scheme 5388 Schinopsis 
coordinate theories; a regularly formulated scheming (skejrning), p._ n. 1. Planning; con- monocotyledoiious plants, of the order Xiiinitii- 
eeee and tribe Jitnctiflineie. it is characterized by 
bisexual and bracted flowers, with six oblong and acute 
perianth-segments, six stamens with weak filaments and 
projecting anthers, and a fruit of three diverging round- 
ish and inflated one- or two-seeded carpels. The only 
species, S. jmlustris, is a native of peat-bogs in northern 
self never attempted, and build " iijj la consistent 'scheme "of i, i /,,-- parts of Europe, Asia, and America. It is a very smooth 
Emersonian philosophy. Quarterly Ke7,^l.\l&. Schemingly (ske'mmg-ll), adv. By scheming rush-like herb, with flexuous ajid erect stem proceeding 
or contriving. 
scheme + -ist.l 1. 
plan; system. 
We shall never be able to give ourselves a satisfactory 
account of the divine conduct without forming such a 
scheme of things as shall take at once in time and eternity. 
Bp. Attrrlnirtf. 
It would be an idle task to attempt what Emerson him- 
2. A linear representation showing the relative 
triving. 2. Given to forming schemes; art- 
ful; intriguing. 
May yon just heaven, that darkens o'er me, send 
One flash, that, missing all things else, may make 
My scheming brain a cinder, if I He. 
Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien. 
To draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of 
France. South. 
3. lu astrol., a representation of the aspects of 
the celestial bodies; an astrological figure of 
the heavens. 
It is a scheme and face of Heaven, 
As the aspects are dispos'd this even. 
S. Butter, Hudibras, II. ill. 539. 
4. A statement or plan in tabular form; an 
official and formal plan : as, a scheme of division 
(see phrase below) ; a scheme of postal distribu- 
tion or of mail service. 
But, Phil, you must tell the preacher to send a scheme of 
heads and he must agree schemy (ske'mi), a. 
*GeH%e Eliot, Felix Holt, xxiii. at scheming; sly; cunning. 
5. A plan to be executed; a project or design; 
purpose 
Baron Puffendorf observed well of those independent 
schemitts, in the words here following. 
Waterland, Works, V. 500. 
A number of schemists have urged from time to time 
that, in addition to our ordinary currency, there ought to 
be an interest-bearing currency. 
Jernns, Money and Mech. of Exchange, p. 246. 
2. An astrologer or fortune-teller; one who 
draws up schemes. See scheme, n., 3. 
Another Schemist 
Found that a squint-ey'd boy should prove a notable 
Pick-puree, and afterwards a most strong thief ; 
When he grew up to be a cunning Lawyer, 
And at last died a Judge. Quite contrary ! 
Oh, he was powerful Khemy ! 
That ' how I got out. 
But I was schemy too. 
The Century, XL. 22S. 
The winter passed in a mutual Intercourse of correspon- BChenchet, '. Same _ as stmfrl. 
dence and confidence between the king and Don Christo- SChenttt, . t. bee shend. 
pher, and in determining upon the best scheme to pursue Schene (sken), n. [= F. schene, < L. schceillis, 
the war with success. Bruce, Source of the Nile, II. 184. also schcenum, < Gr. a^oivof, a rush, reed, cord, 
measure of distance : see schcenits."] An ancient 
Egyptian measure of length (in Egyptian called 
been identified with the Persian parasang.' 
I'm not going to give up this one scheme of my own, even 
if I never bring it really to pass. 
Hawthorne, Seven Gables, x. 
Alas for the preacher's cherished schemes! 
Mission and church are now but dreams. 
WhiUier, The Preacher. 
6. A specific organization for the attainment 
of some distinct object : as, the seven schemes of 
the Church of Scotland (for the propagation 
of the gospel in foreign parts, the conversion . 
of the Jews, home missions, etc.; these are un- schenk beer. See fen*. 
der the charge of a joint committee). 7+ A scnenshlpt, schenchlpt, . See shendship. 
figure of speech. SChepen (ska^pen), ^ [D., ^magistrate, j 
I might tary a longe time in declaring the nature of di- 
vers schemes, which are wordes or sentences altered either 
by speaking or writing contrary to the vulgare custome 
of our speache, without chaunging their nature at al. 
Sir T. Wilson, Rhetoric (1553X 
Scheme of color, in painting, that element of the design 
which it is sought to express by the mutual relation of the 
colors selected ; the system or arrangement of interdepen- 
dent colors characteristic of a school, or of a painter, or of 
any particular work ; the palette (see palette, 2) peculiar to 
any artist, or used in the painting of a particular picture. 
Also color-scheme. 
from a creeping rootstock, and bearing long tubular leaves 
which are open at the top, and a few loosely racemed 
rigid and persistent flowers. 
