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|Scab ||n||O.E sceabb?: roughness of skin. A hard, dry skin or crust formed on the surface of a healing wound or sore. 2. A contagious disease among sheep, resembling mange, scabies. 3. a bacterial disease among plants with warty growths forming on the stems. 4. a workman who does not belong to or will not join a labour union; a strikebreaker; scabbing.
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|Scab ||n||O.E sceabb: roughness of skin. A hard, dry skin or crust formed on the surface of a healing wound or sore. 2. A contagious disease among sheep, resembling mange, scabies. 3. a bacterial disease among plants with warty growths forming on the stems. 4. a workman who does not belong to or will not join a labour union; a strikebreaker; scabbing. 5. a wound in a tree covered by later growth.
 
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|Scabbiness ||n||The property of being scabby; of having or being covered with scabs.
 
|Scabbiness ||n||The property of being scabby; of having or being covered with scabs.
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|School ||phr||"Leave School" - finish one's education.
 
|School ||phr||"Leave School" - finish one's education.
 
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|School ||phr||"Of the Old School" - belonging to an old-fashioned , traditional school.
 
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|School ||phr||"School of Hard Knocks" - the source of an education, consisting of a real-world experience with its adversity.
 
|School ||phr||"School of Hard Knocks" - the source of an education, consisting of a real-world experience with its adversity.
 
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|School ||phr||"School of Thought" - an opinion, subscribed to by some connected or arbitrary groups.
 
|School ||phr||"School of Thought" - an opinion, subscribed to by some connected or arbitrary groups.
 
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|School ||phr||"Tell Tales Out Of School" - break a confidence, reveal a secret.
 
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|Schoolboard ||n||A public body set up in each town, to administer local education.
 
|Schoolboard ||n||A public body set up in each town, to administer local education.
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|Schule ||vb||To look obliquely.
 
|Schule ||vb||To look obliquely.
 
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|Scinn (skin) ||n||????Of men's clothing, from skin (n.) + tight (adj.).skin - ca.1200, "animal hide" (usually dressed and tanned), from Old Norse skinn "animal hide, fur," from Proto-Germanic *skintha- (cognates: '''Old English scinn''' (rare), Old High German scinten, German schinden "to flay, skin;" German dialectal schind "skin of a fruit," Flemish schinde "bark"), from PIE *sken- "to cut off"
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|Scinn (skin) ||n||Etymology:? - of men's clothing, from skin (n.) + tight (adj.).skin - ca.1200, "animal hide" (usually dressed and tanned), from Old Norse skinn "animal hide, fur," from Proto-Germanic *skintha- (cognates: '''Old English scinn''' (rare), Old High German scinten, German schinden "to flay, skin;" German dialectal schind "skin of a fruit," Flemish schinde "bark"), from PIE *sken- "to cut off"
 
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|Scop ||n||A poet, minstrel; ship.
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|Scop ||n||A poet, bard, minstrel; shop.
 
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|Score ||vb|| To mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow; as, to score timber for hewing; to score the back with a lash 2. especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally. 3. to mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge. 4. to engrave, as upon a shield. 5. to make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game. 6. to write down in proper order and arrangement; as to score an overture for an orchestra 7. to mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch.
 
|Score ||vb|| To mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow; as, to score timber for hewing; to score the back with a lash 2. especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally. 3. to mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge. 4. to engrave, as upon a shield. 5. to make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game. 6. to write down in proper order and arrangement; as to score an overture for an orchestra 7. to mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch.
 
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|Score || n|| A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally, mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account. 9. an account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence,indebtedness. 2. Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf. 3. the number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number. 4. A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery. 5. A weight of twenty pounds. 6. the number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket. 7. A line drawn; a groove or furrow.
 
|Score || n|| A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally, mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account. 9. an account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence,indebtedness. 2. Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf. 3. the number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number. 4. A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery. 5. A weight of twenty pounds. 6. the number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket. 7. A line drawn; a groove or furrow.
 
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|score ||phr||"Even the Score" - get one back for some past action.
 
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|Score ||phr||"Go Off at Score" - to start off well.
 
|Score ||phr||"Go Off at Score" - to start off well.
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|Score ||phr||"Have a Score to Settle" - have reason to revenge oneself. 2. settle an old score.
 
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|Score ||phr||"In Score" - having the parts for different instruments, in proper arrangement and methodically arranged.
 
|Score ||phr||"In Score" - having the parts for different instruments, in proper arrangement and methodically arranged.
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|Score ||phr||"Know the Score" - be aware of the essential fact.
 
|Score ||phr||"Know the Score" - be aware of the essential fact.
 
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|Score ||phr||"On the Score of" - for the reason, because of.
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|Score ||phr||"On That Score" - for the reason, because of.
 
