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Definition of Scarifying
1. scarify [v] - See also: scarify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scarifying
Literary usage of Scarifying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook for Highway Engineers: Containing Information Ordinarily Used in by Wilson Gardner Harger, Edmund Arnold Bonney (1919)
"scarifying.—The cost of scarifying, as given by Mr. EA Bonney on the Erie County
repair work for the season of 1907, is as follows: ..."
2. European Agriculture and Rural Economy. From Personal Observation by Henry Colman (1844)
"scarifying, OR GRUBBING. What is called, in England, the scarifying or grubbing
of land, is little else than harrowing it with a deeper and stronger ..."
3. Handbook of Cost Data for Contractors and Engineers: A Reference Book Giving by Halbert Powers Gillette (1910)
"Cost of scarifying Macadam By Hand.—Mr. Thomas Aitken Is authority for the
following English data: When a macadam surface is to be picked, or scarified, ..."
4. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"vivid snapshots of the Paris barricades. . . and a few scarifying pictures ...
1965 with two bullet holes in his car and a scarifying tale to go with them ..."
5. General Report of the Agricultural State, and Political Circumstances, of by Sir John Sinclair (1814)
"The expence, consequently, of scuffling or scarifying one acre of land may be
estimated at from one shilling and sixpence to two shillings and threepence. ..."
6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"... acidity: filtrating the black precipitate in which all the ¡;old and silver
are retained ; and scarifying the precipitate with 50 grammes of litharge. ..."
7. Handbook of Cost Data for Contractors and Engineers: A Reference Book Giving by Halbert Powers Gillette (1905)
"Cost of scarifying Macadam.—Mr. Thomas Aitken is authority for the following
English data: When a macadam surface is to be picked, or scarified, by hand, ..."
8. The Ready-reference handbook of diseases of the skin by George Thomas Jackson (1896)
"... and destroy the cells left behind by the curette. A second or third course
may be necessary. Piffard prefers to touch the Flu. 38. scarifying- ..."
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