Search the Dictionary

Any species of the genus Sarcoptes and related genera of mites, comprising the itch mites and mange mites. -- a.

A yellow gelatinous or crystalline substance found in broom (Cytisus scoparius) accompanying sparteïne.

ignifying an instrument for viewing (with the eye) or observing (in any way); as in microscope, telescope, altoscope, anemoscope.

te design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object. "Shooting wide, do miss the marked scope." Spenser. Your scope is as mine own, So to enforce or quality the laws As to your soul seems good. Shak. The scope of all their pleading against man's authority, is to overthrow such laws and constitutions in the church. Hoo…

Scopeloid.

Like or pertaining to fishes of the genus Scopelus, or family Scopelodæ, which includes many small oceanic fishes, most of which are phosphorescent. -- n. (Zoöl.)

Bearing a tuft of brushlike hairs.

Having the form of a broom or besom. "Zeolite, stelliform or scopiform." Kirwan.

Same as Scopuliped.

To lade or dip out. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Any one of numerous species of small owls of the genus Scops having ear tufts like those of the horned owls, especially the European scops owl (Scops giu), and the American screech owl. (S. Asio).

Jesting; jeering; scoffing. [Obs.] South. -- Scop"tic*al*ly, adv. [Obs.]

A peculiar brushlike organ found on the foot of spiders and used in the construction of the web.

Any species of bee which has on the hind legs a brush of hairs used for collecting pollen, as the hive bees and bumblebees.

Full of rocks; rocky. [Obs.]

An instrument that discloses objects in the dark or in a faint light. [Obs.] Pepys.

A seismometer.

A short cope, or an inferier kind of cope. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An instrument for detecting small quantities of iron in any substance by means of a very delicate combination of magnetic needles.

A device for determining the refractive state of the eye by observing the movements of the retinal lights and shadows. -- Ski*as"co*py (#), Ski*as"co*py (#), n.