His verse is scabrous and hobbling.
Dryden.
Sca"brous*ness, n. The quality of being scabrous.
Scab"wort` (?), n. (Bot.) Elecampane.
Scad (?), n. [Gael. & Ir. sgadan a herring.] (Zoöl.) (a) A small
carangoid fish (Trachurus saurus) abundant on the European coast, and
less common on the American. The name is applied also to several allied
species. (b) The goggler; -- called also big-eyed scad. See Goggler.
(c) The friar skate. [Scot.] (d) The cigar fish, or round robin.
Scaf"fold (?), n. [OF. eschafault, eschafaut, escafaut, escadafaut, F.
échafaud; probably originally the same word as E. & F. catafalque, It.
catafalco. See Catafalque.] 1. A temporary structure of timber, boards,
etc., for various purposes, as for supporting workmen and materials in
building, for exhibiting a spectacle upon, for holding the spectators
at a show, etc.
Pardon, gentles all, The flat, unraised spirits that have dared On
this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object.
Shak.
2. Specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the execution of a
criminal; as, to die on the scaffold.
That a scaffold of execution should grow a scaffold of coronation.
Sir P. Sidney.
3. (Metal.) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming
a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyères in a blast
furnace.
Scaf"fold, v. t. To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.
Scaf"fold*age (?), n. A scaffold. [R.] Shak.
Scaf"fold*ing, n. 1. A scaffold; a supporting framework; as, the
scaffolding of the body. Pope.