Sautoire
Sautoire, Sautoir, sō-twor′, n. (her.) a ribbon worn diagonally. [Saltier.]
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Sautoire, Sautoir, sō-twor′, n. (her.) a ribbon worn diagonally. [Saltier.]
English · e-38700-490 · brief source recordSauvagesia, saw-vā-jē′si-a, n. a genus of polypetalous plants of the violet family. [Named from the French botanist P. A. Boissier de la Croix de Sauvages (1710-95).]
English · e-38700-491Sauvegarde, sōv′gärd, n. a monitor-lizard: a safeguard. [Fr.]
English · e-38700-492 · brief source recordSavage, sav′āj, adj. wild: uncivilised: fierce: cruel: brutal: (her.) nude: naked.—n. a human being in a wild state: a brutal, fierce, or cruel person: a barbarian.—v.t. and v.i. to make savage, to play the savage.—n. Sa
English · e-38700-493Savanna, Savannah, sa-van′a, n. a tract of level land, covered with low vegetation: a treeless plain.—ns. Savann′a-flow′er, a genus of the milk-weed family, West Indies; Savann′a-sparr′ow, the sparrow common through Nort
English · e-38700-494Savant, sav-ang′, n. a learned man. [Fr., pr.p. of savoir, to know.]
English · e-38700-495 · brief source recordSave, sāv, v.t. to bring safe out of evil: to rescue: to reserve: to spare: to deliver from the power of sin and from its consequences: to husband: to hoard: to be in time for: to obviate, to prevent something worse.—v.i
English · e-38700-496Saveloy, sav′e-loi, n. a kind of sausage made of meat chopped and seasoned, orig. of brains. [Fr. cervelat, cervelas, a saveloy—It. cervelata—cervello, brain—L. cerebellum, dim. of cerebrum, the brain.]
English · e-38700-497Savigny, sa-vē′nyi, n. a red wine of Burgundy.
English · e-38700-498 · brief source recordSavin, Savine, sav′in, n. a low much-branched and widely-spreading shrub (Juniperus Sabina), with very small imbricated evergreen leaves, its fresh tops yielding an irritant volatile oil, anthelmintic and abortifacient:
English · e-38700-499Saviour, sā′vyur, n. one who saves from evil: a deliverer, a title applied to Jesus Christ, who saves men from the power and penalty of sin.
English · e-38700-500Savoir-faire, sav-wor-fār′, n. the faculty of knowing just what to do and how to do it: tact. [Fr.]
English · e-38700-501 · brief source recordSavoir-vivre, sav-wor-vē′vr, n. good breeding: knowledge of polite usages. [Fr.]
English · e-38700-502 · brief source recordSavonette, sav-ō-net′, n. a kind of toilet soap: a West Indian tree whose bark serves as soap.
English · e-38700-503 · brief source recordSavory, sā′vor-i, n. a genus of plants of the natural order Labiatæ, nearly allied to thyme. The Common Savory gives an aromatic pungent flavour to viands. [Savour.]
English · e-38700-504Savour, Savor, sā′vur, n. taste: odour: scent: (B.) reputation: characteristic property: pleasure.—v.i. to have a particular taste or smell: to be like: to smack.—v.t. to smell: to relish: to season.—adv. Sā′vourily.—n.
English · e-38700-505Savoy, sa-voi′, n. a cultivated winter variety of cabbage, forming a large close head like the true cabbage, but having wrinkled leaves—originally from Savoy.—ns. Savoy′ard, a native of Savoy, since 1860 part of France;
English · e-38700-506Savvy, Savvey, sav′i, v.t. to know: to understand.—v.i. to possess knowledge.—n. general ability. [Sp. sabe—saber, to know—L. sapĕre, to be wise.]
English · e-38700-507Saw, saw, pa.t. of see.
English · e-38700-508 · brief source recordSaw, saw, n. an instrument for cutting, formed of a blade, band, or disc of thin steel, with a toothed edge.—v.t. to cut with a saw.—v.i. to use a saw: to be cut with a saw:—pa.t. sawed; pa.p. sawed or sawn.—ns. Saw′-bac
English · e-38700-509Saw, saw, n. a saying: a proverb: a degree: a joke. [A.S. sagu—secgan, to say.]
English · e-38700-510 · brief source recordSaw, saw, n. (Scot.) salve.
English · e-38700-511 · brief source recordSawder, saw′dėr, n. flattery, blarney.
English · e-38700-512 · brief source recordSawney, Sawny, saw′ni, n. a Scotchman. [For Sandy from Alexander.]
English · e-38700-513 · brief source recordSax, saks, n. a knife, a dagger: a slate-cutter's hammer. [A.S. seax, a knife.]
English · e-38700-514 · brief source recordSax, a Scotch form of six.
