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er personage abroad, -- a person less imposing, -- in the eyes of some, perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array. Brougham.

A genus of acanthopterygious fishes which includes the common mackerel.

Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally.

tch pine (Bot.) See Riga fir. -- Scotch thistle (Bot.), a species of thistle (Onopordon acanthium); -- so called from its being the national emblem of the Scotch.

vant; -- so called in Oxford, England; at Cambridge called a gyp; and at Dublin, a skip. [Cant]

To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game. [Cant, U.S.]

cessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor. [Cant, American Colleges]

ng; a writing of little value; a scrawl; as, a hasty scribble. Boyle. Neither did I but vacant seasons spend In this my scribble. Bunyan.

To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat.

ory, etc., by engraving, and (usually) rubbing pigments into the incised lines. [Sailor's cant. U.S.]

Any one of numerous species of marine cottoid fishes of the genus Cottus, or Acanthocottus, having a large head armed with sharp spines, and a broad mouth. They are generally mottled with yellow, brown, and black. Several species are found on the Atlantic coasts of Europe and America.

scye, a cutter's term for the armhole or part of the armhole of the waist of a garnment. [Cant]

uropean species (Pagellus centrodontus), the Spanish (P. Oweni), and the black sea bream (Cantharus lineatus); -- called also old wife.

The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.

d or walk steadily on deck when a vessel is rolling or pitching in a rough sea. [Sailor's Cant] Totten.

Significant; ominous; serving as a warning of danger; --applied esp. to the warning colors or forms of certain animals.

the United States, in most of the separate States of the United States, and in some Swiss cantons.

ram or Abraham, to feign sickness; to malinger. Hence a malingerer is called, in sailors' cant, Sham Abram, or Sham Abraham.

legal rate of interest, or to deduct in discounting it more than the legal rate allows. [Cant, U.S.]

e shaver, a person who buys notes at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest. [Cant, U.S.]