Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 19
Scandal (v. t.) To scandalize; to offend. [Obs.] -- Bp. Story.
Syn: To defame; traduce; reproach; slander; calumniate; asperse; vilify; disgrace.
Scandal (n.) Disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people [syn: {scandal}, {dirt}, {malicious gossip}].
Scandal (n.) A disgraceful event [syn: {scandal}, {outrage}].
Scandal (n.). A scandalous verbal report or rumor respecting some person.
Scandal (n.) The remedy is an action on the case.
Scandal (n.) In chancery practice, when a bill or other pleading contains scandal, it will be referred to a master to be expunged, and till this has been done, the opposite party need not answer. 3 Bl. Com. 342. Nothing is considered scandalous which is positively relevant to the cause, however harsh and gross the charge may be. The degree of relevancy is not deemed material. Coop. Eq. Pl. 19; 2 Ves. 24; 6 Ves. 514, 11 Ves. 626; 15 Ves. 477; Story Eq. Plo. Sec. 269 Vide Impertinent.
Scandal (n.) (B2) [ C or U ] (An action or event that causes) 醜行；醜聞；震驚；反感 A public feeling of shock and strong moral disapproval.
// A financial/ political/ sex scandal.
// Their affair caused/created a scandal in the office.
// The scandal broke (= became public knowledge) right at the beginning of the Conservative Party Conference.
// If there is the slightest suggestion/hint of scandal, the public will no longer trust us.
Scandal (n.) [ U ] 醜聞報道 Reports about actions or events that cause shock and disapproval.
// Some magazines contain nothing but scandal and gossip.
// To spread scandal.
Scandal (n.) [ S ] 丟臉，恥辱 A situation that is extremely bad.
// [ + (that) ] It's a scandal (that) children are treated in this way.
Scandalized (imp. & p. p.) of Scandalize.
Scandalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scandalize.
Scandalize (v. t.) 使震驚；使反感，使憤慨 [H]；【罕】誹謗；中傷 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.
I demand who they are whom we scandalize by using harmless things. -- Hooker.
The congregation looked on in silence, the better class scandalized, and the lower orders, some laughing, others backing the soldier or the minister, as their fancy dictated. -- Sir W. Scott.
Scandalize (v. t.) To reproach; to libel; to defame; to slander.
To tell his tale might be interpreted into scandalizing the order. -- Sir W. Scott.
Scandalize (v.) Strike with disgust or revulsion; "The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends" [syn: shock, offend, scandalize, scandalise, appal, appall, outrage].
Scandalous (a.) 可恥的，丟臉的；令人憤慨的；造謠中傷的；誹謗性的 Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation.
Nothing scandalous or offensive unto any. -- Hooker.
Scandalous (a.) Disgraceful to reputation; bringing shame or infamy; opprobrious; as, a scandalous crime or vice.
Scandalous (a.) Defamatory; libelous; as, a scandalous story.
Scandalous (a.) Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time" [syn: {disgraceful}, {scandalous}, {shameful}, {shocking}].
Scandalous (a.) 令人反感的；令人震驚的 Making people shocked and upset.
// Scandalous stories
// It's scandalous that we do so little to prevent homelessness.
Scandalously (adv.) 可恥地；令人憤慨地；造謠中傷地；誹謗性地 In a manner to give offense; shamefully.
His discourse at table was scandalously unbecoming the dignity of his station. -- Swift.
Scandalously (adv.) With a disposition
to impute immorality or wrong.
Shun their fault, who, scandalously nice, Will needs mistake an author into
vice. -- Pope.
Scandalously (adv.) In a scandalous manner; "you behaved scandalously when you walked out of that meeting!"
Scandalousness (n.) Quality of being scandalous.
Scandalousness (n.) Disgracefulness that offends public morality.
Scandalum magnatum () (Law) A defamatory speech or writing published to the injury of a person of dignity; -- usually abbreviated scan. mag.
Scandalum magnatum () Great scandal or slander. In England it. is the slander of the great men, the nobility of the realm.
Scandent (a.) Climbing.
Note: Scandent plants may climb either by twining, as the hop, or by twisted leafstalks, as the clematis, or by tendrils, as the passion flower, or by rootlets, as the ivy.
Scandia (n.) (Chem.) A chemical earth, the oxide of scandium.
Scandia, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 436
Housing Units (2000): 239
Land area (2000): 0.470497 sq. miles (1.218582 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.470497 sq. miles (1.218582 sq. km)
FIPS code: 63350
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.795609 N, 97.783757 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 66966
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Scandia, KS
Scandia
Scandic (a.) (Chem.) Of or pertaining to scandium; derived from, or containing, scandium.
