scaud (skad)

t. A Scotch form of scald1. scauld, v. A Scotch form of scold. scaup1 (skäp), n. A Scotch form of scalp2. scaup2 (skap), n. [ IMG:content-0260.jpg:[graphic][merged small] wings; in the male the head, neck, breast, rump, and vent are black; the back and belly are white, the former finely vermiculated with zigzag lines of black; the wing has a white speculum, and is lined with white; the bill is dull-blue, with black nail; the feet are dark-plumbeous; the iris is yellow. In the female a belt of white encircles the bill. A smaller species is F. affinis of North America. The ring-neck scaup, F. collar is or rufitorques, has a chestnut or orange-brown ring around the neck. All the scaups are near the pochards and redheads (including the canvasback) in general pattern of coloration, but the males have black instead of reddish heads. The American scaups, of 3 species, have many names, mostly local, as broadbill and bluebill (both with various qualifying words prefixed), blackhead and black neck (with qualifying words), raft - duck, mu el - duck, greenhead, grayback, flock - duck, flocking - fowl, troop - fowl, shuffler, etc. scaup-duck (skap'duk), n. Same as scaup2. Scaup - Duck , meaning a Duck so called "because she feeds upon Scaup, i. e, broken shelfish," as may be seen in Will ugh by's Ornithology (p. 365); but it would be more proper to say that the name comes from the "Mu el scaups" or "Mu el-scalps," the beds of rock or sand on which Mu els are aggregated. A. Newton , Encyc. Brit., XXI. 378.