AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
schizonemertea: a group of nemerteans comprising those having a deep slit along each side of the head. see illust. in appendix.
schizopelmous: having the two flexor tendons of the toes entirely separate, and the flexor hallucis going to the first toe only.
schizophyte: one of a class of vegetable organisms, in the classification of cohn, which includes all of the inferior forms that multiply by fission, whether they contain chlorophyll or not.
schizopod: one of the schizopoda. also used adjectively.-alt. of schizopodous
schizopoda: a division of shrimplike thoracostraca in which each of the thoracic legs has a long fringed upper branch (exopodite) for swimming.
schizopodous: of or pertaining to a schizopod, or the schizopoda.
schlich: the finer portion of a crushed ore, as of gold, lead, or tin, separated by the water in certain wet processes.
schneiderian: discovered or described by c. v. schneider, a german anatomist of the seventeenth century.
schoharie grit: the formation belonging to the middle of the three subdivisions of the corniferous period in the american devonian system; -- so called from schoharie, in new york, where it occurs. see the chart of geology.
scholar: one who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.-one engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in any branch, or in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant.-a man of books.-in english universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.
scholarly: like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar; as, a scholarly essay or critique.-in a scholarly manner.
scholarship: the character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning.-literary education.-maintenance for a scholar; a foundation for the support of a student.
scholastic: pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.-of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the middle ages (see schoolman); as, scholastic divinity or theology; scholastic philosophy.-hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.-one who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools.-see the note under jesuit.
scholasticism: the method or subtilties of the schools of philosophy; scholastic formality; scholastic doctrines or philosophy.
scholium: a marginal annotation; an explanatory remark or comment; specifically, an explanatory comment on the text of a classic author by an early grammarian.-a remark or observation subjoined to a demonstration or a train of reasoning.
school: a shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.-a place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets.-a place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.-a session of an institution of instruction.-one of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the middle ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning.-the room or hall in english universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.-an assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.-the disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc.-the canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school.-figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.-to train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.-to tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.
schooling: of school-instruction in school; tuition; education in an institution of learning; act of teaching.-discipline; reproof; reprimand; as, he gave his son a good schooling.-compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.-collecting or running in schools or shoals.
schoolman: one versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity.
schoolmaster: the man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school.-one who, or that which, disciplines and directs.
schoolmistress: a woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school-teacher.
schoolship: a vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts to be disciplined, and instructed as mariners.
schooner: originally, a small, sharp-built vessel, with two masts and fore-and-aft rig. sometimes it carried square topsails on one or both masts and was called a topsail schooner. about 1840, longer vessels with three masts, fore-and-aft rigged, came into use, and since that time vessels with four masts and even with six masts, so rigged, are built. schooners with more than two masts are designated three-masted schooners, four-masted schooners, etc. see illustration in appendix.-a large goblet or drinking glass, -- used for lager beer or ale.
schorlaceous: partaking of the nature and character of schorl; resembling schorl.
schorly: pertaining to, or containing, schorl; as, schorly granite.
schottische: a scotch round dance in 2-4 time, similar to the polka, only slower; also, the music for such a dance; -- not to be confounded with the ecossaise.
schreibersite: a mineral occurring in steel-gray flexible folia. it contains iron, nickel, and phosphorus, and is found only in meteoric iron.
schwenkfeldian: a member of a religious sect founded by kaspar von schwenkfeld, a silesian reformer who disagreed with luther, especially on the deification of the body of christ.
sciaenoid: of or pertaining to the sciaenidae, a family of marine fishes which includes the meagre, the squeteague, and the kingfish.
sciagraph: an old term for a vertical section of a building; -- called also sciagraphy. see vertical section, under section.-a radiograph.
sciagraphy: the art or science of projecting or delineating shadows as they fall in nature.-same as sciagraph.
sciatic: of or pertaining to the hip; in the region of, or affecting, the hip; ischial; ischiatic; as, the sciatic nerve, sciatic pains.-sciatica.
sciatica: neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, an affection characterized by paroxysmal attacks of pain in the buttock, back of the thigh, or in the leg or foot, following the course of the branches of the sciatic nerve. the name is also popularly applied to various painful affections of the hip and the parts adjoining it. see ischiadic passion, under ischiadic.