6'ne), H. [It., so called be- 
weapon of the life-guards of 
the Doge of Venice, who were known as the 
Schiayoni or Slavs : see Slav, Slavonic.] A bas- 
ket-hilted broadsword of the seventeenth cen- 
tury. In many collections these weapons are known as 
clai/mores, from their resemblance to the broadswords 
popular in Scotland in the seventeenth and eighteenth 
centuries and erroneously called claymore in imitation 
of the old two-handed sword which properly bears that 
name. See claymore and basket-Mil. 
Schiedam (ske-dam'), n. [< ScJiiedam, a city 
of Holland, the chief seat of the manufacture 
of this liquor.] Schiedam schnapps, or Hol- 
land gin. 
Brotne, Jovial Crew, L Schilbe (shil'be), n. [NL. (Cuvier, 1829): from 
[< scheme + -yi.] Clever Egypt, shilbe.] 1. A genus of Nile catfishes 
of the family Silurid.2. [Z. c.] A fish of 
this genus, of which there are several species, 
as S. mystus. Also shilbe. Bawlinson, Anc. 
.chiller (shil'er), n. [G., play of colors, glis- 
tening brightness.] A peculiar, nearly metal- 
lic luster, sometimes accompanied by irides- 
cence, observed on some minerals, as hyper- 
sthene, and due to internal reflection from mi- 
croscopic inclusions: in some cases this is an 
[Colloq.] 
SC 
atur), originally (according to St. Jerome) the ~ . - 
distance which a relay of men attached to a 322' Produced by alteration. 
rope would drag a boat up the Nile, its varia- "S^llente ( e , Mt)l "' [< ScMl< ? + . - 
tions were great, but 4 English miles may be taken as an ochiller-spar rock, an aggregate of anorthite 
average value. It is essentially the same as the Hebrew and enstatite, the latter being more or less al- 
unit called in the authorized version of the Bible (Gen. tered or schillerized, or even serpentinized : the 
P-.l. Si'".- 7 i.? Kl. .. !)> little way," and has also English form of the German Schilkrfels. 
SChillerization (shil'er-i-za'shqn), n. A term 
employed by J. W. Judd to designate a change 
in crystals, consisting in the development along 
certain planes of tabular, bacillar, or stellar 
jus- 
tice.] In Holland and in the DutclTsettlements 
KIV/VJ.J MB *wftJUUZU uu Ul IIUO JbTBWJl BVbllCUUaUW | 1*1 a * il_ l- l. A 11. 
in America, one of a board of magistrates cor- mclosu res, which, reflecting the light falling 
,~,i: i~ . f_A. ._i . _ _ unon them, enve nse t,n snTimprl]n> S!I*PTI 
responding nearly to associate justices of a 
municipal court, or to English aldermen. 
The post of schepen, therefore, like that of assistant 
alderman, was eagerly coveted by all your burghers of a 
certain description. Ining, Knickerbocker, p. 166. 
It was market-day ; the most worthy and worshipful 
burgomaster and schepens of Nieuw Amsterdam turned 
over in bed, stretched their fat legs, and recognized that 
it was time to get up. The Atlantic, I . X 1 1 1 . 577. 
upon them, give rise to a submetallic sheen 
as the crystal is turned in various directions. 
This peculiarity has long been known to the Germans, 
and several minerals which exhibit it were classed to- 
gether under the name of schUler-spar (which see). It is 
varieties of the monoclinic and rhombic pyroxenes, and 
especially bronzite and diallage, that exhibit this schil- 
lerization. 
Some of these crystals show traces of schMerization in 
one direction, which I take to be a face of the prism. 
Quart. Jour. Oeol. Soc., XLIV. 746. 
One of the angel faces in the . . . picture strongly re- SChepont, . See shippen. 
calls the expression of Leonardo's heads, while the whole schequert, . An obsolete form of exchequer. 
scheme of pure glowing colour closely resembles that em- op>iprripTi pnhalt fsr^r'hon Vn'hSm * IT t 
ployed by Di Credi in his graceful but slightly weak pic- SCnerpen-CODart (sner ben-ko bait), n. [tr., < 
tures of the Madonna and Child. Eneyc. Brit. XXIV. 175 Kcherben, pi. of scherbe, a potsherd, fragment, 
The scheme of colour of the picture is sober, business- + >t>alt, cobalt.] A German name for some BChlllenze (shil er-iz), r. t. ; pret. and pp. schit- 
forms of native arsenic, having a renifonn or 
stalactitic structure. 
See sherbet. 
it SMC >/////>,/-;// 
,, ' n vl!]J*7^ ^f / 1 
v. An obsolete form of shear*. 
like, and not inappropriate to the subject : but it is also 
hot, and unduly wanting in variety and charm. 
The Academy, No. 890, p. 365. sc herbett, 
Scheme of division, in Scots judicial procedure, a tabu- 
lar statement drawn out to show how it is proposed to 
divide a common fund amongst the several claimants 
uvu.ii.uii AUMIU .in ! ! iu -i me oc*ciai i. Jill Hi.im > , . ,.. , .- 
thereon, or to allocate any fund or burden on the different SCfleni, n. bee snerij. 
