Scape"gal`lows (?), n. One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his
crimes. [Colloq.] Dickens.
Scape"goat` (?), n. [Scape (for escape) + goat.] 1. (Jewish Antiq.) A
goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people,
after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness. Lev. xvi.
10.
2. Hence, a person or thing that is made to bear blame for others.
Tennyson.
Scape"grace` (?), n. A graceless, unprincipled person; one who is wild
and reckless. Beaconsfield.
Scape"less, a. (Bot.) Destitute of a scape.
Scape"ment (?), n. [See Scape, v., Escapement.] Same as Escapement, 3.
Scape"-wheel` (?), n. (Horol.) The wheel in an escapement (as of a
clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play.
Sca*phan"der (?), n. [Gr. &?;, &?;, anything hollowed + &?;, &?;, a
man: cf. F. scaphandre.] The case, or impermeable apparel, in which a
diver can work while under water.
Scaph"ism (?), n. [Gr. ska`fh a trough.] An ancient mode of punishing
criminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with
his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the
sun and to insects until he died.
Scaph"ite (?), n. [L. scapha a boat, fr. Gr. ska`fh a boat, anything
dug or scooped out, fr. ska`ptein to dig.] (Paleon.) Any fossil
cephalopod shell of the genus Scaphites, belonging to the Ammonite
family and having a chambered boat-shaped shell. Scaphites are found in
the Cretaceous formation.
Scaph`o*ce*phal"ic (?), a. (Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or affected with,
scaphocephaly.
Scaph`o*ceph"a*ly (?), n. [Gr. ska`fh a boat + kefalh` head.] (Anat.) A
deformed condition of the skull, in which the vault is narrow,
elongated, and more or less boat-shaped.
Scaph`o*ce"rite (?), n. [Gr. ska`fh boat + E. cerite.] (Zoöl.) A
flattened plate or scale attached to the second joint of the antennæ of
many Crustacea.
Sca*phog"na*thite (?), n. [Gr. ska`fh boat + gna`qos jaw.] (Zoöl.) A
thin leafike appendage (the exopodite) of the second maxilla of decapod
crustaceans. It serves as a pumping organ to draw the water through the
gill cavity.
Scaph"oid (?; 277), a. [Gr. ska`fh a boat + -oid: cf. F. scaphoïde.]
(Anat.) Resembling a boat in form; boat-shaped. -- n. The scaphoid
bone.
Scaphoid bone (a) One of the carpal bones, which articulates with the
radius; the radiale. (b) One of the tarsal bones; the navicular bone.
See under Navicular.
Scaph`o*lu"nar (?), a. [Scaphoid + lunar.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to
the scaphoid and lunar bones of the carpus. -- n. The scapholunar bone.
Scapholunar bone, a bone formed by the coalescence of the scaphoid and
lunar in the carpus of carnivora.
||Sca*phop"o*da (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. ska`fh a boat + -poda.]
||(Zoöl.) A class of marine cephalate Mollusca having a tubular shell
||open at both ends, a pointed or spadelike foot for burrowing, and
||many long, slender, prehensile oral tentacles. It includes Dentalium,
||or the tooth shells, and other similar shells. Called also
||Prosopocephala, and Solenoconcha.
Sca"pi*form (?), a. (Bot.) Resembling a scape, or flower stem.
Scap"o*lite (skp"*lt), n. [Gr. &?; a staff, or L. scapus a stem, stalk
+ -lite: cf. F. scapolite.] (Mon.) A grayish white mineral occuring in
tetragonal crystals and in cleavable masses. It is essentially a
silicate of alumina and soda.
The scapolite group includes scapolite proper, or wernerite, also
meionite, dipyre, etc.
Scap"ple (skp"p'l), v. t. [Cf. OF. eskapeler, eschapler, to cut, hew,
LL. scapellare. Cf. Scabble.] (a) To work roughly, or shape without
finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry. (b) To dress in any way
short of fine tooling or rubbing, as stone. Gwilt.
Scap"u*la (skp"*l), n.; pl. L. Scapulæ (#), E. Scapulas (#). [L.] 1.
(Anat.) The principal bone of the shoulder girdle in mammals; the
shoulder blade.