scone 
Hoo mony men, when on parade, or when singin' sangs 
aboot the war. arc gran' hands, but wha lie flat as scones 
on the grass when they see the cauld iron ! 
A". Macleod, The Starling, 11. 
SCOnner, r. and . See scunner. 
sconset, . and v. An obsolete spelling of 
sconce 1 , sconce 2 . 
scoolt, An earlier spelling of school' 1 , school^. 
SCOOn (skon), v. i. [A var. of Se. and E. dial. 
sain, scon: see -sewn 2 .] I. intrans. To skim 
along, as a vessel on the water. See schooner. 
[Prov. or colloq.] 
II. trans. To cause (flat stones) to skip or 
skim on the surface of water. [Scotch and 
New Eng.] 
scoop (skop), n. [< ME. scope, slope, skoupe = 
MD. schoepe, schuppe, a scoop, shovel, D. scliop, 
6406 
Love scooped this boat, and with soft motion 
Piloted it round the circumfluous ocean. 
Shelley, Witch of Atlas, xxxiii. 
5. To take with a dredge, as oysters; dredge. 
[U. S.] 6. In newspaper slang, to get the 
better of (a rival or rivals) by securing and 
publishing a piece of news in advance of it or 
thorn ; get a "beat" oh. See scoop, n., 8. 
II. intrans. 1. To use a scoop; dredge, as 
for oysters. [U. S.] 2. To feed; take food, 
as the right or whalebone whale. See scoop- 
ing, n. [Sailors' slang.] 
Again, the whale may be scooping or feeding a more 
horrible Bight has never been witnessed ashore or afloat 
than a large right whale with contracted upper lips, ex- 
posing the long layers of baleen, taking his food. 
Fisheries oj U. S., V. ii. 264. 
,..__ J ._, j- f ~, r, - --j - __ x. Scooping avoset. See avoset, l. 
a spade (schoppen, spades at cards), = MLG. scooper (s k6'per). n. [< scoop, v., + -er 1 .] 1. 
schuppe, LG. schuppe (> G. schuppe), a shovel, On / who or & a t which scoops; specifically, a 
also a spade at cards, = Sw. skopa, a scoop; 
cf. G. schopfe, a scoop, ladle, schoppen, a pint 
measure ; perhaps connected with shove, shmel. 
Some compare Gr. <r/d'0of, a cup, O-KO^OC, a hol- 
low vessel, < andirTctv, dig : see shave. In senses 
6-8 from the verb.] 1 . A utensil like a shovel, 
but having a short handle and a deep hollow 
receptacle capable of holding various small ar- 
ticles. Especially (a) A large shovel for grain. (6) A 
small shovel of tin-plate for taking flour, sugar, etc., from 
the barrel, (c) A bankei*' shovel for taking coin from a 
drawer, used where checks are commonly paid in specie. 
(d) A kind of light dredge used in scooping or dredging 
oysters ; a scraper. 
tool used by engravers on wood for cleaning 
out the white parts of a block. It somewhat 
resembles a small chisel, but is rounded under- 
neath instead of being flat. 2. The scooping 
avoset: so called from the peculiar shape of 
the bill. 
icooping (sk8'ping), n. [Verbaln. of scoopj t'.] 
The action of the right whale when feeding. 
When it gets Into a patch of feed or brit (which resembles 
sawdust on the surface of the water), it goes through it 
with only the head out and the mouth wide open. As 
soon as a mouthful of water is obtained, the whale closes 
its lips and ejects the water through the layers of baleen, 
the feed being left in the mouth and throat. [Sailors' 
Hence 2. A coal-scuttle. [Eng.] 3. Aba- slang.] 
sin-like cavity, natural or artificial ; a hollow, scoop-net (skop'net), i. 1. A net so formed 
Some had lain in the scoop of the rock, 
With glittering ising stars inlaid. 
J. R. Drake, Culprit Fay. 
The conduits round the gardens sing, 
And meet in scoops of milk-white stone. 