Scandinavian (a.) 斯堪的納維亞的；斯堪的納維亞人的 Of or pertaining to Scandinavia, that is, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.
Scandinavian (n.) 斯堪的納維亞；斯堪的納維亞人 A native or inhabitant of Scandinavia.
Scandinavian (a.) Of or relating to Scandinavia or its peoples or cultures; "Norse sagas"; "Norse nomads" [syn: {Scandinavian}, {Norse}].
Scandinavian (n.) An inhabitant of Scandinavia [syn: {Scandinavian}, {Norse}, {Northman}].
Scandinavian (n.) The northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland [syn: {Scandinavian}, {Scandinavian language}, {Nordic}, {Norse}, {North Germanic}, {North Germanic language}].
Scandium (n.) (Chem.) 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.
Compare: Ekabor
Ekabor (n.) (Chem.) The name given by Mendelejeff in accordance with the periodic law, and by prediction, to a hypothetical element then unknown, but since discovered and named {scandium}; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the boron group. See {Scandium}.
Scandium (n.) A white trivalent metallic element; sometimes classified in the rare earth group; occurs in the Scandinavian mineral thortveitite [syn: {scandium}, {Sc}, {atomic number 21}].
Scandium (n.) Symbol: Sc; Atomic number: 21; Atomic weight: 44.956
Rare soft silvery metallic element belonging to group 3 of the periodic table. There are ten isotopes, nine of which are radioactive and have short half-lives. Predicted in 1869 by Mendeleev, isolated by Nilson in 1879.
Scansion (n.) (Pros.) 韻律節奏的分析；按韻律誦讀；細查；掃描 The act of scanning; distinguishing the metrical feet of a verse by emphasis, pauses, or otherwise.
Scansion (n.) Analysis of verse into metrical patterns.
Scansores (n. pl.) An artifical group of birds formerly regarded as an order. They are distributed among several orders by modern ornithologists.
Scansorial (a.) (Zool.) 【動】（鳥足等）適合於攀登的 Capable of climbing; as, the woodpecker is a scansorial bird; adapted for climbing; as, a scansorial foot.
Scansorial (a.) Of or pertaining to the Scansores. See Illust.. under {Aves}.
{Scansorial tail} (Zool.), A tail in which the feathers are stiff and sharp at the tip, as in the woodpeckers.
Scant (a.) 不足的；貧乏的；少量的；（與表數量的字連用）勉強夠的；差一點點的 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.
His sermon was scant, in all, a quarter of an hour. -- Ridley.
Scant (a.) Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence. -- Shak.
Syn: See under Scanty.
Scanted (imp. & p. p.) of Scant.
Scanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scant.
Scant (v. t.) 減少；限制；剋扣；節省；忽略；藐視 To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries.
Where a man hath a great living laid together and where he is scanted. -- Bacon.
I am scanted in the pleasure of dwelling on your actions. -- Dryden.
Scant (v. t.) To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail. "Scant not my cups." -- Shak.
Scant (v. i.) To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.
Scant (adv.) In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
So weak that he was scant able to go down the stairs. -- Fuller.
Scant (n.) Scantness; scarcity. [R.] -- T. Carew.
Scant (a.) Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight" [syn: {light}, {scant(p)}, {short}].
Scant (v.) Work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially [syn: {skimp}, {scant}].
Scant (v.) Limit in quality or quantity [syn: {scant}, {skimp}].
Scant (v.) Supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance" [syn: {stint}, {skimp}, {scant}].
Scantily (adv.) In a scanty manner; not fully; not plentifully; sparingly; parsimoniously.
His mind was very scantily stored with materials. -- Macaulay.
Scantily (adv.) In a sparse or scanty way; "a barely furnished room" [syn: {scantily}, {barely}].
Scantiness (n.) Quality or condition of being scanty.
Scantiness (n.) The quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn: {meagerness}, {meagreness}, {leanness}, {poorness}, {scantiness}, {scantness}, {exiguity}].
Scantle (v. i.) To be deficient; to fail. [Obs.] -- Drayton.
Scantle (v. t.) To scant; to be niggard of; to divide into small pieces; to cut short or down. [Obs.]
All their pay Must your discretion scantle; keep it back. -- J. Webster.
Scantlet (n.) A small pattern; a small quantity. [Obs.] -- Sir M. Hale.
Scantling (a.) Not plentiful; small; scanty. [Obs.] -- Jer. Taylor.
