SCAB'BARD, noun The sheath of a sword.

SCAB'BARD, verb transitive To put in a sheath.

SCAB'BED, adjective [from scab.]

1. Abounding with scabs; diseased with scabs.

2. Mean; paltry; vile; worthless.

SCAB'BEDNESS, noun The state of being scabbed.

SCAB'BINESS, noun [from scabby.] The quality of being scabby.

SCAB'BY, adjective [from scab.]

1. Affected with scabs; full of scabs.

2. Diseased with the scab or mange; mangy.

SCA'BIOUS, adjective [Latin scabisus, from scabies, scab.]

Consisting of scabs; rough itch; leprous; as scabious eruptions.

SCA'BIOUS, noun A plant of the genus Scabiosa.

SCABRED'ITY, noun [Latin scabredo, scabrities.] Roughness; ruggedness. [Not in use.]

SCA'BROUS, adjective [Latin scabrosus, scaber, from scabies, scab.

1. Rough; rugged; having sharp points.

2. Harsh; unmusical.

SCA'BROUSNESS, noun Roughness; ruggedness.

SCAB'WORT, noun A plant, a species of Helenium.

SCAD, noun

1. A fish, the shad which see.

2. A fish of the genus Caranx.

SCAF'FOLD, noun [The last syllable is the Latin fala.]

1. Among builders, an assemblage or structure of timbers, boards or planks, erected by the wall of a building to support the workmen.

2. A temporary gallery or stage raised either for shows or spectators.

3. A stage or elevated platform for the execution of a criminal.

SCAF'FOLD, verb transitive To furnish with a scaffold; to sustain; to uphold.

SCAF'FOLDAGE, noun A gallery; a hollow floor.

SCAF'FOLDING, noun

1. A frame or structure for support in an elevated place.

2. That which sustains; a frame; as the scaffolding of the body.

3. Temporary structure for support.

4. Materials for scaffolds.

SCA'LABLE, adjective That may be sealed.

SCALA'DE,

SCALA'DO, noun [Latin scala, a latter. See Scale.]

A storm or assault on a fortified place, in which the soldiers enter the place by means of ladders. It is written also escalade.

SCALA'DO, n. [L. scala, a latter. See Scale.]

SCA'LARY, adjective Resembling a ladder; formed with steps. [Little used.]

SCALD, verb transitive [Latin caleo, caida, calidus. I suppose the primary sense of caleo is to contract, to draw, to make hard.]

1. To burn or painfully affect and injure by immersion in or contact with a liquor of a boiling heat, or a heat approaching it; as, to scald the hand or foot. We scald the part, when the heat of the liquor applied is so violent as to injure the skin and flesh. scald is sometimes used to express the effect of the heat of other substances than liquids.

Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.

2. To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in water or other liquor; as, to scald meat or milk.

SCALD, noun [supra.] A burn, or injury to the skin and flesh by hot liquor.

SCALD, noun Scab; scurf on the head.

SCALD, adjective Scurvy; paltry; poor; as scald rhymers.

SCALD, noun

Among the ancient Scandinavians, a poet; one whose occupation was to compose poems in honor of distinguished men and their achievements, and to recite and sing them on public occasions. The scalds of Denmark and Sweden answered to the bards of the Britons or Celts.

SCALD'ED, participle passive Injured by a hot liquor; exposed to boiling heat.

SCALD'ER, noun A scald; a Scandinavian poet.

SCALD'HEAD, noun [See Scald.] A lothesome affection of the head, in which it is covered with a continuous scab.

SCALD'IC, adjective Pertaining to the scalds or poets of antiquity; composed by scalds.

SCALD'ING, participle present tense

1. Burning or injuring by hot liquor.

2. Exposing to a boiling heat in liquor.

SCALE, noun [Latin id. If the sense is to strip, it coincides with the Gr. to spoil.]

1. The dish of a balance; and hence, the balance itself, or whole instrument; as, to turn the scale

Long time in even scale the battle hung.

But in general, we use the plural, scales, for the whole instrument.

The scales are turn'd; her kindness weights no more now than my vows.

2. The sign of the balance or Libra, in the zodiac.

3. The small shell or crust which composes a part of the covering of a fish; and hence, any thin layer or leaf exfoliated or separated; a thin lamin; as scales of iron or of bone.

The scales of fish consist of alternate layers of membrane and phosphate of lime. The scales of serpents are composed of a horny membrane, without the calcarious phosphate.

4. A ladder; series of steps; means of ascending. [Latin scala.]

5. The art of storming a place by mounting the wall on ladders; an escalade, or scalade.

6. A mathematical instrument of wood or metal, on which are marked line and figures for the purpose of measuring distances, extent or proportions; as a plain scale; a diagonal scale

7. Regular gradation; a series rising by steps or degrees like those of a ladder. Thus we speak of the scale of being, in which man occupies a higher rank than brutes, and angels a higher rank than man.

8. Any instrument, figure or scheme, graduated for the purpose of measuring extent or proportions as a map drawn by a scale of half an inch to a league.

9. In music, a gamut; a diagram; or a series of lines and spaces rising one above another, on which notes are placed; or a scale consists of the regular gradations of sounds. A scale may be limited to an octave, called by the Greeks a tetrachord, or it may extend to the compass of any voice or instrument.

10. Any thing graduated or marked with degrees at equal distances.

SCALE, verb transitive

1. To climb, as by a ladder; to ascend by steps; and applied to the walls of a fortified place, to mount in assault or storm.

Oft have I scal'd the craggy oak.

2. [from scale a balance.] To measure; to compare; to weight.

3. [from scale the covering of a fish.] to strip or clear of scales; as, to scale a fish.

4. To take off in thin lamins or scales.

5. To pare off a surface.

If all the mountains were scaled, and the earth made even -

6. In the north of England, to spread, as manure or loose substances; also, to disperse; to waste.

7. In gunnery, to clean the inside of a cannon by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.

SCALE, verb intransitive To separate and come off in thin layers or lamins.

The old shells of the lobster scale off.

SCA'LED, participle passive

1. Ascended by ladders or steps; cleared of scales; pared; scattered.

2. adjective Having scales like a fish; squamous; as a scaled snake.

SCA'LELESS, adjective Destitute of scales.

SCALE'NE,

SCALE'NOUS, adjective [Gr. oblique, unequal.]

A scalene triangle, is one whose sides and angles are unequal.

SCALE'NE, noun a scalene triangle.

SCALE'NOUS, a. [Gr. oblique, unequal.]

SCA'LINESS, noun [from scaly.] the state of being scaly; roughness.

SCA'LING, participle present tense

1. Ascending by ladders or steps; storming.

2. Stripping of scales.

3. Peeling; paring.

SCALL, noun [See Scald and Scaldhead.]

Scab; scabbiness; leprosy.

It is a dry scall even a leprosy on the head. Leviticus 13:30.

SCAL'LION, noun [ascalonia.]

a plant of the genus Allium; a variety of the common onion, which never forms a bulb at the root.

SCAL'LOP, noun [This is from the root of shell, scale; coinciding with scalp.]

1. A shell fish, or rather a genus of shell fish, called pecten. The shell is bivalvular, the hinge toothless, having a small ovated hollow. The great scallop is rugged and imbricated with scales, grows to a large size, and in some countries is taken and barreled for market.

2. A recess or curving of the edge of any thing, like the segment of a circle; written also scallop

SCAL'LOP, verb transitive To mark or cut the edge or border of any thing into segments of circles.

SCALP, noun [Latin scalpo.]

1. The skin of the top of the head; as a hairless scalp

2. The skin of the top of the head cut or torn off. A scalp among the Indians of America is a trophy of victory.

SCALP, verb transitive To deprive of the scalp or integuments of the head.

SCALP'ED, participle passive Deprived of the skin of the head.

SCALP'EL, noun [Latin scalpellum, from scalpo, to scrape.]

In surgery, a knife used in anatomical dissections and surgical operations.

SCALP'ER,

SCALP'ING, participle present tense Depriving of the skin of the top of the head.

SCALP'ING, ppr. Depriving of the skin of the top of the head.

SCA'LY, adjective [from scale.]

1. Covered or abounding with scales; rough; as a scaly fish; the scaly crocodile.

2. Resembling scales, lamina or layers.

3. In botany, composed of scales lying over each other, as a scaly bulb; having scales scattered over it, as a scaly stem.

SCAM'BLE, verb intransitive

1. To stir quick; to be busy; to scramble; to be bold or turbulent.

2. To shift awkwardly.

SCAM'BLE, verb transitive To mangle; to maul.

SCAM'BLER, noun A bold intruder upon the generosity or hospitality of others.

SCAM'BLING, participle present tense Stirring; scrambling; intruding.

SCAM'BLINGLY, adverb With turbulence and noise; with bold intrusiveness.

SCAM'MEL, noun A bird.

SCAMMO'NIATE, adjective [from scammony.] Made with scammony. [Not used.]

SCAM'MONY, noun [Latin scammonia.]

1. A plant of the genus convolvulus.

2. A gum resin, obtained from the plant of that name, of a blackish gray color, a strong nauseous smell, and a bitter and very acrid taste. The best scammony comes from Aleppo, in light spungy masses, easily friable. That of Smyrna is black, ponderous, and mixed with extraneous matter.

SCAMP'ER, verb intransitive

To run with speed; to hasten escape.

SCAMP'ERING, participle present tense Running with speed; hastening in flight.

SCAN, verb transitive [Latin ascendo. See Ascend.]

1. To examine with critical care; to scrutinize.

The actions of men in high stations are all conspicuous, and liable to be scanned and sifted.

2. To examine a verse by counting the feet; or according to modern usage, to recite or measure verse by distinguishing the feet in pronunciation. Thus in Latin and Greek, a hexameter verse is resolved into six feet by scanning, and the true quantities are determined.

SCAN'DAL, noun [Latin scandalum; Gr. In Greek, this word signifies a stumbling block, something against which a person impinges, or which causes him to fall.]

1. Offense given by the faults of another.

His lustful orgies he enlarg'd even to the hill of scandal

[In this sense, we now generally use offense.]

2. Reproachful aspersion; opprobrious censure; defamatory speech or report; something uttered which is false and injurious to reputation.

My known virtue is from scandal free.

3. Shame; reproach; disgrace. Such is the perverted state of the human mind that some of the most heinous crimes bring little scandal upon the offender.

SCAN'DAL, verb transitive

1. To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to blacken character.

I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, and after scandal them. [Little used.]

2. To scandalize; to offend. [Not used.]

SCAN'DALIZE, verb transitive [Gr. Latin scandalizo.]

1. To offend by some action supposed criminal.

I demand who they are whom we scandalize by using harmless things?

2. To reproach; to disgrace; to defame; as a scandalizing libeler.

SCAN'DALIZED, participle passive Offended; defamed; disgraced.

SCAN'DALIZING, participle present tense Giving offense to; disgracing.

SCAN'DALOUS, adjective

1. Giving offense.

Nothing scandalous or offensive to any.

2. Opprobrious; disgraceful to reputation; that brings shame or infamy; as a scandalous crime or vice. How perverted must be the mind that considers seduction or dueling less scandalous than larceny!

3. Defamatory.

SCAN'DALOUSLY, adverb

1. Shamefully; in a manner to give offense.

His discourse at table was scandalously unbecoming the dignity of his station.

2. Censoriously; with a disposition to find fault; as a critic scandalously nice.

SCAN'DALOUSNESS, noun The quality of being scandalous; the quality of giving offense, or of being disgraceful.

Scandalum magnatum, in law, a defamatory speech or writing made or published to the injury of a person of dignity.

SCAND'ENT, adjective [Latin scandens, scando, to climb.]

Climbing, either with spiral tendrils for its support, or by adhesive fibers, as a stalk; climbing; performing the office of a tendril, as a petiole.

