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Cabbage cut fine and allowed to ferment in a brine made of its own juice with salt, -- a German dish.

A variety of the common cabbage (Brassica oleracea major), having curled leaves, -- much cultivated for winter use.

An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. [Obs.] Shak.

To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.

Rough to the touch, like a file; having small raised dots, scales, or points; scabby; scurfy; scaly. Arbuthnot.

A thin slip of wood used to justify a page. [Obs.] Crabb.

A scurf or scabby disease, especially of the scalp. It is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head. Lev. xiii. 30.

Scabby; scurfy; scall. [Obs.] "With scalled brows black." Chaucer. Scalled head. (Med.) See Scald head, under Scald, a.

A defamatory speech or writing published to the injury of a person of dignity; -- usually abbreviated scan. mag.

be united to another by a scarf joint, the part of the end or edge that is tapered off, rabbeted, or notched so as to be thinner than the rest of the piece.

habitude of an adversary or opponent is feigned for the purpose of arguing against him. Crabb.

n of a town or city for establishing and conducting schools. [U.S.] -- Sunday school, or Sabbath school, a school held on Sunday for study of the Bible and for religious instruction; the pupils, or the teachers and pupils, of such a school, collectively.

To wit; namely; videlicet; -- often abbreviated to sc., or ss.

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

In an abbey or monastery, the room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts; in general, a room devoted to writing. Writing rooms, or scriptoria, where the chief works of Latin literature . . . were copied and illuminated. J. R. Green.

rupulosity soon retires. Dr. H. More. Careful, even to scrupulosity, . . . to keep their Sabbath. South.

o great disadvantage in the field, in an orderly way, than scuffle with an undisciplined rabble. Eikon Basilike.

To hasten away or along; to move rapidly; to hurry; as, the rabbit scurried away.

Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy. "Whatsoever man . . . be scurvy or scabbed." lev. xxi. 18, 20.

Sea cabbage.