To draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France.
South.
4. (Astrol.) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies
for any moment or at a given event.
A blue silk case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity.
Sir W. Scott.
Syn. -- Plan; project; contrivance; purpose; device; plot. -- Scheme,
Plan. Scheme and plan are subordinate to design; they propose modes of
carrying our designs into effect. Scheme is the least definite of the
two, and lies more in speculation. A plan is drawn out into details
with a view to being carried into effect. As schemes are speculative,
they often prove visionary; hence the opprobrious use of the words
schemer and scheming. Plans, being more practical, are more frequently
carried into effect.
He forms the well-concerted scheme of mischief; 'T is fixed, 't is
done, and both are doomed to death.
Rowe.
Artists and plans relieved my solemn hours; I founded palaces, and
planted bowers.
Prior.
Scheme, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Schemed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scheming.] To
make a scheme of; to plan; to design; to project; to plot.
That wickedness which schemed, and executed, his destruction.
G. Stuart.
Scheme, v. i. To form a scheme or schemes.
Scheme"ful (?), a. Full of schemes or plans.
Schem"er (?), n. One who forms schemes; a projector; esp., a plotter;
an intriguer.
Schemers and confederates in guilt.
Paley.
Schem"ing, a. Given to forming schemes; artful; intriguing. --
Schem"ing*ly, adv.
Schem"ist, n. A schemer. [R.] Waterland.
Schene (?), n. [L. schoenus, Gr. &?; a rush, a reed, a land measure:
cf. F. schène.] (Antiq.) An Egyptian or Persian measure of length,
varying from thirty-two to sixty stadia.
Schenk"beer` (?), n. [G. schenkbier; schenken to pour out + bier beer;
-- so called because put on draught soon after it is made.] A mild
German beer.
Scher"bet (?), n. See Sherbet.
||Scher"if (? or ?), n. See Sherif.
||Scher*zan"do (?), adv. [It.] (Mus.) In a playful or sportive manner.
||Scher"zo (?), n. [It.] (Mus.) A playful, humorous movement, commonly
||in 3-4 measure, which often takes the place of the old minuet and
||trio in a sonata or a symphony.
||Sche"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, fr. &?;, &?;, to have or hold.
||See Scheme.] 1. General state or disposition of the body or mind, or
||of one thing with regard to other things; habitude. [Obs.] Norris.
2. (Rhet.) A figure of speech whereby the mental habitude of an
adversary or opponent is feigned for the purpose of arguing against
him. Crabb.
{ Schet"ic (?), Schet"ic*al (?) }, a. [Cf. Gr. &?; holding back.] Of or
pertaining to the habit of the body; constitutional. [Obs.] Cudworth.
Schie*dam" (?), n. [Short for Schiedam schnapps.] Holland gin made at
Schiedam in the Netherlands.
Schil"ler (?), n. [G., play of colors.] (Min.) The peculiar bronzelike
luster observed in certain minerals, as hypersthene, schiller spar,
etc. It is due to the presence of minute inclusions in parallel
position, and is sometimes of secondary origin.
Schiller spar (Min.), an altered variety of enstatite, exhibiting, in
certain positions, a bronzelike luster.
Schil`ler*i*za"tion (&?;), n. (Min.) The act or process of producing
schiller in a mineral mass.
Schil"ling (?), n. [G. See Shilling.] Any one of several small German
and Dutch coins, worth from about one and a half cents to about five
cents.
||Schin`dy*le"sis (?), n. [NL., from Gr. &?; a splitting into
||fragments.] (Anat.) A form of articulation in which one bone is
||received into a groove or slit in another.
Schir"rhus (?), n. See Scirrhus.
Schism (?), n. [OE. scisme, OF. cisme, scisme, F. schisme, L. schisma,
Gr. schi`sma, fr. schi`zein to split; akin to L. scindere, Skr. chid,
and prob. to E. shed, v.t. (which see); cf. Rescind, Schedule, Zest.]
Division or separation; specifically (Eccl.), permanent division or
separation in the Christian church; breach of unity among people of the
same religious faith; the offense of seeking to produce division in a
church without justifiable cause.
Set bounds to our passions by reason, to our errors by truth, and
to our schisms by charity.
Eikon Basilike.
Greek schism (Eccl.), the separation of the Greek and Roman churches.
-- Great schism, or Western schism (Eccl.) a schism in the Roman church
in the latter part of the 14th century, on account of rival claimants
to the papal throne. -- Schism act (Law), an act of the English
Parliament requiring all teachers to conform to the Established Church,
-- passed in 1714, repealed in 1719.
||Schis"ma (?), n. [L., a split, separation, Gr. schi`sma: cf. F.
||schisma. See Schism.] (Anc. Mus.) An interval equal to half a comma.
