This Scarification is usually accomplished with a knife, or, as in earlier days, with a flint.
"A further contribution to the study of the mortuary customs of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 87-204"
H. C. Yarrow
Scarification of the epiglottis and ary-epiglottic folds with a knife, followed by free bleeding, may give complete relief.
"Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition."
Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson
It was what Glenfernie might choose to term the betrayal of friendship-a deep Scarification of Old Steadfast's pride, a severing cut given to his too imperial confidence, poison dropped into the wells of domination, "No!"
"Foes"
Mary Johnston