SCANTLE
SCANT'LE, verb transitive To be deficient; to fail.SCANT'LE, verb intransitive To divide into thin or small pieces; to shiver.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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SCANTLET
SCANT'LET, noun [See Scantling.] A small pattern; a small quantity. [Not in use.]
SCANTLING
SCANT'LING, noun1. A pattern; a quantity cut for a particular purpose.2. A small quantity; as a scantling of wit.3. A certain proportion or quantity.4. In the United States, tim...
SCANTLY
SCANT'LY, adverb1. Scarcely; hardly. obsolete2. Not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously; without amplitude.
SCANTNESS
SCANT'NESS, noun [from scant.] Narrowness; smallness; as the scantness of our capacities.
SCANTY
SCANT'Y, adjective [from scant, and having the same signification.]1. Narrow; small; wanting amplitude or extent.His dominions were very narrow and scantyNow scantier limits the...
SCAPAISM
SCAP'AISM, noun [Gr. to dig or make hollow.]Among the Persians, a barbarous punishment inflicted on criminals by confining them in a hollow tree till they died.
SCAPE
SCAPE, verb transitive To escape; a contracted word, not now used except in poetry, and with a mark of elision. [See Escape.]SCAPE, noun1. An escape. [See Escape.]2. Means of es...
SCAPE-GOAT
SCA'PE-GOAT, noun [escape and goat.] In the Jewish ritual, a goat which was brought to the door of the tabernacle, where the high priest laid his hands upon him, confessing the ...
SCAPELESS
SCA'PELESS, adjective [from scape.] In botany, destitute of a scape.
SCAPEMENT
SCA'PEMENT, noun The method of communicating the impulse of the wheels to the pendulum of a clock.
SCAPHITE
SCA'PHITE, noun [Latin scapha.] Fossil remains of the scapha.
SCAPOLITE
SCAP'OLITE, noun [Gr. a rod, and a stone.]A mineral which occurs massive, or more commonly in four or eight sides prisms, terminated by four sided pyramids. It takes its name fr...
SCAPULA
SCAP'ULA, noun [Latin] The shoulder blade.
SCAPULAR
SCAP'ULAR, adjective [Latin scapularis.] Pertaining to the shoulder, or to the scapula; as the scapular arteries.SCAP'ULAR, noun [supra.]1. In anatomy, the name of two pairs of ...
SCAPULARY
SCAP'ULARY, noun A part of the habit of certain religious orders in the Romish church, consisting of two narrow slips of cloth worn over the gown, covering the back and breast, ...
SCAR
SC'AR, noun1. A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal made by a wound or an ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed. The soldier is proud of his scars.2. Any ma...
SCARAB
SCAR'AB,SCAR'ABEE, noun [Latin scarabaeus, from Gr.]A beetle; an insect of the genus Scarabaeus, whose wings are cased. [See Beetle.]
SCARABEE
SCAR'ABEE, n. [L. scarabaeus, from Gr.]A beetle; an insect of the genus Scarabaeus, whose wings are cased. [See Beetle.]
SCARAMOUCH
SCAR'AMOUCH, nounA buffoon in motley dress.
SCARCE
SCARCE, adjective1. Not plentiful or abundant; being in small quantity in proportion to the demand. We say, water is scarce wheat, rye, barley is scarce money is scarce when the...
SCARCELY
SCARCELY, adverb1. Hardly; scantly.We scarcely think our miseries our foes.2. Hardly; with difficulty.Slowly he sails, and scarcely stems the tides.
SCARCENESS
SCARCENESS,SCARCITY, noun1. Smallness of quantity, or smallness in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency defeat of plenty; penury; as a scarcity of grain; a great scarc...
SCARCITY
SCARCITY, n.1. Smallness of quantity, or smallness in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency defeat of plenty; penury; as a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauti...
SCARE
SCARE, verb transitive [Latin ex and cor, heart; but qu.]To fright; to terrify suddenly; to strike with sudden terror.The noise of thy crow-bow will scare the herd, and so my sh...
SCARECROW
SCARECROW, noun [scarce and crow.]1. Any frightful thing set up to frighten crows or other fowls from corn fields; hence, any thing terrifying without danger; a vain terror.A sc...
SCARED
SCARED, participle passive Frightened; suddenly terrified.