English · e-38700-515 · brief source recordSaxatile, sak′sa-til, adj. rock inhabiting. [L. saxatilis—saxum, a rock.]
English · e-38700-516 · brief source recordSaxe, saks, n. (phot.) a German albuminised paper.
English · e-38700-517 · brief source recordSaxhorn, saks′horn, n. a brass wind-instrument having a long winding tube with bell opening, invented by Antoine or Adolphe Sax, of Paris, about 1840.
English · e-38700-518Saxicava, sak-sik′a-va, n. a genus of bivalve molluscs.—adj. Saxic′avous. [L. saxum, a rock, cavus, hollow.]
English · e-38700-519 · brief source recordSaxicola, sak-sik′ō-la, n. the stone-chats: the wheat-ear.—adjs. Saxic′ōline, Saxic′ōlous, living among rocks. [L. saxum, a rock, colĕre, inhabit.]
English · e-38700-520Saxifrage, sak′si-frāj, n. a genus of plants of the natural order Saxifrageæ or Saxifragaceæ, its species chiefly mountain and rock plants.—adjs. Saxifragā′ceous, Saxif′rāgal, Saxif′rāgant, Saxif′rāgous.—n. Saxif′rāgine,
English · e-38700-521Saxon, saks′un, n. one of the people of North Germany who conquered England in the 5th and 6th centuries: the language of the Saxons: one of the English race: a native or inhabitant of Saxony in its later German sense: a
English · e-38700-522Saxony, sak′sni, n. a woollen material: flannel.
English · e-38700-523 · brief source recordSaxophone, sak′sō-fōn, n. a brass wind-instrument, with about twenty finger-keys, like the clarinet. [Sax, the inventor—Gr. phōnē, the voice.]
English · e-38700-524Say, sā, v.t. to utter in words: to speak: to declare: to state: to answer: to rehearse: to recite: to take for granted.—v.i. to speak: to relate: to state:—pa.t. and pa.p. said (sed).—n. something said: a remark: a spee
English · e-38700-525Say, sā, n. (Spens.) assay, proof, temper (of a sword): (Shak.) taste, relish: a sample: trial by sample.—v.t. to assay, to try.—n. Say′master, one who makes proof. [A contr. of assay.]
English · e-38700-526Say, sā, n. a thin kind of silk: a kind of woollen stuff.—adj. (Shak.) silken. [O. Fr. saie—Low L. seta, silk—L. seta, a bristle.]
English · e-38700-527Say, sā, n. (Scot.) a strainer for milk.
English · e-38700-528 · brief source recordSayette, sā-et′, n. a kind of serge: a woollen yarn. [Fr. sayette, dim. of saye, serge.]
English · e-38700-529 · brief source recordSaynay, sā′nā, n. a lamprey.
English · e-38700-530 · brief source recordSayon, sā′on, n. a medieval peasant's sleeveless jacket. [O. Fr.,—saye, serge.]
English · e-38700-531 · brief source recordSayornis, sā-or′nis, n. the pewit fly-catchers. [Thomas Say, an American ornithologist.]
English · e-38700-532 · brief source recordSbirro, sbir′rō, n. an Italian police-officer:—pl. Sbirri (sbir′rē). [It.]
English · e-38700-533 · brief source recordScab, skab, n. a crust formed over a sore: a disease of sheep resembling the mange: a disease of potatoes, or a fungous disease of apples, &c.: a mean fellow: a workman who refuses to join a trades-union or to take part
English · e-38700-535Scabbard, skab′ard, n. the case in which the blade of a sword is kept: a sheath.—v.t. to provide with a sheath.—n. Scabb′ard-fish, a fish of the family Lepidopodidæ. [M. E. scauberk, prob. an assumed O. Fr. escauberc—Old
English · e-38700-536Scabble, skab′l, v.t. to hew a stone to a level surface without making it smooth.—Also Scapp′le. [Prob. A.S. scafan, to shave.]
English · e-38700-537Scabellum, skā-bel′um, n. an ancient musical appliance, consisting of plates of metal, &c., fastened to the feet to be struck together. [L., also scabillum, dim. of scamnum, a bench.]
English · e-38700-538Scaberulous, skā-ber′ū-lus, adj. (bot.) slightly roughened. [Scabrous.]
English · e-38700-539 · brief source recordScabies, skā′bi-ēz, n. the itch. [L.,—scabĕre, to scratch.]
English · e-38700-540 · brief source recordScabiosa, skā-bi-ō′sa, n. a genus of herbaceous plants of the teasel family, as the Devil's-bit scabious, the Sweet scabious, &c.—the former long thought efficacious in scaly eruptions.
