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Schooling
SCHOOL'ING, participle present tense Instructing; teaching; reproving.
SCHOOL'ING, noun
1. Instruction in school; tuition.
2. Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.
3. Reproof; reprimand. He gave his son a good schooling
Schoolmaid
SCHOOL'MAID, noun [See Maid.] A girl at school.
Schoolman
SCHOOL'MAN, noun [See Man.]
1. A man versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity.
Unlearn'd, he knew no schoolman's subtil art.
2. A writer of scholastic divinity or philosophy.
Let subtil schoolmen teach these friends to fight.
Schoolmaster
SCHOOL'MASTER, noun [See Master].
1. The man who presides over and teaches a school; a teacher, instructor or preceptor of a school. [Applied now only or chiefly to the teachers of primary school.]
Adrian VI. was sometimes schoolmaster to Charles V.
2. He or that which disciplines, instructs and leads.
The law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. .
Schoolmistress
SCHOOL'MISTRESS, noun [See Mistress.] A woman who governs and teaches a school.
Schooner
SCHOON'ER, noun A vessel with two masts, whose main-sail and fore- sail are suspended by gaffs, like a sloop's main-sail, and stretched below by booms.
Schorl
SCHORL. [See Shorl.]
Schware
SCHWARE, noun A copper coin and money of account in Bremen, value one fifth of a groat, and 72 groats make a thaler, [dollar.]
Sciagraphical
SCIAGRAPH'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to sciagraphy.
Sciagraphy
SCIAG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. a shadow, and to describe.]
1. The art of sketching or delineating.
2. In architecture, the profile or section of a building to exhibit its interior structure.
3. In astronomy, the art of finding the hour of the day or night by the shadows of objects, caused by the sun, moon or stars; the art of dialing.
Sciatheric
SCIATHER'IC,
SCIATHER'ICAL, adjective [Gr. a shadow, and a catching.]
Belonging to a sun-dial. [Little used.]
Sciatherically
SCIATHER'ICALLY, adverb After the manner of a sun-dial.
Sciatic
SCIAT'IC,
SCIAT'ICA, noun [Latin sciatica, from Gr. pain in the hips, from the hip, from the loin.] Rheumatism in the hip.
Sciatica
SCIAT'ICA, n. [L. sciatica, from Gr. pain in the hips, from the hip, from the loin.] Rheumatism in the hip.
Sciatical
SCIAT'ICAL, adjective
1. Pertaining to the hip; as the sciatic artery.
2. Affecting the hip; as sciatic pains.
Science
SCI'ENCE, noun [Latin scientia, from scio, to know.]
1. In a general sense, knowledge, or certain knowledge; the comprehension or understanding of truth or facts by the mind. The science of God must be perfect.
2. In philosophy, a collection of the general principles or leading truths relating to any subject. Pure science as the mathematics, is built on self-evident truths; but the term science is also applied to other subjects founded on generally acknowledged truths, as metaphysics; or on experiment and observation, as chimistry and natural philosophy; or even to an assemblage of the general principles of an art, as the science of agriculture; the science of navigation. Arts relate to practice, as painting and sculpture.
A principle in science is a rule in art.
3. Art derived from precepts or built on principles.
Science perfects genius.
4. Any art or species of knowledge.
No science doth make known the first principles on which it buildeth.
5. One of the seven liberal branches of knowledge, viz grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music.
[Note - Authors have not always been careful to use the terms art and science with due discrimination and precision. Music is an art as well as a science In general, an art is that which depends on practice or performance, and science that which depends on abstract or speculative principles. The theory of music is a science; the practice of it an art.]
Scient
SCI'ENT, adjective [Latin sciens.] Skillful. [Not used.]
Sciential
SCIEN'TIAL, Producing science.
Scientific
SCIENTIF'IC,
SCIENTIF'ICAL, adjective [Latin scientia and facio, to make.]
1. Producing certain knowledge or demonstration; as scientific evidence.
2. According to the rules or principles of science; as a scientific arrangement of fossils.
3. Well versed in science; as a scientific physician.
Scientifical
SCIENTIF'ICAL, a. [L. scientia and facio, to make.] 1. Producing certain knowledge or demonstration; as scientific evidence.2. According to the rules or principles of science; as a scientific arrangement of fossils.3. Well versed in science; as a scientific physician.
Scientifically
SCIENTIF'ICALLY, adverb
1. In such a manner as to produce knowledge.
It is easier to believe, than to be scientifically instructed.
2. According to the rules or principles of science.
Scillitin
SCIL'LITIN, noun [See Squill.] a white transparent acrid substance, extracted from squills by Vogel.
Scimitar
SCIM'ITAR, [See cimiter.]
Scink
SCINK, noun a cast calf. [Not in use or local.]
Scintillant
SCIN'TILLANT, adjective [See Scintillate.] emitting sparks or fine igneous particles; sparkling.
Scintillate
SCIN'TILLATE, verb intransitive [Latin scintillo. This word seems to be a diminutive formed on the Teutonic scinan, Eng. to shine.]
