AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
scallion: a kind of small onion (allium ascalonicum), native of palestine; the eschalot, or shallot.-any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek.
scallop: any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus pecten and allied genera of the family pectinidae. the shell is usually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated in a characteristic manner. the large adductor muscle of some the species is much used as food. one species (vola jacobaeus) occurs on the coast of palestine, and its shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as a mark that they had been to the holy land. called also fan shell. see pecten, 2.-one of series of segments of circles joined at their extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop shell.-one of the shells of a scallop; also, a dish resembling a scallop shell.-to mark or cut the edge or border of into segments of circles, like the edge or surface of a scallop shell. see scallop, n., 2.-to bake in scallop shells or dishes; to prepare with crumbs of bread or cracker, and bake. see scalloped oysters, below.
scalloped: of scallop-furnished with a scallop; made or done with or in a scallop.-having the edge or border cut or marked with segments of circles. see scallop, n., 2.-baked in a scallop; cooked with crumbs.
scalp: a bed of oysters or mussels.-that part of the integument of the head which is usually covered with hair.-a part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, cut or torn off from an enemy by the indian warriors of north america, as a token of victory.-fig.: the top; the summit.-to deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of.-to remove the skin of.-to brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling.-to make a small, quick profit by slight fluctuations of the market; -- said of brokers who operate in this way on their own account.
scalpel: a small knife with a thin, keen blade, -- used by surgeons, and in dissecting.
scalper: one who, or that which, scalps.-same as scalping iron, under scalping.-a broker who, dealing on his own account, tries to get a small and quick profit from slight fluctuations of the market.-a person who buys and sells the unused parts of railroad tickets.-a person who buys tickets for entertainment or sports events and sells them at a profit, often at a much higher price.  also, ticket scalper.
scalpriform: shaped like a chisel; as, the scalpriform incisors of rodents.
scaly: covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish.-resembling scales, laminae, or layers.-mean; low; as, a scaly fellow.-composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem.
scamble: to move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble.-to move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble.-to mangle.
scambler: 1. one who scambles.-a bold intruder upon the hospitality of others; a mealtime visitor.
scamblingly: in a scambling manner; with turbulence and noise; with bold intrusiveness.
scamillus: a sort of second plinth or block, below the bases of ionic and corinthian columns, generally without moldings, and of smaller size horizontally than the pedestal.
scammoniate: made from scammony; as, a scammoniate aperient.
scammony: a species of bindweed or convolvulus (c. scammonia).-an inspissated sap obtained from the root of the convolvulus scammonia, of a blackish gray color, a nauseous smell like that of old cheese, and a somewhat acrid taste. it is used in medicine as a cathartic.
scamp: a rascal; a swindler; a rogue.-to perform in a hasty, neglectful, or imperfect manner; to do superficially.
scampavia: a long, low war galley used by the neapolitans and sicilians in the early part of the nineteenth century.
scamper: to run with speed; to run or move in a quick, hurried manner; to hasten away.-a scampering; a hasty flight.
scampish: of or like a scamp; knavish; as, scampish conduct.
scandal: offense caused or experienced; reproach or reprobation called forth by what is regarded as wrong, criminal, heinous, or flagrant: opprobrium or disgrace.-reproachful aspersion; opprobrious censure; defamatory talk, uttered heedlessly or maliciously.-anything alleged in pleading which is impertinent, and is reproachful to any person, or which derogates from the dignity of the court, or is contrary to good manners.-to treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander.-to scandalize; to offend.
scandalize: to offend the feelings or the conscience of (a person) by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to bring shame, disgrace, or reproach upon.-to reproach; to libel; to defame; to slander.
scandalous: giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation.-disgraceful to reputation; bringing shame or infamy; opprobrious; as, a scandalous crime or vice.-defamatory; libelous; as, a scandalous story.
scandalously: in a manner to give offense; shamefully.-with a disposition to impute immorality or wrong.
scandalum magnatum: a defamatory speech or writing published to the injury of a person of dignity; -- usually abbreviated scan. mag.
scandinavian: of or pertaining to scandinavia, that is, sweden, norway, and denmark.-a native or inhabitant of scandinavia.
scandium: a rare metallic element of the boron group, whose existence was predicted under the provisional name ekaboron by means of the periodic law, and subsequently discovered by spectrum analysis in certain rare scandinavian minerals (euxenite and gadolinite). it has not yet been isolated. symbol sc. atomic weight 44.
