1. Instruction in school; tuition. NWAD SCHOOLING.3
2. Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils. NWAD SCHOOLING.4
3. Reproof; reprimand. He gave his son a good schooling. NWAD SCHOOLING.5
1. A man versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity. NWAD SCHOOLMAN.2
Unlearn’d, he knew no schoolman’s subtil art. NWAD SCHOOLMAN.3
2. A writer of scholastic divinity or philosophy. NWAD SCHOOLMAN.4
Let subtil schoolmen teach these friends to fight. NWAD SCHOOLMAN.5
1. The man who presides over and teaches a school; a teacher, instructor or preceptor of a school. [Applied now only or chiefly to the teachers of primary school.] NWAD SCHOOLMASTER.2
Adrian VI. was sometime schoolmaster to Charles V. NWAD SCHOOLMASTER.3
2. He or that which disciplines, instructs and leads. NWAD SCHOOLMASTER.4
The law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. Galatians 3:24. NWAD SCHOOLMASTER.5
1. The art of sketching or delineating. NWAD SCIAGRAPHY.2
2. In architecture, the profile or section of a building to exhibit its interior structure. NWAD SCIAGRAPHY.3
3. In astronomy, the art of finding the hour of the day or night by the shadows of objects, caused by the sun, moon or stars; the art of dialing. NWAD SCIAGRAPHY.4
Belonging to a sun-dial. [Little used.] NWAD SCIATHERIC.2
1. Pertaining to the hip; as the sciatic artery. NWAD SCIATIC.3
2. Affecting the hip; as sciatic pains. NWAD SCIATIC.4
1. In a general sense, knowledge, or certain knowledge; the comprehension or understanding of truth or facts by the mind. The science of God must be perfect. NWAD SCIENCE.2
2. In philosophy, a collection of the general principles or leading truths relating to any subject. Pure science, as the mathematics, is built on self-evident truths; but the term science is also applied to other subjects founded on generally acknowledged truths, as metaphysics; or on experiment and observation, as chimistry and natural philosophy; or even to an assemblage of the general principles of an art, as the science of agriculture; the science of navigation. Arts relate to practice, as painting and sculpture. NWAD SCIENCE.3
A principle in science is a rule in art. NWAD SCIENCE.4
3. Art derived from precepts or built on principles. NWAD SCIENCE.5
Science perfects genius. NWAD SCIENCE.6
4. Any art or species of knowledge. NWAD SCIENCE.7
No science doth make known the first principles on which it buildeth. NWAD SCIENCE.8
5. One of the seven liberal branches of knowledge, viz grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music. NWAD SCIENCE.9
[Note - Authors have not always been careful to use the terms art and science with due discrimination and precision. Music is an art as well as a science. In general, an art is that which depends on practice or performance, and science that which depends on abstract or speculative principles. The theory of music is a science; the practice of it an art.] NWAD SCIENCE.10
1. Producing certain knowledge or demonstration; as scientific evidence. NWAD SCIENTIFIC.2
2. According to the rules or principles of science; as a scientific arrangement of fossils. NWAD SCIENTIFIC.3
3. Well versed in science; as a scientific physician. NWAD SCIENTIFIC.4
1. In such a manner as to produce knowledge. NWAD SCIENTIFICALLY.2
It is easier to believe, than to be scientifically instructed. NWAD SCIENTIFICALLY.3
2. According to the rules or principles of science. NWAD SCIENTIFICALLY.4
1. To emit sparks or fine igneous particles. NWAD SCINTILLATE.2
Marbles do not scintillate with steel. NWAD SCINTILLATE.3
2. to sparkle, as the fixed stars. NWAD SCINTILLATE.4
One who knows little, or who knows many things superficially; a smatterer. NWAD SCIOLIST.2
These passages in that book, were enough to humble the presumption of our modern sciolists, if their pride were not as great as their ignorance. NWAD SCIOLIST.3
