Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 20
Scar (n.) (Bot.) 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.
Scarred (imp. & p. p.) of Scar.
Scarring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scar.
Scar (v. t.) To mark with a scar or scars.
Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow. -- Shak.
His cheeks were deeply scarred. -- Macaulay.
Scar (v. i.) To form a scar.
Scar (n.) An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth. [Written also scaur.]
O sweet and far, from cliff and scar, The horns of Elfland faintly blowing. -- Tennyson.
Scar (n.) (Zool.) A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish. Scarab
Scar (n.) A mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue [syn: scar, cicatrix, cicatrice].
Scar (n.) An indication of damage [syn: scratch, scrape, scar, mark].
Scar (v.) Mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face permanently" [syn: scar, mark, pock, pit].
Scar (n.) [ C ] (B2) 疤，傷疤，傷痕 A mark left on part of the body after an injury, such as a cut, has healed.
// A prominent/ a noticeable/ an ugly scar.
// That burn will leave a bad scar.
// Scar tissue.
Compare: Scab
Scab (n.) (Skin covering) [ C ] （傷口上結的）痂 A rough surface made of dried blood that forms over a cut or broken skin while it is healing.
Scab (n.) [ U ] （動物）疥瘡，疥癬；（植物）斑點病 A plant or animal disease that causes rough areas on the skin.
Scab ( n.) (Worker) [ C ] (Informal) (Disapproving) 不參加罷工者，破壞罷工的人 An insulting word for a person who continues working while other people in the organization are on strike.
Scab (v.) [ I ] (Also scab over) 長疥瘡，長疥癬；被疥瘡蓋著，被疥癬蓋著 To form a scab or become covered by a scab.
// The wound has scabbed over.
Scar (n.) (C1) 精神創傷 A sign of damage to a person's mental state.
// His early years in the refugee camp left a deep psychological scar.
Scar (n.) 外觀的破壞 A sign of physical destruction in a place.
// Every village bears the scars of war .
Scar (v.) [ T often passive ] (-rr-) (C2) 結疤；留下傷疤 To leave a scar.
// He was scarred as a result of the fire.
// (Figurative) His experiences in the army left him scarred for life (= had a serious mental effect on him for the rest of his life).
Scarab (n.) Alt. of Scarabee
Scarabee (n.) (Zool.) 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).
Scarabee (n.) (Egyptian Archaeology, Jewelry) A stylized representation of a scarab beetle carved in stone or faience, or made in baked clay, usually in a conventionalized form in which the beetle has its legs held closely at its sides, and commonly having an inscription on the flat underside; -- 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 the formalized scarab design on cabuchon stones. Also used attributively; as, a scarab bracelet [a bracelet containing scarabs]; a ring with a scarab [the carved stone itelf].
Scarabee (n.) The same as scarabaeus.
He fell by his own hand Beneath the great oak tree.
He'd traveled in a foreign land.
He tried to make her understand The dance that's called the Saraband, But he called it Scarabee.
He had called it so through an afternoon, And she, the light of his harem if so might be, Had smiled and said naught. O the body was fair to see, All frosted there in the shine o' the moon -- Dead for a Scarabee And a recollection that came too late. O Fate!
They buried him where he lay, He sleeps awaiting the Day, In state, And two Possible Puns, moon-eyed and wan, Gloom over the grave and then move on. Dead for a Scarabee! Fernando Tapple
Scarabaeus (n.) Same as Scarab in both senses.
Scarabaeus (n.) Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians [syn: scarab, scarabaeus, Scarabaeus sacer].
Scarabaeus (n.) The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. Its habit of incubating its eggs in a ball of ordure may also have commended it to the favor of the priesthood, and may some day assure it an equal reverence among ourselves. True, the American beetle is an inferior beetle, but the American priest is an inferior priest.
Scaraboid (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the family Scarabaeidae, an extensive group which includes the Egyptian scarab, the tumbledung, and many similar lamellicorn beetles.
Scaraboid (n.) (Zool.) A scaraboid beetle.
Scaramouch (n.) A personage in the old Italian comedy (derived from Spain) characterized by great boastfulness and poltroonery; hence, a person of like characteristics; a buffoon.
Scaramouch (n.) A stock character in commedia dell'arte depicted as a boastful coward [syn: Scaramouch, Scaramouche].
