AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
scruple: a weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.-hence, a very small quantity; a particle.-hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience.-to be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.-to regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question.-to excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.
scrupulosity: the quality or state of being scruppulous; doubt; doubtfulness respecting decision or action; caution or tenderness from the far of doing wrong or ofending; nice regard to exactness and propierty; precision.
scrupulous: full ofscrupules; inclined to scruple; nicely doubtful; hesitating to determine or to act, from a fear of offending or of doing wrong.-careful; cautious; exact; nice; as, scrupulous abstinence from labor; scrupulous performance of duties.-given to making objections; captious.-liable to be doubted; doubtful; nice.
scrutineer: a scrutinizer; specifically, an examiner of votes, as at an election.
scrutinize: to examine closely; to inspect or observe with critical attention; to regard narrowly; as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals.-to make scrutiny.
scrutiny: close examination; minute inspection; critical observation.-an examination of catechumens, in the last week of lent, who were to receive baptism on easter day.-a ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is written.-an examination by a committee of the votes given at an election, for the purpose of correcting the poll.-to scrutinize.
scry: to descry.-a flock of wild fowl.-a cry or shout.
scud: to move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something.-to be driven swiftly, or to run, before a gale, with little or no sail spread.-to pass over quickly.-the act of scudding; a driving along; a rushing with precipitation.-loose, vapory clouds driven swiftly by the wind.-a slight, sudden shower.-a small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock.-any swimming amphipod crustacean.
scudo: 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.-a gold coin of rome, worth 64 shillings 11 pence sterling, or about $ 15.70.
scuff: the back part of the neck; the scruff.-to walk without lifting the feet; to proceed with a scraping or dragging movement; to shuffle.
scuffle: to strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion.-hence, to strive or contend tumultuously; to struggle confusedly or at haphazard.-a rough, haphazard struggle, or trial of strength; a disorderly wrestling at close quarters.-hence, a confused contest; a tumultuous struggle for superiority; a fight.-a child's pinafore or bib.-a garden hoe.
scuffler: one who scuffles.-an agricultural implement resembling a scarifier, but usually lighter.
scull: the skull.-a shoal of fish.-a boat; a cockboat. see sculler.-one of a pair of short oars worked by one person.-a single oar used at the stern in propelling a boat.-the common skua gull.-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.-to impel a boat with a scull or sculls.
sculler: a boat rowed by one man with two sculls, or short oars.-one who sculls.
scullery: 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.-hence, refuse; filth; offal.
scullion: a scalion.-a servant who cleans pots and kettles, and does other menial services in the kitchen.
sculpin: 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.-a large cottoid market fish of california (scorpaenichthys marmoratus); -- called also bighead, cabezon, scorpion, salpa.-the dragonet, or yellow sculpin, of europe (callionymus lura).
sculptor: one who sculptures; one whose occupation is to carve statues, or works of sculpture.-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.
sculpture: 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.-carved work modeled of, or cut upon, wood, stone, metal, etc.-to form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave.
scum: 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.-refuse; recrement; anything vile or worthless.-to take the scum from; to clear off the impure matter from the surface of; to skim.-to sweep or range over the surface of.-to form a scum; to become covered with scum. also used figuratively.
scumble: 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: of scumble-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.-in crayon drawing, the use of the stump.-the color so laid on. also used figuratively.
scummer: to scumber.-excrement; scumber.-an instrument for taking off scum; a skimmer.
scumming: of scum-the act of taking off scum.-that which is scummed off; skimmings; scum; -- used chiefly in the plural.
scunner: to cause to loathe, or feel disgust at.-to have a feeling of loathing or disgust; hence, to have dislike, prejudice, or reluctance.-a feeling of disgust or loathing; a strong prejudice; abhorrence; as, to take a scunner against some one.
scup: a swing.-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.
scupper: 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: an american grape, a form of vitis vulpina, found in the southern atlantic states, and often cultivated.
scurf: thin dry scales or scabs upon the body; especially, thin scales exfoliated from the cuticle, particularly of the scalp; dandruff.-hence, the foul remains of anything adherent.-anything like flakes or scales adhering to a surface.-minute membranous scales on the surface of some leaves, as in the goosefoot.