A battle with a shadow. [Little used.] NWAD SCIOMACHY.2
Pertaining to the camera obscura, or to the art of exhibiting images through a hole in a darkened room. NWAD SCIOPTIC.2
1. Indurated; hard; knotty; as a gland. NWAD SCIRROUS.2
2. Proceeding from scirrus; as scirrous affections; scirrous disease. NWAD SCIRROUS.3
In surgery and medicine, a hard tumor on any part of the body, usually proceeding from the induration of a gland, and often terminating in a cancer. NWAD SCIRRUS.2
The act of inquiring; inquiry; demand. [Little used.] NWAD SCISCITATION.2
That may be cut or divided by a sharp instrument. NWAD SCISSILE.2
The act of cutting or dividing by an edged instrument. NWAD SCISSION.2
A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades movable on a pin in the center, by which they are fastened. Hence we usually say, a pair of scissors. NWAD SCISSORS.2
A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting. [This cannot legitimately be a crack, rent or fissure. In this use it may be an error of the press for fissure.] NWAD SCISSURE.2
Pertaining to the Sclavi, a people that inhabited the country between the rivers Save and Drave, or to their language. Hence the word came to denote the language which is now spoken in Poland, Russia, Hungary, Bohemia, etc. NWAD SCLAVONIAN.2
Hard; firm; as the sclerotic coat or tunicle of the eye. NWAD SCLEROTIC.2
1. The firm white outer coat of the eye. NWAD SCLEROTIC.4
2. A medicine which hardens and consolidates the parts to which it is applied. NWAD SCLEROTIC.5
Having the form of saw dust or raspings. NWAD SCOBIFORM.2
To treat with insolent ridicule, mockery or contumelious language; to manifest contempt by derision; with at. To scoff at religion and sacred things is evidence of extreme weakness and folly, as well as of wickedness. NWAD SCOFF.2
They shall scoff at the kings. Habakkuk 1:10. NWAD SCOFF.3
With scoffs and scorns and contumelious taunts. NWAD SCOFF.6
There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming?” 2 Peter 3:3. NWAD SCOFFER.2
Aristotle applied this hemistich scoffingly to the sycophants at Athens. NWAD SCOFFINGLY.2
To find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to utter railing or harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; with at; as, to scold at a servant. A scolding tongue, a scolding wife, a scolding husband, a scolding master, who can endure? NWAD SCOLD.2
Pardon me, ‘tis the first time that ever I’m forc’d to scold. NWAD SCOLD.3
1. A rude, clamorous, foul-mouthed woman. NWAD SCOLD.6
Scolds answer foul-mouth’d scolds. NWAD SCOLD.7
2. A scolding; a brawl. NWAD SCOLD.8
1. Railing with clamor; uttering rebuke in rude and boisterous language. NWAD SCOLDING.2
2. a. Given to scolding. NWAD SCOLDING.3
1. A pectinated shell. [See Scallop.] NWAD SCOLLOP.2
2. An indenting or cut like those of a shell. NWAD SCOLLOP.3
1. A venomous serpent. NWAD SCOLOPENDRA.2
2. A genus of insects of the order of Apters, destitute of wings. These insects have as many feet on each side as there are segments in the body. There are several species. NWAD SCOLOPENDRA.3
3. A plant. [L. scolopendrium.] NWAD SCOLOPENDRA.4
1. A buffoon. [Not in use.] NWAD SCOMM.2
2. A flout; a jeer. [Not in use.] NWAD SCOMM.3
1. A fort or bulwark; a work for defense. Obs. NWAD SCONCE.2
2. A hanging or projecting candlestick, generally with a mirror to reflect the light. NWAD SCONCE.3
Golden sconces hang upon the walls. NWAD SCONCE.4
3. The circular tube with a brim in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted, that is, the support, the holder of the candle; and from this sense the candlestick, in the preceding definition, has its name. NWAD SCONCE.5
4. A fixed seat or shelf. [Local.] NWAD SCONCE.6