Scantling (n.) A fragment; a bit; a little piece. Specifically:
Scantling (n.) A piece or quantity cut for a special purpose; a sample. [Obs.]
Such as exceed not this scantling; -- to be solace to the sovereign and harmless to the people. -- Bacon.
A pretty scantling of his knowledge may taken by his deferring to be baptized so many years. -- Milton.
Scantling (n.) A small quantity; a little bit; not much. [Obs.]
Reducing them to narrow scantlings. -- Jer. Taylor.
Scantling (n.) A piece of timber sawed or cut of a small size, as for studs, rails, etc.
Scantling (n.) The dimensions of a piece of timber with regard to its breadth and thickness; hence, the measure or dimensions of anything.
Scantling (n.) A rough draught; a rude sketch or outline.
Scantling (n.) A frame for casks to lie upon; a trestle. -- Knight.
Scantling (n.) An upright in house framing [syn: scantling, stud].
Scantly (adv.) In a scant manner; not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously. -- Dryden.
Scantly (adv.) Scarcely; hardly; barely.
Scantly they durst their feeble eyes dispread Upon that town. -- Fairfax.
We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, And there is scantly time for half the work. -- Tennyson.
Scantness (n.) The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness. "Scantness of outward things." -- Barrow.
Scanty (a.) Lacking amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant.
His dominions were very narrow and scanty. -- Locke.
Now scantier limits the proud arch confine. -- Pope.
Scanty (a.) Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words; a scanty supply of bread.
Scanty (a.) Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious.
In illustrating a point of difficulty, be not too scanty of words. -- I. Watts.
Syn: Scant; narrow; small; poor; deficient; meager; scarce; chary; sparing; parsimonious; penurious; niggardly; grudging.
Scanty (a.) Lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet" [syn: bare(a), scanty, spare].
Scanty (n.) Short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural) [syn: pantie, panty, scanty, step-in].
Scape (n.) (Bot.) A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.
Scape (n.) (Zool.) The long basal joint of the antennae of an insect.
Scape (n.) (Arch.) The shaft of a column.
Scape (n.) (Arch.) The apophyge of a shaft.
Scaped (imp. & p. p.) of Scape.
Scaping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scape.
Scape (v. t. & i.) To escape. [Obs. or Poetic.] -- Milton.
Out of this prison help that we may scape. -- Chaucer.
Scape (n.) An escape. [Obs.]
I spake of most disastrous chances, . . . Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach. -- Shak.
Scape (n.) Means of escape; evasion. [Obs.] -- Donne.
Scape (n.) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade. [Obs.]
Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance. -- Milton.
Scape (n.) Loose act of vice or lewdness. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Compare: Apophyge
Apophyge (n.) (Arch.) 柱軸與柱頂花邊相接之凹處 The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape. -- Parker.
Scape (n.) Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip [syn: scape, flower stalk].
Scape (n.) (Architecture) Upright consisting of the vertical part of a column [syn: shaft, scape].
Scapegallows (n.) One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes. [Colloq.] -- Dickens.
Scapegoat (n.) (Jewish Antiq.) A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness. -- Lev. xvi. 10.
Scapegoat (n.) Hence, a person or thing that is made to bear blame for others. -- Tennyson.
Scapegoat (n.) Someone who is punished for the errors of others [syn: scapegoat, whipping boy].
Scapegoat, () Lev. 16:8-26; R.V., "the goat for Azazel" (q.v.), the name given to the goat which was taken away into the wilderness on the day of Atonement (16:20-22). The priest made atonement over the scapegoat, laying Israel's guilt upon it, and then sent it away, the goat bearing "upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited."
At a later period an evasion or modification of the law of
Moses was introduced by the Jews. "The goat was conducted to a mountain
named Tzuk, situated at a distance of ten Sabbath days' journey, or about six
and a half English miles, from Jerusalem. At this place the Judean desert was
supposed to commence; and the man in whose charge the goat was sent out, while
setting him free, was instructed to push the unhappy beast down the slope of
the mountain side, which was so steep as to insure the death of the goat, whose
bones were broken by the fall. The reason of this barbarous custom was that on
one occasion the scapegoat returned to Jerusalem after being set free, which
was considered such an evil omen that its recurrence was prevented for the
future by the death of the goat" (Twenty-one Years' Work in the Holy
Land). This mountain is now called el-Muntar.
Scapegrace (n.) A graceless,
unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless. -- Beaconsfield.
Scapegrace (n.) A reckless and unprincipled reprobate [syn: scapegrace, black sheep].
