Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 23
School (n.) A session of an institution of instruction.
How now, Sir Hugh! No school to-day? -- Shak.
School (n.) 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.
At Cambridge the philosophy of Descartes was still dominant in the schools. -- Macaulay.
School (n.) The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.
School (n.) An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.
What is the great community of Christians, but one of the innumerable schools in the vast plan which God has instituted for the education of various intelligences? -- Buckminster.
School (n.) 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.
Let no man be less confident in his faith . . . by reason of any difference in the several schools of Christians. -- Jer. Taylor.
School (n.) 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.
His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools. -- A. S. Hardy.
School (n.) Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.
Boarding school, Common school, District school, Normal school, etc. See under Boarding, Common, District, etc.
High school, A free public school nearest the rank of a college. [U. S.]
School board, A corporation established by law in every borough or parish in England, and elected by the burgesses or ratepayers, with the duty of providing public school accommodation for all children in their district.
School committee, School board, An elected committee of citizens having charge and care of the public schools in any district, town, or city, and responsible for control of the money appropriated for school purposes. [U. S.]
School days, The period in which youth are sent to school.
School district, A division of a town or city for establishing and conducting schools. [U.S.]
Sunday school, or Sabbath school, A school held on Sunday for study of the Bible and for religious instruction; the pupils, or the teachers and pupils, of such a school, collectively.
Schooled (imp. & p. p.) of School.
Schooling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of School.
School (v. t.) 教育，培養，訓練；成群地遊 To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.
He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned. -- Shak.
School (v. t.) To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.
It now remains for you to school your child, And ask why God's Anointed be reviled. -- Dryden.
The mother, while loving her child with the intensity of a sole affection, had schooled herself to hope for little other return than the waywardness of an April breeze. -- Hawthorne.
School (n.) An educational institution; "the school was founded in 1900".
School (n.) A building where young people receive education; "the school was built in 1932"; "he walked to school every morning" [syn: school, schoolhouse].
School (n.) The process of being formally educated at a school; "what will you do when you finish school?" [syn: school, schooling].
School (n.) A body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers; "the Venetian school of painting".
School (n.) The period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session; "stay after school"; "he didn't miss a single day of school"; "when the school day was done we would walk home together" [syn: school, schooltime, school day].
School (n.) An educational institution's faculty and students; "the school keeps parents informed"; "the whole school turned out for the game".
School (n.) A large group of fish; "a school of small glittering fish swam by" [syn: school, shoal].
School (v.) Educate in or as if in a school; "The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions".
School (v.) Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry" [syn: educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise].
School (v.) Swim in or form a large group of fish; "A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait".
School (a.) [Before a noun] 學校的；學習的；學院的 Of or connected with a school or schools.
Schoolbook (n.) A book used in schools for learning lessons.
Schoolbook (n.) A book prepared for use in schools or colleges; "his economics textbook is in its tenth edition"; "the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy" [syn: textbook, text, text edition, schoolbook, school text] [ant: trade book, trade edition].
Schoolboy (n.) A boy belonging to, or attending, a school.
Schoolboy (n.) A boy attending school.
Schooldame (n.) A schoolmistress.
Schoolery (n.) Something taught; precepts; schooling. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Schoolfellow (n.) One bred at the same school; an associate in school.
Schoolfellow (n.) An acquaintance that you go to school with [syn: schoolmate, classmate, schoolfellow, class fellow].
Schoolgirl (n.) A girl belonging to, or attending, a school.
Schoolgirl (n.) A girl attending school.
Schoolhouse (n.) A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction.
Schoolhouse (n.) A building where young people receive education; "the school was built in 1932"; "he walked to school every morning" [syn: school, schoolhouse].
Schooling (n.) Instruction in school; tuition; education in an institution of learning; act of teaching.
Schooling (n.) Discipline; reproof; reprimand; as, he gave his son a good schooling. -- Sir W. Scott.
Schooling (n.) Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.
Schooling (a.) (Zool.) Collecting or running in schools or shoals.
Schooling species like the herring and menhaden. -- G. B. Goode.
Schooling (n.) The act of teaching at school.
Schooling (n.) The process of being formally educated at a school; "what will you do when you finish school?" [syn: school, schooling].
