scart 
That costs but twa stcartx of a pen. 
Scott, Bride of Lammermoor, v. 
I Btude beside blessed Alexander Peden, when I heard 
him call the death and testimony of our happy martyrs 
but draps of blude and scarfs of ink in respect of fitting 
discharge of our duty. Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, ix. 
scart 2 (skiirt), . [Prob. a transposed form of 
scrotf.] A meager, puny-looking person; a 
niggard. [Scotch.] 
scart 3 (skart), H. Same as scar/3. [Scotch.] 
Bat d'ye think ye'll help them wi' skirling that gate like 
anauld*tart? Scott, Antiquary, viii. 
5382 
scat 4 (skat), interj. [Perhaps an iuterjectioual 
form of scoot 1 or scout 2 , ult. from the root of 
shoot; usually addressed to a oat, pronounced 
'sss-cat! and understood to consist of the word 
rat with ajsibilant prefix. Cf. Sw. schas, up, 
Scatophagoidea 
II. ii. Hurt; injury. 
Lokez the contree be clere, the corners are large ; 
Discoveres now sekerly skrogges and other, 
That no skathelle in the skroggez skorne us hereaftyre. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.X 1. 1642. 
begone.] Be off; begone: addressed to 'cats scatheless (skaTH'les), a. [< ME. skathelsen, 
and other small animals. 
scat 4 (skat), f. t.; pret. and pp. scatted, ppr. 
scatting. [< scat*, inter/.'] To scare or drive 
away (a cat or other small animal) by crvine 
"Scat!" 
scart-free (skart'fre), a. 
injury. [Scotch.] 
scarth (skarth), n. Same as scar/S. 
scartocciot (skar-toch'io), n. [It., "a coffin of 
Without scratch or 8ca * c ^ 1 (skach), n. [< F. escachc, an oval bit, 
prob. < OF. escacher, esquachier, esquacher, crush 
out, flatten, as wire, compress, as sheets of pa- 
per, etc.: see squash*.] A kind of bit for bri- 
dles. Also called scatchmouth. 
paper for spice," etc. (Florio), same as cartoc- "".\ ' l * >, > 
do, a cartouche: see cartouche, cartridge.] A sc ?; tcll( ;St (skach ez), n.pl. 
scatheles (= OFries. skadlos, schadlos = D. 
schadehos = MLG. schadelos = MHG. schade- 
16s = Icel. skathluuss = Sw. Dan. skadeslos); < 
scathe + -less.] Without scathe or harm ; with- 
out mischief, injury, or damage ; unharmed. 
At the laste thanne thought I, 
That scathles, fulle sykerly, 
I myght unto the welle go. 
Ram. of the Rooe, 1. 1660. 
He 's sent back Grace safe and skaithless. 
Scott, Black Dwarf, x. 
fold of paper; cover. 
an- scathfult, o. See scatheftil. 
other form of skateses, pi., < OF. eschace, es- scathfulness, n. Same as scathefulness. 
! _ *r - ,- .p.* 8| 8tl It . \ ( ) P IpTTl . ftcltflrfftP a lll<rll_lll'>A]flll ull l~l> Tl \T\rf* Vll Oetlnf* JkdhMAWbuM . nr, nnrtflti*. r. i,,,, , 
wrapt up in several scartoccios. " B. "J onion, Volpohe, ii. 1. 
scarus (ska'rus). . [< L. scarus, < Gr. anApof, 
a kind of sea-fish: see scar*.] 1. A fish of the 
genus Scarus. 
The tender lard of Apulian swine, and the condited bel- 
lies of the seana. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 693. 
2. [cap.] [NL. (Gronovius, 1763; Forskal, 
1775).] A genus of acanthopterygian fishes, 
of which the scarus of the ancient Greeks and 
name to the Scaridse or Scarifies, and having 
varying limits; the parrot-wrasses or parrot- 
a stilt, < OFlem. scJtaetse, a high-heeled shoe, D. ing; blasting; scorching: as, scathing irony. 
schaats, pi. schaatsen, skates, stilts: see skate?.] scathingly (ska'THing-li), adv. With damag- 
Stilts used for walking in dirty places. ing or withering severity; unsparingly: as, he 
Others grew in the legs, and to see them you would was scathingly denounced. 
have said they had been cranes, . . . or else men walking SCathold (Bkat'hold), n. [Also scatthold, scat- 
upon stilts or Hatches. Urophart, tr. of Rabelais, ii. 1. haM sca ttald, scattold; < sea ft, tax, tribute, + 
scatchmouth (skach'mouth), n. [< scotch + hold*, B.S in freehold. Cf. Scotland.] In Orkney 
mouth.] Same as scotch. and (Shetland, open ground for pasture or for 
SCatet, 11. See state 2 , furnishing fuel ; scatland. 
