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  • English Word Scuttle Definition A broad, shallow basket.
  • English Word Scuttle Definition A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
  • English Word Scuttle Definition To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle.
  • English Word Scuttle Definition A quick pace; a short run.
  • English Word Scuttle Definition A small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid.
  • English Word Scuttle Definition A small opening or hatchway in the deck of a ship, large enough to admit a man, and with a lid for covering it, also, a like hole in the side or bottom of a ship.
  • English Word Scuttle Definition An opening in the roof of a house, with a lid.
  • English Word Scuttle Definition The lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like.
  • English Word Scuttle Definition To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
  • English Word Scuttle Definition To sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship.
  • English Word Scuttled Definition of Scuttle
  • English Word Scuttling Definition of Scuttle
  • English Word Scutum Definition An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; -- carried chiefly by the heavy-armed infantry.
  • English Word Scutum Definition A penthouse or awning.
  • English Word Scutum Definition The second and largest of the four parts forming the upper surface of a thoracic segment of an insect. It is preceded by the prescutum and followed by the scutellum. See the Illust. under Thorax.
  • English Word Scutum Definition One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.
  • English Word Scybala Definition Hardened masses of feces.
  • English Word Scye Definition Arm scye, a cutter's term for the armhole or part of the armhole of the waist of a garnment.
  • English Word Scyle Definition To hide; to secrete; to conceal.
  • English Word Scylla Definition A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying "Between Scylla and Charybdis," signifying a great peril on either hand.
  • English Word Scyllaea Definition A genus of oceanic nudibranchiate mollusks having the small branched gills situated on the upper side of four fleshy lateral lobes, and on the median caudal crest.
  • English Word Scyllarian Definition One of a family (Scyllaridae) of macruran Crustacea, remarkable for the depressed form of the body, and the broad, flat antennae. Also used adjectively.
  • English Word Scyllite Definition A white crystalline substance of a sweetish taste, resembling inosite and metameric with dextrose. It is extracted from the kidney of the dogfish (of the genus Scylium), the shark, and the skate.
  • English Word Scymetar Definition See Scimiter.
  • English Word Scypha Definition See Scyphus, 2 (b).
  • English Word Scyphae Definition of Scypha
  • English Word Scyphi Definition of Scyphus
  • English Word Scyphiform Definition Cup-shaped.
  • English Word Scyphistoma Definition The young attached larva of Discophora in the stage when it resembles a hydroid, or actinian.
  • English Word Scyphistomae Definition of Scyphistoma