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School

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

Schoolbook

A book used in schools for learning lessons.

Schoolboy

A boy belonging to, or attending, a school.

Schoolery

Something taught; precepts; schooling.

Schoolfellow

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

Schoolgirl

A girl belonging to, or attending, a school.

Schoolhouse

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

Schooling

Collecting or running in schools or shoals.

Schoolman

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

Schoolmaster

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

Schoolmate

A pupil who attends the same school as another.

Schoolmistress

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

Schoolship

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.

Schooner

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

Schorlaceous

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

Schorly

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

Schottische Schottish

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.

Schreibersite

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

Schwenkfeldian Schwenkfelder

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.

Sciaenoid

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.

Sciagraph

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

Sciagraphy

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

Sciascope Skiascope

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

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.

Science

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

science fiction

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.

Sciential

Pertaining to, or producing, science.

Scientific

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

Scientifically

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

Scientist

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

scifi Sci-Fi

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

Scilicet

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

Scillain

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

Scillitin

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

Scimitar Scimiter

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

Scincoid

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

Scincoidea

A tribe of lizards including the skinks. See Skink.

Scincoidian

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.

Sciniph

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

Scintilla

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

Scintillant

Emitting sparks, or fine igneous particles; sparkling.

Sciolism

The knowledge of a sciolist; superficial knowledge.

Sciolist

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

Sciolistic

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

Sciolous

Knowing superficially or imperfectly.

Sciomachy

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

Scion

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

Scioptic

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

Scioptics

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

Sciot

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

Scious

Knowing; having knowledge.

Scirrhosity

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

Scirrhous

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

Scirrhus

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.

Scise

To cut; to penetrate.

Scissel

The clippings of metals made in various mechanical operations.

Scissible

Capable of being cut or divided by a sharp instrument.

Scissile

Capable of being cut smoothly; scissible.

Scission

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

Scissor

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

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.

Scissors-tailed

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

Scissorstail

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.

Scissure

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

Scitamineous

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.

Sciurine

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

Sciuroid

Resembling the tail of a squirrel; -- generally said of branches which are close and dense, or of spikes of grass like barley.

Sciuromorpha

A tribe of rodents containing the squirrels and allied animals, such as the gophers, woodchucks, beavers, and others.

Sciurus

A genus of rodents comprising the common squirrels.

Sclaff

A slight blow; a slap; a soft fall; also, the accompanying noise.

Sclerema

Induration of the cellular tissue.

Sclerenchyma

Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic.

Scleriasis

A morbid induration of the edge of the eyelid. Induration of any part, including scleroderma.

Sclerite

A hard chitinous or calcareous process or corpuscle, especially a spicule of the Alcyonaria.

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