Scis"sors*bill` (?), n. (Zoöl.) See Skimmer.
Scis"sors*tail` (?), n. (Zoöl.) A tyrant flycatcher (Milvulus
forficatus) of the Southern United States and Mexico, which has a
deeply forked tail. It is light gray above, white beneath, salmon on
the flanks, and fiery red at the base of the crown feathers.
Scis"sors-tailed` (?), a. (Zoöl.) Having the outer feathers much the
longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.
Scis"sure (?), n. [L. scissura, from scindere, scissum, to cut, split.]
A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure.
Hammond.
Scit`a*min"e*ous (?; 277), a. [NL. scitamineosus, fr. Scitamineae, fr.
L. scitamentum a delicacy, dainty.] (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a
natural order of plants (Scitamineæ), mostly tropical herbs, including
the ginger, Indian shot, banana, and the plants producing turmeric and
arrowroot.
Sci"u*rine (?; 277), a. [Cf. F. sciurien. See Sciurus.] (Zoöl.) Of or
pertaining to the Squirrel family. -- n. A rodent of the Squirrel
family.
Sci"u*roid (?), a. [Sciurus + -oid.] (Bot.) Resembling the tail of a
squirrel; -- generally said of branches which are close and dense, or
of spikes of grass like barley.
||Sci`u*ro*mor"pha (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. sciurus squirrel + Gr.
||morfh` form.] (Zoöl.) A tribe of rodents containing the squirrels and
||allied animals, such as the gophers, woodchucks, beavers, and others.
||Sci*u"rus (?), n. [L., a squirrel, Gr. &?;. See Squirrel.] (Zoöl.) A
||genus of rodents comprising the common squirrels.
Sclaun"dre (?), n. Slander. [Obs.] Chaucer.
{ Sclav (?), Sclave }, n. Same as Slav.
Sclav"ic (?), a. Same as Slavic.
Sclav"ism (?), n. Same as Slavism.
Scla*vo"nian (?), a. & n. Same as Slavonian.
Scla*von"ic (?), a. Same as Slavonic.
Sclen"der (?), a. Slender. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Scler"a*go`gy (?), n. [Gr. &?;; &?; hard + &?; a leading or training.]
Severe discipline. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.
||Scle*re"ma (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. sklhro`s hard.] (Med.) Induration of
||the cellular tissue.
Sclerema of adults. See Scleroderma. -- ||Sclerema neonatorum (&?;)
[NL., of the newborn], an affection characterized by a peculiar
hardening and rigidity of the cutaneous and subcutaneous tissues in the
newly born. It is usually fatal. Called also skinbound disease.
Scle*ren"chy*ma (?), n. [NL., from Gr. sklhro`s hard + -enchyma as in
parenchyma.] 1. (Bot.) Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with
thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a
pear. See Sclerotic.
By recent German writers and their English translators, this term is
used for liber cells. Goodale.
2. (Zoöl.) The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa,
constituting the stony corals.
Scler`en*chym"a*tous (?), a. (Bot. & Zoöl.) Pertaining to, or composed
of, sclerenchyma.
Scle*ren"chyme (?), n. Sclerenchyma.
||Scle*ri"a*sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;.] (Med.) (a) A morbid
||induration of the edge of the eyelid. (b) Induration of any part,
||including scleroderma.
Scle"rite (skl"rt), n. (Zoöl.) A hard chitinous or calcareous process
or corpuscle, especially a spicule of the Alcyonaria.
||Scle*ri"tis (skl*r"ts), n. [NL.] See Sclerotitis.
Scler"o*base (? or ?), n. [Gr. sklhro`s hard + ba`sis base.] (Zoöl.)
The calcareous or hornlike coral forming the central stem or axis of
most compound alcyonarians; -- called also foot secretion. See Illust.
under Gorgoniacea, and Cœnenchyma. -- Scler`o*ba"sic (#), a.
Scler"o*derm (? or ?; 277), n. [Gr. sklhro`s hard + de`rma skin: cf. F.
scléroderme.] (a) (Zoöl.) One of a tribe of plectognath fishes
(Sclerodermi) having the skin covered with hard scales, or plates, as
the cowfish and the trunkfish. (b) One of the Sclerodermata. (c)
Hardened, or bony, integument of various animals.
||Scler`o*der"ma (?), n. [NL.] (Med.) A disease of adults,
||characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin.
||Scler`o*der"ma*ta (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) The stony corals; the
||Madreporaria.
{ Scler`o*der"mic (?), Scler`o*der"mous (?) }, (Zoöl.) (a) Having the
integument, or skin, hard, or covered with hard plates. (b) Of or
pertaining to the Sclerodermata.
Scler`o*der"mite (?), n. (Zoöl.) (a) The hard integument of Crustacea.
(b) Sclerenchyma.
Scler"o*gen (? or ?), n. [Gr. sklhro`s hard + -gen.] (Bot.) The
thickening matter of woody cells; lignin.
Scle*rog"e*nous (?), a. [Gr. sklhro`s hard + -genous.] (Anat.) Making
or secreting a hard substance; becoming hard.
Scle"roid (?), a. [Gr. &?;; sklhro`s hard + &?; form.] (Bot.) Having a
hard texture, as nutshells.
||Scle*ro"ma (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. sklhro`s hard + -oma.] (Med.)
||Induration of the tissues. See Sclerema, Scleroderma, and Sclerosis.
Scle*rom"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. sklhro`s hard + -meter.] An instrument for
determining with accuracy the degree of hardness of a mineral.
Scle*rosed" (?), a. Affected with sclerosis.
||Scle*ro"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. (&?;&?;, fr. sklhro`s hard.] 1.
||(Med.) Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration
||produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective
||tissue.