A screech.

A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings.

One of the smooth areas surrounding the tubercles of a sea urchin.

Pertaining to, or surrounding, scrobiculae; as, scrobicular tubercles.

Having numerous small, shallow depressions or hollows; pitted.

A young codfish, especially when cut open on the back and dressed.

A constitutional disease, generally hereditary, especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may develop into general or local tuberculosis (consumption).

Any affection of the skin dependent on scrofula.

Pertaining to scrofula, or partaking of its nature; as, scrofulous tumors; a scrofulous habit of body.

A stunted shrub, bush, or branch.

Abounding in scrog; also, twisted; stunted.

A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.

Formed like a scroll; contained in a scroll; adorned with scrolls; as, scrolled work.

A genus of coarse herbs having small flowers in panicled cymes; figwort.

Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of gamopetalous plants (Scrophulariaceae, or Scrophularineae), usually having irregular didynamous flowers and a two-celled pod. The order includes the mullein, foxglove, snapdragon, figwort, painted cup, yellow rattle, and some exotic trees, as the Paulownia.

Of or pertaining to the scrotum; as, scrotal hernia.

Purse-shaped; pouch-shaped.

A rupture or hernia in the scrotum; scrotal hernia.

The bag or pouch which contains the testicles; the cod.

To crowd; to squeeze.

A scroll.

A mean fellow; a wretch.

Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.

Dwarfed or stunted; scrubby.

a stunted or emaciated steer.

A baseboard; a mopboard.

Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur.

A species of calciferous sandstone.

The nape of the neck; the loose outside skin, as of the back of the neck.

See Scrimmage.

Nice; particular; fastidious; excellent; fine.

To scranch; to crunch.

To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question.

One who scruples.

A scrupler.

To perplex with scruples; to regard with scruples.

The quality or state of being scrupulous; doubt; doubtfulness respecting decision or action; caution or tenderness from the fear of doing wrong or offending; nice regard to exactness and propriety; precision.

Full of scruples; inclined to scruple; nicely doubtful; hesitating to determine or to act, from a fear of offending or of doing wrong.

Discoverable by scrutiny, inquiry, or critical examination.

Search; scrutiny.

One who scrutinizes; a close examiner or inquirer.

A scrutinizer; specifically, an examiner of votes, as at an election.

To make scrutiny.

One who scrutinizes.

Closely examining, or inquiring; careful; strict.

To scrutinize.

A escritoire; a writing desk.

To squeeze, compress, crush, or bruise.

A cry or shout.

The act of scudding; a driving along; a rushing with precipitation.

To run hastily; to hurry; to scuttle.

A silver coin, and money of account, used in Italy and Sicily, varying in value, in different parts, but worth about 4 shillings sterling, or about 96 cents; also, a gold coin worth about the same. A gold coin of Rome, worth 64 shillings 11 pence sterling, or about $ 15.70.

To cause a blemish on the surface of, by scraping against an object; as, he scuffed his shoe on the ground.

A rough, haphazard struggle, or trial of strength; a disorderly wrestling at close quarters.

One who scuffles.

A place of shelter; the declivity of a hill.

To impel a boat with a scull or sculls.

A boat rowed by one man with two sculls, or short oars.

A place where dishes, kettles, and culinary utensils, are cleaned and kept; also, a room attached to the kitchen, where the coarse work is done; a back kitchen.

A servant who cleans pots and kettles, and does other menial services in the kitchen.

To sculpture; to carve; to engrave.

Any one of numerous species of marine cottoid fishes of the genus Cottus, or Acanthocottus, having a large head armed with several sharp spines, and a broad mouth. They are generally mottled with yellow, brown, and black. Several species are found on the Atlantic coasts of Europe and America. A large cottoid market fish of California (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus); -- called also bighead, cabezon, scorpion, salpa. The dragonet, or yellow sculpin, of Europe (Callionymus lyra).

Formed by carving; graven; as, sculptile images.