D. 0. Rossetti, Dant* at Verona. 
as to sweep the bottom of a river, when in use 
it is allowed to trail in the rear of the boats, which are 
permitted to drift slowly down the stream. 
2. A form of net used to bail out fish collected 
in a pound; also, a small hand-net, used for 
catching bait ; a scap-net. 
Of a sudden, in a scoop of sand, with the rushes over- gcoop-wheel (skOp'hwel), n. A wheel made 
hanging, I came on those two little dears, fast asleep. 
R. D. Blackmore, Maid of Sker, x. 
4. An instrument used in hollowing out any- 
thing, or in removing something out of a hol- 
low or so as to leave a hollow: as, a cheese-scoop. 
Specifically (o) A spoon-shaped surgical instrument for 
extracting foreign bodies, as a bullet from a wound, etc. 
like an overshot water-wheel, with buckets 
upon its circumference. This, being turned by a 
steam-engine or other means, is employed to scoop up the 
water in which the lower part dips and raise it to a height 
equal to the diameter of the wheel, when the buckets, 
turning over, deposit the water in a trough or reservoir 
prepared to receive it. Such wheels are sometimes used 
for Irrigating land. Compare tympanum. 
(6) An implement for cutting eyes from potatoes, the core ' 
apples, or the like, (c) The bucket of a dredging-ma- BCOOt 1 (skot), 1). [A var. of shoot. Cf . 
from i , 
chine. 
5. The vizor or peak of a cap. [Scotland.] 
6. A big haul, as if in a scoop-net ; in particu- 
lar, a big haul of money made in speculation or 
in some similar way. [Colloq.] 7. The act 
of scooping; a movement analogous to the act 
of scooping. 
A scoop of his hands and a sharp drive of his arm, and 
the ball shot into Alison's hands a fraction of a second 
ahead of the runner. 
Walter Camp, St. Nicholas, XVII. 947. 
I. intrans. 1. To flow or gush out suddenly and 
with force, as from a syringe. [Scotch.] 2. 
To run, fly, or make off with celerity and direct- 
ness; dart. [Colloq., U. S.] 
The laugh of the gull as he scoots along the shore. 
Quarterly Rev., CXXVI. 371. 
W'en ole man Rabbit say "scoot," dey scooted, eu w'en 
ole Miss Rabbit say "scat," dey scatted. 
J. C. Harris, Uncle Remus, xxii. 
II. trans. To eject with force, as from a 
syringe; squirt: as, to scoot water on one. 
8. The securing and publishing by a newspaper Also skite. [Scotch.] 
of a piece of news in advance of its rivals; a scoot 1 (skot), n. [< scoot 1 , r.] 1. A sudden gust 
" beat," especially a "beat "of unusual success or flow, as of water; hence, a quick, light mo- 
or importance. [Slang.] tion as of something suddenly ejected from 
scoop (skop), v. [< ME. scopen, < scoop, n. Cf. a confined place: as, a sudden scoot. 2. A 
OS. skcjtpian = D. scheppen = MLG. seheppen, syringe or squirt. [Scotch in both senses.] 
sehepen, LG. scheppen = OHG. scaphan, scep/ian, gcoot 2 (skot), . [Cf. scoter.] A scoter: as in 
sceffan, skepfen, MHG. schephen, schepfen, G. the names batter-scoot, bladder-scoot, and blath- 
schiipfen, scoop, ladle out; from the noun.] I. erscoot of the ruddy duck, Erismatura rubida, in 
trans. 1. To take with or as with a scoop or a Virginia. G. Trumbull. 
scoop-net: generally with out, up, or in : as, to scoot :i t, n. Same as scoufr. 
scoop up water. scooter 1 (sko'ter), n. [< scoot 1 + -er 1 .] 1. 
He scoop'd the water from the crystal flood. Dryden. One who or that which scoots. 2. A scoot ; a 
Finishing his breakfast of broad beans, which he scooped squirt or syringe. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] 
out of a basin with his knife. SCOOter 2 (sko'ter), n. Same as scoter. 