Schis*mat"ic (sz*mt"k; so nearly all orthoëpists), a. [L. schismaticus,
Gr. &?;: cf. F. schismatique.] Of or pertaining to schism; implying
schism; partaking of the nature of schism; tending to schism; as,
schismatic opinions or proposals.
Schis*mat"ic (?; 277), n. One who creates or takes part in schism; one
who separates from an established church or religious communion on
account of a difference of opinion. "They were popularly classed
together as canting schismatics." Macaulay.
Syn. -- Heretic; partisan. See Heretic.
Schis*mat"ic*al (?), a. Same as Schismatic. -- Schis*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.
-- Schis*mat"ic*al*ness, n.
Schis"ma*tize (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Schismatized (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Schismatizing (?).] [Cf. F. schismatiser.] To take part in schism;
to make a breach of communion in the church.
Schism"less (?), a. Free from schism.
Schist (shst), n. [Gr. &?; divided, divisible, fr. &?; to divide: cf.
F. schiste. See Schism.] (Geol.) Any crystalline rock having a foliated
structure (see Foliation) and hence admitting of ready division into
slabs or slates. The common kinds are mica schist, and hornblendic
schist, consisting chiefly of quartz with mica or hornblende and often
feldspar.
Schis*ta"ceous (?), a. Of a slate color.
Schist"ic (?), a. Schistose.
{ Schis*tose" (?; 277), Schist*ous (?) }, a. [Cf. F. schisteux.]
(Geol.) Of or pertaining to schist; having the structure of a schist.
Schis*tos"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. schistosité.] (Geol.) The quality or
state of being schistose.
Schiz"o- (?). [Gr. &?; to split, cleave.] A combining form denoting
division or cleavage; as, schizogenesis, reproduction by fission or
cell division.
Schiz"o*carp (?), n. [Schizo- + Gr. &?; fruit.] (Bot.) A dry fruit
which splits at maturity into several closed one-seeded portions.
Schiz"o*cœle (?), n. [Schizo- + Gr. &?; hollow.] (Anat.) See
Enterocœle.
Schiz`o*cœ"lous (?), a. (Zoöl.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a
schizocœle.
Schiz`o*gen"e*sis (?), n. [Schizo- + genesis.] (Biol.) Reproduction by
fission. Haeckel.
Schiz"og*nath (?), n. [See Schizognathous.] (Zoöl.) Any bird with a
schizognathous palate.
||Schi*zog"na*thæ (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) The schizognathous birds.
Schi*zog"na*thism (?), n. (Zoöl.) The condition of having a
schizognathous palate.
Schi*zog"na*thous (?), a. [Schizo- + Gr. &?; the jaw.] (Zoöl.) Having
the maxillo- palatine bones separate from each other and from the
vomer, which is pointed in front, as in the gulls, snipes, grouse, and
many other birds.
||Schiz`o*my*ce"tes (?), n. pl., [NL., fr. Gr. &?; to split + &?;,
||-&?;, a fungus.] (Biol.) An order of Schizophyta, including the
||so-called fission fungi, or bacteria. See Schizophyta, in the
||Supplement.
||Schiz`o*ne*mer"te*a (?), n. pl. [NL. See Schizo-, and Nemertes.]
||(Zoöl.) A group of nemerteans comprising those having a deep slit
||along each side of the head. See Illust. in Appendix.
Schiz`o*pel"mous (?), a. [Schizo- + Gr. pe`lma the sole of the foot.]
(Zoöl.) Having the two flexor tendons of the toes entirely separate,
and the flexor hallucis going to the first toe only.
Schiz"o*phyte (?), n. [Schizo- + Gr. &?; a plant.] (Biol.) One of a
class of vegetable organisms, in the classification of Cohn, which
includes all of the inferior forms that multiply by fission, whether
they contain chlorophyll or not.
Schiz"o*pod (?; 277), n. (Zoöl.) one of the Schizopoda. Also used
adjectively.
{ Schiz"o*pod (?; 277), Schi*zop"o*dous (?) }, a. Of or pertaining to a
schizopod, or the Schizopoda.
||Schi*zop"o*da (?), n. pl., [NL. See Schizo-, and -poda.] (Zoöl.) A
||division of shrimplike Thoracostraca in which each of the thoracic
||legs has a long fringed upper branch (exopodite) for swimming.
Schiz`o*rhi"nal (?), a. [Schizo- + rhinal.] 1. (Anat.) Having the nasal
bones separate.
2. (Zoöl.) Having the anterior nostrils prolonged backward in the form
of a slit.
||Schlich (?), n. [G.; akin to LG. slick mud, D. slijk, MHG. slch.]
||(Metal.) The finer portion of a crushed ore, as of gold, lead, or
||tin, separated by the water in certain wet processes. [Written also
||slich, slick.]
Schmel"ze (?), n. [G. schmelz, schmelzglas.] A kind of glass of a red
or ruby color, made in Bohemia.