Schooling (n.) The training of an animal (especially the training of a horse for dressage).
Schoolma'am (n.) A schoolmistress. [Colloq.U.S.]
Schoolmaid (n.) A schoolgirl. -- Shak.
Schoolmen (n. pl. ) of Schoolman.
Schoolman (n.) 煩瑣哲學家；【主美】學校教師，教授 One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity.
Note: The schoolmen were philosophers and divines of the Middle Ages, esp. from the 11th century to the Reformation, who spent much time on points of nice and abstract speculation. They were so called because they taught in the mediaeval universities and schools of divinity.
Schoolman (n.) A scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages; versed in scholasticism [syn: Schoolman, medieval Schoolman].
Schoolman (n.) A scholar who is skilled in academic disputation [syn: academician, schoolman].
Schoolman (n.) One skilled in academic disputation.
Schoolman (n.) capitalized : Scholastic sense 1a.
Schoolman (n.) Educator sense 1.
Schoolman (n.) Educator sense 2b.
Schoolmaster (n.) The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school.
Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad, -- a person less imposing, -- in the eyes of some, perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array. -- Brougham.
Schoolmaster (n.) One who, or that which, disciplines and directs.
The law was our schoolmaster, to bring us unto Christ. -- Gal. iii. 24.
Schoolmaster (n.) Presiding officer of a school [syn: headmaster, schoolmaster, master].
Schoolmaster (n.) Any person (or institution) who acts as an educator.
Schoolmaster (n.) Food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters [syn: schoolmaster, Lutjanus apodus].
Schoolmaster, () The law so designated by Paul (Gal. 3:24, 25). As so used, the word does not mean teacher, but pedagogue (shortened into the modern page), i.e., one who was intrusted with the supervision of a family, taking them to and from the school, being responsible for their safety and manners. Hence the pedagogue was stern and severe in his discipline. Thus the law was a pedagogue to the Jews, with a view to Christ, i.e., to prepare for faith in Christ by producing convictions of guilt and helplessness. The office of the pedagogue ceased when "faith came", i.e., the object of that faith, the seed, which is Christ.
Schoolmaster, () One employed in teaching a school.
Schoolmaster, () A schoolmaster stands in loco parentis in relation to the pupils committed to his charge, while they are under his care, so far as to enforce obedience to his, commands, lawfully given in his capacity of school-master, and he may therefore enforce them by moderate correction. Com. Dig. Pleader, 3 M 19; Hawk. c. 60, sect. 23. Vide Correction.
Schoolmaster, () The schoolmaster is justly entitled to be paid for his important and arduous services by those who employ him. See 1 Bing. R. 357 8 Moore's Rep. 368. His duties are to teach his pupils what he has undertaken, and to have a special care over their morals. See 1 Stark. R. 421.
Schoolmate (n.) A pupil who attends the same school as another.
Schoolmate (n.) An acquaintance that you go to school with [syn: schoolmate, classmate, schoolfellow, class fellow].
Schoolmistress (n.) A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school-teacher.
Schoolmistress (n.) A woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) [syn: schoolmarm, schoolma'am, schoolmistress, mistress].
Schoolroom (n.) A room in which pupils are taught.
Schoolroom (n.) A room in a school where lessons take place [syn: classroom, schoolroom].
Schoolship (n.) 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.
School-teacher (n.) One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
Schoolward (adv.) Toward school. -- Chaucer.
Schooner (n.) (Naut.) 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.
Note: The first schooner ever constructed is said to have been built in Gloucester, Massachusetts, about the year 1713, by a Captain Andrew Robinson, and to have received its name from the following trivial circumstance: When the vessel went off the stocks into the water, a bystander cried out,"O, how she scoons!" Robinson replied, " A scooner let her be;" and, from that time, vessels thus masted and rigged have gone by this name. The word scoon is popularly used in some parts of New England to denote the act of making stones skip along the surface of water. The Scottish scon means the same thing. Both words are probably allied to the Icel. skunda, skynda, to make haste, hurry, AS. scunian to avoid, shun, Prov. E. scun. In the New England records, the word appears to have been originally written scooner. Babson, in his "History of Gloucester," gives the following extract from a letter written in that place Sept. 25, 1721, by Dr. Moses Prince, brother of the Rev. Thomas Prince, the annalist of New England: "This gentleman (Captain Robinson) was first contriver of schooners, and built the first of that sort about eight years since."
