Shun their fault, who, scandalously nice, Will needs mistake an
author into vice.
Pope.
Scan"dal*ous*ness, n. Quality of being scandalous.
||Scan"da*lum mag*na"tum` (?). [L., scandal of magnates.] (Law) A
||defamatory speech or writing published to the injury of a person of
||dignity; -- usually abbreviated scan. mag.
Scan"dent (?), a. [L. scandens, -entis, p. pr. of scandere to climb.]
Climbing.
Scandent plants may climb either by twining, as the hop, or by twisted
leafstalks, as the clematis, or by tendrils, as the passion flower, or
by rootlets, as the ivy.
Scan"di*a (?), n. [NL. See Scandium.] (Chem.) A chemical earth, the
oxide of scandium.
Scan"dic (?), a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to scandium; derived from, or
containing, scandium.
Scan`di*na"vi*an (?), a. Of or pertaining to Scandinavia, that is,
Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. -- n. A native or inhabitant of
Scandinavia.
Scan"di*um (?), n. [NL. So called because found in Scandinavian
minerals.] (Chem.) A rare metallic element of the boron group, whose
existence was predicted under the provisional name ekaboron by means of
the periodic law, and subsequently discovered by spectrum analysis in
certain rare Scandinavian minerals (euxenite and gadolinite). It has
not yet been isolated. Symbol Sc. Atomic weight 44.
Scan"sion (?), n. [L. scansio, fr. scandere, scansum, to climb. See
Scan.] (Pros.) The act of scanning; distinguishing the metrical feet of
a verse by emphasis, pauses, or otherwise.
||Scan*so"res (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. scandere, scansum, to climb.]
||(Zoöl.) An artifical group of birds formerly regarded as an order.
||They are distributed among several orders by modern ornithologists.
The toes are in pairs, two before and two behind, by which they are
enabled to cling to, and climb upon, trees, as the woodpeckers,
parrots, cuckoos, and trogons. See Illust. under Aves.
Scan*so"ri*al (?), a. (Zoöl.) (a) Capable of climbing; as, the
woodpecker is a scansorial bird; adapted for climbing; as, a scansorial
foot. (b) Of or pertaining to the Scansores. See Illust.. under Aves.
Scansorial tail (Zoöl.), a tail in which the feathers are stiff and
sharp at the tip, as in the woodpeckers.
Scant (?), a. [Compar. Scanter (?); superl. Scantest.] [Icel. skamt,
neuter of skamr, skammr, short; cf. skamta to dole out, to portion.] 1.
Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted
for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of
provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment.
His sermon was scant, in all, a quarter of an hour.
Ridley.