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acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism. Carlyle.

Quackery. Carlyle.

Any one of several kinds of apples, as summer queening, scarlet queening, and early queening. An apple called the queening was cultivated in England two hundred years ago.

Wearing a rapier. "Scarletcoated, rapiered figures." Lowell.

One who redacts; one who prepares matter for publication; an editor. Carlyle.

The scarlet tanager. See Tanager.

The act of weaving or forming again. Carlyle.

n organization resembling a net. The particular net you occupy in the great reticulation. Carlyle.

s extempore. The same populace sit for hours listening to rhapsodists who recite Ariosto. Carlyle.

s of Australian warblers of the genera Petroica, Melanadrays, and allied genera; as, the scarlet-breasted robin (Petroica mullticolor)

of rose water; hence, affectedly nice or delicate; sentimental. "Rose-water philantropy." Carlyle.

akeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow.

Rumpled. Carlyle.

A rural place. "Leafy ruralities." Carlyle.

xtracted from the safflower, and formerly used in dyeing wool, silk, and cotton pink and scarlet; -- called also Spanish red, China lake, and carthamin.

n extended to the whole genus, of which many species are cultivated for ornament, as the scarlet sage, and Mexican red and blue sage.

pertaining to, or involving, sans-culottism; radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical. Carlyle.

es; ornamentation by means of sashes. [R.] Distinguished by their sasheries and insignia. Carlyle.

To burn or be burnt. he laid his long forefinger on the scarlet letter, which forthwith seemed to scoch into Hester's breast, as if it had been red hot. Hawthorne.

re of scoundrels; scoundrels, collectively; the state, ideas, or practices of scoundrels. Carlyle.