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Scale
SCALE, noun [Latin id. If the sense is to strip, it coincides with the Gr. to spoil.]
1. The dish of a balance; and hence, the balance itself, or whole instrument; as, to turn the scale
Long time in even scale the battle hung.
But in general, we use the plural, scales, for the whole instrument.
The scales are turn'd; her kindness weights no more now than my vows.
2. The sign of the balance or Libra, in the zodiac.
3. The small shell or crust which composes a part of the covering of a fish; and hence, any thin layer or leaf exfoliated or separated; a thin lamin; as scales of iron or of bone.
The scales of fish consist of alternate layers of membrane and phosphate of lime. The scales of serpents are composed of a horny membrane, without the calcarious phosphate.
4. A ladder; series of steps; means of ascending. [Latin scala.]
5. The art of storming a place by mounting the wall on ladders; an escalade, or scalade.
6. A mathematical instrument of wood or metal, on which are marked line and figures for the purpose of measuring distances, extent or proportions; as a plain scale; a diagonal scale
7. Regular gradation; a series rising by steps or degrees like those of a ladder. Thus we speak of the scale of being, in which man occupies a higher rank than brutes, and angels a higher rank than man.
8. Any instrument, figure or scheme, graduated for the purpose of measuring extent or proportions as a map drawn by a scale of half an inch to a league.
9. In music, a gamut; a diagram; or a series of lines and spaces rising one above another, on which notes are placed; or a scale consists of the regular gradations of sounds. A scale may be limited to an octave, called by the Greeks a tetrachord, or it may extend to the compass of any voice or instrument.
10. Any thing graduated or marked with degrees at equal distances.
SCALE, verb transitive
1. To climb, as by a ladder; to ascend by steps; and applied to the walls of a fortified place, to mount in assault or storm.
Oft have I scal'd the craggy oak.
2. [from scale a balance.] To measure; to compare; to weight.
3. [from scale the covering of a fish.] to strip or clear of scales; as, to scale a fish.
4. To take off in thin lamins or scales.
5. To pare off a surface.
If all the mountains were scaled, and the earth made even -
6. In the north of England, to spread, as manure or loose substances; also, to disperse; to waste.
7. In gunnery, to clean the inside of a cannon by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
SCALE, verb intransitive To separate and come off in thin layers or lamins.
The old shells of the lobster scale off.
Scale-Stone
SCA'LE-STONE, noun A rare mineral, called also tafelspath and tabular spar, occurring in masses composed of thin lamins collected into large prismatic concretions or hexahedral prisms. It color is grayish or pearly white, tinged with green, yellow or red.
Scaled
SCA'LED, participle passive
1. Ascended by ladders or steps; cleared of scales; pared; scattered.
2. adjective Having scales like a fish; squamous; as a scaled snake.
Scaleless
SCA'LELESS, adjective Destitute of scales.
Scalene
SCALE'NE,
SCALE'NOUS, adjective [Gr. oblique, unequal.]
A scalene triangle, is one whose sides and angles are unequal.
SCALE'NE, noun a scalene triangle.
Scalenous
SCALE'NOUS, a. [Gr. oblique, unequal.] A scalene triangle, is one whose sides and angles are unequal.
Scaliness
SCA'LINESS, noun [from scaly.] the state of being scaly; roughness.
Scaling
SCA'LING, participle present tense
1. Ascending by ladders or steps; storming.
2. Stripping of scales.
3. Peeling; paring.
Scaling-Ladder
SCA'LING-LADDER, noun a ladder made for enabling troops to scale a wall.
Scall
SCALL, noun [See Scald and Scaldhead.]
Scab; scabbiness; leprosy.
It is a dry scall even a leprosy on the head. .
Scallion
SCAL'LION, noun [ascalonia.]
a plant of the genus Allium; a variety of the common onion, which never forms a bulb at the root.
Scallop
SCAL'LOP, noun [This is from the root of shell, scale; coinciding with scalp.]
1. A shell fish, or rather a genus of shell fish, called pecten. The shell is bivalvular, the hinge toothless, having a small ovated hollow. The great scallop is rugged and imbricated with scales, grows to a large size, and in some countries is taken and barreled for market.
2. A recess or curving of the edge of any thing, like the segment of a circle; written also scallop
SCAL'LOP, verb transitive To mark or cut the edge or border of any thing into segments of circles.
Scalp
SCALP, noun [Latin scalpo.]
1. The skin of the top of the head; as a hairless scalp
2. The skin of the top of the head cut or torn off. A scalp among the Indians of America is a trophy of victory.
SCALP, verb transitive To deprive of the scalp or integuments of the head.
Scalped
SCALP'ED, participle passive Deprived of the skin of the head.
Scalpel
SCALP'EL, noun [Latin scalpellum, from scalpo, to scrape.]
In surgery, a knife used in anatomical dissections and surgical operations.
Scalper
SCALP'ER,
SCALP'ING, participle present tense Depriving of the skin of the top of the head.
