scuttle fish (skutlfish)

A cuttlefish. scuttler (skut'ler), n. The streak field, or striped lizard, Cnemidophorus sex line at us. Trans. Amer. Philol. A ., XVII. 46. [Local, U. S.] scuttling (skut'ling), n. See the quotation. Manchester is becoming notorious for a form of street ruffianism known locally as "scuttling." It consists of gangs of youths going about certain districts ostensibly to fight with similar gangs of adjacent districts. Lancet , No. 3499, p. 643. scutulum (skūtū-lum), n.; pl. scutula (-lä). [L., dim. of scutum, a shield: see scutum.] "A small shield; specifically, one of the shield shaped crusts of favus; a favus-cup. scutum (skūtum), n.; pl. scuta (-tä). [ antiq., a large oblong shield of heavy armed Roman legion aries, as distinguished from the small round shield, or clypeus. It was generally oval or semicylindrical in shape, made of wood or wickerwork covered with leather, and defended with plates of iron. 2. In an at., the kneepan; the rotula or patella. See cut under knee- joint.-3. In zool., a plate, shield, or some buckler, similar part; a large scale; a scute; a scutellum; especially, some piece of dermal armor or exoskeletal formation, as one of the bony plates of a sturgeon or a crocodile, a piece of the shell of a turtle, a ring or plate of an armadillo, one of the great scales of a pangolin, the frontal shield of a coot, etc. See cuts under Acipenser, armadillo, carapace, coot, crocodile, pangolin, and shield. Specifically-(a) In entom., the second of the four sclerites into which the tergum of each of the three thoracic segments of an insect is divisible, situated between the præscutum and the scutellum. There are three such scuta, respectively of the pronotum, me so notum, and meta notum, and respectively specified as the pro scutum, me so Various forms of the Roman Scutum. scutum, and meta scutum. The last two are each some times separated into two or three parts. (b) In Myria pod a, one of the hard plates of any of the segments. (c) In Vermes, one of the dorsal scales of certain annelids, as the scale backs of the genus Polynoë; an elytrum. See cut under Polynoë. (d) In Cirriped i a, one of the lower or proximal pieces of which the multi valve shell or carapace of the barnacles and acorn-shells consists, and by which the cirri pa out. See diagrams under Balanus and Le padidæ. (e) In echinoderms, a buccal scute; one of the five large interradial plates about the mouth, as in the ophiurians, more fully called scuta buccal i a. (f) In or nith., a scutellum of a bird's foot. Sun devall. [Rare.] 4. In old law, a penthouse or awning.-Abdominal scutum, in the Arachnid a, a more or le segmented plate covering the abdomen, especially in the Phalangiidæ.- Cephalothoracic scutum. See cephalo thoracic. Scutum Sobiescianum. A constellation made by Hevelius late in the seventeenth century, and representing the shield of the King of Poland, John Sobieski, with a cro upon it to signify that he had fought for the Christian religion at the siege of Vienna. It lies in the brightest part of the Milky Way, over the bow of Sag it tar i us. Its brightest star is of the fourth magnitude. scybala (sib'a-la), n. pl. [NL., It [mucus] may be found as a covering of scybalous Buck's Handbook of Med. Sciences, IV. 795. ma es. Scydmænidæ(sid-mēʼni-dē), n. pl. [NL. (Leach, 1819), species are known. The family is represented in all parts of the world. opening in a garment through which the arm pa es (this being appar. another use of sey, a slice: see sey6 ), simulating F. scier, saw, OF. sier, cut,