Scatter (v. t.) To cause to separate in different directions; to reduce from a close or compact to a loose or broken order; to dissipate; to disperse.
Scatter (v. t.) Hence, to frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow; as, to scatter hopes, plans, or the like.
Scatter (v. i.) To be dispersed or dissipated; to disperse or separate; as, clouds scatter after a storm.
Scatter-brain (n.) A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.
Scatter-brained (a.) Giddy; thoughtless.
Scattered (a.) Dispersed; dissipated; sprinkled, or loosely spread.
Scattered (a.) Irregular in position; having no regular order; as, scattered leaves.
Scattergood (n.) One who wastes; a spendthrift.
Scattering (a.) Going or falling in various directions; not united or aggregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes.
Scattering (n.) Act of strewing about; something scattered.
Scatteringly (adv.) In a scattering manner; dispersedly.
Scatterling (n.) One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond.
Scaturient (a.) Gushing forth; full to overflowing; effusive.
Scaturiginous (a.) Abounding with springs.
Scaup (n.) A bed or stratum of shellfish; scalp.
Scaup (n.) A scaup duck. See below.
Scauper (n.) A tool with a semicircular edge, -- used by engravers to clear away the spaces between the lines of an engraving.
Scaur (n.) A precipitous bank or rock; a scar.
Scavage (n.) A toll or duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts.
Scavenge (v. t.) To cleanse, as streets, from filth.
Scavenger (v.) A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health.
Scazon (n.) A choliamb.
Scelerat (n.) A villain; a criminal.
Scelestic (a.) Evil; wicked; atrocious.
Scelet (n.) A mummy; a skeleton.
Scena (n.) A scene in an opera.
Scena (n.) An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria.
Scenario (n.) A preliminary sketch of the plot, or main incidents, of an opera.
Scenary (n.) Scenery.
Scene (n.) The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and decorations; the stage.
Scene (n.) The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides, or other devices, used to give an appearance of reality to the action of a play; as, to paint scenes; to shift the scenes; to go behind the scenes.
Scene (n.) So much of a play as passes without change of locality or time, or important change of character; hence, a subdivision of an act; a separate portion of a play, subordinate to the act, but differently determined in different plays; as, an act of four scenes.
Scene (n.) The place, time, circumstance, etc., in which anything occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is laid; surroundings amid which anything is set before the imagination; place of occurrence, exhibition, or action.
Scene (n.) An assemblage of objects presented to the view at once; a series of actions and events exhibited in their connection; a spectacle; a show; an exhibition; a view.
Scene (n.) A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
Scene (n.) An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others; often, an artifical or affected action, or course of action, done for effect; a theatrical display.
Scene (v. t.) To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.
Sceneful (a.) Having much scenery.
Scenemen (pl. ) of Sceneman
Sceneman (n.) The man who manages the movable scenes in a theater.
Scenery (n.) Assemblage of scenes; the paintings and hangings representing the scenes of a play; the disposition and arrangement of the scenes in which the action of a play, poem, etc., is laid; representation of place of action or occurence.
Scenery (n.) Sum of scenes or views; general aspect, as regards variety and beauty or the reverse, in a landscape; combination of natural views, as woods, hills, etc.
Sceneshifter (n.) One who moves the scenes in a theater; a sceneman.
Scenic (a.) Alt. of Scenical
Scenical (a.) Of or pertaining to scenery; of the nature of scenery; theatrical.
Scenograph (n.) A perspective representation or general view of an object.
Scenographic (a.) Alt. of Scenographical
Scenographical (a.) Of or pertaining to scenography; drawn in perspective.
Scenography (n.) The art or act of representing a body on a perspective plane; also, a representation or description of a body, in all its dimensions, as it appears to the eye.
Scented (imp. & p. p.) of Scent
Scenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scent
Scent (v. t.) To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does.
Scent (v. t.) To imbue or fill with odor; to perfume.
Scent (v. i.) To have a smell.
Scent (v. i.) To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
Scent (n.) That which, issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals; odor; smell; as, the scent of an orange, or of a rose; the scent of musk.
Scent (n.) Specifically, the odor left by an animal on the ground in passing over it; as, dogs find or lose the scent; hence, course of pursuit; track of discovery.
Scent (n.) The power of smelling; the sense of smell; as, a hound of nice scent; to divert the scent.
Scentful (a.) Full of scent or odor; odorous.
Scentful (a.) Of quick or keen smell.
Scentingly (adv.) By scent.
Scentless (a.) Having no scent.
Scepsis (n.) Skepticism; skeptical philosophy.
Scepter (n.) Alt. of Sceptre
Sceptre (n.) A staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial badge or emblem of authority; a royal mace.
Sceptre (n.) Hence, royal or imperial power or authority; sovereignty; as, to assume the scepter.
Sceptered (imp. & p. p.) of Sceptre
Sceptred () of Sceptre
Sceptering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sceptre
Sceptring () of Sceptre
Scepter (v. t.) Alt. of Sceptre
Sceptre (v. t.) To endow with the scepter, or emblem of authority; to invest with royal authority.
Scepterellate (a.) Having a straight shaft with whorls of spines; -- said of certain sponge spicules. See Illust. under Spicule.
Scepterless (a.) Alt. of Sceptreless
Sceptreless (a.) Having no scepter; without authority; powerless; as, a scepterless king.
Sceptic () Alt. of Scepticism
Sceptical () Alt. of Scepticism
Scepticism () etc. See Skeptic, Skeptical, Skepticism, etc.
Sceptral (a.) Of or pertaining to a scepter; like a scepter.
Scern (v. t.) To discern; to perceive.
Schade (n.) Shade; shadow.
Schah (n.) See Shah.
Schediasm (n.) Cursory writing on a loose sheet.
Schedule (n.) A written or printed scroll or sheet of paper; a document; especially, a formal list or inventory; a list or catalogue annexed to a larger document, as to a will, a lease, a statute, etc.
Schedule (v. t.) To form into, or place in, a schedule.
Scheele's green () See under Green.
Scheelin (n.) Scheelium.
Scheelite (n.) Calcium tungstate, a mineral of a white or pale yellowish color and of the tetragonal system of crystallization.
Scheelium (n.) The metal tungsten.
Scheik (n.) See Sheik.
Schelly (n.) The powan.
Schemata (pl. ) of Schema
Schemas (pl. ) of Schema
Schema (n.) An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind; as, five dots in a line are a schema of the number five; a preceding and succeeding event are a schema of cause and effect.
Schematic (a.) Of or pertaining to a scheme or a schema.
Schematism (n.) Combination of the aspects of heavenly bodies.
Schematism (n.) Particular form or disposition of a thing; an exhibition in outline of any systematic arrangement.
Schematist (n.) One given to forming schemes; a projector; a schemer.
Schematize (v. i.) To form a scheme or schemes.
Scheme (n.) A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.