Chemical reactions (like those involved In the process 
of Kchillerization) can readily take place. 
Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc., XLV. 181. 
_________ , . 
lerized, ppr. schillerizing. [< schiller + -ize.~\ To 
have that peculiar altered structure which 
causes the phenomenon known as schilleriza- 
tion. 
This intermediate variety is highly schillerized along the 
cleavage-planes. Quart. Jour. Oeol. Soc., XLV. 583. 
scheme (skem), .; pret. and pp. schemed, ppr. 
scheming. [< scheme, .] I. trans. To plan; 
contrive; plot; project; design. 
The powers who scheme slow agonies in hell. 
Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, 1. 1. 
n. iii trans. To form plans; contrive; plan; 
plot. 
"Ah, Mr. Clifford Pyncheon ! " said the man of patches, 
"you may scheme for me as much as you please." 
Hawthorne, Seven Gables, JL . 
scheme-arch (skem'arch), . [Irreg. adapted < Schesis (ske'sis), n 
It. area seemo, an incomplete arch : arco, arch ; ' 
scemo, diminished, deficient.] An arch which 
[< schiller + 
(enstatite) having 
sages to be so rendered. ' same asbastite."" 
scherzo (sker'tso), n. [It., a jest, joke, play, < schilling (shil'ing), n. Same as sMling*. 
MHG. G. sclterz (>D. scherts), jest, sport.] In schiltrount. . See sheltron. 
music, a passage or movement of a light or schindylesis (skin-di-le'sis), n. [NL., < Gr 
IO,H>,,I >,^t^. ,.ifi,.aii,, <> n t ft,o ,,=,,oi axlv fi,^ t(t a cleaving into small pieces, < a X tv- 
6v%tiv, cleave, < axifetv, cleave : see schism. Ct. 
schedule, shindle.] In anat., an articulation 
formed by the reception of a thin plate of one 
playful character; specifically, one of the usual 
movements of a sonata or symphony, following 
the slow movement, and taking the place of the 
older minuet, and, like it, usually combined with 
a trio. The scherzo was first established in its 
place by Beethoven. 
[< Gr. a^faif, state, condi- 
forms a part of a circle less than a semicircle. 
Sometimes erroneously written sJcene-areh. 
bone into a fissure of another, as the articula- 
. tion of the rostrum of the sphenoid with the 
.. vomer. 
tion,< 2;pi>,2daor. n X elv, have, hold: see scheme, schindyletic (skin-di-let'ik), a. [< schindy- 
Cf. hectic.] If. General state or disposition of lesis (-let-) + -ic.] Wedged in; sutured by 
the body or mind, or of one thing with regard to means of schindylesis ; pertaining to schindy- 
...inensK>ie-arcn. other things; habitude. 2. In rAet., a state- lesis. 
schemeful (skem'ful), a. [< scheme + -ful.] ment of what is considered to be the adver- Schinopsis (ski - nop ' sis), n. [NL. (Engler, 
Full of schemes or plans. sary's habitude of mind, by way of argument 1873), < Schinus, q. v., + Gr. oi/iif, view.] A 
schemer (ske'mer), n. One who schemes or a g a ' ns ' ; n ' m - . genus of polypetalous trees, of the order Ana- 
coutrives; a projector; a contriver; a plotter. SChetict (sket'ik), a. [< Gr. o^erao?, holding cardiacex and tribe Rlwidex. It is characterized 
So many worthy schemers must produce 
A statesman's coat of universal use ; 
Some system of economy to save 
Another million for another knave. 
Chatterton, Resignation. 
It is a lesson to all schemers ai 
to teach them th 
succeed, the; 
Paley, tenon on Gen. xlvii. 12. (Latham.) 
back, holding firmly, < l^eiv, have, hold: see 
-/irm\] Pertaining to the state of the body; 
constitutional; habitual. Bailey, 1731. 
scheticalt (sket'i-kal), a. [< schetic + -al.'] 
ion to all schemers and confederates in guilt, Scneuchzeria (shok-ze'ri-iU TNL tiampd trees which < "bear"biackuii 
m this truth, thnt, when their scheme does not %>> "' _ <-*? lj " n ' and alternate iiinniite and 
!> are sure to quarrel amongst themselves. after the brothers Sehewiluer, Swiss natural- entii e lealiets ami I with wi, 
ists,(first part of 18tli oentury).] A genus of 
ilygamous flowers with a flattish receptacle, five i 
pals, five spreading and nerved petals, live short sta- 
mens, a deeply lobed disk, and an ovoid and compressed 
one-celled ovary which becomes an oblong samara in fruit, 
containing a one-seeded stone. There are 4 species, na- 
tives of South America from Peru to Cordova. They are 
h branchlets, panicled flowers, 
thickish leaves of many small 
nged petioles. For S. Lorentzii, 
see quebracho. 