1. To emit sparks or fine igneous particles.
Marbles do not scintillate with steel.
2. to sparkle, as the fixed stars.
Scintillating
SCIN'TILLATING, participle present tense emitting sparks; sparkling.
Scintillation
SCINTILLA'TION, noun the act of emitting sparks or igneous particles; the act of sparkling.
Sciolism
SCI'OLISM, noun [See Sciolist.] Superficial knowledge.
Sciolist
SCI'OLIST, noun [Latin sciolus, a diminutive formed on scio, to know.]
One who knows little, or who knows many things superficially; a smatterer.
These passages in that book, were enough to humble the presumption of our modern sciolists, if their pride were not as great as their ignorance.
Sciolous
SCI'OLOUS, adjective Superficially or imperfectly knowing.
Sciomachy
SCIOM'ACHY, noun [Gr. a shadow, and a battle.]
A battle with a shadow. [Little used.]
Scion
SCION. [See Cion.]
Scioptic
SCIOP'TIC, adjective [Gr. shadow and to see.]
Pertaining to the camera obscura, or to the art of exhibiting images through a hole in a darkened room.
SCIOP'TIC, noun A sphere or globe with a lens made to turn like the eye; used in experiments with the camera obscura.
Scioptics
SCIOP'TICS, noun The science of exhibiting images of external objects, received through a double convex glass into a darkened room.
SCIRE FA'CIAS, noun [Latin] In law, a judicial writ summoning a person to show cause to the court why something should not be done, as to require sureties to show cause why the plaintiff should not have execution against them for debt and damages, or to require a third person to show cause why goods in his hands by replevin, should not be delivered to satisfy the execution, etc.
Sciroc
SCI'ROC,
SCIROC'CO, noun In Italy, a southeast wind; a hot suffocating wind, blowing from the burning deserts of Africa. This name is given also, in the northeast of Italy, to a cold bleak wind from the Alps.
Scirocco
SCIROC'CO, n. In Italy, a southeast wind; a hot suffocating wind, blowing from the burning deserts of Africa. This name is given also, in the northeast of Italy, to a cold bleak wind from the Alps.
Scirrosity
SCIRROS'ITY, noun [See Scirrus.] An induration of the glands.
Scirrous
SCIR'ROUS, adjective
1. Indurated; hard; knotty; as a gland.
2. Proceeding from scirrus; as scirrous affections; scirrous disease.
Scirrus
SCIR'RUS, noun [Latin scirrus; Gr.]
In surgery and medicine, a hard tumor on any part of the body, usually proceeding from the induration of a gland, and often terminating in a cancer.
Sciscitation
SCISCITA'TION, noun [Latin sciscitor, to inquire or demand.]
The act of inquiring; inquiry; demand. [Little used.]
Scissible
SCIS'SIBLE, adjective [Latin scissus, scindo, to cut.] Capable of being cut or divided by a sharp instrument; as scissible matter or bodies.
Scissile
SCIS'SILE, adjective [Latin scissilis, from scindo, to cut.]
That may be cut or divided by a sharp instrument.
Scission
SCISSION, noun sizh'on. [Latin scissio, scindo, to cut.]
The act of cutting or dividing by an edged instrument.
Scissors
SCISSORS, noun siz'zors, plural [Latin scissor, from scindo, to cut, Gr.]
A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades movable on a pin in the center, by which they are fastened. Hence we usually say, a pair of scissors
Scissure
SCIS'SURE, noun [Latin scissura, from scindo, to cut.]
A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting. [This cannot legitimately be a crack, rent or fissure. In this use it may be an error of the press for fissure.
Scitamineous
SCITAMIN'EOUS, adjective Belonging to the Scitamineae, one of Linne's natural orders of plants.
Sclavonian
SCLAVO'NIAN,
SCLEROT'IC, adjective [Gr. hard; hardness.]
Hard; firm; as the sclerotic coat or tunicle of the eye.
SCLEROT'IC, noun
1. The firm white outer coat of the eye.
2. A medicine which hardens and consolidates the parts to which it is applied.
Sclerotic
SCLEROT'IC, a. [Gr. hard; hardness.] Hard; firm; as the sclerotic coat or tunicle of the eye. SCLEROT'IC, n. 1. The firm white outer coat of the eye.2. A medicine which hardens and consolidates the parts to which it is applied.
Scoat
SCOAT. [See Scot.]
Scobiform
SCOB'IFORM, adjective [Latin scobs, saw dust, and form.]
Having the form of saw dust or raspings.
Scobs
SCOBS, noun [Latin from scabo, to scrape.] Raspings of ivory, hartshorn or other hard substance; dross of metals, etc.
Scoff
SCOFF, verb intransitive [Gr. The primary sense is probably to throw. But I do not find the word in the English and Greek sense, in any modern language except the English.]
To treat with insolent ridicule, mockery or contumelious language; to manifest contempt by derision; with at. To scoff at religion and sacred things is evidence of extreme weakness and folly, as well as of wickedness.
