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A group of nemerteans comprising those having a deep slit along each side of the head. See Illust. in Appendix.

To scuff or shuffle along. [Scot.]

xperienced men of the world know very well that it is best to pay scot and lot as they go along. Emerson.

To remove by rubbing or cleansing; to sweep along or off; to carry away or remove, as by a current of water; -- often with off or away. [I will] stain my favors in a bloody mask, Which, washed away, shall scour my shame with it. Shak.

g which roughens or removes it, or which smooths or cleans it; to rub harshly and noisily along.

bing knotweed (Polygonum sagittatum) with a square stem beset with fine recurved prickles along the angles. -- Scratch wig. Same as Scratch, 4, above. Thackeray.

The act of scudding; a driving along; a rushing with precipitation.

To hasten away or along; to move rapidly; to hurry; as, the rabbit scurried away.

f. Icel. skarfakal scurvy grass.] (Bot.) A kind of cress (Cochlearia officinalis) growing along the seacoast of Northern Europe and in arctic regions. It is a remedy for the scurvy, and has proved a valuable food to arctic explorers. The name is given also to other allied species of plants.

A low perennial plant (Frankenia lævis) resembling heath, growing along the seashore in Europe.

A low, fleshy perennial herb (Glaux maritima) found along northern seashores.

A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure; -- called also sea ooze.

Of or pertaining to certain islands along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia; as, sea-island cotton, a superior cotton of long fiber produced on those islands.

A beach lying along the sea. "The bleak seabeach." Longfellow.

To separate from a mass, and collect together about centers or along lines of fracture, as in the process of crystallization or solidification.

A layer of clay or decomposed rock along the wall of a vein. See Gouge, n., 4. Raymond.

A half column; a column bisected longitudinally, or along its axis.

The half of a lens divided along a plane passing through its axis.

Retired; secluded. "Sequestered scenes." Cowper. Along the cool, sequestered vale of life. Gray.

A species of firework having a serpentine motion as it passess through the air or along the ground.