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Filtering: SC | Found: 964 words.
Scab
8 defs
A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies).
Scabbard
2 defs
The case in which the blade of a sword, dagger, etc., is kept; a sheath.
See Scaleboard plane, under Scaleboard.
Scabbed
3 defs
Abounding with scabs; diseased with scabs.
Scabbiness.
In a scabby manner.
The quality or state of being scabby.
of Scab
See Scapple.
Scabby
2 defs
Affected with scabs; full of scabs.
The itch.
Scabious
2 defs
Any plant of the genus Scabiosa, several of the species of which are common in Europe. They resemble the Compositae, and have similar heads of flowers, but the anthers are not conn...
A fragment or chip of stone.
Roughness; ruggedness.
Scabrous
2 defs
Fig.: Harsh; unmusical.
The quality of being scabrous.
Elecampane.
Scad
4 defs
A small carangoid fish (Trachurus saurus) abundant on the European coast, and less common on the American. The name is applied also to several allied species.
Scaffold
4 defs
A temporary structure of timber, boards, etc., for various purposes, as for supporting workmen and materials in building, for exhibiting a spectacle upon, for holding the spectator...
A scaffold.
Scaffolding
2 defs
A scaffold; a supporting framework; as, the scaffolding of the body.
A reddish variety of limestone.
An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with spl...
Scala
2 defs
A machine formerly employed for reducing dislocations of the humerus.
Capable of being scaled.
Alt. of Scalado
See Escalade.
of Scala
In the quaternion analysis, a quantity that has magnitude, but not direction; -- distinguished from a vector, which has both magnitude and direction.
Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the genus Scalaria, or family Scalaridae, having elongated spiral turreted shells, with rounded whorls, usually crossed by ribs ...
Scalariform
2 defs
Like or pertaining to a scalaria.
Resembling a ladder; formed with steps.
A scamp; a scapegrace.
Scald
7 defs
A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.
of Scald
A Scandinavian poet; a scald.
A European flounder (Arnoglossus laterna, or Psetta arnoglossa); -- called also megrim, and smooth sole.
Of or pertaining to the scalds of the Norsemen; as, scaldic poetry.
of Scald
Scale
27 defs
A basis for a numeral system; as, the decimal scale; the binary scale, etc.
Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the Lepidoptera; scaly-winged.
Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Polynoidae, and allies, which have two rows of scales, or elytra, along the back. See Illust. under Chaetopoda.
Scalebeam
2 defs
A weighing apparatus with a sliding weight, resembling a steelyard.
Scaleboard
2 defs
A thin slip of wood used to justify a page.
Scaled
4 defs
Covered with scales, or scalelike structures; -- said of a fish, a reptile, a moth, etc.
Destitute of scales.
Scalene
5 defs
A triangle having its sides and angles unequal.
Of or pertaining to a scalenohedron.
A pyramidal form under the rhombohedral system, inclosed by twelve faces, each a scalene triangle.
One who, or that which, scales; specifically, a dentist's instrument for removing tartar from the teeth.