Scurf (n.) Minute membranous scales on the surface of some leaves, as in the goosefoot.
Scurff (n.) The bull trout.
Scurfiness (n.) Quality or state of being scurfy.
Scurfiness (n.) Scurf.
Scurfy (superl.) Having or producing scurf; covered with scurf; resembling scurf.
Scurrier (n.) One who scurries.
Scurrile (a.) Such as befits a buffoon or vulgar jester; grossly opprobrious or loudly jocose in language; scurrilous; as, scurrile taunts.
Scurrility (n.) The quality or state of being scurrile or scurrilous; mean, vile, or obscene jocularity.
Scurrility (n.) That which is scurrile or scurrilous; gross or obscene language; low buffoonery; vulgar abuse.
Scurrilous (a.) Using the low and indecent language of the meaner sort of people, or such as only the license of buffoons can warrant; as, a scurrilous fellow.
Scurrilous (a.) Containing low indecency or abuse; mean; foul; vile; obscenely jocular; as, scurrilous language.
Scurrit (n.) the lesser tern (Sterna minuta).
Scurry (v. i.) To hasten away or along; to move rapidly; to hurry; as, the rabbit scurried away.
Scurry (n.) Act of scurring; hurried movement.
Scurvily (adv.) In a scurvy manner.
Scurviness (n.) The quality or state of being scurvy; vileness; meanness.
Scurvy (n.) Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy.
Scurvy (n.) Vile; mean; low; vulgar; contemptible.
Scurvy (n.) A disease characterized by livid spots, especially about the thighs and legs, due to extravasation of blood, and by spongy gums, and bleeding from almost all the mucous membranes. It is accompanied by paleness, languor, depression, and general debility. It is occasioned by confinement, innutritious food, and hard labor, but especially by lack of fresh vegetable food, or confinement for a long time to a limited range of food, which is incapable of repairing the waste of the system. It was formerly prevalent among sailors and soldiers.
Scut (n.) The tail of a hare, or of a deer, or other animal whose tail is short, sp. when carried erect; hence, sometimes, the animal itself.
Scuta (n. pl.) See Scutum.
Scutage (n.) Shield money; commutation of service for a sum of money. See Escuage.
Scutal (a.) Of or pertaining to a shield.
Scutate (a.) Buckler-shaped; round or nearly round.
Scutate (a.) Protected or covered by bony or horny plates, or large scales.
Scutched (imp. & p. p.) of Scutch
Scutching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scutch
Scutch (v. t.) To beat or whip; to drub.
Scutch (v. t.) To separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.
Scutch (v. t.) To loosen and dress the fiber of (cotton or silk) by beating; to free (fibrous substances) from dust by beating and blowing.
Scutch (n.) A wooden instrument used in scutching flax and hemp.
Scutch (n.) The woody fiber of flax; the refuse of scutched flax.
Scutcheon (n.) An escutcheon; an emblazoned shield.
Scutcheon (n.) A small plate of metal, as the shield around a keyhole. See Escutcheon, 4.
Scutcheoned (a.) Emblazoned on or as a shield.
Scutcher (n.) One who scutches.
Scutcher (n.) An implement or machine for scutching hemp, flax, or cotton; etc.; a scutch; a scutching machine.
Scutch grass () A kind of pasture grass (Cynodon Dactylon). See Bermuda grass: also Illustration in Appendix.
Scute (n.) A small shield.
Scute (n.) An old French gold coin of the value of 3s. 4d. sterling, or about 80 cents.
Scute (n.) A bony scale of a reptile or fish; a large horny scale on the leg of a bird, or on the belly of a snake.
Scutella (n. pl.) See Scutellum.
Scutelle (pl. ) of Scutella
Scutella (n.) See Scutellum, n., 2.
Scutellate (a.) Alt. of Scutellated
Scutellated (a.) Formed like a plate or salver; composed of platelike surfaces; as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon.
Scutellated (a.) Having the tarsi covered with broad transverse scales, or scutella; -- said of certain birds.
Scutellation (n.) the entire covering, or mode of arrangement, of scales, as on the legs and feet of a bird.