Scalping
SCALP'ING, ppr. Depriving of the skin of the top of the head.
Scalping-Iron
SCALP'ING-IRON, noun An instrument of surgery, used in scraping foul and carious bones; a raspatory.
Scaly
SCA'LY, adjective [from scale.]
1. Covered or abounding with scales; rough; as a scaly fish; the scaly crocodile.
2. Resembling scales, lamina or layers.
3. In botany, composed of scales lying over each other, as a scaly bulb; having scales scattered over it, as a scaly stem.
Scamble
SCAM'BLE, verb intransitive
1. To stir quick; to be busy; to scramble; to be bold or turbulent.
2. To shift awkwardly.
SCAM'BLE, verb transitive To mangle; to maul.
Scambler
SCAM'BLER, noun A bold intruder upon the generosity or hospitality of others.
Scambling
SCAM'BLING, participle present tense Stirring; scrambling; intruding.
Scamblingly
SCAM'BLINGLY, adverb With turbulence and noise; with bold intrusiveness.
Scammel
SCAM'MEL, noun A bird.
Scammoniate
SCAMMO'NIATE, adjective [from scammony.] Made with scammony. [Not used.]
Scammony
SCAM'MONY, noun [Latin scammonia.]
1. A plant of the genus convolvulus.
2. A gum resin, obtained from the plant of that name, of a blackish gray color, a strong nauseous smell, and a bitter and very acrid taste. The best scammony comes from Aleppo, in light spungy masses, easily friable. That of Smyrna is black, ponderous, and mixed with extraneous matter.
Scamper
SCAMP'ER, verb intransitive
To run with speed; to hasten escape.
Scampering
SCAMP'ERING, participle present tense Running with speed; hastening in flight.
Scan
SCAN, verb transitive [Latin ascendo. See Ascend.]
1. To examine with critical care; to scrutinize.
The actions of men in high stations are all conspicuous, and liable to be scanned and sifted.
2. To examine a verse by counting the feet; or according to modern usage, to recite or measure verse by distinguishing the feet in pronunciation. Thus in Latin and Greek, a hexameter verse is resolved into six feet by scanning, and the true quantities are determined.
Scandal
SCAN'DAL, noun [Latin scandalum; Gr. In Greek, this word signifies a stumbling block, something against which a person impinges, or which causes him to fall.]
1. Offense given by the faults of another.
His lustful orgies he enlarg'd even to the hill of scandal
[In this sense, we now generally use offense.]
2. Reproachful aspersion; opprobrious censure; defamatory speech or report; something uttered which is false and injurious to reputation.
My known virtue is from scandal free.
3. Shame; reproach; disgrace. Such is the perverted state of the human mind that some of the most heinous crimes bring little scandal upon the offender.
SCAN'DAL, verb transitive
1. To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to blacken character.
I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, and after scandal them. [Little used.]
2. To scandalize; to offend. [Not used.]
Scandalize
SCAN'DALIZE, verb transitive [Gr. Latin scandalizo.]
1. To offend by some action supposed criminal.
I demand who they are whom we scandalize by using harmless things?
2. To reproach; to disgrace; to defame; as a scandalizing libeler.
Scandalized
SCAN'DALIZED, participle passive Offended; defamed; disgraced.
Scandalizing
SCAN'DALIZING, participle present tense Giving offense to; disgracing.
Scandalous
SCAN'DALOUS, adjective
1. Giving offense.
Nothing scandalous or offensive to any.
2. Opprobrious; disgraceful to reputation; that brings shame or infamy; as a scandalous crime or vice. How perverted must be the mind that considers seduction or dueling less scandalous than larceny!
3. Defamatory.
Scandalously
SCAN'DALOUSLY, adverb
1. Shamefully; in a manner to give offense.
His discourse at table was scandalously unbecoming the dignity of his station.
2. Censoriously; with a disposition to find fault; as a critic scandalously nice.
Scandalousness
SCAN'DALOUSNESS, noun The quality of being scandalous; the quality of giving offense, or of being disgraceful.
Scandalum magnatum, in law, a defamatory speech or writing made or published to the injury of a person of dignity.
Scandent
SCAND'ENT, adjective [Latin scandens, scando, to climb.]
Climbing, either with spiral tendrils for its support, or by adhesive fibers, as a stalk; climbing; performing the office of a tendril, as a petiole.
Scanned
SCAN'NED, participle passive Critically sifted or examined; resolved into feet in recital.
Scanning
SCAN'NING, participle present tense Critically examining; resolving into feet, as verse.
Scansion
SCAN'SION, noun The act of scanning.
Scant
SCANT, verb transitive
To limit; to straiten; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries; to scant a garment in cloth.
I am scanted in the pleasure of dwelling on your actions.
SCANT, verb intransitive To fail or become less; as, the wind scants.
SCANT, adjective
1. Not full, large or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; rather less than is wanted for the purpose; as a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment.
2. Sparing; parsimonious; cautiously affording.
Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence. [Not in use.]