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|Score ||phr||"Score Off" - gain the advantage over.
 
|Score ||phr||"Score Off" - gain the advantage over.
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|Score ||phr||"Score Out" - draw a line through.
 
|Score ||phr||"Score Out" - draw a line through.
 
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|Score ||phr||"Score Under" - underline
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|Score ||phr||"See the Score" - appreciate the reality of a situation.
 
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|Scoreboard ||n||A large board that displays the score in a game or contest.
 
|Scoreboard ||n||A large board that displays the score in a game or contest.
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|Scot ||n||One of the ancient Gaelic-speaking people, first known to history as inhabitants of Ireland. 2. a native of Scotland.
 
|Scot ||n||One of the ancient Gaelic-speaking people, first known to history as inhabitants of Ireland. 2. a native of Scotland.
 
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|Scot ||n||A payment or contribution, "reckoning" esp. a payment for entertainment or one's share of such payment; chiefly in the phrases: (lit & fig.) to pay for one's scot."
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|Scot ||n||A payment or contribution, "reckoning" esp. a payment for entertainment or one's share of such payment; chiefly in the phrases: (lit & fig.) to pay for one's scot."
 
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|Scot ||vb||To lay a person or property under contribution of scot. 2. to share, to participate, assess.
 
|Scot ||vb||To lay a person or property under contribution of scot. 2. to share, to participate, assess.
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|Scot ||phr||"Scot and Lot" - thee rough equivalent of the modern municipal rates,ie the payment by householders for local and national purposes..
 
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|Scot-ale ||n||An "ale" or festival at which ale was drunk at the invitation of the lord of the manor or of a forester or other bailiff, for which ale as a forced contribution was levied.
 
|Scot-ale ||n||An "ale" or festival at which ale was drunk at the invitation of the lord of the manor or of a forester or other bailiff, for which ale as a forced contribution was levied.
 
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|Scot-free ||adv||Unharmed, unpunished. 2 untaxed, without payment
 
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|Scotch-thistle ||n||The national emblem of Scotland.
 
|Scotch-thistle ||n||The national emblem of Scotland.
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|Scot-free ||adj||Exempt from taxes, imposts, charges, etc.
 
|Scot-free ||adj||Exempt from taxes, imposts, charges, etc.
 
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|Scot-thede||n||People of the Scots; scot-lede: people or language of the Scots.
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|Scot-thede ||n||People of the Scots; scot-lede: people or language of the Scots.
 
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|Scottish ||adj||Of or belonging to Scotland, especially of persons of scottish nationality, birth or descent.
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|Scottish ||adj||Of or belonging to Scotland, especially of persons of Scottish nationality, birth or descent.
 
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|Scrape ||vb||To make level, smooth or clean or do damage to, by rubbing, pushing, a hard edge over a surface; scrape off, erase, scrape over, scrape away and scrape out by scraping. 2. touching or almost touching. 3. get something moved by making a rough sound. 4. to make use of money with great care: scrape together or get bit by bit. 5. just succeed in achieving your aim or goal in scraping through.
 
|Scrape ||vb||To make level, smooth or clean or do damage to, by rubbing, pushing, a hard edge over a surface; scrape off, erase, scrape over, scrape away and scrape out by scraping. 2. touching or almost touching. 3. get something moved by making a rough sound. 4. to make use of money with great care: scrape together or get bit by bit. 5. just succeed in achieving your aim or goal in scraping through.
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|Scrape ||phr||"Scrape Down" - to show disapproval of a public speaker by scraping the feet along the floor.
 
|Scrape ||phr||"Scrape Down" - to show disapproval of a public speaker by scraping the feet along the floor.
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|Scrape-good ||adj||Miserly, stingy.
 
|Scrape-good ||adj||Miserly, stingy.
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|Scrithel ||n||Roving, wander, glide, fleetness.
 
|Scrithel ||n||Roving, wander, glide, fleetness.
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|Scug ||n||Originally shadow, the shade, shelter afforded by a rock, tree, bush or like; hence a shelter. 2. fig, a cloak, pretence, outward show. 2. a squirrel: "a shadow tail." NB: also spelt "skug"
 
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|Scug ||vb||To take shelter or skug. 2. to shade, shelter, screen, protect. 3. to take cover, shelter. 4. to hide, conceal oneself.
 
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|Scuggy ||adj||Shady, gloomy, skuggish, scuggish
 
 
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|Scythe ||n||Long curved blade with long curved hand-bit worked with the hands to cut grass, crops, etc.
 
|Scythe ||n||Long curved blade with long curved hand-bit worked with the hands to cut grass, crops, etc.