Scarce (a.) Not plentiful or abundant; in small quantity in proportion to the demand; not easily to be procured; rare; uncommon.
You tell him silver is scarcer now in England, and therefore risen one fifth in value. -- Locke.
The scarcest of all is a Pescennius Niger on a medallion well preserved. -- Addison.
Scarce (a.) Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); -- with of. [Obs.] "A region scarce of prey." -- Milton.
Scarce (a.) Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; stingy. [Obs.] "Too scarce ne too sparing." -- Chaucer.
{To make one's self scarce}, To decamp; to depart. [Slang]
Syn: Rare; infrequent; deficient. See {Rare}.
Scarce (adv.) Only a very short time before; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats [syn: {barely}, {hardly}, {just}, {scarcely}, {scarce}].
Scarce (a.) Deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought" [ant: {abundant}].
Scarce (adv.) Alt. of Scarcely
Scarce (a.) (C1) 難得的，稀有的，罕見的 Not easy to find or get.
// Food and clean water were becoming scarce.
// Scarce resources.
Scarcely (adv.) 幾乎不，幾乎沒有；決不 With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just.
With a scarce well-lighted flame. -- Milton.
The eldest scarcely five year was of age. -- Chaucer.
Slowly she sails, and scarcely stems the tides. -- Dryden.
He had scarcely finished, when the laborer arrived who had been sent for my ransom. -- W. Irving.
Scarcely (adv.) Frugally; penuriously. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Scarcely (adv.) Only a very short time before; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats [syn: {barely}, {hardly}, {just}, {scarcely}, {scarce}].
Scarcely (adv.) Almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator" [syn: {hardly}, {scarcely}].
Scarcely (adv.) (Only just) (C2) 勉強；幾乎不 Almost not.
// I was scarcely able to move my arm after the accident.
// I could scarcely believe it when she said she wanted to marry me.
Scarcely (adv.) (Only just) 剛…就 Used to say that something happened immediately after something else happened.
// I had scarcely sat down/ Scarcely had I sat down to eat when the phone rang.
Syn: Barely，Hardly.
Scarcely (adv.) (Not) 絕不 Certainly not.
// I'd scarcely have done it if I didn't think it was absolutely necessary!
// He's only two - you can scarcely blame him for behaving badly.
Syn: Hardly.
Scarcement (n.) (Arch. & Engin.) An offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc., retreats, leaving a shelf or footing.
Scarceness (n.) Alt. of Scarcity.
Scarcity (n.) 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. -- Chaucer.
A scarcity of snow would raise a mutiny at Naples. -- Addison.
Praise . . . owes its value to its scarcity. -- Rambler.
The
value of an advantage is enhanced by its scarceness. -- Collier.
Syn: Deficiency; lack; want; penury; dearth; rareness; rarity;
infrequency.
Scarcity (n.) A small and inadequate amount [syn: scarcity, scarceness] [ant: abundance, copiousness, teemingness].
Scard (n.) A shard or fragment. [Obs.]
Scared (imp. & p. p.) of Scare.
Scaring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scare.
Scare (v. t.) To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm.
The noise of thy crossbow Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost. -- Shak.
To scare away, to drive away by frightening.
To scare up, to find by search, as if by beating for game. [Slang].
Syn: To alarm; frighten; startle; affright; terrify.
Scare (n.) Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake. [Colloq.]
Scare (n.) Sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events; "panic in the stock market"; "a war scare"; "a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building" [syn: panic, scare].
Scare (n.) A sudden attack of fear [syn: scare, panic attack].
Scare (v.) Cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her" [syn: frighten, fright, scare, affright].
Scare (v.) Cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" [syn: daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare].
Scarecrow (n.) Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.
A scarecrow set to frighten fools away. -- Dryden.
Scarecrow (n.) A person clad in rags and tatters.
No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march with them through Coventry, that's flat. -- Shak.
Scarecrow (n.) (Zool.) The black tern. [Prov. Eng.]
Scarecrow (n.) An effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds [syn: scarecrow, straw man, strawman, bird-scarer, scarer].
Scarecrow (n.) 稻草人；威嚇物；衣衫襤褸的人 An object, usually a figure of a person in old clothes, set up to frighten crows or other birds away from crops.
Scarecrow (n.) Anything frightening but not really dangerous.
Scarecrow (n.) A person in ragged clothes.
Scarecrow (n.) An extremely thin person.
