Webster's Dictionary, 1913
Scissors-tailed adjective (Zoology) Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.
Scissorstail noun (Zoology) 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 noun [ Latin scissura , from scindere , scissum , to cut, split.] A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure. Hammond.
Scitamineous adjective [ New Latin scitamineosus , from Scitamineae , from Latin scitamentum a delicacy, dainty.] (Botany) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants ( Scitamineæ ), mostly tropical herbs, including the ginger, Indian shot, banana, and the plants producing turmeric and arrowroot.
Sciurine adjective [ Confer French
sciurien . See
Sciurus .]
(Zoology) Of or pertaining to the Squirrel family. --
noun A rodent of the Squirrel family.
Sciuroid adjective [ Sciurus + -oid .] (Botany) Resembling the tail of a squirrel; -- generally said of branches which are close and dense, or of spikes of grass like barley.
Sciuromorpha noun plural [ New Latin , from Latin sciurus squirrel + Greek morfh` form.] (Zoology) A tribe of rodents containing the squirrels and allied animals, such as the gophers, woodchucks, beavers, and others.
Sciurus noun [ Latin , a squirrel, Greek .... See
Squirrel .]
(Zoology) A genus of rodents comprising the common squirrels.
Sclaff intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Sclaffed ;
present participle & verbal noun Sclaffing .] [ Orig. uncert.]
1. To scuff or shuffle along. [ Scot.]
2. (Golf) To scrape the ground with the sole of the club, before striking the ball, in making a stroke.
Sclaff transitive verb (Golf) To scrape (the club) on the ground, in a stroke, before hitting the ball; also, to make (a stroke) in that way.
Sclaff noun [ Scot.]
1. A slight blow; a slap; a soft fall; also, the accompanying noise. 2. (Golf) The stroke made by one who sclaffs. 3. A thin, solid substance, esp. a thin shoe or slipper.
Sclaundre noun Slander. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.
Sclav, Sclave noun Same as Slav .
Sclavic adjective Same as Slavic .
Sclavonian adjective & noun Same as Slavonian .
Sclender adjective Slender. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.
Scleragogy noun [ Greek ...; ... hard + ... a leading or training.] Severe discipline. [ Obsolete] Bp. Hacket.
Sclerema noun [ New Latin , from Greek
sklhro`s hard.]
(Medicine) Induration of the cellular tissue. Sclerema of adults .
See Scleroderma . --
Sclerenchyma noun [ New Latin , from Greek
sklhro`s hard +
-enchyma as in
parenchyma .]
1. (Botany) Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic . » By recent German writers and their English translators, this term is used for
liber cells .
Goodale. 2. (Zoology) The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals.
Sclerenchymatous adjective (Bot. & Zoology) Pertaining to, or composed of, sclerenchyma.
Sclerenchyme noun Sclerenchyma.
Scleriasis noun [ New Latin , from Greek ....] (Medicine) (a) A morbid induration of the edge of the eyelid. (b) Induration of any part, including scleroderma.
Sclerite (sklē"rīt) noun (Zoology) A hard chitinous or calcareous process or corpuscle, especially a spicule of the Alcyonaria.
Scleritis (skle*rī"tĭs)
noun [ New Latin ]
See Sclerotitis .
Sclerobase noun [ Greek
sklhro`s hard +
ba`sis base.]
(Zoology) The calcareous or hornlike coral forming the central stem or axis of most compound alcyonarians; -- called also foot secretion . See Illust. under Gorgoniacea , and Cœnenchyma . --
Scler`o*ba"sic adjective
Scleroderm noun [ Greek sklhro`s hard + de`rma skin: confer French scléroderme .] (a) (Zoology) One of a tribe of plectognath fishes ( Sclerodermi ) having the skin covered with hard scales, or plates, as the cowfish and the trunkfish. (b) One of the Sclerodermata. (c) Hardened, or bony, integument of various animals.
Scleroderma noun [ New Latin ] (Medicine) A disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin.
Sclerodermata noun plural [ New Latin ] (Zoology) The stony corals; the Madreporaria.
Sclerodermic, Sclerodermous (Zoology) (a) Having the integument, or skin, hard, or covered with hard plates. (b) Of or pertaining to the Sclerodermata.
Sclerodermite noun (Zoology) (a) The hard integument of Crustacea. (b) Sclerenchyma.
Sclerogen noun [ Greek sklhro`s hard + -gen .] (Botany) The thickening matter of woody cells; lignin.
Sclerogenous adjective [ Greek sklhro`s hard + -genous .] (Anat.) Making or secreting a hard substance; becoming hard.
Scleroid adjective [ Greek ...; sklhro`s hard + ... form.] (Botany) Having a hard texture, as nutshells.
Scleroma noun [ New Latin , from Greek
sklhro`s hard +
-oma .]
(Medicine) Induration of the tissues. See Sclerema , Scleroderma , and Sclerosis .
Sclerometer noun [ Greek sklhro`s hard + -meter .] An instrument for determining with accuracy the degree of hardness of a mineral.
Sclerosed adjective Affected with sclerosis.
Sclerosis noun [ New Latin , from Greek (......, from sklhro`s hard.]
1. (Medicine) Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue. 2. (Botany) Hardening of the cell wall by lignification.
Cerebro-spinal sclerosis (Medicine) , an affection in which patches of hardening, produced by increase of the neuroglia and atrophy of the true nerve tissue, are found scattered throughout the brain and spinal cord. It is associated with complete or partial paralysis, a peculiar jerking tremor of the muscles, headache, and vertigo, and is usually fatal. Called also multiple, disseminated, or insular, sclerosis .
Scleroskeleton noun [ Greek sklhro`s hard + English skeleton .] (Anat.) That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.
Sclerotal adjective (Anat.) Sclerotic. -- noun The optic capsule; the sclerotic coat of the eye. Owen.
Sclerotic adjective [ Greek sklhro`s hard: confer French sclérotique .]
1. Hard; firm; indurated; -- applied especially in anatomy to the firm outer coat of the eyeball, which is often cartilaginous and sometimes bony. 2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the sclerotic coat of the eye; sclerotical. 3. (Medicine) Affected with sclerosis; sclerosed.
Sclerotic parenchyma (Botany) , sclerenchyma. By some writers a distinction is made, sclerotic parenchyma being applied to tissue composed of cells with the walls hardened but not thickened, and sclerenchyma to tissue composed of cells with the walls both hardened and thickened.
Sclerotic noun [ Confer French
sclérotique .]
(Anat.) The sclerotic coat of the eye. See Illust. of Eye (d) .
Sclerotic adjective (Chemistry) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from ergot or the sclerotium of a fungus growing on rye.
Sclerotical adjective (Anat.) Sclerotic.
Sclerotitis noun [ New Latin See
Sclerotic , and
-itis .]
(Medicine) Inflammation of the sclerotic coat.
Sclerotium noun ;
plural Sclerotia . [ New Latin , from Greek
sklhro`s hard.]
1. (Botany) A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea , which produces ergot. 2. (Zoology) The mature or resting stage of a plasmodium.
Sclerotome (sklĕr"o*tōm or sklēr"o*tōm) noun [ Greek sklhro`s hard + te`mnein to cut.] (Zoology) One of the bony, cartilaginous, or membranous partitions which separate the myotomes. -- Scler`o*tom"ic adjective
Sclerous adjective [ Greek ....] (Anat.) Hard; indurated; sclerotic.
Scoat transitive verb To prop; to scotch. [ Prov. Eng.]
