Scutchiii|7-sword and Stand. 
scutcher 
An implement or a machine for scutching fiber. 
Also scutch. 2f. A whip. 
Verge, . . . arod.wand, . . . switch, otscutcherto ride 
with. Cotgrave. 
3. One who scutches fiber. 
SCUtch-grasS (skuch'gras), M. 1. A variant 
of auitok-grtut. 2. By transfer, the Bermuda 
or Indian couch-grass, Cijiioilint llnctijlim. See 
Bermuda grass, under grass. 
scutching (skuch'ing), n. Same as seotelihii/. 
SCUtching-machine (skuch'ing-ma-shen*), n. 
A machine for scutching or rough-dressing fiber, 
as flax, cotton, or silk. See cut under scutcher. 
SCUtching-mill (skuch'ing-mil), . Same as 
scutehing-tnaeltine. 
SCUtching-shaft (skuch'ing-shaft), . In a cot- 
ton-scutching machine, the revolving shaft 
which carries the first beater. 
SCUtching-StOCk (skuch'ing-stok). n. In a 
scutching-machine, the part on which the hemp 
rests during the opera- 
tion of scutching. E. 
H.Kni</M. 
scutchihg-sword 
(skueh'ing-sord), n. 
A beating-implement 
used in scutching flax 
by hand. The sword a 
(see cut) Is held in the right 
hand, while with the left a 
handful of the bruised 
stems is introduced into 
the groove g in the stand b. 
A band stretched from the 
stand to a stake h causes 
the sword to rebound after 
each downward blow. 
scute 1 (skut), n. [< late ME. scute, < OF. cscut, 
later escu, F. ecu, a buckler or shield, a coin, etc., 
= Pr. esctit = Sp. Pg. escudo = It. scudo, < L. scu- 
tum, rarely scutus, a shield, cover, = Gr. mnrof, 
a skin, also a buckler, < -\/ sku, cover, = Skt. 
/ sku, cover: see sky, scum, obscure, etc. Cf. 
scutum, scudo, ecu, from the same source.] If. 
A shield or buckler; also, a heraldic shield; an 
escutcheon. 
Confessing that he was himselfe a Mountacute, 
And bare the selfe same armes that I dyd quarter in my 
scute. (Jatcoigne, Deuise of a Maske. 
2f. An old French gold coin, of the value of 
3s. 4rf. sterling, or 80 cents. 
And from a pair of gloves of half-a-crown 
To twenty crowns, will to a very scute- 
Smell out the price. Chaptnan, All Fools, v. 1. 
3. In zool., a scutum or scutellum, in any sense; 
a squama; a large scale; a shield, plate, or 
buckler: as, the dermal scutes of a ganoid fish, 
a turtle, an armadillo, a scaly ant-eater, etc. 
See cuts under carapace and Acipentser Clavic- 
ular scute. See clavicular. 
scute 2 t, . An obsolete form of scout*. 
SCUtel (sku'tel), n. [< NL. scutellum, q. v.] A 
little scute; a scutellum. Imp. Diet. 
Scutella 1 (sku-tel'a), u. [NL. (Lamarck, 1816), 
< L. scutella. a salver, tray, ML. a platter, dish, 
dim. of seutra, a flat tray, a platter: see scut- 
tle 1 , skillet, sculler^, scullery, etc.] 1. A ge- 
nus of flat sea-urchins, or cake-urchins, giving 
name to the family Scutellid. 2. [I. c.; pi. 
scutellx (-e).] Same as scutellum (c). 
scutella 2 , n. Plural of scutellum. 
SCUtellar (sku'te-lar), . [< NL. scutellum + 
-ar3.] Of or pertaining to a scutellum, in any 
sense. -Scutellar angle, in entrnn,: (a) The angle of a 
wing-cover adjoining the scutellum, or next to the oppo- 
site elytron if the scutellum is concealed, (b) The basal 
posterior angle of a wing. Scutellar Striae, short im- 
pressed lines on the elytra, near the scutellum and paral- 
lel to its margins. They are found in many beetles. 