They shall scoff at the kings. .
SCOFF, verb transitive To treat with derision or scorn.
SCOFF, noun Derision, ridicule, mockery or reproach, expressed in language of contempt; expression of scorn or contempt.
With scoffs and scorns and contumelious taunts.
Scoffer
SCOFF'ER, noun One who scoffs; one that mocks, derides or reproaches in the language of contempt; a scorner.
There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, 'Where is the promise of his coming?' .
Scoffing
SCOFF'ING, participle present tense Deriding or mocking; treating with reproachful language.
Scoffingly
SCOFF'INGLY, adverb In mockery or contempt; by way of derision.
Aristotle applied this hemistich scoffingly to the sycophants at Athens.
Scold
SCOLD, verb intransitive
To find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to utter railing or harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; with at; as, to scold at a servant. A scolding tongue, a scolding wife, a scolding husband, a scolding master, who can endure?
Pardon me, 'tis the first time that ever I'm forc'd to scold
SCOLD, verb transitive To chide with rudeness and boisterous clamor; to rate. [The transitive use of this word is of recent origin, at least within my knowledge.]
SCOLD, noun
1. A rude, clamorous, foul-mouthed woman.
SCOLDs answer foul-mouth'd scolds.
2. A scolding; a brawl.
Scolder
SCOLDER, noun One that scolds or rails.
Scolding
SCOLDING, participle present tense
1. Railing with clamor; uttering rebuke in rude and boisterous language.
2. adjective Given to scolding
SCOLDING, The uttering of rude, clamorous language by way of rebuke or railing; railing language.
Scoldingly
SCOLDINGLY, adverb With rude clamor or railing.
Scollop
SCOL'LOP, noun
1. A pectinated shell. [See Scallop.]
2. An indenting or cut like those of a shell.
SCOL'LOP, verb transitive To form or cut with scollops.
Scolopendra
SCOLOPEN'DRA, noun [Gr. ]
1. A venomous serpent.
2. A genus of insects of the order of Apters, destitute of wings. These insects have as many feet on each side as there are segments in the body. There are several species.
3. A plant. [Latin scolopendrium.]
Scomm
SCOMM, noun [Latin scomma; Gr. See Scoff.]
1. A buffoon. [Not in use.]
2. A flout; a jeer. [Not in use.]
Sconce
SCONCE, noun
1. A fort or bulwark; a work for defense. obsolete
2. A hanging or projecting candlestick, generally with a mirror to reflect the light.
Golden sconces hang upon the walls.
3. The circular tube with a brim in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted, that is, the support, the holder of the candle; and from this sense the candlestick, in the preceding definition, has its name.
4. A fixed seat or shelf. [Local.]
SCONCE, noun
1. Sense; judgment; discretion or understanding. This sense has been in vulgar use in New England within my memory.
2. The head; a low word.
3. A mulet or fine.
SCONCE, verb transitive To mulet; to fine. [A low word and not in use.]
Scoop
SCOOP, noun
1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle fastened to a dish, used for dipping liquors; also, a little hollow piece of wood for bailing boats.
2. An instrument of surgery.
3. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
SCOOP, verb transitive
1. To lade out; properly, to take out with a scoop or with a sweeping motion.
He scoop'd the water from the crystal flood.
2. To empty by lading; as, he scooped it dry.
3. To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; as, the Indians scoop the trunk of a tree into a canoe.
Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop so as to hold above a pint.
4. To remove, so as to leave a place hollow.
A spectator would think this circular mount had been actually scooped out of that hollow space.
Scooped
SCOOP'ED, participle passive Taken out as with a scoop or ladle; hollowed; excavated; removed so as to leave a hollow.
Scooper
SCOOP'ER, noun One that scoops; also, a water fowl.
Scooping
SCOOP'ING, participle present tense Lading out; making hollow; excavating; removing so as to leave a hollow.
SCOOP'-NET, noun A net so formed as to sweep the bottom of a river.
Scope
SCOPE, noun [Latin scopus; Gr. from to see or view; Heb. to see, to behold] The primary sense is to stretch or extend, to reach; properly, the whole extent, space or reach, hence the whole space viewed, and hence the limit or ultimate end.]
1. Space; room; amplitude of intellectual view; as a free scope for inquiry; full scope for the fancy or imagination; ample scope for genius.
2. The limit of intellectual view; the end or thing to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim or purpose; intention; drift. It expresses both the purpose and thing purposed.
Your scope is as mine own, so to enforce and qualify the laws, as to your soul seems good.
The scope of all their pleading against man's authority, is to overthrow such laws and constitutions of the church -
3. Liberty; freedom from restraint; room to move in.
4. Liberty beyond just limits; license.
Give him line and scope
5. Act of riot; sally; excess. obsolete
6. Extended quantity; as a scope of land. obsolete
7. Length; extent; sweep; as scope of cable.
Scopiform
SCO'PIFORM, adjective [Latin scopa, a broom, and form.] Having the form of a broom or besom.