Scarecrow (n.) [ C ] （豎在田裡嚇鳥的）稻草人 A model of a person dressed in old clothes and put in a field of growing crops to frighten birds away.
Compare: Crow
Crow (n.) [ C ] 烏鴉 A large, black bird with a loud, unpleasant cry.
Compare: Crowkeeper
Crowkeeper (n.) 趕走田間烏鴉的僱工... (Dialectal,) (England) A person employed to scare off crows.
Compare: Jackstraw
Jackstraw (n.) 稻草人，小木片，骨 Another term for spillikin.
Compare: Spillikin
Spillikin (n.) (Spillikins) (Treated as singular) （木、象牙等做的）玩耍用小塊；數數遊戲，（複數）（把木片、象牙碎片堆起來，一片一片取走，不能動到其他片的）挑片遊戲 A game played with a heap of small rods of wood, bone, or plastic, in which players try to remove one at a time without disturbing the others.
Spillikin (n.) 做遊戲用的小木塊 Splinter or fragment.
Compare: Malkin
Malkin (n.) 【英】【方】 邋遢女人，貓，兔子，拖把，稻草人 (Dialectal, chiefly British) An untidy woman : Slattern.
Malkin (n.) (Dialectal, chiefly British) Cat， Hare.
Scarefire (n.) An alarm of fire. [Obs.]
Scarefire (n.) A fire causing alarm. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
Scarf (n.) [Icel. skarfr.] A cormorant. [Scot.]
Scarfs (n. pl. ) of Scarf.
Scarves (n. pl. ) of Scarf.
Scarf (n.) 圍巾；披巾；頭巾；領巾；領帶；（裝飾用的）狹長臺布（= runner）；【軍】肩章；（斜掛胸前的）綬帶 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.
Put on your hood and scarf. -- Swift.
With care about the banners, scarves, and staves. -- R. Browning.
Scarfed (imp. & p. p.) of Scarf.
Scarfing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scarf.
Scarf (v. t.) To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf. "My sea-gown scarfed about me." -- Shak.
Scarf (v. t.) 圍（圍巾）；披（披巾）；用圍巾圍；用披巾披 To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping. -- Shak.
Scarf (v. t.) To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, metal rods, etc.
Scarf (v. t.) To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.
Scarf (n.) 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.
Scarf (n.) A scarf joint.
Scarf joint (a) A joint made by overlapping and bolting or locking together the ends of two pieces of timber that are halved, notched, or cut away so that they will fit each other and form a lengthened beam of the same size at the junction as elsewhere.
Scarf joint (b) A joint formed by welding, riveting, or brazing together the overlapping scarfed ends, or edges, of metal rods, sheets, etc.
Scarf weld. See under Weld.
Scarf (n.) A garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration.
Scarf (n.) A joint made by notching the ends of two pieces of timber or metal so that they will lock together end-to-end [syn: scarf joint, scarf].
Scarf (v.) Masturbate while strangling oneself.
Scarf (v.) Unite by a scarf joint.
Scarf (v.) Wrap in or adorn with a scarf.
Scarfskin (n.) (Anat.) 【解】表皮；外皮 See Epidermis.
Compare: Periostracum
Periostracum (n.; pl. Periostraca.) (Zool.) 外殼膜 A chitinous membrane covering the exterior of many shells; -- called also epidermis.
Compare: Epidermis
Epidermis (n.) (Anat.) 【解】表皮；外皮 The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis.
Epidermis (n.) (Bot.) The outermost layer of the cells, which covers both surfaces of leaves, and also the surface of stems, when they are first formed. As stems grow old this layer is lost, and never replaced.
Epidermis (n.) The outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates [syn: epidermis, cuticle].
Scarification (n.) The act of scarifying.
Scarification (n.) A form of penance practised by the mediaeval pious.
The rite was performed, sometimes with a knife, sometimes with a hot iron, but always, says Arsenius Asceticus, acceptably if the penitent spared himself no pain nor harmless disfigurement. Scarification, with other crude penances, has now been superseded by benefaction.
The founding of a library or endowment of a university is said to yield to the penitent a sharper and more lasting pain than is conferred by the knife or iron, and is therefore a surer means of grace. There are, however, two grave objections to it as a penitential method: the good that it does and the taint of justice.
Scarificator (n.) (Surg.) An instrument, principally used in cupping, containing several lancets moved simultaneously by a spring, for making slight incisions.
