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.

One of a family (Scyllaridae) of macruran Crustacea, remarkable for the depressed form of the body, and the broad, flat antennae. Also used adjectively.

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.

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.

Without a seam.

One who sews well, or whose occupation is to sew.

A woman whose occupation is sewing; a needlewoman.

The business of a seamstress.

Having a seam; containing seams, or showing them.

A seine. See Seine.

A session, as of some public body; especially, a meeting of spiritualists to receive spirit communications, so called.

A bard among the Highlanders of Scotland, who preserved and repeated the traditions of the tribes; also, a genealogist.

A picture representing a scene at sea; a marine picture.

A port on the seashore, or one accessible for seagoing vessels. Also used adjectively; as, a seaport town.

See Sepoy.

A quaking of the sea.

The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked.

To sift; to bolt.

One who sifts or bolts.

The act of seeking or looking for something; quest; inquiry; pursuit for finding something; examination.

Capable of being searched.

Quality of being searchable.

One who, or that which, searches or examines; a seeker; an inquirer; an examiner; a trier. Formerly, an officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death. An officer of the customs whose business it is to search ships, merchandise, luggage, etc. An inspector of leather. An instrument for examining the bore of a cannon, to detect cavities. An implement for sampling butter; a butter trier. An instrument for feeling after calculi in the bladder, etc.

Exploring thoroughly; scrutinizing; penetrating; trying; as, a searching discourse; a searching eye.

Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.

An apparatus for projecting a powerful beam of light of approximately parallel rays, usually devised so that it can be swiveled about. The beam of light projecting by this apparatus.

To cover, as a sore, with cerecloth.

Scorched; cauterized; hence, figuratively, insensible; not susceptible to moral influences.