Zeolite, stelliform or scopiform
Scoppet
SCOP'PET, verb transitive To lade out. [Not in use.]
Scoptical
SCOP'TICAL, adjective [Gr.] Scoffing. [Not in use.]
Scopulous
SCOP'ULOUS, adjective [Latin scopulosus.] Full of rocks; rocky. [Not in use.]
Scorbute
SCORBUTE, noun [Latin scorbutus.] Scurvy. [Not in use.]
Scorbutic
SCORBU'TIC,
SCORBU'TICAL, adjective [Latin scorbutus, the scurvy. See Scurf, Scurvy.]
1. Affected or diseased with scurvy; as a scorbutic person.
2. Pertaining to scurvy, or partaking of its nature; as scorbutic complaints or symptoms.
3. Subject to scurvy; as a scorbutic habit.
Scorbutical
SCORBU'TICAL, a. [L. scorbutus, the scurvy. See Scurf, Scurvy.] 1. Affected or diseased with scurvy; as a scorbutic person.2. Pertaining to scurvy, or partaking of its nature; as scorbutic complaints or symptoms.3. Subject to scurvy; as a scorbutic habit.
Scorbutically
SCORBU'TICALLY, adverb With the scurvy, or with a tendency to it; as a woman scorbutically affected.
Scorce
SCORCE. [See Scorse.]
Scorch
SCORCH, verb transitive
1. To burn superficially; to subject to a degree of heat that changes the color of a thing, or both the color and texture of the surface. Fire will scorch linen or cotton very speedily in extremely cold weather.
2. To burn; to affect painfully with heat. Scorched with the burning sun or burning sands of Africa.
SCORCH, verb intransitive To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.
Scatter a little mungy straw and fern among your seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching.
Scorched
SCORCH'ED, participle passive Burnt on the surface; pained by heat.
Scorching
SCORCH'ING, participle present tense Burning on the surface; paining by heat.
Scorching-Fennel
SCORCH'ING-FENNEL, noun A plant of the genus Thapsia; deadly carrot.
Scordium
SCOR'DIUM, noun [Latin] A plant, the water-germander, a species of Teucrium.
Score
SCORE, noun
1. A notch or incision; hence, the number twenty. Our ancestors, before the knowledge of writing, numbered and kept accounts of numbers by cutting notches on a stick or tally, and making one notch the representative of twenty. A simple mark answered the same purpose.
2. A line drawn.
3. An account or reckoning; as, he paid his score
4. An account kept of something past; an epoch; an era.
5. Debt, or account of debt.
6. Account; reason; motive.
But left the trade, as many more have lately done on the same score
7. Account; sake.
You act your kindness of Cydaria's score
8. In music, the original and entire draught of any composition, or its transcript.
To quit scores, to pay fully; to make even by giving an equivalent.
A song in score the words with the musical notes of a song annexed.
SCORE, verb transitive
1. To notch; to cut and chip for the purpose of preparing for hewing; as, to score timber.
2. To cut; to engrave.
3. To mark by a line.
4. To set down as a debt.
Madam, I know when, instead of five, you scored me ten.
5. To set down or take as an account; to charge; as, to score follies.
6. To form a score in music.
Scored
SCO'RED, participle passive Notched; set down; marked; prepared for hewing.
In botany, a scored stem is marked with parallel lines or grooves.
Scoria
SCO'RIA, noun [Latin from the Gr. rejected matter, that which is thrown off.]
Dross; the recrement of metals in fusion, or the mass produced by melting metals and ores.
Scoriaceous
SCORIA'CEOUS, adjective Pertaining to dross; like dross or the recrement of metals; partaking of the nature of scoria.
Scorification
SCORIFICA'TION, noun In metallurgy, the act or operation of reducing a body, either wholly or in part, into scoria.
Scorified
SCO'RIFIED, participle passive Reduced to scoria.
Scoriform
SCO'RIFORM, adjective [Latin scoria and form.] Like scoria; in the form of dross.
Scorify
SCO'RIFY, verb transitive To reduce to scoria or drossy matter.
Scorifying
SCO'RIFYING, participle present tense Reducing to scoria.
Scoring
SCO'RING, participle present tense Notching; marking; setting down as an account or debt; forming a score.
Scorious
SCO'RIOUS, adjective Drossy; recrementitious.
Scorn
SCORN, noun
1. Extreme contempt; that disdain which springs from a person's opinion of the meanness of an object, and a consciousness or belief of his own superiority or worth.
He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone. .
Every sullen frown and bitter scorn but fann'd the fuel that too fast did burn.
2. A subject of extreme contempt, disdain or derision; that which is treated with contempt.
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are around us. .
To think scorn to disdain; to despise. obsolete
To laugh to scorn to deride; to make a mock of; to ridicule as contemptible.
They laughed us to scorn .
SCORN, verb transitive
1. to hold in extreme contempt; to despise; to contemn; to disdain. job. 16.
Surely he scorneth the scorner; but he giveth grace to the lowly. .
2. to think unworth; to disdain.
