Search the Dictionary

isease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies).

The case in which the blade of a sword, dagger, etc., is kept; a sheath. Nor in thy scabbard sheathe that famous blade. Fairfax. Scabbard fish (Zoöl.), a long, compressed, silver-colored tænioid fish (Lepidopus caudatus, or argyreus), found on the European coasts, and more abundantly about New Zealand, where it is call…

See Scaleboard plane, under Scaleboard.

Abounding with scabs; diseased with scabs.

Scabbiness.

In a scabby manner.

The quality or state of being scabby.

See Scapple.

Affected with scabs; full of scabs.

The itch.

Consisting of scabs; rough; itchy; leprous; as, scabious eruptions. Arbuthnot.

A fragment or chip of stone. [Written also scabline.]

Roughness; ruggedness. [Obs.] Burton.

Rough to the touch, like a file; having small raised dots, scales, or points; scabby; scurfy; scaly. Arbuthnot.

The quality of being scabrous.

Elecampane.

The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring.

Capable of being confiscated; liable to forfeiture.

A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged.

rass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass.