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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Scŏff'er, n. p. 1181One who scoffs; one who mocks, derides, or reproaches in the language of contempt. There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his…Scŏff'er-y, n. p. 1181The act of scoffing; scoffing conduct; mockery.Scŏff'ing-ly, adv. p. 1181In a scoffing manner; with mockery or contempt; by way of derision. Aristotle applied this hemistich scoffingly to the sycophants at Athens. Broome.Scōke, n. p. 1181(Bot.) A plant of the genus Phytolacca (P. decandra); poke. See POKE.Scŏl'a-zon, n. p. 1181A certain kind of manure. Simmonds.Scōld, v. i. p. 1181To find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to utter harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; to chide sharply or coarsely; — with at; as, to scold at a servant. Pardon me; ’tis the first time that ever…Scōld, v. t. p. 1181To chide with rudeness and boisterous clamor; to rate; also, to rebuke or reprove with severity.Scōld, n. p. 1181One who scolds; especially, a rude, clamorous, foul-mouthed woman; a shrew. She is an irksome, brawling scold. Shak. 2. A scolding; a brawl.Scōld'er, n. p. 1181One who scolds or rails.Scōld'ing-ly, adv. p. 1181In a scolding manner; with rude clamor or railing.Scōl'e-cite, n. p. 1181(Min.) A mineral consisting of the hydrated silicate of alumina and lime; lime mesotype. See MESOTYPE. [Written also skolecite.]Scō'lex, n. p. 1181(Zoöl.) The being produced directly from the egg, in a metagenetic series.Scŏl'lop, n. p. 1181(Conch.) 1. A kind of shell-fish with a pectinated shell. See SCALLOP. 2. An indenting or cut like those of a scollop shell.Scōl'lop, v. t. p. 1181To form or cut with scollops. See SCALLOP.Scōl'o-pĕn'drā, n. p. 1181(Zoöl.) A genus of venomous myriapods; the centiped. See CENTIPED.Scom'ber, n. p. 1181(Ichth.) A genus of acanthopterygious fishes; the mackerel.Scom'ber-oid, n. p. 1181(Ichth.) One of a family of fishes, of which the genus Scomber is the type. Brande.Seōm'fish, v. t. or v. i. p. 1181To suffocate or stifle; to smother. W. Scott. Wright.Seōm'fit, n. p. 1181Discomfit; discomfiture. [Obs.]Scōmm, n. p. 1181A buffoon. L’Estrange. 2. A flout; a jeer; a gibe; a taunt. Fotherby.Scānce, n. p. 1181A fixed seat or shelf. [Prov. Eng.]Sēōnçe, n. p. 1181A fortification, or work for defense; a fort. No sconce or fortress of his raising was ever known either to have been forced, or yielded up, or quitted. Milton. 2. A hut for protection and shelter; a…Sconce, v. t. p. 1181To shut up in a sconce, fort, &c.; to confine; to imprison. Immure him; sconce him; barricado him in't. Marston. 2. To mulet; to fine. Milton.Scōop, n. p. 1181A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquors; a vessel for bailing boats. 2. (Surg.) A spoon-shaped vessel, used to extract certain foreign bodies. Dunglison. 3. A place…Scōop, v. t. p. 1181To take out with a scoop, or with a sweeping motion; to lade out. He scooped the water from the crystal flood. Dryden. 2. To empty by lading; as, he scooped it dry. 3. To make hollow, as a scoop or…Scōop'er, n. p. 1181One who scoops. 2. (Ornith.) A bird, the avocet; — so called from the form of its bill. See AVOCET.Scōōp'-nĕt, n. p. 1182A hand-net, so formed as to fish from a river.Scōop'-wheel, n. p. 1182A wheel having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; — so called because used to raise water by scooping it up, when turned about its axis.Scōpe, n. p. 1182That at which one aims; the thing, or end, to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object.…Scō'pi-fōrm, a. p. 1182Having the form of a broom or besom. “Zeolite, stelliform or scopiform.” Kirwan.Seō'pi-pēd, n. p. 1182(Entom.) One of a tribe of melliferous insects, which have a brush of hairs on the posterior feet.Scōp'pet, v. t. p. 1182To lade out. