Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 24
Scintillation (n.) A spark or flash emitted in scintillating.
These scintillations are . . . the inflammable effluences discharged from the bodies collided. -- Sir T. Browne.
Scintillation (n.) (Physics) A flash of light that is produced in a phosphor when it absorbs a photon or ionizing particle.
Scintillation (n.) A rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash [syn: twinkle, scintillation, sparkling].
Scintillation (n.) A brilliant display of wit.
Scintillation (n.) The quality of shining with a bright reflected light [syn: glitter, glister, glisten, scintillation, sparkle].
Scintillation (n.) The twinkling of the stars caused when changes in the density of the earth's atmosphere produce uneven refraction of starlight.
Scintillous (a.) Scintillant. [R.]
Scintillously (adv.) In a scintillant manner. [R.]
Sciography (n.) See Sciagraphy.
Sciolism (n.) The knowledge of a sciolist; superficial knowledge.
Sciolism (n.) Pretentious superficiality of knowledge.
Sciolist (n.) One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer.
These passages in that book were enough to humble the presumption of our modern sciolists, if their pride were not as great as their ignorance. -- Sir W. Temple.
A master were lauded and sciolists shent. -- R. Browning.
Sciolist (n.) An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge [syn: dabbler, dilettante, sciolist].
Sciolistic (a.) Of or pertaining to sciolism, or a sciolist; partaking of sciolism; resembling a sciolist.
Sciolistic (a.) Showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish; "his dilettantish efforts at painting" [syn: dilettante, dilettantish, dilettanteish, sciolistic].
Sciolous (a.) Knowing superficially or imperfectly. -- Howell.
Sciomachy (n.) A fighting with a shadow; a mock contest; an imaginary or futile combat. [Written also scimachy.] -- Cowley.
Sciomancy (n.) Divination by means of shadows.
Scion (n.) (Bot.) A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker.
Scion (n.) (Bot.) A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting. [Formerly written also cion, and cyon.]
Scion (n.) Hence, a descendant; an heir; as, a scion of a royal stock.
Scion (n.) A descendent or heir; "a scion of royal stock".
Scioptic (a.) (Opt.) Of or pertaining to an optical arrangement for forming images in a darkened room, usually called scioptic ball.
Scioptic ball (Opt.), The lens of a camera obscura mounted in a wooden ball which fits a socket in a window shutter so as to be readily turned, like the eye, to different parts of the landscape.
Sciopticon (n.) A kind of magic lantern.
Scioptics (n.) The art or process of exhibiting luminous images, especially those of external objects, in a darkened room, by arrangements of lenses or mirrors.
Scioptric (a.) (Opt.) Scioptic.
Sciot (a.) Of or pertaining to the island Scio (Chio or Chios).
Sciot (n.) A native or inhabitant of Scio. [Written also Chiot.]
Sciotheric (a.) Of or pertaining to a sundial.
Sciotheric telescope (Dialing), An instrument consisting of a horizontal dial, with a telescope attached to it, used for determining the time, whether of day or night.
Scious (a.) [L. scius.] Knowing; having knowledge. "Brutes may be and are scious." -- Coleridge.
Scire facias (Law) A judicial writ, founded upon some record, and requiring the party proceeded against to show cause why the party bringing it should not have advantage of such record, or (as in the case of scire facias to repeal letters patent) why the record should not be annulled or vacated. -- Wharton. Bouvier.
Scire facias (n.) A judicial writ based on some record and requiring the party against whom it is brought to show cause why the record should not be enforced or annulled.
Scire facias, () Remedies, practice. The name of a judicial writ, founded upon some record, and requiring the defendant to show cause why the plaintiff should not have the "advantage of such record; or, when it is issued to repeal letters-patent, why the record should not be annulled and vacated. 3 Sell. Pr. 187; Grah. Pr. 649; 2 Tidd's Pr. 982; 2 Arch. Pr. 76; Bac. Abr. h.t.