1. Sense; judgment; discretion or understanding. This sense has been in vulgar use in New England within my memory. NWAD SCONCE.8
2. The head; a low word. NWAD SCONCE.9
3. A mulet or fine. NWAD SCONCE.10
1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle fastened to a dish, used for dipping liquors; also, a little hollow piece of wood for bailing boats. NWAD SCOOP.2
2. An instrument of surgery. NWAD SCOOP.3
3. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop. NWAD SCOOP.4
1. To lade out; properly, to take out with a scoop or with a sweeping motion. NWAD SCOOP.6
He scoop’d the water from the crystal flood. NWAD SCOOP.7
2. To empty by lading; as, he scooped it dry. NWAD SCOOP.8
3. To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; as, the Indians scoop the trunk of a tree into a canoe. NWAD SCOOP.9
Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop, so as to hold above a pint. NWAD SCOOP.10
4. To remove, so as to leave a place hollow. NWAD SCOOP.11
A spectator would think this circular mount had been actually scooped out of that hollow space. NWAD SCOOP.12
1. Space; room; amplitude of intellectual view; as a free scope for inquiry; full scope for the fancy or imagination; ample scope for genius. NWAD SCOPE.2
2. The limit of intellectual view; the end or thing to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim or purpose; intention; drift. It expresses both the purpose and thing purposed. NWAD SCOPE.3
Your scope is as mine own, so to enforce and qualify the laws, as to your soul seems good. NWAD SCOPE.4
The scope of all their pleading against man’s authority, is to overthrow such laws and constitutions of the church - NWAD SCOPE.5
3. Liberty; freedom from restraint; room to move in. NWAD SCOPE.6
4. Liberty beyond just limits; license. NWAD SCOPE.7
Give him line and scope. NWAD SCOPE.8
5. Act of riot; sally; excess. Obs. NWAD SCOPE.9
6. Extended quantity; as a scope of land. Obs. NWAD SCOPE.10
7. Length; extent; sweep; as scope of cable. NWAD SCOPE.11
Zeolite, stelliform or scopiform. NWAD SCOPIFORM.2
1. Affected or diseased with scurvy; as a scorbutic person. NWAD SCORBUTIC.2
2. Pertaining to scurvy, or partaking of its nature; as scorbutic complaints or symptoms. NWAD SCORBUTIC.3
3. Subject to scurvy; as a scorbutic habit. NWAD SCORBUTIC.4
1. To burn superficially; to subject to a degree of heat that changes the color of a thing, or both the color and texture of the surface. Fire will scorch linen or cotton very speedily in extremely cold weather. NWAD SCORCH.2
2. To burn; to affect painfully with heat. Scorched with the burning sun or burning sands of Africa. NWAD SCORCH.3
Scatter a little mungy straw and fern among your seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching. NWAD SCORCH.5
1. A notch or incision; hence, the number twenty. Our ancestors, before the knowledge of writing, numbered and kept accounts of numbers by cutting notches on a stick or tally, and making one notch the representative of twenty. A simple mark answered the same purpose. NWAD SCORE.2
2. A line drawn. NWAD SCORE.3
3. An account or reckoning; as, he paid his score. NWAD SCORE.4
4. An account kept of something past; an epoch; an era. NWAD SCORE.5
5. Debt, or account of debt. NWAD SCORE.6
6. Account; reason; motive. NWAD SCORE.7
But left the trade, as many more have lately done on the same score. NWAD SCORE.8
7. Account; sake. NWAD SCORE.9
You act your kindness of Cydaria’s score. NWAD SCORE.10
8. In music, the original and entire draught of any composition, or its transcript. NWAD SCORE.11
To quit scores, to pay fully; to make even by giving an equivalent. NWAD SCORE.12
A song in score, the words with the musical notes of a song annexed. NWAD SCORE.13
1. To notch; to cut and chip for the purpose of preparing for hewing; as, to score timber. NWAD SCORE.15
