scutcheon, scochon, scuchion, skochen

[A contract. of escutcheon (q. v.).] 1. An escutcheon; a shield for armorial bearings. "The defaced scutcheons and headle statues of his ancestry." -Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. iii. 2. Anc. Arch .: The shield or plate on a door, from the center of which hung the door-handle. 3. Locksmith .: A cover or frame to a key-hole. 4. A name-plate on a coffin, pocket-knife, or other object. scutch-eoned, adj . [English scutcheon; -ed.] Emblazoned as a scutcheon. "The scutcheoned emblems that it bore." Scott: Bridal of Trier main , iii. 15. scutch'-ēr, s . [Eng. scutch , v.; -er.] One who or that which scutches; spec if., a machine in which cotton, flax, or silk is scutched. [SCUTCH, v. 2.] scutch-ing, pr . par . or a. [SCUTCH, v.] scutching-machine, scutching-mill, subst. A scutcher (q. v.). scuthing-stock, s. [HURRY-SCURRY.] "After affording a very bright and lively scurry for sixteen minutes."- Field, April 4, 1885. B. As adj .: Short and sharp. "His horses were rarely seen running in the scurry races which do so much mischief."-London Daily News. IMG:content-1094.png:[blocks in formation] 3. A scale, as of a reptile. [SCUTUM.] scu-tel, s . [SCUTELLUM.] scutella scu těl-la ( pl. scu-těl læ), s. [Lat.=a salver, dim in. from scutra a tray.] 1. Compar . Anat . ( pl .): The horny plates with which the feet of birds are covered, especially in front. 2. Zool.: A genus of Ech i no idea, family Clype astride. They are of circular form. scu-těl-lär-e-æ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat.scutellar(ia); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -eœ.] Bot.: A tribe of Lamiaceae. scu-těl-lär-I-a, subst. [Lat. scutella =a nearly square salver or waiter. Named from the form of the calyx.] Bot . Skull-cap; the typical genus of Scutellarese. Calyx broadly ovate, with a tooth or scale on the inner side, the two lips closed after flowering; corolla with the tube much exserted, upper lip straight, arched, lower one trifid; anthers of the two lower stamens one-celled, those of the two upper ones two-celled. Known species about ninety, from the temperate and sub-tropical parts of both hemispheres. ( Chem . ).]