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.

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.

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.

Any crystalline rock having a foliated structure (see Foliation) and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates. The common kinds are mica schist, and hornblendic schist, consisting chiefly of quartz with mica or hornblende and often feldspar.

Of a slate color.

Schistose.

The quality or state of being schistose.

Of or pertaining to schist; having the structure of a schist.

A dry fruit which splits at maturity into several closed one-seeded portions.

See Enterocoele.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a schizocoele.

Reproduction by fission.

Any bird with a schizognathous palate.

The schizognathous birds.

The condition of having a schizognathous palate.

Having the maxillo-palatine bones separate from each other and from the vomer, which is pointed in front, as in the gulls, snipes, grouse, and many other birds.

An order of Schizophyta, including the so-called fission fungi, or bacteria. See Schizophyta, in the Supplement.

A group of nemerteans comprising those having a deep slit along each side of the head. See Illust. in Appendix.

In certain Sporozoa, a cell formed by the growth of a sporozoite or merozoite (in a cell or corpuscle of the host) which segment by superficial cleavage, without encystment or conjugation, into merozoites.

Having the two flexor tendons of the toes entirely separate, and the flexor hallucis going to the first toe only.

One of a class of vegetable organisms, in the classification of Cohn, which includes all of the inferior forms that multiply by fission, whether they contain chlorophyll or not.

one of the Schizopoda. Also used adjectively.

A division of shrimplike Thoracostraca in which each of the thoracic legs has a long fringed upper branch (exopodite) for swimming.

Of or pertaining to a schizopod, or the Schizopoda.

Having the nasal bones separate.

The finer portion of a crushed ore, as of gold, lead, or tin, separated by the water in certain wet processes.

A kind of glass of a red or ruby color, made in Bohemia.

Holland gin.

Discovered or described by C. V. Schneider, a German anatomist of the seventeenth century.

Among the Jews, a beggar.

One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.

Scholarship.

Scholarly.

Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar; as, a scholarly essay or critique. In a scholarly manner.

The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning.

One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools.

Scholastic.

In a scholastic manner.

The method or subtilties of the schools of philosophy; scholastic formality; scholastic doctrines or philosophy.