Scutiger
‖Scu″ti‐ger (?), n. [NL., fr. L. scutum shield + gerere to bear.] (Zoöl.) Any species of chilopod myriapods of the genus Scutigera. They sometimes enter buildings and prey upon ...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Scutiped
Scu″ti‐ped (?), a. [L. scutum a shield + pes, pedis, a foot: cf. F. scutipède.] (Zoöl.) Having the anterior surface of the tarsus covered with scutella, or transverse scales, in...
Scutter
Scut″ter (?), v. i. [Cf. Scuttle, v. i.] To run quickly; to scurry; to scuttle.A mangy little jackal... cocked up his ears and tail, and scuttered across the shallows. Kipling.
Scuttle
Scut″tle (?), n. [AS. scutel a dish, platter; cf. Icel. skutill; both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. scutum a shield. Cf. Skillet.] 1. A broad, s...
Scuttle (2)
Scut″tle, v. i. [For scuddle, fr. scud.] To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle.With the first dawn of day, old Janet was scuttling about the house ...
Scuttle (3)
Scut″tle, n. A quick pace; a short run. Spectator.
Scuttle (4)
Scut″tle (?), n. [OF. escoutille, F. éscoutille, cf. Sp. escotilla; probably akin to Sp. escotar to cut a thing so as to make it fit, to hollow a garment about the neck, perhaps...
Scuttle (5)
Scut″tle, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Scuttled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Scuttling.] 1. To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.2. To sink ...
Scutum
‖Scu″tum (?), n.; pl.Scuta (#). 1. (Rom. Antiq.) An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; — carried chiefly by the heavy-a...
Scybala
‖Scyb″a‐la (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. σκύβαλον dung.] (Med.) Hardened masses of feces.
Scye
Scye (sī), n. Arm scye, a cutter's term for the armhole or part of the armhole of the waist of a garment.
Scyle
Scyle (sīl), v. t. [AS. scylan to withdraw or remove.] To hide; to secrete; to conceal.
Scylla
Scyl″la (?), n. A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, — both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. Th...
Scyllæa
‖Scyl‐læ″a (?), n. [NL. See Scylla.] (Zoöl.) A genus of oceanic nudibranchiate mollusks having the small branched gills situated on the upper side of four fleshy lateral lobes, ...
Scyllarian
Scyl‐la″ri‐an (?), n.(Zoöl.) One of a family (Scyllaridæ) of macruran Crustacea, remarkable for the depressed form of the body, and the broad, flat antennæ. Also used adjectively.
Scyllite
Scyl″lite (?), n.(Chem.) A white crystalline substance of a sweetish taste, resembling inosite and metameric with dextrose. It is extracted from the kidney of the dogfish (of th...
Scymetar
Scym″e‐tar (?), n. See Scimiter.
Scypha
‖Scy″pha (?), n.; pl.Scyphae (#). (Bot.) See Scyphus, 2 (b).
Scyphiform
Scy″phi‐form (?), a. [L. scyphus a cup + -form.] (Bot.) Cup-shaped.
Scyphistoma
‖Scy‐phis″to‐ma (?), n.; pl.Scyphistomata (#), Scyphistomæ (#). [NL., fr. Gr. σκύφοσ a cup + στόμα the mouth.] (Zoöl.) The young attached larva of Discophora in the stage when i...
Scyphobranchii
‖Scy′pho‐bran″chi‐i (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. σκύφοσ a cup + βράγχιον a gill.] (Zoöl.) An order of fishes including the blennioid and gobioid fishes, and other related families.
Scyphomedusæ
‖Scy′pho‐me‐du″sæ (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. σκύφοσ cup + NL. medusa.] (Zoöl.) Same as Acraspeda, or Discophora.
Scyphophori
‖Scy‐phoph″o‐ri (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. σκύφοσ a cup + φέρειν to bear.] (Zoöl.) An order of fresh-water fishes inhabiting tropical Africa. They have rudimentary electrical org...
Scyphus
Scy″phus (?), n.; pl.Scyphi (#). [L., a cup, Gr. σκύφοσ.] 1. (Antiq.) A kind of large drinking cup, — used by Greeks and Romans, esp. by poor folk.2. (Bot.) (a) The cup of a nar...
Scythe
Scythe (sīt͡h), n. [OE. sithe, AS. sīðe, sigðe; akin to Icel. sigðr a sickle, LG. segd, seged, seed, seid, OHG. segansa sickle, scythe, G. sense scythe, and to E. saw a cutting ...
Scythe (2)
Scythe (?), v. t. To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow.Time had not scythed all that youth begun. Shak.
Scythed
Scythed (?), a. Armed with scythes, as a chariot.Chariots scythed,On thundering axles rolled. Glover.