SCAN'NED, participle passive Critically sifted or examined; resolved into feet in recital.

SCAN'NING, participle present tense Critically examining; resolving into feet, as verse.

SCAN'SION, noun The act of scanning.

SCANT, verb transitive

To limit; to straiten; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries; to scant a garment in cloth.

I am scanted in the pleasure of dwelling on your actions.

SCANT, verb intransitive To fail or become less; as, the wind scants.

SCANT, adjective

1. Not full, large or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; rather less than is wanted for the purpose; as a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment.

2. Sparing; parsimonious; cautiously affording.

Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence. [Not in use.]

3. Not fair, free or favorable for a ship's course; as a scant wind.

SCANT, adverb Scarcely; hardly; not quite.

The people - received of the bankers scant twenty shillings for thirty. [Obsolete or vulgar.]

SCANT'ILY, adverb [from scanty.]

1. Not fully; not plentifully. the troops were scantily supplied with flour.

2. Sparingly; niggardly; as, to speak scantily of one. [Unusual.]

SCANT'INESS, noun

1. Narrowness; want of space or compass; as the scantiness of our heroic verse.

2. Want of amplitude, greatness or abundance; limited extent.

Alexander was much troubled at the scantiness of nature itself.

3. Want of fullness; want of sufficiency; as the scantiness of supplies.

SCANT'LE, verb transitive To be deficient; to fail.

SCANT'LE, verb intransitive To divide into thin or small pieces; to shiver.

SCANT'LET, noun [See Scantling.] A small pattern; a small quantity. [Not in use.]

SCANT'LING, noun

1. A pattern; a quantity cut for a particular purpose.

2. A small quantity; as a scantling of wit.

3. A certain proportion or quantity.

4. In the United States, timber sawed or cut into pieces of a small size, as for studs, rails, etc. This seems to be allied to the Latin scandula, and it is the sense in which I have ever heard it used in this country.

5. In seamen's language, the dimensions of a piece of timber, with regard to its breadth and thickness.

SCANT'LING, adjective Not plentiful; small. [Not in use.]

SCANT'LY, adverb

1. Scarcely; hardly. obsolete

2. Not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously; without amplitude.

SCANT'NESS, noun [from scant.] Narrowness; smallness; as the scantness of our capacities.

SCANT'Y, adjective [from scant, and having the same signification.]

1. Narrow; small; wanting amplitude or extent.

His dominions were very narrow and scanty

Now scantier limits the proud arch confine.

2. Poor; not copious or full; not ample; hardly sufficient; as a scanty language; a scanty supply of words; a scantly supply of bread.

3. Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious.

In illustrating a point of difficulty, be not too scanty of words.

SCAP'AISM, noun [Gr. to dig or make hollow.]

Among the Persians, a barbarous punishment inflicted on criminals by confining them in a hollow tree till they died.

SCAPE, verb transitive To escape; a contracted word, not now used except in poetry, and with a mark of elision. [See Escape.]

SCAPE, noun

1. An escape. [See Escape.]

2. Means of escape; evasion.

3. Freak; aberration; deviation.

4. Loose act of vice or lewdness. [Obsolete in all its senses.

SCAPE, noun [Latin scopus; probably allied to scipio, and the Gr. scepter.]

In botany, a stem bearing the fructification without leaves, as in the narcissus and hyacinth.

SCA'PELESS, adjective [from scape.] In botany, destitute of a scape.

SCA'PEMENT, noun The method of communicating the impulse of the wheels to the pendulum of a clock.

SCA'PHITE, noun [Latin scapha.] Fossil remains of the scapha.

SCAP'OLITE, noun [Gr. a rod, and a stone.]

A mineral which occurs massive, or more commonly in four or eight sides prisms, terminated by four sided pyramids. It takes its name from its long crystals, often marked with deep longitudinal channels, and collected in groups or masses of parallel, diverging or intermingled prisms. It is the radiated, foliated and compact scapolite of Jameson, and the paranthine and Wernerite of Hauy and Brongniart.

SCAP'ULA, noun [Latin] The shoulder blade.

SCAP'ULAR, adjective [Latin scapularis.] Pertaining to the shoulder, or to the scapula; as the scapular arteries.

SCAP'ULAR, noun [supra.]

1. In anatomy, the name of two pairs of arteries, and as many veins.

2. In ornithology, a feather which springs from the shoulder of the wing, and lies along the side of the back.

SCAP'ULARY, noun A part of the habit of certain religious orders in the Romish church, consisting of two narrow slips of cloth worn over the gown, covering the back and breast, and extending to the feet. This is worn as a badge of peculiar veneration for the virgin Mary.

SC'AR, noun

1. A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal made by a wound or an ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed. The soldier is proud of his scars.

2. Any mark or injury; a blemish.

The earth had the beauty of youth - and not a wrinkle, scar or fracture on its body.

3. [Latin scarus; Gr.] A fish of the Labrus kind.

SC'AR, verb transitive To mark with a scar

SCAR'AB,

SCAR'ABEE, noun [Latin scarabaeus, from Gr.]

A beetle; an insect of the genus Scarabaeus, whose wings are cased. [See Beetle.]

SCAR'ABEE, n. [L. scarabaeus, from Gr.]

SCAR'AMOUCH, noun

A buffoon in motley dress.

SCARCE, adjective

1. Not plentiful or abundant; being in small quantity in proportion to the demand. We say, water is scarce wheat, rye, barley is scarce money is scarce when the quantity is not fully adequate to the demand.

2. Being few in number and scattered; rare; uncommon. Good horses are scarce

The scarcest of all is a Pescennius Niger on a medallion well preserved.

SCARCELY, adverb

1. Hardly; scantly.

We scarcely think our miseries our foes.

2. Hardly; with difficulty.

Slowly he sails, and scarcely stems the tides.

SCARCENESS,

SCARCITY, noun

1. Smallness of quantity, or smallness in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency defeat of plenty; penury; as a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties; a scarcity of lovely women.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity.

A scarcity of snow would raise a mutiny at Naples.

2. Rareness; infrequency.

The value of an advantage is enhanced by its scarceness

Root of scarcity, the mangold-wurzel, a variety of the white beet.

SCARCITY, n.

SCARE, verb transitive [Latin ex and cor, heart; but qu.]

To fright; to terrify suddenly; to strike with sudden terror.

The noise of thy crow-bow will scare the herd, and so my shot is lost.

To scare away, to drive away by frightening.

SCARECROW, noun [scarce and crow.]

1. Any frightful thing set up to frighten crows or other fowls from corn fields; hence, any thing terrifying without danger; a vain terror.

A scarecrow set to frighten fools away.

2. A fowl of the sea gull kind; the black gull.

SCARED, participle passive Frightened; suddenly terrified.

SCAREFIRE, noun A fire breaking out so as to frighten people. [Not used.]

SCARF, noun plural scarfs

Something that hangs loose upon the shoulders; as a piece of cloth.

Put on your hood and scarf

SC'ARF, verb transitive

1. To throw loosely on.

2. To dress in a loose vesture.

SC'ARF, verb transitive To join; to piece; to unite two pieces of timber at the ends, by letting the end of one into the end of the other, or by laying the two ends together and fastening a third piece to both.

SC'ARFSKIN, noun [scarf and skin.] The cuticle; the epidermis; the outer thin integument of the body.

SCARIFICA'TION, noun [Latin scarificatio. See Scarify.]

In surgery, the operation of making several incisions in the skin with a lancet or other cutting instrument, particularly the cupping instrument.

SCARIFICA'TOR, noun An instrument used in scarification.

SCAR'IFIER, noun [from scarify.]

1. The person who scarifies.

2. The instrument used for scarifying.

SCAR'IFY, verb transitive [Latin scarifico. Gr. Latin facio, to make. But the Greek is from a pointed instrument, or a sharp pointed piece of wood.]

To scratch or cut the skin of an animal, or to make small incisions by means of a lancet or cupping instrument, so as to draw blood from the smaller vessels without opening a large vein.

SCAR'IFYING, participle present tense Making small incisions in the skin with an instrument.

SCA'RIOUS, adjective [Low Latin scarrosus, rough.] In botany, tough, thin

SCA'RIOUS, adjective [Low Latin scarrosus, rough.] In botany, tough, thin and semi-transparent, dry and sonorous to the touch; as a perianth.

SCARLATI'NA, noun the scarlet fever; called in popular language, the canker rash.

SCARLAT'INOUS, adjective Of a scarlet color; pertaining to the scarlet fever.

SC'ARLET, noun

1. A beautiful bright red color, brighter than crimson.

2. Cloth of a scarlet color.

All her household are clothed with scarlet Proverbs 31:21.

SC'ARLET, adjective of the color called scarlet; of a bright red color; as a scarlet cloth or thread; a scarlet lip.

SC'ARMAGE,

SC'ARMOGE, peculiar modes of spelling skirmish. [Not in use or local.]

SC'ARMOGE, peculiar modes of spelling skirmish. [Not in use or local.]

SC'ARN, noun Dung. [Not in use or local.]

SC'ARP, noun

In fortification, the interior talus or slope of the ditch next the place, at the foot of the rampart.

SC'ARP, noun In heraldry, the scarf which military commanders wear for ornament; borne somewhat like a battoon sinister, but broader, and continued to the edges of the field.

SCA'RUS, noun A fish. [See Scar.]

SCA'RY, noun Barren land having only a thin coat of grass upon it. [Local.]

SCATCH, noun A kind of horsebit for bridles.

SCATCH'ES, noun plural Stilts to put the feet in for walking in dirty places.

SCATE, noun [This word may belong to the root of shoot, and Latin scateo.]

A wooden shoe furnished with a steel plate for sliding on ice.

SCATE, verb intransitive To slide or move on scates.

SCATE, noun [Latin squatina, squatus.] A fish, a species of ray.

SCA'TEBROUS, adjective [Latin scatebra, a spring; scateo, to overflow.] Abounding with springs.

SCATH, verb transitive To damage; to waste; to destroy. [Little used.]

SCATH, noun Damage; injury; waste; harm. [Little used.]

SCATH'FUL, adjective Without waste or damage. [Little used.]

SCATH'LESS, adjective Without waste or damage. [Little used.]

SCAT'TER, verb transitive [Latin scateo, discutio; Gr. to scatter to discuss. This word may be formed on the root of discutio. The primary sense is to drive or throw.]

1. To disperse; to dissipate; to separate or remove things to a distance from each other.

From thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. Genesis 11:9.

I will scatter you among the heathen. Leviticus 26:33.

2. To throw loosely about; to sprinkle; as, to scatter seed in sowing.

Teach the glad hours to scatter as they fly, soft quiet, gentle love and endless joy.

3. To spread or set thinly.

Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, their scatter'd cottages, and ample plains.

SCAT'TER, verb intransitive

1. To be dispersed or dissipated. The clouds scatter after a storm.

2. To be liberal to the poor; to be charitable. Proverbs 11:24.

SCAT'TERED, participle passive

1. Dispersed; dissipated; thinly spread; sprinkled or thinly spread over.

2. In botany, irregular in position; without any apparent regular order; as scattered branches.

SCAT'TEREDLY, adverb In a dispersed manner; separately. [Not much used.]

SCAT'TERING, participle present tense

1. Dispersing; spreading thinly; sprinkling.

2. adjective Not united; divided among many; as scattering votes.

SCAT'TERINGLY, adverb Loosely; in a dispersed manner; thinly; as habitations scatteringly placed over the country.

SCAT'TERLING, noun A vagabond; one that no fixed habitation or residence. [Little used.]

SCATU'RIENT, adjective [Latin scaturiens.] Springing, as the water of a fountain. [Not used.]

SCATURIG'INOUS, adjective [Latin scaturigo.] Abounding with springs. [Not used.]

SCAUP, noun A fowl of the duck kind.