3. Not fair, free or favorable for a ship's course; as a scant wind.
SCANT, adverb Scarcely; hardly; not quite.
The people - received of the bankers scant twenty shillings for thirty. [Obsolete or vulgar.]
Scantily
SCANT'ILY, adverb [from scanty.]
1. Not fully; not plentifully. the troops were scantily supplied with flour.
2. Sparingly; niggardly; as, to speak scantily of one. [Unusual.]
Scantiness
SCANT'INESS, noun
1. Narrowness; want of space or compass; as the scantiness of our heroic verse.
2. Want of amplitude, greatness or abundance; limited extent.
Alexander was much troubled at the scantiness of nature itself.
3. Want of fullness; want of sufficiency; as the scantiness of supplies.
Scantle
SCANT'LE, verb transitive To be deficient; to fail.
SCANT'LE, verb intransitive To divide into thin or small pieces; to shiver.
Scantlet
SCANT'LET, noun [See Scantling.] A small pattern; a small quantity. [Not in use.]
Scantling
SCANT'LING, noun
1. A pattern; a quantity cut for a particular purpose.
2. A small quantity; as a scantling of wit.
3. A certain proportion or quantity.
4. In the United States, timber sawed or cut into pieces of a small size, as for studs, rails, etc. This seems to be allied to the Latin scandula, and it is the sense in which I have ever heard it used in this country.
5. In seamen's language, the dimensions of a piece of timber, with regard to its breadth and thickness.
SCANT'LING, adjective Not plentiful; small. [Not in use.]
Scantly
SCANT'LY, adverb
1. Scarcely; hardly. obsolete
2. Not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously; without amplitude.
Scantness
SCANT'NESS, noun [from scant.] Narrowness; smallness; as the scantness of our capacities.
Scanty
SCANT'Y, adjective [from scant, and having the same signification.]
1. Narrow; small; wanting amplitude or extent.
His dominions were very narrow and scanty
Now scantier limits the proud arch confine.
2. Poor; not copious or full; not ample; hardly sufficient; as a scanty language; a scanty supply of words; a scantly supply of bread.
3. Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious.
In illustrating a point of difficulty, be not too scanty of words.
Scapaism
SCAP'AISM, noun [Gr. to dig or make hollow.]
Among the Persians, a barbarous punishment inflicted on criminals by confining them in a hollow tree till they died.
Scape
SCAPE, verb transitive To escape; a contracted word, not now used except in poetry, and with a mark of elision. [See Escape.]
SCAPE, noun
1. An escape. [See Escape.]
2. Means of escape; evasion.
3. Freak; aberration; deviation.
4. Loose act of vice or lewdness. [Obsolete in all its senses.
SCAPE, noun [Latin scopus; probably allied to scipio, and the Gr. scepter.]
In botany, a stem bearing the fructification without leaves, as in the narcissus and hyacinth.
Scape-Goat
SCA'PE-GOAT, noun [escape and goat.] In the Jewish ritual, a goat which was brought to the door of the tabernacle, where the high priest laid his hands upon him, confessing the sins of the people, and putting them on the heat of the goat; after which the goat was sent into the wilderness, bearing the iniquities of the people. .
Scapeless
SCA'PELESS, adjective [from scape.] In botany, destitute of a scape.
Scapement
SCA'PEMENT, noun The method of communicating the impulse of the wheels to the pendulum of a clock.
Scaphite
SCA'PHITE, noun [Latin scapha.] Fossil remains of the scapha.
Scapolite
SCAP'OLITE, noun [Gr. a rod, and a stone.]
A mineral which occurs massive, or more commonly in four or eight sides prisms, terminated by four sided pyramids. It takes its name from its long crystals, often marked with deep longitudinal channels, and collected in groups or masses of parallel, diverging or intermingled prisms. It is the radiated, foliated and compact scapolite of Jameson, and the paranthine and Wernerite of Hauy and Brongniart.
Scapula
SCAP'ULA, noun [Latin] The shoulder blade.
Scapular
SCAP'ULAR, adjective [Latin scapularis.] Pertaining to the shoulder, or to the scapula; as the scapular arteries.
SCAP'ULAR, noun [supra.]
1. In anatomy, the name of two pairs of arteries, and as many veins.
2. In ornithology, a feather which springs from the shoulder of the wing, and lies along the side of the back.
Scapulary
SCAP'ULARY, noun A part of the habit of certain religious orders in the Romish church, consisting of two narrow slips of cloth worn over the gown, covering the back and breast, and extending to the feet. This is worn as a badge of peculiar veneration for the virgin Mary.
Scar
SC'AR, noun
1. A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal made by a wound or an ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed. The soldier is proud of his scars.
2. Any mark or injury; a blemish.
The earth had the beauty of youth - and not a wrinkle, scar or fracture on its body.
3. [Latin scarus; Gr.] A fish of the Labrus kind.
SC'AR, verb transitive To mark with a scar
Scarab
SCAR'AB,
SCAR'ABEE, noun [Latin scarabaeus, from Gr.]