scansion: the act of scanning; distinguishing the metrical feet of a verse by emphasis, pauses, or otherwise.
scansores: an artifical group of birds formerly regarded as an order. they are distributed among several orders by modern ornithologists.
scansorial: capable of climbing; as, the woodpecker is a scansorial bird; adapted for climbing; as, a scansorial foot.-of or pertaining to the scansores. see illust.. under aves.
scant: not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment.-sparing; parsimonious; chary.-to limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries.-to cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail.-to fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.-in a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.-scantness; scarcity.
scantily: in a scanty manner; not fully; not plentifully; sparingly; parsimoniously.
scantle: to be deficient; to fail.-to scant; to be niggard of; to divide into small pieces; to cut short or down.
scantling: not plentiful; small; scanty.-a fragment; a bit; a little piece.-a piece or quantity cut for a special purpose; a sample.-a small quantity; a little bit; not much.-a piece of timber sawed or cut of a small size, as for studs, rails, etc.-the dimensions of a piece of timber with regard to its breadth and thickness; hence, the measure or dimensions of anything.-a rough draught; a rude sketch or outline.-a frame for casks to lie upon; a trestle.
scantly: in a scant manner; not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously.-scarcely; hardly; barely.
scantness: the quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness.
scanty: wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant.-somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words; a scanty supply of bread.-sparing; niggardly; parsimonious.
scape: a peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.-the long basal joint of the antennae of an insect.-the shaft of a column.-the apophyge of a shaft.-to escape.-an escape.-means of escape; evasion.-a freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.-loose act of vice or lewdness.
scape-wheel: the wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play.
scapegoat: a goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness.-hence, a person or thing that is made to bear blame for others.
scapegrace: a graceless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless.
scaphander: the case, or impermeable apparel, in which a diver can work while under water.
scaphism: an ancient mode of punishing criminals among the persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects until he died.
scaphite: any fossil cephalopod shell of the genus scaphites, belonging to the ammonite family and having a chambered boat-shaped shell. scaphites are found in the cretaceous formation.
scaphocephalic: of, pertaining to, or affected with, scaphocephaly.
scaphocephaly: a deformed condition of the skull, in which the vault is narrow, elongated, and more or less boat-shaped.
scaphocerite: a flattened plate or scale attached to the second joint of the antennae of many crustacea.
scaphognathite: a thin leafike appendage (the exopodite) of the second maxilla of decapod crustaceans. it serves as a pumping organ to draw the water through the gill cavity.
scaphoid: resembling a boat in form; boat-shaped.-the scaphoid bone.
scapholunar: of or pertaining to the scaphoid and lunar bones of the carpus.-the scapholunar bone.
scaphopda: a class of marine cephalate mollusca having a tubular shell open at both ends, a pointed or spadelike foot for burrowing, and many long, slender, prehensile oral tentacles. it includes dentalium, or the tooth shells, and other similar shells. called also prosopocephala, and solenoconcha.
scapolite: a grayish white mineral occuring in tetragonal crystals and in cleavable masses. it is essentially a silicate of alumina and soda.
scapple: to work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry.-to dress in any way short of fine tooling or rubbing, as stone.
scapula: the principal bone of the shoulder girdle in mammals; the shoulder blade.-one of the plates from which the arms of a crinoid arise.
scapular: of or pertaining to the scapula or the shoulder.-one of a special group of feathers which arise from each of the scapular regions and lie along the sides of the back.-alt. of scapulary
scapulary: a loose sleeveless vestment falling in front and behind, worn by certain religious orders and devout persons.-the name given to two pieces of cloth worn under the ordinary garb and over the shoulders as an act of devotion.-a bandage passing over the shoulder to support it, or to retain another bandage in place.-same as scapular, a.-same as 2d and 3d scapular.
scapulet: a secondary mouth fold developed at the base of each of the armlike lobes of the manubrium of many rhizostome medusae. see illustration in appendix.
scapulo-: a combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the scapula or the shoulder; as, the scapulo-clavicular articulation, the articulation between the scapula and clavicle.
scar: a mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a previous injury; a blemish; a disfigurement.-a mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support. see illust.. under axillary.-to mark with a scar or scars.-to form a scar.-an isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.-a marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.