Mis- 
him 
- scatebroust (skat'e-brus), a. [< L. scatebra, a scathy (ska'THi), a. [< scathe + -t/i.l 
Romans is the oldest known species, giving gushing up of water, a .spring, <scatere, bubble, chievous; vicious; dangerous: as, let 
gush, well.] Abounding with springs. Bailey, alone, he 's scathy. 
1731. '" 
en, < AS. sceathan (pret. scod, pp. sceathen), also 
weak scyththan, sceththan, injure, harm, hurt, scatology (ska-tol'o-ji), n. 
scathe, = OFries. skathiii, schadia, schaia = dung, ordurei + -/.ayia. < 
D. schaden = MLG. LG. schaden = OHG. sca- 
don, MHG. G. schaden = Icel. skatha, skethja = 
Sw. skada = Dan. skade = Goth, skathjan, also, 
r parrot-fish. 
scarvest, . An obsolete plural of scarf*. 
scary 1 (skar'i), a. [Also skearu; < scare 1 + -yl. 
Cf. the earlier adj. scare 1 , a.] 1. Scaring; 
causing or tending to cause a scare; causing 
fright : as, a scary situation. 
But toe thee, poore Dido, this sight so skearye beholding. 
What feeling creepeth? 
Stanihurst, Mneid, iv. 438. (Dames.) 
2. Inclined to be scared; subject to scares; 
timid. 
It is not to be marvelled at that amid such a place as 
this, for the first time visited, the horses were a little 
rteary. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, lix. 
3. Somewhat alarmed or frightened ; fluttered. 
I'm scurii always to see her shake 
Her wicked head. Whittier. 
[Colloq. in all uses.] 
scary 2 (ska'ri), n. [Cf. scareS, lean, scanty, 
scraggy. Less prob. < scar, a bare place on the 8Catne(skaTH),n. [<ME.scMe, skathe, schathe. 
> (see scar 2 ), + -yl.] Poor land loss ' in J ur y> harm, < AS. "sceatha (cf. equiv. 
[Scotch.] 
[< Icel. skatt-land, a 
skattr, tribute, 
[n Orkney and 
scat or duty for the 
right of pasture and of cutting peat. 
side of a steep 
having only a thin coat of grass" [Local, Eng. j 
scat 1 (skat), n. [Also scatt, skatt; < ME. scat (< 
Icel.), "scet, "shet (cf. cherset), < AS. sceat, sceatt, 
scsett, a coin, money, tax (ML. reflex scato, 
sceatta), = OS. scat = OFries. sket, schet, a 
coin, money, wealth, cattle, = D. schat = MLG. 
schat = OHG. seas, a coin, money, MHG. 
schae, G. schatz, money, treasure, riches, trea- 
sury, = Icel. skattr = Sw. skatt = Dan. skat, 
tax, tribute, = Goth, skatts, a piece of money, 
money ; perhaps related to OBulg. skotu = Serv. 
Bohem. Pol. skot, cattle, = Buss, skot, cattle, 
OEuss. also money (cf. L. pecunia, money, as 
related to pecus, cattle, and AS. feoh, cattle, 
fee: see pecuniary and fee 1 ), but the OBulg. 
word, if related, may be borrowed from the 
Teut. The word scol? is of different origin.] 
A tax ; tribute ; specifically, a land-tax paid in 
the Shetland Islands. 
The expenses of government were defrayed by a land- 
tax, called skatt. The Incidence of skatt was originally 
calculated and fixed by a process in which all the lands 
then under cultivation were divided into districts of equal 
productive value, and consequently varying in superficial 
area in different parts of the islands according to the com- 
parative value of the soil, but averaging about 104 Scottish 
acres each. Westminster Rev., CXXVIII. 689. 
When he ravaged Norway, 
Laying waste the kingdom, 
Seizing scatt and treasure 
For her royal needs. 
Longfellow, Wayside Inn, Saga of King Olaf, rvl. 
[< Gr. onup (OKOT-), 
. . /.eyetv, speak: see 
-ology.] The science of fossil excrement; the 
knowledge of animals which may be acquired 
by the examination of coprolites. 
[< Gr. mop 
divination.] 
3 by inspec- 
tion of excrement. Compare scatoscopy. 
There learned I dririmancy, scatomancy, pathology, 
therapensls, and greater than them all, anatomy. 
C. Reade, Cloister and Hearth, xxvi. (Dames.) 
scatophaga (ska-tof'a-gii), n. [NL. (Meigen, 
1803, in form Scathophaga) : see scatophage.] 
