Scold"er (?), n. 1. One who scolds.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries.
(b) The old squaw. [Local U.S.]
Scold"ing, a. & n. from Scold, v.
Scolding bridle, an iron frame. See Brank, n., 2.
Scold"ing*ly, adv. In a scolding manner.
Scole (?), n. School. [Obs.] Chaucer.
||Sco*le"ci*da (? or ?), n. pl. [NL. See Scolex.] (Zoöl.) Same as
||Helminthes.
Scol"e*cite (? or ?; 277), n. [Gr. skw`lhx, -hkos, a worm, earthworm.]
(Min.) A zeolitic mineral occuring in delicate radiating groups of
white crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Called
also lime mesotype.
||Sco*le`co*mor"pha (&?;), n. pl. [NL. See Scolex, -morphous.] (Zoöl.)
||Same as Scolecida.
||Sco"lex (?), n.; pl. Scoleces (#). [NL., from Gr. skw`lhx worm,
||grub.] (Zoöl.) (a) The embryo produced directly from the egg in a
||metagenetic series, especially the larva of a tapeworm or other
||parasitic worm. See Illust. of Echinococcus. (b) One of the
||Scolecida.
Sco*ley" (?), v. i. [Cf. OF. escoler to teach. See School.] To go to
school; to study. [Obs.] Chaucer.
||Sco`li*o"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. skolio`s crooked.] (Med.) A
||lateral curvature of the spine.
||Scol"i*thus (? or ?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. skw`lhx a worm + li`qos a
||stone.] (Paleon.) A tubular structure found in Potsdam sandstone, and
||believed to be the fossil burrow of a marine worm.
Scol"lop (?), n. & v. See Scallop.
Scol`o*pa"cine (?), a. [L. scolopax a snipe, Gr. &?;.] (Zoöl.) Of or
pertaining to the Scolopacidæ, or Snipe family.
||Scol`o*pen"dra (?), n. [L., a kind of multiped, fr. Gr. &?;.] 1.
||(Zoöl.) A genus of venomous myriapods including the centipeds. See
||Centiped.