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.

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.

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.

Abounding with springs.

Harm; damage; injury; hurt; waste; misfortune.

To do harm to; to injure; to damage; to waste; to destroy.

Harmful; doing damage; pernicious.

Unharmed.

Injurious; scathful.

Tribute.

To be dispersed or dissipated; to disperse or separate; as, clouds scatter after a storm.

A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.

Giddy; thoughtless.

Dispersed; dissipated; sprinkled, or loosely spread.

One who wastes; a spendthrift.

Act of strewing about; something scattered.

In a scattering manner; dispersedly.

One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond.

Gushing forth; full to overflowing; effusive.

Abounding with springs.

A bed or stratum of shellfish; scalp.

A tool with a semicircular edge, -- used by engravers to clear away the spaces between the lines of an engraving.

A precipitous bank or rock; a scar.

A toll or duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts.

To remove the burned gases from the cylinder after a working stroke; as, this engine does not scavenge well.

A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health.

a game in which individuals or teams are given a list of items and must go out, gather them together without purchasing them, and bring them back; the first person or team to return with the complete list is the winner. The items are sometimes common but often of a humorous sort.

Act or process of expelling the exhaust gases from the cylinder by some special means, as, in many four-cycle engines, by utilizing the momentum of the exhaust gases in a long exhaust pipe.

A choliamb.

A villain; a criminal.

Evil; wicked; atrocious.

A mummy; a skeleton.

A scene in an opera. An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria.

A preliminary sketch of the plot, or main incidents, of an opera.

Scenery.

To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.

Having much scenery.

The man who manages the movable scenes in a theater.

Assemblage of scenes; the paintings and hangings representing the scenes of a play; the disposition and arrangement of the scenes in which the action of a play, poem, etc., is laid; representation of place of action or occurence.

One who moves the scenes in a theater; a sceneman.

Of or pertaining to scenery; of the nature of scenery; theatrical.

A perspective representation or general view of an object.

Of or pertaining to scenography; drawn in perspective.

The art or act of representing a body on a perspective plane; also, a representation or description of a body, in all its dimensions, as it appears to the eye.

That which, issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals; odor; smell; as, the scent of an orange, or of a rose; the scent of musk.

Full of scent or odor; odorous.

By scent.

Having no scent.

Skepticism; skeptical philosophy.

Having a straight shaft with whorls of spines; -- said of certain sponge spicules. See Illust. under Spicule.

Of or pertaining to a scepter; like a scepter.

To endow with the scepter, or emblem of authority; to invest with royal authority.

Having no scepter; without authority; powerless; as, a scepterless king.