scantling, scantlon

O. Fr. eschanteler =to break up into cantles of pieces, to scantle (q. v.); O. Fr. eschantillon a small piece, a scantling, a pattern. The word has been confused with scant and scanty.] I. Ordinary Language : IMG:content-0996.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Carp .: Lumber under five inches square, used for studs, braces, ties, . It is expre ed in terms of its transverse dimensions; as, a timber having a scantling of 12x8. 2. Mason.: The dimensions of ashlar stones. 3. Shipbuilding : The transverse dimensions of pieces of timber, . The respective sides are known as molding and siding.. *scănt-ling, a. [Eng. scant , a.; -ling .] Scant, scanty, small; not plentiful. scănt-lý, adv. [Eng.scant; -ly.] 1. In a scant manner or degree; not fully or plentifully; narrowly, sparingly, grudgingly. "Goshen gives roomth, but scantly to their store." Drayton: Moses, i. 2. Barely, scarcely, hardly. "His kirtle made of forest green, Reached scantly to his knee." Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel , iii. 17. scănt-ne , s. [ Eng.scant , a.; -ne .] The qual. ity or state of being scant or scanty; narrowne , shortne , scantine , smallne . "Either strutting in unwieldy bulk, or sinking in defective scantne ." -Barrow: Sermons, vol. i., ser. 9. scănt-ỹ, a . [Eng.scant; -v.] 1. Wanting in amplitude, size, or extent; narrow, small, scant. "In the heaven of heavens that space he deems Too scanty for the exertion of his beams." Cowper: Charity , 590. 2. Not abundant, deficient; hardly sufficient; not enough; falling or coming short of what is nece ary. "Notwithstanding their scanty subsistence." -Smith: Wealth of Nations , bk. i., ch. viii. 3566 and removed the sins of the worshipers, the other scape-goat might return those sins in mockery to Azazel, the evil spirit regarded as their author. This is Hengstenburg's view. Rationalism, on the contrary, sees in the narrative a certain remnant of devil-worship flourishing perhaps in pre-Mosaic times. Under the later Judaism the goat was thrown over a precipice about twelve miles from Jerusalem. The scape-goat is generally considered the clearest type of the substitution of Christ for sinners, and His eternal removal of their transgres sions (cf. Isaiah liii. 11-12; John i. 29; Heb. ix. 28;1 Peter ii. 24). 2. Fig.: One who is made to bear the blame due to another. IMG:content-0997.png:[blocks in formation] Horol .: The wheel in an escapement whose teeth escape one at a time from the pallets. scape (2), s. [Lat. scapus =the shaft of a pillar, the stalk of a plant.] [SCEPTER.] 1. Architecture: (1) The shaft of a column. (2) The apophygee of a shaft. 2. Bot.: A long naked or nearly naked peduncle, rising from the crown of a root, and bearing at its apex a single flower, as in the tulip, or several, as in the cowslip. *scape, *skāpe, v . i . & t. [An abbreviation of escape (q. v.), chiefly used in poetry.] A. In trans.: To escape; to get off. "We will be paid before you scape ." -Beaum. & Flet .: Honest Man's Future, ii. 1. B. Trans.: To escape, to avoid. "Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes."- Shakesp .: Hamlet , i. 3. scăp-ěl, sca-pěl-lūs, s . [Mod. Scape. scapple