A beetle; an insect of the genus Scarabaeus, whose wings are cased. [See Beetle.]
Scarabee
SCAR'ABEE, n. [L. scarabaeus, from Gr.] A beetle; an insect of the genus Scarabaeus, whose wings are cased. [See Beetle.]
Scaramouch
SCAR'AMOUCH, noun
A buffoon in motley dress.
Scarce
SCARCE, adjective
1. Not plentiful or abundant; being in small quantity in proportion to the demand. We say, water is scarce wheat, rye, barley is scarce money is scarce when the quantity is not fully adequate to the demand.
2. Being few in number and scattered; rare; uncommon. Good horses are scarce
The scarcest of all is a Pescennius Niger on a medallion well preserved.
Scarcely
SCARCELY, adverb
1. Hardly; scantly.
We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
2. Hardly; with difficulty.
Slowly he sails, and scarcely stems the tides.
Scarceness
SCARCENESS,
SCARCITY, noun
1. Smallness of quantity, or smallness in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency defeat of plenty; penury; as a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties; a scarcity of lovely women.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity.
A scarcity of snow would raise a mutiny at Naples.
2. Rareness; infrequency.
The value of an advantage is enhanced by its scarceness
Root of scarcity, the mangold-wurzel, a variety of the white beet.
Scarcity
SCARCITY, n. 1. Smallness of quantity, or smallness in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency defeat of plenty; penury; as a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties; a scarcity of lovely women.Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity.A scarcity of snow would raise a mutiny at Naples.2. Rareness; infrequency.The value of an advantage is enhanced by its scarceness.Root of scarcity, the mangold-wurzel, a variety of the white beet.
Scare
SCARE, verb transitive [Latin ex and cor, heart; but qu.]
To fright; to terrify suddenly; to strike with sudden terror.
The noise of thy crow-bow will scare the herd, and so my shot is lost.
To scare away, to drive away by frightening.
Scarecrow
SCARECROW, noun [scarce and crow.]
1. Any frightful thing set up to frighten crows or other fowls from corn fields; hence, any thing terrifying without danger; a vain terror.
A scarecrow set to frighten fools away.
2. A fowl of the sea gull kind; the black gull.
Scared
SCARED, participle passive Frightened; suddenly terrified.
Scarefire
SCAREFIRE, noun A fire breaking out so as to frighten people. [Not used.]
Scarf
SCARF, noun plural scarfs
Something that hangs loose upon the shoulders; as a piece of cloth.
Put on your hood and scarf
SC'ARF, verb transitive
1. To throw loosely on.
2. To dress in a loose vesture.
SC'ARF, verb transitive To join; to piece; to unite two pieces of timber at the ends, by letting the end of one into the end of the other, or by laying the two ends together and fastening a third piece to both.
Scarfskin
SC'ARFSKIN, noun [scarf and skin.] The cuticle; the epidermis; the outer thin integument of the body.
Scarification
SCARIFICA'TION, noun [Latin scarificatio. See Scarify.]
In surgery, the operation of making several incisions in the skin with a lancet or other cutting instrument, particularly the cupping instrument.
Scarificator
SCARIFICA'TOR, noun An instrument used in scarification.
Scarifier
SCAR'IFIER, noun [from scarify.]
1. The person who scarifies.
2. The instrument used for scarifying.
Scarify
SCAR'IFY, verb transitive [Latin scarifico. Gr. Latin facio, to make. But the Greek is from a pointed instrument, or a sharp pointed piece of wood.]
To scratch or cut the skin of an animal, or to make small incisions by means of a lancet or cupping instrument, so as to draw blood from the smaller vessels without opening a large vein.
Scarifying
SCAR'IFYING, participle present tense Making small incisions in the skin with an instrument.
Scarious
SCA'RIOUS, adjective [Low Latin scarrosus, rough.] In botany, tough, thin
SCA'RIOUS, adjective [Low Latin scarrosus, rough.] In botany, tough, thin and semi-transparent, dry and sonorous to the touch; as a perianth.
Scarlatina
SCARLATI'NA, noun the scarlet fever; called in popular language, the canker rash.
Scarlatinous
SCARLAT'INOUS, adjective Of a scarlet color; pertaining to the scarlet fever.
Scarlet
SC'ARLET, noun
1. A beautiful bright red color, brighter than crimson.
2. Cloth of a scarlet color.
All her household are clothed with scarlet .
SC'ARLET, adjective of the color called scarlet; of a bright red color; as a scarlet cloth or thread; a scarlet lip.
Scarlet-Bean
SC'ARLET-BEAN, noun A plant; a red bean.
Scarlet-Fever
SC'ARLET-FE'VER, noun [scarlatina.] a disease in which the body is covered with an efflorescence or red color, first appearing about the neck and breast, and accompanied with a sore throat.
Scarlet-Oak
SC'ARLET-OAK, noun a species of oak, the Quercus coccifera, or kermes oak, producing small glandular excrescences, called kermes or scarlet grain.
