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.

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

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.

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.

To walk fast; to go quickly; to run hastily away.

A yellow gelatinous or crystalline substance found in broom (Cytisus scoparius) accompanying sparteine.

Having the surface closely covered with hairs, like a brush.

That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object.

Scopeloid.

Like or pertaining to fishes of the genus Scopelus, or family Scopelodae, which includes many small oceanic fishes, most of which are phosphorescent. Any fish of the family Scopelidae.

Bearing a tuft of brushlike hairs.

Having the form of a broom or besom.

Same as Scopuliped.

To lade or dip out.

Jesting; jeering; scoffing.

A peculiar brushlike organ found on the foot of spiders and used in the construction of the web. A special tuft of hairs on the leg of a bee.

Any species of bee which has on the hind legs a brush of hairs used for collecting pollen, as the hive bees and bumblebees.

Full of rocks; rocky.

Scurvy.

Of or pertaining to scurvy; of the nature of, or resembling, scurvy; diseased with scurvy; as, a scorbutic person; scorbutic complaints or symptoms.

Scurvy.

Barter.

To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.

Burning; parching or shriveling with heat.

To keep the score in a game; to act as scorer.

One who, or that which, scores.

The recrement of metals in fusion, or the slag rejected after the reduction of metallic ores; dross.

Scoriaceous.

Of or pertaining to scoria; like scoria or the recrement of metals; partaking of the nature of scoria.

The young of any gull.

The act, process, or result of scorifying, or reducing to a slag; hence, the separation from earthy matter by means of a slag; as, the scorification of ores.

One who, or that which, scorifies; specifically, a small flat bowl-shaped cup used in the first heating in assaying, to remove the earth and gangue, and to concentrate the gold and silver in a lead button.

In the form of scoria.

To reduce to scoria or slag; specifically, in assaying, to fuse so as to separate the gangue and earthy material, with borax, lead, soda, etc., thus leaving the gold and silver in a lead button; hence, to separate from, or by means of, a slag.

Scoriaceous.

To scoff; to mock; to show contumely, derision, or reproach; to act disdainfully.

One who scorns; a despiser; a contemner; specifically, a scoffer at religion.

Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful.

Deserving scorn; paltry.

A leek-green or brownish mineral occurring in orthorhombic crystals. It is a hydrous arseniate of iron.

Of or pertaining to the family Scorpaenidae, which includes the scorpene, the rosefish, the California rockfishes, and many other food fishes. [Written also scorpaenid.] See Illust. under Rockfish.

A marine food fish of the genus Scorpaena, as the European hogfish (Scorpaena scrofa), and the California species (Scorpaena guttata).

Same as Scauper.

A scorpion.

Same as Scorpiones.