Fame that delights around the world to stray, scorns not to take our Argos in her way.
3. To slight; to disregard; to neglect.
This my long suff'rance and my day of grace, those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.
SCORN, verb intransitive To scorn at, to scoff at; to treat with contumely, derision or reproach. obsolete
Scorned
SCORN'ED, participle passive Extremely contemned or despised; disdained.
Scorner
SCORN'ER, noun
1. One that scorns; a contemner; a despiser.
They are great scorners of death.
2. A scoffer; a derider; in Scripture, one who scoffs at religion, its ordinances and teachers, and who makes a mock of sin and the judgments and threatenings of God against sinners. ,
Scornful
SCORN'FUL, adjective
1. Contemptuous; disdainful; entertaining scorn; insolent.
Th' enamor'd deity the scornful damsel shuns.
2. Acting in defiance or disregard.
Scornful of winter's frost and summer's sun.
3. In Scripture, holding religion in contempt; treating with disdain religion and the dispensations of God.
Scornfully
SCORN'FULLY, adverb With extreme contempt; contemptuously; insolently.
The sacred rights of the christian church are scornfully trampled on in print -
Scornfulness
SCORN'FULNESS, noun The quality of being scornful.
Scorning
SCORN'ING, participle present tense Holding in great contempt; despising; disdaining.
SCORN'ING, noun The act of contemning; a treating with contempt, slight or disdain.
How long will the scorners delight in their scorning?
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Scorpion
SCOR'PION, noun [Latin scorpio; Gr. probably altered from the Oriental.]
1. In zoology, an insect of the genus Scorpio, or rather the genus itself, containing several species, natives of southern or warm climates. This animal has eight feet, two claws in front, eight eyes, three on each side of the thorax and two on the back, and a long jointed tail ending in a pointed weapon or sting. It is found in the south of Europe, where it seldom exceeds four inches in length. In tropical climates, it grows to a foot in length, and resembles a lobster. The sting of this animal is sometimes fatal to life.
2. In Scripture, a painful scourge; a kind of whip armed with points like a scorpion's tail. .
Malicious and crafty men, who delight in injuring others, are compared to scorpions. .
3. In astronomy, the eighth sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters, Oct. 23.
4. A sea fish. [Latin scorpius.]
Water scorpion an aquatic insect of the genus Nepa.
Scorpion-Fly
SCOR'PION-FLY, noun An insect of the genus Panorna, having a tail which resembles that of a scorpion.
Scorpion-Grass
SCOR'PION-GRASS,
SCOR'PION'S TAIL, noun A plant of the genus Scorpiurus, with trailing herbaceous stalks, and producing a pod resembling a caterpillar, whence it is called caterpillars.
The mouse-ear scorpion-grass is of the genus Myosotis.
Scorpion-Senna
SCOR'PION-SENNA, noun A plant of the genus Coronilla.
Scorpion-Wort
SCOR'PION-WORT, noun A plant, the Ornithopus scorpioides.
Scorpions-Thorn
SCOR'PION'S-THORN, noun A plant of the genus Ulex.
Scorse
SCORSE, noun [Latin ex and cursus.] A course or dealing; barter. obsolete
SCORSE, verb transitive
1. To chase. obsolete
2. To barter or exchange. obsolete
SCORSE, verb intransitive To deal for the purchase of a horse. obsolete
Scortatory
SCORT'ATORY, adjective [Latin scortator, from scortor.] Pertaining to or consisting in lewdness.
Scorza
SCOR'ZA, noun [Latin ex and cortex.] In mineralogy, a variety of epidote.
Scot
SCOT,
SCOT'AL,
SCOT'ALE, noun [scot and ale.] In law, the keeping of an alehouse by the officer of a forest, and drawing people to spend their money for liquor, for fear of his displeasure.
SCOTCH, adjective Pertaining to Scotland or its inhabitants. [See Scotish.]
SCOTCH. [See scot the verb.]
SCOTCH, verb transitive
To cut with shallow incisions. obsolete
SCOTCH, n A slight cut or shallow incision.
Scotal
SCOT'AL,
Scotale
SCOT'ALE, n. [scot and ale.] In law, the keeping of an alehouse by the officer of a forest, and drawing people to spend their money for liquor, for fear of his displeasure.
Scotch
SCOTCH, verb transitive
To support, as a wheel, by placing some obstacle to prevent its rolling. Our wagoners and cartmen scot the wheels of their wagons and carts, when in ascending a hill they stop to give their team rest, or for other purpose. In Connecticut, I have generally heard this word pronounced scot, in Massachusetts, scotch
SCOT, noun [This is the English shot, in the phrase, he paid his shot; and scot, in scot and lot.]
In law and English history, a portion of money, assessed or paid; a customary tax or contribution laid on subjects according to their ability; also, a tax or custom paid for the use of a sheriff or bailiff. Hence our modern shot; as, to pay one's shot.
Scot and lot, parish payments. When persons were taxed unequally, they were said to pay scot and lot.