Scarmage
SC'ARMAGE,
SC'ARMOGE, peculiar modes of spelling skirmish. [Not in use or local.]
Scarmoge
SC'ARMOGE, peculiar modes of spelling skirmish. [Not in use or local.]
Scarn
SC'ARN, noun Dung. [Not in use or local.]
Scarn-Bee
SC'ARN-BEE, noun a beetle. [Not in use or local.]
Scarp
SC'ARP, noun
In fortification, the interior talus or slope of the ditch next the place, at the foot of the rampart.
SC'ARP, noun In heraldry, the scarf which military commanders wear for ornament; borne somewhat like a battoon sinister, but broader, and continued to the edges of the field.
Scarus
SCA'RUS, noun A fish. [See Scar.]
Scary
SCA'RY, noun Barren land having only a thin coat of grass upon it. [Local.]
Scatch
SCATCH, noun A kind of horsebit for bridles.
Scatches
SCATCH'ES, noun plural Stilts to put the feet in for walking in dirty places.
Scate
SCATE, noun [This word may belong to the root of shoot, and Latin scateo.]
A wooden shoe furnished with a steel plate for sliding on ice.
SCATE, verb intransitive To slide or move on scates.
SCATE, noun [Latin squatina, squatus.] A fish, a species of ray.
Scatebrous
SCA'TEBROUS, adjective [Latin scatebra, a spring; scateo, to overflow.] Abounding with springs.
Scath
SCATH, verb transitive To damage; to waste; to destroy. [Little used.]
SCATH, noun Damage; injury; waste; harm. [Little used.]
Scathful
SCATH'FUL, adjective Without waste or damage. [Little used.]
Scathless
SCATH'LESS, adjective Without waste or damage. [Little used.]
Scatter
SCAT'TER, verb transitive [Latin scateo, discutio; Gr. to scatter to discuss. This word may be formed on the root of discutio. The primary sense is to drive or throw.]
1. To disperse; to dissipate; to separate or remove things to a distance from each other.
From thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. .
I will scatter you among the heathen. .
2. To throw loosely about; to sprinkle; as, to scatter seed in sowing.
Teach the glad hours to scatter as they fly, soft quiet, gentle love and endless joy.
3. To spread or set thinly.
Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, their scatter'd cottages, and ample plains.
SCAT'TER, verb intransitive
1. To be dispersed or dissipated. The clouds scatter after a storm.
2. To be liberal to the poor; to be charitable. .
Scattered
SCAT'TERED, participle passive
1. Dispersed; dissipated; thinly spread; sprinkled or thinly spread over.
2. In botany, irregular in position; without any apparent regular order; as scattered branches.
Scatteredly
SCAT'TEREDLY, adverb In a dispersed manner; separately. [Not much used.]
Scattering
SCAT'TERING, participle present tense
1. Dispersing; spreading thinly; sprinkling.
2. adjective Not united; divided among many; as scattering votes.
Scatteringly
SCAT'TERINGLY, adverb Loosely; in a dispersed manner; thinly; as habitations scatteringly placed over the country.
Scatterling
SCAT'TERLING, noun A vagabond; one that no fixed habitation or residence. [Little used.]
Scaturient
SCATU'RIENT, adjective [Latin scaturiens.] Springing, as the water of a fountain. [Not used.]
Scaturiginous
SCATURIG'INOUS, adjective [Latin scaturigo.] Abounding with springs. [Not used.]
Scaup
SCAUP, noun A fowl of the duck kind.
Scavage
SCAV'AGE, noun
In ancient customs, a toll or duty exacted of merchant-strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc. for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts.
Scavenger
SCAV'ENGER, noun [Latin scabio.]
A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping and carrying off the filth.
Scelerat
SCEL'ERAT, noun [Latin sceleratus.] a villain; a criminal. [Not in use.]
Scene
SCENE, noun [Latin scena; Gr. Heb. The Greek word signifies a tent, hut or cottage. In Latin it is an arbor or stage. The primary sense is to set or throw down.]
1. A stage; the theater or place where dramatic pieces and other shows are exhibited. It does not appear that the ancients changed the scenes in different parts of the play. Indeed the original scene for acting was an open plat of ground, shaded or slightly covered.
2. The whole series of actions and events connected and exhibited; or the whole assemblage of objects displayed at one view. Thus we say, the execution of a malefactor is a melancholy scene The crucifixion of our Saviour was the most solemn scene ever presented to the view of man.
We say also, a scene of sorrow or of rejoicing, a noble scene a sylvan scene
A charming scene of nature is display'd.
3. A part of a play; a division of an act. A play is divided into acts, and acts are divided into scenes.
4. So much of an act of a play as represents what passes between the same persons in the same place.
5. The place represented by the sate. The scene was laid in the king's palace.
6. The curtain or hanging of a theater adapted to the play.
7. The place where any thing is exhibited.
The world is a vast scene of strife.
