scandalize 
Let not our young and eager doctors be scandalized at 
our views as to the comparative uncertainty of medicine 
as a science. Dr. J. Brown, Spare Hours, 3d ser., p. 100. 
2. To disgrace ; bring disgrace on. 
It is the manner of men to scandalize and betray that 
which retaineth the state and virtue. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, i. 38. 
3. To libel ; defame ; asperse ; slander. 
Words . . . tending to scandalize a magistrate, or person 
in public trust, are reputed more highly injurious than 
when spoken of a private man. 
Blaebtoiu. Com., III. viii. 
To tell his tale might be interpreted into scandalizing 
the order. Scott, Ivanhoe, xxxv. 
Also spelled scandalise. 
scandalize' 2 (skan'dal-iz), v. i. ; pret. and pp. 
scandalized, ppr. scandalizing. [Prob. an exten- 
sion of sc,antle*, as if scan tie 2 + - izc, conformed to 
scandalize 1 .'] Naut., to trice up the tack of the 
spanker or mizzen in a square-rigged vessel, or 
the mainsail in a fore-and-aft rigged vessel. It 
is frequently done, to enable the helmsman to look to lee- 
ward under the foot of the sail. The same word is errone- 
ously used of the sails on the mizzenmast of a ship when 
they are clued down (the ship being before the wind) to 
allow the sails on the mainmast to draw better. Also 
spelled scandalixe. 
scandal-monger (skan'dal-muug'ger), n. One 
who deals in or retails scandal ; one who spreads 
defamatory reports or rumors concerning the 
character or reputation of others. 
scandalous (skan'dal-us), a. [< OF. (and F.) 
scandalcux = Sp. Pg. cscandaloso = It. scan- 
daloso, < ML. scandalosus, scandalous, < LL. 
scandalum, scandal: weMOMtal.] 1. Causing 
scandal or offense; exciting reproach or repro- 
bation ; extremely offensive to the sense of 
duty or propriety ; shameful ; shocking. 
Nothing: scandalous or offensive unto any, especially 
unto the church of God ; all things in order, and with 
seemliness. Hooker. 
For a woman to marry within the year of mourning is 
tcandalous, because it is of evil report. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 279. 
2. Opprobrious; disgraceful to reputation; 
that brings shame or infamy : as, a scandalous 
crime or vice. 
The pei-sons who drink are chiefly the soldiery and great 
men ; hut it would be reckon'd scandalous in people of 
business. Pococke, Description of the East, I. 181. 
You know the scandalous meanness of that proceeding. 
Pope. 
3. Defamatory ; libelous ; slanderous : as, a 
scandalous report ; in law procedure, defamatory 
or indecent, and not necessary to the presenta- 
tion of the party's caso.=gyn. 1 and 2. Wicked, 
Shocking, etc. See atrocious. 2. Discreditable, disrepu- 
table. 
scandalously (skan'dal-us-li), adv. 1. In a 
scandalous manner; in a manner to give of- 
fense ; disgracefully ; shamefully. 
His discourse at table was scandalously unbecoming the 
dignity of his station. Swift. 
2f. Censoriously; with a disposition to find 
fault. 
Shun their fault who, scandalously nice, 
Will needs mistake an author into vice. 
Pope, Essay on Criticism, 1. 550. 
scandalousness (skan'dal-us-nes), n. Scanda- 
lous character or condition. 
scandalum magnatum (skan'da-lum mag-na'- 
tum). [ML.: LL. scandalum, a stumbling-block 
(see scandal); magnatum, gen. pi. of magnas, 
an important person: see magnate.'] In law, 
the offense of speaking slanderously or in def- 
amation of high personages (magnates) of the 
realm, as temporal and spiritual peers, judges, 
and other high officers. Actions on this plea 
are obsolete. Abbreviated xcan. mag. 
SCandent (skan'dent), a. [< L. scadcn(t-)s, 
ppr. of scandere, climb : see scan.] 1. In bot. : 
(a) Climbing; ascending by attaching itself to 
a support in any manner. See climb, 3. (6) 
Performing the office of a tendril, as the peti- 
ole of Clematis. 2. In ornith., same as scau- 
soriali, 2. 
Scandentest (skan-den'tez), n.pl. [NL., pi. of 
L. scanden(t-)s,'ppT. of scandere, climb: see scan- 
dent.'] In ornith., same as Scansores. 
Scandian (skan'di-an), a. and n. [< L. Scandia, 
var. of Scandinavia, taken for the mod. coun- 
tries so called, + -an.] Same as Scandinarian. 
Skeat, Principles of Eng. Etymology, p. 454. 
scandic (skan'dik), a. [< scaiid-ium + -ic.] Of, 
pertaining to, or derived from scandium. 
Scandinavian (skan-di-na'vi-an), a. and n. 
