(skär) noun
1. The mark left on the skin after the healing of a wound or sore; a cicatrix.
2. Any mark resulting from past injury: often applied figuratively to the effects on a character of crimes or sorrows.
3. The mark left on or made by an organ, as by leaves after separation from a stem or branch.
4. An indentation or mark made by use, motion, or contact.
—v.t. & v.i. scarred, scar·ring To mark or become marked with a scar. [<OF escare <LL eschara a scab <Gk.]
—scar′less adjective

(skär) noun
1. A bare rock standing alone.
2. A cliff or rocky place on the side of a hill or mountain. Also, Scot., scaur. [<ON sker]