Scarifier (n.) One who scarifies.
Scarifier (n.) (Surg.) The instrument used for scarifying.
Scarifier (n.) (Agric.) An implement for stripping and loosening the soil, without bringing up a fresh surface.
You have your scarifiers to make the ground clean. -- Southey.
Scarified (imp. & p. p.) of Scarify.
Scarifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scarify.
Scarify (v. t.) 劃破；在……上劃痕；嚴厲批評；傷……的感情 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.
Scarify (v. t.) (Agric.) To stir the surface soil of, as a field. Scariose
Scarify (v.) Puncture and scar (the skin), as for purposes or tribal identification or rituals; "The men in some African tribes scarify their faces".
Scarify (v.) Scratch the surface of; "scarify seeds."
Scarify (v.) Break up; "scarify soil."
Scarify (v. t.) (scarified; scarifying) To make scratches or small cuts in (something, such as the skin).
// Scarify an area for vaccination.
Scarify (v. t.) To lacerate the feelings of.
Scarify (v. t.) To break up, loosen, or roughen the surface of (something, such as a field or road).
Scarify (v. t.) To cut or soften the wall of (a hard seed) to hasten germination. Scarifier n.
Scarify (v. t.) Scare, frighten. Scarifyingly adv.
Scariose (a.) Alt. of Scarious.
Scarious (a.) (Bot.) Thin, dry, membranous, and not green. -- Gray.
Scarlatina (n.) 猩紅熱 Scarlet fever. -- Scar`la*ti"nal, a. -- Scar*lat"i*nous, a.
Scarlatina (n.) An acute communicable disease (usually in children) characterized by fever and a red rash [syn: scarlet fever, scarlatina].
Scarlatinous (a.) (not comparable) Of or pertaining to scarlet fever.
Scarless (a.) 無疤的 Free from scar. -- Drummond.
Scarlet (n.) A deep bright red tinged with orange or yellow, -- of many tints and shades; a vivid or bright red color.
Scarlet (n.) Cloth of a scarlet color.
All her household are clothed with scarlet. -- Prov. xxxi. 21.
Scarlet (a.) Of the color called scarlet; as, a scarlet cloth or thread.
Scarlet admiral (Zool.), The red admiral. See under Red. -- Scarlet bean (Bot.), a kind of bean ({Phaseolus multiflorus) having scarlet flowers; scarlet runner.
Scarlet fever (Med.), A contagious febrile disease characterized by inflammation of the fauces and a scarlet rash, appearing usually on the second day, and ending in desquamation about the sixth or seventh day.
Scarlet fish (Zool.), The telescope fish; -- so called from its red color. See under Telescope.
Scarlet ibis (Zool.) See under Ibis.
Scarlet maple (Bot.), The red maple. See Maple.
Scarlet mite (Zool.), Any one of numerous species of bright red carnivorous mites found among grass and moss, especially Thombidium holosericeum and allied species. The young are parasitic upon spiders and insects.
Scarlet oak (Bot.), A species of oak ({Quercus coccinea"> Scarlet oak (Bot.), a species of oak ({Quercus coccinea) of the United States; -- so called from the scarlet color of its leaves in autumn.
Scarlet runner (Bot.), The scarlet bean.
Scarlet tanager. (Zool.) See under Tanager.
Scarlet (v. t.) To dye or tinge with scarlet. [R.]
The ashy paleness of my cheek Is scarleted in ruddy flakes of wrath. -- Ford. Scarmage
Scarlet (a.) Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies [syn: red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet].
Scarlet (n.) A variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge [syn: scarlet, vermilion, orange red].
Scarlet, () This dye was obtained by the Egyptians from the shell-fish Carthamus tinctorius; and by the Hebrews from the Coccus ilicis, an insect which infests oak trees, called kermes by the Arabians.
This colour was early known (Gen. 38:28). It was one of the colours of the ephod (Ex. 28:6), the girdle (8), and the breastplate (15) of the high priest. It is also mentioned in various other connections (Josh. 2:18; 2 Sam. 1:24; Lam. 4:5; Nahum 2:3). A scarlet robe was in mockery placed on our Lord (Matt. 27:28; Luke 23:11). "Sins as scarlet" (Isa. 1:18), i.e., as scarlet robes "glaring and habitual." Scarlet and crimson were the firmest of dyes, and thus not easily washed out.