scarabee: any one of numerous species of lamellicorn beetles of the genus scarabaeus, or family scarabaeidae, especially the sacred, or egyptian, species (scarabaeus sacer, and s. egyptiorum).-a stylized representation of a scarab beetle in stone or faience; -- a symbol of resurrection, used by the ancient egyptians as an ornament or a talisman,  and in modern times used in jewelry, usually by engraving designs on cabuchon stones.  also used attributively; as, a scarab bracelet [a bracelet containing scarabs]; a scarab [the carved stone itelf].
scaraboid: of or pertaining to the family scarabaeidae, an extensive group which includes the egyptian scarab, the tumbledung, and many similar lamellicorn beetles.-a scaraboid beetle.
scaramouch: a personage in the old italian comedy (derived from spain) characterized by great boastfulness and poltroonery; hence, a person of like characteristics; a buffoon.
scarce: not plentiful or abundant; in small quantity in proportion to the demand; not easily to be procured; rare; uncommon.-scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); -- with of.-sparing; frugal; parsimonious; stingy.-alt. of scarcely
scarcely: with difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just.-frugally; penuriously.
scarcement: an offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc., retreats, leaving a shelf or footing.
scarcity: the quality or condition of being scarce; smallness of quantity in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency; lack of plenty; short supply; penury; as, a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties.
scare: to frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm.-fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake.
scarecrow: anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.-a person clad in rags and tatters.-the black tern.
scarf: a cormorant.-an article of dress of a light and decorative character, worn loosely over the shoulders or about the neck or the waist; a light shawl or handkerchief for the neck; also, a cravat; a neckcloth.-to throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.-to dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.-to form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, metal rods, etc.-to unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.-in a piece which is to be united to another by a scarf joint, the part of the end or edge that is tapered off, rabbeted, or notched so as to be thinner than the rest of the piece.-a scarf joint.
scarificator: an instrument, principally used in cupping, containing several lancets moved simultaneously by a spring, for making slight incisions.
scarifier: one who scarifies.-the instrument used for scarifying.-an implement for stripping and loosening the soil, without bringing up a fresh surface.
scarify: to scratch or cut the skin of; esp. (med.), to make small incisions in, by means of a lancet or scarificator, so as to draw blood from the smaller vessels without opening a large vein.-to stir the surface soil of, as a field.
scarlet: a deep bright red tinged with orange or yellow, -- of many tints and shades; a vivid or bright red color.-cloth of a scarlet color.-of the color called scarlet; as, a scarlet cloth or thread.-to dye or tinge with scarlet.
scaroid: of or pertaining to the scaridae, a family of marine fishes including the parrot fishes.
scarp: a band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter.-the slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.-a steep descent or declivity.-to cut down perpendicularly, or nearly so; as, to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock.
scarry: bearing scars or marks of wounds.-like a scar, or rocky eminence; containing scars.
scarus: a mediterranean food fish (sparisoma scarus) of excellent quality and highly valued by the romans; -- called also parrot fish.
scary: barren land having only a thin coat of grass.-subject to sudden alarm.-causing fright; alarming.
scat: go away; begone; away; -- chiefly used in driving off a cat.-alt. of scatt-a shower of rain.
scatch: a kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth.
scath: harm; damage; injury; hurt; waste; misfortune.-to do harm to; to injure; to damage; to waste; to destroy.
scatter: to strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.-to cause to separate in different directions; to reduce from a close or compact to a loose or broken order; to dissipate; to disperse.-hence, to frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow; as, to scatter hopes, plans, or the like.-to be dispersed or dissipated; to disperse or separate; as, clouds scatter after a storm.
scatter-brain: a giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.
scattered: of scatter-dispersed; dissipated; sprinkled, or loosely spread.-irregular in position; having no regular order; as, scattered leaves.
scattering: of scatter-going or falling in various directions; not united or aggregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes.-act of strewing about; something scattered.
scaup: a bed or stratum of shellfish; scalp.-a scaup duck. see below.
scauper: a tool with a semicircular edge, -- used by engravers to clear away the spaces between the lines of an engraving.
scavage: a toll or duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts.
scavenger: a person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth. the name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health.
scena: a scene in an opera.-an accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria.
scene: the structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and decorations; the stage.-the decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides, or other devices, used to give an appearance of reality to the action of a play; as, to paint scenes; to shift the scenes; to go behind the scenes.-so much of a play as passes without change of locality or time, or important change of character; hence, a subdivision of an act; a separate portion of a play, subordinate to the act, but differently determined in different plays; as, an act of four scenes.-the place, time, circumstance, etc., in which anything occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is laid; surroundings amid which anything is set before the imagination; place of occurrence, exhibition, or action.-an assemblage of objects presented to the view at once; a series of actions and events exhibited in their connection; a spectacle; a show; an exhibition; a view.-a landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.-an exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others; often, an artifical or affected action, or course of action, done for effect; a theatrical display.-to exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.
