Webster's Dictionary 1828

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SCONCE

SCONCE, noun1. A fort or bulwark; a work for defense. obsolete2. A hanging or projecting candlestick, generally with a mirror to reflect the light.Golden sconces hang upon the w...

785

SCOOP

SCOOP, noun1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle fastened to a dish, used for dipping liquors; also, a little hollow piece of wood for bailing boats.2. An instrument of ...

786

SCOOPED

SCOOP'ED, participle passive Taken out as with a scoop or ladle; hollowed; excavated; removed so as to leave a hollow.

787

SCOOPER

SCOOP'ER, noun One that scoops; also, a water fowl.

788

SCOOPING

SCOOP'ING, participle present tense Lading out; making hollow; excavating; removing so as to leave a hollow.SCOOP'-NET, noun A net so formed as to sweep the bottom of a river.

789

SCOPE

SCOPE, noun [Latin scopus; Gr. from to see or view; Heb. to see, to behold] The primary sense is to stretch or extend, to reach; properly, the whole extent, space or reach, henc...

790

SCOPIFORM

SCO'PIFORM, adjective [Latin scopa, a broom, and form.] Having the form of a broom or besom.Zeolite, stelliform or scopiform

791

SCOPPET

SCOP'PET, verb transitive To lade out. [Not in use.]

792

SCOPTICAL

SCOP'TICAL, adjective [Gr.] Scoffing. [Not in use.]

793

SCOPULOUS

SCOP'ULOUS, adjective [Latin scopulosus.] Full of rocks; rocky. [Not in use.]

794

SCORBUTE

SCORBUTE, noun [Latin scorbutus.] Scurvy. [Not in use.]

795

SCORBUTIC

SCORBU'TIC,SCORBU'TICAL, adjective [Latin scorbutus, the scurvy. See Scurf, Scurvy.]1. Affected or diseased with scurvy; as a scorbutic person.2. Pertaining to scurvy, or partak...

796

SCORBUTICAL

SCORBU'TICAL, a. [L. scorbutus, the scurvy. See Scurf, Scurvy.]1. Affected or diseased with scurvy; as a scorbutic person.2. Pertaining to scurvy, or partaking of its nature; as...

797

SCORBUTICALLY

SCORBU'TICALLY, adverb With the scurvy, or with a tendency to it; as a woman scorbutically affected.

798

SCORCE

SCORCE. [See Scorse.]

799

SCORCH

SCORCH, verb transitive1. To burn superficially; to subject to a degree of heat that changes the color of a thing, or both the color and texture of the surface. Fire will scorch...

800

SCORCHED

SCORCH'ED, participle passive Burnt on the surface; pained by heat.

801

SCORCHING

SCORCH'ING, participle present tense Burning on the surface; paining by heat.

802

SCORCHING-FENNEL

SCORCH'ING-FENNEL, noun A plant of the genus Thapsia; deadly carrot.

803

SCORDIUM

SCOR'DIUM, noun [Latin] A plant, the water-germander, a species of Teucrium.

804

SCORE

SCORE, noun1. A notch or incision; hence, the number twenty. Our ancestors, before the knowledge of writing, numbered and kept accounts of numbers by cutting notches on a stick ...

805

SCORED

SCO'RED, participle passive Notched; set down; marked; prepared for hewing.In botany, a scored stem is marked with parallel lines or grooves.

806

SCORIA

SCO'RIA, noun [Latin from the Gr. rejected matter, that which is thrown off.]Dross; the recrement of metals in fusion, or the mass produced by melting metals and ores.

807

SCORIACEOUS

SCORIA'CEOUS, adjective Pertaining to dross; like dross or the recrement of metals; partaking of the nature of scoria.

808

SCORIFICATION

SCORIFICA'TION, noun In metallurgy, the act or operation of reducing a body, either wholly or in part, into scoria.

809

SCORIFIED

SCO'RIFIED, participle passive Reduced to scoria.

810

SCORIFORM

SCO'RIFORM, adjective [Latin scoria and form.] Like scoria; in the form of dross.