Scarlet ibis (n.) The scarlet ibis (Eudocimus ruber) 美洲紅䴉（Eudocimus ruber）是棲息在南美洲熱帶及特立尼達島的一種朱鷺。牠們是特立尼達島的國鳥，與棕臀雉冠雉一同在千里達和多巴哥國徽上出現。
美洲紅䴉長56-61厘米，重650克。牠們整隻都是紅色的，在翼端上有一點黑色。牠們會在樹上築巢，每胎會產2-4隻蛋。牠們總是成群的在沙灘、鹹水湖、紅樹林和沼澤裏覓食，並壹起在沼澤中的大樹上過夜，因此十分顯眼。牠們主要吃甲殼類及細小的水中動物。雛鳥是灰色及白色的，並會在沼澤內吃紅蟹，在成長時就會出現紅色的羽毛。
Is a species of ibis in the bird family Threskiornithidae. It inhabits tropical South America and islands of the Caribbean. In form it resembles most of the other twenty-seven extant species of ibis, but its remarkably brilliant scarlet coloration makes it unmistakable. It is one of the two national birds of Trinidad and Tobago.
This medium-sized wader is a hardy, numerous, and prolific bird, and it has protected status around the world. Its IUCN status is Least Concern. The legitimacy of Eudocimus ruber as a biological classification, however, is in dispute. Traditional Linnaean taxonomy classifies it as a unique species, but some scientists have moved to reclassify it as a subspecies of a more general American ibis species, along with its close relative, the American white ibis (Eudocimus albus).
Scarmage (n.) Alt. of Scarmoge.
Scarmoge (n.) A slight contest; a skirmish. See Skirmish. [Obs.]
Such cruel game my scarmoges disarms. -- Spenser.
Scarn (n.) Dung. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Ray.
Scarn bee (Zool.), A dung beetle.
Scaroid (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Scaridae, a family of marine fishes including the parrot fishes.
Scarp (n.) (Her.) 懸崖；（護城河的）內斜坡，陡坡 A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter.
Scarp (n.) (Fort.) The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.
Scarp (n.) A steep descent or declivity.
Scarped (imp. & p. p.) of Scarp.
Scarping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scarp.
Scarp (v. t.) 使成陡坡，在……設內斜坡，將……闢成陡坡 To cut down perpendicularly, or nearly so; as, to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock.
From scarped cliff and quarried stone. -- Tennyson.
Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain. -- Emerson.
Escarp (n.) [F. escarpe (cf. Sp. escarpa, It. scarpa), fr. escarper to cut steep, cut to a slope, prob. of German origin: cf. G. scharf sharp,, E. sharp, or perh. scrape.] (Fort.)
The side of the ditch next the parapet; -- same as scarp, and opposed to counterscarp.
Scarp (n.) A long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion [syn: escarpment, scarp].
Scarp (n.) A steep artificial slope in front of a fortification [syn: escarpment, escarp, scarp, protective embankment].
Scarring (n.) A scar; a mark.
We find upon the limestone rocks the scarrings of the ancient glacier which brought the bowlder here. -- Tyndall.
Scarry (a.) Bearing scars or marks of wounds.
Scarry (a.) Like a scar, or rocky eminence; containing scars. -- Holinshed.
Scarus (n.) (Zool.) A Mediterranean food fish (Sparisoma scarus) of excellent quality and highly valued by the Romans; -- called also parrot fish.
Scary (n.) Barren land having only a thin coat of grass. [Prov. Eng.]
Compare: Barren
Barren (a.) 不生育的，不妊的；（植物）不結果實的 Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
She was barren of children. -- Bp. Hall.
Barren (a.) Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; sterile. "Barren mountain tracts." -- Macaulay.
Barren (a.) Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
Brilliant but barren reveries. -- Prescott.
Some schemes will appear barren of hints and matter. -- Swift.
Barren (a.) Mentally dull; stupid. -- Shak.
Barren flower, A flower which has only stamens without a pistil, or which has neither stamens nor pistils.
Barren Grounds (Geog.), A vast tract in British America northward of the forest regions.
Barren Ground bear (Zool.), A peculiar bear, inhabiting the Barren Grounds, now believed to be a variety of the brown bear of Europe.
Barren Ground caribou (Zool.), A small reindeer ({Rangifer Gr[oe]nlandicus) peculiar to the Barren Grounds and Greenland.
