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.

Having the inflorescence curved or circinate at the end, like a scorpion's tail.

Any one of numerous species of pulmonate arachnids of the order Scorpiones, having a suctorial mouth, large claw-bearing palpi, and a caudal sting.

A division of arachnids comprising the scorpions.

Same as Scorpiones.

To deal for the purchase of anything; to practice barter.

Pertaining to lewdness or fornication; lewd.

A portion of money assessed or paid; a tax or contribution; a mulct; a fine; a shot.

Free from payment of scot; untaxed; hence, unhurt; clear; safe.

The keeping of an alehouse by an officer of a forest, and drawing people to spend their money for liquor, for fear of his displeasure.

A slight cut or incision; a score.

Hopscotch.

Dressing stone with a pick or pointed instrument.

A native or inhabitant of Scotland; a Scot; a Scotsman.

Any one of several species of northern sea ducks of the genus Oidemia.

To clothe or cover up.

Scotland

A follower of (Joannes) Duns Scotus, the Franciscan scholastic (d. 1308), who maintained certain doctrines in philosophy and theology, in opposition to the Thomists, or followers of Thomas Aquinas, the Dominican scholastic.

An instrument for writing in the dark, or without seeing.

Scotomy.

Dizziness with dimness of sight.

An instrument that discloses objects in the dark or in a faint light.

Of or pertaining to the Scotch; Scotch; Scottish; as, Scots law; a pound Scots (1s. 8d.).

See Scotchman.

The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.

An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen.

To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.

Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.

Low; base; mean; unprincipled.

The domain or sphere of scoundrels; scoundrels, collectively; the state, ideas, or practices of scoundrels.

The practices or conduct of a scoundrel; baseness; rascality.

Diarrhoea or dysentery among cattle.

Refuse water after scouring.

One who, or that which, scours.

To whip severely; to lash.

One who scourges or punishes; one who afflicts severely.

See Scorse.

A sailor's dish. Bread scouse contains no meat; lobscouse contains meat, etc. See Lobscouse.

To go on the business of scouting, or watching the motions of an enemy; to act as a scout.

A mop for sweeping ovens; a malkin.

To transport in a scow.

The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowing; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.

In a scowling manner.

The act of scrabbling; a moving upon the hands and knees; a scramble; also, a scribble.

The Manx shearwater. The black guillemot.

To scramble or struggle; to wrangle; also, to be industrious.

To seize, pull, or twist the neck of; specif., to hang by the neck; to kill by hanging.

Having a scraggy neck.

Rough with irregular points, or a broken surface; scraggy; as, a scragged backbone.

Quality or state of being scragged.

In a scraggy manner.

The quality or state of being scraggy; scraggedness.

Rough with irregular points; scragged.

See Scraggy.

the rapid shut down of a nuclear reactor, as in an emergency.

The act of scrambling, climbing on all fours, or clambering.

One who scrambles; one who climbs on all fours.

Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling.

To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to craunch.

Thin; lean.

Slight; thin; lean; poor.

Thin; lean; meager; scrawny; scrannel.

Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

A blank book in which extracts cut from books and papers may be pasted and kept.

The act of scraping; also, the effect of scraping, as a scratch, or a harsh sound; as, a noisy scrape on the floor; a scrape of a pen.