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One who holds extreme opinions regarding the efficacy of sacraments.

Of or pertaining a sacrament or the sacraments; sacramental.

To administer the sacraments. [R.] Both to preach and sacramentize. Fuller.

A personage in the old Italian comedy (derived from Spain) characterized by great boastfulness and poltroonery; hence, a person of like characteristics; a buffoon.

To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.

Eggs of which the whites and yolks are stirred together while cooking, or eggs beaten slightly, often with a little milk, and stirred while cooking.

One who scrambles; one who climbs on all fours.

Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott.

The trace or record of an earth tremor, made by means of a seismograph.

To cause to shrink or shrivel with cold; to benumb. [Prov. Eng.]

A photograph, map, or diagram of a spectrum.

A photograph of the sun made by monochromatic light, usually of the calcium line (k), and showing the sun's faculæ and prominences.

A cuneiform, or arrow-headed, character.

A tracing, called a pulse tracing, consisting of a series of curves corresponding with the beats of the heart, obtained by the application of the sphygmograph.

A view of the universe of brighter stars as it would appear to an observer transported into space outside or beyond our universe of stars.

A diagram or picture which represents objects in such a way as to give the impression of relief or solidity; also, a stereograph.

To spring or recoil with violence. [Prov. Eng.]

To strike, beat, or bang; to break; to destroy. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

A direct descending blow with the edge of a sword. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Strawy; consisting of straw. Robinson.