SCAV'AGE, noun

In ancient customs, a toll or duty exacted of merchant-strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc. for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts.

SCAV'ENGER, noun [Latin scabio.]

A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping and carrying off the filth.

SCEL'ERAT, noun [Latin sceleratus.] a villain; a criminal. [Not in use.]

SCENE, noun [Latin scena; Gr. Heb. The Greek word signifies a tent, hut or cottage. In Latin it is an arbor or stage. The primary sense is to set or throw down.]

1. A stage; the theater or place where dramatic pieces and other shows are exhibited. It does not appear that the ancients changed the scenes in different parts of the play. Indeed the original scene for acting was an open plat of ground, shaded or slightly covered.

2. The whole series of actions and events connected and exhibited; or the whole assemblage of objects displayed at one view. Thus we say, the execution of a malefactor is a melancholy scene The crucifixion of our Saviour was the most solemn scene ever presented to the view of man.

We say also, a scene of sorrow or of rejoicing, a noble scene a sylvan scene

A charming scene of nature is display'd.

3. A part of a play; a division of an act. A play is divided into acts, and acts are divided into scenes.

4. So much of an act of a play as represents what passes between the same persons in the same place.

5. The place represented by the sate. The scene was laid in the king's palace.

6. The curtain or hanging of a theater adapted to the play.

7. The place where any thing is exhibited.

The world is a vast scene of strife.

8. Any remarkable exhibition.

The shepherds, while watching their flocks upon the plains of Bethehem, were suddenly interrupted by one of the most sublime and surprising scenes which have ever been exhibited on earth.

SCE'NERY, noun The appearance of a place, or of the various objects presented to view; or the various objects themselves as seen together. Thus we may say, the scenery of the landscape presented to the view from mount Holyoke, in Hampshire county, Massachusetts, is highly picturesque, and exceeded only by the scenery of Boston and its vicinity, as seen from the State house.

Never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery

2. The representation of the place in which an action is performed.

3. The disposition and consecution of the scenes of a play.

4. The paintings representing the scenery of a play.

SCEN'IC,

SCEN'ICAL, adjective [Latin scenicus.] Pertaining to scenery; dramatic; theatrical.

SCEN'ICAL, a. [L. scenicus.] Pertaining to scenery; dramatic; theatrical.

SCENOGRAPH'IC,

SCENOGRAPH'ICAL, adjective [See scenography.] Pertaining to scenography; drawn in perspective.

SCENOGRAPH'ICAL, a. [See scenography.] Pertaining to scenography; drawn in perspective.

SCENOGRAPH'ICALLY, adverb In perspective.

SCENOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. scene, to describel.]

the representation of a body on a perspective plane; or a description of it in all its dimensions as it appears to the eye.

SCENT, noun [Latin sentio, to perceive.]

1. Odor; smell; that substance which issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals; as the scent of an orange or an apple; the scent of musk. The word is applicable to any odor, agreeable or offensive.

2. The power of smelling; the smell; as a house of nice scent

3. chase followed by the scent; course of pursuit; track.

He travelled upon the same scent into Ethiopia.

SCENT, verb transitive

1. to smell; to perceive by the olfactory organs; as, to scent game, as a hound.

2. To perfume; to imbue or fill with odor, good or bad. Aromatic plants scent the room. some persons scent garments with musk; others scent their snuff.

SCENT'FUL, adjective

1. Odorous; yielding much smell.

2. Of quick smell.

SCENT'LESS, adjective Inodorous; destitute of smell.

SCEP'TER, noun [Latin sceptrum; Gr. from to send or thrust; coinciding with Latin scipio, that is, a shoot or rod.]

1. A staff or batoon borne by kings on solemn occasions, as a badge of authority. Hence,

2. The appropriate ensign of royalty; an ensign of higher antiquity than the crown. Hence,

3. Royal power or authority; as, to assume the scepter

The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, till Shiloh come. Genesis 49:1.

4. A constellation.

SCEP'TER, verb transitive To invest with royal authority, or with the ensign of authority.

SCEP'TERED, adjective Bearing a scepter; as a sceptered prince.

To Britain's queen the scepter'd suppliant bends.

Gold-scepter'd Juno.

SCEP'TIC, noun [Gr. from to look about, to consider, to speculate. See Show.]

1. One who doubts the truth and reality of any principle or system of principles or doctrines. In philosophy, a Pyrrhonist or follower of Pyrrho, the founder of a sect of sceptical philosophers, who maintained that no certain inferences can be drawn from the reports of the senses, and who therefore doubted of every thing.

2. In theology, a person who doubts the existence and perfections of God, or the truth of revelation; one who disbelieves the divine original of the christian religion.

Suffer not your faith to be shaken by the sophistries of sceptics.

SCEP'TICAL, adjective

1. Doubting; hesitating to admit the certainty of doctrines or principles; doubting of every thing.

2. Doubting or denying the truth of revelation.

The sceptical system subverts the whole foundation of morals.

SCEP'TICALLY, adverb With doubt; in a doubting manner.

SCEP'TICISM, noun

1. The doctrines and opinions of the Pyrrhonists or sceptical philosophers; universal doubt; the scheme of philosophy which denies the certainty of any knowledge respecting the phenomena of nature.

2. In theology, a doubting of the truth of revelation, or a denial of the divine origin of the christian religion, or of the being, perfections or truth of God.

Irreligious scepticism or atheistic profaneness.

Let no despondency or timidity or secret scepticism lead any one to doubt whether this blessed prospect will be realized.

SCEP'TICIZE, verb intransitive To doubt; to pretend to doubt of every thing. [Little used.]

SCES'SION, noun [L. secessio. See Secede.]

1. The act of withdrawing, particularly from followship and communion.

2. The act of departing; departure.

SE' CLE noun [L. seculum.] A century.

SCHAALSTEIN,

SCHED'ULE, noun [Latin schedula, from scheda, a sheet or leaf of paper; Gr. from to cut or divide; Latin scindo, for scido. The pronunciation ought to follow the analogy of scheme, etc.]

1. A small scroll or piece of paper or parchment, containing some writing.

2. A piece of paper or parchment annexed to a larger writing, as to a will, a deed, a lease, etc.

3. A piece of paper or parchment containing an inventory of goods.

SCHED'ULE, n. [L. schedula, from scheda, a sheet or leaf of paper; Gr. from to cut or divide; L. scindo, for scido. The pronunciation ought to follow the analogy of scheme, &c.]

SCHEE'LIN,

SCHEICH, Among the Arabians and Moors, an old man, and hence a chief, a lord, a man of eminence.

SCHEICH, Among the Arabians and Moors, an old man, and hence a chief, a lord, a man of eminence.

SCHE'LIUM, noun A different, name of tungsten, a hard brittle metal of a grayish white color, and brilliant.

SCHE'MATISM, noun [Gr. See Scheme.]

1. Combination of the aspects of heavenly bodies.

2. Particular form or disposition of a thing. [A word not much used.]

SCHE'MATIST, noun A projector; one given to forming schemes. [Schemer is more generally used.]

SCHEME, noun [Latin schema; Gr. from a contracted word, probably from to have or hold.]

1. A plan; a combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.

We shall never be able to give ourselves a satisfactory account of the divine conduct without forming such a scheme of things as shall take in time and eternity.

2. A project; a contrivance; a plan of something to be done; a design. Thus we say, to form a scheme to lay a scheme to contrive a scheme

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

3. A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies; any lineal or mathematical diagram.

SCHEME, verb transitive To plan; to contrive.

SCHEME, verb intransitive To form a plan; to contrive.

SCHE'MER, noun One that contrives; a projector; a contriver.

SCHE'MING, participle present tense

1. Planning; contriving.

2. adjective Given to forming schemes; artful.

SCHE'MIST, noun A schemer; a projector.

SCHENE, noun [Latin schaenos; Gr.] An Egyptian measure of length, equal to sixty stadia, or about 7 1/2 miles.

SCHE'SIS, noun [Gr. from to have or hold.]

Habitude; general state or disposition of the body or mind, or of one thing with regard to other things.

SCHISM, noun sizm. [Latin schisma; Gr. to divide, Latin scindo.]

1. In a general sense, division or separation; but appropriately, a division or separation in a church or denomination of christians, occasioned by diversity of opinions; breach of unity among people of the same religious faith.

- Set bounds to our passions by reason, to our errors by truth, and to our schisms by charity.

In Scripture, the word seems to denote a breach of charity, rather than a difference of doctrine.

2. Separation; division among tribes or classes of people.

SCHISMAT'IC, sizmat'ic,

SCHISMAT'ICAL, adjective sizmat'ical. Pertaining to schism; implying schism; partaking of the nature of schism; tending to schism; as schismatical opinions or proposals.

SCHISMAT'IC, noun One who separates from an established church or religious faith, on account of a diversity of opinions.

SCHISMAT'ICALLY, adverb In a schismatical manner; by separation from a church on account of a diversity of opinions.

SCHISMAT'ICALNESS, noun The state of being schismatical.

SCHIS'MATIZE, verb intransitive To commit or practice schism; to make a breach of communion in the church.

SCHISM'LESS, adjective Free from schism; not affected by schism. [Little used.]

SCHIST. [See Shist.]

SCHOL'AR, noun [Low Latin scholaris, from schola, a school; Gr. leisure, a school. See School.]

1. One who learns of a teacher; one who is under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; hence, any member of a college, academy or school; applicable to the learner of any art, science or branch of literature.

2. A man of letters.

3. Emphatically used, a man eminent for erudition; a person of high attainments in science or literature.

4. One that learns any thing; as an apt scholar in the school of vice.

5. A pedant; a man of books. [But the word scholar seldom conveys the idea of a pedant.]

SCHOLAR'ITY, noun Scholarship. [Not used.]

SCHOL'ARSHIP, noun

1. Learning; attainments in science or literature; as a man of great scholarship

2. Literary education; as any other house of scholarship [Unusual.]

3. Exhibition or maintenance for a scholar; foundation for the support of a student.

SCHOLAS'TIC,

SCHOLAS'TICAL, adjective [Latin scholasticus.]

1. Pertaining to a scholar, to a school or to schools; as scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.

2. Scholar-like; becoming a scholar; suitable to schools; as scholastic precision.

3. Pedantic; formal.

Scholastic divinity, that species of divinity taught in some schools or colleges, which consists in discussing and settling points by reason and argument. It has now fallen into contempt, except in some universities, where the charters require it to be taught.

SCHOLAS'TIC, noun One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools.

SCHOLAS'TICAL, a. [L. scholasticus.]

SCHOLAS'TICALLY, adverb In the manner of schools; according to the niceties or method of the schools.

SCHOLAS'TICISM, noun The method or subtilties of the schools.

The spirit of the old scholasticism which spurned laborious investigation and slow induction -

SCHO'LIAST, noun [Gr. See scholium.]

A commentator or annotator; one who writes notes upon the works of another for illustrating his writings.

SCHO'LIAZE, verb intransitive To write notes on an author's works. [Not used.]

SCHO'LICAL, adjective Scholastic. [Not in use.]

SCHO'LIUM, noun plural scholia or scholiums. [Latin scholion; Gr. from leisure, lucubration.]

In mathematics, a remark or observation subjoined to a demonstration.

SCHO'LY, noun A scholium. [Not in use.]

SCHO'LY, verb intransitive To write comments. [Not in use.]

SCHOOL, noun [Latin schola; Gr. leisure, vacation from business, lucubration at leisure, a place where leisure is enjoyed, a school The adverb signifies at ease, leisurely, slowly, hardly, with labor or difficulty. I think, must have been derived from the Latin. This word seems originally to have denoted leisure, freedom from business, a time given to sports, games or exercises, and afterwards time given to literary studies. the sense of a crowd, collection or shoal, seems to be derivative.]

