scoffer 
There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after 
their own lusts, and saying, " Where is the promise of Ms 
coming Y" 2 Pet. iii. 3. 
Let him that thinks fit scoff on, and be a Scoffer still. 
/. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 23. 
scofferyt (sk6f'er-i), n. [< scoff + -cry.'} The 
act of scoffing; mockery. [Rare.] 
King Henrie the lift in his beginning thought it a meere 
scoferie to pursue anie fallow deere with hounds or grei- 
hounds. 
Harrison, Descrip. of England, iii. 4. (Holinshed's Chron.) 
scoffingly (skof 'ing-li), adc. In a scoffing man- 
ner ; in mockery or scorn ; by way of dorision. 
Wordsworth, being asked his opinion of the same poem 
[Keatss "Hyperion"), called it, scoffingly, "a pretty piece 
of paganism." Landor, Southey and Landor, ii. 
SCOganismt (sko'gan-izm), . [< Scogan, the 
name of a famous jester, + -ism.'] A scurri- 
lous jesting. 
But what do I trouble my reader with this idle Scogan- 
ism? Scolds or jesters are only fit for this combat, 
Bp. Hall, Works, IX. 183. (Dories.) 
SCOganlyt (sko'gan-li), a. [< Scogan (see sco- 
ijunism) + -ly*-.'] Scurrilous. 
He so manifestly belies our holy, reverend, worthy Mas- 
ter Fox, whom this scoaanly pen dare say plays the goose. 
Dp. Hall, Works, IX. 262. (Daviee.) 
SCOgie (sko'gi), n. [Origin obscure.] A kitchen 
drudge ; a maid-servant who performs the dirti- 
est work; a scuddle. [Scotch.] 
scoke (skok), n. [Origin unknown. Of. coakum.~] 
Same as pokeiceed. 
scolaiet, * *. See scoley. 
SCOld (skold), v. [Early mod. E. also scotdd, 
scoulc; Sc. scald, scauld; < ME. scolden, < MD. 
scheldan (pret. schold), scold, = OFries. skelda, 
schelda = MLG. LG. sclielden = OHG. sceltan, 
MHG. schelten, G. schelten (pret. schalt, pp. 
gescholten), scold, revile; prob. orig. 'goad,' 
more lit. push, shove, < OHG. scaltan, MHG. G. 
schaiten = OS. skaldan, push, shove. The word 
can hardly be connected with Icel. skjalla (pret. 
skal, pp. skollinn), clash, clatter, slam, make a 
noise, = G. sehallen, resound, or with the deriv. 
Icel. skella, clash, clatter, = Sw. skcilla, bark 
at, abuse, = Dan. skjselde, abuse.] I. iiitrans. 
To chide or find fault, especially with noisy 
clamor or railing ; utter harsh rebuke, railing, 
or vituperation. 
The angred man doth but discouer his mimic, but the 
fierce woman to scold, yell, and exclame can flnde no end. 
Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 303. 
I had rather hear them scold than fight. 
Shak., SI. W. of W., ii. 1. 240. 
I Just put my two arms round her, and said, "Come, 
Bessie! don't scold." Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, iv. 
II. trans. To chide with railing or clamor; 
berate; rail at. 
She had scolded her Husband one Day out of Doors. 
Howell, Letters, iv. 7. 
She scolded Anne, . . . but so softly that Anne fell asleep 
in the middle of the little lecture. 
Jlrs. Oliphant, Poor Gentleman, xlii. 
SCOld (skold), n. [Early mod. E. also scould, 
scottle; < scold, .] 1. One who scolds; a 
scolder; especially, a noisy, railing woman; a 
termagant. 
I know she is an irksome brawling scold. 
Shak., T. of the S., i. 2. 188. 
I'l undertake a dram or a whole kennel 
Of scolds cannot wake him. 
Bronte, The Queen's Exchange, iii. 
The Bully among men, and the Scold among women. 
Steele, Tatler, No. 217. 
2. A scolding : as, she gave him a rousing scold. 
[Rare. ] _ Common scold, a woman who, by the practice 
of frequent scolding, disturbs the peace of the neighbor- 
hood. 
