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See Scallop.

Of or pertaining to the Scolopacidæ, or Snipe family.

A genus of venomous myriapods including the centipeds. See Centiped.

Like or pertaining to the Scolopendra.

Any one of numerous species of small bark-boring beetles of the genus Scolytus and allied genera. Also used adjectively.

A large blackfish seaweed (Agarum Turneri), the frond of which is punctured with many little holes.

Sea cabbage.

A color not mixed or variegated.

Being of a single color; -- applied to flowers, animals, and textile fabrics.

The punctuation mark [;] indicating a separation between parts or members of a sentence more distinct than that marked by a comma.

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

Like a semicolumn; flat on one side and round on the other; imperfectly columnar.

A dark bluish gray color.

Growing in moss of the genus Sphagnum.

Same as Serolin (b).

Cold as a stone. Stone-cold without, within burnt with love's flame. Fairfax.

Being of a straw color. See Straw color, under Straw, n.

Having an imperfect or interrupted columnar structure.

The putting of one order above another; also, an architectural work produced by this method; as, the putting of the Doric order in the ground story, Ionic above it, and Corinthian or Composite above this.

Of or pertaining to the family of warblers (Sylvicolidæ). See Warbler.