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.

Of or pertaining to a scholiast, or his pursuits.

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.

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.

A saber with a much curved blade having the edge on the convex side, -- in use among Mohammedans, esp., the Arabs and persians.

Of or pertaining to the family Scincidae, or skinks. A scincoidian.

A tribe of lizards including the skinks. See Skink.

Any one of numerous species of lizards of the family Scincidae or tribe Scincoidea. The tongue is not extensile. The body and tail are covered with overlapping scales, and the toes are margined. See Illust. under Skink.

Some kind of stinging or biting insect, as a flea, a gnat, a sandfly, or the like.

A slunk calf.

A spark; the least particle; an iota; a tittle.

Emitting sparks, or fine igneous particles; sparkling.

To emit sparks, or fine igneous particles.

The act of scintillating.

Scintillant.

In a scintillant manner.

See Sciagraphy.

The knowledge of a sciolist; superficial knowledge.

One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer.

Of or pertaining to sciolism, or a sciolist; partaking of sciolism; resembling a sciolist.

Knowing superficially or imperfectly.

A fighting with a shadow; a mock contest; an imaginary or futile combat.

Divination by means of shadows.

A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker. A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting.

Of or pertaining to an optical arrangement for forming images in a darkened room, usually called scioptic ball.

A kind of magic lantern.

The art or process of exhibiting luminous images, especially those of external objects, in a darkened room, by arrangements of lenses or mirrors.

Scioptic.

Of or pertaining to the island Scio (Chio or Chios). A native or inhabitant of Scio.

Of or pertaining to a sundial.

Knowing; having knowledge.

Resembling scirrhus.

A morbid induration, as of a gland; state of being scirrhous.

Proceeding from scirrhus; of the nature of scirrhus; indurated; knotty; as, scirrhous affections; scirrhous disease.

An indurated organ or part; especially, an indurated gland. A cancerous tumor which is hard, translucent, of a gray or bluish color, and emits a creaking sound when incised.

The act of inquiring; inquiry; demand.

To cut; to penetrate.

The clippings of metals made in various mechanical operations.

Capable of being cut or divided by a sharp instrument.

See Scissel.

Capable of being cut smoothly; scissible.

The act of dividing with an instrument having a sharp edge.

Reproduction by fission.

To cut with scissors or shears; to prepare with the aid of scissors.

A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. Often called a pair of scissors.

Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.

See Skimmer.

A tyrant flycatcher (Milvulus forficatus) of the Southern United States and Mexico, which has a deeply forked tail. It is light gray above, white beneath, salmon on the flanks, and fiery red at the base of the crown feathers.

A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Scitamineae), mostly tropical herbs, including the ginger, Indian shot, banana, and the plants producing turmeric and arrowroot.

Of or pertaining to the Squirrel family. A rodent of the Squirrel family.