SCABIOSA, sk[=a]-bi-[=o]'sa, _n._ a genus of herbaceous plants of the
teasel family, as the _Devil's-bit scabious_, the _Sweet scabious_,
&c.--the former long thought efficacious in scaly eruptions.
SCABIOUS, sk[=a]'bi-us, _adj._ scabby: scurfy: itchy.--_n._ SCABRED'ITY,
roughness: ruggedness.--_adj._ SC[=A]'BRID, rough.--_n._ SCABRIT'IES, a
morbid roughness of the inner surface of the eyelid.--_adj._ SC[=A]'BROUS,
rough to the touch, like a file: rugged: covered with little points: harsh:
unmusical.--_n._ SC[=A]'BROUSNESS. [L. _scabiosus_--_scabies_, the itch.]
SCAD, skad, _n._ a carangoid fish, also called _Horse-mackerel_: (_Scot._)
the ray. [Prob. _shad_.]
SCAD, a Scotch form of _scald_.
SCADDLE, skad'l, _adj._ (_prov._) mischievous, hurtful.--_n._ hurt.--Also
SCATH'EL, SKADD'LE. [_Scathe_.]
SCÆAN, s[=e]'an, _adj._ western, from the _Scæan_ gate in Troy. [Gr.
_skaios_, left.]
SCAFF, skaf, _n._ (_Scot._) food of any kind.
SCAFFOLD, skaf'old, _n._ a temporary platform for exhibiting or for
supporting something, and esp. for the execution of a criminal: a
framework.--_v.t._ to furnish with a scaffold: to sustain.--_ns._
SCAFF'OLDAGE (_Shak._), a scaffold, a stage, the gallery of a theatre;
SCAFF'OLDER, a spectator in the gallery: one of the 'gods;' SCAFF'OLDING, a
scaffold of wood for supporting workmen while building: materials for
scaffolds: (_fig._) a frame, framework: disposing of the bodies of the dead
on a scaffold or raised platform, as by the Sioux Indians, &c. [O. Fr.
_escafaut_ (Fr. _échafaud_, It. _catafalco_); from a Romance word, found in
Sp. _catar_, to view--L. _capt[=a]re_, to try to seize, _falco_ (It.
_palco_), a scaffold--Ger. _balke_, a beam. Doublet _catafalque_.]
SCAFF-RAFF, skaf'-raf, _n._ (_Scot._) refuse: riff-raff.
SCAGLIA, skal'ya, _n._ an Italian calcareous rock, corresponding to the
chalk of England.
SCAGLIOLA, skal-y[=o]'la, _n._ a composition made to imitate the more
costly kinds of marble and other ornamental stones.--Also SCAL'IOLA. [It.
_scagliuola_, dim. of _scaglia_, a scale, a chip of marble or stone.]