Scutelliform (a.) Scutellate.
Scutelliform (a.) Having the form of a scutellum.
Scutelliplantar (a.) Having broad scutella on the front, and small scales on the posterior side, of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds.
Scutella (pl. ) of Scutellum
Scutellum (n.) A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens.
Scutellum (n.) The third of the four pieces forming the upper part of a thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the small postscutellum; a scutella. See Thorax.
Scutellum (n.) One of the transverse scales on the tarsi and toes of birds; a scutella.
Scutibranch (a.) Scutibranchiate.
Scutibranch (n.) One of the Scutibranchiata.
Scutibranchia (n. pl.) Same as Scutibranchiata.
Scutibranchian (n.) One of the Scutibranchiata.
Scutibranchiata (n. pl.) An order of gastropod Mollusca having a heart with two auricles and one ventricle. The shell may be either spiral or shieldlike.
Scutibranchiate (a.) Having the gills protected by a shieldlike shell; of or pertaining to the Scutibranchiata.
Scutibranchiate (n.) One of the Scutibranchiata.
Scutiferous (a.) Carrying a shield or buckler.
Scutiform (a.) Shield-shaped; scutate.
Scutiger (n.) Any species of chilopod myriapods of the genus Scutigera. They sometimes enter buildings and prey upon insects.
Scutiped (a.) Having the anterior surface of the tarsus covered with scutella, or transverse scales, in the form of incomplete bands terminating at a groove on each side; -- said of certain birds.
Scuttle (n.) A broad, shallow basket.
Scuttle (n.) A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
Scuttle (v. i.) To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle.
Scuttle (n.) A quick pace; a short run.
Scuttle (n.) A small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid.
Scuttle (n.) A small opening or hatchway in the deck of a ship, large enough to admit a man, and with a lid for covering it, also, a like hole in the side or bottom of a ship.
Scuttle (n.) An opening in the roof of a house, with a lid.
Scuttle (n.) The lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like.
Scuttled (imp. & p. p.) of Scuttle
Scuttling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scuttle
Scuttle (v. t.) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
Scuttle (v. t.) To sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship.
Scuta (pl. ) of Scutum
Scutum (n.) An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; -- carried chiefly by the heavy-armed infantry.
Scutum (n.) A penthouse or awning.
Scutum (n.) The second and largest of the four parts forming the upper surface of a thoracic segment of an insect. It is preceded by the prescutum and followed by the scutellum. See the Illust. under Thorax.
Scutum (n.) One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.
Scybala (n. pl.) Hardened masses of feces.
Scye (n.) Arm scye, a cutter's term for the armhole or part of the armhole of the waist of a garnment.
Scyle (v. t.) To hide; to secrete; to conceal.
Scylla (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. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying "Between Scylla and Charybdis," signifying a great peril on either hand.
Scyllaea (n.) A genus of oceanic nudibranchiate mollusks having the small branched gills situated on the upper side of four fleshy lateral lobes, and on the median caudal crest.
Scyllarian (n.) One of a family (Scyllaridae) of macruran Crustacea, remarkable for the depressed form of the body, and the broad, flat antennae. Also used adjectively.
Scyllite (n.) A white crystalline substance of a sweetish taste, resembling inosite and metameric with dextrose. It is extracted from the kidney of the dogfish (of the genus Scylium), the shark, and the skate.
Scymetar (n.) See Scimiter.
Scyphae (pl. ) of Scypha
Scypha (n.) See Scyphus, 2 (b).
Scyphiform (a.) Cup-shaped.
Scyphistomata (pl. ) of Scyphistoma
Scyphistomae (pl. ) of Scyphistoma
Scyphistoma (n.) The young attached larva of Discophora in the stage when it resembles a hydroid, or actinian.
Scyphobranchii (n. pl.) An order of fishes including the blennioid and gobioid fishes, and other related families.
Scyphomeduse (n. pl.) Same as Acraspeda, or Discophora.
Scyphophori (n. pl.) An order of fresh-water fishes inhabiting tropical Africa. They have rudimentary electrical organs on each side of the tail.