W. Collins, Sister Rose, ii. 3. SCO p a ( 8 k6'pa), n. [NL.,<L. scopa, twigs, shoots, 
One attends to keeping the canoe's head up stream a broom besom: see scope 2 .] In entom., a mass 
while the other watches for a flsh; on seeing one he scoops V^JlT, K t. sm >oifir>nllv ma 
it out with a small net attached to a pole six feet long. * * , n ai rs . lll e a prustl , specincauj , massf 
W. F. Roe, Newfoundland to Manitoba, vi. of bristly hairs on the outside of the tibise and 
2. Figuratively, to gather up as if with a scoop ; tarsi . or on the lower surface of the abdomen, of 
hence, to gain "by force or fraud. [Chiefly col- many bees, used to collect and carry grains of 
loq.] pollen which become entangled in them. Also 
If you had offered a premium for the biggest cold caught cattodpolleii-briiiih and sarothriini. 
up to date, I think I should have scooped the outfit. Scopana (skp-pa n-a), n. [JSL., < L. scopa, 
Amer. Angler, XVII. 334. twigs, shoots, a broom : see scopa.] 1. A ge- 
The Irish are spreading out into the country, and scoop- nus of pyralid moths of the family Sotidee, or 
ing in the farms that are not picturesque enough for the type of a family Seopariidte, having porrect 
summer folks. Howells, Annie Kilburn, xi. f agc j eu i a te palpi and short antenna;. (Ha- 
3. To empty as with a scoop or by lading ; hence, worth, 1812. ) About 40 species are known, mostly Eu- 
to hollow out; excavate: commonly with out. ropean and Asiatic. The lame live mainly in moss. Also 
Those carbuncles ... the Indians will scoop, so as to S? 11< ; d Gemeria - . , 
hold above a Pint. Arbuthnot, Anc. Coins, p. 176. 2. A genus of gamopetalous plants, of the order 
To some dry nook Scrophularinex, tribe Dtgitalex, and subtribe 
Scooped out of living rock. Sibthorpiese. (Linneeus, 1753.) It is characterized 
Wordsworth, Eccles. Sonnets, i. 22. by flowers with a four- or five-parted calyx, a spreading 
A nir-hp nf tho ohnit hart v,oon r-inTOriir fi.inropri ml four-cleft densely bearded corolla, four nearly equal sta- 
woowd : into . a s hel ShTDed bower enlarged and & ^d roundisn Ucidal capsule with en . 
shaped bower. tire ? alves and ODOoid see()8 . There are 5 or 6 species, na- 
ma, xiiv. tlvegof Soutn Americaand Mexico,withonespecies,S.M- 
4. To form by hollowing out as with a scoop. cis, also very widely dispersed through warmer parts of the 
Scopelidae 
Old World. They are herbs or shrubs, with very numer- 
ous branched, opposite orwhorled, and dotted leaves, and 
rather small flowers, commonly in pairs, either white, yel- 
low, or pale-blue. S. dtdcis is used as a stomachic in the 
West Indies, and is called street broomu'eed and licorice- 
weed. 
Scopariidae (sko-pa-ri'i-de), n. pi. [NL. (Gue- 
n6e, 1854), < Scoparia + -idee.] A little-used 
family name for the plicate pyralid moths re- 
lated to Scoparia. They have the body slender, legs 
long, smooth, and slender; fore wings long, narrow, cloud- 
ed, obtuse at tips, and with very distinct markings ; hind 
wings broad, plicate, without markings. The family in- 
cludes 5 genera, of which Scoparia is the most important. 
