scirewytet

[ME. (or ML. reflex), mod. E. as if * shirewite; Same as shiremoot . The voice which the simple freeman, the Ceorl, had in the A embly of his Mark, he would not lose in the A embly of his Shire, the Scirgemót . E. A. Freeman , Norm. Conq., I. 68. sciroccot, n. An obsolete form of sirocco. Scirpeæ (ser'pē-ē), n . pl . [NL. (Nees von Esen1834), Scirpus + + -ex.] A large tribe of 5399 with a dense compact cluster of large spreading spikelets, each often over an inch long, is a characteristic feature of sea-shore marshes in both tropical and temperate climates throughout the world. (For S. cæspitosus, see deer - hair.) Several species of Eriophorum were formerly referred here, as E. cyperinum, the most conspicuous of American rushes in fresh-water swamps, and known as wool - gra and cotton-gra . scirrhoid (sir'- or skiroid), a. [ * ing: see scirrhus.] Proceeding from, or of the nature of, scirrhus; resembling a scirrhus; in durated: as, a scirrhous tumor. Blow, flute, and stir the stiff-set sprigs, And scirrhous roots and tendons. Tennyson, Amphion. S. Judd, Margaret, i. 2. A gamesome expre ion of face, shining, scirrhous skin, and a plump, ruby head. Scirrhous bronchocele, cancer of the thyroid gland.Scirrhous cancer, a hard carcinoma, with abundant stroma, usually of slow growth. scirrhus (sir'- or skir'us), n. [= OF. scirre, F. squirre = Sp. escirro = Pg. scirrho, scirro = It. scirro, scirros , σκίρ pos , prop. σκῖρος , any hard coat or covering, a tumor.] A hard tumor; specifically and now exclusively, a scirrhous cancer. See above. scirtopod (ser'tō-pod), a . and n. [ pus ( -pod- ), σκιρτᾶν , spring, leap, bound, + πούς (ποδ-) = E. foot .] I. a. Having saltatorial feet, or limbs fitted for leaping; specifically, pertaining to the Scirtopoda , or having their characters. II. n. A scirtopod rotifer, or saltatorial wheel animalcule. Scirtopoda (ser-top'ō-da), n. pl. [NL., neut. pl. of scirtopus: see scirtopod.] An order of rotifers which swim by means of their wheel organs and also skip by means of hollow muscular limbs; the saltatorial wheel-animalcules. It contains the family Pedalionidæ. C. T. Hud son, 1884. See cut under rotifer.