1. A place or house in which persons are instructed in arts, science, languages or any species of learning; or the pupils assembled for instruction. In American usage, school more generally denotes the collective body of pupils in any place of instruction, and under the direction and discipline of one or more teachers. Thus we say, a school consists of fifty pupils. The preceptor has a large school or a small school His discipline keeps the school well regulated and quiet.

2. The instruction or exercises of a collection of pupils or students, or the collective body of pupils while engaged in their studies. Thus we say, the school begins or opens at eight o'clock, that is, the pupils at that hour begin their studies. so we say, the teacher is now in school the school hours are from nine to twelve, and from two to five.

3. The state of instruction.

Set him betimes to school

4. A place of education, or collection of pupils, of any kind; as the schools of the prophets. In modern usage, the word school comprehends every place of education, as university, college, academy, common or primary schools, dancing schools, riding schools, etc.; but ordinarily the word is applied to seminaries inferior to universities and colleges.

What is the great community of christians, but one of the innumerable schools in the vast plan, which God has instituted for the education of various intelligences?

5. Separate denomination or sect; or a system of doctrine taught by particular teachers, or peculiar to any denomination of christians or philosophers.

Let no man be less confident in his faith - by reason of any difference in the several schools of christians -

Thus we say, the Socratic school the Platonic school the Peripatetic or Ionic school; by which we understand all those who adopted and adhered to a particular system of opinions.

6. The seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics and theology, which were formed in the middle ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning; or the learned men who were engaged in discussing nice points in metaphysics or theology.

The supreme authority of Aristotle in the schools of theology as well as of philosophy -

Hence, school divinity is the divinity which discusses nice points, and proves every thing by argument.

7. Any place of improvement or learning. The world is an excellent school to wise men, but a school of vice to fools.

SCHOOL, verb transitive

1. To instruct; to train; to educate.

He's gentle, never school'd, yet learn'd.

2. To teach with superiority; to tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove.

SCHOOL your child, and ask why God's anointed he revil'd.

SCHOOL'-BOY, noun [See boy.] A boy belonging to a school or one who is learning rudiments.

SCHOOL'-DAME, noun [See Dame.] The female teacher of a school

SCHOOL'-DAY, noun [See Day.] The age in which youth are sent to school [Not now used.]

SCHOOL'-DISTRICT, noun A division of a town or city for establishing and conducting school [United States.]

SCHOOL'ERY, noun Something taught; precepts. [Not used.]

SCHOOL'ING, participle present tense Instructing; teaching; reproving.

SCHOOL'ING, noun

1. Instruction in school; tuition.

2. Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.

3. Reproof; reprimand. He gave his son a good schooling

SCHOOL'MAID, noun [See Maid.] A girl at school.

SCHOOL'MAN, noun [See Man.]

1. A man versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity.

Unlearn'd, he knew no schoolman's subtil art.

2. A writer of scholastic divinity or philosophy.

Let subtil schoolmen teach these friends to fight.

SCHOOL'MASTER, noun [See Master].

1. The man who presides over and teaches a school; a teacher, instructor or preceptor of a school. [Applied now only or chiefly to the teachers of primary school.]

Adrian VI. was sometimes schoolmaster to Charles V.

2. He or that which disciplines, instructs and leads.

The law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. Galatians 3:24.

SCHOOL'MISTRESS, noun [See Mistress.] A woman who governs and teaches a school.

SCHOON'ER, noun A vessel with two masts, whose main-sail and fore- sail are suspended by gaffs, like a sloop's main-sail, and stretched below by booms.

SCHORL. [See Shorl.]

SCHWARE, noun A copper coin and money of account in Bremen, value one fifth of a groat, and 72 groats make a thaler, [dollar.]

SCIAGRAPH'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to sciagraphy.

SCIAG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. a shadow, and to describe.]

1. The art of sketching or delineating.

2. In architecture, the profile or section of a building to exhibit its interior structure.

3. In astronomy, the art of finding the hour of the day or night by the shadows of objects, caused by the sun, moon or stars; the art of dialing.

SCIATHER'IC,

SCIATHER'ICAL, adjective [Gr. a shadow, and a catching.]

Belonging to a sun-dial. [Little used.]

SCIATHER'ICALLY, adverb After the manner of a sun-dial.

SCIAT'IC,

SCIAT'ICA, noun [Latin sciatica, from Gr. pain in the hips, from the hip, from the loin.] Rheumatism in the hip.

SCIAT'ICA, n. [L. sciatica, from Gr. pain in the hips, from the hip, from the loin.] Rheumatism in the hip.

SCIAT'ICAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to the hip; as the sciatic artery.

2. Affecting the hip; as sciatic pains.

SCI'ENCE, noun [Latin scientia, from scio, to know.]

1. In a general sense, knowledge, or certain knowledge; the comprehension or understanding of truth or facts by the mind. The science of God must be perfect.

2. In philosophy, a collection of the general principles or leading truths relating to any subject. Pure science as the mathematics, is built on self-evident truths; but the term science is also applied to other subjects founded on generally acknowledged truths, as metaphysics; or on experiment and observation, as chimistry and natural philosophy; or even to an assemblage of the general principles of an art, as the science of agriculture; the science of navigation. Arts relate to practice, as painting and sculpture.

A principle in science is a rule in art.

3. Art derived from precepts or built on principles.

Science perfects genius.

4. Any art or species of knowledge.

No science doth make known the first principles on which it buildeth.

5. One of the seven liberal branches of knowledge, viz grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music.

[Note - Authors have not always been careful to use the terms art and science with due discrimination and precision. Music is an art as well as a science In general, an art is that which depends on practice or performance, and science that which depends on abstract or speculative principles. The theory of music is a science; the practice of it an art.]

SCI'ENT, adjective [Latin sciens.] Skillful. [Not used.]

SCIEN'TIAL, Producing science.

SCIENTIF'IC,

SCIENTIF'ICAL, adjective [Latin scientia and facio, to make.]

1. Producing certain knowledge or demonstration; as scientific evidence.

2. According to the rules or principles of science; as a scientific arrangement of fossils.

3. Well versed in science; as a scientific physician.

SCIENTIF'ICAL, a. [L. scientia and facio, to make.]

SCIENTIF'ICALLY, adverb

1. In such a manner as to produce knowledge.

It is easier to believe, than to be scientifically instructed.

2. According to the rules or principles of science.

SCIL'LITIN, noun [See Squill.] a white transparent acrid substance, extracted from squills by Vogel.

SCIM'ITAR, [See cimiter.]

SCINK, noun a cast calf. [Not in use or local.]

SCIN'TILLANT, adjective [See Scintillate.] emitting sparks or fine igneous particles; sparkling.

SCIN'TILLATE, verb intransitive [Latin scintillo. This word seems to be a diminutive formed on the Teutonic scinan, Eng. to shine.]

1. To emit sparks or fine igneous particles.

Marbles do not scintillate with steel.

2. to sparkle, as the fixed stars.

SCIN'TILLATING, participle present tense emitting sparks; sparkling.

SCINTILLA'TION, noun the act of emitting sparks or igneous particles; the act of sparkling.

SCI'OLISM, noun [See Sciolist.] Superficial knowledge.

SCI'OLIST, noun [Latin sciolus, a diminutive formed on scio, to know.]

One who knows little, or who knows many things superficially; a smatterer.

These passages in that book, were enough to humble the presumption of our modern sciolists, if their pride were not as great as their ignorance.

SCI'OLOUS, adjective Superficially or imperfectly knowing.

SCIOM'ACHY, noun [Gr. a shadow, and a battle.]

A battle with a shadow. [Little used.]

SCION. [See Cion.]

SCIOP'TIC, adjective [Gr. shadow and to see.]

Pertaining to the camera obscura, or to the art of exhibiting images through a hole in a darkened room.

SCIOP'TIC, noun A sphere or globe with a lens made to turn like the eye; used in experiments with the camera obscura.

SCIOP'TICS, noun The science of exhibiting images of external objects, received through a double convex glass into a darkened room.

SCIRE FA'CIAS, noun [Latin] In law, a judicial writ summoning a person to show cause to the court why something should not be done, as to require sureties to show cause why the plaintiff should not have execution against them for debt and damages, or to require a third person to show cause why goods in his hands by replevin, should not be delivered to satisfy the execution, etc.

SCI'ROC,

SCIROC'CO, noun In Italy, a southeast wind; a hot suffocating wind, blowing from the burning deserts of Africa. This name is given also, in the northeast of Italy, to a cold bleak wind from the Alps.

SCIROC'CO, n. In Italy, a southeast wind; a hot suffocating wind, blowing from the burning deserts of Africa. This name is given also, in the northeast of Italy, to a cold bleak wind from the Alps.

SCIRROS'ITY, noun [See Scirrus.] An induration of the glands.

SCIR'ROUS, adjective

1. Indurated; hard; knotty; as a gland.

2. Proceeding from scirrus; as scirrous affections; scirrous disease.

SCIR'RUS, noun [Latin scirrus; Gr.]

In surgery and medicine, a hard tumor on any part of the body, usually proceeding from the induration of a gland, and often terminating in a cancer.

SCISCITA'TION, noun [Latin sciscitor, to inquire or demand.]

The act of inquiring; inquiry; demand. [Little used.]

SCIS'SIBLE, adjective [Latin scissus, scindo, to cut.] Capable of being cut or divided by a sharp instrument; as scissible matter or bodies.

SCIS'SILE, adjective [Latin scissilis, from scindo, to cut.]

That may be cut or divided by a sharp instrument.

SCISSION, noun sizh'on. [Latin scissio, scindo, to cut.]

The act of cutting or dividing by an edged instrument.

SCISSORS, noun siz'zors, plural [Latin scissor, from scindo, to cut, Gr.]

A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades movable on a pin in the center, by which they are fastened. Hence we usually say, a pair of scissors

SCIS'SURE, noun [Latin scissura, from scindo, to cut.]

A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting. [This cannot legitimately be a crack, rent or fissure. In this use it may be an error of the press for fissure.

SCITAMIN'EOUS, adjective Belonging to the Scitamineae, one of Linne's natural orders of plants.

SCLAVO'NIAN,

SCLEROT'IC, adjective [Gr. hard; hardness.]

Hard; firm; as the sclerotic coat or tunicle of the eye.

SCLEROT'IC, noun

1. The firm white outer coat of the eye.

2. A medicine which hardens and consolidates the parts to which it is applied.

SCLEROT'IC, a. [Gr. hard; hardness.]

SCLEROT'IC, n.

SCOAT. [See Scot.]

SCOB'IFORM, adjective [Latin scobs, saw dust, and form.]

Having the form of saw dust or raspings.

SCOBS, noun [Latin from scabo, to scrape.] Raspings of ivory, hartshorn or other hard substance; dross of metals, etc.

SCOFF, verb intransitive [Gr. The primary sense is probably to throw. But I do not find the word in the English and Greek sense, in any modern language except the English.]

To treat with insolent ridicule, mockery or contumelious language; to manifest contempt by derision; with at. To scoff at religion and sacred things is evidence of extreme weakness and folly, as well as of wickedness.

They shall scoff at the kings. Habakkuk 1:10.

SCOFF, verb transitive To treat with derision or scorn.

SCOFF, noun Derision, ridicule, mockery or reproach, expressed in language of contempt; expression of scorn or contempt.

With scoffs and scorns and contumelious taunts.

SCOFF'ER, noun One who scoffs; one that mocks, derides or reproaches in the language of contempt; a scorner.

There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, 'Where is the promise of his coming?' 2 Peter 3:3.

SCOFF'ING, participle present tense Deriding or mocking; treating with reproachful language.

SCOFF'INGLY, adverb In mockery or contempt; by way of derision.

Aristotle applied this hemistich scoffingly to the sycophants at Athens.

SCOLD, verb intransitive

To find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to utter railing or harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; with at; as, to scold at a servant. A scolding tongue, a scolding wife, a scolding husband, a scolding master, who can endure?