SCOT, noun [Eng. shade, which see.] A native of Scotland or North Britain.
Scotch-Collops
SCOTCH-COLLOPS,
SCOTCH-HOPPER, noun A play in which boys hop over scotches or lines in the ground.
Scotch-Hopper
SCOTCH-HOPPER, n. A play in which boys hop over scotches or lines in the ground.
Scotched-Collops
SCOTCHED-COLLOPS, noun Veal cut into small pieces.
Scoter
SCO'TER, noun The black diver or duck, a species of Anas.
Scotfree
SCOT'FREE, adjective
1. Free from payment or scot; untaxed.
2. Unhurt; clear; safe.
Scotia
SCO'TIA, noun In architecture, a semicircular cavity or channel between the tores in the bases of columns.
Scotish
SCOT'ISH,
SCO'TIST, noun
One of the followers of Scotus, a sect of school divines who maintained the immaculate conception of the virgin, or that she was born without original sin; in opposition to the Thomists, or followers of Thomas Aquinas.
Scotomy
SCOT'OMY, noun [Gr. vertigo, from to darken.]
Dizziness or swimming of the head, with dimness of sight.
Scottering
SCOT'TERING, noun A provincial word in Herefordshire, England, denoting the burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
Scotticism
SCOT'TICISM, noun An idiom or peculiar expression of the natives of Scotland.
SCOTTISH. [See Scotish.]
Scottish
SCOT'TISH, adjective Pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, or to their country or language; as scottish industry or economy; a Scotish chief; the scottish dialect.
Scoundrel
SCOUN'DREL, noun [Latin abscondo. ]
A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a low petty villain; a man without honor or virtue.
Go, if your ancient but ignoble blood has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood.
SCOUN'DREL, adjective Low; base; mean; unprincipled.
Scoundrelism
SCOUN'DRELISM, noun Baseness; turpitude; rascality.
Scour
SCOUR, verb transitive
1. To rub hard with something rough, for the purpose of cleaning; as, to scour a kettle; to scour a musket; to scour armor.
2. To clean by friction; to make clean or bright.
3. To purge violently.
4. To remove by scouring.
Never came reformation in a flood with such a heady current, scouring faults.
5. To range about for taking all that can be found; as, to scour the sea of pirates.
6. To pass swiftly over; to brush along; as, to scour the coast.
Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain.
SCOUR, verb intransitive
1. To perform the business of cleaning vessels by rubbing.
2. To clean.
Warm water is softer than cold, for it scoureth better.
3. To be purged to excess.
4. To rove or range for sweeping or taking something.
Barbarossa, thus scouring along the coast of Italy -
5. To run with celerity; to scamper.
So four fierce coursers, starting to the race, scour through the plain, and lengthen every pace.
Scoured
SCOUR'ED, participle passive Rubbed with something rough, or made clean by rubbing; severely purged; brushed along.
Scourer
SCOUR'ER, noun
1. One that scours or cleans by rubbing.
2. A drastic cathartic.
3. One that runs with speed.
Scourge
SCOURGE, noun skurj. [Latin corriggia, from corrigo, to straighten.]
1. To whip; a lash consisting of a strap or cord; an instrument of punishment or discipline.
A scourge of small cords. .
2. A punishment; vindictive affliction.
Famine and plague are sent as scourges for amendment.
3. He or that which greatly afflicts, harasses or destroys; particularly, any continued evil or calamity. Attila was called the scourge of God, for the miseries he inflicted in his conquests. Slavery is a terrible scourge
4. A whip for a top.
SCOURGE, verb transitive skurj.
1. To whip severely; to lash.
It is lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman?
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2. To punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict for sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction.
He will scourge us for our iniquities, and will have mercy again.
Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. .
3. To afflict greatly; to harass, torment or injure.
Scourged
SCOURG'ED, participle passive Whipped; lashed; punished severely; harassed.
Scourger
SCOURG'ER, noun One that scourges or punishes; one that afflicts severely.
Scourging
SCOURG'ING, participle present tense Whipping; lashing with severity; punishing or afflicting severely.
Scouring
SCOUR'ING, participle present tense Rubbing hard with something rough; cleaning by rubbing; cleansing with a drastic cathartic; ranging over for clearing.
SCOUR'ING, noun A rubbing hard for cleaning; a cleansing by a drastic purge; looseness; flux.
Scourse
SCOURSE. [See Scorse.]
Scout
SCOUT, noun [Latin ausculto, culto, colo; Gr. the ear.]
1. In military affairs, a person sent before an army, or to a distance, for the purpose of observing the motions of an enemy or discovering any danger, and giving notice to the general. Horsemen are generally employed as scouts.
2. A high rock. [Not in use.]
SCOUT, verb intransitive To go on the business of watching the motions of an enemy; to act as a scout
With obscure wing scout far and wide into the realm of night.
SCOUT, verb transitive
To sneer at; to treat with disdain and contempt. [This word is in good use in America.]
Scovel
SCO'VEL, noun [Latin scopa.]
A mop for sweeping ovens; a maulkin.
