SPage 105
- English Word Scurrility Definition The quality or state of being scurrile or scurrilous; mean, vile, or obscene jocularity.
- English Word Scurrility Definition That which is scurrile or scurrilous; gross or obscene language; low buffoonery; vulgar abuse.
- English Word Scurrilous Definition Using the low and indecent language of the meaner sort of people, or such as only the license of buffoons can warrant; as, a scurrilous fellow.
- English Word Scurrilous Definition Containing low indecency or abuse; mean; foul; vile; obscenely jocular; as, scurrilous language.
- English Word Scurrit Definition the lesser tern (Sterna minuta).
- English Word Scurry Definition To hasten away or along; to move rapidly; to hurry; as, the rabbit scurried away.
- English Word Scurry Definition Act of scurring; hurried movement.
- English Word Scurvily Definition In a scurvy manner.
- English Word Scurviness Definition The quality or state of being scurvy; vileness; meanness.
- English Word Scurvy Definition Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy.
- English Word Scurvy Definition Vile; mean; low; vulgar; contemptible.
- English Word Scurvy Definition A disease characterized by livid spots, especially about the thighs and legs, due to extravasation of blood, and by spongy gums, and bleeding from almost all the mucous membranes. It is accompanied by paleness, languor, depression, and general debility. It is occasioned by confinement, innutritious food, and hard labor, but especially by lack of fresh vegetable food, or confinement for a long time to a limited range of food, which is incapable of repairing the waste of the system. It was formerly prevalent among sailors and soldiers.
- English Word Scut Definition The tail of a hare, or of a deer, or other animal whose tail is short, sp. when carried erect; hence, sometimes, the animal itself.
- English Word Scuta Definition See Scutum.
- English Word Scuta Definition of Scutum
- English Word Scutage Definition Shield money; commutation of service for a sum of money. See Escuage.
- English Word Scutal Definition Of or pertaining to a shield.
- English Word Scutate Definition Buckler-shaped; round or nearly round.
- English Word Scutate Definition Protected or covered by bony or horny plates, or large scales.
- English Word Scutch Definition To beat or whip; to drub.
- English Word Scutch Definition To separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.
- English Word Scutch Definition To loosen and dress the fiber of (cotton or silk) by beating; to free (fibrous substances) from dust by beating and blowing.
- English Word Scutch Definition A wooden instrument used in scutching flax and hemp.
- English Word Scutch Definition The woody fiber of flax; the refuse of scutched flax.
- English Word Scutch grass Definition A kind of pasture grass (Cynodon Dactylon). See Bermuda grass: also Illustration in Appendix.
- English Word Scutched Definition of Scutch
- English Word Scutcheon Definition An escutcheon; an emblazoned shield.
- English Word Scutcheon Definition A small plate of metal, as the shield around a keyhole. See Escutcheon, 4.
- English Word Scutcheoned Definition Emblazoned on or as a shield.
- English Word Scutcher Definition One who scutches.