English · e-38700-541Scabious, skā′bi-us, adj. scabby: scurfy: itchy.—n. Scabred′ity, roughness: ruggedness.—adj. Scā′brid, rough.—n. Scabrit′ies, a morbid roughness of the inner surface of the eyelid.—adj. Scā′brous, rough to the touch, lik
English · e-38700-542Scad, skad, n. a carangoid fish, also called Horse-mackerel: (Scot.) the ray. [Prob. shad.]
English · e-38700-543 · brief source recordScad, a Scotch form of scald.
English · e-38700-544 · brief source recordScaddle, skad′l, adj. (prov.) mischievous, hurtful.—n. hurt.—Also Scath′el, Skadd′le. [Scathe.]
English · e-38700-545 · brief source recordScæan, sē′an, adj. western, from the Scæan gate in Troy. [Gr. skaios, left.]
English · e-38700-546 · brief source recordScaff, skaf, n. (Scot.) food of any kind.
English · e-38700-547 · brief source recordScaff-raff, skaf′-raf, n. (Scot.) refuse: riff-raff.
English · e-38700-549 · brief source recordScaffold, skaf′old, n. a temporary platform for exhibiting or for supporting something, and esp. for the execution of a criminal: a framework.—v.t. to furnish with a scaffold: to sustain.—ns. Scaff′oldage (Shak.), a scaf
English · e-38700-548Scaglia, skal′ya, n. an Italian calcareous rock, corresponding to the chalk of England.
English · e-38700-550 · brief source recordScagliola, skal-yō′la, n. a composition made to imitate the more costly kinds of marble and other ornamental stones.—Also Scal′iola. [It. scagliuola, dim. of scaglia, a scale, a chip of marble or stone.]
English · e-38700-551Scaith, skāth, n. (Scot.) damage.—adj. Scaith′less. [Scathe.]
English · e-38700-552 · brief source recordScala, skā′la, n. (surg.) an instrument for reducing dislocation: a term applied to any one of the three canals of the cochlea:—pl. Scā′læ.—adj. Scā′lable, that may be scaled or climbed.—ns. Scālade′, an assault, as an e
English · e-38700-553Scalawag, Scallawag, skal′a-wag, n. an undersized animal of little value: a scamp: a native Southern Republican, as opposed to a carpet-bagger, during the period of reconstruction after the American Civil War. [From Scal
English · e-38700-554Scald, skawld, v.t. to burn with hot liquid: to cook slightly, as fruit, in hot water or steam: to cleanse thoroughly by rinsing with very hot water.—n. a burn caused by hot liquid.—ns. Scald′er, one who scalds vessels:
English · e-38700-555Scald, Skald, skald, n. one of the ancient Scandinavian poets.—adj. Scald′ic, relating to, or composed by, the Scalds. [Ice. skáld.]
English · e-38700-556Scald, skawld, n. scurf on the head.—adj. scurfy, paltry, poor.—ns. Scald′berry, the blackberry; Scald′-crow, the hooded crow; Scald′-head, a fungous parasitic disease of the scalp, favus. [Scall.]
English · e-38700-557Scaldino, skal-dē′nō, n. an Italian earthenware brazier:—pl. Scaldi′ni. [It.]
English · e-38700-558 · brief source recordScale, skāl, n. a ladder: series of steps: a graduated measure: (mus.) a series of all the tones ascending or descending from the keynote to its octave, called the gamut: the order of a numeral system: gradation: proport
English · e-38700-559Scale, skāl, n. one of the small, thin plates on a fish or reptile: a thin layer: a husk: the covering of the leaf-buds of deciduous trees: a piece of cuticle that is squamous or horny: a flake: an encrustation on the si
English · e-38700-560Scale, skāl, n. the dish of a balance: a balance, as to turn the scale—chiefly in pl.: (pl.) Libra, one of the signs of the zodiac.—v.t. to weigh, as in scales: to estimate.—ns. Scale′-beam, the beam or lever of a balanc
English · e-38700-561Scalene, skā-lēn′, adj. (geom.) having three unequal sides; (anat.) obliquely situated and unequal-sided.—n. a scalene triangle: one of several triangular muscles.—ns. Scālenohē′dron, a pyramidal form under the rhombohed
English · e-38700-562Scaliola=Scagliola (q.v.).
English · e-38700-563 · brief source recordScall, skawl, n. (B.) a scab: scabbiness: in mining, loose ground.—adj. mean.—adjs. Scalled, Scald, scabby: mean. [Ice. skalli, bald head.]
English · e-38700-564Scallion, skal′yun, n. the shallot: the leek: the onion. [L. Ascalonia (cæpia), Ascalon (onion).]
