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Molluscan.

pleasure or uneasiness not amounting to violent anger. The princes were so nettled at the scandal of this affront, that every man took it to himself. L'Estrange.

To fill in, as between scantling, with brickwork.

A native or inhabitant of Normandy; originally, one of the Northmen or Scandinavians who conquered Normandy in the 10th century; afterwards, one of the mixed (Norman-French) race which conquered England, under William the Conqueror.

Of or pertaining to ancient Scandinavia, or to the language spoken by its inhabitants.

One of the ancient Scandinavians; a Northman.

One of the inhabitants of the north of Europe; esp., one of the ancient Scandinavians; a Norseman.

That branch of the Scandinavian language spoken in Norway.

A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions.

One of a branch of the Order of Franciscans, who profess to adhere more strictly than the Conventuals to the intention of the founder, especially as to poverty; -- called also Observants.

Among the early and medieval Teutonic peoples, esp. Scandinavians, the heritable land held by the various odalmen constituting a family or kindred of freeborn tribesmen; also, the ownership of such land. The odal was subject only to certain rights of the family or kindred in restricting the freedom of transfer or sale…

The supreme deity of the Scandinavians; -- the same as Woden, of the German tribes. There in the Temple, carved in wood, The image of great Odin stood. Longfellow.

Of or pertaining to vision or sight. The moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views. Milton.

or aggregate of convents living under a common rule; as, the Order of the Bath; the Franciscan order. Find a barefoot brother out, One of our order, to associate me. Shak. The venerable order of the Knights Templars. Sir W. Scott.

lly mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, "I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice." [Written also paralepsis, paralepsy, paralipsis.]

Not bountiful or liberal; scanty. Here creeps along a poor, penurious stream. C. Pitt.

Stripped of hair; scant of hair; bald. [Obs.] "Pilled beard." Chaucer.

The wood of two small tropical American trees (Hamelia ventricosa, and Cordia gerascanthoides). It is brownish, veined with lighter color.

en to the knowledge or view of all; general; common; notorious; as, public report; public scandal. Joseph, . . . not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. Matt. i. 19.

stormy wind. Ps. cvii. 25. Æneas . . . employs his pains, In parts remote, to raise the Tuscan swains. Dryden.