Scarp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scarped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scarping.] To
cut down perpendicularly, or nearly so; as, to scarp the face of a
ditch or a rock.
From scarped cliff and quarried stone.
Tennyson.
Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain.
Emerson.
Scar"ring (?), n. A scar; a mark.
We find upon the limestone rocks the scarrings of the ancient
glacier which brought the bowlder here.
Tyndall.
Scar"ry (?), a. Bearing scars or marks of wounds.
Scar"ry, a. [See 4th Scar.] Like a scar, or rocky eminence; containing
scars. Holinshed.
||Sca"rus (?), n. [L. See Scar a kind of fish.] (Zoöl.) A Mediterranean
||food fish (Sparisoma scarus) of excellent quality and highly valued
||by the Romans; -- called also parrot fish.
Sca"ry (?), n. [Prov. E. scare scraggy.] Barren land having only a thin
coat of grass. [Prov. Eng.]
Scar"y (?), a. [From Scare.] 1. Subject to sudden alarm. [Colloq. U.
S.] Whittier.