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.

To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.

See scuttle butt.

An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; -- carried chiefly by the heavy-armed infantry.

Hardened masses of feces.

Arm scye, a cutter's term for the armhole or part of the armhole of the waist of a garment.

To hide; to secrete; to conceal.

A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying /Between Scylla and Charybdis,/ signifying a great peril on either hand.

A genus of oceanic nudibranchiate mollusks having the small branched gills situated on the upper side of four fleshy lateral lobes, and on the median caudal crest.

A white crystalline substance of a sweetish taste, resembling inosite and metameric with dextrose. It is extracted from the kidney of the dogfish (of the genus Scyllium), the shark, and the skate.

See Scimiter.

See Scyphus, 2 (b).

Cup-shaped.

The young attached larva of Discophora in the stage when it resembles a hydroid, or actinian.

An order of fishes including the blennioid and gobioid fishes, and other related families.

Same as Acraspeda, or Discophora.

An order of fresh-water fishes inhabiting tropical Africa. They have rudimentary electrical organs on each side of the tail.

A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks and Romans, esp. by poor folk.

To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow.

Armed with scythes, as a chariot.

One who uses a scythe; a mower.

A stone for sharpening scythes; a whetstone.

Wilson's thrush; -- so called from its note.

A native or inhabitant of Scythia; specifically (Ethnol.), one of a Slavonic race which in early times occupied Eastern Europe.

Same as Holothurioidea.

Disdain.

To disdain.

One of the larger bodies of salt water, less than an ocean, found on the earth's surface; a body of salt water of second rank, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea; as, the Mediterranean Sea; the Sea of Marmora; the North Sea; the Carribean Sea.

See under Gauge, n.

Any marine saurian; esp. (Paleon.), the large extinct species of Mosasaurus, Ichthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus, and related genera.

A tern.

A jellyfish.

Bordering on the sea; situated beside the sea.

Born of the sea; produced by the sea.

Built at, in, or by the sea.

Any species of ear-shaped shells of the genus Haliotis. See Abalone.

A long, rolling swell of the sea.

Of a beautiful bluish green color, like sea water on soundings.

Of or pertaining to certain islands along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia; as, sea-island cotton, a superior cotton of long fiber produced on those islands.

The mermaid.

A gull; the mew.

The sea mew.

A globefish.

A pennatula.

Cruising at random on the ocean.

Surrounded, bounded, or protected by the sea, as if by a wall.

A beach lying along the sea.

A green seaweed (Cladophora rupestris) growing in dense tufts.

Toward the sea.

See Seaboard.

Bounded by the sea.

The shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea or ocean. Also used adjectively.

One who follows the sea as a business; a mariner; a sailor.

Following the business of a mariner; as, a seafaring man.

Surrounded by the water of the sea or ocean; as, a seagirt isle.

Going upon the sea; especially, sailing upon the deep sea; -- used in distinction from coasting or river, as applied to vessels.

A Jewish dry measure containing one third of an ephah.

Soap prepared for use in milling cloth.

To affix one's seal, or a seal.

Of a rich dark brown color, like the fur of the fur seal after it is dyed.

A mariner or a vessel engaged in the business of capturing seals.

The skin of a seal; the pelt of a seal prepared for use, esp. of the fur seal; also, a garment made of this material.

A denomination of weight or measure. The quantity of eight bushels of grain. The quantity of 120 pounds of glass.

One whose occupation is to assist in the management of ships at sea; a mariner; a sailor; -- applied both to officers and common mariners, but especially to the latter. Opposed to landman, or landsman.

Having or showing the skill of a practical seaman.

The skill of a good seaman; the art, or skill in the art, of working a ship.

Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like.

Out of condition; not in good condition; -- said of a hawk.

The act or process of forming a seam or joint.