A genus of Mtiscidse, containing such species 
There are some strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch as -S. stercoraria the dung-flies 
Irving. (Imp. Diet) scatophage (skat'o-faj), n [< NL. seatophagus, 
k* oi.-.*;,,, ,...;..,//.. dung-eating: see scatophagous.] An animal 
that feeds on dung; especially, a scatophagous 
insect, as a fly. 
unscathed. Hence scathe, n., scathel, scaddle.] 
To in jure; harm; hurt. 
You are a saucy boy : is 't so indeed? 
This trick may chance to scathe you. 
SAo*., B.andJ.,1 5.86. 
The pine-tree scathed by lightning-fire. 
Scott, Kokeby, iv. 3. 
Scato]>haguy + -idee.] A family of acanthop- 
terygian fishes, typified by the genus Scatopha- 
gus. The body is oblong and elevated toward the 
front of the back, the head rather small and compressed, 
mouth small and armed with bands of slender teeth ; the 
sceathen) = OFries. skatha, skada, schsida = D. , 
MLG. schade = OHG. scado, MHG. G. schade, Scatophagidse (skat-6-faj'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < 
schaden = Icel. skathi, skxthi = Sw. skada = 
Dan. skade, damage, loss, hurt (cf. AS. scatha, 
one who scathes or injures a foe, = OS. scatho, 
a foe, = OHG. scado, injurer) ; from the verb.] 
1. Harm; injury; damage; mischief. 
Cryseyde, which that nevere dide hem scathe, 
shal now no lenger in hire blisse bathe. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 207. 
Wherein Rome hath done you any scath, 
Let him make treble satisfaction. 
Shak., Tit And., v. 1. 7. 
This life of mine 
I guard as God's high gift from scathe and wrong. 
Tennyson, Guinevere. 
2t. Disadvantage ; a matter of regret ; a pity. 
She was somdel deef, and that was skathe. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., L 446. 
scathefiret (skaTH'fir), w. [< scathe + fire. Cf. 
scare fire.] Destructive flames ; conflagration. 
In a great scathflre it is wisdom not only to suffer those 
houses to burn down which are past quenching, but some- 
times to pull down some few houses wherein the flre is 
not yet kindled, to free all the rest of the city from dan- 
ger. Abp. Bramhatt, Works, III. 559. (Dames.) 
Scatheful (skaTH'ful), a. [< scathe + -ful.] 
Causing harm or mischief; injurious; destruc- 
tive. Also scathful. 
Such seathful grapple did he make 
With the most noble bottom of our fleet. 
Shak., T. N., v. 1. 59. 
scat 2 (skat), n. [Formerly also skatt; not re- 
lated, unless by corruption, with scwo", a flying scathefulness (skalii'ful-nes), . 
shower: see scud.] A brisk shower of rain, ness; destructiveness. Also scathfulness. 
driven by the wind. Grose. [Prov. Eng.] 
When Halldown has a hat, 
Let Kenton beware of a Skatt. 
Old Devon, proverb, quoted by Grose from Risdon. 
scat 3 (skat), n. [Appar. an irreg. form of scath, 
scathe, but perhaps a deflected use of sea? 1 , 
'tax,' hence 'damage.'] Damage; loss. 
It is part of the scat of the geir quhilk was castine furth 
of the schipe. Aberd. Reg., V. 25. (Jamieson.) 
Scatofhatfus arfHs. 
dorsal is in two sections of nearly equal length, and the 
anterior spinous section is nearly separated from the pos- 
terior, which is mainly composed of branched rays. The 
anal is similar and opposite to the second dorsal and pre- 
ceded by four spines ; the ventrals are thoracic and com- 
plete. Four species are known as inhabitants of the 
Indian ocean and Australian seas. 
Injurious- Scatophaginae (skat"o-fa-ji'ne), n. pi. [NL., < 
Scatophagus + -inee.] A subfamily of JUuscidas, 
typified by the genus Scatophaga ; the dung- 
flies. 
scathelt, a. and n. [E. dial, scaddle, skaddle, < 
ME. scathel, < AS. *sccathol, injurious, mischie- 
vous (= OHG. scadel = Goth, slcathnls, inju- ScatophagOld (ska-tof a-goid), a. and n. [< Sca- 
rious, wicked), < sceathan, injure, harm: see tophagus + -aid.] I. a. Of, or having charac- 
scatfie,.] I. a. Harmful ; injurious ; mischie- teristics of, the Scatophagidee. 
II. n. A fish of the family Scatophagidse. 
Scatophagoidea (ska-tof-a-goi'de-a'), . pi. 
vous. 
Mony ladde ther forth-lep to laue & to kest, 
open out [of the shipj the 8ca(A^waterythat fayn scape [ NL -i < Scatophagus -oidea.] A superfamily 
wolde. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), iii. 155. of acanthopterygian fish 
lies, with the forks of the 