science: knowledge; knowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts.-accumulated and established knowledge, which has been systematized and formulated with reference to the discovery of general truths or the operation of general laws; knowledge classified and made available in work, life, or the search for truth; comprehensive, profound, or philosophical knowledge.-especially, such knowledge when it relates to the physical world and its phenomena, the nature, constitution, and forces of matter, the qualities and functions of living tissues, etc.; -- called also natural science, and physical science.-any branch or department of systematized knowledge considered as a distinct field of investigation or object of study; as, the science of astronomy, of chemistry, or of mind.-art, skill, or expertness, regarded as the result of knowledge of laws and principles.-to cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct.
scientific: of or pertaining to science; used in science; as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations.-agreeing with, or depending on, the rules or principles of science; as, a scientific classification; a scientific arrangement of fossils.-having a knowledge of science, or of a science; evincing science or systematic knowledge; as, a scientific chemist; a scientific reasoner; a scientific argument.
scientist: one learned in science; a scientific investigator; one devoted to scientific study; a savant.
scilicet: to wit; namely; videlicet; -- often abbreviated to sc., or ss.
scillain: a glucoside extracted from squill (scilla) as a light porous substance.
scillitin: a bitter principle extracted from the bulbs of the squill (scilla), and probably consisting of a complex mixture of several substances.
scimitar: a saber with a much curved blade having the edge on the convex side, -- in use among mohammedans, esp., the arabs and persians.-a long-handled billhook. see billhook.
scincoid: of or pertaining to the family scincidae, or skinks.-a scincoidian.
scincoidian: any one of numerous species of lizards of the family scincidae or tribe scincoidea. the tongue is not extensile. the body and tail are covered with overlapping scales, and the toes are margined. see illust. under skink.
sciniph: some kind of stinging or biting insect, as a flea, a gnat, a sandfly, or the like.
scintillate: to emit sparks, or fine igneous particles.-to sparkle, as the fixed stars.
scintillation: the act of scintillating.-a spark or flash emitted in scintillating.
sciolist: one who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer.
sciolistic: of or pertaining to sciolism, or a sciolist; partaking of sciolism; resembling a sciolist.
sciomachy: a fighting with a shadow; a mock contest; an imaginary or futile combat.
scion: a shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker.-a piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting.-hence, a descendant; an heir; as, a scion of a royal stock.
scioptic: of or pertaining to an optical arrangement for forming images in a darkened room, usually called scioptic ball.
scioptics: the art or process of exhibiting luminous images, especially those of external objects, in a darkened room, by arrangements of lenses or mirrors.
sciot: of or pertaining to the island scio (chio or chios).-a native or inhabitant of scio.
scire facias: a judicial writ, founded upon some record, and requiring the party proceeded against to show cause why the party bringing it should not have advantage of such record, or (as in the case of scire facias to repeal letters patent) why the record should not be annulled or vacated.
scirrhosity: a morbid induration, as of a gland; state of being scirrhous.
scirrhous: proceeding from scirrhus; of the nature of scirrhus; indurated; knotty; as, scirrhous affections; scirrhous disease.
scirrhus: an indurated organ or part; especially, an indurated gland.-a cancerous tumor which is hard, translucent, of a gray or bluish color, and emits a creaking sound when incised.
scissel: the clippings of metals made in various mechanical operations.-the slips or plates of metal out of which circular blanks have been cut for the purpose of coinage.
scissors: a cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. often called a pair of scissors.
scissors-tailed: having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.
scissorstail: a tyrant flycatcher (milvulus forficatus) of the southern united states and mexico, which has a deeply forked tail. it is light gray above, white beneath, salmon on the flanks, and fiery red at the base of the crown feathers.
scissure: a longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure.
scitamineous: of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (scitamineae), mostly tropical herbs, including the ginger, indian shot, banana, and the plants producing turmeric and arrowroot.
sciurine: of or pertaining to the squirrel family.-a rodent of the squirrel family.
sciuroid: resembling the tail of a squirrel; -- generally said of branches which are close and dense, or of spikes of grass like barley.
