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.

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.

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.

To discern; to perceive.

Shade; shadow.

See Shah.

A silk yarn or fabric made out of carded spun silk.

A person whose business is marriage brokage; a marriage broker, esp. among certain Jews.

Cursory writing on a loose sheet.

To form into, or place in, a schedule.

Scheelium.

Calcium tungstate, a mineral of a white or pale yellowish color and of the tetragonal system of crystallization.

The metal tungsten.

See Sheik.

The powan.

An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind; as, five dots in a line are a schema of the number five; a preceding and succeeding event are a schema of cause and effect.

Of or pertaining to a scheme or a schema.

Combination of the aspects of heavenly bodies.

One given to forming schemes; a projector; a schemer.

To form a scheme or schemes.

To form a scheme or schemes.

Full of schemes or plans.

One who forms schemes; a projector; esp., a plotter; an intriguer.

Given to forming schemes; artful; intriguing.

A schemer.

An Egyptian or Persian measure of length, varying from thirty-two to sixty stadia.

A mild German beer.

See Sherbet.

See Sherif.

In a playful or sportive manner.

A playful, humorous movement, commonly in 3-4 measure, which often takes the place of the old minuet and trio in a sonata or a symphony.

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

Of or pertaining to the habit of the body; constitutional.

Holland gin made at Schiedam in the Netherlands.

The peculiar bronzelike luster observed in certain minerals, as hypersthene, schiller spar, etc. It is due to the presence of minute inclusions in parallel position, and is sometimes of secondary origin.

The act or process of producing schiller in a mineral mass.

Any one of several small German and Dutch coins, worth from about one and a half cents to about five cents.

A form of articulation in which one bone is received into a groove or slit in another.

See Scirrhus.

Division or separation; permanent division or separation in the Christian church; breach of unity among people of the same religious faith; the offense of seeking to produce division in a church without justifiable cause.

An interval equal to half a comma.

One who creates or takes part in schism; one who separates from an established church or religious communion on account of a difference of opinion.

Same as Schismatic.

To take part in schism; to make a breach of communion in the church.

Free from schism.