Pardon me, 'tis the first time that ever I'm forc'd to scold

SCOLD, verb transitive To chide with rudeness and boisterous clamor; to rate. [The transitive use of this word is of recent origin, at least within my knowledge.]

SCOLD, noun

1. A rude, clamorous, foul-mouthed woman.

SCOLDs answer foul-mouth'd scolds.

2. A scolding; a brawl.

SCOLDER, noun One that scolds or rails.

SCOLDING, participle present tense

1. Railing with clamor; uttering rebuke in rude and boisterous language.

2. adjective Given to scolding

SCOLDING, The uttering of rude, clamorous language by way of rebuke or railing; railing language.

SCOLDINGLY, adverb With rude clamor or railing.

SCOL'LOP, noun

1. A pectinated shell. [See Scallop.]

2. An indenting or cut like those of a shell.

SCOL'LOP, verb transitive To form or cut with scollops.

SCOLOPEN'DRA, noun [Gr. ]

1. A venomous serpent.

2. A genus of insects of the order of Apters, destitute of wings. These insects have as many feet on each side as there are segments in the body. There are several species.

3. A plant. [Latin scolopendrium.]

SCOMM, noun [Latin scomma; Gr. See Scoff.]

1. A buffoon. [Not in use.]

2. A flout; a jeer. [Not in use.]

SCONCE, noun

1. A fort or bulwark; a work for defense. obsolete

2. A hanging or projecting candlestick, generally with a mirror to reflect the light.

Golden sconces hang upon the walls.

3. The circular tube with a brim in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted, that is, the support, the holder of the candle; and from this sense the candlestick, in the preceding definition, has its name.

4. A fixed seat or shelf. [Local.]

SCONCE, noun

1. Sense; judgment; discretion or understanding. This sense has been in vulgar use in New England within my memory.

2. The head; a low word.

3. A mulet or fine.

SCONCE, verb transitive To mulet; to fine. [A low word and not in use.]

SCOOP, noun

1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle fastened to a dish, used for dipping liquors; also, a little hollow piece of wood for bailing boats.

2. An instrument of surgery.

3. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.

SCOOP, verb transitive

1. To lade out; properly, to take out with a scoop or with a sweeping motion.

He scoop'd the water from the crystal flood.

2. To empty by lading; as, he scooped it dry.

3. To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; as, the Indians scoop the trunk of a tree into a canoe.

Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop so as to hold above a pint.

4. To remove, so as to leave a place hollow.

A spectator would think this circular mount had been actually scooped out of that hollow space.

SCOOP'ED, participle passive Taken out as with a scoop or ladle; hollowed; excavated; removed so as to leave a hollow.

SCOOP'ER, noun One that scoops; also, a water fowl.

SCOOP'ING, participle present tense Lading out; making hollow; excavating; removing so as to leave a hollow.

SCOOP'-NET, noun A net so formed as to sweep the bottom of a river.

SCOPE, noun [Latin scopus; Gr. from to see or view; Heb. to see, to behold] The primary sense is to stretch or extend, to reach; properly, the whole extent, space or reach, hence the whole space viewed, and hence the limit or ultimate end.]

1. Space; room; amplitude of intellectual view; as a free scope for inquiry; full scope for the fancy or imagination; ample scope for genius.

2. The limit of intellectual view; the end or thing to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim or purpose; intention; drift. It expresses both the purpose and thing purposed.

Your scope is as mine own, so to enforce and qualify the laws, as to your soul seems good.

The scope of all their pleading against man's authority, is to overthrow such laws and constitutions of the church -

3. Liberty; freedom from restraint; room to move in.

4. Liberty beyond just limits; license.

Give him line and scope

5. Act of riot; sally; excess. obsolete

6. Extended quantity; as a scope of land. obsolete

7. Length; extent; sweep; as scope of cable.

SCO'PIFORM, adjective [Latin scopa, a broom, and form.] Having the form of a broom or besom.

Zeolite, stelliform or scopiform

SCOP'PET, verb transitive To lade out. [Not in use.]

SCOP'TICAL, adjective [Gr.] Scoffing. [Not in use.]

SCOP'ULOUS, adjective [Latin scopulosus.] Full of rocks; rocky. [Not in use.]

SCORBUTE, noun [Latin scorbutus.] Scurvy. [Not in use.]

SCORBU'TIC,

SCORBU'TICAL, adjective [Latin scorbutus, the scurvy. See Scurf, Scurvy.]

1. Affected or diseased with scurvy; as a scorbutic person.

2. Pertaining to scurvy, or partaking of its nature; as scorbutic complaints or symptoms.

3. Subject to scurvy; as a scorbutic habit.

SCORBU'TICAL, a. [L. scorbutus, the scurvy. See Scurf, Scurvy.]

SCORBU'TICALLY, adverb With the scurvy, or with a tendency to it; as a woman scorbutically affected.

SCORCE. [See Scorse.]

SCORCH, verb transitive

1. To burn superficially; to subject to a degree of heat that changes the color of a thing, or both the color and texture of the surface. Fire will scorch linen or cotton very speedily in extremely cold weather.

2. To burn; to affect painfully with heat. Scorched with the burning sun or burning sands of Africa.

SCORCH, verb intransitive To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.

Scatter a little mungy straw and fern among your seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching.

SCORCH'ED, participle passive Burnt on the surface; pained by heat.

SCORCH'ING, participle present tense Burning on the surface; paining by heat.

SCOR'DIUM, noun [Latin] A plant, the water-germander, a species of Teucrium.

SCORE, noun

1. A notch or incision; hence, the number twenty. Our ancestors, before the knowledge of writing, numbered and kept accounts of numbers by cutting notches on a stick or tally, and making one notch the representative of twenty. A simple mark answered the same purpose.

2. A line drawn.

3. An account or reckoning; as, he paid his score

4. An account kept of something past; an epoch; an era.

5. Debt, or account of debt.

6. Account; reason; motive.

But left the trade, as many more have lately done on the same score

7. Account; sake.

You act your kindness of Cydaria's score

8. In music, the original and entire draught of any composition, or its transcript.

To quit scores, to pay fully; to make even by giving an equivalent.

A song in score the words with the musical notes of a song annexed.

SCORE, verb transitive

1. To notch; to cut and chip for the purpose of preparing for hewing; as, to score timber.

2. To cut; to engrave.

3. To mark by a line.

4. To set down as a debt.

Madam, I know when, instead of five, you scored me ten.

5. To set down or take as an account; to charge; as, to score follies.

6. To form a score in music.

SCO'RED, participle passive Notched; set down; marked; prepared for hewing.

In botany, a scored stem is marked with parallel lines or grooves.

SCO'RIA, noun [Latin from the Gr. rejected matter, that which is thrown off.]

Dross; the recrement of metals in fusion, or the mass produced by melting metals and ores.

SCORIA'CEOUS, adjective Pertaining to dross; like dross or the recrement of metals; partaking of the nature of scoria.

SCORIFICA'TION, noun In metallurgy, the act or operation of reducing a body, either wholly or in part, into scoria.

SCO'RIFIED, participle passive Reduced to scoria.

SCO'RIFORM, adjective [Latin scoria and form.] Like scoria; in the form of dross.

SCO'RIFY, verb transitive To reduce to scoria or drossy matter.

SCO'RIFYING, participle present tense Reducing to scoria.

SCO'RING, participle present tense Notching; marking; setting down as an account or debt; forming a score.

SCO'RIOUS, adjective Drossy; recrementitious.

SCORN, noun

1. Extreme contempt; that disdain which springs from a person's opinion of the meanness of an object, and a consciousness or belief of his own superiority or worth.

He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone. Esther 3:6.

Every sullen frown and bitter scorn but fann'd the fuel that too fast did burn.

2. A subject of extreme contempt, disdain or derision; that which is treated with contempt.

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are around us. Psalms 44:13.

To think scorn to disdain; to despise. obsolete

To laugh to scorn to deride; to make a mock of; to ridicule as contemptible.

They laughed us to scorn Nehemiah 2:19.

SCORN, verb transitive

1. to hold in extreme contempt; to despise; to contemn; to disdain. job. 16.

Surely he scorneth the scorner; but he giveth grace to the lowly. Proverbs 3:34.

2. to think unworth; to disdain.

Fame that delights around the world to stray, scorns not to take our Argos in her way.

3. To slight; to disregard; to neglect.

This my long suff'rance and my day of grace, those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.

SCORN, verb intransitive To scorn at, to scoff at; to treat with contumely, derision or reproach. obsolete

SCORN'ED, participle passive Extremely contemned or despised; disdained.

SCORN'ER, noun

1. One that scorns; a contemner; a despiser.

They are great scorners of death.

2. A scoffer; a derider; in Scripture, one who scoffs at religion, its ordinances and teachers, and who makes a mock of sin and the judgments and threatenings of God against sinners. Proverbs 1:22, Proverbs 19:25

SCORN'FUL, adjective

1. Contemptuous; disdainful; entertaining scorn; insolent.

Th' enamor'd deity the scornful damsel shuns.

2. Acting in defiance or disregard.

Scornful of winter's frost and summer's sun.

3. In Scripture, holding religion in contempt; treating with disdain religion and the dispensations of God.

SCORN'FULLY, adverb With extreme contempt; contemptuously; insolently.

The sacred rights of the christian church are scornfully trampled on in print -

SCORN'FULNESS, noun The quality of being scornful.

SCORN'ING, participle present tense Holding in great contempt; despising; disdaining.

SCORN'ING, noun The act of contemning; a treating with contempt, slight or disdain.

How long will the scorners delight in their scorning?

Proverbs 1:22. Psalms 123:4.

SCOR'PION, noun [Latin scorpio; Gr. probably altered from the Oriental.]

1. In zoology, an insect of the genus Scorpio, or rather the genus itself, containing several species, natives of southern or warm climates. This animal has eight feet, two claws in front, eight eyes, three on each side of the thorax and two on the back, and a long jointed tail ending in a pointed weapon or sting. It is found in the south of Europe, where it seldom exceeds four inches in length. In tropical climates, it grows to a foot in length, and resembles a lobster. The sting of this animal is sometimes fatal to life.

2. In Scripture, a painful scourge; a kind of whip armed with points like a scorpion's tail. 1 Kings 12:11.

Malicious and crafty men, who delight in injuring others, are compared to scorpions. Ezekiel 2:6.

3. In astronomy, the eighth sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters, Oct. 23.

4. A sea fish. [Latin scorpius.]

Water scorpion an aquatic insect of the genus Nepa.

SCORSE, noun [Latin ex and cursus.] A course or dealing; barter. obsolete

SCORSE, verb transitive

1. To chase. obsolete

2. To barter or exchange. obsolete

SCORSE, verb intransitive To deal for the purchase of a horse. obsolete

SCORT'ATORY, adjective [Latin scortator, from scortor.] Pertaining to or consisting in lewdness.

SCOR'ZA, noun [Latin ex and cortex.] In mineralogy, a variety of epidote.

SCOT,

SCOT'AL,

SCOT'ALE, noun [scot and ale.] In law, the keeping of an alehouse by the officer of a forest, and drawing people to spend their money for liquor, for fear of his displeasure.

SCOTCH, adjective Pertaining to Scotland or its inhabitants. [See Scotish.]

SCOTCH. [See scot the verb.]

SCOTCH, verb transitive

To cut with shallow incisions. obsolete

SCOTCH, n A slight cut or shallow incision.

SCOT'AL,

SCOT'ALE, n. [scot and ale.] In law, the keeping of an alehouse by the officer of a forest, and drawing people to spend their money for liquor, for fear of his displeasure.