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.Scōp'tic or Scōp'tic-al, a. p. 1182Jesting; jeering; scoffing. [Obs.] “The Roman orator discoursing of scoptical urbanity, or jesting.” South.Scep'tic-al-ly, adv. p. 1182In a sceptic manner. [Obs.] Homer (speaking sceptically) breaks open the fountain of his ridiculous humor. Chapman.Scōp'ū-lōus, a. p. 1182Full of rocks; rocky. [Obs.]Scōr'būte, n. p. 1182Scurvy. [Obs.] Purchas.Scor-bū'tic or Scor-bū'tic-al, a. p. 1182Pertaining to, resembling, or affected or diseased with scurvy; as, a scorbutic person; scorbutic complaints or symptoms.Scor-bū'tic-al-ly, adv. p. 1182In a scorbutic manner; with scurvy; as, scorbutically affected.Seōrçe, n. p. 1182Barter; exchange; scorse. See SCORSE.Scōrch, v. t. p. 1182To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel by heat, the surface of; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without consuming; as, to scorch linen. Summer drouth or singeing air…Seōrch, v. i. p. 1182To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up. Scatter a little mungy straw and fern among your seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching. Mortimer.Seōrch'ing-fēn'nel, n. p. 1182(Bot.) A plant of the genus Thapsia; deadly carrot. Lee.Scōrch'ing-ly, adv. p. 1182In a scorching manner; so as to parch or burn the surface.Scōrch'ing-ness, n. p. 1182The quality of scorching.Scōr'di-ūm, n. p. 1182(Bot.) A plant of the genus Teucrium; water-germander.Scōre, n. p. 1182A notch or incision; especially, a mark made for the purpose of keeping account of something; a tally-mark. 2. An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness. He parted well, and…Scōre, v. t. p. 1182To mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow; as, to score timber for hewing; to score the back with a lash. Let us score their backs.…Scōr'er, n. p. 1182One who, or that which, cuts or scores; one who keeps tally, as in cricket or other games. 2. A tool for marking timber.Scō'ri-ă, n. p. 1182The recement of metals in fusion, or the slag rejected after the reduction of metallic ores; dross. 2. The cellular, slaggy lavas of a volcano. Dana.Scō'ri·ae, a. p. 1182Of, or pertaining to, scoria; scoriaceous.Scō'ri·ā'ceōus, a. p. 1182Pertaining to dross; like dross or the recrement of metals; partaking of the nature of scoria.Scō'ri-fi-cā'tion, n. p. 1182(Metal.) The act or operation of reducing a body, either wholly or in part, into scoria.Scō'ri·fōrm, a. p. 1182Like scoria; in the form of dross. Kirwan.Scō'ri·fy, v. t. p. 1182To reduce to scoria or drossy matter.Scō'ri·ous, a. p. 1182Drossy; cin-<br>dery; recrementitious. [Rare.] Browne.Scōrn, n. p. 1182Extreme and passionate contempt; that disdain which springs from a person's opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object. Every sullen frown and bitter scorn But fanned the fuel that…Scōrn, v. t. p. 1182To hold in extreme contempt; to think utterly unworthy of one; to despise; to contemn; to disdain; to slight. I scorn thy meat; 'twould choke me. Shak. This my long sufferance and my day of grace…Scōrn, v. t. p. 1182To scoff; to show contumely, derision, or reproach. [Obs.] He said mine eyes were black, and my hair black, And, now I am remembered, scorned at me. Shak.Scōrn'er, n. p. 1182One who scorns; a contemner; a despiser. They are great scorners of death. Spenser. 2. A scoffer; a derider; one who scoffs at religion, its ordinances and teachers.Scōrn'ful, a. p. 1182Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful. “Scornful of winter’s frost and summer’s sun.” Prior. “Dart not scornful glances from those eyes.” Shak. Syn.—Contemptuous; disdainful…