8. Any remarkable exhibition.
The shepherds, while watching their flocks upon the plains of Bethehem, were suddenly interrupted by one of the most sublime and surprising scenes which have ever been exhibited on earth.
Scenery
SCE'NERY, noun The appearance of a place, or of the various objects presented to view; or the various objects themselves as seen together. Thus we may say, the scenery of the landscape presented to the view from mount Holyoke, in Hampshire county, Massachusetts, is highly picturesque, and exceeded only by the scenery of Boston and its vicinity, as seen from the State house.
Never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery
2. The representation of the place in which an action is performed.
3. The disposition and consecution of the scenes of a play.
4. The paintings representing the scenery of a play.
Scenic
SCEN'IC,
SCEN'ICAL, adjective [Latin scenicus.] Pertaining to scenery; dramatic; theatrical.
Scenical
SCEN'ICAL, a. [L. scenicus.] Pertaining to scenery; dramatic; theatrical.
Scenographic
SCENOGRAPH'IC,
SCENOGRAPH'ICAL, adjective [See scenography.] Pertaining to scenography; drawn in perspective.
Scenographical
SCENOGRAPH'ICAL, a. [See scenography.] Pertaining to scenography; drawn in perspective.
Scenographically
SCENOGRAPH'ICALLY, adverb In perspective.
Scenography
SCENOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. scene, to describel.]
the representation of a body on a perspective plane; or a description of it in all its dimensions as it appears to the eye.
Scent
SCENT, noun [Latin sentio, to perceive.]
1. Odor; smell; that substance which issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals; as the scent of an orange or an apple; the scent of musk. The word is applicable to any odor, agreeable or offensive.
2. The power of smelling; the smell; as a house of nice scent
3. chase followed by the scent; course of pursuit; track.
He travelled upon the same scent into Ethiopia.
SCENT, verb transitive
1. to smell; to perceive by the olfactory organs; as, to scent game, as a hound.
2. To perfume; to imbue or fill with odor, good or bad. Aromatic plants scent the room. some persons scent garments with musk; others scent their snuff.
Scentful
SCENT'FUL, adjective
1. Odorous; yielding much smell.
2. Of quick smell.
Scentless
SCENT'LESS, adjective Inodorous; destitute of smell.
Scepter
SCEP'TER, noun [Latin sceptrum; Gr. from to send or thrust; coinciding with Latin scipio, that is, a shoot or rod.]
1. A staff or batoon borne by kings on solemn occasions, as a badge of authority. Hence,
2. The appropriate ensign of royalty; an ensign of higher antiquity than the crown. Hence,
3. Royal power or authority; as, to assume the scepter
The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, till Shiloh come. .
4. A constellation.
SCEP'TER, verb transitive To invest with royal authority, or with the ensign of authority.
Sceptered
SCEP'TERED, adjective Bearing a scepter; as a sceptered prince.
To Britain's queen the scepter'd suppliant bends.
Gold-scepter'd Juno.
Sceptic
SCEP'TIC, noun [Gr. from to look about, to consider, to speculate. See Show.]
1. One who doubts the truth and reality of any principle or system of principles or doctrines. In philosophy, a Pyrrhonist or follower of Pyrrho, the founder of a sect of sceptical philosophers, who maintained that no certain inferences can be drawn from the reports of the senses, and who therefore doubted of every thing.
2. In theology, a person who doubts the existence and perfections of God, or the truth of revelation; one who disbelieves the divine original of the christian religion.
Suffer not your faith to be shaken by the sophistries of sceptics.
Sceptical
SCEP'TICAL, adjective
1. Doubting; hesitating to admit the certainty of doctrines or principles; doubting of every thing.
2. Doubting or denying the truth of revelation.
The sceptical system subverts the whole foundation of morals.
Sceptically
SCEP'TICALLY, adverb With doubt; in a doubting manner.
Scepticism
SCEP'TICISM, noun
1. The doctrines and opinions of the Pyrrhonists or sceptical philosophers; universal doubt; the scheme of philosophy which denies the certainty of any knowledge respecting the phenomena of nature.
2. In theology, a doubting of the truth of revelation, or a denial of the divine origin of the christian religion, or of the being, perfections or truth of God.
Irreligious scepticism or atheistic profaneness.
Let no despondency or timidity or secret scepticism lead any one to doubt whether this blessed prospect will be realized.
Scepticize
SCEP'TICIZE, verb intransitive To doubt; to pretend to doubt of every thing. [Little used.]
Scession
SCES'SION, noun [L. secessio. See Secede.]
1. The act of withdrawing, particularly from followship and communion.
2. The act of departing; departure.
SE' CLE noun [L. seculum.] A century.
Schaalstein
SCHAALSTEIN,
SCHED'ULE, noun [Latin schedula, from scheda, a sheet or leaf of paper; Gr. from to cut or divide; Latin scindo, for scido. The pronunciation ought to follow the analogy of scheme, etc.]
