scutiped 
SCUtiped (sku'ti-pcd ), . [< L. urn turn, a shield, 
+ pes (peil-) = E. foot.] In oniitli., having the 
shanks scaly; having scutellate tarsi: distin- 
guished from filiiiiii)icil. Sec cuts under scnti-l- 
Id tc and .irnlil/i/iltiiiliir. 
SCUtter (skut'er), r. i. [A var. of scuttle 3 .] To 
scoot or run hastily; scurry; scuttle. [Prov. 
Eng. and Scotch.] 
A sound behind the tapestry which was more like the 
sctittering of rats and mice than anything else. 
Mrs. tiiixki-H, Curious if True. (Davits.) 
SCUtter (skut'er), n. [< nattier, i\] A hasty, 
precipitate run. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] 
The dog's endeavour to avoid him was unsuccessful, as 
I guessed by a stutter downstairs, and a prolonged piteous 
yelping. E. Bronte, Wuthering Heights, xiii. 
SCUttle 1 (skut'l), ii. [< ME. tscotilc, xeoti/lle, < 
AS. scutel, a dish, bowl, = D. sehotel = OHG. 
sctczild, MHG. neln'i::cl, G. xchii/iscl, a dish, = 
Icel. fikutill, a plate, trencher, = OF. escuellc. 
F. ecuelle = Sp. escudilla = Pg. escudella = It. 
scodella, scudella, a plate, bowl, porringer, < L. 
scutella, a salver or tray nearly square, also 
LL. a stand for vases, ML. also a platter, plate, 
dish, dim. of seutra, also scuta, a tray, platter, 
dish; prob. allied to scutum, a shield: seescutc^. 
Cf. scutella, and cf. skillet., ult. a dim. form of 
the same word, and sculler'*, scullery, from the 
same L. source.] If. Abroad, shallow dish; a 
platter. Compare scuttlc-disli. 
The earth and stones they are fain to carry from under 
their feet in scuttles and baskets. Hakewill, Apology. 
Alas ! and what 's a man ? 
A scuttle full of dust, a measur'd span 
Of flitting time. Quarles, Emblems, iii. 8. 
2. A deep vessel of sheet-iron, copper, or brass, 
used for holding coal in small amounts; a coal- 
scuttle or coal-hod. See coal-scuttle. 3. A 
swabber used for cleaning a bakers' oven. 
SCUttle'- 2 (skut'l), . [Also sknttle; < OF. cscou- 
tille, F. ecoutille (of a ship) = Sp. escotilla = Pg. 
escotilha, the scuttle of a ship ; a dim. form, con- 
nected with Sp. eseotar, cut (clothes so as to fit), 
slope, orig. cut a hole in a garment to fit the 
neck or bosom, < escote, the sloping of a jacket, 
a tucker (cf. escota, the sheet of a sail), < D. 
schoot = MLG. scliot, lap, sloping of a v jacket, = 
OHG. scoz, scozo, scoza, MHG. sclio~, G. schoss, 
lap, flap of a coat, bosom, = Sw. skote = Dan. 
skjod, lap, flap of a coat, = Goth, skauts, hem 
of a garment, = AS. scedt, corner, fold, sheet of 
a sail: see sheet 1 .] 1. Naut., a small hatch- 
way or opening in the deck, with a lid for cover- 
ing it; also, a like hole in the side of a ship, 
or through the coverings of her hatchways; by 
extension, a hole in general. 
The Night was something lightish, and one of the Sailors 
was got into the Skitttle (so I think they call it) at the 
Main-Top-Mast, looking oat if he could see any Land. 
A". Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, I. 275. 
2. A square hole in the wall or roof of a house, 
covered with a lid; also, the lid that covers 
such an opening Flush scuttle, a scuttle in which 
the framework is flush with the deck. Fore-scuttle, a 
hatch by which the forecastle is entered. (See also air- 
scuttle.) 
scuttle 2 (skut'l), p. t. ; pret. and pp. scuttled, ppr. 
scuttling. [< scuttle^, .] Naut., to cut holes 
through the bottom or sides of (a ship) for any 
purpose ; specifically, to sink by making holes 
through the bottom" 
He was the mildest manner'd man 
That ever scuttled, ship or cut a throat. 
Byron, Don Juan, iii. 41. 
I wondered whether some among them were even now 
below scuttling the ship. 
W. C. Russell, Wreck of the Grosvenor, xvii. 
scuttle 3 (skut'l), '. i. ; pret. and pp. scuttled, 
ppr. scuttling. [Formerly also shuttle ; also 
scuddle (also assibilated shuttle) ; freq. of scurf, 
or of the more orig. scoot, shoot: see scud, 
scoot 1 , and shoot.] To run hurriedly, or with 
short, hurried steps ; hurry. 
I have no inclination to scuttle barefoot after a Duke of 
Wolfenbuttle's army. Walpole, Letters, II. 476. 
No mother nor brother viper of the brood 
Shall scuttle olf without the instructive bruise. 