sciuromorpha: a tribe of rodents containing the squirrels and allied animals, such as the gophers, woodchucks, beavers, and others.
scizorhinal: having the nasal bones separate.-having the anterior nostrils prolonged backward in the form of a slit.
sclerenchyma: vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. see sclerotic.-the hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of anthozoa, constituting the stony corals.
sclerenchymatous: pertaining to, or composed of, sclerenchyma.
scleriasis: a morbid induration of the edge of the eyelid.-induration of any part, including scleroderma.
sclerite: a hard chitinous or calcareous process or corpuscle, especially a spicule of the alcyonaria.
sclerobase: the calcareous or hornlike coral forming the central stem or axis of most compound alcyonarians; -- called also foot secretion. see illust. under gorgoniacea, and coenenchyma.
scleroderm: one of a tribe of plectognath fishes (sclerodermi) having the skin covered with hard scales, or plates, as the cowfish and the trunkfish.-one of the sclerodermata.-hardened, or bony, integument of various animals.
scleroderma: a disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin.
sclerodermite: the hard integument of crustacea.-sclerenchyma.
sclerodermous: having the integument, or skin, hard, or covered with hard plates.-of or pertaining to the sclerodermata.
scleroma: induration of the tissues. see sclerema, scleroderma, and sclerosis.
sclerosis: induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue.-hardening of the cell wall by lignification.
scleroskeleton: that part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.
sclerotal: sclerotic.-the optic capsule; the sclerotic coat of the eye.
sclerotic: hard; firm; indurated; -- applied especially in anatomy to the firm outer coat of the eyeball, which is often cartilaginous and sometimes bony.-of or pertaining to the sclerotic coat of the eye; sclerotical.-affected with sclerosis; sclerosed.-the sclerotic coat of the eye. see illust. of eye (d).-pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from ergot or the sclerotium of a fungus growing on rye.
sclerotium: a hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the claviceps purpurea, which produces ergot.-the mature or resting stage of a plasmodium.
sclerotome: one of the bony, cartilaginous, or membranous partitions which separate the myotomes.
scobs: raspings of ivory, hartshorn, metals, or other hard substance.-the dross of metals.
scoff: derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.-an object of scorn, mockery, or derision.-to show insolent ridicule or mockery; to manifest contempt by derisive acts or language; -- often with at.-to treat or address with derision; to assail scornfully; to mock at.
scold: to find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to utter harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; to chide sharply or coarsely; -- often with at; as, to scold at a servant.-to chide with rudeness and clamor; to rate; also, to rebuke or reprove with severity.-one who scolds, or makes a practice of scolding; esp., a rude, clamorous woman; a shrew.-a scolding; a brawl.
scolder: one who scolds.-the oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries.-the old squaw.
scolecite: a zeolitic mineral occuring in delicate radiating groups of white crystals. it is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. called also lime mesotype.
scolex: the embryo produced directly from the egg in a metagenetic series, especially the larva of a tapeworm or other parasitic worm. see illust. of echinococcus.-one of the scolecida.
scolithus: a tubular structure found in potsdam sandstone, and believed to be the fossil burrow of a marine worm.
scolopacine: of or pertaining to the scolopacidae, or snipe family.
scolopendra: a genus of venomous myriapods including the centipeds. see centiped.-a sea fish.
scolytid: any one of numerous species of small bark-boring beetles of the genus scolytus and allied genera. also used adjectively.
scomber: a genus of acanthopterygious fishes which includes the common mackerel.
scombriformes: a division of fishes including the mackerels, tunnies, and allied fishes.
scombroid: like or pertaining to the mackerel family.-any fish of the family scombridae, of which the mackerel (scomber) is the type.
scomm: a buffoon.-a flout; a jeer; a gibe; a taunt.
sconce: a fortification, or work for defense; a fort.-a hut for protection and shelter; a stall.-a piece of armor for the head; headpiece; helmet.-fig.: the head; the skull; also, brains; sense; discretion.-a poll tax; a mulct or fine.-a protection for a light; a lantern or cased support for a candle; hence, a fixed hanging or projecting candlestick.-hence, the circular tube, with a brim, in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted.-a squinch.-a fragment of a floe of ice.-a fixed seat or shelf.-to shut up in a sconce; to imprison; to insconce.-to mulct; to fine.