scurfy: having or producing scurf; covered with scurf; resembling scurf.
scurrile: such as befits a buffoon or vulgar jester; grossly opprobrious or loudly jocose in language; scurrilous; as, scurrile taunts.
scurrility: the quality or state of being scurrile or scurrilous; mean, vile, or obscene jocularity.-that which is scurrile or scurrilous; gross or obscene language; low buffoonery; vulgar abuse.
scurrilous: 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.-containing low indecency or abuse; mean; foul; vile; obscenely jocular; as, scurrilous language.
scurry: to hasten away or along; to move rapidly; to hurry; as, the rabbit scurried away.-act of scurring; hurried movement.
scurviness: the quality or state of being scurvy; vileness; meanness.
scurvy: covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy.-vile; mean; low; vulgar; contemptible.-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: 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.
scutage: shield money; commutation of service for a sum of money. see escuage.
scutate: buckler-shaped; round or nearly round.-protected or covered by bony or horny plates, or large scales.
scutch: to beat or whip; to drub.-to separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.-to loosen and dress the fiber of (cotton or silk) by beating; to free (fibrous substances) from dust by beating and blowing.-a wooden instrument used in scutching flax and hemp.-the woody fiber of flax; the refuse of scutched flax.
scutch grass: a kind of pasture grass (cynodon dactylon). see bermuda grass: also illustration in appendix.
scutcheon: an escutcheon; an emblazoned shield.-a small plate of metal, as the shield around a keyhole. see escutcheon, 4.
scutcher: one who scutches.-an implement or machine for scutching hemp, flax, or cotton; etc.; a scutch; a scutching machine.
scute: a small shield.-an old french gold coin of the value of 3s. 4d. sterling, or about 80 cents.-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: see scutellum.-see scutellum, n., 2.-of scutellum
scutellated: formed like a plate or salver; composed of platelike surfaces; as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon.-having the tarsi covered with broad transverse scales, or scutella; -- said of certain birds.
scutellation: the entire covering, or mode of arrangement, of scales, as on the legs and feet of a bird.
scutelliplantar: having broad scutella on the front, and small scales on the posterior side, of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds.
scutellum: a rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens.-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.-one of the transverse scales on the tarsi and toes of birds; a scutella.
scutibranch: scutibranchiate.-one of the scutibranchiata.
scutibranchiata: an order of gastropod mollusca having a heart with two auricles and one ventricle. the shell may be either spiral or shieldlike.
scutibranchiate: having the gills protected by a shieldlike shell; of or pertaining to the scutibranchiata.-one of the scutibranchiata.
scutiger: any species of chilopod myriapods of the genus scutigera. they sometimes enter buildings and prey upon insects.
scutiped: 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: a broad, shallow basket.-a wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.-to run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle.-a quick pace; a short run.-a small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid.-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.-an opening in the roof of a house, with a lid.-the lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like.-to cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.-to sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship.
scutum: an oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; -- carried chiefly by the heavy-armed infantry.-a penthouse or awning.-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.-one of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.
scye: arm scye, a cutter's term for the armhole or part of the armhole of the waist of a garnment.
scylla: 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: 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: 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: 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.
scyphistoma: the young attached larva of discophora in the stage when it resembles a hydroid, or actinian.
scyphobranchii: an order of fishes including the blennioid and gobioid fishes, and other related families.
scyphophori: an order of fresh-water fishes inhabiting tropical africa. they have rudimentary electrical organs on each side of the tail.
scyphus: a kind of large drinking cup, -- used by greeks and romans, esp. by poor folk.-the cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers.-a cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens. also called scypha. see illust. of cladonia pyxidata, under lichen.
scythe: an instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with a sharp edge, made fast to a long handle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenient for use.-a scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.-to cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow.
scythian: of or pertaining to scythia (a name given to the northern part of asia, and europe adjoining to asia), or its language or inhabitants.-a native or inhabitant of scythia; specifically (ethnol.), one of a slavonic race which in early times occupied eastern europe.-the language of the scythians.