A common scold is indictable at common law as a nui- 
sance. Btihop, Crim. Law, 1101. 
Scold's bridle. Same as brankg, 1. 
SCOldenore (skol'de-nor), n. [Of. scolder 3 .] 
The oldwife or south-southerly, a duck, Harelda 
f/lacialis. Also called scolder. See cut under 
oldicife. [N.ew Hampshire.] 
scolder 1 (skol'der), n. [< scold, v., + -er 1 .] 
One who scolds or rails. 
Scoldfrs, and sowers of discord between one person and 
another. Cranmer, Articles of Visitation. 
scolder 2 (skol'der), . [Also chaldrick, chalder; 
origin obscure.] The oyster-catcher, Hsema- 
lufiiix <>xl rile/inn. [Orkneys.] 
scolder 3 (skol'der), . [Origin obscure.] Same 
as si'uldfiiorc. [Massachusetts.] 
scolding (skol'ding), n. [Verbal n. of scold, c.] 
Railing or vituperative language; a rating: as, 
to get a good scoldiiii/. 
Was not mamma often in an ill-humor ; and were they 
not all used to her scoldings' Thackeray, Philip, xx. 
= Syn. See rail, o. 
5403 
SCOlding-stOOlt (skol'ding-stol), n. A cucking- 
stool. HiilliiccU. 
SCOldstert, [Also gcolstrr, xkiikter ; < scold 
+ -xtcr.'] A scold. A. H. A. Hamilton's Quarter 
Sessions, p. 85. 
SCOle't, " An obsolete form of school*. 
scole-t, . An obsolete form of school 2 . 
scole 3 , 11. An obsolete or dialectal form of 
scale'*. 
scoleces, . Plural of scolex. 
Scqlecida (sko-les'i-da), n. pi. [NL., < Gr. 
aKu'Aqi;, a worm, + -ida"] A class of Annuloida 
or worms, contrasting with Echinodermata, con- 
sisting of the wheel-animalcules, the turbella- 
rians, and the trematoid, cestoid, and nematoid 
worms, including the gordians and Acantho- 
cephala. This group was tentatively proposed, and the 
term has scarcely come into use. Huxley, 1869. See cuts 
under Jthabdocaela and Rotijera. 
scoleciform (sko-les'i-form), a. [< Gr. mcufa/!; 
(anuAriK-), a worm, + L. forma, form.] Having 
the form or character of a scolex: specifically 
noting an early larval stage of tapeworms. 
Thus, the measle of, pork is the scoleciform 
stage of Txnia solium. T. S. Cobbold. 
Scolecimorphat (sko-les-i-mor'fa), n. pi. [NL. , 
< Gr. <TK(j/l^|, a worm, + ftopQi/, form.] A group 
of worms containing the turbellarians, trema- 
toids, and cestoids: synonymous with Plati/hel- 
mintha. 
scolecimorphic (sko-les-i-mor'fik), a. [< Sco- 
lecimorpha + -ic.] Worm-like in form or struc- 
ture; of or pertaining to the Scolecimorplia. 
Scolecina (skol-e-si'na), n. pi. [NL., < Gr. 
CKU).TI!- (aau/.riK-), a worm, + -j'm 2 .] A group of 
annelids, typified by the earthworm, corre- 
sponding to the lumbricine, terricolous, or oli- 
gocheetous annelids. Also called Scoleina. 
SCOlecine (skol'e-sin), o. Of or pertaining to 
the Scolecina; lumbricoid, terricolous, or oSgo- 
chretous, as an annelid. 
scolecite (skol'e-sit), . [In def. 1 also skole- 
citc (so called because it sometimes curls up 
before the blowpipe, as if it were a worm) ; < 
Gr. aK&M/i- (o-KuX^K-), a worm, + -ite 2 .] 1. One 
of the zeolite group of minerals, a hydrous sili- 
cate of aluminium and calcium, occurring in 
acicular crystals, also fibrous and radiated mas- 
sive, commonly white. Early called lime-meso- 
type. 2. In hot., the vermiform archicarpof the 
fungus Ascobolus, a name proposed by Tulasne. 
