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To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch.

ining to the family Scorpænidæ, which includes the scorpene, the rosefish, the California rockfishes, and many other food fishes. [Written also scorpænid.] See Illust. under Rockfish.

A projecting rock. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

Rough with irregular points; scragged. "A scraggy rock." J. Philips.

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

in the sense above). I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. Ezek. xxvi. 4.

A pebble; a stone; also, a heap of stones or rocky débris. [Prov. Eng.] Southey.

, a scraggy shrub; that of the Southern States is a small tree (Q. Catesbæi); that of the Rocky Mountain region is Q. undulata, var. Gambelii. -- Scrub robin (Zoöl.), an Australian singing bird of the genus Drymodes.

A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying "Between Scylla and Charybdis," signifying a great peril on either hand.…

A gown or frock with short sleeves, formerly worn by mariners. Shak.

The rock pipit (Anthus obscurus).

; and the black, or California, sea lion (Zalophus Californianus), which is common on the rocks near San Francisco.

The three-bearded rockling. See Rockling.

The rock pipit.

ia fish of the family Chiridæ, especially Hexagrammus decagrammus; -- called also spotted rock trout. See Rock trout, under Rock.

nd; a scar; a cicatrix. Seam blast, a blast by putting the powder into seams or cracks of rocks. -- Seam lace, a lace used by carriage makers to cover seams and edges; -- called also seaming lace. -- Seam presser. (Agric.) (a) A heavy roller to press down newly plowed furrows. (b) A tailor's sadiron for pressing seam…

minerals produced by alteertion or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rocks mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other causes.

The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.

taining to sediment; formed by sediment; containing matter that has subsided. Sedimentary rocks. (Geol.) See Aqueous rocks, under Aqueous.

ing a sediment; specifically (Geol.), the deposition of the material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.