The itch.

Any plant of the genus Scabiosa, several of the species of which are common in Europe. They resemble the Compositae, and have similar heads of flowers, but the anthers are not connected.

A fragment or chip of stone.

Roughness; ruggedness.

Rough to the touch, like a file; having small raised dots, scales, or points; scabby; scurfy; scaly.

The quality of being scabrous.

Elecampane.

A small carangoid fish (Trachurus saurus) abundant on the European coast, and less common on the American. The name is applied also to several allied species. The goggler; -- called also big-eyed scad. See Goggler. The friar skate. The cigar fish, or round robin.

To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.

A scaffold.

A scaffold; a supporting framework; as, the scaffolding of the body.

A reddish variety of limestone.

An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished.

A machine formerly employed for reducing dislocations of the humerus.

Capable of being scaled.

See Escalade.

In the quaternion analysis, a quantity that has magnitude, but not direction; -- distinguished from a vector, which has both magnitude and direction.

Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the genus Scalaria, or family Scalaridae, having elongated spiral turreted shells, with rounded whorls, usually crossed by ribs or varices. The color is generally white or pale. Called also ladder shell, and wentletrap. See Ptenoglossa, and Wentletrap.

Resembling a ladder in form or appearance; having transverse bars or markings like the rounds of a ladder; as, the scalariform cells and scalariform pits in some plants.

Resembling a ladder; formed with steps.

A scamp; a scapegrace.

One of the ancient Scandinavian poets and historiographers; a reciter and singer of heroic poems, eulogies, etc., among the Norsemen; more rarely, a bard of any of the ancient Teutonic tribes.

A Scandinavian poet; a scald.

A European flounder (Arnoglossus laterna, or Psetta arnoglossa); -- called also megrim, and smooth sole.

Of or pertaining to the scalds of the Norsemen; as, scaldic poetry.

To lead up by steps; to ascend.

Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the Lepidoptera; scaly-winged.

Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Polynoidae, and allies, which have two rows of scales, or elytra, along the back. See Illust. under Chaetopoda.

The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied.

A thin slip of wood used to justify a page.

Covered with scales, or scalelike structures; -- said of a fish, a reptile, a moth, etc.

Destitute of scales.

A triangle having its sides and angles unequal.

Of or pertaining to a scalenohedron.

A pyramidal form under the rhombohedral system, inclosed by twelve faces, each a scalene triangle.

One who, or that which, scales; specifically, a dentist's instrument for removing tartar from the teeth.

The state of being scaly; roughness.

Adapted for removing scales, as from a fish; as, a scaling knife; adapted for removing scale, as from the interior of a steam boiler; as, a scaling hammer, bar, etc.

Same as Scagliola.

Scabby; scurfy.

Scabby; scurfy; scall.

A kind of small onion (Allium Ascalonicum), native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot.

To mark or cut the edge or border of into segments of circles, like the edge or surface of a scallop shell. See Scallop, n., 2.

Furnished with a scallop; made or done with or in a scallop.

One who fishes for scallops.

Fishing for scallops.

To make a small, quick profit by slight fluctuations of the market; -- said of brokers who operate in this way on their own account.

A small knife with a thin, keen blade, -- used by surgeons, and in dissecting.

One who, or that which, scalps.

a. n. from Scalp.

Shaped like a chisel; as, the scalpriform incisors of rodents.

Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish.

Scale-winged.

To mangle.

1. One who scambles.

In a scambling manner; with turbulence and noise; with bold intrusiveness.

A sort of second plinth or block, below the bases of Ionic and Corinthian columns, generally without moldings, and of smaller size horizontally than the pedestal.

The female bar-tailed godwit.

Made from scammony; as, a scammoniate aperient.

A species of bindweed or Convolvulus (Convolvulus Scammonia).

A long, low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the nineteenth century.

A scampering; a hasty flight.

One who scampers.

Of or like a scamp; knavish; as, scampish conduct.