It is a structure composed ot a chain of cells 
developed from the end of a branch of the my- 
celium. 
scolecoid (sko-le'koid), a. [< Gr. OKufa/Kufw, 
contr. for anuAr/Koeidt/f, worm-like, < mu/byf (<TMJ- 
A)?K-), a worm, 4- eMof, form.] Resembling a 
scolex; cysticercoid; hydatid. 
Scqlecomorpha (sko-le-ko-m6r'fa), n. pi. 
[NL., < Gr. (TKuPa/l (<7K<j/t?7/c-), a worm, + iioptyii, 
form.] A class of Mollusca, represented by 
the genus Neomenia (or Solenopus), further 
distinguished as a. special series Lipoglossa, 
contrasting with the gastropods, cephalopods, 
pteropods, etc., collectively. E. R. Lankester. 
Scolecophagat (skol-e-kof'a-ga), n. pi. [NL., 
neut. pi. of scolecophagus : see scolecophagous.] 
An Aristotelian group of insectivorous birds, 
containing most of the present Oscines. 
scolecophagous (skol-e-kof'a-gus), a. [< NL. 
scolecophagus, < Gr. oKuAr/Kofyayoc,, worm-eating, 
< GKuXriZ (aKufajK-), a worm, Hr ^ayelv, eat.] 
Worm-eating, as a bird. 
Scolecophagus (skol-e-kof'a-gus), n. [NL. 
(Swainson, 1831): see 'scolecophagouf."] A ge- 
nus of Icteridse of the subfamily Quiscalinfe, 
having a rounded tail shorter than the wings, 
and a thrush-like bill; the maggot-eaters or 
rusty graekles. Two species are very common birds 
of the United States S.femtgineus and S. cyanocephalut, 
of eastern and western North America respectively. The 
latter is the blue-headed or Brewer's blackbird. The name 
rusty grackle of the former is only descriptive of the females 
and young, the adult males being entirely iridescent-black. 
See cut under rusty. 
ScolecopMdia (sko-le-ko-fid'i-a), n.pl. [NL., 
< Gr. GKUAI]!; (aKO?.//K-), a worm, + 6^<f, a snake : 
see Ophidia.'] A series or superfamily of worm- 
like angiostomatous snakes, having the opis- 
thotic fixed in the cranial walls, palatines 
bounding the choanse behind, no ectoptery- 
goids, and a rudimentary pelvis. It includes 
the Epanodonta or Typhlopidas, and the Cato- 
donta or Stcnostoinatirtae. 
scolecophidian (sko-le-ko-fid'i-an), o. and . 
[< ticolcKiiphidia +'-)!.]' I. o." Wotra-like or 
vermiform, as a snake ; of or pertaining to the 
ScolecopMdia. 
Scolopacidae 
II. n. A worm-like snake; a member of the 
Scolccopiiiditi. 
Scoleina (skol-e-i'na), . pi. Same as ScohTiiin. 
scolert, '" An obsolete form of scholar. 
scolex (sko'leks), n. [NL., < Gr. <7M?f, pi. 
onu/.tiKff., a woi-m.] 1. PI. scoleces (sko-le'sez), 
erroneously scolices (skol'i-sez). In Scolecida, 
the larva produced from the egg, which may by 
gemmation give rise to infertile deutoscoleces, 
or to ovigerous proglottides ; the embryo of 
an entozoic worm, as a fluke or tape ; a cystic 
worm or cysticercus; a hydatid. See cuts un- 
der Teenia. 
The scolex, which develops the chain or strobila by a 
process of budding. Kncyc. Brit.., XXIII. 52. 
2f. [<";'] An old genus of worms, 
scolex-form (sko'leks -form), n. The form, 
state, or condition of a scolex. 
In some stages, as. for example, in the scolex-form of 
many Cestoda. this differentiation of the secondary axes 
is not expressed. Gegeribaur, Conip. Anat. (trans.), p. 128. 
scoleyt, v. i. [ME. scolaien, scoleyen, attend 
school, study, < OF. escoler, instruct, teach, < 
cscole, school : see school*, .] To attend school ; 
study. 
He ... bisily gan for the soules preye 
Of hem that gal hym wherewith to scoleye. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 302. 
