scabrous

Example Sentences

• "After the incident with the gasoline, Noel’s burnt arm remained scabrous and was susceptible to infections."
• "I was ſurpriz'd to ſee Mars continue quite round, though hardly, to Appearance, disjoin'd from the ſcabrous Edge of the Moon; but that Inſtant I thought it began to loſe its Figure.—Clouds."
• "Lumbricus ſcaber. The rough Lumbricus. The Sea-worm. This ſpecies grows to a foot, or more, in length, and to the thickneſs of a man's finger. It is of a pale red colour, and is compoſed of a number of rings or annular joints, as it were, in the manner of the other; but the ſkin is ſcabrous, and all theſe rings are covered with little prominences, ſo that it is extreamly rough to the touch."
• "[Helianthus] frondosus, […] stem smooth below, leaves lance ovate, remotely and acutely serrate, scabrous above, paler and sub-scabrous beneath, 3-nerved: peduncles scabrous; petiole ciliate; calyx squarose, undulate, leafy, ciliate: rays 8-flowered."
• "The Veins of old Persons are apt to become varicose and this is where the greatest column of Blood—the Valves loosing ^([sic]) their power is the cause of the disease. The Blood by this Means is not kept from gravitating to yᵉ foot the Consequences are Scabrous Skin and Ulcers."
• "The novel was a flagrantly scabrous bodice-ripper, and Rachael was ashamed to read it in public."