[< ML. Scandinavia, Scandinavia, orig. L. Scan- 
dinavia (Pliny), also written Scandinavia (Pom- 
ponius Mela) and Scandia (Pliny), the name of 
a large and fruitful island in northern Europe, 
5374 
scant 
supposed by some to be Zealand, by others Scho- scansorious(skau-s6'ri-us),n. [< L. scansorius, 
nen (which is not an island); later applied to of or belonging to climbing, <scanisor, a climber, 
the countries inhabited by the Danes, Swedes, < scandere, pp. scansus, climb: seescad.] Same 
and Norsemen.] I. a. 1." Of or pertaining to as scansoriafl-, 1. 
Scandinavia, or the region which comprehends The feet have generally been considered as scansorious, 
the kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Swe- or formed for climbing 
den, with the adjacent islands, including Ice- slu "> Gen. Zol- IX. i. 66. (Encyc. DM*.) 
land, now an outlying possession of Denmark: scansorius (skan-so'n-us), it.; pi. scansorii (-1). 
as, ticaiidinariait literature; Scaiidinarian Ian- [NL., < L. geeauoritu, of or for climbing: see 
guage. 2. Of or pertaining to the languages 
of Scandinavia. Scandinavian belting, lock, etc. 
See the nouns. 
II. n. 1. A native of the region loosely called 
Scandinavia. 2. The language of the Scandi- 
Scansores.] In anat., a muscle which in some 
animals, as monkeys, and occasionally in man, 
arises from the ventral edge of the ilium and is 
inserted into the great troch#nter of the femur. 
Trail!. 
navians: a general term for Icelandic, Norwe- scant (skant), a. [Early mod. E. also sk/ml : < 
gian, Swedish, Danish, Faroese, etc., and their ME. scan*, skant, < Icel. skamt, neut. of skamr, 
dialects, or for their original. Abbreviated skammr, short, brief (cf. skamtr, Norw. skant, a 
Scand. 
scandium (skan'di-um), n. [NL., < L. Scandiu, 
Scandinavia (see def.).] Chemical symbol, 
Sc; atomic weight, 44. An elementary body 
discovered by Nilson in 1879, by the help of 
the spectroscope, in the Scandinavian mineral 
euxenite. Its oxld is a white powder resembling mag- 
nesia ; the metal Itself has not yet been isolated. Scan- 
dium is interesting as being one of three elements (the 
others are gallium and germanium) the predicted exis- 
tence of which by Mendelejeff has been confirmed. 
There are now three instances of elements of which the 
existence and properties were foretold by the periodic 
law : (1) that of gallium, discovered by Boisbaudran, which 
was found to correspond with the eka-aluminium of Men- 
delejeff ; (2) that of scandium, corresponding with eka- 
boron, discovered by Nilson; and (:i) that of germanium, 
which turns out to be the eka-silicium, by Winckler. 
J. E. Thorpe, Nature, XL. 196. 
Scandix (skan'diks), n. [NL., < L. scandii, < 
Gr. aKaviij, the herb chervil.] A genus of um- 
belliferous plants, of the tribe Ammineee, type 
of the subtribe HcandiciiifS-. It is characterized by 
an oblong-linear wingless fruit with a long-beaked apex 
and with somewhat equal and slightly prominent primary 
ridges, obsolete secondaiy ridges, and obscure oil-tubes, 
and by a deeply-furrowed seed with involute margins. 
There are 12 species, natives of the Old World, especially 
near the Mediterranean. They are smooth or hairy annual 
portion, dole, share), = OHG. scam, short.] 1. 
Short in quantity; scarcely sufficient; rather 
less than is wanted for the purpose ; not enough ; 
scanty: as, a scant allowance of provisions or 
water; a scant piece of cloth for a garment. 
Than can se be no maner want 
Gold, thocht 3our pose wer neuer sa skant. 
Loader, Dewtie of Kyngis (E. E. T. S.), 1. 260. 
By which Provisions were so scant 
That hundreds there did die. 
Prior, The Viceroy, St. 14. 
Scant space that warder left for passers by. 
M. Arnold, Balder Dead. 
2. Sparing; parsimonious; chary. [Rare.] 
Be not to liberall nor to grant; 
Vse measure in eche thing. 
liabees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 83. 
Be somewhat tcanter of your maiden presence. 
Shak., Hamlet, i. 3. 121. 
3. Having a limited or scanty supply ; scarce; 
short : with of. 
He 's fat and scant of breath. Shak., Hamlet, v. 2. 298. 
Tis life whereof our nerves are scant. 
Tennyson, Two Voices. 
4. \aut., of the wind, corning from a direction 
such that a ship will barely lie her course even 
--- ..... ------ ---- ----- :.-, ----- when close-hauled. 
herbs with finely dissected leaves, and white (lowers which --..-i. / a t B T,t\ r< si-nnt a nr r Pf Tcpl sl-iimt 
are polygamous and often enlarged on the outside of the Scant (skant), n. [< scawf, a. or t . Ct. Icel. SKan 
umbels. The umbels are compound, but with few rays, = Norw. scant, a portion, dole, share.] bear- 
. pou, , . , 
mostly without an involucre, hut with numerous entire or city; scantiness; lack. 
dissected bractlets in the involucels. S. Pecten is a com- 
mon weed of English fields (for which see lady's-comb and 
ecrmmodP, 2X known also by many names alluding to its 
fruit, as shepherd's-, beggar's-, crmc's-, pink-, and puck-nee- 
dle, devil's darning -needle, needle cherM, poukenel, and 
Venus's-comb. S. grandiflora, an aromatic annual of the 
nean region, is much esteemed there as a salad. 