Scolia (sko'li-a), 11.' [NL. (Fabricius, 1775), 
said to be < Qr.aK&^of, a pointed stake, a thorn, 
prickle; but perhaps < anofafa, bent, slanting, 
oblique.] An important genus of fossorial 
hymenopterous insects, typical of the family 
Scoliidx, having the eyes emarginate within, 
and the fore wings with only one recurrent 
nervure. It is a large cosmopolitan genus, containing 
species which have the normal bun-owing habit of the 
digger-wasps, as well as some which are parasitic. Thus, 
S. flavtfrons of Europe is parasitic within the body of the 
lamellicorn beetle Oryctes nasicornvi. Thirteen species 
are found in the United States and fourteen in Europe, 
while many are tropical. 
scoliastt, n. An obsolete form of scholiast. 
scolices, . An erroneous plural of scolex. 
Scoliidae (sko-li'i-de), n. pi. [NL. (Westwood, 
1840), < Scolia + -idx.~] A family of fossorial 
hymenopterous insects, containing large, often 
hairy, short-legged wasps, which abound in 
tropical countries, and in sunny, hot, and sandy 
places. Tiphia, Myzine, and Elis are the principal North 
American genera. Ihe adult wasps are found commonly 
on flowers, and the larvae either live normally in burrows 
prepared by the adults, or they are parasitic, usually on 
the larvae of beetles. Some are called sand-icasps. Also 
Scoliadte (Leach, 1817), Scolietes (Latreille, Ife02), Scoliites 
(Newman, 1834), and Scolida (Leach, 1812). See cuts under 
Elis and Tiphia. 
Scoliodon (sko-li'6-don), n. [NL. (Muller and 
Henle, 1837),' < Gr. aKo?.t6$, oblique, + o&n'f 
(O&OVT-) = E. tooth."] A genus of sharks of 
the family Galeorhinidee ; the oblique-toothed 
sharks. terrx-TWVse of the Atlantic coast of America, 
common southward, is the sharp-nosed shark, of slender 
form and gray color, with a conspicuous black edging of 
the caudal fin. 
SCOliOSlS (skol-i-6'sis), 11. [NL., < Gr. cmMuais, 
a bending, a curve, < anofaovv, bend, crook, < 
CKo)u6f, bent, crooked, curved.] Lateral curva- 
ture of the spinal column: distinguished from 
lordosis and kyphosis scoliosis brace, a brace for 
treating lateral curvature of the spine. 
SCOliotic (skol-i-ot'ik), a. [< scoliosis (-ot-) + 
-ic.~\ Pertaining to or of the nature of scoliosis. 
scolite (sko'lit), . [< Gr. CKo)u6f, bent, crooked, 
+ -ite 2 .] A tortuous tube or track, which may 
have been the burrow of a worm, found fossil 
in the rocks of nearly all ages ; a fossil worm, 
or the trace of one, of undetermined character. 
Also scolithus. 
scollard (skol'ard), . A dialectal variant of 
scholar. 
scollop, scolloped, etc. See scallop, etc. 
scolopaceous(skol-o-pa'shius), a. [< NL. scolo- 
pacetts, < L. scolopax, a large snipe-like bird : 
see Scolopax.] Resembling a snipe: specifical- 
ly noting a courlan, Aranins scolopaceus. (See 
AruniHS.) The resemblance is slight, as may be judged 
from the figure (see following page) ; but courlans in some 
respects depart from their allies (cranes and rails) in the 
direction of the snipe family. 
Scolopacidae (skol-o-pas'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < 
Scolopax + -idx .] A family of limicoline preco- 
cial wading birds, named from the genus Scolo- 
pax, containing all kinds of snipes and wood- 
cocks, sandpipers, tattlers or gambets, godwits, 
and curlews; the snipe tribe. It is one of the two 
largest limicoline families (the other being Charadriidx 
or plovers), characterized by the length, sl^nderness, and 
sensitiveness of the bill, which is in eome genera several 
times as long as the head, grooved for one half to nearly 
the whole of its length, and forming a delicate probe with 
which to explore the ground in search of food. The legs 
