A beetle; an insect of the genus Scarabaeus, whose wings are cased. [See Beetle.] NWAD SCARAB.2
A buffoon in motley dress. NWAD SCARAMOUCH.2
1. Not plentiful or abundant; being in small quantity in proportion to the demand. We say, water is scarce, wheat, rye, barley is scarce, money is scarce, when the quantity is not fully adequate to the demand. NWAD SCARCE.2
2. Being few in number and scattered; rare; uncommon. Good horses are scarce. NWAD SCARCE.3
The scarcest of all is a Pescennius Niger on a medallion well preserved. NWAD SCARCE.4
1. Hardly; scantly. NWAD SCARCE.6
We scarcely think our miseries our foes. NWAD SCARCE.7
2. Hardly; with difficulty. NWAD SCARCE.8
Slowly he sails, and scarcely stems the tides. NWAD SCARCE.9
1. Smallness of quantity, or smallness in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency defeat of plenty; penury; as a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties; a scarcity of lovely women. NWAD SCARCENESS.2
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity. NWAD SCARCENESS.3
A scarcity of snow would raise a mutiny at Naples. NWAD SCARCENESS.4
2. Rareness; infrequency. NWAD SCARCENESS.5
The value of an advantage is enhanced by its scarceness. NWAD SCARCENESS.6
Root of scarcity, the mangold-wurzel, a variety of the white beet. NWAD SCARCENESS.7
To fright; to terrify suddenly; to strike with sudden terror. NWAD SCARE.2
The noise of thy crow-bow will scare the herd, and so my shot is lost. NWAD SCARE.3
To scare away, to drive away by frightening. NWAD SCARE.4
1. Any frightful thing set up to frighten crows or other fowls from corn fields; hence, any thing terrifying without danger; a vain terror. NWAD SCARECROW.2
A scarecrow set to frighten fools away. NWAD SCARECROW.3
2. A fowl of the sea gull kind; the black gull. NWAD SCARECROW.4
Something that hangs loose upon the shoulders; as a piece of cloth. NWAD SCARF.2
Put on your hood and scarf. NWAD SCARF.3
1. To throw loosely on. NWAD SCARF.5
2. To dress in a loose vesture. NWAD SCARF.6
In surgery, the operation of making several incisions in the skin with a lancet or other cutting instrument, particularly the cupping instrument. NWAD SCARIFICATION.2
1. The person who scarifies. NWAD SCARIFIER.2
2. The instrument used for scarifying. NWAD SCARIFIER.3
To scratch or cut the skin of an animal, or to make small incisions by means of a lancet or cupping instrument, so as to draw blood from the smaller vessels without opening a large vein. NWAD SCARIFY.2
1. A beautiful bright red color, brighter than crimson. NWAD SCARLET.2
2. Cloth of a scarlet color. NWAD SCARLET.3
All her household are clothed with scarlet. Proverbs 31:21. NWAD SCARLET.4
In fortification, the interior talus or slope of the ditch next the place, at the foot of the rampart. NWAD SCARP.2
A wooden shoe furnished with a steel plate for sliding on ice. NWAD SCATE.2
1. To disperse; to dissipate; to separate or remove things to a distance from each other. NWAD SCATTER.2
From thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. Genesis 11:9. NWAD SCATTER.3
I will scatter you among the heathen. Leviticus 26:33. NWAD SCATTER.4
2. To throw loosely about; to sprinkle; as, to scatter seed in sowing. NWAD SCATTER.5
Teach the glad hours to scatter, as they fly, soft quiet, gentle love and endless joy. NWAD SCATTER.6
3. To spread or set thinly. NWAD SCATTER.7
Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, their scatter’d cottages, and ample plains. NWAD SCATTER.8
1. To be dispersed or dissipated. The clouds scatter after a storm. NWAD SCATTER.10
2. To be liberal to the poor; to be charitable. Proverbs 11:24. NWAD SCATTER.11
1. Dispersed; dissipated; thinly spread; sprinkled or thinly spread over. NWAD SCATTERED.2
2. In botany, irregular in position; without any apparent regular order; as scattered branches. NWAD SCATTERED.3
1. Dispersing; spreading thinly; sprinkling. NWAD SCATTERING.2
2. a. Not united; divided among many; as scattering votes. NWAD SCATTERING.3
In ancient customs, a toll or duty exacted of merchant-strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc. for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts. NWAD SCAVAGE.2
A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping and carrying off the filth. NWAD SCAVENGER.2
1. A stage; the theater or place where dramatic pieces and other shows are exhibited. It does not appear that the ancients changed the scenes in different parts of the play. Indeed the original scene for acting was an open plat of ground, shaded or slightly covered. NWAD SCENE.2
2. The whole series of actions and events connected and exhibited; or the whole assemblage of objects displayed at one view. Thus we say, the execution of a malefactor is a melancholy scene. The crucifixion of our Saviour was the most solemn scene ever presented to the view of man. NWAD SCENE.3
We say also, a scene of sorrow or of rejoicing, a noble scene, a sylvan scene. NWAD SCENE.4
A charming scene of nature is display’d. NWAD SCENE.5
3. A part of a play; a division of an act. A play is divided into acts, and acts are divided into scenes. NWAD SCENE.6