Schooner (n.) A large goblet or drinking glass, -- used for lager beer or ale. [U.S
Schooner (n.) A large beer glass.
Schooner (n.) Sailing vessel used in former times.
Schorl (n.) (Min.) Black tourmaline. [Written also shorl.]
Schorl (n.) Black tourmaline.
Schorlaceous (a.) Partaking of the nature and character of schorl; resembling schorl.
Schorlous (a.) Schorlaceous.
Schorly (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, schorl; as, schorly granite. Schottish
Schottish (n.) Alt. of Schottische.
Schottische (n.) 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 (n.) (Min.) A mineral occurring in steel-gray flexible folia. It contains iron, nickel, and phosphorus, and is found only in meteoric iron.
Schrode (n.) See Scrod.
Schwann's sheath (Anat.) The neurilemma.
Schwann's white substance (Anat.) The substance of the medullary sheath.
Schwanpan (n.) Chinese abacus.
Compare: Gruyere cheese
Gruyere cheese, () A kind of cheese made at Gruy[`e]re, Switzerland. It is a firm cheese containing numerous cells, and is known in the United States as Schweitzerk[aum]se.
Schweitzerkaumse (n.) Gruyere cheese. Schwenkfelder
Schwenkfelder (n.) Alt. of Schwenkfeldian.
Schwenkfeldian (n.) 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 (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Sciaenidae, a family of carnivorous marine fishes which includes the meagre ({Sciaena umbra or Sciaena aquila), and fish of the drum and croaker families. The croaker is so called because it may make a croaking noise by use of its bladder; the Atlantic croaker ({Micropogonias undulatus, formerly Micropogon undulatus) and the squeteague are a members of the croaker family, and the kingfish is a drum.
Sciagraph (n.) (Arch.) An old term for a vertical section of a building; -- called also sciagraphy. See Vertical section, under Section.
Sciagraph (n.) (Phas.) A radiograph. [Written also skiagraph.]
Sciagraphical (a.) Pertaining to sciagraphy. -- Sci`a*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.
Sciagraphy (n.) The art or science of projecting or delineating shadows as they fall in nature. -- Gwilt.
Sciagraphy (n.) (Arch.) Same as Sciagraph.
Sciagraphy (n.) (Physics) Same as Radiography.
Sciamachy (n.) See Sciomachy. Sciatheric
Sciatheric (a.) Alt. of Sciatherical.
Sciatherical (a.) Belonging to a sundial. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne. -- Sci`a*ther"ic*al*ly, adv. [Obs.] -- J. Gregory.
Sciatic (a.) (Anat.) 臀部的；坐骨的；坐骨神經的 Of or pertaining to the hip; in the region of, or affecting, the hip; ischial; ischiatic; as, the sciatic nerve, sciatic pains.
Sciatic (n.) (Med.) Sciatica.
Sciatic (a.) Relating to or caused by or afflicted with sciatica
Sciatic (a.) Of or relating to the ischium (or the part of the hipbone containing it); "sciatic nerve".
Sciatica (n.) (Med.) 【醫】坐骨神經痛 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.
Compare: Ischiadic
Ischiadic (a.) (Anat.) 【解】坐骨的 Ischial. [R.]
Compare: Ischial
Ischial (a.) 【解】坐骨的 See Ischium.
Compare: Ischium
Ischium (n.) 【解】坐骨 The curved bone forming the base of each half of the pelvis.
Compare: Pelvis
Pelvis (n.) 【解】骨盆；腎盂 The large bony frame near the base of the spine to which the hindlimbs or legs are attached in humans and many other vertebrates.
Compare: Hindlimb
Hindlimb (n.) 後肢 Either of the two back limbs of an anima.
Compare: Anima
Anima (n.) [Psychoanalysis] (In Jungian psychology) 內心； 靈魂； 靈氣； （男性的）女性特徵The feminine part of a man's personality.
Often contrasted with Animus. (sense 3)
Compare: Animus
Animus (n.) [Mass noun] 敵意，惡意；基本態度，主導精神；【律】意圖 Hostility or ill feeling.
