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The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling. Scoop net, a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net for sweeping the bottom of a river. -- Scoop wheel, a wheel for raising water, having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum.…

Of or pertaining to scoria; like scoria or the recrement of metals; partaking of the nature of scoria.

Pertaining to scrofula, or partaking of its nature; as, scrofulous tumors; a scrofulous habit of body.

An instrument for taking off scum; a skimmer.

The act of taking off scum.

ile; mean; low; vulgar; contemptible. "A scurvy trick." Ld. Lytton. That scurvy custom of taking tobacco. Swift. [He] spoke spoke such scurvy and provoking terms. Shak.

Of or pertaining to sedition; partaking of the nature of, or tending to excite, sedition; as, seditious behavior; seditious strife; seditious words.

-- To see (one) through, to help, watch, or guard (one) to the end of a course or an undertaking.

(but originally a present participle). In view of the fact (that); considering; taking into account (that); insmuch as; since; because; -- followed by a dependent clause; as, he did well, seeing that he was so young. Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me Gen. xxvi. 27.

The act of taking possession. [Obs.]

The act of taking or grasping suddenly.

The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc.

A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the English w and y.

. -- To serve an execution (Law), to levy it on a lands, goods, or person, by seizure or taking possession. -- To serve an office, to discharge a public duty. -- To serve a process (Law), in general, to read it, so as to give due notice to the party concerned, or to leave an attested copy with him or his attorney, o…

To drain, as a pond, for taking the fish. [Obs.] Tusser.

er ram; . . . at the expiration of another year, he is a three-shear ram; the name always taking its date from the time of shearing. Youatt.

rope (Naut.), to take in the slack of it. -- To shorten sail (Naut.), to reduce sail by taking it in.

year. See under Clock, Day, etc. -- Sideral time, time as reckoned by sideral days, or, taking the sidereal day as the unit, the time elapsed since a transit of the vernal equinox, reckoned in parts of a sidereal day. This is, strictly, apparent sidereal time, mean sidereal time being reckoned from the transit, not o…

Of or pertaining to silica; containing silica, or partaking of its nature. [Written also silisious.]

The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.