Scutellaria (sku-te-la'ri-a), . [NL., < L. scv- 
tella, a salver, dish, + "ana 1 .] A genus of 
gamopetalous plants, of the order Labiates and 
tribe Stacltydese, type of the subtribe Scutella- 
rieas. It is distinguished by its peculiar two-lipped 
calyx, which is enlarged and closed in fruit, bearing a 
scale or projecting appendage above, with both lips en- 
tire, the lower persistent, the other falling with the in- 
closed fruit. From Perilomia, which alone has a similar 
calyx, it is distinguished by its corolla with an enlarged 
and hooded or galeate upper lip, its roundish nutlets, and 
its transverse seeds. There are about 100 species, widely 
dispersed through temperate regions and among tropical 
mountains, and abundant in the United States, which con- 
tains one quarter of the species. They are chiefly known 
as slnulcap and helmet- flmoer, and are annual or perennial 
herbs, spreading or erect, and rarely shrubs. They bear 
opposite and commonly toothed leaves, and rather large 
blue, violet, scarlet, or yellow flowers in the axils or dis- 
posed in a terminal spike or raceme. See skullcap; also 
madweed, hoodivort. and hedge-hyssop, 2. 
scutellate (sku'te-lat). a. [< NL. "scutellatus, 
< scHtellum. q. v.] In zool.: (a) Provided with 
scutella ; scutate ; squamate. Specifically, in or- 
Scuttl , at<! ._ F()0t 0( 
Bluebird, with umini- 
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nltltolngy, noting the foot of a bird when it is provided 
with the special plates or scales called ncutella : opposed to 
fi'lit'ulate : as, a sculellate tarsus; toes 
scutcllateon top. (&) Formed into 
a scutellum; shaped like a 
plate or platter; divided into 
scutella. 
SCUtellated (sku'te-la-ted), a. 
[< scutellate + -/-'.] Siime 
as scute/late. Woodicur/l. 
scutellation (sku-te-la'shon), 
M. [< scutellate + -inn.'] In 
nrnitli., the condition of the 
foot when the horny covering 
is fashioned into scutella ; the 
state of being scutellate, or 
provided with scutella ; the ar- scut7itaion'"of" lower 
rangement of the scutella : op- t > he\oes. tars 
posed to reticulation . 
Scutellera (sku-tel'e-ra), n. pi. [NL. (Lamarck, 
1801), < scutelliim, q. v.] A group name for the 
true bugs now known an Hciitelleridtt, subse- 
quently used as a generic name by several au- 
thors, but not now in use. 
Scutelleridae (sku-te-ler'i-de), i. pi. [NL. 
(Westwood, 1840), < Scutellera + -idse.] A very 
large family of true bugs or Heteroptera, con- 
taining tortoise-shaped species in which the 
scutellum covers nearly the whole surface of 
the abdomen. They are often highly colored, 
and abound in the tropics. 
scutellid (sku 'te -lid), n. A clypeastroid or 
shield-urchin of the family Scutcllidie. 
Scutellidae (sku-tel'i-de), n.pl. [NL.,< Scutella 
+ -4dse.] A family of irregular or exocyclic 
sea-urchins, typified by the genus Scutella; the 
shield-urchins, with flat, discoidal shell, often 
perforated or fissured, and with ramified 
grooves on the underside. See Eeliinaraetiniutt, 
Millita, sand-dollar, and cuts under cake-urchin 
and Encope. Also called ifellitidse. 
scutelliform (sku-tel'i-fdrm), a. [< NL. scutel- 
lum, q. v., + L. .forma, form.] Scutellate; in 
bot., shaped like a scutellum. 