English · e-38700-565 · brief source recordScallop, skol′up, n. a bivalve having a sub-circular shell with sinuous radiating ridges: one of a series of curves in the edge of anything: a shallow dish in which oysters, &c., are cooked, baked, and browned.—v.t. to c
English · e-38700-566Scalma, skal′ma, n. a disease of horses. [Old High Ger. scalmo, pestilence; cf. Schelm.]
English · e-38700-567 · brief source recordScalops, skā′lops, n. a genus of American shrew-moles. [Gr. skalops, a mole—skallein, to dig.]
English · e-38700-568 · brief source recordScalp, skalp, n. the outer covering of the skull or brain-case, including the skin, the expanded tendon of the occipito-frontalis muscle, with intermediate cellular tissue and blood-vessels: the skin on which the hair gr
English · e-38700-569Scalpel, skalp′el, n. a small surgical knife for dissecting and operating.—n. Scalpel′lum, one of the four filamentous organs in the proboscis of hemipterous insects:—pl. Scalpel′la.—adj. Scal′priform, chisel-shaped, spe
English · e-38700-570Scamble, skam′bl, v.i. (obs.) to scramble: to sprawl.—v.t. to mangle: to squander.—ns. Scam′bler, a meal-time visitor; Scam′bling, a hasty meal.—n.pl. Scam′bling-days, days in which meat is scarce.—adv. Scam′blingly, str
English · e-38700-571Scamel, Scammel, skam′el, n. a bar-tailed godwit.
English · e-38700-572 · brief source recordScamillus, skā-mil′us, n. a second plinth under a column:—pl. Scamill′i (ī). [L.]
English · e-38700-573 · brief source recordScammony, skam′o-ni, n. a cathartic gum-resin obtained from a species of convolvulus in Asia Minor.—adj. Scammō′niate, made with scammony. [Fr.,—L.,—Gr. skammōnia; prob. Persian.]
English · e-38700-574Scamp, skamp, n. a vagabond: a mean fellow.—v.i. Scam′per, to run with speed and trepidation.—n. a rapid run.—adj. Scam′pish, rascally. [O. Fr. escamper, to flee—It. scampare, to escape—L. ex, out, campus, a battlefield.
English · e-38700-575Scamp, skamp, v.t. to do work in a dishonest manner without thoroughness—also Skimp.—n. Scam′per. [Prob. Ice. skamta, to dole out, to stint.]
English · e-38700-576Scan, skan, v.t. to count the feet in a verse: to examine carefully: to scrutinise.—v.i. to agree with the rules of metre:—pr.p. scan′ning; pa.t. and pa.p. scanned.—ns. Scan′ning; Scan′sion, act of counting the measures
English · e-38700-577Scand, skand, pa.t. of v.i. (Spens.) climbed.
English · e-38700-578 · brief source recordScandal, skan′dal, n. something said which is false and injurious to reputation: disgrace: opprobrious censure.—v.t. to defame, to aspire.—ns. Scan′dal-bear′er, a propagator of malicious gossip; Scandalisā′tion, defamati
English · e-38700-579Scandalise, skan′da-līz, v.t. to trice up the tack of the spanker in a square-rigged vessel, or the mainsail in a fore-and-aft rigged one. [Scantle.]
English · e-38700-580Scandent, skan′dent, adj. climbing, as a tendril.
English · e-38700-581 · brief source recordScandinavian, skan-di-nā′vi-an, adj. of Scandinavia, the peninsula divided into Norway and Sweden, but, in a historical sense, applying also to Denmark and Iceland.—n. a native of Scandinavia. [L. Scandinavia, Scandia.]
English · e-38700-582Scandium, skan′di-um, n. an element discovered in 1879 in the Scandinavian mineral euxenite.
English · e-38700-583 · brief source recordScandix, skan′diks, n. a genus of umbelliferous plants, including shepherd's purse, Venus's comb, &c. [L.,—Gr., chervil.]
English · e-38700-584Scansion. See Scan.
English · e-38700-585 · brief source recordScansores, skan-sō′rēz, n.pl. an old order of birds generally characterised by having two toes before opposed by two behind, by which they are enabled to climb.—adj. Scansō′rial, habitually climbing, as a bird: formed fo
English · e-38700-586Scant, skant, adj. not full or plentiful; scarcely sufficient: deficient.—n. scarcity: lack.—adv. scarcely: scantily.—v.t. and v.i. to limit: to stint: to begrudge.—adv. Scan′tily.—ns. Scan′tiness; Scan′-tity (obs.).—adv
English · e-38700-587Scantle, skan′tl, v.t. to divide into pieces: to partition.—ns. Scant′let, a small pattern; Scant′ling, a little piece: a piece or quantity cut for a particular purpose: a certain proportion.—Scantling number, a number c
English · e-38700-588Scantle, skan′tl, v.i. to fail: to be deficient.—n. a gauge by which slates are measured. [Prob. scant.]
