n. & adj. (in full saxe blue; as adj. Often hyphenated) light greyish-blue colour. [french, = saxony]

abbr. Save-as-you-earn.

—n. - crust over a healing cut, sore, etc.

- (often attrib.) Colloq. Derog. Blackleg.

- skin disease, esp. In animals.

- fungous plant disease. —v. (-bb-) 1 colloq. Derog. Act as a blackleg.

- form a scab, heal over. scabby adj. (-ier, -iest). [old norse: cf. *shabby]

n. Us slang trick, fraud. [origin unknown]

—v. (-nn-) 1 look at intently or quickly.

- (of a verse etc.) Be metrically correct.

- a examine (a surface etc.) To detect radioactivity etc. B traverse (a particular region) with a radar etc. Beam.

- resolve (a picture) into its elements of light and shade for esp. Television transmission.

- analyse the metrical structure of (verse).

- obtain an image of (part of the body) using a scanner. —n. - scanning.

- image obtained by scanning. [latin scando climb, scan]

—n. - usu. Permanent mark on the skin from a wound etc.

- emotional damage from grief etc.

- sign of damage.

- mark left on a plant by the loss of a leaf etc. —v. (-rr-) 1 (esp. As scarred adj.) Mark with a scar or scars (scarred for life).

- form a scar. [french eschar(r)e]

- n. (also scaur) steep craggy outcrop of a mountain or cliff. [old norse, = reef]

v. (-tt-) (usu. In imper.) Colloq. Depart quickly. [perhaps an abbreviation of *scatter]

- —n. Wordless jazz singing. —v. (-tt-) sing scat. [probably imitative]

n. - native of scotland.

- person of scottish descent. [latin scottus]

n. Esp. Us flat-bottomed boat. [dutch]

—v. (-dd-) 1 move straight and fast; skim along (scudding clouds).

- naut. Run before the wind. —n. - spell of scudding.

- scudding motion.

- vapoury driving clouds or shower. [perhaps an alteration of *scut]