scarify
verb (used with object)
to make scratches or superficial incisions in (the skin), to produce an immune response or administer certain injections.
scarifier
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a word derived from
scarify.
Example Sentences
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In like manner each group of people possesses its scarifier, who by practice becomes adept.
From Negritos of Zambales by William Allan Reed
Two Years in Fiji," we read, "Among the appliances which I had brought with me to Fiji, from Sydney, were a stethoscope and a scarifier.
From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
When the soil has weathered a few weeks, the scarifier or cultivator should be run over it once monthly until May.
From The Cauliflower by A. A. (Arthur Alger) Crozier
But something was still wanting for the better preparation of land for seed—this is the scarifier or cultivator; which, according to Mr. Pusey, will save one half of the horse-labour employed upon the plough.
From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Charles Knight
He bought a Guillaume scarifier, a Valcourt weeder, an English drill-machine, and the great swing-plough of Mathieu de Dombasle, but the ploughboy disparaged it.
From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert
