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conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation. Nothing scandalous or offensive unto any. Hooker.

In a manner to give offense; shamefully. His discourse at table was scandalously unbecoming the digmity of his station. Swift.

Quality of being scandalous.

A defamatory speech or writing published to the injury of a person of dignity; -- usually abbreviated scan. mag.

Having the inflorescence curved or circinate at the end, like a scorpion's tail.

Containing a half foot.

Formed like a half spheroid.

A light thin stuff of silk. [Written also cendal, and sendal.] Chaucer. Wore she not a veil of twisted sendal embroidered with silver Sir W. Scott.

Dividing the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.

Sesamoid.

Measuring or containing a foot and a half; as, a sesquipedalian pygmy; -- sometimes humorously applied to long words.

Sesquipedality.

The quality or condition of being sesquipedal. Sterne.

Curved in two directions, like the letter S, or the Greek s. Sigmoid flexure (Anat.), the last curve of the colon before it terminates in the rectum. See Illust. under Digestive. -- Sigmoid valves. (Anat.) See Semilunar valves, under Semilunar.

In a sigmoidal manner.

Of or pertaining to a sinusoid; like a sinusoid.

A mineral of a white to blue or gray color, occuring commonly in dodecahedrons, also massive. It is a silicate of alumina and soda with some chlorine.

A fellowship or fraternity; a brotherhood.

Relating to the sphenoethmoid bone; sphenoethmoid.

Sphenethmoid.