Barren (n.)（一塊）瘠地 [C]；荒漠 [P] A tract of barren land.
Barren (n.) pl. Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile. [Amer.] -- J. Pickering.
Barren (a.) Providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape" [syn: bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark].
Barren (a.) Not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile".
Barren (a.) Completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" [syn: barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent].
Barren (n.) An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert" [syn: barren, waste, wasteland].
Barren, () For a woman to be barren was accounted a severe punishment among the Jews (Gen. 16:2; 30:1-23; 1 Sam. 1:6, 27; Isa. 47:9; 49:21; Luke 1:25). Instances of barrenness are noticed (Gen. 11:30; 25:21; 29:31; Judg. 13:2, 3; Luke 1:7, 36).
Barren -- U.S. County in Kentucky
Population (2000): 38033
Housing Units (2000): 17095
Land area (2000): 490.973907 sq. miles (1271.616528 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 8.955255 sq. miles (23.194002 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 499.929162 sq. miles (1294.810530 sq. km)
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 36.984455 N, 85.933483 W
Headwords:
Barren
Barren, KY
Barren County
Barren County, KY
Scary (a.) Subject to sudden alarm. [Colloq. U. S.] -- Whittier.
Scary (a.) Causing fright; alarming. [Colloq. U. S.]
Scary (a.) 引起驚慌的；膽小的；提心吊膽的 Provoking fear terror; "a scary movie"; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge" [syn: chilling, scarey, scary, shivery, shuddery].
Scasely (adv.) Scarcely; hardly. [Obs. or Colloq.] -- Robynson (More's Utopia).
Scat (interj.) Go away; begone; away; -- chiefly used in driving off a cat. Scat
Scat (n.) Alt. of Scatt.
Scatt (n.) Tribute. [R.] "Seizing scatt and treasure." -- Longfellow.
Scat (n.) A shower of rain. [Prov. Eng.] -- Wright.
Scat (n.) Singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument [syn: scat, scat singing].
Scat (v.) Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up" [syn: scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away].
Scatch (n.) A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth. --Bailey.
Scatches (n. pl.) Stilts. [Prov. Eng.]
Scate (n.) See Skate, for the foot.
Scatebrous (a.) Abounding with springs. [Obs.]
Scath (n.) 危害，損害，損傷 Harm; damage; injury; hurt; waste; misfortune. [Written also scathe.]
But she was somedeal deaf, and that was skathe. -- Chaucer.
Great mercy, sure, for to enlarge a thrall, Whose freedom shall thee turn to greatest scath. -- Spenser.
Wherein Rome hath done you any scath, Let him make treble satisfaction. -- Shak. Scathe
Scathed (imp. & p. p.) of Scath.
Scathing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scath.
Scathe (v. t.) Alt. of Scath.
Scath (v. t.) 危害，損害，損傷 To do harm to; to injure; to damage; to waste; to destroy.
As when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines. -- Milton.
Strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul. -- W. Irving.
Scathful (a.) Harmful; doing damage; pernicious. -- Shak. -- Scath"ful*ness, n.
Scathing (a.) 傷害的，損傷的，足致傷害的 Marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing" [syn: {scathing}, {vituperative}].
Scathing (a.) 嚴厲批評的，尖刻斥責的 Criticizing someone or something in a severe and unkind way.
// Scathing criticism.
He was very scathing about the report, saying it was inaccurate.
Compare: Inaccurate
Inaccurate (a.) (B2) 不準確的；不精確的 Not completely correct or exact, or not able to do something correctly or exactly.
// Their estimate of the cost of the project was wildly (= extremely) inaccurate.
// An inaccurate device/ weapon.
Scathless (a.) Unharmed. -- R. L. Stevenson.
He, too, . . . is to be dismissed scathless. -- Sir W. Scott.
Scathly (a.) Injurious; scathful. [Obs.]
Scattered (imp. & p. p.) of Scatter.
Scattering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scatter.
Scatter (v. t.) 使消散；使分散；使潰散；撒；撒於……上；散布 [（+on/ over/ with）] To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.
And some are scattered all the floor about. -- Chaucer.
Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, Their scattered cottages, and ample plains? -- Dryden.
Teach the glad hours to scatter, as they fly, Soft quiet, gentle love, and endless joy. -- Prior.