Browning, Ring and Book, I. 28C. 
scuttle 3 (skut'l), n. [Formerly also skuttlr : 
< scultlcS, . (:.] A quick pace; a short, hurried 
run ; a mincing, affected gait. 
From Twelve to One. Shut myself up in my Chamber, 
practised Lady Betty Modely's Shuttle. 
Quoted iu Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, 
[I. 92. 
She went with an easy scuttle out of the shop. Spectator. 
SCUttle-butt (skut'1-but), H. Naut., a cask or 
butt having a scuttle or hole cut in it for the 
Various forms of the Roman Sen- 
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introduction of a cup or dipper, and used lo 
hold drinking-water. Also culled xridtli'-i-tmk. 
The rest of the crew tilled the miiUeti-butt. 
It. II. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, xxiii. 
SCUttle-cask (skut'1-kask), . Same as xculth- 
bntt. 
SCUttle-disht (skut'1-dish), ii. A wooden plat I cr. 
She, . . . wen the pan was brimful, 
Would mess you up in scuttle ditthes, 
syne bid us sup till we were fou. 
Earl Jtickard (Child's Ballads, III. 273). 
SCUttlefish (skut'1-lish), it. A cuttlefish. 
SCUttler (skut'ler), M. The streakfield, or striped 
lizard, CnemidopAorus sexlineattts. Trans. Amcr. 
Philol. Ass., XVII. 46. [Local, U. S.] 
Scuttling (skut'ling), 11. See the quotation. 
Manchester is becoming notorious for a form of street 
ruffianism known locally as "scuttling." It consists of 
gangs of youths going about certain districts ostensibly 
to fight with similar gangs of adjacent districts. 
Lancet, No. S499, p. 643. 
scutuluni (sku'tu-lum), i. ; pi. scutula (-la). 
[L., dim. of scutum, a shield: see scutum.] A 
small shield; specifically, one of the shield- 
shaped crusts of f avus ; a favus-cup. 
scutum (sku'tum), H. ; pi. scuta (-ta). [<L. c- 
tum, a long shield: see scute 1 .] 1. In Rom. 
antiq., a large ob- 
long shield of heavy- 
armed Koman legion- 
aries,as distinguished 
from the small round 
shield, or clypeus. it 
was generally oval or semi- 
cylindrical in shape, made 
of wood or wickerwork 
covered with leather, and 
defended with plates of 
iron. 
2. In aunt., the knee- 
pan; the rotula or 
patella. See cut un- 
der knee-joint. 3. In 
zool., a plate, shield, 
buckler, or some 
similar part; a large 
scale ; a scute ; a scu- 
tellum ; especially, 
some piece of dermal armor or exoskeletal for- 
mation, as one of the bony plates of a sturgeon 
or a crocodile, a piece of the shell of a turtle, 
a ring or plate of an armadillo, one of the great 
scales of a pangolin, the frontal shield of a 
coot, etc. See cuts under Acipenser, armadillo, 
carapace, coot, crocodile, pangolin, and shield. 
Specifically (a) In entom.,the second of the four scle- 
rites into which the tergum of each of the three thoracic 
segments of an insect is divisible, situated between the 
prsescutum and the scutelluiu. There are three such scuta, 
respectively of the pronotum, mesonotum, and metano- 
turn, and respectively specified as the proscutum, meso- 
scutum, and metascutum. The last two are each some- 
times separated into two or three parts. (V) In Myria- 
poda, one of the hard plates of any of the segments, (e) In 
Verities, one of the dorsal scales of certain annelids, as 
the scalebacks of the genus Polynne; an elytrum. See 
cut under Polynoe. (d) In Cirripedia, one of the lower or 
proximal pieces of which the mnltivalve shell or carapace 
of the barnacles and acorn-shells consists, and by which 
the cirri pass out. See diagrams under Balanus and Le- 
padidss. (e) In echinoderms, a buccal scute ; one of the 
five large interradial plates about the mouth, as in the 
ophiurians, more fully called scuta buccalia. (/) In or- 
nith., a scutellum of a bird's foot. Sttndevall. [Rare.] 
4. In old law, a penthouse or awning. Ab- 
dominal scutum, in the Arachnida, a more or less seg- 
mented plate covering the abdomen, especially in the 
Phalangiida;. CephalothoraciC scutum. Seecephalo- 
thoracic. 
Scutum Spbiescianum. A constellation made 
by Hevelius late in the seventeenth century, 
and representing the shield of the King of Po- 
land, John Sobieski, with a cross upon it to sig- 
nify that he had fought for the Christian reli- 
gion at the siege of Vienna. It lies in the brightest 
part of the Milky Way, over the bow of Sagittarius. Its 
brightest star is of the fourth magnitude. 
SCybala (sib'a-lii), n. pi. [NL., < Gr. anvftaXor, 
dung, offal, refuse.] In patltol., small hard 
balls into which the feces are formed in certain 
deranged conditions of the colon. 
scybalous (sib'a-lus), a. [< scybala + -ous.] Of 
the nature of or resembling scybala. 
It [mucus) may be found as a covering of gct/balous 
masses. Buck's Handbook of Med. Sciences, IV. 795. 