4. So much of an act of a play as represents what passes between the same persons in the same place. NWAD SCENE.7
5. The place represented by the sate. The scene was laid in the king’s palace. NWAD SCENE.8
6. The curtain or hanging of a theater adapted to the play. NWAD SCENE.9
7. The place where any thing is exhibited. NWAD SCENE.10
The world is a vast scene of strife. NWAD SCENE.11
8. Any remarkable exhibition. NWAD SCENE.12
The shepherds, while watching their flocks upon the plains of Bethehem, were suddenly interrupted by one of the most sublime and surprising scenes which have ever been exhibited on earth. NWAD SCENE.13
Never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery. NWAD SCENERY.2
2. The representation of the place in which an action is performed. NWAD SCENERY.3
3. The disposition and consecution of the scenes of a play. NWAD SCENERY.4
4. The paintings representing the scenery of a play. NWAD SCENERY.5
The representation of a body on a perspective plane; or a description of it in all its dimensions as it appears to the eye. NWAD SCENOGRAPHY.2
1. Odor; smell; that substance which issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals; as the scent of an orange or an apple; the scent of musk. The word is applicable to any odor, agreeable or offensive. NWAD SCENT.2
2. The power of smelling; the smell; as a house of nice scent. NWAD SCENT.3
3. chase followed by the scent; course of pursuit; track. NWAD SCENT.4
He travelled upon the same scent into Ethiopia. NWAD SCENT.5
1. to smell; to perceive by the olfactory organs; as, to scent game, as a hound. NWAD SCENT.7
2. To perfume; to imbue or fill with odor, good or bad. Aromatic plants scent the room. some persons scent garments with musk; others scent their snuff. NWAD SCENT.8
1. Odorous; yielding much smell. NWAD SCENTFUL.2
2. Of quick smell. NWAD SCENTFUL.3
1. A staff or batoon borne by kings on solemn occasions, as a badge of authority. Hence, NWAD SCEPTER.2
2. The appropriate ensign of royalty; an ensign of higher antiquity than the crown. Hence, NWAD SCEPTER.3
3. Royal power or authority; as, to assume the scepter. NWAD SCEPTER.4
The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, till Shiloh come. Genesis 49:10. NWAD SCEPTER.5
4. A constellation. NWAD SCEPTER.6
To Britain’s queen the scepter’d suppliant bends. NWAD SCEPTERED.2
Gold-scepter’d Juno. NWAD SCEPTERED.3
1. One who doubts the truth and reality of any principle or system of principles or doctrines. In philosophy, a Pyrrhonist or follower of Pyrrho, the founder of a sect of sceptical philosophers, who maintained that no certain inferences can be drawn from the reports of the senses, and who therefore doubted of every thing. NWAD SCEPTIC.2
2. In theology, a person who doubts the existence and perfections of God, or the truth of revelation; one who disbelieves the divine original of the christian religion. NWAD SCEPTIC.3
Suffer not your faith to be shaken by the sophistries of sceptics. NWAD SCEPTIC.4
1. Doubting; hesitating to admit the certainty of doctrines or principles; doubting of every thing. NWAD SCEPTIC.6
2. Doubting or denying the truth of revelation. NWAD SCEPTIC.7
The sceptical system subverts the whole foundation of morals. NWAD SCEPTIC.8
1. The doctrines and opinions of the Pyrrhonists or sceptical philosophers; universal doubt; the scheme of philosophy which denies the certainty of any knowledge respecting the phenomena of nature. NWAD SCEPTICISM.2
2. In theology, a doubting of the truth of revelation, or a denial of the divine origin of the christian religion, or of the being, perfections or truth of God. NWAD SCEPTICISM.3
Irreligious scepticism or atheistic profaneness. NWAD SCEPTICISM.4
Let no despondency or timidity or secret scepticism lead any one to doubt whether this blessed prospect will be realized. NWAD SCEPTICISM.5
1. A small scroll or piece of paper or parchment, containing some writing. NWAD SCHEDULE.2
2. A piece of paper or parchment annexed to a larger writing, as to a will, a deed, a lease, etc. NWAD SCHEDULE.3
3. A piece of paper or parchment containing an inventory of goods. NWAD SCHEDULE.4
1. Combination of the aspects of heavenly bodies. NWAD SCHEMATISM.2
2. Particular form or disposition of a thing. [A word not much used.] NWAD SCHEMATISM.3
1. A plan; a combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system. NWAD SCHEME.2
We shall never be able to give ourselves a satisfactory account of the divine conduct without forming such a scheme of things as shall take in time and eternity. NWAD SCHEME.3
2. A project; a contrivance; a plan of something to be done; a design. Thus we say, to form a scheme, to lay a scheme, to contrive a scheme. NWAD SCHEME.4
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. NWAD SCHEME.5
3. A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies; any lineal or mathematical diagram. NWAD SCHEME.6
1. Planning; contriving. NWAD SCHEMING.2
2. a. Given to forming schemes; artful. NWAD SCHEMING.3
Habitude; general state or disposition of the body or mind, or of one thing with regard to other things. NWAD SCHESIS.2