2. To cut; to engrave. NWAD SCORE.16
3. To mark by a line. NWAD SCORE.17
4. To set down as a debt. NWAD SCORE.18
Madam, I know when, instead of five, you scored me ten. NWAD SCORE.19
5. To set down or take as an account; to charge; as, to score follies. NWAD SCORE.20
6. To form a score in music. NWAD SCORE.21
In botany, a scored stem is marked with parallel lines or grooves. NWAD SCORED.2
Dross; the recrement of metals in fusion, or the mass produced by melting metals and ores. NWAD SCORIA.2
1. Extreme contempt; that disdain which springs from a person’s opinion of the meanness of an object, and a consciousness or belief of his own superiority or worth. NWAD SCORN.2
He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone. Esther 3:6. NWAD SCORN.3
Every sullen frown and bitter scorn but fann’d the fuel that too fast did burn. NWAD SCORN.4
2. A subject of extreme contempt, disdain or derision; that which is treated with contempt. NWAD SCORN.5
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are around us. Psalm 44:13. NWAD SCORN.6
To think scorn, to disdain; to despise. Obs. NWAD SCORN.7
To laugh to scorn, to deride; to make a mock of; to ridicule as contemptible. NWAD SCORN.8
They laughed us to scorn. Nehemiah 2:19. NWAD SCORN.9
1. to hold in extreme contempt; to despise; to contemn; to disdain. Job 16:20. NWAD SCORN.11
Surely he scorneth the scorner; but he giveth grace to the lowly. Proverbs 3:34. NWAD SCORN.12
2. to think unworth; to disdain. NWAD SCORN.13
Fame that delights around the world to stray, scorns not to take our Argos in her way. NWAD SCORN.14
3. To slight; to disregard; to neglect. NWAD SCORN.15
This my long suff’rance and my day of grace, those who neglect and scorn, shall never taste. NWAD SCORN.16
1. One that scorns; a contemner; a despiser. NWAD SCORNER.2
They are great scorners of death. NWAD SCORNER.3
2. A scoffer; a derider; in Scripture, one who scoffs at religion, its ordinances and teachers, and who makes a mock of sin and the judgments and threatenings of God against sinners. Proverbs 1:22; Proverbs 19:25. NWAD SCORNER.4
1. Contemptuous; disdainful; entertaining scorn; insolent. NWAD SCORNFUL.2
Th’ enamor’d deity the scornful damsel shuns. NWAD SCORNFUL.3
2. Acting in defiance or disregard. NWAD SCORNFUL.4
Scornful of winter’s frost and summer’s sun. NWAD SCORNFUL.5
3. In Scripture, holding religion in contempt; treating with disdain religion and the dispensations of God. NWAD SCORNFUL.6
The sacred rights of the christian church are scornfully trampled on in print - NWAD SCORNFULLY.2
How long will the scorners delight in their scorning? Proverbs 1:22; Psalm 123:4. NWAD SCORNING.3
1. In zoology, an insect of the genus Scorpio, or rather the genus itself, containing several species, natives of southern or warm climates. This animal has eight feet, two claws in front, eight eyes, three on each side of the thorax and two on the back, and a long jointed tail ending in a pointed weapon or sting. It is found in the south of Europe, where it seldom exceeds four inches in length. In tropical climates, it grows to a foot in length, and resembles a lobster. The sting of this animal is sometimes fatal to life. NWAD SCORPION.2
2. In Scripture, a painful scourge; a kind of whip armed with points like a scorpion’s tail. 1 Kings 12:11. NWAD SCORPION.3
Malicious and crafty men, who delight in injuring others, are compared to scorpions. Ezekiel 2:6. NWAD SCORPION.4
3. In astronomy, the eighth sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters, Oct. 23. NWAD SCORPION.5
4. A sea fish. [L. scorpius.] NWAD SCORPION.6
Water scorpion, an aquatic insect of the genus Nepa. NWAD SCORPION.7
The mouse-ear scorpion-grass, is of the genus Myosotis. NWAD SCORPION-GRASS.2