English · e-38700-589 · brief source recordScap-net, skap′-net, n. a net for catching minnows, &c. [Same as scoop-net.]
English · e-38700-609 · brief source recordScapanus, skap′a-nus, n. a genus of North American shrew-moles. [Gr. skapanē, a mattock.]
English · e-38700-590 · brief source recordScape, skāp, n. an escape: a freak or fault.—v.t. to escape from: to miss: to shun.—ns. Scape′gallows, one who deserves hanging: a villain; Scape′grace, a graceless hare-brained fellow. [A contr. of escape.]
English · e-38700-591Scape, skāp, n. (bot.) a long, naked, radical peduncle: (entom.) the basal joint of antennæ: (ornith.) the stem of a feather: (archit.) the shaft of a column.—adjs. Scape′less (bot.), wanting a scape; Scap′iform, scape-l
English · e-38700-592Scape, skāp, n. the cry of the snipe when flushed: the snipe itself. [Prob. imit.]
English · e-38700-593 · brief source recordScapegoat, skāp′gōt, n. a goat on which, once a year, the Jewish high-priest laid symbolically the sins of the people, and which was then allowed to escape into the wilderness (Levit. xvi.): one who is made to bear the m
English · e-38700-594Scapement, skāp′ment, n. the same as Escapement.—n. Scape′-wheel, the wheel which drives the pendulum of a clock. [Escapement.]
English · e-38700-595Scapha, skā′fa, n. the scaphoid fossa of the helix of the ear. [L., a skiff.]
English · e-38700-596 · brief source recordScaphander, skā-fan′dėr, n. a diver's water-tight suit; a genus of gasteropods. [Gr. skaphē, a boat, anēr, andros, a man.]
English · e-38700-597Scapharca, skā-far′ka, n. a genus of bivalve molluscs. [L. scapha, a skiff.]
English · e-38700-598 · brief source recordScaphidium, skā-fid′i-um, n. a genus of clavicorn beetles. [Gr. skaphidion, dim. of skaphē, a skiff.]
English · e-38700-599 · brief source recordScaphiopod, skaf′i-ō-pod, adj. spade-footed.—n. a spade-footed toad. [Gr. skaphion, a spade, pous, podos, a foot.]
English · e-38700-600 · brief source recordScaphirhynchus, skaf-i-ring′kus, n. a genus of tyrant-flycatchers: the shovel-heads or shovel-nosed sturgeons. [Gr. skaphē, a skiff, rhyngchos, snout.]
English · e-38700-601Scaphism, skaf′izm, n. a Persian punishment by which the victim was fastened in a hollow tree, and smeared over with honey to attract wasps, &c. [Gr. skaphē, anything hollowed out.]
English · e-38700-602Scaphites, skā-fī′tez, n. a genus of fossil cephalopods of the ammonite family. [Gr. skaphē, a boat.]
English · e-38700-603 · brief source recordScaphium, skā′fi-um, n. the keel of papilionaceous flowers: a genus of coleopterous insects. [L.,—Gr. skaphion, a basin.]
English · e-38700-604Scaphocephalic, skaf-ō-se-fal′ik, adj. boat-shaped, a term applied to a certain kind of deformed skull. [Gr. skaphē, a boat, kephalē, a head.]
English · e-38700-605Scaphoid, skaf′oid, adj. boat-like in form, noting two bones, one in the wrist and the other in the foot. [Gr. skaphē, a boat, eidos, form.]
English · e-38700-606Scaphopod, skaf′ō-pod, adj. having the foot fitted for burrowing, as a mollusc. [Gr. skaphē, a boat, pous, podos, a foot.]
English · e-38700-607Scapinade, skap-i-nād′, n. a process of trickery—from the name of the tricky valet in Molière's comedy, Les Fourberies de Scapin.
English · e-38700-608Scapolite, skap′ō-līt, n. a silicate of alumina and lime, occurring in long rod-like crystals. [Gr. skapos, a rod, lithos, a stone.]
English · e-38700-610Scapple, skap′l, v.t. to work without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry. [Scabble.]
English · e-38700-611 · brief source recordScapula, skap′ū-la, n. the shoulder-blade.—adj. Scap′ūlar, pertaining to the shoulder.—n. a bandage for the shoulder-blade: (ornith.) the shoulder feathers: a long strip of cloth worn by some orders: two little pieces of
English · e-38700-612Scapus, skā′pus, n. (archit.) the shaft of a column: (ornith.) the scape of a feather: a genus of Cœlenterates:—pl. Scā′pi (ī). [L., a shaft.]