1. In a general sense, division or separation; but appropriately, a division or separation in a church or denomination of christians, occasioned by diversity of opinions; breach of unity among people of the same religious faith. NWAD SCHISM.2
- Set bounds to our passions by reason, to our errors by truth, and to our schisms by charity. NWAD SCHISM.3
In Scripture, the word seems to denote a breach of charity, rather than a difference of doctrine. NWAD SCHISM.4
2. Separation; division among tribes or classes of people. NWAD SCHISM.5
1. One who learns of a teacher; one who is under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; hence, any member of a college, academy or school; applicable to the learner of any art, science or branch of literature. NWAD SCHOLAR.2
2. A man of letters. NWAD SCHOLAR.3
3. Emphatically used, a man eminent for erudition; a person of high attainments in science or literature. NWAD SCHOLAR.4
4. One that learns any thing; as an apt scholar in the school of vice. NWAD SCHOLAR.5
5. A pedant; a man of books. [But the word scholar seldom conveys the idea of a pedant.] NWAD SCHOLAR.6
1. Learning; attainments in science or literature; as a man of great scholarship. NWAD SCHOLARSHIP.2
2. Literary education; as any other house of scholarship. [Unusual.] NWAD SCHOLARSHIP.3
3. Exhibition or maintenance for a scholar; foundation for the support of a student. NWAD SCHOLARSHIP.4
1. Pertaining to a scholar, to a school or to schools; as scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning. NWAD SCHOLASTIC.2
2. Scholar-like; becoming a scholar; suitable to schools; as scholastic precision. NWAD SCHOLASTIC.3
3. Pedantic; formal. NWAD SCHOLASTIC.4
Scholastic divinity, that species of divinity taught in some schools or colleges, which consists in discussing and settling points by reason and argument. It has now fallen into contempt, except in some universities, where the charters require it to be taught. NWAD SCHOLASTIC.5
The spirit of the old scholasticism, which spurned laborious investigation and slow induction - NWAD SCHOLASTICISM.2
A commentator or annotator; one who writes notes upon the works of another for illustrating his writings. NWAD SCHOLIAST.2
In mathematics, a remark or observation subjoined to a demonstration. NWAD SCHOLIUM.2
1. A place or house in which persons are instructed in arts, science, languages or any species of learning; or the pupils assembled for instruction. In American usage, school more generally denotes the collective body of pupils in any place of instruction, and under the direction and discipline of one or more teachers. Thus we say, a school consists of fifty pupils. The preceptor has a large school, or a small school. His discipline keeps the school well regulated and quiet. NWAD SCHOOL.2
2. The instruction or exercises of a collection of pupils or students, or the collective body of pupils while engaged in their studies. Thus we say, the school begins or opens at eight o’clock, that is, the pupils at that hour begin their studies. so we say, the teacher is now in school, the school hours are from nine to twelve, and from two to five. NWAD SCHOOL.3
3. The state of instruction. NWAD SCHOOL.4
Set him betimes to school. NWAD SCHOOL.5
4. A place of education, or collection of pupils, of any kind; as the schools of the prophets. In modern usage, the word school comprehends every place of education, as university, college, academy, common or primary schools, dancing schools, riding schools, etc.; but ordinarily the word is applied to seminaries inferior to universities and colleges. NWAD SCHOOL.6
What is the great community of christians, but one of the innumerable schools in the vast plan, which God has instituted for the education of various intelligences? NWAD SCHOOL.7
5. Separate denomination or sect; or a system of doctrine taught by particular teachers, or peculiar to any denomination of christians or philosophers. NWAD SCHOOL.8
Let no man be less confident in his faith - by reason of any difference in the several schools of christians - NWAD SCHOOL.9
Thus we say, the Socratic school, the Platonic school, the Peripatetic or Ionic school; by which we understand all those who adopted and adhered to a particular system of opinions. NWAD SCHOOL.10
6. The seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics and theology, which were formed in the middle ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning; or the learned men who were engaged in discussing nice points in metaphysics or theology. NWAD SCHOOL.11
The supreme authority of Aristotle in the schools of theology as well as of philosophy - NWAD SCHOOL.12
Hence, school divinity is the divinity which discusses nice points, and proves every thing by argument. NWAD SCHOOL.13
7. Any place of improvement or learning. The world is an excellent school to wise men, but a school of vice to fools. NWAD SCHOOL.14
1. To instruct; to train; to educate. NWAD SCHOOL.16
He’s gentle, never school’d, yet learn’d. NWAD SCHOOL.17
2. To teach with superiority; to tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove. NWAD SCHOOL.18
School your child, and ask why God’s anointed he revil’d. NWAD SCHOOL.19