Scull
Scull (skŭl), n.(Anat.) The skull.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Scull (2)
Scull, n. [See 1st School.] A shoal of fish. Milton.
Scull (3)
Scull, n. [Of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. skola to wash.] 1. (Naut.) (a) A boat; a cockboat. See Sculler. (b) One of a pair of short oars worked by one person. (c) A single oar ...
Scull (4)
Scull, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Sculled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Sculling.] (Naut.) To impel (a boat) with a pair of sculls, or with a single scull or oar worked over the stern obliquely f...
Scull (5)
Scull, v. i. To impel a boat with a scull or sculls.
Sculler
Scull″er (?), n. 1. A boat rowed by one man with two sculls, or short oars. Dryden.2. One who sculls.
Scullery
Scul″ler‐y (skŭl″lẽr‐y̆), n.; pl.Sculleries (–ĭz). [Probably originally, a place for washing dishes, and for swillery, fr. OE. swilen to wash, AS. swilian (see Swill to wash, to...
Scullion
Scul″lion (skŭl″yŭn), n.(Bot.) A scallion.
Scullion (2)
Scul″lion, n. [OF. escouillon (Cot.) a dishclout, apparently for escouvillon, F. écouvillon a swab; cf. also OF. souillon a servant employed for base offices. Cf. Scovel.] A ser...
Scullionly
Scul″lion‐ly, a. Like a scullion; base. Milton.
Sculp
Sculp (?), v. t. [See Sculptor.] To sculpture; to carve; to engrave. Sandys.
Sculpin
Scul″pin (?), n. [Written also skulpin.] (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of numerous species of marine cottoid fishes of the genus Cottus, or Acanthocottus, having a large head armed with s...
Sculptile
Sculp″tile (?), a. [L. sculptilis. See Sculptor.] Formed by carving; graven; as, sculptile images. Sir T. Browne.
Sculptor
Sculp″tor (?), n. [L. sculptor, fr. sculpere, sculptum, to carve; cf. scalpere to cut, carve, scratch, and Gr. � to carve: cf. F. sculpteur.] 1. One who sculptures; one whose oc...
Sculptress
Sculp″tress (?), n. A female sculptor.
Sculptural
Sculp″tur‐al (?; 135), a. Of or pertaining to sculpture. G. Eliot.
Sculpture
Sculp″ture (?; 135), n. [L. sculptura: cf. F. sculpture.] 1. The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as ...
Sculpture (2)
Sculp″ture (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Sculptured (�); p. pr. & vb. n.Sculpturing.] To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave.Sculptu...
Sculpturesque
Sculp′tur‐esque″ (?), a. After the manner of sculpture; resembling, or relating to, sculpture.
Scum
Scum (skŭm), n. [Of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. & Sw. skum, Icel. skūm, LG. schum, D. schuim, OHG. scūm, G. schaum; probably from a root meaning, to cover. √158. Cf. Hide skin, Meer...
Scum (2)
Scum, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Scummed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Scumming (?).] 1. To take the scum from; to clear off the impure matter from the surface of; to skim.You that scum the molte...
Scum (3)
Scum, v. i. To form a scum; to become covered with scum. Also used figuratively.Life, and the interest of life, have stagnated and scummed over. A. K. H. Boyd.
Scumber
Scum″ber (?), v. i. [Cf. Discumber.] To void excrement. Massinger.
Scumber (2)
Scum″ber, n. Dung.
Scumble
Scum″ble (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Scumbled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Scumbling (?).] [Freq. of scum. √ 158.] (Fine Arts) To cover lighty, as a painting, or a drawing, with a thin wash ...
Scumbling
Scum″bling (?), n. 1. (Fine Arts) (a) A mode of obtaining a softened effect, in painting and drawing, by the application of a thin layer of opaque color to the surface of a pain...
Scummer
Scum″mer (?), v. i. To scumber. Holland.