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- English Word Scapement Definition Same as Escapement, 3.
- English Word Scaphander Definition The case, or impermeable apparel, in which a diver can work while under water.
- English Word Scaphism Definition An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects until he died.
- English Word Scaphite Definition Any fossil cephalopod shell of the genus Scaphites, belonging to the Ammonite family and having a chambered boat-shaped shell. Scaphites are found in the Cretaceous formation.
- English Word Scaphocephalic Definition Of, pertaining to, or affected with, scaphocephaly.
- English Word Scaphocephaly Definition A deformed condition of the skull, in which the vault is narrow, elongated, and more or less boat-shaped.
- English Word Scaphocerite Definition A flattened plate or scale attached to the second joint of the antennae of many Crustacea.
- English Word Scaphognathite Definition A thin leafike appendage (the exopodite) of the second maxilla of decapod crustaceans. It serves as a pumping organ to draw the water through the gill cavity.
- English Word Scaphoid Definition Resembling a boat in form; boat-shaped.
- English Word Scaphoid Definition The scaphoid bone.
- English Word Scapholunar Definition Of or pertaining to the scaphoid and lunar bones of the carpus.
- English Word Scapholunar Definition The scapholunar bone.
- English Word Scaphopda Definition A class of marine cephalate Mollusca having a tubular shell open at both ends, a pointed or spadelike foot for burrowing, and many long, slender, prehensile oral tentacles. It includes Dentalium, or the tooth shells, and other similar shells. Called also Prosopocephala, and Solenoconcha.
- English Word Scapiform Definition Resembling a scape, or flower stem.
- English Word Scaping Definition of Scape
- English Word Scapolite Definition A grayish white mineral occuring in tetragonal crystals and in cleavable masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina and soda.
- English Word Scapple Definition To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry.
- English Word Scapple Definition To dress in any way short of fine tooling or rubbing, as stone.
- English Word Scapula Definition The principal bone of the shoulder girdle in mammals; the shoulder blade.
- English Word Scapula Definition One of the plates from which the arms of a crinoid arise.