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.

See Scholium.

A maker of scholia; a commentator or annotator.

To write scholia.

Scholastic.

A scholium.

A marginal annotation; an explanatory remark or comment; specifically, an explanatory comment on the text of a classic author by an early grammarian.

To write scholia; to annotate.

To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.

One who teaches or instructs a school.

A book used in schools for learning lessons.

A boy belonging to, or attending, a school.

A schoolmistress.

Something taught; precepts; schooling.

One bred at the same school; an associate in school.

A girl belonging to, or attending, a school.

A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction.

Collecting or running in schools or shoals.

A schoolmistress.

A schoolgirl.

One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity.

The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school.

A pupil who attends the same school as another.

A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school-teacher.

A room in which pupils are taught.

A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts to be disciplined, and instructed as mariners.

Toward school.

A large goblet or drinking glass, -- used for lager beer or ale.

Black tourmaline.

Partaking of the nature and character of schorl; resembling schorl.

Schorlaceous.

Pertaining to, or containing, schorl; as, schorly granite.

A Scotch round dance in 2-4 time, similar to the polka, only slower; also, the music for such a dance; -- not to be confounded with the /cossaise.

A mineral occurring in steel-gray flexible folia. It contains iron, nickel, and phosphorus, and is found only in meteoric iron.

See Scrod.

Chinese abacus.

Gruy/re cheese.

A member of a religious sect founded by Kaspar von Schwenkfeld, a Silesian reformer who disagreed with Luther, especially on the deification of the body of Christ.

Of or pertaining to the Sciaenidae, a family of carnivorous marine fishes which includes the meagre (Sciaena umbra or Sciaena aquila), and fish of the drum and croaker families. The croaker is so called because it may make a croaking noise by use of its bladder; the Atlantic croaker (Micropogonias undulatus, formerly Micropogon undulatus) and the squeteague are a members of the croaker family, and the kingfish is a drum.

An old term for a vertical section of a building; -- called also sciagraphy. See Vertical section, under Section.

Pertaining to sciagraphy.

The art or science of projecting or delineating shadows as they fall in nature.

See Sciomachy.

A device for determining the refractive state of the eye by observing the movements of the retinal lights and shadows.

Belonging to a sundial.

Sciatica.

Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, an affection characterized by paroxysmal attacks of pain in the buttock, back of the thigh, or in the leg or foot, following the course of the branches of the sciatic nerve. The name is also popularly applied to various painful affections of the hip and the parts adjoining it. See Ischiadic passion, under Ischiadic.

Sciatic.

With, or by means of, sciatica.

Shibboleth.

To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct.

A genre of fiction in which scientific and technological issues feature prominently, especially including scenarios in which speculative but unproven scientific advances are accepted as fact, and usually set at some time in the future, or in some distant region of the universe.

Knowing; skillful.

Knowingly; willfully.

Pertaining to, or producing, science.

Of or pertaining to science; used in science; as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations.

Scientific.

In a scientific manner; according to the rules or principles of science.

One learned in science; a scientific investigator; one devoted to scientific study; a savant.

Science fiction; -- a common shortened form for the name of the literaray genre. See science fiction.

To wit; namely; videlicet; -- often abbreviated to sc., or ss.

A glucoside extracted from squill (Scilla maritima) as a light porous substance.

A bitter principle extracted from the bulbs of the squill (Scilla maritima), and probably consisting of a complex mixture of several substances.