A Middle English form of 
Mediterranean regi 
scanklyonet, . 
scantling 1 . 
scan. mag. An abbreviation of scandalum mag- 
natum. 
scansion (skan'shon), w. [< F. scansion = It. 
scansione, < L. scansio(n-), a scanning, < scan- 
dere, pp. scansus, climb, scan: see scan.] The 
act of scanning; the measuring of a verse by 
feet in order to see whether the quantities are 
duly observed. 
The common form of scansion given In English proso- 
dies. Oenesis and Exodus (E. E. T. S.), Pref., p. xxxvii. 
He does not seem to have a quick ear for scansion, which 
would sometimes have assisted htm to the true reading. 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 320. 
Scansores (skan-so'rez), n. pi. [NL., 
Of necessary thynges that there he no skant. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. 8.), p. 342. 
I've a sister richly wed, 
I'll rob her ere I'll want. 
Nay then, quoth Sarah, they may well 
Consider of your scant. 
George Barmcell, il 1 84. (Percy's Iteliques, III. 249.) 
Let us increase their want, 
Make barren their desire, augment their scant. 
Middletan, Solomon 1'araphrased, II. 
scantt (skant), adv. [< ME. scant; < scant, a.] 
1. Scarcely; hardly. 
In all my lyfe I could scant fynde 
One wight true and trusty. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 102. 
Scant one is to be found worthie amongst vs for trans- 
lating into our Countrie speach. 
Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 7. 
In the whole world there is scant one . . . such another. 
B. Jonson, Poetaster, iv. 1. 
2. Scantily; sparingly. 
And fodder for the beestes therof make, 
First scant; it swelleth and encreaseth bloode. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 140. 
LL. 'scansor, a climber, < L. scandere, climb: g^nt (gkant), v. [< ME. scanten, < Icel. skamta 
see scan.] 1. The climbers or scansonal birds, 
an old artificial order of birds, corresponding 
to the Grimpenrs of Cuvier, having the toes in 
pairs, two before and two behind (see cut under 
pair-toed), whence also called Zygodactylsp. The 
orderwas named by Illiger in 1811 ; in 1849 it was restrict- 
ed by Blyth to the parrots. The term Is not now used In 
any sense, the members of the order being dissociated in 
several different groups of Picarix and in PsiUaci. 
2. Applied by Sundevall to sundry other groups 
of climbing or creeping birds, as creepers, nut- 
hatches, etc., usually placed in a different or- 
der: same as Certhiomorplise. 
scansorial 1 (skan-so'ri-al), a. and n. [< L. scan- 
sorius, of or belonging to climbing (see scan- 
sorious), + -al.] I. a. 1. Habitually climb- 
ing, as a bird; pertaining to climbing: as, scan- 
sorial actions or habits; fitted or serving for 
climbing: as, scansorial feet; the scansorial tail 
of a woodpecker. Also scandent. 2f. Belong- 
ing to the Scansores.- Scansorial barbels. See 
barbetZ. 
Il.t . A member of the Scansores; a zygo- 
dactyl. 
scansorial 2 (skan-so'ri-al), a. and . [< scan- 
son- *+ -al.] I. a. Pertaining to the scanso- 
rius. 
II. n. The scansorius. 
scansorii, n. Plural of sninxnriiix. 
(= Norw. skanta), dole out, measure out, < skamt, 
scant: see scant, a.] I. trans. 1. To put on 
scant allowance ; limit; stint: as, to scan? one 
in provisions or necessaries. 
Where a man hath a great living laid together, and where 
he is scanted. Bacon, Building (ed. 1887). 
The flesh is to be tamed, and humbled, and brought in 
subjection, and scanted when greater things require it, but 
not to be destroyed and made unserviceable. 
Baxter, Crucifying the World, Pref. 
And Plwebe, scanted of her brother's beam, 
Into the West went after him apace, 
Leaving black darkness to possess the sky. 
Drayton, Barons' Wars, vi. 50. 
2. To make small or scanty; diminish; cut 
short or down. 
Use scanted diet, and forheare your fill. 
Spenser, f. Q.,VI.vi. 14. 
Therefore I scant this breathing courtesy. 
Sliak., M. of V., v. 1. 141. 
If God he perfect, he can be but one. . . . 
The more you make, the more you shall depraue 
Their Might and Potencie, as those that haue 
Their vertue scanted. 
Heywood, Hierarchy of Angels, p. 67. 
Cold had scanted 
What the springs and nature planted. 
Greene, Philomela's Second Ode. 
3. To be niggard or sparing of; begrudge ; keep 
back. 