SCOparin (sko'pa-rin), ii. [< Scpparium (see 
def.) + -in' 2 .] A crystalline principle found 
in the flowers of Spartium Scopariwn, used in 
medicine for its diuretic properties. 
scoparious (sko-pa'ri-us), a. [Cf. LL. scopa- 
riiis, asweeper; < L. scopa, a broom, brush: see 
scope 2 .] Same as scopiform. 
scopate(sko'pat),. [<NL.**-coj)a<s,<L.seqp<j. 
a broom, brush: see scope 2 .] In entom.: (a) 
Having a dense brush of stiff hairs, as the legs 
of bees, (b) Densely covered with stiff hairs : 
as, a scopate surface. 
scope 1 (skop), n. An obsolete or dialectal form 
of scoop. Salliuiell. 
scope 2 !, n. [ME., < L. scopa, usually in pi. sco- 
pie, twigs, shoots, branches, a broom, besom, 
brush.] A bundle, as of twigs. [Rare.] 
Every yere in scopes hem to brenne, 
And thicker, gretter, swetter wol up renne. 
Palladium, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 84. 
scope 3 (skop), n. [Early mod. E. also skope; 
=. Pg. scopo, aim, object, < It. scopo, a mark or 
butt to shoot at, aim, scope, purpose, intent, 
< LL. "scopus, scopes, a mark, aim, < Gr. ovcomif, 
a mark, also a spy, a watcher, < aitoireiv, see, < 
onen- in aneirTeaBat, see, view, consider, = L. 
specere, see: see skeptic, spy.~] If. A mark to 
shoot at ; a target. 
And, shooting wide, doe misse the marked scope. 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., November. 
2. That which is aimed at ; end or aim kept or 
to be kept in view ; that which is to be reached 
or accomplished ; ultimate design, aim, or pur- 
pose; intention. 
Your scope is as mine own, 
So to enforce and qualify the laws 
As to your soul seems good. 
Shak., M. for M., i. 1. 66. 
Thy coming hither, though I know thy scope, 
I bid not, or forbid. Milton, P. B., i. 494. 
3. Outlook; intellectual range or view: as, a 
mind of wide scope. 4. Room for free outlook 
or aim; range or field of free observation or 
action; room; space. 
O, cut my lace in sunder, that my pent heart 
May have some scope to beat. 
Shak., Rich. III., iv. 1. 35. 
All the uses of nature admit of being summed in one, 
which yields the activity of man an infinite scope. 
Emerson, Nature. 
5. Extent; length; sweep; (naut.) length of 
cable or anchor-chain at which a vessel rides 
when at anchor : as, scope of cable. 
The glorious Prince, whose Scepter ever shines, 
Whose Kingdom's scope the Heav'n of Heav'ns confines. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The lawe. 
When out to a good scope, from forty-five to sixty fath- 
oms, according to the depth of water, let go the weather 
bower and veer away roundly. Luce, Seamanship, p. 525. 
6f. A wide tract. 
The scopes of land granted to the first adventurers were 
too large. Sir J. Davies, State of Ireland. 
7+. A liberty; a license enjoyed; hence, an act 
of riot or excess. 
As surfeit is the father of much fast, 
So every scope by the immoderate use 
Turns to restraint Shak., M. for M., i. 2. 131. 
SCOpe 4 +, r. An obsolete form of scoup'*. 
scopefult(skop'ful), a. [< scope 3 + -ful.~\ Ex- 
tensive ; with a wide prospect. 
Amplo [It.], ample, large, scopeful, great. Florio. 
Sith round beleaguer'd by rough Neptune's legions, 
Within the strait-nookes of this narrow He, 
The noblest volumes of our vulgar style 
Cannot escape unto more scopefvU regions. 
Sylvester, Sonnet to Master R. N. (Davies.) 
SCOpeless (skop'les), a. [< scopc^ + -less.] 
Having no scope or aim; purposeless: useless. 
Seopeless desire of searching into things exempt from 
humane inquisition. Bp. Parker, Platonick Philos., p. 81. 
Scopelidae (sko-pel'i-de), . pi. [NL., < Sco- 
pelus + -idee.] A family of iniomous teleos- 
tean fishes, typified by the genus Scopelus, 
and admitted with various limits, (a) In Gun- 
ther's system of classification, a family of physostotnous 
fishes, with the margin of the upper jaw formed by the 
intermaxillary only, preopercular apparatus sometimes 
