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Definition of Scarry
1. a. Bearing scars or marks of wounds.
2. a. Like a scar, or rocky eminence; containing scars.
Definition of Scarry
1. Adjective. Like a scar, or rocky eminence. ¹
2. Adjective. Containing scars. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scarry
1. marked with scars [adj -RIER, -RIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scarry
Literary usage of Scarry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"SCARP, a bare piece of ground. See SCALP. scarry, easily scared or frightened.
" That's a scarry horse o' yors." scarry, marked with scares. See SCARE, 1. ..."
2. The Socius of Architecture: Amsterdam, Tokyo, New York by Arie Graafland (2000)
"At best it can be touched on when stage- managed.3' For scarry pain is inflicted
by brute ... The pain scarry describes is so extreme that relating it to ..."
3. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Oliver Heslop (1894)
"SCARP, a bare piece of ground. See SCALP. scarry, easily scared or frightened.
" That's a scarry horse o' yors." scarry, marked with scares. See SCARE, i. ..."
4. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1905)
"Sedalia Electric R., etc., Co., 82 Mo. App. 566, distinguishing Chitty v. St.
Louis, etc., R. Co., 148 Mo. 64. See also scarry v. Metropolitan St. R. Co., ..."
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