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A cake, thinner than a bannock, made of wheat or barley or oat meal. [Written variously, scon, skone, skon, etc.] [Scot.] Burns.

; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency; as, a scrappy lecture. A dreadfully scrappy dinner. Thackeray.

An hermaphrodite. [Obs.] Skinner.

the form of half of a circle. Addison. Semicircular canals (Anat.), certain canals of the inner ear. See under Ear.

Having the outermost stamens converted into petals, while the inner ones remain perfect; -- said of a flower.

ts of acquired learning or of speculation." -- Moral sense. See under Moral, (a). -- The inner, or internal, sense, capacity of the mind to be aware of its own states; consciousness; reflection. "This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself, and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external obj…

alized by pleasure. Pope. By the neglect of prayer, the thoughts are sensualized. T. H. Skinner.

cted. For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinnere. Heb. vii. 26.

p; formerly with in. Bid them cover the table, serve in the meat, and we will come in to dinner. Shak. Some part he roasts, then serves it up so dressed. Dryde.

Hockey; shinney. Bartlett.

A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below. I reached St. Asaph, . . . where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles. Ray.…

A belted waist resembling a shirt in plainness of cut and style, worn by women or children; -- in England called a blouse.

To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water.

A short sleep taken about the middle of the day, or after dinner; a midday nap.

with a gentle hissing; to begin to boil. I simmer as liquor doth on the fire before it beginneth to boil. Palsgrave.

Freedom from artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness; as, simplicity of dress, of style, or of language; simplicity of diet; simplicity of life.

te any known rule of duty; -- often followed by against. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned. Ps. li. 4. All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. Rom. iii. 23.

that sate upon the seat. Bible (1551) (Rev. v. 7.) I pray you, jest, sir, as you sit at dinner. Shak.

An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford.

A piece made in paring or splitting leather; specifically, the part from the inner, or flesh, side.