Scow
SCOW, noun
A large flat bottomed boat; used as a ferry boat, or for loading and unloading vessels. [A word in good use in New England.
SCOW, verb transitive To transport in a scow
Scowl
SCOWL, verb intransitive [Gr. to twist.]
1. To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe or angry.
She scowl'd and frown'd with froward countenance.
2. To look gloomy, frowning, dark or tempestuous; as the scowling heavens.
SCOWL, verb transitive To drive with a scowl or frowns.
SCOWL, noun
1. The wrinkling of the brows in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness or discontent in the countenance.
2. Gloom; dark or rude aspect; as of the heavens.
Scowling
SCOWL'ING, participle present tense contracting the brows into wrinkles; frowning; expressing displeasure or sullenness.
Scowlingly
SCOWL'INGLY, adverb With a wrinkled, frowning aspect; with a sullen look.
Scrabble
SCRAB'BLE, verb intransitive [Latin scribo, Eng. grave, engrave, etc. See Scrape.]
1. To scrape, paw or scratch with the hands; to move along on the hands and knees by clawing with the hands; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree. [a word in common popular use in New England, but not elegant.]
2. To make irregular or crooked marks; as, children scrabble when they begin to write; hence, to make irregular and unmeaning marks.
David - scrabbled on the doors of the gate. .
SCRAB'BLE, verb transitive To mark with irregular lines or letters; as, to scrabble paper.
Scrabbling
SCRAB'BLING, participle present tense Scraping; scratching; scrambling; making irregular marks.
Scrag
SCRAG, noun [This word is formed from the root of rag, crag, Gr. rack.]
Something thin or lean with roughness. A raw boned person is called a scrag but the word is vulgar.
Scragged
SCRAG'GED,
SCRAG'GEDNESS,
SCRAG'GILY, adverb With leanness and roughness.
Scragginess
SCRAG'GINESS, noun Leanness, or leanness with roughness; ruggedness; roughness occasioned by broken irregular points.
Scraggy
SCRAG'GY, adjective [supra.]
1. Rough with irregular points or a broken surface; as a scraggy hill; a scragged back bone.
2. Lean with roughness.
Scramble
SCRAM'BLE, verb intransitive [It is not improbably that this word is corrupted from the root of scrape, scrabble.]
1. To move or climb by seizing objects with the hand, and drawing the body forward; as, to scramble up a cliff.
2. To seize or catch eagerly at any thing that is desired; to catch with haste preventive of another; to catch at without ceremony. Man originally was obliged to scramble with wild beasts for nuts and acorns.
Of other care they little reck'ning make, than how to scramble at the shearer's feast.
SCRAM'BLE, noun
1. An eager contest for something, in which one endeavors to get the thing before another.
The scarcity of money enhances the price and increases the scramble
2. The act of climbing by the help of the hands.
Scrambler
SCRAM'BLER, noun One who scrambles; one who climbs by the help of the hands.
Scrambling
SCRAM'BLING, participle present tense
1. Climbing by the help of the hands.
2. Catching at eagerly and without ceremony.
SCRAM'BLING, noun
1. The act of climbing by the help of the hands.
2. The act of seizing or catching at with eager haste and without ceremony.
Scranch
SCR'ANCH, verb transitive
To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to craunch. [This is in vulgar use in America.]
Scrannel
SCRAN'NEL, adjective Slight; poor.
Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. [Not in use.]
Scrap
SCRAP, noun [from scrape.]
1. A small piece; properly something scraped off, but used for any thing cut off; a fragment; a crumb; as scraps of meat.
2. A part; a detached piece; as scraps of history or poetry; scraps of antiquity; scraps of authors.
3. A small piece of paper. [If used for script, it is improper.]
Scrape
SCRAPE, verb transitive [Latin scribo, Gr. to write. See Grave.]
1. To rub the surface of any thing with a sharp or rough instrument, or with something hard; as, to scrap the floor; to scrape a vessel for cleaning it; to scrape the earth; to scrape the body. .
2. To clean by scraping. .
3. To remove or take off by rubbing.
I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. .
4. To act upon the surface with a grating noise.
The chiming clocks to dinner call; a hundred footsteps scrape the marble hall.
To scrape off, to remove by scraping; to clear away by rubbing.
To scrape together, to gather by close industry or small gains or savings; as, to scrape together a good estate.
SCRAPE, verb intransitive
1. To make a harsh noise.
2. To play awkwardly on a violin.
3. To make an awkward bow.
To scrape acquaintance, to make one's self acquainted; to curry favor. [A low phrase introduced from the practice of scraping in bowing.]
SCRAPE, noun
1. A rubbing.
2. The sound of the foot drawn over the floor.
3. A bow.
4. Difficulty; perplexity; distress; that which harasses. [A low word.]
Scraped
SCRA'PED, participle passive Rubbed on the surface with a sharp or rough instrument; cleaned by rubbing; cleared away by scraping.