SCOTCH, verb transitive

To support, as a wheel, by placing some obstacle to prevent its rolling. Our wagoners and cartmen scot the wheels of their wagons and carts, when in ascending a hill they stop to give their team rest, or for other purpose. In Connecticut, I have generally heard this word pronounced scot, in Massachusetts, scotch

SCOT, noun [This is the English shot, in the phrase, he paid his shot; and scot, in scot and lot.]

In law and English history, a portion of money, assessed or paid; a customary tax or contribution laid on subjects according to their ability; also, a tax or custom paid for the use of a sheriff or bailiff. Hence our modern shot; as, to pay one's shot.

Scot and lot, parish payments. When persons were taxed unequally, they were said to pay scot and lot.

SCOT, noun [Eng. shade, which see.] A native of Scotland or North Britain.

SCO'TER, noun The black diver or duck, a species of Anas.

SCOT'FREE, adjective

1. Free from payment or scot; untaxed.

2. Unhurt; clear; safe.

SCO'TIA, noun In architecture, a semicircular cavity or channel between the tores in the bases of columns.

SCOT'ISH,

SCO'TIST, noun

One of the followers of Scotus, a sect of school divines who maintained the immaculate conception of the virgin, or that she was born without original sin; in opposition to the Thomists, or followers of Thomas Aquinas.

SCOT'OMY, noun [Gr. vertigo, from to darken.]

Dizziness or swimming of the head, with dimness of sight.

SCOT'TERING, noun A provincial word in Herefordshire, England, denoting the burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.

SCOT'TICISM, noun An idiom or peculiar expression of the natives of Scotland.

SCOTTISH. [See Scotish.]

SCOT'TISH, adjective Pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, or to their country or language; as scottish industry or economy; a Scotish chief; the scottish dialect.

SCOUN'DREL, noun [Latin abscondo. ]

A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a low petty villain; a man without honor or virtue.

Go, if your ancient but ignoble blood has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood.

SCOUN'DREL, adjective Low; base; mean; unprincipled.

SCOUN'DRELISM, noun Baseness; turpitude; rascality.

SCOUR, verb transitive

1. To rub hard with something rough, for the purpose of cleaning; as, to scour a kettle; to scour a musket; to scour armor.

2. To clean by friction; to make clean or bright.

3. To purge violently.

4. To remove by scouring.

Never came reformation in a flood with such a heady current, scouring faults.

5. To range about for taking all that can be found; as, to scour the sea of pirates.

6. To pass swiftly over; to brush along; as, to scour the coast.

Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain.

SCOUR, verb intransitive

1. To perform the business of cleaning vessels by rubbing.

2. To clean.

Warm water is softer than cold, for it scoureth better.

3. To be purged to excess.

4. To rove or range for sweeping or taking something.

Barbarossa, thus scouring along the coast of Italy -

5. To run with celerity; to scamper.

So four fierce coursers, starting to the race, scour through the plain, and lengthen every pace.

SCOUR'ED, participle passive Rubbed with something rough, or made clean by rubbing; severely purged; brushed along.

SCOUR'ER, noun

1. One that scours or cleans by rubbing.

2. A drastic cathartic.

3. One that runs with speed.

SCOURGE, noun skurj. [Latin corriggia, from corrigo, to straighten.]

1. To whip; a lash consisting of a strap or cord; an instrument of punishment or discipline.

A scourge of small cords. John 2:15.

2. A punishment; vindictive affliction.

Famine and plague are sent as scourges for amendment.

3. He or that which greatly afflicts, harasses or destroys; particularly, any continued evil or calamity. Attila was called the scourge of God, for the miseries he inflicted in his conquests. Slavery is a terrible scourge

4. A whip for a top.

SCOURGE, verb transitive skurj.

1. To whip severely; to lash.

It is lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman?

Acts 22:25.

2. To punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict for sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction.

He will scourge us for our iniquities, and will have mercy again.

Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Hebrews 12:1.

3. To afflict greatly; to harass, torment or injure.

SCOURG'ED, participle passive Whipped; lashed; punished severely; harassed.

SCOURG'ER, noun One that scourges or punishes; one that afflicts severely.

SCOURG'ING, participle present tense Whipping; lashing with severity; punishing or afflicting severely.

SCOUR'ING, participle present tense Rubbing hard with something rough; cleaning by rubbing; cleansing with a drastic cathartic; ranging over for clearing.

SCOUR'ING, noun A rubbing hard for cleaning; a cleansing by a drastic purge; looseness; flux.

SCOURSE. [See Scorse.]

SCOUT, noun [Latin ausculto, culto, colo; Gr. the ear.]

1. In military affairs, a person sent before an army, or to a distance, for the purpose of observing the motions of an enemy or discovering any danger, and giving notice to the general. Horsemen are generally employed as scouts.

2. A high rock. [Not in use.]

SCOUT, verb intransitive To go on the business of watching the motions of an enemy; to act as a scout

With obscure wing scout far and wide into the realm of night.

SCOUT, verb transitive

To sneer at; to treat with disdain and contempt. [This word is in good use in America.]

SCO'VEL, noun [Latin scopa.]

A mop for sweeping ovens; a maulkin.

SCOW, noun

A large flat bottomed boat; used as a ferry boat, or for loading and unloading vessels. [A word in good use in New England.

SCOW, verb transitive To transport in a scow

SCOWL, verb intransitive [Gr. to twist.]

1. To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe or angry.

She scowl'd and frown'd with froward countenance.

2. To look gloomy, frowning, dark or tempestuous; as the scowling heavens.

SCOWL, verb transitive To drive with a scowl or frowns.

SCOWL, noun

1. The wrinkling of the brows in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness or discontent in the countenance.

2. Gloom; dark or rude aspect; as of the heavens.

SCOWL'ING, participle present tense contracting the brows into wrinkles; frowning; expressing displeasure or sullenness.

SCOWL'INGLY, adverb With a wrinkled, frowning aspect; with a sullen look.

SCRAB'BLE, verb intransitive [Latin scribo, Eng. grave, engrave, etc. See Scrape.]

1. To scrape, paw or scratch with the hands; to move along on the hands and knees by clawing with the hands; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree. [a word in common popular use in New England, but not elegant.]

2. To make irregular or crooked marks; as, children scrabble when they begin to write; hence, to make irregular and unmeaning marks.

David - scrabbled on the doors of the gate. 1 Samuel 21:13.

SCRAB'BLE, verb transitive To mark with irregular lines or letters; as, to scrabble paper.

SCRAB'BLING, participle present tense Scraping; scratching; scrambling; making irregular marks.

SCRAG, noun [This word is formed from the root of rag, crag, Gr. rack.]

Something thin or lean with roughness. A raw boned person is called a scrag but the word is vulgar.

SCRAG'GED,

SCRAG'GEDNESS,

SCRAG'GILY, adverb With leanness and roughness.

SCRAG'GINESS, noun Leanness, or leanness with roughness; ruggedness; roughness occasioned by broken irregular points.

SCRAG'GY, adjective [supra.]

1. Rough with irregular points or a broken surface; as a scraggy hill; a scragged back bone.

2. Lean with roughness.

SCRAM'BLE, verb intransitive [It is not improbably that this word is corrupted from the root of scrape, scrabble.]

1. To move or climb by seizing objects with the hand, and drawing the body forward; as, to scramble up a cliff.

2. To seize or catch eagerly at any thing that is desired; to catch with haste preventive of another; to catch at without ceremony. Man originally was obliged to scramble with wild beasts for nuts and acorns.

Of other care they little reck'ning make, than how to scramble at the shearer's feast.

SCRAM'BLE, noun

1. An eager contest for something, in which one endeavors to get the thing before another.

The scarcity of money enhances the price and increases the scramble

2. The act of climbing by the help of the hands.

SCRAM'BLER, noun One who scrambles; one who climbs by the help of the hands.

SCRAM'BLING, participle present tense

1. Climbing by the help of the hands.

2. Catching at eagerly and without ceremony.

SCRAM'BLING, noun

1. The act of climbing by the help of the hands.

2. The act of seizing or catching at with eager haste and without ceremony.

SCR'ANCH, verb transitive

To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to craunch. [This is in vulgar use in America.]

SCRAN'NEL, adjective Slight; poor.

Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. [Not in use.]

SCRAP, noun [from scrape.]

1. A small piece; properly something scraped off, but used for any thing cut off; a fragment; a crumb; as scraps of meat.

2. A part; a detached piece; as scraps of history or poetry; scraps of antiquity; scraps of authors.

3. A small piece of paper. [If used for script, it is improper.]

SCRAPE, verb transitive [Latin scribo, Gr. to write. See Grave.]

1. To rub the surface of any thing with a sharp or rough instrument, or with something hard; as, to scrap the floor; to scrape a vessel for cleaning it; to scrape the earth; to scrape the body. Job 2:8.

2. To clean by scraping. Leviticus 14:41.

3. To remove or take off by rubbing.

I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. Ezekiel 26:4.

4. To act upon the surface with a grating noise.

The chiming clocks to dinner call; a hundred footsteps scrape the marble hall.

To scrape off, to remove by scraping; to clear away by rubbing.

To scrape together, to gather by close industry or small gains or savings; as, to scrape together a good estate.

SCRAPE, verb intransitive

1. To make a harsh noise.

2. To play awkwardly on a violin.

3. To make an awkward bow.

To scrape acquaintance, to make one's self acquainted; to curry favor. [A low phrase introduced from the practice of scraping in bowing.]

SCRAPE, noun

1. A rubbing.

2. The sound of the foot drawn over the floor.

3. A bow.

4. Difficulty; perplexity; distress; that which harasses. [A low word.]

SCRA'PED, participle passive Rubbed on the surface with a sharp or rough instrument; cleaned by rubbing; cleared away by scraping.

SCRA'PER, noun

1. An instrument with which any thing is scraped; as a scraper for shoes.

2. An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, and used for scraping earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, canals, etc.

3. An instrument having two or three sides or edges, for cleaning the planks, masts or decks of a ship, etc.

4. A miser; one who gathers property by penurious diligence and small savings; a scrape-penny.

5. An awkward fiddler.

SCRA'PING, participle present tense Rubbing the surface with something sharp or hard; cleaning by a scraper; removing by rubbing; playing awkwardly on a violin.

SCRAT, verb transitive [formed on the root of Latin rado.] To scratch. [Not in use.]

SCRAT, verb intransitive To rake; to search. [Not in use.]

SCRAT, noun An hermaphrodite. [Not in use.]

SCRATCH, verb transitive [Latin rado.]

1. To rub and tear the surface of any thing with something sharp or ragged; as, to scratch the cheeks with the nails; to scratch the earth with a rake; to scratch the hands or face by riding or running among briers.

A sort of small sand-colored stones, so hard as to scratch glass.

2. To wound slightly.

3. To rub with the nails.

Be mindful, when invention fails, to scratch your head and bite your nails.

4. To write or draw awkwardly; as, to scratch out a pamphlet. [Not in use.]

5. To dig or excavate with the claws. Some animals scratch holes in which they burrow.

To scratch out, to ease; to rub out; to obliterate.

SCRATCH, verb intransitive To use the claws in tearing the surface. The gallinaceous hen scratches for her chickens.

- Dull tame things that will neither bite nor scratch

SCRATCH, noun

1. A rent; a break in the surface of a thing made by scratching, or by rubbing with any thing pointed or ragged; as a scratch on timber or glass.

The coarse file - makes deep scratches in the work.

These nails with scratches shall deform my breast.

2. A slight wound.

Heav'n forbid a shallow scratch should drive the prince of Wales from such a field as this.

3. A kind of wig worn for covering baldness or gray hairs, or for other purpose.

SCRATCH'ED, participle passive Torn by the rubbing of something rough or pointed.

SCRATCH'ER, noun He or that which scratches.

SCRATCH'ES, noun plural Cracked ulcers on a horse's foot, just above the hoof.

SCRATCH'ING, participle present tense Rubbing with something pointed or rough; rubbing and tearing the surface.

