Dictionary
An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
- Entries
- 95,912
- Pages
- 1,538
- Illustrations
- 2,133
Look up a word as the writers of the time used it.
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…Scôrn'ful-ly, adv. p. 1182In a scornful manner; with contempt; insolently. The sacred rights of the Christian church are scornfully trampled on in print. Atterbury.Scôrn'ful-ness, n. p. 1182The quality of being scornful.Scôrn'y, a. p. 1182Full of scorn; deserving scorn. [Obs.]Scŏr'o-dīte, n. p. 1182(Min.) A native compound of arsenic acid and oxide of iron, having a leek-green or brownish color. [Written also skorodite.] Dana.Scōr'pi-o, n. p. 1182A scorpion. 2. (Astron.) A constellation of the zodiac which the sun enters about the twenty-third day of October; the scorpion.Scōr'pi-oid or Scōr'pi-oid'al, a. p. 1182Scorpion-like. 2. (Bot.) Having the main axis of an inflorescence curved or circinate at the end, like the tail of a scorpion.Scōr'pi-on, n. p. 1182A pedipalpous, pulmonary arachnidan, of the genus Scorpio. Scorpions have an elongated body, terminated by a long, slender tail formed of six joints, the last of which terminates in an arcuated and…Scōr'pi-on-fly, n. p. 1182(Entom.) A neuropterous insect of the genus Panorpa, having a tail which resembles that of a scorpion.Scōr'pi-on-grāss, n. p. 1182(Bot.) A plant of the genus Myosotis. M. palustris is the forget-me-not.Scōr'pi-on-sēn'nā, n. p. 1182(Bot.) A shrub of the genus Coronilla (C. emerus), the leaves of which possess cathartic properties, and are often used to adulterate senna.Scōr'pi-on's-tāil, n. p. 1182(Bot.) A plant of the genus Scorpiurus, with trailing, herbaceous stalks, and producing a pod resembling a caterpillar, whence it is sometimes called caterpillar. Partington.Scōr'pi-on's-thôrn, n. p. 1182(Bot.) A plant of the genus Ulex.Scōr'pi-on-wort, n. p. 1182(Bot.) A plant; the Ornithopus scorpioides. Parr.Scōrse, n. p. 1182A course or dealing; barter; exchange. [Obs.] And recompensed them with a bitter scorse. Spencer.Seōrse, v. t. p. 1182To chase. Spenser. 2. To barter or exchange. Spenser.