scourge-refers to the expression: it damages someone's health by causing them a disease
In principle, Scourge is the red mark that leaves some disease in the skin and betrays the bearer, who tends to be marginalized; By metonymy the infected one becomes a scourge and the term expands to any unadvisable person as a company. The definition of Francisco Javier Gómez Mandujano is rather for sealing, that by coloring of Vermilion originated the name for the skin spots, because someone saw the similarity. It appears to be an oriental voice, brought to the west by the Arabs as 1604; 1603; 1617; (Lakk "Lacquer, sealant varnish"), which was Latinized as "lacquer" and for some reason in Portuguese mutated to wax to derive in the female form that occupies us.
In Colombia it means the worst, most evil. Scab, scab, dirt, scar, prejudice, damage, Vice, defect, prejudice, brand, signal, stigma, footprint.
SCOURGE: In Cuba and Uruguay, depraved person.
LACRA:MARCA, SIGN, SEAL, STIGMA.DEFAULT, VICE.
SCOURGE also meets the material with which are sealed envelopes that continent transcendental and important documents, for example a testament, or the name of a winner that was kept secret until a given time.The scourge is a material pegajozo that is used to avoid that an envelope is violated. At the beginning is an easy to handle mass but shortly thereafter it is dried and if the above where is violated dequebraja leaving traces of suffering rape.