SCRATCH'INGLY, adverb With the action of scratching.

SCRAW, noun Surface; cut turf. [Not in use.]

SCRAWL, verb transitive

1. To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly.

2. To write awkwardly.

SCRAWL, verb intransitive

1. To write unskillfully and inelegantly.

Though with a golden pen you scrawl

2. To creep; to crawl. [This is from crawl, but I know not that it is in use.]

SCRAWL, noun

1. Unskillful or inelegant writing; or a piece of hasty bad writing.

2. In New England, a ragged, broken branch of a tree, or other brush wood.

SCRAWL'ER, noun One who scrawls; a hasty or awkward writer.

SCRAY, noun A fowl called the sea swallow, of the genus Terna.

SCRE'ABLE, adjective [Latin screabilis, from screo, to spit out.] That may be spit out. obsolete

SCREAK, verb intransitive [This word is only a different orthography of screech and shriek, but is not elegant.]

To utter suddenly a sharp shrill sound or outcry; to scream; as in a sudden fright; also, to creak, as a door or wheel. [See Screech.]

[When applied to things, we use creak, and when to persons, shriek, both of which are elegant.]

SCREAK, noun A creaking; a screech.

SCREAM, verb intransitive [English skirmish.]

1. To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, as in a fright or in extreme pain; to shriek.

The fearful matrons raise a screaming cry.

2. To utter a shrill harsh cry; as the screaming owl.

SCREAM, noun A shriek or sharp shrill cry uttered suddenly, as in terror or in pain; or the shrill cry of a fowl; as screams of horror.

SCRE'AMER, noun A fowl, or genus of fowls, of the grallic order, of two species, natives of America.

SCRE'AMING, participle present tense Uttering suddenly a sharp shrill cry; crying with a shrill voice.

SCRE'AMING, noun The act of crying out with a shriek of terror or agony.

SCREECH, verb intransitive [See Screak and Shriek.]

1. To cry out with a sharp shrill voice; to utter a sudden shrill cry, as in terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek.

2. To utter a sharp cry, as an owl; thence called screech-owl.

SCREECH, noun

1. A sharp shrill cry uttered in acute pain, or in a sudden fright.

2. A harsh shrill cry, as of a fowl.

SCREE'CHING, participle present tense Uttering a shrill or harsh cry.

SCREED, noun With plasterers, the floated work behind a cornice.

SCREEN, noun [Latin cerno, excerno, Gr. to separate, to sift, to judge, to fight, contend skirmish. The primary sense of the root is to separate, to drive or force asunder, hence to sift, to discern, to judge, to separate or cut off danger.]

1. Any thing that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury or danger, ; and hence, that which shelters or protects from danger, or prevents inconvenience. Thus a screen is used to intercept the sight, to intercept the heat of fire on the light of a candle.

Some ambitious men seem as screens to princes in matters of danger and envy.

2. A riddle or sieve.

SCREEN, verb transitive

1. To separate or cut off from inconvenience, injury or danger; to shelter; to protect; to protect by hiding; to conceal; as fruits screened from cold winds by a forest or hill. Our houses and garments screen us from cold; an umbrella screens us from rain and the sun's rays. Neither rank nor money should screen from punishment the man who violates the laws.

2. To sift or riddle; to separate the coarse part of any thing from the fine, or the worthless from the valuable.

SCREE'NED, participle passive Protected or sheltered from injury or danger; sifted.

SCREE'NING, participle present tense Protecting from injury or danger.

SCREW, noun

1. A cylinder of wood or metal, grooved spirally; or a cylinder with a spiral channel or thread cut in such a manner that it is equally inclined to the base of the cylinder throughout the whole length. A screw is male or female. In the male screw the thread rises from the surface of the cylinder; in the female, the groove or channel is sunk below the surface to receive the thread of the male screw

2. One of the six mechanical powers.

SCREW, verb transitive

1. To turn or apply a screw to; to press, fasten or make firm by a screw; as, to screw a lock on a door; to screw a press.

2. To force; to squeeze; to press.

3. To oppress by exactions. Landlords sometimes screw and rack their tenants without mercy.

4. To deform by contortions; to distort.

He screw'd his face into a harden'd smile.

To screw out, to press out; to extort.

To screw up to force; to bring by violent pressure; as, to screw up the pins of power too high.

To screw in, to force in by turning or twisting.

SCREW'ED, participle passive Fastened with screws; pressed with screws; forced.

SCREW'ER, noun He or that which screws.

SCREW'ING, participle present tense Turning a screw; fastening or pressing with a screw.

SCREW'-TREE, noun A plant of the genus Helicteres, of several species, natives of warm climates. They are shrubby plants, with yellow flowers, and capsules intorted or twisted inward.

SCRIB'BLE, verb transitive [Latin scribillo, dim. of scribo, to write. See Scribe.]

1. To write with haste, or without care or regard to correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter or pamphlet.

2. To fill with artless or worthless writing.

SCRIB'BLE, verb intransitive To write without care or beauty.

If Maevius scribble in Apollo's spite.

SCRIB'BLE, noun Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; as a hasty scribble

SCRIB'BLED, participle passive Written hastily and without care.

SCRIB'BLER, noun A petty author; a writer of no reputation.

The scribbler pinch'd with hunger, writes to dine.

SCRIBE, noun [Latin scriba, from scribo, to write; formed probably on the root of grave, scrape, scrub. The first writing was probably engraving on wood or stone.]

1. In a general sense, a writer. Hence,

2. A notary; a public writer.

3. In ecclesiastical meetings and associations in America, a secretary or clerk; one who records the transactions of an ecclesiastical body.

4. In Scripture and the Jewish history, a clerk or secretary to the king. Seraiah was scribe to king David.

2 Samuel 8:17.

5. An officer who enrolled or kept the rolls of the army, and called over the names and reviewed them. 2 Chronicles 24:11. 2 Kings 25:19.

6. A writer and a doctor of the law; a man of learning; one skilled in the law; one who read and explained the law to the people. Ezra 8:1.

SCRIBE, verb transitive To mark by a model or rule; to mark so as to fit one piece to another; a term used by carpenters and joiners.

SCRI'MER, noun A fencing-master. obsolete

SCRIMP, verb transitive

To contract; to shorten; to make too small or short; to limit or straiten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat.

SCRIMP, adjective Short; scanty.

SCRIMP, noun A pinching miser; a niggard; a close fisted person.

SCRINE, noun [Latin scrinium; , cerno, secerno.]

A shrine; a chest, book-case or other place where writings or curiosities are deposited. [See shrine, which is generally used.]

SCRINGE, verb intransitive To cringe, of which this word is a corruption.

SCRIP, noun [This belongs to the root of gripe, our vulgar grab, that is, to seize or press.]

A small bag; a wallet; a satchel. David put five smooth stones in a scrip 1 Samuel 17:40. Matthew 10:10.

SCRIP, noun [Latin scriptum, scriptio, from scribo, to write.]

A small writing, certificate or schedule; a piece of paper containing a writing.

Bills of exchange cannot pay our debts abroad, till scrips of paper can be made current coin.

A certificate of stock subscribed to a bank or other company, or of a share of other joint property, is called in America a scrip

SCRIP'PAGE, noun That which is contained in a scrip. [Not in use.]

SCRIPT, noun A scrip. [Not in use.]

SCRIP'TORY, adjective [Latin scriptorius. See Scribe.]

Written; expressed in writing; not verbal. [Little used.]

SCRIP'TURAL, adjective [from scripture.]

1. Contained in the Scriptures, so called by way of eminence, that is, in the Bible; as a scriptural word, expression or phrase.

2. According to the Scriptures or sacred oracles; as a scriptural doctrine.

SCRIP'TURALIST, noun One who adheres literally to the Scriptures and makes them the foundation of all philosophy.

SCRIP'TURE, noun [Latin scriptura, from scribo, to write.]

1. In its primary sense, a writing; any thing written.

2. Appropriately, and by way of distinction, the books of the Old and New Testament; the Bible. The word is used either in the singular or plural number, to denote the sacred writings or divine oracles, called sacred or holy, as proceeding from God and containing sacred doctrines and precepts.

There is not any action that a man ought to do or forbear, but the scripture will give him a clear precept or prohibition for it.

Compared with the knowledge which the Scriptures contain, every other subject of human inquiry is vanity and emptiness.

SCRIP'TURIST, noun One well versed in the Scriptures.

SCRIV'ENER, noun [See Scribe.]

1. A writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or other writings.

2. One whose business is to place money at interest.

SCROF'ULA, noun [Latin]

A disease, called vulgarly the king's evil, characterized by hard, scirrous, and often indolent tumors in the glands of the neck, under the chin, in the arm-pits, etc.

SCROF'ULOUS, adjective

1. Pertaining to scrofula, or partaking of its nature; as scrofulous tumors; a scrofulous habit of body.

2. Diseased or affected with scrofula.

Scrofulous persons can never be duly nourished.

SCROLL, noun [probably formed from roll, or its root.]

A roll of paper or parchment; or a writing formed into a roll.

Here is the scroll of every man's name.

The heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll Isaiah 34:4.

SCRO'TUM, noun The bag which contains the testicles.

SCROYLE, noun

A mean fellow; a wretch. [Not in use.]

SCRUB, verb transitive [This word is probably formed on rub, or its root, and perhaps scrape, Latin scribo, may be from the same radix.]

To rub hard, either with the hand or with a cloth or an instrument; usually, to rub hard with a brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning, scouring or making bright; as, to scrub a floor; to scrub a deck; to scrub vessels of brass or other metal.

SCRUB, verb intransitive To be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.

SCRUB, noun

1. A mean fellow; one that labors hard and lives meanly.

2. Something small and mean.

No little scrub joint shall come on my board.

3. A worn out brush.

SCRUB'BED,

SCRUB'BY, adjective Small and mean; stunted in growth; as a scrubbed boy; a scrubby cur; a scrubby tree.

SCRUB'BY, a. Small and mean; stunted in growth; as a scrubbed boy; a scrubby cur; a scrubby tree.

SCRUF, for scurf, not in use.

SCRU'PLE, noun [Latin scrupulus, a doubt; scrupulum, the third part of a dram, from scrupus, a chess-man; probably a piece, a small thing, from scrapping, like scrap.]

1. Doubt; hesitation from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; backwardness; reluctance to decide or to act. A man of fashionable honor makes no scruple to take another's life, or expose his own. He has no scruples of conscience, or he despises them.

2. A weight of twenty grains, the third part of a dram; among goldsmiths, the weight of 24 grains.

3. Proverbially, a very small quantity.

4. In Chaldean chronology, the 1/1080 part of an hour; a division of time used by the Jews, Arabs, etc..

Scruple of half duration, an arch of the moon's orbit, which the moon's center describes from the beginning of an eclipse to the middle.

Scruples of immersion or incidence, an arch of the moon's orbit, which her center describes from the beginning of the eclipse to the time when its center falls into the shadow.

Scruples of emersion, an arch of the moon's orbit, which her center describes in the time from the first emersion of the moon's limb to the end of the eclipse.

SCRU'PLE, verb intransitive To doubt; to hesitate.

He scrupl'd not to eat, against his better knowledge.

SCRU'PLE, verb transitive To doubt; to hesitate to believe; to question; as, to scruple the truth or accuracy of an account or calculation.

SCRU'PLED, participle passive Doubted; questioned.

SCRU'PLER, noun A doubter; one who hesitates.

SCRU'PLING, participle present tense Doubting; hesitating; questioning.

SCRUPULOS'ITY, noun [Latin scrupulositas.]

1. The quality or state of being scrupulous; doubt; doubtfulness respecting some difficult point, or proceeding from the difficulty or delicacy of determining how to act; hence, the caution or tenderness arising from the fear of doing wrong or offending.

The first sacrilege is looked upon with some horror; but when they have once made the breach, their scrupulosity soon retires.