Scydmsenidse(sid-me'ni-de), n.p?. [NL. (Leach, 
1819), < Sci/ihiui'iius + -idee.] A family of elavi- 
eorn beetles, allied to the Silphidse, but having 
coarsely granulated eyes. They are small, shining, 
usually ovate, sometimes slender beetles of a brown color, 
more or less clothed with erect hairs. They are found 
near water, under stones, in ants' nests, and under bark, 
and are frequently seen flying in the twilight. About 300 
species are known. The family is represented in all parts 
of the world. 
Scyllarus 
Scydmaenus (sid-me'nus), . [XL. (Latreillc, 
1802), < Gr. muS/tatvof, angry-looking, sad-col- 
ored, < mcuSfuuveiv. be angry; cf. aav^t-offai, be 
angry.] The typical genus of Scydmeenidss. .\ 
large and wide-spread group, comprising about 200 spe- 
cies, of which about 35 inhabit America north of Mexico. 
scye (si), H. [Appar. a misspelling of Sc. gey, the 
opening in a garment through which the arm 
passes (this being appar. another use of sey, a 
slice: see .sry/ 8 ), simulating F. scier, saw, OF. 
xicr, cut, < L. xccare, cut, from the same root as 
sey, a slice: see scion, sey & , saw 1 , etc. Cf.iirm- 
scyc.] The opening left in a garment where 
the sleeve is to be attached, and shaped by cut- 
ting so as to regulate the fit and adjustment of 
the sleeve. Also called ariii-xi-i/i: 
scyelite (si'e-llt), . [< Loch Kni/c (see def.).] 
A variety of hornblende picrite, characterized 
by the presence of a considerable amount of a 
peculiar micaceous mineral : it occurs in Acha- 
varasdale Moor, near Loch Scye, in Caithness, 
on the border of Sutherland, Scotland. Judd. 
scylet, v. An obsolete form of skill. 
Scylla (sil'ii), . [NL. , < L. Scylla, <- Gr. SitWtta, 
2/dvl/t!?, iii Greek fable, a female monster with 
twelve arms and six necks, the presiding genius 
of a rock highly dangerous to navigation in the 
straits of Sicily, opposite Charybdis ; the name 
and fable being associated with ovdvkrf, a young 
dog, whelp, in general a dog (it being fabled 
that Scylla barked like a dog) ; cf . OKV/^CIV, rend, 
mangle.] A dangerous rock on the Italian 
side of the Strait of Messina, between Italy and 
Sicily, abode of a legendary monster Scylla. 
On the opposite side of the narrow strait was the whirl- 
pool Charybdis; hence the allusive use of these names to 
imply great danger on either side. 
Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Cha- 
rybdis, your mother. Shak., M. of V., iii. 5. 19. 
Scyllaea (si-le'a), H. [NL., < L. Scyllxus, per- 
taining to Scylla, < L. Seylla,< Gr. 2/a'/>.a, Scylla : 
see Scylla.] A genus of nudibranchiate gastro- 
pods, typical of the family Scyll&idee. The animal 
is elongate, compressed, with long 'narrow channeled foot, 
branchial tufts on two pairs of lobate processes, and slen- 
der retractile dorsal tentacles. There are several species, 
marine, as S. pelayim, which is found on gulfweed. 
Scyllaeidse (si-le'i-de), . pi. [NL., < Scyllxa + 
-idee.] A family of nudibranchiate gastropods, 
typified by the genus Scylliea. The body is com- 
pressed, and the mantle produced into lateral lobes which 
bear the branchial plumes ; the anus is lateral ; the odon- 
tophore has one central tooth and numerous spinous den- 
ticulated teeth on each side. The species are pelagic, 
and mostly live on floating seaweed, the appearance of 
which they mimic. 
scyllarian (si-la'ri-an), a. and n. [< NL. Scyl- 
larus + -i-an.] I. ii. Of or pertaining to the 
Scylla ridte. 
II. H. A member of the Scyllaridse. 
Scyllaridae(si-lar'i-de),H.^. [NL.,< Scyllarus 
+ -idse.] A family of long-tailed ten-footed 
marine crustaceans, typified by the genus Scyl- 
tants. They have a wide flat carapace, large foliaceous 
antennee, eyes in excavated orbits, trichobranchiate gilts, 
/'<irit>tifHS antarcticus, ;t typical member cf the family Siy/tartdte. 
reduced. 
mandible with a single-jointed synaphopod, and mostly 
simple pereiopods. They live in moderately shallow water, 
where the bed of the sea is soft and muddy. Here they 
burrow rather deeply, and they issue from their retreats 
only to seek food. They are sometimes called locust-lob- 
ster*. The principal genera besides the type are Ibacui 
(or Ibaccus), Paribacus, Thenus, and Arctus. 
scyllaroid (sil'a-roid), a. Of or pertaining to 
the Scyllaridx ; scyllarian : as, scyllaroid crus- 
taceans. 
Scyllarus (sil'a-rus), . [NL. (Fabricius), < 
Gr. oniMapof, also Ki/J.apoc, a kind of crab.] 
