scabredity

English

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Etymology

From Latin scabrēdō (“roughness of the skin, scabbiness”) + -ity.

Noun

scabredity (uncountable)

(obsolete, rare) Roughness (of a surface).
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
  concavities about the eyes, wrinkles, pimples, red streaks, freckles, hairs, warts, næves, inequalities, roughness, scabredity, paleness, yellowness, and as many colours as are in a turkeycock's neck
- 1909 May, James E. McDonald, “The Broad-Leaved Wood Garlic or Ramsons”, in The Naturalist‎^[1], number 628, page 199:
  The scabredity of the pedicels may possibly be of some mechanical assistance in the splitting of the spathe.
- 1927, Jan Theodoor Henrard, “A Critical Revision of the Genus Aristida”, in Mededeelingen van's Rijks Herbarium‎^[2], volume 54A, number 1, page 265:
  In the description the lemma is described as „exceeding the glumes“, which is often the case in A. adscensionis, the awns are described as „barbatae“, an unusual denotation of the scabredity of the awns.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scabredity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)