2. Nicety of doubt; or nice regard to exactness and propriety.

So careful, even to scrupulosity were they to keep their sabbath.

3. Niceness; preciseness.

SCRU'PULOUS, adjective [Latin scrupulosus.]

1. Nicely doubtful; hesitating to determine or to act; cautious in decision from a fear of offending or doing wrong. Be careful in moral conduct, not to offend scrupulous brethren.

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The judges that say upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died.

2. To be satiated; to be filled to disgust.

3. To become disgusting or tedious. The toiling pleasure sickens into pain.

4. To be disgusted; to be filled with aversion or abhorrence. He sickened at the sight of so much human misery.

5. To become weak to decay; to languish. Plants often sicken and die. All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink.

SCRU'PULOUSLY, adverb With a nice regard to minute particulars or to exact propriety.

The duty consists not scrupolously in minutes and half hours. Taylor.

Henry was scrupulously careful not to ascribe the sucess to himself. Addison.

SCRU'PULOUSNESS, noun The state or quality of being scrupulous; niceness, exactness or caution in determining or in acting, from a regard to truth, propriety or expedience.

SCRU'TABLE, adjective [See Scrutiny.] Discoverable by inquiry or critical examination.

SCRUTA'TION, noun Search; scrutiny.

SCRUTA'TOR, noun [Latin from scrutor.] One that scrutinizes; a close examiner or inquirer.

SCRU'TINIZE, verb transitive [from scrutiny.] To search closely; to examine or inquire into critically; as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the private conduct or motives of individuals.

SCRU'TINIZED, participle passive Examined closely.

SCRU'TINIZER, noun One who examines with critical care.

SCRU'TINOUS, adjective Closely inquiring or examining; captious.

SCRU'TINY, noun [Latin scrutinium, from scrutor, to search closely, to pry into.]

1. Close search; minute inquiry; critical examinatiion; as a scrutiny of votes; narrower

scrutiny. In the heat of debate, observations may escape a prudent man which will not bear the test of scrutiny.

2. In the primitive church, an examination of catechumens in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter-day. This was performed with prayers, exorcisms and many other ceremonies.

3. In the canon law, a ticket or little paper billet on which a vote is written.

SCRUTO'IR, noun A kind of desk, case of drawers or cabinet, with a lid opening downward for the convenience of writing on it.

SCRUZE, verb transitive To crowd; to squeeze.

SCUD, verb intransitive

1. In a gereral sense, to be driven or to flee or fly with haste. In seamen's language, to be driven with precipitation before a tempest. This is done with a sail extended on the foremast of the ship, or when the wind is too violent, without any sail set, which is called scudding under bare poles.

2. To run with precipitation; to fly.

SCUD, noun

1. A low thin cloud, or thin clould driven by the wind.

2. A driving along; a rushing with precipitation.

SCUD'DING, participle present tense Driving or being driven before a tempest; running with fleetness.

SCUD'DLE, verb intransitive . To run with a kind of affected haste; commonly pronounced scuttle.

SCUF'FLE, noun [This is a different orthography of shuffle; from shove, or its root.]

1. A contention or trial of strength between two persons, who embrace each other's bodies; a struggle with close embrace, to decide which shall throw the other; in distinction from from wrestling, which is a trial of strength and dexterity at arm's lenght. Among our common people, it is not unusual for two persons to commence a contest by wrestling, and at last close in, as it is called, and decide the contest by a scuffle.

2. A confused contest; a tumultuous struggle for victory or superiority; a fight.

The dog leaps upon the serpent and tears it to pieces; but in the scuffle, the cradle happened to be overturned. L' Estrange.

SCUF'FLE, verb intransitive

1. To strive or struggle with close embrace, as two men or boys,

2. To strive or contend tumultuously, as small parties.

A gallant man prefers to fight to great disadvantages in the field, in an orderly way, rather than to scuffle with an undisciplined rabble. K. Charles.

SCUF'FLER, noun One who scuffles.

SCUF'FLING, participle present tense Striving for superiority with close embrace; struggling for contending without order.

SCUG, verb transitive To hide.

SCULK, verb intransitive To retire into a close or covered place for concealment; to lurl; to lie close from shame, fear of injury or detection.

No news of Phyl! the bridegroom came, and thought his bride had sculk'd for shame. Swift.

And sculk behind the subterfuge of art. Prior.

SCULK'ER, noun A lurker; one that lies close for hiding.

SCULK'ING, participle present tense Withdrawing into a close or covered place for concealment; lying close.

SCULL, noun

1. The brain pan.

2. A boat; a cock boat.

3. One who scull a boat. But properly.

4. A short oar, whose loom is only equal in length to half the breadth of the boat to be rowed, so that one man can manage two, one on each side.

5. A shoal or multitude of fish.

SCULL, verb transitive To impel a boat by moving and turning an oar over the stern.

SCULL'CAP [See Skull-cap.]

SCULL'ER, noun

1. A boat rowed by one man with two sculls or short oars.

2. One that sculls, or rows with sculls; one that impels a boat by an oar over the stern.

SCULL'ERY, noun [probably from the root of shell, scale, G. schale, a scale, a shell, a dish or cup. Skulls and shells were the cups, bowls and siches or rude men.] A place where dishes, kettles and other culinary utensils are kept.

SCULL'ION, noun A servant taht cleans pots and kettles, and does other menial services in the kitchen.

SCULL'IONLY, adjective Like a scullion; base; low; mean.

SCULP, verb transitive [L. sculpo, scalpo.] To carve; to engrave.

SCULP'TILE, adjective [L. sculptilis, ] Formed by carving; as sculptile images.

SCULP'TOR, noun [L. See Sculp.] One whose occupation is to carve wood or stone int images; a carver.

SCULP'TURE, noun [L. sculptura.]

1. The art of carving, cutting or hewing wood or stone into images of men, beasts or other things. Sculpture is a generic term, including carving or statuary and engraving.

2. Carved work.

There too, in living sculpture, might be seen The mad affection of the Cretan queen.

Dryden.

3. The art of engraving on copper.

SCULP'TURE, verb transitive To carve ; to engrave; to form images or figures with the chisel on wood, stone or metal.

SCULP'TURED, participle passive Carved; engraved; as a sculptured vase; sculptured marble.

SCULP'TURING, participle present tense Carving; engraving.

SCUM, noun

1. The extraneous matter or impurities which rise to the surface of liquors in boiling or fermentation, or which form on the surface by other means. The word is also applied to the scoria of metals.

2. The refuse; the recrement; that which is vile or worthless.

The great and the innocent are insulted by the scum and refuse of the people.

Addison.

SCUM, verb transitive To take the scum from; to clear off the impure matter from the surface; to skim.

You that scum the molten lead. Dryden.

SCUM'BER, noun The dung of the fox.

SCUM'MED, participle passive Cleaned of scum; skimmed.

SCUM'MER, noun An instrument used for taking off the scum of liquors; a skimmer.

SCUM'MING, participle present tense Clearing of scum; slimming.

SCUM'MINGS, noun The matter skimmed from boiling liquors; as the scummings of the boiling house.

SCUP'PER, noun The scuppers or scupper holes of a ship, are channels cut through the water ways and sides of a ship at proper distances, and lined with lead for carrying off the water from the deck.

SCURF, noun [L. scorbutus.]

1. A dry military scab or crust formed on the skin of an animal.

2. The soil or foul remains of any thing adherent; as the scurf of crimes. [Not common nor elegant.] Dryden.

3. Any thing adhering to the surface.

There stood a hill, whose grisly top Shone with a glossy scurf. Milton.

SCURFF, noun Another name for the bulltrout.

SCURF'INESS, noun The state of being scurfy.

SCURF'Y, adjective

1. Having scurf; covered with scurf.

2. Resembling scurf.

SCUR'RIL, adjective [L. scurrilis, from scurra , a buffoon.] Such as befits a buffoon or vulgar jester; low; mean; grossly opprobrious in language; scurrilour; as scurril jests; scurril scoffing; scurril taunts.

SCURRIL'ITY, noun [L. scurrilitas.] Such low. vulgar, indecent or abusive language as is used by mean fellows, buffoons, jesters and the like; grossness of reproach or invective; obscene jests, etc.

Banish scurrility and profaneness. Dryden.

SCUR'RILOUS, adjective

1. Using the low and indecent language of the meaner sort of people, or such as only the licence of buffoons can warrant; as a scurrilous fellow.

2. Containing low indecency or abuse; mean; foul; vile; obscenely jocular; as scurrilous language.

SCUR'RILOUSLY, adverb With gross reproach; with low indecent language.

It is barbarous incivility, scurrilously to sport with what others count religion.

Tillotson.

SCUR'RILOUSNESS, noun Indecency of language; vulgarity; baseness of manners.

SCUR'TINIZING, participle present tense Inquiring into with critical minuteness or exactness.

SCUR'VILY, adverb [from scurvy.] Basely; meanly; with coarse and vulgar incivility.

The clergy were never more learned, or so scurvily treated. Swift.

SCUR'VINESS, noun [from scurvy.] The state of being scurvy.

SCUR'VOGEL, noun A Brazilian fowl of the stork kind, the jabiru guacu.

SCUR'VY, noun [from scurf; scurvy for scurfy; Low L. scorbutus.] A disease characterized by great debility, a pale bloated face, bleeding spongy gums, large livid tumors on the body, offensive breath, aversion to exercise, oppression at the breast or difficult respiration, a smooth, dry, shining skin, etc.; a disease most incident to persons who live confined, or on salted meats without fresh vegetables in cold climates.

SCUR'VY, adjective

1. Scurfy; covered or affected by scurf or scabs; scabby; diseased with scurvy

2. Vile; mean; low; vulgar; worthless; contemptible; as a scurvy fellow.

He spoke scurvy and provoking terms. Shak.

That scurvy custom of taking tobacco. Swift.

'SCUSES, for excuses.

SCUT, noun The tail of a hare or other animal whose tail is short.

SCU'TAGE, noun [Law L. scutagium, from scutum, a shield.] In English history, a tax or contributiion levied upon those who held lands by knight service; originally, a composition for personal service which the tenant owed to his lord, but afterward levied as an assessment.

Blackstone.

SCUTCHEON, A contractiion of escutcheon, which see.

SCUTE, noun [L. scutum, a buckler.] A french gold coin of 3s. 4d. sterling.

SCU'TELLATED, adjective [L. scutella, a dish. See Scuttle.] Formed like a pan; divided into small surfaces; as the scutellated bone of a sturgeon.

SCU'TIFORM, adjective [L. scutum, a buckler, and form.] Having a form of a buckler or shield.

SCUT'TLE, noun [L. scutella, a pan or saucer.] A broad shallow basket; so called from its resemblance to a dish.

SCUT'TLE, noun

1. In ships, a small hatchway or opening in the deck, large enough to admit a man, and with a lid for covering it; also, a like hole in the side of a ship, and through the coverings of her hatchways, etc.

2. A square hole in the roof of a house, with a lid.

3. [from scud, and properly scuddle.] A quick pace; a short run.

SCUT'TLE, verb intransitive To run with affected precipitation.

SCUT'TLE, verb transitive [from the noun.]

1. To cut large holes through the bottom or sides of a ship for any purpose.

2. To sink by making holes through the bottom; as, to scuttle a ship.

SCUT'TLED, participle passive Having holes made in the bottom or sides; sunk by means of cutting holes in the bottom or side.

SCUT'TLING, participle present tense Cutting holes in the bottom or sides; sinking by such holes.

SCYT'ALE, noun A species of serpent.

SCYTHE, A wrong spelling. [See Sythe.]

SCYTH'IAN, adjective Pretaining to Scythia, a name given to the northern part of Asia, and Europe adjoining to Asia.

SCYTH'IAN, noun [See Scot.] A native of Scythia.