scart1 (skart)

t. [A transposed form of scrat1 (like cart for crat, etc.): see scrat1.] To scratch; scrape. [Scotch.] And what use has my father for a whin bits of scarted paper [that is, covered with indifferent writing]? Scott . A three-legged stool is a thief-like bane-kame to scart yer ain head wi. E. B. Ramsay , Scottish Life and Character, p. 198. scart1 (skärt), n. [ scart on the pow. Scott , Guy Manner ing, xxiii. 2. A dash or stroke, as of a pen or pencil [Scotch.] IMG:content-0256.png:[blocks in formation] scatch (skach), n. [F. escache , an oval bit, prob. OF.escacher , esquachier , esquacher , crush out, flatten, as wire, compre , as sheets of pa- per, etc.: see squash1 .] A kind of bit for bri- scatch est (skach'ez), n . pl . [Also skatches ; an- other form of skateses , pl., cha e , F. écha e , F. dial. écase , écache , chache, a stilt, schaetse , a high-heeled shoe, D. IMG:content-0257.png:[blocks in formation] Others grew in the legs, and to see them you would have said they had been cranes, or else men walking upon stilts or scatches. Urquhart , tr. of Rabelais, ii. 1. scatch mouth (skach'mouth), n . [ scatch + mouth .] Same as scatch . scatet, n. See skate2 . But toe thee, poore Dido, this sight so skear ye beholding, What feeling creepeth? It is not to be marvelled at that amid such a place as this, for the first time visited, the horses were a little skeary . Black more , Lorna Doone, lix. 3. Somewhat alarmed or frightened; fluttered. I'm scary always to see her shake Her wicked head. scatht, v. and n . An erroneous spelling of scathe . scathe (skāTH), v . t .; pret. and pp. scathed , ppr. scathing . [Sc., also skaith ; en , sceathan (pret. scōd , pp. sceathen ), also weak scyththan , sceththan , injure, harm, hurt, scathe, = OFries. skathia , schadia , schaia = D. schaden = MLG. LG. schaden = OHG. sca- dōn, MHG. G. schaden = Icel. skatha , skethja = Sw. skada = Dan. skade = Goth. skathjan , also, in comp., ga - skathjan (pret. skōth , pp. skathans ), injure, harm; po ibly akin to Skt. kshata , wounded, kshan , wound. Cf. Gr. άσκηθής, unscathed. Hence scathe , n., scathel, scaddle .] To injure; harm; hurt. You are a saucy boy: is't so indeed? This trick may chance to scathe you. scathfult, a . See scatheful . scath fulne , n. Same as scathefulne . scathing (ska Thing), p . a . Damaging; wound- ing; blasting; scorching: as, scathing irony. scathingly (ska'Thing-li), adv . With damag- ing or withering severity; unsparingly: as, he scathy (ska'Thi), a . [ scathe + -y1.] Mis- chievous vicious dangerous: as, let him alone, he's scathy. scatland (skat'land), n. [ skatt - land , a tributary land, dependency, skattr , tribute, + land, land. Cf. scath old .] In Orkney and Shetland, land which paid seat or duty for the right of pasture and of cutting peat. scatology (ska-tolō- dung, ordure, + -ology.] The science of fo il excrement; the knowledge of animals which may be acquired by the examination of coprolites. gy (ska-tol'ō-ji), n. [ scatomancy (skat'ō-man-si), n. (σκατ-), dung, ordure, + μα μαντεία, divination.] Divination or diagnosis of disease by inspec- tion of excrement. Compare scatoscopy . schaden = Icel. skat hi , skæthi = Sw. skada = Dan. skade , damage, lo , hurt (cf. AS. scath a , one who scathes or injures a foe, = OS. scatho , a foe, = OHG. scado , injurer); from the verb.j Cryseyde, which that nevere dide hem scathe, Shal now no lenger in hire bli e bathe. Wherein Rome hath done you any scath , Let him make treble satisfaction. I guard as God's high gift from scathe and wrong. Tennyson, Guinevere. IMG:content-0258.png:[blocks in formation] When Hall down has a hat, Let Kenton beware of a Skatt . In a great scath fire it is wisdom not only to suffer those houses to burn down which are past quenching, but some- times to pull down some few houses wherein the fire is not yet kindled, to free all the rest of the city from dan- Abp . Bramhall, Works, III. 559. ( Davies .) ger. scatheful (skari'ful), a. [ scathe + -ful .] Causing harm or mischief; injurious; destruc- tive. Also scathful. Such scathful grapple did he make With the most noble bottom of our fleet. IMG:content-0259.png:[merged small][merged small][graphic][merged small] scathefulne (skārn'fül-nes), n. Injurious- ne ; destructivene . Also scath fulne . scathelt, a . and n. [E. dial. scaddle , skaddle , scathel , sceathol , injurious, mischie- vous (= OHG. scadel = Goth. skathuls , inju- rio us, wicked), sceathan , injure, harm: see scathe, v.] I. a. Harmful; injurious; mischie- Mony ladde ther forth-lep to laue & to kest, Scopen out [of the ship] the scathel water, that fayn scape wolde. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), iii. 155. Scatophaginæ (skat"ō-fa-ji'nē), n . pl . [NL., Scatophagus +-inæ.] A subfamily of Muscidæ , typified by the genus Scatophaga ; the dung- flies. scatophagoid (ska-tof'a-goid), a . and n. [ Sea- tophagus +-oid.] I. a. Of, or having charac- teristics of, the Scatophagidæ . Scatophagoidea post-temporal intimately united with the posterior and inferior edges of the sides of the cranium, containing only the family Scatopha gidæ.