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...
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SCIRROSITY
SCIRROS'ITY, noun [See Scirrus.] An induration of the glands.
SCIRROUS
SCIR'ROUS, adjective1. 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 c...
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 i...
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 ma...
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, noun1. The firm white outer coat of the eye.2. A medic...
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...
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 tr...
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 l...
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 intransitiveTo 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 tong...
SCOLDER
SCOLDER, noun One that scolds or rails.
SCOLDING
SCOLDING, participle present tense1. Railing with clamor; uttering rebuke in rude and boisterous language.2.adjective Given to scoldingSCOLDING, The uttering of rude, clamorous ...
SCOLDINGLY
SCOLDINGLY, adverb With rude clamor or railing.
SCOLLOP
SCOL'LOP, noun1. 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 segment...
SCOMM
SCOMM, noun [Latin scomma; Gr. See Scoff.]1. A buffoon. [Not in use.]2. A flout; a jeer. [Not in use.]