Scire facias, () It is, however, considered as an action, and in the nature of a new original. Skin. 682; Com. 455.
Scire facias, () The scire facias against a bail, against pledges in replevin, to repeal letters-patent, or the like, is an original proceeding; but when brought to revive a judgment after a year and a day, or upon the death or marriage of the parties, when in the latter case one of them is a woman; or when brought on a judgment quando, &c., against an executor, it is but a continuation of the original action. Vide 1 T. R. 388. Vide generally, 11 Vin. Ab. 1; 19 Vin. Ab. 280 Bac. Ab. Execution, H; Bac. Ab. h.t. 2 Saund. 72 e, note, 3; Doct. Pl. 436 Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
Scirrhoid (a.) Resembling scirrhus. -- Dunglison.
Scirrhosity (n.) (Med.) A morbid induration, as of a gland; state of being scirrhous.
Scirrhous (a.) (Med.) Proceeding from scirrhus; of the nature of scirrhus; indurated; knotty; as, scirrhous affections; scirrhous disease. [Written also skirrhous.]
Scirrhi (n. pl. ) of Scirrhus
Scirrhuses (n. pl. ) of Scirrhus
Scirrhus (n.) An indurated organ or part; especially, an indurated gland. [Obs.]
Scirrhus (n.) A cancerous tumor which is hard, translucent, of a gray or bluish color, and emits a creaking sound when incised. [Sometimes incorrectly written schirrus; written also skirrhus.]
Sciscitation (n.) The act of inquiring; inquiry; demand. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Scise (v. i.) To cut; to penetrate. [Obs.]
The wicked steel scised deep in his right side. -- Fairfax.
Scissel (n.) The clippings of metals made in various mechanical operations.
Scissel (n.) The slips or plates of metal out of which circular blanks have been cut for the purpose of coinage.
Scissible (a.) Capable of being cut or divided by a sharp instrument. [R.] -- Bacon.
Scissil (n.) See Scissel.
Scissile (a.) Capable of being cut smoothly; scissible. [R.] -- Arbuthnot.
Scission (n.) The act of dividing with an instrument having a sharp edge. -- Wiseman.
Scission (n.) The act of dividing by cutting or splitting.
Scissiparity (n.) (Biol.) Reproduction by fission.
Scissor (v. t.) 用剪刀剪 To cut with scissors or shears; to prepare with the aid of scissors. -- Massinger.
Scissor (v.) Cut with or as if with scissors
Scissors (n. pl.) 剪刀 [K]；【體】作剪刀開合狀的腿部運動；用雙腿鉗住對方的摔角姿勢；（跳高）剪式跳法 [J] A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. Often called a pair of scissors. [Formerly written also cisors, cizars, and scissars.]
Scissors grinder, () (Zool.), The European goatsucker. [Prov. Eng.]
Scissors (n.) An edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades [syn: scissors, pair of scissors].
Scissors (n.) A wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze [syn: scissors, scissors hold, scissor hold, scissor grip, scissors grip].
Scissors (n.) A gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast moves his legs as the blades of scissors move.
Scissors, TX -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Texas
Population (2000): 2805
Housing Units (2000): 673
Land area (2000): 1.707375 sq. miles (4.422082 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.707375 sq. miles (4.422082 sq. km)
FIPS code: 66248
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 26.136871 N, 98.045308 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Scissorsbill (n.) (Zool.) See Skimmer.
Compare: Cutwater
Cutwater (n.) (Naut.) 船頭破浪處 The fore part of a ship's prow, which cuts the water.
Cutwater (n.) (Naut.) 橋腳的分水角 A starling or other structure attached to the pier of a bridge, with an angle or edge directed up stream, in order better to resist the action of water, ice, etc.; the sharpened upper end of the pier itself.
Cutwater (n.) (Zool.) 黑剪嘴鷗 A sea bird of the Atlantic ({Rhynchops nigra); -- called also black skimmer, scissorsbill, and razorbill. See Skimmer.
