Scomberoidinæ (skom"beroidine)

pl. [NL., in the very young), the pectoral fins short and rounded, the second dorsal like the anal, and both much longer than the abdomen conta a few tropical sea-fishes, one of which ( Oligoplites saurus ) sometimes reaches the southern coast of the United States. Scomberomorus (skom-be-rom'ō-rus), n. [NL. (Lacépède, 1802), Spanish Mackerel ( Scomberomorus maculatus). The spe beetles ( Meloidæ ). The scolytoid follows the coarctate stage of such insects. C. V. Riley. Scolytus (skol'i-tus), n. [NL. (Geoffroy, 1762), also Scolyttus, prop. * Scolyptus, irreg. næ. As at present restricted, it includes only the species of true mackerels which have the spinous dorsal fin of le than twelve spines, short and remote from the second IMG:content-0324.png:[blocks in formation] Scombridæ genus Scomber, to which very different limits have been ascribed. (a) In Günther's system, a family of Acanthopterygii cottoscombriformes, with unarmed cheeks, two dorsal fins, either finlets or the spinous dorsal composed of free spines or modified into a suctorial disk, or the ventrals jugular and composed of four rays, and scales none or very small. (b) By Bonaparte, first used as a synonym of Scomberoides of Cuvier; later restricted to such forms as had two dorsal fins or several of the first rays of the dorsal spiniform. (c) By Gill, limited to Scombroidea of a fusiform shape, with the first dorsal fin elongate, or separated by a wide interval from the soft dorsal, with posterior rays of the second dorsal and of the anal generally detached as special finlets, and with numerous vertebræ. The body is elongate, not much compre ed, and covered with minute cycloid scales, or quite naked; the scales sometimes united into a kind of corselet anteriorly; the lateral line is present; the branch ios teg als are seven; the dorsal fins two, of which the first has rather weak spines, and the second resembles the anal; the caudal peduncle is very slender, usually keeled, and the lobes of the caudal fin are divergent and producing the characteristic deeply forked tail; the ventral fins are thoracic in position, of moderate size, with a spine and several soft rays; the vertebræ are numerous (more than twenty-five); pyloric cæca are many; the air-bladder is present or absent; the coloration is metallic and often brilliant. There are 17 genera and about 70 species, all of the high seas and wide-ranging, in some cases cosmopolitan; and among them are extremely valuable food-fishes, as mackerel of all kinds, bonitos, tunnies, and others. See cuts under bonito, mackerel, Scomberomorus, and scombroid. scombridal (skom'bri-dal), a. [ 5405 I'll scomfish you if ever you go for to tell. Mrs. Gaskell , Ruth, xviii. ( Davies .) II. in trans. To be suffocated or stifled. [North. Eng. and Scotch.] scomfitt, v. t. [ME. scomfiten, skomfiten, scomfeten, scumfiten, scowmfeten; by apheresis from discomfit .] To discomfit. That Arke or Hucche, with the Relikes, Tytus ledde with hym to Rome whan he had scomfyted alle the Jewes. Mandeville , Travels, p. 85. And to Generydes I will returne, So rebukyd and skomfite as he was, He cowde not make no chere but alwey mourn. Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 570. scomfituret, n. [ME.; by apheresis from dis comfiture.] Discomfiture; defeat. Ful strong was Grimold in werly scomfiture . Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4148. IMG:content-0325.png:[blocks in formation] The scommes , or buffoons of quality, are wolvish in conversation. Sir R. L'Estrange. scommatict (sko-mat'ik), a. [Also scom matique ; Scoffing; Scombrina (skom-brī'nä), n . pl . [NL., Scombridæ , having the dorsal fin with the spinous part separate part separate and le de- veloped than the soft, and the body oblong, scalele or with very small scales: later raised Praised to family rank, and same as Scombridæ ( a ) . scon2 (skon), n. A Scotch form of scum . Scombrinæ (skom-brīnē), n. pl . [NL., Scom- ber2 + -inæ.] A subfamily of Scombridæ , to which various limits have been a igned. ( a ) By Gill, limited to those Scombridæ which have two dorsals widely distant, and thus including only the typical mack- erels and frigate-mackerels. (b) By Jordan and Gilbert, extended to embrace those with finlets, and with the dor- sal spines le than twenty in number. It thus includes the mackerels, frigate-mackerels, tunnies, bonitos, and Spanish mackerel. The heroique poem dram at i que is tragedy. The scom matique narrative is satyre; dram at i que is comedy. Hobbs, Ans. to Pref. to Gondibert. scon1, v. A variant of scun2 .