Webster's Dictionary 1828

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SCORIFY

SCO'RIFY, verb transitive To reduce to scoria or drossy matter.

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SCORIFYING

SCO'RIFYING, participle present tense Reducing to scoria.

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SCORING

SCO'RING, participle present tense Notching; marking; setting down as an account or debt; forming a score.

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SCORIOUS

SCO'RIOUS, adjective Drossy; recrementitious.

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SCORN

SCORN, noun1. 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...

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SCORNED

SCORN'ED, participle passive Extremely contemned or despised; disdained.

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SCORNER

SCORN'ER, noun1. 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 ...

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SCORNFUL

SCORN'FUL, adjective1. Contemptuous; disdainful; entertaining scorn; insolent.Th' enamor'd deity the scornful damsel shuns.2. Acting in defiance or disregard.Scornful of winter'...

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SCORNFULLY

SCORN'FULLY, adverb With extreme contempt; contemptuously; insolently.The sacred rights of the christian church are scornfully trampled on in print -

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SCORNFULNESS

SCORN'FULNESS, noun The quality of being scornful.

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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 ...

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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, na...

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SCORPION-FLY

SCOR'PION-FLY, noun An insect of the genus Panorna, having a tail which resembles that of a scorpion.

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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 caterp...

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SCORPION-SENNA

SCOR'PION-SENNA, noun A plant of the genus Coronilla.

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SCORPION-WORT

SCOR'PION-WORT, noun A plant, the Ornithopus scorpioides.

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SCORPIONS-THORN

SCOR'PION'S-THORN, noun A plant of the genus Ulex.

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SCORSE

SCORSE, noun [Latin ex and cursus.] A course or dealing; barter. obsoleteSCORSE, verb transitive1. To chase. obsolete2. To barter or exchange. obsoleteSCORSE, verb intransitive ...

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SCORTATORY

SCORT'ATORY, adjective [Latin scortator, from scortor.] Pertaining to or consisting in lewdness.

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SCORZA

SCOR'ZA, noun [Latin ex and cortex.] In mineralogy, a variety of epidote.

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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 di...

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SCOTAL

SCOT'AL,

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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.

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SCOTCH

SCOTCH, verb transitiveTo 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 ascen...

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SCOTCH-COLLOPS

SCOTCH-COLLOPS,SCOTCH-HOPPER, noun A play in which boys hop over scotches or lines in the ground.

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SCOTCH-HOPPER

SCOTCH-HOPPER, n. A play in which boys hop over scotches or lines in the ground.

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SCOTCHED-COLLOPS

SCOTCHED-COLLOPS, noun Veal cut into small pieces.