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Old English n English
Scab n O.E sceabb: roughness of skin. A hard, dry skin or crust formed on the surface of a healing wound or sore. 2. A contagious disease among sheep, resembling mange, scabies. 3. a bacterial disease among plants with warty growths forming on the stems. 4. a workman who does not belong to or will not join a labour union; a strikebreaker; scabbing. 5. a wound in a tree covered by later growth.
Scabbiness n The property of being scabby; of having or being covered with scabs.
Scab-like n Resembling a scab (incrustation) or some aspect of one.
Scabby adj Affected with scabs; full of scabs. 2. diseased with the scab, or mange; mangy.
Scabwort n Old name for the plant: "Scabiosa major." Other names include: Horse-heal and Inula helenium.
Scat n Treasure, money. 2. tax, tribute, impost.
Scathe n O.E sceathan ?: One who works harm, a malefactor, wretch, fiend, 2. hurt, harm, damage, physical hurt. 3. Something which wrought injury and harm, supposedly produced from witchcraft. 4. an injury, damage or loss from which legal compensation is claimed; also cost or expenses incurred by the claiming.
Scathe vb To injure or destroy by fire, lightning or similar thing. 2. to scorch, sear, wither.
Scathing adj Harmful, dangerous, injurious, damaging, wounding, hurtful, withering, searing. 2. subject to pecuniary loss. 3. with invective sharp, cutting, searing, withering, damaging.
Scathe-deed n A harmful action or hurtful deed.
Scathe-fire n A conflagration, inferno, holocaust.
Scatheful adj Hurtful, injurious.
Scathefulness n Hurtfulness, destructiveness, disadvantage.
Scatheless adj Without scathing, not harmful, unhurt, undamaged.
Scathel adj Injurious, harmful, dangerous.
Scathe-taking n To engage in, indulge in, or inflict in a dangerous or harmful act, injury upon another.
Scathing adj Damaging, cutting, biting. 2. withering, blasting, unsparing.
Scathingly adv In a scathing manner.
Sceat n A coin or denomination of money, see scat
Schelchene n A female servant.
School n Loan word from Greek (skole) US Canada - an institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.. 2. an educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university). 3. within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area. 3. the followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought. 4. the time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution
School vb To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school.) 2. to defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson. 3. to control, or compose, one's expression.
School phr "Go to School" - begin one's education. 2. attend lessons.
School phr "Leave School" - finish one's education.
School phr "Of the Old School" - belonging to an old-fashioned , traditional school.
School phr "School of Hard Knocks" - the source of an education, consisting of a real-world experience with its adversity.
School phr "School of Thought" - an opinion, subscribed to by some connected or arbitrary groups.
School phr "Tell Tales Out Of School" - break a confidence, reveal a secret.
Schoolboard n A public body set up in each town, to administer local education.
Schoolbook n A textbook, used or prepared for use in school.
Schoolbookish adj Of a book, pedantic, dry.
Schoolchild n A child or young person attending school or of an age to attend school.
Schoolcraft n Learning.
Schoolday n A day which the public schools are open, usually synonymous with week days.
Schooldays n The period of one's life when one attends school, particularly primary school (as opposed to high school or college days). 2. one's childhood, youth and schoolday in retrospect.
Schoolfellow n One who attends the same school.
Schoolfriend n A friend at one's school.
Schoolgoer n One who attends school.
Schoolgoing adj Attending school.
Schoolhouse n A building, housing a school, especially a small or single-room school
Schooling n Training or instruction. 2. institutional education, attendance at school.
Schoolish adj Of or pertaining to school; scholastic. 2. characteristic of school rather than real life; pedantic, pedagogical
Schoolishly adv In a schoolish manner.
Schoolishness n The state or condition of being schoolish.
School-leaver n A teenager who is about to leave or who has left school.
Schoolman n A dictor in the Middle Ages versed scholasticism.
Schoolmaster n Headmaster, principal.
Schoolroom n A classroom, a room in a school used for instruction.
Schoolrun n Increased traffic due to the number of parents taking or collecting their children to and from school by car.
Schoolship n A vessel used for the training and education of sailors. 2. a vessel used as a reformatory.
School teacher n A teacher working in a school.
School-teacherish adj Resembling or stereotypical school teacher in some way, pedantic, patronizing.
School-time n Time spent in school, classtime, schooldays.
Schoolward adj Which leads back to school.
Schoolward adv Towards school.
Schoolwear n Clothes designed to be worn at school.
Schoolyear n The academic year.
Schule vb To look obliquely.
Scinn (skin) n Etymology:? - of men's clothing, from skin (n.) + tight (adj.).skin - ca.1200, "animal hide" (usually dressed and tanned), from Old Norse skinn "animal hide, fur," from Proto-Germanic *skintha- (cognates: Old English scinn (rare), Old High German scinten, German schinden "to flay, skin;" German dialectal schind "skin of a fruit," Flemish schinde "bark"), from PIE *sken- "to cut off"
Scop n A poet, bard, minstrel; shop.
Score vb To mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow; as, to score timber for hewing; to score the back with a lash 2. especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally. 3. to mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge. 4. to engrave, as upon a shield. 5. to make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game. 6. to write down in proper order and arrangement; as to score an overture for an orchestra 7. to mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch.
Score n A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally, mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account. 9. an account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence,indebtedness. 2. Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf. 3. the number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number. 4. A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery. 5. A weight of twenty pounds. 6. the number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket. 7. A line drawn; a groove or furrow.
score phr "Even the Score" - get one back for some past action.
Score phr "Go Off at Score" - to start off well.
Score phr "Have a Score to Settle" - have reason to revenge oneself. 2. settle an old score.
Score phr "In Score" - having the parts for different instruments, in proper arrangement and methodically arranged.
Score phr "Keep Score" - register the score as it is made.
Score phr "Know the Score" - be aware of the essential fact.
Score phr "On That Score" - for the reason, because of.
Score phr "Score Off" - gain the advantage over.
Score phr "Score Out" - draw a line through.
Score phr "Score Under" - underline
Score phr "See the Score" - appreciate the reality of a situation.
Scoreboard n A large board that displays the score in a game or contest.