English · e-38700-613Scar, skär, n. the mark left by a wound or sore: any mark or blemish: a cicatrice: (fig.) any mark resulting from injury, material or moral: (bot.) a mark on a stem after the fall of a leaf: in shells, an impression left
English · e-38700-614Scar, skär, n. a precipitous bank or rock: a bare rocky place on the side of a hill.—n. Scar′-lime′stone, a mass of calcareous rock crowded with marine fossils. [Scand., Ice. sker—skera, to cut.]
English · e-38700-615Scarab, skar′ab, n. an insect with wing-sheaths, a beetle: a gem, usually emerald, cut in the form of a beetle—also Scarabæ′us, Scar′abee.—n. Scar′aboid, an imitation scarab.—adj. like a scarab. [L. scarabæus; Gr. karabo
English · e-38700-616Scaramouch, skar′a-mowch, n. a buffoon: a bragging, cowardly fellow. [Fr.,—It. Scaramuccia, a famous Italian zany of the 17th century.]
English · e-38700-617Scarbroite, skär′brō-īt, n. a hydrous silicate of aluminium—from Scarborough.
English · e-38700-618 · brief source recordScarce, skārs, adj. not plentiful: not equal to the demand: rare: not common: parsimonious: deficient: short: scanty.—adj. Scarce′-beard′ed (Shak.), having a scanty beard.—adv. Scarce′ly, Scarce (B.), hardly, barely.—ns.
English · e-38700-619Scard, skärd, n. a shard or fragment.
English · e-38700-620 · brief source recordScardafella, skär-da-fel′a, n. an American genus containing the ground-doves.
English · e-38700-621 · brief source recordScare, skār, v.t. to drive away by frightening: to strike with sudden terror: to startle, to affright.—n. an imaginary alarm: a sudden panic.—adj. lean, scanty.—ns. Scare′-babe, a bugbear; Scare′-bug; Scare′crow, anythin
English · e-38700-622Scarf, skärf, n. a light decorative piece of dress worn loosely on the shoulders or as a band about the neck: a light handkerchief for the neck: a cravat:—pl. Scarfs, Scarves (obs.).—v.t. to cover, as if with a scarf.—ad
English · e-38700-623Scarf, skärf, v.t. to join two pieces of timber endwise, so that they may appear to be used as one: to flay the skin from a whale.—n. in carpentry, a joint whose ends are united so as to form a continuous piece.—ns. Scar
English · e-38700-624Scarf, skärf, n. the cormorant—(Scot.) Scart, Skart. [Ice. skarfr.]
English · e-38700-625 · brief source recordScarfskin, skärf′skin, n. the surface skin. [Scurf.]
English · e-38700-626 · brief source recordScaridæ, skar′i-dē, n.pl. a family of fishes including the parrot-fish.—Also Scā′rus. [Gr. skaros.]
English · e-38700-627 · brief source recordScarify, skar′i-fī, v.t. to scratch or slightly cut the skin, to make small cuts with a lancet, so as to draw blood: to loosen and stir together the soil: to harrow the feelings:—pa.t. and pa.p. scar′ifīed.—ns. Scarificā
English · e-38700-628Scarious, skā′ri-us, adj. (bot.) thin, dry, membranaceous: (zool.) scaly, scurfy.
English · e-38700-629 · brief source recordScaritid, skär′i-tid, adj. pertaining to carabid beetles of Scarites or related genera.
English · e-38700-630 · brief source recordScarlatina, skär-la-tē′na, n. a dangerous and highly-contagious fever, so named from the scarlet rash or eruption which accompanies it—also Scar′let-fēver.—adjs. Scarlati′nal, Scarlati′nous.
English · e-38700-631Scarlet, skär′let, n. a bright-red colour: scarlet cloth.—adj. of the colour called scarlet: dressed in scarlet.—v.t. to redden.—ns. Scar′let-ad′miral, the red-admiral, a butterfly; Scar′let-bean, the scarlet-runner; Sca
English · e-38700-632Scarmage, skär′māj, n. (Spens.) same as Skirmish.—Also Scar′moge.
English · e-38700-633 · brief source recordScarn-bee, skärn′-bē, n. (prov.) a dung-beetle. [Sharn.]
English · e-38700-634 · brief source recordScarp, skärp, n. (her.) a diminutive of the bend sinister, half its width: (obs.) a shoulder-belt. [O. Fr. escarpe, escharpe: cf. Scarf (1).]
English · e-38700-635Scarp, skärp, n. (fort.) any steep slope (same as Escarp).—v.t. to cut down a slope so as to render it impassable.—adj. Scarped. [O. Fr. escarpe—It. scarpa—Old High Ger. scharf; cf. Sharp.]
English · e-38700-636Scarpines, skär′pinz, n.pl. an instrument of torture resembling the boot. [Fr. escarpins, shoes.]
English · e-38700-637 · brief source recordScarred, skärd, adj. marked by scars.—n. Scar′ring, a scar: a mark.—adj. Scar′ry, bearing or pertaining to scars: having scars.
