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soner; a scientific argument. Bossuet is as scientific in the structure of his sentences. Lander. Scientific method, the method employed in exact science and consisting of: (a) Careful and abundant observation and experiment.

Slander. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A bard among the Highlanders of Scotland, who preserved and repeated the traditions of the tribes; also, a genealogist. [Written also senachy.] [Scot.]

from Sile to strain. [Obs. or Prov.Eng.] Siling dish, a colander. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

A knife or short dagger, esp. that in use among the Highlanders of Scotland. [Variously spelt.] "His skean, or pistol." Spenser.

To hide, esp. in a mean or cowardly manner. [Obs.] "[Slander] sneaks its head." Wake.

rge purse or pouch made of skin with the hair or fur on, worn in front of the kilt by Highlanders when in full dress.

Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a person's reputation.

To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite. "Slander stings the brave." Pope.

To dishonor with the reputation of being a strumpet; hence, to belie; to slander. With his untrue reports, strumpet your fame. Massinger.

A detractor; a slanderer. [Obs.] Shak.

With that or this; therewith; at the same time. Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal Remit thy other forfeits. Shak. And therewithal one came and seized on her, And Enid started waking. Tennyson.

Slanderous. [R.] Entick.

One who traduces; a slanderer; a calumniator. Bp. Hall.

In a traducing manner; by traduction; slanderously.

To cause to pass through a sieve or colander; to strain, as through a sieve. [Obs.] Harvey.

Trowsers; especially, those of the Scotch Highlanders. "He wore the trews, or close trowsers, made of tartan." Sir W. Scott.

illbird, humility, prairie plover, prairie pigeon, prairie snipe, papabote, quaily, and uplander. -- Upland sumach (Bot.), a North American shrub of the genus Rhus (Rhus glabra), used in tanning and dyeing.

ing the qualities of a viper; malignant; venomous; as, a viperous tongue. "This viperous slander." Shak. -- Vi"per*ous*ly, adv.

That which excites vomiting; an emetic. He gives your Hollander a vomit. Shak. Black vomit. (Med.) See in the Vocabulary. -- Vomit nut, nux vomica.