scabious

& s. [Lat. scabiosus, from sca bies scab, itch.] A. As adj .: Consisting of scabs; rough, itchy, leprous. B. As substantive: Bot.: (1) The genus Scabiosa (q. v.); (2) Jasione montana. scăb ling, 8. [SCABBLE.] A chip or fragment of stone. scabredity, *sca bred-1-ty, s. [ Lat.scabredo , from scaber = rough.] Roughne , ruggedne . "He will find neves, inequalities palene e." Burton: Anat. of Melancholy , p. 558. †scăb-rid, a. [ Lat.scabrid us =rough.] Bot.: Roughish (q. v.). chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this: 2. Mining : A platform affording a temporary resting-place for an ascending or descending load. scaffold-bracket, s . An implement to form a footing for a board to support a person in roofing. scaffold-pole, subst. A standard. [SCAFFOLD, s., II. 1.] scăf -föld, v. t. [SCAFFOLD, 8. ] I. Ord. Lang.: To furnish with a scaffold; to aphold, to sustain. II. Anthrop.: To lay out a dead body at full length on an elevated bier or scaffold, and leave it to decay. The custom prevails among the North American Indians. After a time the bleached bones and the offerings deposited beside them are committed to a common grave. "A grand celebration, or the Feast of Death, was solemnly convoked. Not only the ashes of those whose bodies had been scaffolded , but those who had died on a sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. scaffoldage journey or on the war-path, and been temporarily buried, were now gathered together and interred in one common sepulcher with special marks of regard." - D. Wilson Prehistoric Man , ii. 207.