Scintillation (n.) A spark or flash emitted in scintillating.
Scintillous (a.) Scintillant.
Scintillously (adv.) In a scintillant manner.
Sciography (n.) See Sciagraphy.
Sciolism (n.) The knowledge of a sciolist; superficial knowledge.
Sciolist (n.) One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer.
Sciolistic (a.) Of or pertaining to sciolism, or a sciolist; partaking of sciolism; resembling a sciolist.
Sciolous (a.) Knowing superficially or imperfectly.
Sciomachy (n.) A fighting with a shadow; a mock contest; an imaginary or futile combat.
Sciomancy (n.) Divination by means of shadows.
Scion (n.) A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker.
Scion (n.) A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting.
Scion (n.) Hence, a descendant; an heir; as, a scion of a royal stock.
Scioptic (a.) Of or pertaining to an optical arrangement for forming images in a darkened room, usually called scioptic ball.
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.) Scioptic.
Sciot (a.) Of or pertaining to the island Scio (Chio or Chios).
Sciot (n.) A native or inhabitant of Scio.
Sciotheric (a.) Of or pertaining to a sundial.
Scious (a.) Knowing; having knowledge.
Scire facias () 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.
Scirrhoid (a.) Resembling scirrhus.
Scirrhosity (n.) A morbid induration, as of a gland; state of being scirrhous.
Scirrhous (a.) Proceeding from scirrhus; of the nature of scirrhus; indurated; knotty; as, scirrhous affections; scirrhous disease.
Scirrhi (pl. ) of Scirrhus
Scirrhuses (pl. ) of Scirrhus
Scirrhus (n.) An indurated organ or part; especially, an indurated gland.
Scirrhus (n.) A cancerous tumor which is hard, translucent, of a gray or bluish color, and emits a creaking sound when incised.
Sciscitation (n.) The act of inquiring; inquiry; demand.
Scise (v. i.) To cut; to penetrate.
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.
Scissil (n.) See Scissel.
Scissile (a.) Capable of being cut smoothly; scissible.
Scission (n.) The act of dividing with an instrument having a sharp edge.
Scissiparity (n.) Reproduction by fission.
Scissor (v. t.) To cut with scissors or shears; to prepare with the aid of scissors.
Scissors (n. pl.) 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.
Scissorsbill (n.) See Skimmer.
Scissorstail (n.) 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.) Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.
Scissure (n.) A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure.
Scitamineous (a.) 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.) Of or pertaining to the Squirrel family.
Sciurine (n.) A rodent of the Squirrel family.
Sciuroid (a.) 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.) A tribe of rodents containing the squirrels and allied animals, such as the gophers, woodchucks, beavers, and others.
Sciurus (n.) A genus of rodents comprising the common squirrels.
Sclaundre (n.) Slander.
Sclav (n.) Alt. of Sclave
Sclave (n.) Same as Slav.
Sclavic (a.) Same as Slavic.
Sclavism (n.) Same as Slavism.
Sclavonian (a. & n.) Same as Slavonian.
Sclavonic (a.) Same as Slavonic.
Sclender (a.) Slender.
Scleragogy (n.) Severe discipline.
Sclerema (n.) Induration of the cellular tissue.
Sclerenchyma (n.) Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic.
Sclerenchyma (n.) The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals.
Sclerenchymatous (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, sclerenchyma.
Sclerenchyme (n.) Sclerenchyma.
Scleriasis (n.) A morbid induration of the edge of the eyelid.
Scleriasis (n.) Induration of any part, including scleroderma.
Sclerite (n.) A hard chitinous or calcareous process or corpuscle, especially a spicule of the Alcyonaria.
Scleritis (n.) See Sclerotitis.
Sclerobase (n.) 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.
Scleroderm (n.) 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.) A disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin.
Sclerodermata (n. pl.) The stony corals; the Madreporaria.
Sclerodermic () Alt. of Sclerodermous
Sclerodermous () Having the integument, or skin, hard, or covered with hard plates.
Sclerodermous () Of or pertaining to the Sclerodermata.
Sclerodermite (n.) The hard integument of Crustacea.
Sclerodermite (n.) Sclerenchyma.
Sclerogen (n.) The thickening matter of woody cells; lignin.
Sclerogenous (a.) Making or secreting a hard substance; becoming hard.
Scleroid (a.) Having a hard texture, as nutshells.
Scleroma (n.) Induration of the tissues. See Sclerema, Scleroderma, and Sclerosis.
Sclerometer (n.) An instrument for determining with accuracy the degree of hardness of a mineral.
Sclerosed (a.) Affected with sclerosis.
Sclerosis (n.) Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue.
Sclerosis (n.) Hardening of the cell wall by lignification.
Scleroskeleton (n.) That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.
Sclerotal (a.) Sclerotic.
Sclerotal (n.) The optic capsule; the sclerotic coat of the eye.
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.) Of or pertaining to the sclerotic coat of the eye; sclerotical.
Sclerotic (a.) Affected with sclerosis; sclerosed.
Sclerotic (n.) The sclerotic coat of the eye. See Illust. of Eye (d).
Sclerotic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from ergot or the sclerotium of a fungus growing on rye.
Sclerotical (a.) Sclerotic.
Sclerotitis (n.) Inflammation of the sclerotic coat.
Sclerotia (pl. ) of Sclerotium
Sclerotium (n.) A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea, which produces ergot.
Sclerotium (n.) The mature or resting stage of a plasmodium.