(cricket) 2. a similar board that also displays each batsman's score, and many statistics and pieces of information. 3. (by extension) A listing of various similar entities along with their property; properties, such as status or rank.

Scorebook n A book in which the score for a game or sport is noted.
Score box n In cricket, an enclosed structure in which scorers sit; often behind the scoreboard.
Score-keeper n Someone who keeps track of the score of a sporting event or other contest.
Score-keeping n The keeping of the score.
Scorelessly adv In a scoreless way.
Scoreline n A line in a newspaper or other publication giving the score in a sporting match.
Score-off n The action or result off someone (a rebuttal; a point won).
Scorer n One who keeps score in a sporting match; a scorekeeper.
Scoresheet n A sheet of paper (or similar)on which a score is kept and by extension a list of persons who have scored.
Score string n In billiards, a wire string of beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
Score writer n A computer program for creating and editing a musical score.
Scot n One of the ancient Gaelic-speaking people, first known to history as inhabitants of Ireland. 2. a native of Scotland.
Scot n A payment or contribution, "reckoning" esp. a payment for entertainment or one's share of such payment; chiefly in the phrases: (lit & fig.) to pay for one's scot."
Scot vb To lay a person or property under contribution of scot. 2. to share, to participate, assess.
Scot phr "Scot and Lot" - thee rough equivalent of the modern municipal rates,ie the payment by householders for local and national purposes..
Scot-ale n An "ale" or festival at which ale was drunk at the invitation of the lord of the manor or of a forester or other bailiff, for which ale as a forced contribution was levied.
Scot-free adv Unharmed, unpunished. 2 untaxed, without payment
Scotch-thistle n The national emblem of Scotland.
Scotch-mist n Very fine rain.
Scot-free adj Exempt from taxes, imposts, charges, etc.
Scot-thede n People of the Scots; scot-lede: people or language of the Scots.
Scottish adj Of or belonging to Scotland, especially of persons of Scottish nationality, birth or descent.
Scrape vb To make level, smooth or clean or do damage to, by rubbing, pushing, a hard edge over a surface; scrape off, erase, scrape over, scrape away and scrape out by scraping. 2. touching or almost touching. 3. get something moved by making a rough sound. 4. to make use of money with great care: scrape together or get bit by bit. 5. just succeed in achieving your aim or goal in scraping through.
Scrape phr "Scrape Along" - to manage to exist.
Scrape phr "Scrape Down" - to show disapproval of a public speaker by scraping the feet along the floor.
Scrape phr "Scrape Through" - just succeed.
Scrape-good adj Miserly, stingy.
Scrape-penny n A miserly, stingy person.
Scraper n One who scrapes, a miser, fiddler. 2. a metal bar for scrape the mud off boots. 3. any tool with a thin steel blade used for scraping.
Scraping n The act of one who scrapes. 2. the harsh noise made by scraping.
Scraping-ground n A place which deer go to scrape or rub the velvet off their antlers
Scrat n Hermaphrodite.
Scree vb To glide.
Screpe vb To erase, scratch off; see "Scrape."
Scrithe vb OE: to go, pass, creep, wander. 2. to glide, fall or lapse. 3. to urge, entreat.
Scrithing pp Going, passing, gliding, wandering, roving, fleeting
Scrithel n Roving, wander, glide, fleetness.
Scythe n Long curved blade with long curved hand-bit worked with the hands to cut grass, crops, etc.
Scythe-like adj Resembling a scythe or some aspecty of one.