1. A small scroll or piece of paper or parchment, containing some writing.
2. A piece of paper or parchment annexed to a larger writing, as to a will, a deed, a lease, etc.
3. A piece of paper or parchment containing an inventory of goods.
Schedule
SCHED'ULE, n. [L. schedula, from scheda, a sheet or leaf of paper; Gr. from to cut or divide; L. scindo, for scido. The pronunciation ought to follow the analogy of scheme, &c.] 1. A small scroll or piece of paper or parchment, containing some writing.2. A piece of paper or parchment annexed to a larger writing, as to a will, a deed, a lease, &c.3. A piece of paper or parchment containing an inventory of goods.
Scheelin
SCHEE'LIN,
SCHEICH, Among the Arabians and Moors, an old man, and hence a chief, a lord, a man of eminence.
Scheich
SCHEICH, Among the Arabians and Moors, an old man, and hence a chief, a lord, a man of eminence.
Schelium
SCHE'LIUM, noun A different, name of tungsten, a hard brittle metal of a grayish white color, and brilliant.
Schematism
SCHE'MATISM, noun [Gr. See Scheme.]
1. Combination of the aspects of heavenly bodies.
2. Particular form or disposition of a thing. [A word not much used.]
Schematist
SCHE'MATIST, noun A projector; one given to forming schemes. [Schemer is more generally used.]
Scheme
SCHEME, noun [Latin schema; Gr. from a contracted word, probably from to have or hold.]
1. A plan; a combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.
We shall never be able to give ourselves a satisfactory account of the divine conduct without forming such a scheme of things as shall take in time and eternity.
2. A project; a contrivance; a plan of something to be done; a design. Thus we say, to form a scheme to lay a scheme to contrive a scheme
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
3. A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies; any lineal or mathematical diagram.
SCHEME, verb transitive To plan; to contrive.
SCHEME, verb intransitive To form a plan; to contrive.
Schemer
SCHE'MER, noun One that contrives; a projector; a contriver.
Scheming
SCHE'MING, participle present tense
1. Planning; contriving.
2. adjective Given to forming schemes; artful.
Schemist
SCHE'MIST, noun A schemer; a projector.
Schene
SCHENE, noun [Latin schaenos; Gr.] An Egyptian measure of length, equal to sixty stadia, or about 7 1/2 miles.
Schesis
SCHE'SIS, noun [Gr. from to have or hold.]
Habitude; general state or disposition of the body or mind, or of one thing with regard to other things.
Schiller-Spar
SCHILLER-SPAR, noun A mineral containing two subspecies, bronzite and common schiller-spar
Schism
SCHISM, noun sizm. [Latin schisma; Gr. to divide, Latin scindo.]
1. In a general sense, division or separation; but appropriately, a division or separation in a church or denomination of christians, occasioned by diversity of opinions; breach of unity among people of the same religious faith.
- Set bounds to our passions by reason, to our errors by truth, and to our schisms by charity.
In Scripture, the word seems to denote a breach of charity, rather than a difference of doctrine.
2. Separation; division among tribes or classes of people.
Schismatic
SCHISMAT'IC, sizmat'ic,
Schismatical
SCHISMAT'ICAL, adjective sizmat'ical. Pertaining to schism; implying schism; partaking of the nature of schism; tending to schism; as schismatical opinions or proposals.
SCHISMAT'IC, noun One who separates from an established church or religious faith, on account of a diversity of opinions.
Schismatically
SCHISMAT'ICALLY, adverb In a schismatical manner; by separation from a church on account of a diversity of opinions.
Schismaticalness
SCHISMAT'ICALNESS, noun The state of being schismatical.
Schismatize
SCHIS'MATIZE, verb intransitive To commit or practice schism; to make a breach of communion in the church.
Schismless
SCHISM'LESS, adjective Free from schism; not affected by schism. [Little used.]
Schist
SCHIST. [See Shist.]
Scholar
SCHOL'AR, noun [Low Latin scholaris, from schola, a school; Gr. leisure, a school. See School.]
1. One who learns of a teacher; one who is under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; hence, any member of a college, academy or school; applicable to the learner of any art, science or branch of literature.
2. A man of letters.
3. Emphatically used, a man eminent for erudition; a person of high attainments in science or literature.
4. One that learns any thing; as an apt scholar in the school of vice.
5. A pedant; a man of books. [But the word scholar seldom conveys the idea of a pedant.]
Scholar-Like
SCHOL'AR-LIKE, adjective Like a scholar; becoming a scholar.
Scholarity
SCHOLAR'ITY, noun Scholarship. [Not used.]
Scholarship
SCHOL'ARSHIP, noun
1. Learning; attainments in science or literature; as a man of great scholarship
2. Literary education; as any other house of scholarship [Unusual.]
3. Exhibition or maintenance for a scholar; foundation for the support of a student.
Scholastic
SCHOLAS'TIC,
SCHOLAS'TICAL, adjective [Latin scholasticus.]
