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A large African antelope (Alcelaphus tunata), similar to the hartbeest, but having its horns regularly curved.

Harm; damage; injury; hurt; waste; misfortune. [Written also scathe.] But she was somedeal deaf, and that was skathe. Chaucer. Great mercy, sure, for to enlarge a thrall, Whose freedom shall thee turn to greatest scath. Spenser. Wherein Rome hath done you any scath, Let him make treble satisfaction. Shak.…

Calcium tungstate, a mineral of a white or pale yellowish color and of the tetragonal system of crystallization.

The metal tungsten. [Obs.]

A division of fishes including the mackerels, tunnies, and allied fishes.

Room or opportunity for free outlook or aim; space for action; amplitude of opportunity; free course or vent; liberty; range of view; intent, or action. Give him line and scope. Shak. In the fate and fortunes of the human race, scope is given to the operation of laws which man must always fail to discern the reasons of…

A ragged, stunted tree or branch. Scrag whale (Zoöl.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale (Agaphelus giddosus). By some it is considered the young of the right whale.

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

A stunted shrub, bush, or branch. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Abounding in scrog; also, twisted; stunted. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.

Dwarfed or stunted; scrubby.

Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur. "Dense, scrubby woods." Duke of Argull.

live in, or have dominion over, the sea, or some particular sea or part of the sea, as Neptune.

An ascidian. See Illust. under Tunicata.

Born of the sea; produced by the sea. "Neptune and his sea-born niece." Waller.

good time, in due season, or in proper time for the purpose; suitable to the season; opportune; timely; as, a seasonable supply of rain. Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction. Ecclus. xxxv. 20. -- Sea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Sea"son*a*bly, adv.

safe; -- applied to persons and things, and followed by against or from. "Secure from fortune's blows." Dryden.

Good fortune; favorable opportunity; prosperity. [Obs.] "So have I seel". Chaucer.

te rapidity, without quenching. Such steels are alloys of iron and carbon with manganese, tungsten and manganese, chromium, molybdenum and manganese, etc. They are chiefly used as high-speed steels. -- Self`-hard"en*ed, a.

Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved. Even fortune rules no more, O servile land! Pope.