Scapeless (a.) (Bot.) Destitute of a scape.
Scapement (n.) Same as Escapement, 3.
Scape-wheel (n.) (Horol.) The wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play.
Scaphander (n.) The case, or impermeable apparel, in which a diver can work while under water.
Scaphism (n.) 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 (n.) 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 (a.) (Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or affected with, scaphocephaly.
Scaphocephaly (n.) (Anat.) A deformed condition of the skull, in which the vault is narrow, elongated, and more or less boat-shaped.
Scaphocephaly (n.) Congenital malformation of the skull which is long and narrow; frequently accompanied by mental retardation.
Scaphocerite (n.) (Zool.) A flattened plate or scale attached to the second joint of the antennae of many Crustacea.
Scaphognathite (n.) (Zool.) 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 (a.) (Anat.) Resembling a boat in form; boat-shaped.
Scaphoid (n.) The scaphoid bone.
Scaphoid bone (a) One of the carpal bones, which articulates with the radius; the radiale.
Scaphoid bone (b) One of the tarsal bones; the navicular bone. See under Navicular.
Compare: Navicular
Navicular (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a boat or ship.
Navicular (a.) Shaped like a boat; cymbiform; scaphoid; as, the navicular glumes of most grasses; the navicular bone.
Navicular bone. (Anat.) (a) One of the middle bones of the tarsus, corresponding to the centrale; -- called also scaphoid.
Navicular bone. (Anat.) (b) A proximal bone on the radial side of the carpus; the scaphoid.
Navicular disease (Far.), A disease affecting the navicular bone, or the adjacent parts, in a horse's foot.
Scaphoid (a.) Shaped like a boat [syn: navicular, scaphoid].
Scapholunar (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the scaphoid and lunar bones of the carpus.
Scapholunar (n.) The scapholunar bone.
Scapholunar bone, A bone formed by the coalescence of the scaphoid and lunar in the carpus of carnivora.
Scaphopoda (n. pl.) (Zool.) 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.
Scapiform (a.) (Bot.) Resembling a scape, or flower stem.
Scapolite (n.) (Mon.) A grayish white mineral occuring in tetragonal crystals and in cleavable masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina and soda.
Note: The scapolite group includes scapolite proper, or wernerite, also meionite, dipyre, etc.
Scapple (v. t.) To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry.
Scapple (v. t.) To dress in any way short of fine tooling or rubbing, as stone. -- Gwilt.
Scapulae (n. pl. ) of Scapula.
Scapulas (n. pl. ) of Scapula.
Scapula (n.) (Anat.) The principal bone of the shoulder girdle in mammals; the shoulder blade.
Scapula (n.) (Zool.) One of the plates from which the arms of a crinoid arise.
Scapula (n.) Either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings [syn: scapula, shoulder blade, shoulder bone].
Scapular (a.) Of or pertaining to the scapula or the shoulder.
Scapular arch (Anat.), The pectoral arch. See under pectoral.
Scapular region, or Scapular tract (Zool.), A definite longitudinal area over the shoulder and along each side of the back of a bird, from which the scapular feathers arise.
Scapular (n.) (Zool.) One of a special group of feathers which arise from each of the scapular regions and lie along the sides of the back. Scapular
Scapular (n.) Alt. of Scapulary.
Scapulary (n.) (R. C. Ch.) A loose sleeveless vestment falling in front and behind, worn by certain religious orders and devout persons.
Scapulary (n.) (R. C. Ch.) The name given to two pieces of cloth worn under the ordinary garb and over the shoulders as an act of devotion. -- Addis & Arnold.
Scapulary (n.) (Surg.) A bandage passing over the shoulder to support it, or to retain another bandage in place.
Scapular (a.) Relating to or near the shoulder blade.
Scapular (n.) A feather covering the shoulder of a bird.
Scapular (n.) Garment consisting of a long wide piece of woolen cloth worn over the shoulders with an opening for the head; part of a monastic habit [syn: scapular, scapulary].
Scapulary (a.) Same as Scapular, a.
Scapulary (n.) (Zool.) Same as 2d and 3d Scapular.
Scapulary (n.) Garment consisting of a long wide piece of woolen cloth worn over the shoulders with an opening for the head; part of a monastic habit [syn: scapular, scapulary].
Scapulet (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Scapus (n.) [L.] See 1st Scape.
Scar (n.) [C] 疤；傷痕；（物品等的）損傷痕；（心靈上的）創傷 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.
This earth had the beauty of youth, . . . and not a wrinkle, scar, or fracture on all its body. -- T. Burnet.