Scry (v.) A flock of wild fowl.
Scry (n.) A cry or shout.
Scudded (imp. & p. p.) of Scud
Scudding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scud
Scud (v. i.) To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something.
Scud (v. i.) To be driven swiftly, or to run, before a gale, with little or no sail spread.
Scud (v. t.) To pass over quickly.
Scud (n.) The act of scudding; a driving along; a rushing with precipitation.
Scud (n.) Loose, vapory clouds driven swiftly by the wind.
Scud (n.) A slight, sudden shower.
Scud (n.) A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock.
Scud (n.) Any swimming amphipod crustacean.
Scuddle (v. i.) To run hastily; to hurry; to scuttle.
Scudi (pl. ) of Scudo
Scudo (n.) A silver coin, and money of account, used in Italy and Sicily, varying in value, in different parts, but worth about 4 shillings sterling, or about 96 cents; also, a gold coin worth about the same.
Scudo (n.) A gold coin of Rome, worth 64 shillings 11 pence sterling, or about $ 15.70.
Scuff (n.) The back part of the neck; the scruff.
Scuffed (imp. & p. p.) of Scuff
Scuffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scuff
Scuff (v. i.) To walk without lifting the feet; to proceed with a scraping or dragging movement; to shuffle.
Scuffled (imp. & p. p.) of Scuffle
Scuffling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scuffle
Scuffle (v. i.) To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion.
Scuffle (v. i.) Hence, to strive or contend tumultuously; to struggle confusedly or at haphazard.
Scuffle (n.) A rough, haphazard struggle, or trial of strength; a disorderly wrestling at close quarters.
Scuffle (n.) Hence, a confused contest; a tumultuous struggle for superiority; a fight.
Scuffle (n.) A child's pinafore or bib.
Scuffle (n.) A garden hoe.
Scuffler (n.) One who scuffles.
Scuffler (n.) An agricultural implement resembling a scarifier, but usually lighter.
Scug (v. i.) To hide.
Scug (n.) A place of shelter; the declivity of a hill.
Sculk () Alt. of Sculker
Sculker () See Skulk, Skulker.
Scull (n.) The skull.
Scull (n.) A shoal of fish.
Scull (n.) A boat; a cockboat. See Sculler.
Scull (n.) One of a pair of short oars worked by one person.
Scull (n.) A single oar used at the stern in propelling a boat.
Scull (n.) The common skua gull.
Sculled (imp. & p. p.) of Scull
Sculling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scull
Scull (v. t.) To impel (a boat) with a pair of sculls, or with a single scull or oar worked over the stern obliquely from side to side.
Scull (v. i.) To impel a boat with a scull or sculls.
Sculler (n.) A boat rowed by one man with two sculls, or short oars.
Sculler (n.) One who sculls.
Sculleries (pl. ) of Scullery
Scullery (n.) A place where dishes, kettles, and culinary utensils, are cleaned and kept; also, a room attached to the kitchen, where the coarse work is done; a back kitchen.
Scullery (n.) Hence, refuse; filth; offal.
Scullion (n.) A scalion.
Scullion (n.) A servant who cleans pots and kettles, and does other menial services in the kitchen.
Scullionly (a.) Like a scullion; base.
Sculp (v. t.) To sculpture; to carve; to engrave.
Sculpin (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine cottoid fishes of the genus Cottus, or Acanthocottus, having a large head armed with sharp spines, and a broad mouth. They are generally mottled with yellow, brown, and black. Several species are found on the Atlantic coasts of Europe and America.
Sculpin (n.) A large cottoid market fish of California (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus); -- called also bighead, cabezon, scorpion, salpa.
Sculpin (n.) The dragonet, or yellow sculpin, of Europe (Callionymus lura).
Sculptile (a.) Formed by carving; graven; as, sculptile images.
Sculptor (n.) One who sculptures; one whose occupation is to carve statues, or works of sculpture.
Sculptor (n.) Hence, an artist who designs works of sculpture, his first studies and his finished model being usually in a plastic material, from which model the marble is cut, or the bronze is cast.
Sculptress (n.) A female sculptor.
Sculptural (a.) Of or pertaining to sculpture.
Sculpture (n.) The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials.
Sculpture (n.) Carved work modeled of, or cut upon, wood, stone, metal, etc.
Sculptured (imp. & p. p.) of Sculpture
Sculpturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sculpture
Sculpture (v. t.) To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave.
Sculpturesque (a.) After the manner of sculpture; resembling, or relating to, sculpture.
Scum (v.) The extraneous matter or impurities which rise to the surface of liquids in boiling or fermentation, or which form on the surface by other means; also, the scoria of metals in a molten state; dross.
Scum (v.) refuse; recrement; anything vile or worthless.
Scummed (imp. & p. p.) of Scum
Scumming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scum
Scum (v. t.) To take the scum from; to clear off the impure matter from the surface of; to skim.
Scum (v. t.) To sweep or range over the surface of.
Scum (v. i.) To form a scum; to become covered with scum. Also used figuratively.
Scumber (v. i.) To void excrement.
Scumber (n.) Dung.
Scumbled (imp. & p. p.) of Scumble
Scumbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scumble
Scumble (v. t.) To cover lighty, as a painting, or a drawing, with a thin wash of opaque color, or with color-crayon dust rubbed on with the stump, or to make any similar additions to the work, so as to produce a softened effect.
Scumbling (n.) 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 painting, or part of the surface, which is too bright in color, or which requires harmonizing.
Scumbling (n.) In crayon drawing, the use of the stump.
Scumbling (n.) The color so laid on. Also used figuratively.
Scummer (v. i.) To scumber.
Scummer (n.) Excrement; scumber.
Scummer (n.) An instrument for taking off scum; a skimmer.
Scumming (n.) The act of taking off scum.
Scumming (n.) That which is scummed off; skimmings; scum; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Scummy (a.) Covered with scum; of the nature of scum.
Scunner (v. t.) To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at.
Scunner (v. i.) To have a feeling of loathing or disgust; hence, to have dislike, prejudice, or reluctance.
Scunner (n.) A feeling of disgust or loathing; a strong prejudice; abhorrence; as, to take a scunner against some one.
Scup (n.) A swing.
Scup (n.) A marine sparoid food fish (Stenotomus chrysops, or S. argyrops), common on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It appears bright silvery when swimming in the daytime, but shows broad blackish transverse bands at night and when dead. Called also porgee, paugy, porgy, scuppaug.
Scuppaug (n.) See 2d Scup.
Scupper (v.) An opening cut through the waterway and bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called also scupper hole.
Scuppernong (n.) An American grape, a form of Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated.
Scur (v. i.) To move hastily; to scour.
Scurf (n.) Thin dry scales or scabs upon the body; especially, thin scales exfoliated from the cuticle, particularly of the scalp; dandruff.
Scurf (n.) Hence, the foul remains of anything adherent.
Scurf (n.) Anything like flakes or scales adhering to a surface.