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.

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

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

A genus of rodents comprising the common squirrels.

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

Slander.

Same as Slav.

Same as Slavic.

Same as Slavism.

Same as Slavonian.

Same as Slavonic.

Slender.

Severe discipline.

Induration of the cellular tissue.

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

Pertaining to, or composed of, sclerenchyma.

Sclerenchyma.

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

See Sclerotitis.

The calcareous or hornlike coral forming the central stem or axis of most compound alcyonarians; -- called also foot secretion. See Illust. under Gorgoniacea, and Coenenchyma.

One of a tribe of plectognath fishes (Sclerodermi) having the skin covered with hard scales, or plates, as the cowfish and the trunkfish. One of the Sclerodermata. Hardened, or bony, integument of various animals.

A disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin.

The stony corals; the Madreporaria.

The hard integument of Crustacea. Sclerenchyma.

The thickening matter of woody cells; lignin.

Making or secreting a hard substance; becoming hard.

Having a hard texture, as nutshells.

Induration of the tissues. See Sclerema, Scleroderma, and Sclerosis.

An instrument for determining with accuracy the degree of hardness of a mineral.

Affected with sclerosis.

Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue.

That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.

Sclerotic. The optic capsule; the sclerotic coat of the eye.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from ergot or the sclerotium of a fungus growing on rye.

Sclerotic.

Inflammation of the sclerotic coat.

A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea, which produces ergot.

One of the bony, cartilaginous, or membranous partitions which separate the myotomes.

Hard; indurated; sclerotic.

To prop; to scotch.

The chaffinch.

Having the form of, or resembling, sawdust or raspings.

Raspings of ivory, hartshorn, metals, or other hard substance.

To treat or address with derision; to assail scornfully; to mock at.

One who scoffs.

The act of scoffing; scoffing conduct; mockery.

In a scoffing manner.

Poke (Phytolacca decandra).

See Scoley.

One who scolds, or makes a practice of scolding; esp., a rude, clamorous woman; a shrew.

One who scolds.

a. n. from Scold, v.

In a scolding manner.

School.

Same as Helminthes.

A zeolitic mineral occuring in delicate radiating groups of white crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Called also lime mesotype.

Same as Scolecida.

The embryo produced directly from the egg in a metagenetic series, especially the larva of a tapeworm or other parasitic worm. See Illust. of Echinococcus. One of the Scolecida.

To go to school; to study.

A lateral curvature of the spine.

A tubular structure found in Potsdam sandstone, and believed to be the fossil burrow of a marine worm.

See Scallop.

Of or pertaining to the Scolopacidae, or Snipe family.

A genus of venomous myriapods including the centipeds. See Centiped.

Like or pertaining to the Scolopendra.

Any one of numerous species of small bark-boring beetles of the genus Scolytus and allied genera. Also used adjectively.

A genus of acanthopterygious fishes which includes the common mackerel.

Same as Scombroid.

A division of fishes including the mackerels, tunnies, and allied fishes.

Like or pertaining to the Mackerel family. Any fish of the family Scombridae, of which the mackerel (Scomber) is the type, and including the tuna (Thunnus and related genera).

To suffocate or stifle; to smother.

Discomfit.

A buffoon.

To shut up in a sconce; to imprison; to insconce.

A squinch.

A cake, thinner than a bannock, made of wheat or barley or oat meal.

to report a story first, before (a rival); to get a scoop, or a beat, on (a rival); -- used commonly in the passive; as, we were scooped. Also used in certain situations in scientific research, when one scientist or team of scientists reports their results before another who is working on the same problem.

One who, or that which, scoops.