English · e-38700-638Scart, skärt, v.t. (Scot.) to scratch: to scrape.—n. a slight wound: a dash or stroke: a niggard: a poor-looking creature.—adj. Scart′-free.
English · e-38700-639Scarus, skā′rus, n. a genus of fishes including the parrot-wrasses. [Scaridæ.]
English · e-38700-640 · brief source recordScary, skār′i, adj. causing fright: timid: fluttered.
English · e-38700-641 · brief source recordScat, Scatt, skat, n. a tax in the Shetland Islands.—ns. Scat′hold, open ground for pasture; Scat′land, land which paid duty for rights of pasture and peat. [A.S. sceat, a coin; Dut. schat, Ger. schatz.]
English · e-38700-642Scat, skat, interj. be off!—v.t. to scare away.
English · e-38700-643 · brief source recordScat, skat, n. (prov.) a brisk shower of rain.—adj. Scat′ty, showery. [Prob. conn. with scud.]
English · e-38700-644 · brief source recordScatch, skach, n. a bit for bridles. [Fr. escache.]
English · e-38700-645 · brief source recordScatches, skach′ez, n.pl. stilts used for walking in dirty places. [O. Fr. eschace—Old Flem. schætse, a high shoe; Dut. schaats, pl. schaatsen, skates.]
English · e-38700-646Scate. Same as Skate, a fish.
English · e-38700-647 · brief source recordScath, Scathe, skāth, n. damage, injury: waste.—v.t. to injure.—adj. Scathe′ful, destructive.—n. Scathe′fulness, disadvantage: destructiveness.—adj. Scā′thing, damaging; blasting: scorching.—adv. Scā′thingly.—adjs. Scāth
English · e-38700-648Scatology, skā-tol′ō-ji, n. the knowledge of fossil excrement or coprolites: knowledge of the usages of primitive peoples about excrements, human and other.—adj. Scatolog′ical.—ns. Scat′omancy, Scatos′copy, divination of
English · e-38700-649Scatter, skat′ėr, v.t. to disperse in all directions: to throw loosely about: to strew: to sprinkle: to dispel: to put to flight: to drop: to throw shot too loosely.—v.i. to be dispersed or dissipated.—n. Scatt′erbrain,
English · e-38700-650Scaturient, skā-tū′ri-ent, adj. gushing like water from a fountain. [L. scaturīre, to gush out.]
English · e-38700-651 · brief source recordScaud, skäd, v.t. (Scot.) to scald: to scold.
English · e-38700-652 · brief source recordScaup, skawp, n. a sea-duck of genus Aythya, of northern regions, related to the pochard. [Ice. skálp—in skálp-hæna.]
English · e-38700-653 · brief source recordScauper, skaw′pėr, n. a tool with semicircular face, used by engravers. [Prob. scalper.]
English · e-38700-654 · brief source recordScaur, skär, a Scotch form of scare.
English · e-38700-655 · brief source recordScaur, skawr, n. a precipitous bank or rock.—Also Scar. [Scar.]
English · e-38700-656 · brief source recordScaury, skä′ri, n. a young gull in Shetland. [Scand., Sw. skiura.]
English · e-38700-657 · brief source recordScavage, skav′āj, n. a duty or toll anciently exacted by mayors, &c., on goods exposed for sale.
English · e-38700-658 · brief source recordScavenger, skav′en-jėr, n. one who cleans the streets: an animal which feeds on carrion: a child employed to pick up loose cotton from the floor in a cotton-mill.—ns. Scav′agery, street-cleansing; Scav′aging.—v.t. Scav′e
English · e-38700-659Scavernick, skav′ėr-nik, n. (Cornish) a hare.
English · e-38700-660 · brief source recordScavilones, skav′i-lōnz, n.pl. men's drawers worn in the sixteenth century under the hose.
English · e-38700-661 · brief source recordScazon, skā′zon, n. in ancient prosody, a metre, the rhythm of which is imperfect toward the close of the line or period. [Gr. skazōn, limping.]
English · e-38700-662Scelerate, sel′e-rāt, adj. (obs.) wicked, villainous.—n. a villain—also Scel′erat.—adjs. Scel′erous, Sceles′tic. [O. Fr.—L. sceleratus—scelus, crime.]
English · e-38700-663Scelides, sel′i-dēz, n.pl. the posterior limbs of a mammal.—n. Scel′idosaur, a dinosaur of the genus Scelidosaurus.—adjs. Scelidosau′rian; Scelidosau′roid.—n.pl. Scelidosau′ridæ, a family of mailed dinosaurs.—ns. Scelido
English · e-38700-664Scelp, skelp, n. long strips of iron used in forming a gun-barrel.—Also Skelp.