Scraper
SCRA'PER, noun
1. An instrument with which any thing is scraped; as a scraper for shoes.
2. An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, and used for scraping earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, canals, etc.
3. An instrument having two or three sides or edges, for cleaning the planks, masts or decks of a ship, etc.
4. A miser; one who gathers property by penurious diligence and small savings; a scrape-penny.
5. An awkward fiddler.
Scraping
SCRA'PING, participle present tense Rubbing the surface with something sharp or hard; cleaning by a scraper; removing by rubbing; playing awkwardly on a violin.
Scrat
SCRAT, verb transitive [formed on the root of Latin rado.] To scratch. [Not in use.]
SCRAT, verb intransitive To rake; to search. [Not in use.]
SCRAT, noun An hermaphrodite. [Not in use.]
Scratch
SCRATCH, verb transitive [Latin rado.]
1. To rub and tear the surface of any thing with something sharp or ragged; as, to scratch the cheeks with the nails; to scratch the earth with a rake; to scratch the hands or face by riding or running among briers.
A sort of small sand-colored stones, so hard as to scratch glass.
2. To wound slightly.
3. To rub with the nails.
Be mindful, when invention fails, to scratch your head and bite your nails.
4. To write or draw awkwardly; as, to scratch out a pamphlet. [Not in use.]
5. To dig or excavate with the claws. Some animals scratch holes in which they burrow.
To scratch out, to ease; to rub out; to obliterate.
SCRATCH, verb intransitive To use the claws in tearing the surface. The gallinaceous hen scratches for her chickens.
- Dull tame things that will neither bite nor scratch
SCRATCH, noun
1. A rent; a break in the surface of a thing made by scratching, or by rubbing with any thing pointed or ragged; as a scratch on timber or glass.
The coarse file - makes deep scratches in the work.
These nails with scratches shall deform my breast.
2. A slight wound.
Heav'n forbid a shallow scratch should drive the prince of Wales from such a field as this.
3. A kind of wig worn for covering baldness or gray hairs, or for other purpose.
Scratched
SCRATCH'ED, participle passive Torn by the rubbing of something rough or pointed.
Scratcher
SCRATCH'ER, noun He or that which scratches.
Scratches
SCRATCH'ES, noun plural Cracked ulcers on a horse's foot, just above the hoof.
Scratching
SCRATCH'ING, participle present tense Rubbing with something pointed or rough; rubbing and tearing the surface.
Scratchingly
SCRATCH'INGLY, adverb With the action of scratching.
Scraw
SCRAW, noun Surface; cut turf. [Not in use.]
Scrawl
SCRAWL, verb transitive
1. To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly.
2. To write awkwardly.
SCRAWL, verb intransitive
1. To write unskillfully and inelegantly.
Though with a golden pen you scrawl
2. To creep; to crawl. [This is from crawl, but I know not that it is in use.]
SCRAWL, noun
1. Unskillful or inelegant writing; or a piece of hasty bad writing.
2. In New England, a ragged, broken branch of a tree, or other brush wood.
Scrawler
SCRAWL'ER, noun One who scrawls; a hasty or awkward writer.
Scray
SCRAY, noun A fowl called the sea swallow, of the genus Terna.
Screable
SCRE'ABLE, adjective [Latin screabilis, from screo, to spit out.] That may be spit out. obsolete
Screak
SCREAK, verb intransitive [This word is only a different orthography of screech and shriek, but is not elegant.]
To utter suddenly a sharp shrill sound or outcry; to scream; as in a sudden fright; also, to creak, as a door or wheel. [See Screech.]
[When applied to things, we use creak, and when to persons, shriek, both of which are elegant.]
SCREAK, noun A creaking; a screech.
Scream
SCREAM, verb intransitive [English skirmish.]
1. To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, as in a fright or in extreme pain; to shriek.
The fearful matrons raise a screaming cry.
2. To utter a shrill harsh cry; as the screaming owl.
SCREAM, noun A shriek or sharp shrill cry uttered suddenly, as in terror or in pain; or the shrill cry of a fowl; as screams of horror.
Screamer
SCRE'AMER, noun A fowl, or genus of fowls, of the grallic order, of two species, natives of America.
Screaming
SCRE'AMING, participle present tense Uttering suddenly a sharp shrill cry; crying with a shrill voice.
SCRE'AMING, noun The act of crying out with a shriek of terror or agony.
Screech
SCREECH, verb intransitive [See Screak and Shriek.]
1. To cry out with a sharp shrill voice; to utter a sudden shrill cry, as in terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek.
2. To utter a sharp cry, as an owl; thence called screech-owl.
SCREECH, noun
1. A sharp shrill cry uttered in acute pain, or in a sudden fright.
2. A harsh shrill cry, as of a fowl.
Screech-Owl
SCREE'CH-OWL, noun An owl that utters a harsh disagreeable cry at night, no more ominous of evil than the notes of the nightingale.
Screeching
SCREE'CHING, participle present tense Uttering a shrill or harsh cry.
Screed
SCREED, noun With plasterers, the floated work behind a cornice.
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.