For the loss of a husband or son (but not a daughter), they not only cut their hair, but often take off one or more joints of their fingers, and always scarify the calves of their legs.
Men mourn by cutting a little of their hair, going without leggings, and for the loss of a son, sometimes scarify their legs.
The blacks of Kanou--not the Fullans--do not scarify their faces like their neighbours.
He has only one cheek marked with the shonshona, because his mother lost all the children which she bare before him; and the custom is, when a mother thus loses her children, toscarify only one cheek.
The Western Papuans may or may not scarify their skin, as in Torres Straits, but they do not tattoo; the Melanesians tattoo themselves, especially the women.
I was informed that the men used to scarify the shoulder or the calf of the leg with the totem device, or they carried about with them pieces of their totems or effigies of them.
To relieve their wearied legs and feet after long marches, they scarify the former with sharp flints.
When fatigued by travel they scarify their legs with a sharpened reed or snakes' teeth.
An' yer hear me, I's gwine see dat somebody got ter scarify yer hides.
I'll give you half an hour, and you can't do it--scarify and put twelve tumblers on him.
We intend," exclaimed the chairman with great deliberation, "to scarify the old wounds of the rebels until they bleed afresh.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scarify" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