scone: a cake, thinner than a bannock, made of wheat or barley or oat meal.
scoop: a large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.-a deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine.-a spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.-a place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.-a sweep; a stroke; a swoop.-the act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.-to take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.-to empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.-to make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.
scooper: one who, or that which, scoops.-the avocet; -- so called because it scoops up the mud to obtain food.
scoparin: a yellow gelatinous or crystalline substance found in broom (cytisus scoparius) accompanying sparteine.
scope: that 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.-room or opportunity for free outlook or aim; space for action; amplitude of opportunity; free course or vent; liberty; range of view, intent, or action.-extended area.-length; extent; sweep; as, scope of cable.-to look at for the purpose of evaluation; usually with out; as, to scope out the area as a camping site.
scopeloid: like or pertaining to fishes of the genus scopelus, or family scopelodae, which includes many small oceanic fishes, most of which are phosphorescent.-any fish of the family scopelidae.
scops owl: any one of numerous species of small owls of the genus scops having ear tufts like those of the horned owls, especially the european scops owl (scops giu), and the american screech owl (s. asio).
scopula: a peculiar brushlike organ found on the foot of spiders and used in the construction of the web.-a special tuft of hairs on the leg of a bee.
scopuliped: any species of bee which has on the hind legs a brush of hairs used for collecting pollen, as the hive bees and bumblebees.
scorbutical: of or pertaining to scurvy; of the nature of, or resembling, scurvy; diseased with scurvy; as, a scorbutic person; scorbutic complaints or symptoms.
scorch: to burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without consuming; as, to scorch linen.-to affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat.-to burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.-to be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.-to burn or be burnt.
score: a notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.-an account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.-account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.-the number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number.-a distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.-a weight of twenty pounds.-the number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket.-a line drawn; a groove or furrow.-the original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; -- so called from the bar, which, in its early use, was drawn through all the parts.-to 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.-especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally.-to mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge.-to engrave, as upon a shield.-to make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game.-to write down in proper order and arrangement; as, to score an overture for an orchestra. see score, n., 9.-to mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of new england and the western states were scored in the drift epoch.
scoria: the recrement of metals in fusion, or the slag rejected after the reduction of metallic ores; dross.-cellular slaggy lava; volcanic cinders.
scoriaceous: of or pertaining to scoria; like scoria or the recrement of metals; partaking of the nature of scoria.
scorification: the act, process, or result of scorifying, or reducing to a slag; hence, the separation from earthy matter by means of a slag; as, the scorification of ores.
scorifier: one who, or that which, scorifies; specifically, a small flat bowl-shaped cup used in the first heating in assaying, to remove the earth and gangue, and to concentrate the gold and silver in a lead button.
scorify: to reduce to scoria or slag; specifically, in assaying, to fuse so as to separate the gangue and earthy material, with borax, lead, soda, etc., thus leaving the gold and silver in a lead button; hence, to separate from, or by means of, a slag.
scorn: extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.-an act or expression of extreme contempt.-an object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision.-to hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain.-to treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride.-to scoff; to mock; to show contumely, derision, or reproach; to act disdainfully.
scorner: one who scorns; a despiser; a contemner; specifically, a scoffer at religion.
scornful: full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful.-treated with scorn; exciting scorn.
scorodite: a leek-green or brownish mineral occurring in orthorhombic crystals. it is a hydrous arseniate of iron.
scorpaenoid: of or pertaining to the family scorpaenidae, which includes the scorpene, the rosefish, the california rockfishes, and many other food fishes. [written also scorpaenid.] see illust. under rockfish.
scorpene: a marine food fish of the genus scorpaena, as the european hogfish (s. scrofa), and the california species (s. guttata).
scorpio: a scorpion.-the eighth sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the twenty-third day of october, marked thus [/] in almanacs.-a constellation of the zodiac containing the bright star antares. it is drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a scorpion.
scorpioidal: having the inflorescence curved or circinate at the end, like a scorpion's tail.