‘The author's animus towards her.’
Animus (n.) [Mass noun] Motivation to do something.
‘The reformist animus came from within the Party.’
Animus (n.) [Psychoanalysis] (In Jungian psychology) The masculine part of a woman's personality.
Often contrasted with Anima.
Compare: Jungian
Jungian (a.) 榮格的（與瑞士心理分析學家卡爾‧古斯塔夫‧榮格的思想有關的） Of or connected with the ideas of the Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung.
// In Jungian theory, there are certain archetypes of human personality.
Anima (n.) [Psychoanalysis] The part of the psyche which is directed inwards, in touch with the subconscious.
‘Persona and anima switch roles and merge in slow, smooth ways.’
Often contrasted with Persona.
Compare: Persona
Persona (n.)【拉】小說（或戲劇）中的人物；角色；人物表；人 The aspect of someone's character that is presented to or perceived by others.
‘Her public persona.’
In psychology, often contrasted with Anima.
Persona (n.) A role or character adopted by an author or an actor.
Pelvis (n.) The part of the abdomen including or enclosed by the pelvis.
Pelvis (n.) The broadened top part of the ureter into which the kidney tubules drain.
Ischiadic passion or Ischiadic disease (Med.), A rheumatic or neuralgic affection of some part about the hip joint; -- called also sciatica.
Sciatica (n.) Neuralgia along the sciatic nerve.
Sciatical (a.) (Anat.) Sciatic.
Sciatically (adv.) With, or by means of, sciatica.
Scibboleth (n.) Shibboleth. [Obs.]
Science (n.) Knowledge; knowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts.
If we conceive God's sight or science, before the creation, to be extended to all and every part of the world, seeing everything as it is, . . . his science or sight from all eternity lays no necessity on anything to come to pass. -- Hammond.
Shakespeare's deep and accurate science in mental philosophy. -- Coleridge.
Science (n.) 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.
All this new science that men lere [teach]. -- Chaucer.
Science is . . . a complement of cognitions, having, in point of form, the character of logical perfection, and in point of matter, the character of real truth. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Science (n.) 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.
Voltaire hardly left a single corner of the field entirely unexplored in science, poetry, history, philosophy. -- J. Morley.
Science (n.) 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.
Note: The ancients reckoned seven sciences, namely, grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; -- the first three being included in the Trivium, the remaining four in the Quadrivium.
Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven. -- Pope.
Science (n.) Art, skill, or expertness, regarded as the result of knowledge of laws and principles.
His science, coolness, and great strength. -- G. A. Lawrence.
Note: Science is applied or pure. Applied science is a knowledge of facts, events, or phenomena, as explained, accounted for, or produced, by means of powers, causes, or laws. Pure science is the knowledge of these powers, causes, or laws, considered apart, or as pure from all applications. Both these terms have a similar and special signification when applied to the science of quantity; as, the applied and pure mathematics. Exact science is knowledge so systematized that prediction and verification, by measurement, experiment, observation, etc., are possible. The mathematical and physical sciences are called the exact sciences.
Comparative sciences, Inductive sciences. See under Comparative, and Inductive.
Syn: Literature; art; knowledge.
Usage: Science, Literature, Art. Science is literally knowledge, but more usually denotes a systematic and orderly arrangement of knowledge. In a more distinctive sense, science embraces those branches of knowledge of which the subject-matter is either ultimate principles, or facts as explained by principles or laws thus arranged in natural order. The term literature sometimes denotes all compositions not embraced under science, but usually confined to the belles-lettres. [See Literature.] Art is that which depends on practice and skill in performance. "In science, scimus ut sciamus; in art, scimus ut producamus. And, therefore, science and art may be said to be investigations of truth; but one, science, inquires for the sake of knowledge; the other, art, for the sake of production; and hence science is more concerned with the higher truths, art with the lower; and science never is engaged, as art is, in productive application. And the most perfect state of science, therefore, will be the most high and accurate inquiry; the perfection of art will be the most apt and efficient system of rules; art always throwing itself into the form of rules." -- Karslake.
Science (v. t.) To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct. [R.] -- Francis.
Science (n.) A particular branch of scientific knowledge; "the science of genetics" [syn: science, scientific discipline].