One who sculptures; one whose occupation is to carve statues, or works of sculpture.

A female sculptor.

Of or pertaining to sculpture.

To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave.

After the manner of sculpture; resembling, or relating to, sculpture.

To form a scum; to become covered with scum. Also used figuratively.

Dung.

To cover lighty, as a painting, or a drawing, with a thin wash of opaque color, or with color-crayon dust rubbed on with the stump, or to make any similar additions to the work, so as to produce a softened effect.

A mode of obtaining a softened effect, in painting and drawing, by the application of a thin layer of opaque color to the surface of a painting, or part of the surface, which is too bright in color, or which requires harmonizing. In crayon drawing, the use of the stump.

An instrument for taking off scum; a skimmer.

The act of taking off scum. That which is scummed off; skimmings; scum; -- used chiefly in the plural.

Covered with scum; of the nature of scum.

A feeling of disgust or loathing; a strong prejudice; abhorrence; as, to take a scunner against some one.

A marine sparoid food fish (Stenotomus chrysops, or Stenotomus argyrops), common on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It appears bright silvery when swimming in the daytime, but shows broad blackish transverse bands at night and when dead. Called also porgee, paugy, porgy, scuppaug.

See 2d Scup.

An opening cut through the waterway and bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called also scupper hole.

An American grape, a form of Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated.

To move hastily; to scour.

Thin dry scales or scabs upon the body; especially, thin scales exfoliated from the cuticle, particularly of the scalp; dandruff.

The bull trout.

Quality or state of being scurfy.

Having or producing scurf; covered with scurf; resembling scurf.

One who scurries.

Such as befits a buffoon or vulgar jester; grossly opprobrious or loudly jocose in language; scurrilous; as, scurrile taunts.

The quality or state of being scurrile or scurrilous; mean, vile, or obscene jocularity.

Using the low and indecent language of the meaner sort of people, or such as only the license of buffoons can warrant; as, a scurrilous fellow.

The lesser tern (Sterna minuta).

Act of scurrying; hurried movement.

In a scurvy manner.

The quality or state of being scurvy; vileness; meanness.

A disease characterized by livid spots, especially about the thighs and legs, due to extravasation of blood, and by spongy gums, and bleeding from almost all the mucous membranes. It is accompanied by paleness, languor, depression, and general debility. It is occasioned by confinement, innutritious food, and hard labor, but especially by lack of fresh vegetable food, or confinement for a long time to a limited range of food, which is incapable of repairing the waste of the system. It was formerly prevalent among sailors and soldiers.

The tail of a hare, or of a deer, or other animal whose tail is short, esp. when carried erect; hence, sometimes, the animal itself.

See Scutum.

Shield money; commutation of service for a sum of money. See Escuage.

Of or pertaining to a shield.

Buckler-shaped; round or nearly round.

A wooden instrument used in scutching flax and hemp.

An escutcheon; an emblazoned shield.

Emblazoned on or as a shield.

One who scutches.

A small shield.

See Scutellum, n., 2.

Formed like a plate or salver; composed of platelike surfaces; as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon.

The entire covering, or mode of arrangement, of scales, as on the legs and feet of a bird.

Scutellate.

Having broad scutella on the front, and small scales on the posterior side, of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds.

A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens.

Scutibranchiate. One of the Scutibranchiata.

Same as Scutibranchiata.

One of the Scutibranchiata.

An order of gastropod Mollusca having a heart with two auricles and one ventricle. The shell may be either spiral or shieldlike.

Having the gills protected by a shieldlike shell; of or pertaining to the Scutibranchiata. One of the Scutibranchiata.

Carrying a shield or buckler.

Shield-shaped; scutate.

Any species of chilopod myriapods of the genus Scutigera. They sometimes enter buildings and prey upon insects.

Having the anterior surface of the tarsus covered with scutella, or transverse scales, in the form of incomplete bands terminating at a groove on each side; -- said of certain birds.

To run quickly; to scurry; to scuttle.