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Scarlet fever. -- Scar`la*ti"nal, a. -- Scar*lat"i*nous (# or #), a.

Free from scar. Drummond.

Cloth of a scarlet color. All her household are clothed with scarlet. Prov. xxxi. 21.

A slight contest; a skirmish. See Skirmish. [Obs.] Such cruel game my scarmoges disarms. Spenser.

Dung. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Ray. Scarn bee (Zoöl.), a dung beetle.

Of or pertaining to the Scaridæ, a family of marine fishes including the parrot fishes.

The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.

A scar; a mark. We find upon the limestone rocks the scarrings of the ancient glacier which brought the bowlder here. Tyndall.

Bearing scars or marks of wounds.

A Mediterranean food fish (Sparisoma scarus) od excellent quality and highly valued by the Romans; -- called also parrot fish.

Barren land having only a thin coat of grass. [Prov. Eng.]

A disease, usually accompanied by colicky pains and diarrhea, caused by the presence of ascarids in the gastrointestinal canal.

A parasitic nematoid worm, espec. the roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides, often occurring in the human intestine and allied species found in domestic animals; also commonly applied to the pinworm (Oxyuris), often troublesome to children and aged persons.

e buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshiana) of the Pacific coast of the United States, which yields cascara sagrada.

Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative.

A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton Eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark. Cascarilla bark (or Cascarila) (Med.), the bark of Croton Eleutheria. It has an aromatic odor and a warm, spicy, bitter taste, and when burnt emits a musky odor. It is used as a gentle tonic, and sometimes, for the sake of its fragrance, m…

A white, crystallizable, bitter substance extracted from oil of cascarilla.

Lit., an eggshell; hence, an eggshell filled with confetti to be thrown during balls, carnivals, etc. [Western U. S.]

he ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp.

he favorites, and think it nothing extraordinary that the queen should . . . resolve to discard them. Swift.