Scissorstail (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Scissors-tailed (a.) (Zool.) Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.
Scissure (n.) 【罕】縱裂痕；裂縫；切口 A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure. -- Hammond.
Scissure (n.) A long narrow opening [syn: {crack}, {cleft}, {crevice}, {fissure}, {scissure}].
Scitamineous (a.) (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants ({Scitamineae), mostly tropical herbs, including the ginger, Indian shot, banana, and the plants producing turmeric and arrowroot.
Sciurine (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Squirrel family.
Sciurine (n.) A rodent of the Squirrel family.
Sciuroid (a.) (Bot.) Resembling the tail of a squirrel; -- generally said of branches which are close and dense, or of spikes of grass like barley.
Sciuromorpha (n. pl.) (Zool.) A tribe of rodents containing the squirrels and allied animals, such as the gophers, woodchucks, beavers, and others.
Sciuromorpha (n.) Large more or less primitive rodents: squirrels; marmots; gophers; beavers; etc. [syn: Sciuromorpha, suborder Sciuromorpha].
Sciurus (n.) (Zool.) A genus of rodents comprising the common squirrels.
Sciurus (n.) Type genus of the Sciuridae; typical moderate-sized arboreal squirrels [syn: Sciurus, genus Sciurus].
Sclaundre (n.) Slander. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Sclav (n.) Alt. of Sclave
Sclave (n.) Same as Slav.
Slav (n.; pl. Slavs.) [A word originally meaning, intelligible, and used to contrast the people so called with foreigners who spoke languages unintelligible to the Slavs; akin to OSlav. slovo a word, slava fame, Skr. [,c]ru to hear. Cf. Loud.] (Ethnol.) One of a race of people occupying a large part of Eastern and Northern Europe, including the Russians, Bulgarians, Roumanians, Servo-Croats, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Wends or Sorbs, Slovaks, etc. [Written also Slave, and Sclav.]
Sclavic (a.) Same as Slavic.
Sclavism (n.) Same as Slavism.
Sclavonian (a. & n.) Same as Slavonian.
Sclavonic (a.) Same as Slavonic.
Sclender (a.) Slender. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Sclera (n.) (L.) - Scleral (a.) The tough, white outer coat of the eyeball, covering approximately the posterior five-sixths of its surface, continuous anteriorly with the cornea and posteriorly with the external sheath of the optic nerve.
Scleragogy (n.) Severe discipline. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hacket.
Sclerema (n.) (Med.) Induration of the cellular tissue.
Sclerema of adults. See Scleroderma.
Sclerema neonatorum [NL., of the newborn], an affection characterized by a peculiar hardening and rigidity of the cutaneous and subcutaneous tissues in the newly born. It is usually fatal. Called also skinbound disease.
Sclerenchyma (n.) (Bot.) Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic.
Note: By recent German writers and their English translators, this term is used for liber cells. -- Goodale.
Sclerenchyma (n.) (Zool.) The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals.
Sclerenchymatous (a.) (Bot. & Zool.) Pertaining to, or composed of, sclerenchyma.
Sclerenchyme (n.) Sclerenchyma.
Scleriasis (n.) (Med.) A morbid induration of the edge of the eyelid.
Scleriasis (n.) (Med.) Induration of any part, including scleroderma.
Sclerite (n.) (Zool.) A hard chitinous or calcareous process or corpuscle, especially a spicule of the Alcyonaria.
Sclerite (n.) Hard plate or element of the exoskeleton of some arthropods.
Scleritis (n.) See Sclerotitis.
Scleritis (n.) Inflammation of the sclera
Sclerobase (n.) (Zool.) The calcareous or hornlike coral forming the central stem or axis of most compound alcyonarians; -- called also foot secretion. See Illust. under Gorgoniacea, and Coenenchyma. -- Scler`o*ba"sic, a.