Science (n.) Ability to produce solutions in some problem domain; "the skill of a well-trained boxer"; "the sweet science of pugilism" [syn: skill, science].
Scient (a.) Knowing; skillful. [Obs.] -- Cockeram.
Scienter (adv.) (Law) Knowingly; willfully. -- Bouvier.
Scienter (adv.) (Law) Deliberately or knowingly.
SCIENTER, () Knowingly.
SCIENTER, () A man may do many acts which are justifiable or not, as he is ignorant or not ignorant of certain facts. He may pass a counterfeit coin, when he is ignorant of its being counterfeit, and is guilty of no offence; but if he knew the coin to be counterfeit, which is called the scienter, he is guilty of passing counterfeit money. A man who keeps an animal which injures some person, or his property, is answerable for damages, or in some cases he may be indicted if he had a knowledge of such animal's propensity to do injury. 3 Blackst. Comm. 154; 2 Stark. Ev. 178; 4 Campb. 198; 2 Str. 1264; 2 Esp. 482; Bull. N. P. 77; Burr. 2092; 2 Lev. 172; Lord Raym. 110; 2 B. & A. 620; 2 C. M. & R. 496; 5 C. & P. 1; S. C. 24 E. C. L. R. 187; 1 Leigh, N. P. 552, 553; 7 C. & P. 755.
SCIENTER, () In this respect the civil law agrees with our own. Domat, Lois Civ. liv. 2, t. 8, s. 2. As to what evidence maybe given to prove guilty knowledge, see Archb. Cr. Pl. 109. Vide Animal; Dog.
Sciential (a.) 科學的；有才能的 Pertaining to, or producing, science. [R.] -- Milton.
Scientific (a.) 科學的，科學上的 [Z]；符合科學規律的；系統的，精確的 [（+about）]； 用於自然科學的 [Z] Of or pertaining to science; used in science; as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations.
Scientific (a.) Agreeing with, or depending on, the rules or principles of science; as, a scientific classification; a scientific arrangement of fossils.
Scientific (a.) Having a knowledge of science, or of a science; evincing science or systematic knowledge; as, a scientific chemist; a scientific reasoner; a scientific argument.
Bossuet is as scientific in the structure of his sentences. -- Landor.
Scientific method, The method employed in exact science and consisting of: (a) Careful and abundant observation and experiment. (b) generalization of the results into formulated "Laws" and statements.
Scientific (a.) Of or relating to the practice of science; "scientific journals".
Scientific (a.) Conforming with the principles or methods used in science; "a scientific approach" [ant: unscientific].
Scientifical (a.) Scientific. -- Locke.
Scientifically (adv.) 合乎科學地 In a scientific manner; according to the rules or principles of science.
It is easier to believe than to be scientifically instructed. -- Locke.
Scientifically (adv.) With respect to science; in a scientific way; "this is scientifically interesting".
Scientist (n.) 科學家；自然科學家 [C] One learned in science; a scientific investigator; one devoted to scientific study; a savant. [Recent]
Note: Twenty years ago I ventured to propose one [a name for the class of men who give their lives to scientific study] which has been slowly finding its way to general adoption; and the word scientist, though scarcely euphonious, has gradually assumed its place in our vocabulary. -- B. A. Gould (Address, 1869). Sci-Fi
Compare: Researcher
Researcher (n.) One who conducts research. In the field of scientific research, also called an investigator or scientist.
Compare: Investigator
Investigator (n.) [C] 調查者，研究者；審查者；私人偵探 A person who carries out a formal inquiry or investigation.
‘Accident investigators are at the crash site.’
‘Investigators found no signs of forced entry.’
Scientist (n.) A person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences.
Scilicet (adv.) 【拉】亦即，換句話說 To wit; namely; videlicet; -- often abbreviated to sc., or ss.
SCILICET. () A Latin adverb, signifying that is to say; to wit; namely.
SCILICET. () It is a clause to usher in the sentence of another, to particularize that which was too general before, distribute what was too gross, or to explain what was doubtful and obscure. It neither increases nor diminish the premises or habendum, for it gives nothing of itself; it may make a restriction when the preceding words may be restrained. Hob. 171 P. Wms. 18; Co. Litt. 180 b, note 1.
