sculyont

A Middle English form of scullion. scum (skum), n. [Formerly also skum; The brystelede boor marked with scomes the shuldres of Hercules. Chaucer, Boëthius, iv. meter 7. Those small white Fish to Venus consecrated, Though without Venus ayd they be created Of th' Ocean scum . Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 5. 2. The impurities or extraneous substances which rise to the surface of liquids, as in boiling or fermentation, or which form by other means; also, the scoria of molten metals; hence, by exte by extension, any film or surface of foul floating matter: as, the scum of a stagnant pond. When God kindles such fires as these, hee doth not usually quench them till the very scum on the pot sides be boyled cleane away. N. Ward, Simple Cobler, p. 14. Sir T. Browne , Vulg. Err., v. 9. sculptor (skulp'tor), n. [= F. sculpt eur = Sp. escultor Pg. esculptor = It. scultore , scolpitore , sculptor , a sculptor, sculpere , cut out, carve in stone: see sculp .] One who practises the art of sculpture, which includes modeling in clay or wax, casting or striking in bronze or other metal, and carving figures in stone. "The sculptors ," says Maximus Tyrius, in his 7th di ertation, chose out of many bodies those parts which appeared to them the most beautiful, and out of that diversity made but one statue." Dryden, Observations on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting, [p. 39.