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r with ashes. (b) To bring up; to search out an bring to notice again; as, to rake up old scandals.

A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans. [Written also Recollet.] Addis & Arnold.

en; amends; satisfaction; indemnity. make reparation or reparations. I am sensible of the scandal I have given by my loose writings, and make what reparation I am able. Dryden.

The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices. 'Tis no scandal grown, For debt and roguery to quit the town. Dryden.

A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of the ancient Norsemen, or Scandinavians; in a wider sense, applied to the letters of the ancient nations of Northern Europe in general.

A Scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the Norsemen and kindred people; a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time. And then the blue-eyed Norseman told A saga of the days of old. Longfellow.

Sarcastic. [Obs.] "Sarcasmous scandal." Hubidras.

One of the ancient Scandinavian poets and historiographers; a reciter and singer of heroic poems, etc., among the Norsemen; more rarely, a bard of any of the ancient Teutonic tribes. [Written also skald.] A war song such as was of yore chanted on the field of battle by the scalds of the yet heathen Saxons. Sir W. Scott…

A Scandinavian poet; a scald.

Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); -- with of. [Obs.] "A region scarce of prey." Milton.

With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just. With a scarce well-lighted flame. Milton. The eldest scarcely five year was of age. Chaucer. Slowly she sails, and scarcely stems the tides. Dryden. He had scarcely finished, when the laborer arrived who had been sent for my ransom. W. Irwing.

r pods (Bot.), the immense curved woody pods of a leguminous woody climbing plant (Entada scandens) growing in tropical India and America. They contain hard round flattish seeds two inches in diameter, which are made into boxes.

A follower of (Joannes) Duns Scotus, the Franciscan scholastic (d. 1308), who maintained certain doctrines in philosophy and theology, in opposition to the Thomists, or followers of Thomas Aquinas, the Dominican scholastic.

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.

An aged person; an older. Dryden. Each village senior paused to scan, And speak the lovely caravan. Emerson.

Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water.

Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.

A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize. [Obs.] "To scant my sizes." Shak.

To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]

To give scant measure; to squeeze or pinch in order to effect a saving. [Prev. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]