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).

To perform in a hasty, neglectful, or imperfect manner; to do superficially.

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.

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.

An offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc., retreats, leaving a shelf or footing.

The quality or condition of being scarce; smallness of quantity in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency; lack of plenty; short supply; penury; as, a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties.

A shard or fragment.

Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake.

Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.

An alarm of fire.

In a piece which is to be united to another by a scarf joint, the part of the end or edge that is tapered off, rabbeted, or notched so as to be thinner than the rest of the piece. A scarf joint.

See Epidermis.

The act of scarifying.

An instrument, principally used in cupping, containing several lancets moved simultaneously by a spring, for making slight incisions.

One who scarifies.

To scratch or cut the skin of; esp. (Med.), to make small incisions in, by means of a lancet or scarificator, so as to draw blood from the smaller vessels without opening a large vein.

Thin, dry, membranous, and not green.

Scarlet fever.

Free from scar.

To dye or tinge with scarlet.

A slight contest; a skirmish. See Skirmish.

Dung.

Of or pertaining to the Scaridae, a family of marine fishes including the parrot fishes.

To cut down perpendicularly, or nearly so; as, to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock.

A scar; a mark.

Like a scar, or rocky eminence; containing scars.

A Mediterranean food fish (Sparisoma scarus) of excellent quality and highly valued by the Romans; -- called also parrot fish.

Subject to sudden alarm.

Scarcely; hardly.

A shower of rain.

A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth.

Stilts.

See Skate, for the foot.