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- English Word Scantness Definition The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness.
- English Word Scanty Definition Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant.
- English Word Scanty Definition Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words; a scanty supply of bread.
- English Word Scanty Definition Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious.
- English Word Scape Definition A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.
- English Word Scape Definition The long basal joint of the antennae of an insect.
- English Word Scape Definition The shaft of a column.
- English Word Scape Definition The apophyge of a shaft.
- English Word Scape Definition To escape.
- English Word Scape Definition An escape.
- English Word Scape Definition Means of escape; evasion.
- English Word Scape Definition A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
- English Word Scape Definition Loose act of vice or lewdness.
- English Word Scape-wheel Definition The wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play.
- English Word Scaped Definition of Scape
- English Word Scapegallows Definition One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes.
- English Word Scapegoat Definition A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness.
- English Word Scapegoat Definition Hence, a person or thing that is made to bear blame for others.
- English Word Scapegrace Definition A graceless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless.
- English Word Scapeless Definition Destitute of a scape.
- English Word Scapement Definition Same as Escapement, 3.
- English Word Scaphander Definition The case, or impermeable apparel, in which a diver can work while under water.
- English Word Scaphism Definition An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects until he died.
- English Word Scaphite Definition Any fossil cephalopod shell of the genus Scaphites, belonging to the Ammonite family and having a chambered boat-shaped shell. Scaphites are found in the Cretaceous formation.
- English Word Scaphocephalic Definition Of, pertaining to, or affected with, scaphocephaly.
- English Word Scaphocephaly Definition A deformed condition of the skull, in which the vault is narrow, elongated, and more or less boat-shaped.
- English Word Scaphocerite Definition A flattened plate or scale attached to the second joint of the antennae of many Crustacea.
- English Word Scaphognathite Definition A thin leafike appendage (the exopodite) of the second maxilla of decapod crustaceans. It serves as a pumping organ to draw the water through the gill cavity.
- English Word Scaphoid Definition Resembling a boat in form; boat-shaped.
- English Word Scaphoid Definition The scaphoid bone.