Scleroderm (n.) (Zool.) One of a tribe of plectognath fishes ({Sclerodermi) having the skin covered with hard scales, or plates, as the cowfish and the trunkfish.
Scleroderm (n.) One of the Sclerodermata.
Scleroderm (n.) Hardened, or bony, integument of various animals.
Scleroderma (n.) [NL.] (Med.) A disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin.
Scleroderma (n.) An autoimmune disease that affects the blood vessels and connective tissue; fibrous connective tissue is deposited in the skin [syn: scleroderma, dermatosclerosis].
Scleroderma (n.) Genus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies: false truffles [syn: Scleroderma, genus Scleroderma].
Sclerodermata (n. pl.) [NL.] (Zool.) The stony corals; the Madreporaria. Sclerodermic
Sclerodermic () Alt. of Sclerodermous
Sclerodermous () (Zool.) Having the integument, or skin, hard, or covered with hard plates.
Sclerodermous () (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Sclerodermata.
Sclerodermite (n.) (Zool.) The hard integument of Crustacea.
Sclerodermite (n.) (Zool.) Sclerenchyma.
Sclerogen (n.) (Bot.) The thickening matter of woody cells; lignin.
Sclerogenous (a.) (Anat.) Making or secreting a hard substance; becoming hard.
Scleroid (a.) (Bot.) Having a hard texture, as nutshells.
Scleroma (n.) (Med.) Induration of the tissues. See Sclerema, Scleroderma, and Sclerosis.
Sclerometer (n.) An instrument for determining with accuracy the degree of hardness of a mineral.
Sclerometer (n.) A measuring instrument that measures the hardness of materials by penetrating them with a stylus that has a diamond point.
Sclerosed (a.) Affected with sclerosis.
Sclerosed (a.) Relating to or having sclerosis; hardened; "a sclerotic patient" [syn: sclerotic, sclerosed].
Sclerosis (n.) (Med.) Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue.
Sclerosis (n.) (Bot.) Hardening of the cell wall by lignification.
Cerebro-spinal sclerosis (Med.), 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. Formerly referred to as multiple sclerosis, disseminated sclerosis, or insular sclerosis, but now usually called only multiple sclerosis, or MS.
Sclerosis (n.) Any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue [syn: sclerosis, induration].
Scleroskeleton (n.) (Anat.) That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.
Sclerotal (a.) (Anat.) Sclerotic.
Sclerotal (n.) (Anat.) The optic capsule; the sclerotic coat of the eye. -- Owen.
Sclerotic (a.) Hard; firm; indurated; -- applied especially in anatomy to the firm outer coat of the eyeball, which is often cartilaginous and sometimes bony.
Sclerotic (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the sclerotic coat of the eye; sclerotical.
Sclerotic (a.) (Med.) Affected with sclerosis; sclerosed.
Sclerotic parenchyma (Bot.), 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 (n.) The sclerotic coat of the eye. See Illust. of Eye (d).
Sclerotic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from ergot or the sclerotium of a fungus growing on rye.
Sclerotic (a.) Relating to or having sclerosis; hardened; "a sclerotic patient" [syn: sclerotic, sclerosed].
Sclerotic (a.) Of or relating to the sclera of the eyeball; "sclerotic tissue."
Sclerotical (a.) (Anat.) Sclerotic.
Sclerotitis (n.) (Med.) Inflammation of the sclerotic coat.
Sclerotia (n. pl. ) of Sclerotium
Sclerotium (n.) (Bot.) A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea, which produces ergot.
Sclerotium (n.) (Zool.) The mature or resting stage of a plasmodium.
Sclerotium (n.) Form genus of sterile imperfect fungi; many form sclerotia; some cause sclerotium disease in plants [syn: Sclerotium, genus Sclerotium].
Sclerotium (n.) Compact usually dark-colored mass of hardened mycelium constituting a vegetative food-storage body in various true fungi; detaches when mature and can give rise to new growth.