SCOPULOUS, skop'[=u]-lus, _adj._ full of rocks. [L. _scopulus_--Gr.
_skopelos_, a high rock.]
SCORBUTIC, -AL, skor-b[=u]'tik, -al, _adj._ pertaining to, resembling, or
diseased with scurvy. [Low L. _scorbutus_, scurvy, prob. from Old Low Ger.
_schorbock_, scurvy, Old Dut. _scheurbuyck_, scurvy. Prob. orig. meaning
'rupture of the belly,' for Old Dut. _scheuren_, to tear, _buyck_ (mod.
Dut. _buik_), the belly.]
SCORCH, skorch, _v.t._ to burn slightly: to roast highly: to affect
painfully with heat: to singe: to attack with virulence.--_v.i._ to be
burned on the surface: to be dried up: (_slang_) to ride a bicycle
furiously on a public highway.--_ns._ SCORCHED'-CAR'PET, -WING, British
geometrid moths; SCORCH'ER, anything that scorches, a very caustic rebuke,
criticism, &c.: one who rides a bicycle furiously on a road;
SCORCH'ING.--_p.adj._ burning superficially: bitterly sarcastic,
scathing.--_adv._ SCORCH'INGLY.--_n._ SCORCH'INGNESS. [O. Fr. _escorcher_,
from Low L. _excorticare_--L. _ex_, off, _cortex_, _corticis_, bark; or
prob. Scand., Norw. _skrekka_, to shrink.]
SCORDATO, sk[=o]r-dä't[=o], _adj._ (_mus._) put out of tune.--_n._
SCORDAT[=U]'RA, in stringed musical instruments, an intentional departure
from the normal tuning. [It.]
SCORE, sk[=o]r, _n._ a mark or notch for keeping count: a line drawn: the
number twenty, once represented by a larger notch: a reckoning: a debt: the
register of the various points of play in a game: account: reason: the
original draught of a musical composition with all the parts, or its
transcript.--_v.t._ to mark with notches or lines: to furrow: to set down:
to charge: to engrave: to braid: to note: to enter: to make points, &c., in
certain games.--_v.i._ to keep, or to run up, a score: to succeed in making
points, &c., in a game.--_ns._ SC[=O]R'ER, one who keeps the marks in a
game; SC[=O]R'ING, the act of one who, or that which, scores: a deep groove
made by glacial action: the act of repeatedly bringing a racer and his
rider to the starting-point, so as to get a fair start.--GO OFF AT SCORE,
to make a spirited start; PAY OFF OLD SCORES, to repay old grudges; RUN UP
A SCORE, to run up a debt. [A.S. _scor_--_sceran_ (pa.p. _scoren_), to
shear.]
SCORIA, sk[=o]'ri-a, _n._ dross or slag left from metal or ores after being
under fire: a genus of geometrid moths:--_pl._ SC[=O]'RIÆ, volcanic
ashes.--_adjs._ SC[=O]'RIAC, SCORI[=A]'CEOUS.--_ns._ SCORIFIC[=A]'TION, the
act or operation of reducing a body to scoria: a method of assaying by
fusing the ore with metallic lead and borax in a scorifier; SCOR'IF[=I]ER,
a flat dish used in such a form of assaying.--_adj._ SC[=O]'RIFORM, like
scoria.--_v.t._ SC[=O]'RIFY, to reduce to slag.--_adj._ SC[=O]'RIOUS.
[L.,--Gr. _sk[=o]ria_.]
SCORN, skorn, _n._ disdain caused by a mean opinion of anything: extreme
contempt: object of contempt.--_v.t._ to hold in extreme contempt: to
disdain: to make a mock of.--_v.i._ to scoff: to jeer.--_n._ SCOR'NER, one
who scorns: (_B._) one who scoffs at religion: a scoffer.--_adj._
SCORN'FUL, full of scorn: contemptuous: disdainful.--_adv._
SCORN'FULLY.--_ns._ SCORN'FULNESS; SCOR'NING.--LAUGH TO SCORN (_B._), to
deride; THINK SCORN, to disdain or despise. [O. Fr. _escarn_, mockery--Old
High Ger. _skern_, mockery.]
SCORODITE, skor'[=o]-d[=i]t, _n._ a hydrous arseniate of iron.--Also
SKOR'ODITE. [Gr. _skorodon_, _skordon_, garlic.]
SCORPÆNA, skor-p[=e]'na, _n._ a genus of fishes, the typical genus of
SCORPÆ'NIDÆ, a family including the rose-fish, the Californian rock-fish,
and their allies. [L.,--Gr. _skorpaina_, a fish.]