The ashy paleness of my cheek Is scarleted in ruddy flakes of
wrath.
Ford.
{ Scar"mage (?), Scar"moge (?) }, n. A slight contest; a skirmish. See
Skirmish. [Obs.]
Such cruel game my scarmoges disarms.
Spenser.
Scarn (?), n. [Icel. skarn; akin to AS. scearn. Cf. Shearn.] Dung.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Ray.
Scarn bee (Zoöl.), a dung beetle.
Sca"roid, a. [Scarus + - oid.] (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Scaridæ,
a family of marine fishes including the parrot fishes.
Scarp (?), n. [OF. escharpe. See 2d Scarf.] (Her.) A band in the same
position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter.
Scarp, n. [Aphetic form of Escarp.] 1. (Fort.) The slope of the ditch
nearest the parapet; the escarp.