To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.

To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander.

To offend the feelings or the conscience of (a person) by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to bring shame, disgrace, or reproach upon.

Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation.

In a manner to give offense; shamefully.

Quality of being scandalous.

Climbing.

A chemical earth, the oxide of scandium.

Of or pertaining to scandium; derived from, or containing, scandium.

Of or pertaining to Scandinavia, that is, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. A native or inhabitant of Scandinavia.

A rare metallic element of the boron group, whose existence was predicted under the provisional name ekaboron by means of the periodic law, and subsequently discovered by spectrum analysis in certain rare Scandinavian minerals (euxenite and gadolinite). It has not yet been isolated. Symbol Sc. Atomic weight 44.

The act of scanning; distinguishing the metrical feet of a verse by emphasis, pauses, or otherwise.

An artifical group of birds formerly regarded as an order. They are distributed among several orders by modern ornithologists.

Capable of climbing; as, the woodpecker is a scansorial bird; adapted for climbing; as, a scansorial foot. Of or pertaining to the Scansores. See Illust. under Aves.

Scantness; scarcity.

In a scanty manner; not fully; not plentifully; sparingly; parsimoniously.

Quality or condition of being scanty.

To scant; to be niggard of; to divide into small pieces; to cut short or down.

A small pattern; a small quantity.

A fragment; a bit; a little piece. A piece or quantity cut for a special purpose; a sample.

In a scant manner; not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously.

The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness.

Lacking amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant.

An escape.

The wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play.

One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes.

A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness.

A graceless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless.

Destitute of a scape.

Same as Escapement, 3.

The case, or impermeable apparel, in which a diver can work while under water.

An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects until he died.

Any fossil cephalopod shell of the genus Scaphites, belonging to the Ammonite family and having a chambered boat-shaped shell. Scaphites are found in the Cretaceous formation.

Of, pertaining to, or affected with, scaphocephaly.

A deformed condition of the skull, in which the vault is narrow, elongated, and more or less boat-shaped.

A flattened plate or scale attached to the second joint of the antennae of many Crustacea.

A thin leafike appendage (the exopodite) of the second maxilla of decapod crustaceans. It serves as a pumping organ to draw the water through the gill cavity.

Resembling a boat in form; boat-shaped. The scaphoid bone.

Of or pertaining to the scaphoid and lunar bones of the carpus. The scapholunar bone.

A class of marine cephalate Mollusca having a tubular shell open at both ends, a pointed or spadelike foot for burrowing, and many long, slender, prehensile oral tentacles. It includes Dentalium, or the tooth shells, and other similar shells. Called also Prosopocephala, and Solenoconcha.

Resembling a scape, or flower stem.

A grayish white mineral occuring in tetragonal crystals and in cleavable masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina and soda.

To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry. To dress in any way short of fine tooling or rubbing, as stone.

The principal bone of the shoulder girdle in mammals; the shoulder blade.

One of a special group of feathers which arise from each of the scapular regions and lie along the sides of the back.

Same as 2d and 3d Scapular.

A loose sleeveless vestment falling in front and behind, worn by certain religious orders and devout persons. The name given to two pieces of cloth worn under the ordinary garb and over the shoulders as an act of devotion.

A secondary mouth fold developed at the base of each of the armlike lobes of the manubrium of many rhizostome medusae. See Illustration in Appendix.

See 1st Scape.

A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.

Same as Scarab in both senses.

Any one of numerous species of lamellicorn beetles of the genus Scarabaeus, or family Scarabaeidae, especially the sacred, or Egyptian, species (Scarabaeus sacer, and Scarabaeus Egyptiorum).

A scaraboid beetle.

A personage in the old Italian comedy (derived from Spain) characterized by great boastfulness and poltroonery; hence, a person of like characteristics; a buffoon.

Not plentiful or abundant; in small quantity in proportion to the demand; not easily to be procured; rare; uncommon.

With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just.