scenery: assemblage of scenes; the paintings and hangings representing the scenes of a play; the disposition and arrangement of the scenes in which the action of a play, poem, etc., is laid; representation of place of action or occurence.-sum of scenes or views; general aspect, as regards variety and beauty or the reverse, in a landscape; combination of natural views, as woods, hills, etc.
scenography: the art or act of representing a body on a perspective plane; also, a representation or description of a body, in all its dimensions, as it appears to the eye.
scent: to perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does.-to imbue or fill with odor; to perfume.-to have a smell.-to hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.-that which, issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals; odor; smell; as, the scent of an orange, or of a rose; the scent of musk.-specifically, the odor left by an animal on the ground in passing over it; as, dogs find or lose the scent; hence, course of pursuit; track of discovery.-the power of smelling; the sense of smell; as, a hound of nice scent; to divert the scent.
scentful: full of scent or odor; odorous.-of quick or keen smell.
scepterellate: having a straight shaft with whorls of spines; -- said of certain sponge spicules. see illust. under spicule.
sceptre: a staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial badge or emblem of authority; a royal mace.-hence, royal or imperial power or authority; sovereignty; as, to assume the scepter.-to endow with the scepter, or emblem of authority; to invest with royal authority.
sceptreless: having no scepter; without authority; powerless; as, a scepterless king.
schedule: a written or printed scroll or sheet of paper; a document; especially, a formal list or inventory; a list or catalogue annexed to a larger document, as to a will, a lease, a statute, etc.-to form into, or place in, a schedule.
scheelite: calcium tungstate, a mineral of a white or pale yellowish color and of the tetragonal system of crystallization.
schema: an outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind; as, five dots in a line are a schema of the number five; a preceding and succeeding event are a schema of cause and effect.
schematism: combination of the aspects of heavenly bodies.-particular form or disposition of a thing; an exhibition in outline of any systematic arrangement.
scheme: a combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.-a plan or theory something to be done; a design; a project; as, to form a scheme.-any lineal or mathematical diagram; an outline.-a representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.-to make a scheme of; to plan; to design; to project; to plot.-to form a scheme or schemes.
schemer: one who forms schemes; a projector; esp., a plotter; an intriguer.
schene: an egyptian or persian measure of length, varying from thirty-two to sixty stadia.
scherzo: a playful, humorous movement, commonly in 3-4 measure, which often takes the place of the old minuet and trio in a sonata or a symphony.
schesis: general state or disposition of the body or mind, or of one thing with regard to other things; habitude.-a figure of speech whereby the mental habitude of an adversary or opponent is feigned for the purpose of arguing against him.
schiller: the peculiar bronzelike luster observed in certain minerals, as hypersthene, schiller spar, etc. it is due to the presence of minute inclusions in parallel position, and is sometimes of secondary origin.
schilling: any one of several small german and dutch coins, worth from about one and a half cents to about five cents.
schindylesis: a form of articulation in which one bone is received into a groove or slit in another.
schism: division or separation; specifically (eccl.), permanent division or separation in the christian church; breach of unity among people of the same religious faith; the offense of seeking to produce division in a church without justifiable cause.
schismatic: of or pertaining to schism; implying schism; partaking of the nature of schism; tending to schism; as, schismatic opinions or proposals.-one who creates or takes part in schism; one who separates from an established church or religious communion on account of a difference of opinion.
schismatize: to take part in schism; to make a breach of communion in the church.
schist: any crystalline rock having a foliated structure (see foliation) and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates. the common kinds are mica schist, and hornblendic schist, consisting chiefly of quartz with mica or hornblende and often feldspar.
schizo-: a combining form denoting division or cleavage; as, schizogenesis, reproduction by fission or cell division.
schizocarp: a dry fruit which splits at maturity into several closed one-seeded portions.
schizocoelous: pertaining to, or of the nature of, a schizocoele.
schizognathous: having the maxillo-palatine bones separate from each other and from the vomer, which is pointed in front, as in the gulls, snipes, grouse, and many other birds.
schizomycetes: an order of schizophyta, including the so-called fission fungi, or bacteria. see schizophyta, in the supplement.