English · e-38700-665 · brief source recordScena, sē′na, n. the stage of an ancient theatre (pl. Scenæ, sē′nē): an elaborate dramatic solo (It., pron. shā′nä; pl. Sce′ne).—n. Scenario (she-nä′ri-ō), a skeleton libretto of a dramatic work. [L.]
English · e-38700-666Scend, send, n. the upward angular displacement of a vessel—opposed to Pitch, the correlative downward movement.—v.i. to heave upward. [A corr. of send, influenced by ascend.]
English · e-38700-667Scene, sēn, n. a picture of the place of an action: a large painted view: place of action, occurrence, or exhibition: the part of a play acted without change of place: (orig.) the stage of a theatre on which the actors p
English · e-38700-668Scent, sent, v.t. to discern by the sense of smell: to perfume: to have some suspicion of.—v.i. to become odoriferous: to smell.—n. a perfume: odour: sense of smell: chase followed by the scent: course of pursuit: scraps
English · e-38700-669Sceptic, -al, Skeptic, -al, skep′tik, -al, adj. pertaining to the philosophical school in ancient Greece of Pyrrho and his successors: doubting: hesitating to admit the certainty of doctrines or principles: (theol.) doub
English · e-38700-670Sceptre, sep′tėr, n. the staff or baton borne by kings as an emblem of authority: royal power.—v.t. to invest with royal power.—adjs. Scep′tral, regal; Scep′tred, bearing a sceptre: regal.—n. Scep′tredom, reign.—adjs. Sc
English · e-38700-671Scerne, sėrn, v.t. (obs.) to discern. [Discern.]
English · e-38700-672 · brief source recordSceuophylacium, skū-ō-fi-lā′shi-um, n. (Gr. Church) the repository of the sacred vessels.—n. Sceuoph′ylax, a sacristan, church treasurer. [Gr. skeuos, a vessel, phylax, a watcher.]
English · e-38700-673Schæfferia, shef-fē′ri-a, n. a genus of polypetalous plants, the yellow-wood. [Named from Schaeffer, an 18th-cent. German botanist.]
English · e-38700-674Schalenblende, shä′len-blend, n. a variety of native zinc-sulphide. [Ger., schale, shell, blende, blende.]
English · e-38700-675 · brief source recordSchappe, shap′pe, n. a fabric woven from spun silk.
English · e-38700-676 · brief source recordSchediasm, skē′di-azm, n. cursory writing on a loose sheet. [Gr. schediasma—schedon, near.]
English · e-38700-677 · brief source recordSchedule, shed′ūl, n. a piece of paper containing some writing: a list, inventory, or table.—v.t. to place in a schedule or list. [O. Fr. schedule (Fr. cédule)—L. schedula, dim. of scheda, a strip of papyrus—L. scindĕre,
English · e-38700-678Scheelite, shē′līt, n. native calcium tungstate. [From the Swedish chemist, K. W. Scheele (1742-86).]
English · e-38700-679 · brief source recordSchegalia, shle-gā′li-a, n. a genus of birds of Paradise. [Named from the Dutch ornithologist Hermann Schlegel (1805-84).]
English · e-38700-716Scheik. Same as Sheik.
English · e-38700-680 · brief source recordSchelly, shel′i, n. a white fish.
English · e-38700-681 · brief source recordSchelm, skelm, n. (Scot.) a rascal.—Also Schel′lum, Shelm, Skel′lum. [O. Fr. schelme—Old High Ger. scalmo, plague; cf. Ger. schelm, a rogue.]
English · e-38700-682Scheltopusik, shel′to-pū-sik, n. a Russian lizard.
English · e-38700-683 · brief source recordSchema, skē′ma, n. the image of the thing with which the imagination aids the understanding in its procedure: scheme, plan, outline generally: a diagrammatic outline or synopsis of anything: (Gr. Church) the monastic hab
English · e-38700-684Scheme, skēm, n. plan: something contrived to be done: purpose: plot: a combination of things by design: a specific organisation for some end: an illustrative diagram: a system: a statement in tabular form: a representat
English · e-38700-685Schepen, skā′pen, n. a Dutch magistrate. [Dut.]
English · e-38700-686 · brief source recordScheroma, ske-rō′ma, n. inflammation of the eye without discharge. [Gr. xēros, dry.]
English · e-38700-687 · brief source recordScherzo, sker′tsō, n. (mus.) a passage or movement of a lively character, forming part of a musical composition of some length, as a symphony, quartette, or sonata.—adj. Scherzan′do, playful. [It. scherzo, a jest, scherz
English · e-38700-688Schesis, skē′sis, n. habitude.—adj. Schet′ic, constitutional: habitual. [Gr.,—echein, to have.]
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