sea: one of the larger bodies of salt water, less than an ocean, found on the earth's surface; a body of salt water of second rank, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea; as, the mediterranean sea; the sea of marmora; the north sea; the carribean sea.-an inland body of water, esp. if large or if salt or brackish; as, the caspian sea; the sea of aral; sometimes, a small fresh-water lake; as, the sea of galilee.-the ocean; the whole body of the salt water which covers a large part of the globe.-the swell of the ocean or other body of water in a high wind; motion of the water's surface; also, a single wave; a billow; as, there was a high sea after the storm; the vessel shipped a sea.-a great brazen laver in the temple at jerusalem; -- so called from its size.-fig.: anything resembling the sea in vastness; as, a sea of glory.
sea adder: the european fifteen-spined stickleback (gasterosteus spinachia); -- called also bismore.-the european tanglefish, or pipefish (syngnathus acus).
sea amenone: any one of numerous species of soft-bodied anthozoa, belonging to the order actrinaria; an actinian.
sea apple: the fruit of a west indian palm (manicaria plukenetii), often found floating in the sea.
sea bass: a large marine food fish (serranus, / centropristis, atrarius) which abounds on the atlantic coast of the united states. it is dark bluish, with black bands, and more or less varied with small white spots and blotches. called also, locally, blue bass, black sea bass, blackfish, bluefish, and black perch.-a california food fish (cynoscion nobile); -- called also white sea bass, and sea salmon.
sea beast: any large marine mammal, as a seal, walrus, or cetacean.
sea blite: a plant (suaeda maritima) of the goosefoot family, growing in salt marches.
sea bream: any one of several species of sparoid fishes, especially the common european species (pagellus centrodontus), the spanish (p. oweni), and the black sea bream (cantharus lineatus); -- called also old wife.
sea cat: the wolf fish.-any marine siluroid fish, as aelurichthys marinus, and arinus felis, of the eastern coast of the united states. many species are found on the coasts of central and south america.
sea chart: a chart or map on which the lines of the shore, islands, shoals, harbors, etc., are delineated.
sea chickweed: a fleshy plant (arenaria peploides) growing in large tufts in the sands of the northern atlantic seacoast; -- called also sea sandwort, and sea purslane.
sea clam: any one of the large bivalve mollusks found on the open seacoast, especially those of the family mactridae, as the common american species. (mactra, / spisula, solidissima); -- called also beach clam, and surf clam.
sea coal: coal brought by sea; -- a name by which mineral coal was formerly designated in the south of england, in distinction from charcoal, which was brought by land.
sea cock: in a steamship, a cock or valve close to the vessel's side, for closing a pipe which communicates with the sea.-the black-bellied plover.-a gurnard, as the european red gurnard (trigla pini).
sea cocoa: a magnificent palm (lodoicea sechellarum) found only in the seychelles islands. the fruit is an immense two-lobed nut. it was found floating in the indian ocean before the tree was known, and called sea cocoanut, and double cocoanut.
sea colander: a large blackfish seaweed (agarum turneri), the frond of which is punctured with many little holes.
sea corn: a yellow cylindrical mass of egg capsule of certain species of whelks (buccinum), which resembles an ear of maize.
sea crayfish: any crustacean of the genus palinurus and allied genera, as the european spiny lobster (p. vulgaris), which is much used as an article of food. see lobster.
sea crow: the chough.-the cormorant.-the blackheaded pewit, and other gulls.-the skua.-the razorbill.-the coot.
sea cucumber: any large holothurian, especially one of those belonging to the genus pentacta, or cucumaria, as the common american and european species. (p. frondosa).
sea daffodil: a european amarylidaceous plant (pancratium maritimum).
sea devil: any very large ray, especially any species of the genus manta or cepholoptera, some of which become more than twenty feet across and weigh several tons. see also ox ray, under ox.-any large cephalopod, as a large octopus, or a giant squid (architeuthis). see devilfish.-the angler.
sea duck: any one of numerous species of ducks which frequent the seacoasts and feed mainly on fishes and mollusks. the scoters, eiders, old squaw, and ruddy duck are examples. they may be distinguished by the lobate hind toe.
