scantling1 (skantling)

[Also scantlin, now regarded as a corruption but really hariant but really a -ling being a conformation to -ling1 ); cantel, a cantle, corner-piece (> G. dial. kantel, a ruler, measure): see cantle. In def. 5 the word is appar. a ociated with scantling, scant.] 1. A pattern; sample; specimen. This may be taken as a Scantling of King Henry's great Capacity. Baker , Chronicles, p. 294. 2. A rough draft; a rude sketch.-3. A measuring-rod. Though it were of no rounde stone, Wrought with squyre and scan til one. Rom. of the Rose, 1. 7064. 4. Measurement; size; dimensions; compa ; grade. Remede that allay which Goldsmiths, Jewellers, and Mony-makers are permitted to add unto the allowed imbase ment of Gold and Silver. This advantage they have allegation that cannot precisely hit or justly keep the scantling required of them by the law. Cotgrave. 5375 This our Cathedrall,... hauing now beene twise burnt, is brought to a le er scantling. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 578. Your lordship's wisdom and mine is much about a scant Shir ley, Bird in a Cage, i. 1. ling. 5. A small quantity, number, or amount; a modicum. We must more take care that our desires should cease than that they should be satisfied: and therefore reducing them to narrow scantlings and small proportions is the best instrument to redeem their trouble. Jer. Taylor, Holy Living, ii. 1. Provided he got but his scantling of Burgundy. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, vii. 21. Mr. Cotton also replied to their answer very largely, and stated the differences in a very narrow scantling . Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 264. Remove all these, remains A scantling , a poor dozen at the best. Browning , Para cels us. scapegrace The teeth are 3 incisors in each upper and 2 in each lower half-jaw, and 1 canine, 4 premolars, and 3 molars above and below on each side. There are 2 species, S. town send i and S. american us, the latter being the hairy-tailed mole of the United States, formerly called Scalops brewer i. These moles outwardly resemble Scalops quite closely, but the dental formula is different. The hairy-tailed is the nearest American representative of the common mole of Europe, Talpa europæa. scapelt (skap), v . i. ort. [ scapen , aphetic form of ascapen , askapen , escapen , eschapen , es- cape: see escape .] To escape. Help us to scape , or we been lost ech on. Chaucer , Miller's Tale, 1. 422. They had rather let all their enemies scape than to fol- low them out of array. Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), ii. 10. scapelt (skāp), n. [ scapel , v.] 1. An escape. Hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach. Shak., Othello, i. 3. 136. 6. In naval arch . , the size in any case under con- sideration of some one of the principal parts of 2. Means of escape; evasion. the hull of a ship, such as floors, frames, out- side plating, etc.-7. In carp . and stone - cutting , the size to which it is intended to cut timber or stone; the length, breadth, and thickne of a timber or stone. - 8. A small beam le than five inches square in section, such as the quartering for a partition, rafters, purlins, or pole-plates in a roof, etc. Sells the last scantling , and transfers the price To some shrewd sharper, ere it buds again. Cowper , Task, iii. 753. I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings . Poe , Tales, I. 385. The roof had no shingles, nothing but scantling. The Century , XL. 222. 9. A kind of trestle or horse for supporting a cask. - Scantling number, a number computed from certain known dimensions of a ship, and fixing the sizes of frames, floors, etc., the method of computation and the scantlings corresponding thereto being regulated by some large insurance society, such as Lloyd's, or the Bureau Veritas. Scantling-sticks, sticks upon which are marked the moldings of the square body-frames of a ship. The arle, Naval Arch. -Scheme of scantling. See scheme. scantling2+ (skant'ling), a. [ Crafty mate, What other scape canst thou excogitate? Chapman , tr. of Homer's Hymn to Apollo, 1. 511. 3. Freak; aberration; deviation; escapade; misdemeanor; trick; cheat. Then lay'st thy scapes on names ador'd. Milton , P. R., ii. 189. For day, quoth she, night's scapes doth open lay. Shak ., Lucrece, 1. 747. Slight scapes are whipt, but damned deeds are praised. Marston, Satires, v. 138. scape2 (skāp), n. [ scape = Sp. escapo = It. scapo , a shaft, scapus , the shaft of a pillar, the stalk of a plant, etc., a pillar, beam, post, = Gr. (Doric) σκαπος, a shaft, staff, cf. σκήπτρον, α staff, scepter: see scepter .] 1. In bot . , a radical peduncle or stem bearing the fructification without leaves, as in the narc is primrose, hepatica, stemle violets, hyacinth, etc. See also cuts under jonquil and puttyroot. Also sca pus .-2. In entom.: (a) The ( Primula elatior). s, s, scapes. basal joint of IMG:content-0231.jpg:[graphic] scantly (skant'li), adv. [ ly; slightingly. Spoke scantly of me, when perforce he could not But pay me terms of honour. Shak., A. and C., iii. 4. 6. A grace but scantly thine. Tennyson , Balin and Balan. 2. Scarcely; hardly; barely. And the duste a-rose so thikke that scantly a man myght se fro hym-self the caste of a stone. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 193. In faith, it was ouere skantely scored; That makis it fouly for to faile. York Plays , p. 352. Scantly there were folke enow to remoue a piece of ar- tillery. Hakluyt's Voyages , II. 89. Marmion, whose soul could scantly brook, Even from his king, a haughty look. Scott, Marmion, iii. 14. IMG:content-0232.png:[blocks in formation] Scape. 1. Wild hyacinth ( Scilla nutans). 2. Oxlip an antenna, especially when it is long and slender, as in the geniculate antennæ of many hymen opters and coleopters, or the two proximal joints, as in dipters, generally small and different from the others. When these two joints are quite separate, the basal one becomes the bulb us, leaving the name scape for the next one. (b) The stem-like basal portion of the halter or poiser of a dipter.-3. In ornith., the shaft or stem of a feather; a rachis; a scapus. Coues.-4. In arch., the apophyge or spring of a column; the part where a column springs springs from its base, usually molded into a concave sweep or cavetto. scape3 (skāp), n. [Said to be imi cry of the snipe when flushed.-2. The snipe itself. imitative.] 1. The + obj. gallows.] One who has escaped the galscape-gallows (skāp'gal"ōz), n. [ lows though deserving hanging; a villain: used in objurgation. once more. "And remember this, scape - gallows ," said Ralph,. "that if we meet again, and you so much as notice me by one begging gesture, you shall see the inside of a gaol Dickens , Nicholas Nickle by, xliv. scapegoat (skāp'gōt), n. [ scape1 + goat.] 1. In the ancient Jewish ritual, a goat on which the chief priest, on the day of atonement, symbolically laid the sins of the people. The goat was then driven into the wilderne . Lev. xvi. Hence-2. One who is made to bear the blame of the misdeeds of others. And heap'd the whole inherited sin On that huge scape - goat of the race; All, all upon the brother. Tennyson, Maud, xiii. 3.