands of witnesses to confirme the same.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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You got the nerrve (the R's fairly rolled and rumbled as he gathered momentum) -- you got the nerrve to come herre with out any guns or sworrds and things and think you can scarre us.
Tom Slade with the Boys Over There Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913
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It then only remains to show what is meant by _a scarre_, which signifies here _anything that causes surprise or alarm_; what we should now write _a scare_.
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The French word might lead to the conclusion that _a scarre_ might be used for _a skirmish_.
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Fourteen incredibly disturbing moments in children's movies that should have scarre ...
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