1. Pertaining to a scholar, to a school or to schools; as scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.
2. Scholar-like; becoming a scholar; suitable to schools; as scholastic precision.
3. Pedantic; formal.
Scholastic divinity, that species of divinity taught in some schools or colleges, which consists in discussing and settling points by reason and argument. It has now fallen into contempt, except in some universities, where the charters require it to be taught.
SCHOLAS'TIC, noun One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools.
Scholastical
SCHOLAS'TICAL, a. [L. scholasticus.] 1. Pertaining to a scholar, to a school or to schools; as scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.2. Scholar-like; becoming a scholar; suitable to schools; as scholastic precision.3. Pedantic; formal.Scholastic divinity, that species of divinity taught in some schools or colleges, which consists in discussing and settling points by reason and argument. It has now fallen into contempt, except in some universities, where the charters require it to be taught.
Scholastically
SCHOLAS'TICALLY, adverb In the manner of schools; according to the niceties or method of the schools.
Scholasticism
SCHOLAS'TICISM, noun The method or subtilties of the schools.
The spirit of the old scholasticism which spurned laborious investigation and slow induction -
Scholiast
SCHO'LIAST, noun [Gr. See scholium.]
A commentator or annotator; one who writes notes upon the works of another for illustrating his writings.
Scholiaze
SCHO'LIAZE, verb intransitive To write notes on an author's works. [Not used.]
Scholical
SCHO'LICAL, adjective Scholastic. [Not in use.]
Scholium
SCHO'LIUM, noun plural scholia or scholiums. [Latin scholion; Gr. from leisure, lucubration.]
In mathematics, a remark or observation subjoined to a demonstration.
Scholy
SCHO'LY, noun A scholium. [Not in use.]
SCHO'LY, verb intransitive To write comments. [Not in use.]
School
SCHOOL, noun [Latin schola; Gr. leisure, vacation from business, lucubration at leisure, a place where leisure is enjoyed, a school The adverb signifies at ease, leisurely, slowly, hardly, with labor or difficulty. I think, must have been derived from the Latin. This word seems originally to have denoted leisure, freedom from business, a time given to sports, games or exercises, and afterwards time given to literary studies. the sense of a crowd, collection or shoal, seems to be derivative.]
1. A place or house in which persons are instructed in arts, science, languages or any species of learning; or the pupils assembled for instruction. In American usage, school more generally denotes the collective body of pupils in any place of instruction, and under the direction and discipline of one or more teachers. Thus we say, a school consists of fifty pupils. The preceptor has a large school or a small school His discipline keeps the school well regulated and quiet.
2. The instruction or exercises of a collection of pupils or students, or the collective body of pupils while engaged in their studies. Thus we say, the school begins or opens at eight o'clock, that is, the pupils at that hour begin their studies. so we say, the teacher is now in school the school hours are from nine to twelve, and from two to five.
3. The state of instruction.
Set him betimes to school
4. A place of education, or collection of pupils, of any kind; as the schools of the prophets. In modern usage, the word school comprehends every place of education, as university, college, academy, common or primary schools, dancing schools, riding schools, etc.; but ordinarily the word is applied to seminaries inferior to universities and colleges.
What is the great community of christians, but one of the innumerable schools in the vast plan, which God has instituted for the education of various intelligences?
5. Separate denomination or sect; or a system of doctrine taught by particular teachers, or peculiar to any denomination of christians or philosophers.
Let no man be less confident in his faith - by reason of any difference in the several schools of christians -
Thus we say, the Socratic school the Platonic school the Peripatetic or Ionic school; by which we understand all those who adopted and adhered to a particular system of opinions.
6. The seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics and theology, which were formed in the middle ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning; or the learned men who were engaged in discussing nice points in metaphysics or theology.
The supreme authority of Aristotle in the schools of theology as well as of philosophy -
Hence, school divinity is the divinity which discusses nice points, and proves every thing by argument.
7. Any place of improvement or learning. The world is an excellent school to wise men, but a school of vice to fools.
SCHOOL, verb transitive
1. To instruct; to train; to educate.
He's gentle, never school'd, yet learn'd.
2. To teach with superiority; to tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove.
SCHOOL your child, and ask why God's anointed he revil'd.
SCHOOL'-BOY, noun [See boy.] A boy belonging to a school or one who is learning rudiments.
SCHOOL'-DAME, noun [See Dame.] The female teacher of a school
SCHOOL'-DAY, noun [See Day.] The age in which youth are sent to school [Not now used.]
SCHOOL'-DISTRICT, noun A division of a town or city for establishing and conducting school [United States.]
School-Fellow
SCHOOL'-FELLOW, noun [See Fellow.] One bred at the same school; an associate in school.
School-House
SCHOOL'-HOUSE, noun [See House.] A house appropriated for the use of schools, or for instruction; but applied only to building for subordinate schools, not to colleges. In Connecticut and some other states, every town is divided into school-districts, and each district erects its own school-house by a tax on the inhabitants.
Schoolery
SCHOOL'ERY, noun Something taught; precepts. [Not used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.