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ail is short, sp. when carried erect; hence, sometimes, the animal itself. "He ran like a scut." Skelton. How the Indian hare came to have a long tail, wheras that part in others attains no higher than a scut. Sir T. Browne. My doe with the black scut. Shak.

See Scutum.

Shield money; commutation of service for a sum of money. See Escuage.

Of or pertaining to a shield. A good example of these scutal monstrosities. Cussans.

Buckler-shaped; round or nearly round.

otton or silk) by beating; to free (fibrous substances) from dust by beating and blowing. Scutching machine, a machine used to scutch cotton, silk, or flax; -- called also batting machine.

A kind of pasture grass (Cynodon Dactylon). See Bermuda grass: also Illustration in Appendix.

An escutcheon; an emblazoned shield. Bacon. The corpse lay in state, with all the pomp of scutcheons, wax lights, black hangings, and mutes. Macaulay.

Emblazoned on or as a shield. Scutcheoned panes in cloisters old. Lowell.

One who scutches.

A small shield. [Obs.] Skelton.

See Scutellum.

Formed like a plate or salver; composed of platelike surfaces; as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon. Woodward.

the entire covering, or mode of arrangement, of scales, as on the legs and feet of a bird.

Scutellate.

Having broad scutella on the front, and small scales on the posterior side, of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds.

the four pieces forming the upper part of a thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the small postscutellum; a scutella. See Thorax.

Scutibranchiate. -- n.

Same as Scutibranchiata.

One of the Scutibranchiata.