SCILICET. () When the scilicet is repugnant to the precedent matter, it is void; for example, when a declaration in trover states that the plaintiff on the third day of May was possessed of certain goods which on the fourth day of May came to the defendant's hands, who afterwards, to wit, on the first day of May converted them, the scilicet was rejected as surplusage. Cro. Jac. 428; and vide 6 Binn. 15; 3 Saund. 291, note 1, and the cases there cited. This word is sometimes abbreviated, ss. or sst.
Scillain (n.) (Chem.) A glucoside extracted from squill ({Scilla maritima) as a light porous substance.
Scillitin (n.) (Chem.) A bitter principle extracted from the bulbs of the squill ({Scilla maritima), and probably consisting of a complex mixture of several substances. Scimiter
Scimiter (n.) Alt. of Scimitar.
Scimitar (n.) A saber with a much curved blade having the edge on the convex side, -- in use among Mohammedans, esp., the Arabs and persians. [Written also cimeter, and scymetar.]
Scimitar (n.) A long-handled billhook. See Billhook.
Scimiter pods (Bot.), The immense curved woody pods of a leguminous woody climbing plant ({Entada scandens) growing in tropical India and America. They contain hard round flattish seeds two inches in diameter, which are made into boxes.
Compare: Billhook
Billhook (n.) A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.
Scincoid (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the family Scincidae, or skinks.
Scincoid (n.) A scincoidian.
Scincoidea (n. pl.) (Zool.) A tribe of lizards including the skinks. See Skink.
Scincoidian (n.) (Zool.) 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 (n.) Some kind of stinging or biting insect, as a flea, a gnat, a sandfly, or the like. -- Ex. viii. 17 (Douay version).
Scink (n.) (Zool.) A skink.
Scink (n.) A slunk calf. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Compare: Skink
Skink (n.) [Written also scink.] (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of regularly scaled harmless lizards of the family Scincidae, common in the warmer parts of all the continents.
Note: The officinal skink ({Scincus officinalis) inhabits the sandy plains of South Africa. It was believed by the ancients to be a specific for various diseases. A common slender species ({Seps tridactylus) of Southern Europe was formerly believed to produce fatal diseases in cattle by mere contact. The American skinks include numerous species of the genus Eumeces, as the blue-tailed skink ({Eumeces fasciatus) of the Eastern United States. The ground skink, or ground lizard ({Oligosoma laterale) inhabits the Southern United States.
Scintilla (n.) A spark; the least particle; an iota; a tittle. -- R. North.
Scintilla (n.) A tiny or scarcely detectable amount [syn: shred, scintilla, whit, iota, tittle, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, smidge].
Scintilla (n.) A sparkling glittering particle.
Scintillant (a.) 閃爍的；發火花的 Emitting sparks, or fine igneous particles; sparkling. -- M. Green.
Scintillant (a.) Having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; "bugle beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water"; "his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop window full of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery costume jewelry"; "scintillant mica"; "the scintillating stars"; "a dress with sparkly sequins"; "`glistering' is an archaic term" [syn: aglitter(p), coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly].
Scintillated (imp. & p. p.) of Scintillate.
Scintillating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scintillate.
Scintillate (v. i.) 發出火花；（才智）煥發 To emit sparks, or fine igneous particles.
As the electrical globe only scintillates when rubbed against its cushion. -- Sir W. Scott.
Scintillate (v. i.) To sparkle, as the fixed stars.
Scintillate (v.) Give off; "the substance scintillated sparks and flashes".
Scintillate (v.) Reflect brightly; "Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside" [syn: {sparkle}, {scintillate}, {coruscate}].
Scintillate (v.) Emit or reflect light in a flickering manner; "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?" [syn: {twinkle}, {winkle}, {scintillate}].
Scintillate (v.) Physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon; "the phosphor fluoresced".
Scintillate (v.) Be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity; "The musical performance sparkled"; "A scintillating conversation"; "his playing coruscated throughout the concert hall" [syn: {sparkle}, {scintillate}, {coruscate}].
Scintillate (v.) To emit sparks : spark.
Scintillate (v.) To emit quick flashes as if throwing off sparks : sparkle.
Scintillate (v.) To throw off as a spark or as sparkling flashes.
Scintillation (n.) The act of scintillating.