sea eagle: any one of several species of fish-eating eagles of the genus haliaeetus and allied genera, as the north pacific sea eagle. (h. pelagicus), which has white shoulders, head, rump, and tail; the european white-tailed eagle (h. albicilla); and the indian white-tailed sea eagle, or fishing eagle (polioaetus ichthyaetus). the bald eagle and the osprey are also sometimes classed as sea eagles.-the eagle ray. see under ray.
sea elephant: a very large seal (macrorhinus proboscideus) of the antarctic seas, much hunted for its oil. it sometimes attains a length of thirty feet, and is remarkable for the prolongation of the nose of the adult male into an erectile elastic proboscis, about a foot in length. another species of smaller size (m. angustirostris) occurs on the coast of lower california, but is now nearly extinct.
sea fan: any gorgonian which branches in a fanlike form, especially gorgonia flabellum of florida and the west indies.
sea fir: a sertularian hydroid, especially sertularia abietina, which branches like a miniature fir tree.
sea fowl: any bird which habitually frequents the sea, as an auk, gannet, gull, tern, or petrel; also, all such birds, collectively.
sea ginger: a hydroid coral of the genus millepora, especially m. alcicornis, of the west indies and florida. so called because it stings the tongue like ginger. see illust. under millepore.
sea girdles: a kind of kelp (laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle.
sea god: a marine deity; a fabulous being supposed to live in, or have dominion over, the sea, or some particular sea or part of the sea, as neptune.
sea goddess: a goddess supposed to live in or reign over the sea, or some part of the sea.
sea gown: a gown or frock with short sleeves, formerly worn by mariners.
sea grape: the gulf weed. see under gulf.-a shrubby plant (coccoloba uvifera) growing on the sandy shores of tropical america, somewhat resembling the grapevine.-the clusters of gelatinous egg capsules of a squid (loligo).
sea hare: any tectibranchiate mollusk of the genus aplysia. see aplysia.
sea heath: a low perennial plant (frankenia laevis) resembling heath, growing along the seashore in europe.
sea holly: an evergeen seashore plant (eryngium maritimum). see eryngium.
sea horse: a fabulous creature, half horse and half fish, represented in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by the nereids. it is also depicted in heraldry. see hippocampus.-the walrus.-any fish of the genus hippocampus.
sea king: one of the leaders among the norsemen who passed their lives in roving the seas in search of plunder and adventures; a norse pirate chief. see the note under viking.
sea laces: a kind of seaweed (chorda filum) having blackish cordlike fronds, often many feet long.
sea lark: the rock pipit (anthus obscurus).-any one of several small sandpipers and plovers, as the ringed plover, the turnstone, the dunlin, and the sanderling.
sea legs: legs able to maintain their possessor upright in stormy weather at sea, that is, ability stand or walk steadily on deck when a vessel is rolling or pitching in a rough sea.
sea lemon: any one of several species of nudibranchiate mollusks of the genus doris and allied genera, having a smooth, thick, convex yellow body.
sea leopard: any one of several species of spotted seals, especially ogmorhinus leptonyx, and leptonychotes weddelli, of the antarctic ocean. the north pacific sea leopard is the harbor seal.
sea letter: the customary certificate of national character which neutral merchant vessels are bound to carry in time of war; a passport for a vessel and cargo.
sea lettuce: the green papery fronds of several seaweeds of the genus ulva, sometimes used as food.
sea level: the level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.
sea lion: any one of several large species of seals of the family otariidae native of the pacific ocean, especially the southern sea lion (otaria jubata) of the south american coast; the northern sea lion (eumetopias stelleri) found from california to japan; and the black, or california, sea lion (zalophus californianus), which is common on the rocks near san francisco.
sea louse: any one of numerous species of isopod crustaceans of cymothoa, livoneca, and allied genera, mostly parasites on fishes.
sea mat: any bryozoan of the genus flustra or allied genera which form frondlike corals.
sea milkwort: a low, fleshy perennial herb (glaux maritima) found along northern seashores.
sea mouse: a dorsibranchiate annelid, belonging to aphrodite and allied genera, having long, slender, hairlike setae on the sides.-the dunlin.
sea mud: a rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure; -- called also sea ooze.