SCUtelligerous (sku-te-lij'e-rus), a. [< NL. 
scutellum + L. gerere, carry.] Provided with 
a scutellum or with scutella ; scutellate ; scu- 
tigerous. 
scutelline (sku'te-lin), a. Pertaining to Scu- 
tella, or to the family Scutellidse. 
The tcuteUine urchins commence with the Tertiary. 
Phillips, Oeol. (1886), I. 490. 
scutelliplantar (sku'te-li-plan'tar), a. [< NL. 
scutelliplaiitaris,<. scutellum, q. v.. + L. planta, 
the sole of the foot (in birds 
the back of the tarsus) : see 
plant 2 .] In ornitli., having 
the planta, or back of the 
tarsus, scutellate : said es- 
pecially of certain passerine 
birds, in distinction from 
lamiiiinlantar. 
Scutelliplantares (sku'te- 
li-plan-ta'rez), n. pi. [NL. : 
see scutellijilantar.] In <- 
nitli., in Sundevall's system ScuieiiipUntar Foot oi 
* i . ,. J . - Honied Lark : the tarsus 
Ot Classification, a Series Of scutellate before and be- 
his order Oscines (nearly >,. toes a " 
equal to Passeres of most 
authors) which have the integument of the 
planta, or back of the tarsus, divided by trans- 
verse sutures, or furnished with small scutes, 
variously arranged. The Scutelliplantares are divided 
into five cohorts, Holaspidetr, Endaspidea, Exaspideff, 
Pycnaspidea;, and Taxaspidefe. The series corresponds 
in general, though not precisely, with the mesomyodian 
or clamatorial Passeres. 
scutelliplantation (sku'te-li-plan-ta'shon), n. 
[As sctitelliplant(ar) + -ation.] The scutelli- 
plantar state of a bird's foot, or the formation 
of that state : correlated with laminiplantation. 
Amer. Naturalist, XXII. 653. 
scutellum (sku-tel'um), n. ; pi. scutella (-a). 
[NL., dim. of L. scutum, a shield: see scutum.] 
A little shield, plate, or scute, (a) In bot. : (i) In 
grasses, a little shield-like expansion of the hypocotyl, 
which acts as an organ of suction through which the nu- 
trient substance of the endosperm is absorbed by the em- 
bryo. (2) In lichens, a rounded apothecium having an 
slevated rim. (6) In entom., the third from before (or the 
penultimate one) of four pieces or sclerites composing any 
segment of the tergum of an insect, situated between the 
scutum and the postscutellum. There are three scutella, 
respectively of the pronotum, mesonotum, and metano- 
turn, or one to each of the thoracic segments. That of the 
mesonotum (specifically the inesoscutellum, which see) 
is the most important in classification, and is generally 
meant when scutellum is said without qualifying term. It 
is variously modified : triangular in Coleoptera, sometimes 
invisible, at other times (as in some Hemiptera) large and 
covering the elytra and abdomen, (c) In ornith. . one of 
the large special horny plates, scales, or scutes with which 
scutigerous 
the feet of most birds are provided, and which are gen- 
erally arranged in a single vertical series upon the front, 
often also upon the back, of the tarsus and the tops of the 
toes : distinguished from the smaller or irregular plates 
which collectively constitute reticulation. The presence 
of such scutella constitutes scutellation, and a tarsus so 
furnished is said to be scutellate, as opposed to either a 
booted or a reticulate tarsus. The presence of scutelta upon 
the back of the tarsus constitutes scutelliplantation a 
condition rare in oscine birds, though usual in non-oscine 
Passeres, in Picaria, etc. Also written scutella, with a 
plural scutettie. Abdominal scutella, distinct scu- 
tellum, received scutellum. See the adjectives. 
SCUtibranch (sku'ti-brangk), a. and . I. a. 
Pertaining to the Scutibrancliiata, or having 
their characters. 
II. n. A member of the Sciitilirancliiata. 
Also scutibrancli ia u, scutibranc/iiate. 
Scutibranchia(sku-ti-brang'ki-a), n.pl. [NL., 
< lj. scutum, shield, 4- brancliise, gills. J A group 
of rhipidoglossate gastropods, with the gills in 
a spiral line on the left side of the gill-cavity, 
the eyes pedicelled, and the shell and opercu- 
lum spiral. It was limited by Gray to the families Keri- 
tidx, ttotellidif, Turbinidee, Lfotiida, Trochidse, and Sto- 
matettidse. 
BCUtibranchian (sku-ti-brang'ki-au), a. and n. 
[< sciitibranch + -ian.] Same as scutibrancli. 
Scutibranchiata (sku'ti-brang-ki-a'tii), n. pi. 
[NL., neut. pi. of scutibranchiatus: see sciiti- 
branchiate.'] In De Blainville's classification 
(1825), the second order of his Paraceplialo- 
pliora Jiermaplirodita, divided into the two 
families Otidea and Calyptracea, or the ear- 
shells and various limpet-like shells. See cuts 
under abalone and sea-ear. 
scutibranchiate (sku-ti-brang'ki-at), a. and n. 
[< NL. scutibranchiatus, < L. scutum, a shield, 
+ branehite, gills.] Same as scutibrancli. 
SCUtifer (sku'ti-fer), . [< L. scutum, a shield, 
+ ferre = E. bear 1 .] A shield-bearer ; one who 
bears the shield of his master; a sort of squire ; 
also, a person entitled to a shield (that is, to 
armorial bearing). [Rare.] 
He now became a "squire of the body," and truly an 
"armiger"or "gcwrf/er,' for he bore the shield and ar- 
mour of his leader to the field. Encyc. Brit., XIV. 118. 
scutiferous (sku-tif e-rus), a. [As scutifer + 
-ous.] 1. Carrying 'a shield or buckler. 2. 
In zool., same as scutigerous. 
scutiform (sku'ti-fdrm), a. [< OF. scutiforme, 
< L. scutum, a shield, + forma, form.] bhield- 
shaped. (a) Properly, of the form of a Roman scutum 
in one of its varieties (see cuts under scutum} ; most com- 
monly, like the triangular or heater-shaped shield of the 
fourteenth century, (b) In bot., peltate: as, a scutiform 
leaf. Also scutat\form. 
SCUtiger (sku'ti-jer), n. [< Scutiger-a.] In 
zool., a centiped of the genus Scutigera; any 
member of the family Scutigeridee. 
Scutigera (sku-tij'e-ra), . [NL. (Latreille, 
1802) : see scuiigerous.'] The typical genus of 
Scutif/eridse : same as Cermatia. A common North 
American species is 
S. (or Cermatia) 
.forceps, ordinarily 
known as thou- 
sand-legs, centiped, 
and earteig, which 
abounds in houses 
in the southern \ 
United States. It 
is carnivorous and 
preys upon house- 
flies, small cock- 
roaches, and other 
household insects. 
It is ordinarily re- 
puted to bite human 
beings with danger- 
ous effect, but there 
is no reason to be- 
lieve that this repu- 
tation is deserved. 
S. coleoptrafa is a 
small species, scarce- 
ly an inch long, in- 
habiting southern 
Europe and northern 
Africa. S. nobilis is 
about 2 inches long, 
found in India and 
Mauritius. 
Scutigeridae 
(sku-ti-jer'i-de), 
n.pl. [NL.(J.E. 
Gray, 1847, after 
Gervais, 1837), < 
Scutigera + -idS?.] ScHtlfera (or Ctrmtuia) forct^ 
A family of cen- 
tipeds, named 
from the genus Scutigera: same as Cermatiiilir. 
Scutigerous (sku-tij'e-rus), a. [< NL. scutii/er 
(cf. L. scuti(/erulus. a shield-bearer), < L. scu- 
tum, a shield, + gerere, carry.] In zool., pro- 
vided with a scute or with scuta. Also ..<- 
tiferous. 
