Dictionary: SCI – SCN

• SCIENCE
adj. skilful, proficient, expert …1926 Amer. dial.
n. skill in boxing …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. to box …1875 Eng. dial.

• SCIENCED
adj. 1926 Amer. dial. – skilful, proficient, expert

• SCIENTISSIMOUS
adj. 1650 obs. – very learned, very knowledgeable

• SCILLION
n. 1970s Amer. sl. – an indefinite very large number

• SCIMMINGER
n. Bk1904 Eng. dial. obs. – a piece of counterfeit money made of base metal coated with silver

• SCIMP
adj. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – scarce; scanty

• SCIMPING
adj. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – scarce; scanty

• SCIMPTION
n. a trivial matter; a very small piece, amount, or quantity; a bit, a scrap …1919 Amer. dial.

• SCIMPY
adj. scarce; scanty …Bk1942 Amer. sl.

• SCIOMANCY
n. Bk1991 – divination through communication with the spirits of the dead

• SCIOPHOBIA
n. Bk1991 – an abnormal fear of shadows

• SCIRWHEW
adv. awry …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCISSOR
n. one regarded as foolish, incompetent, or inexperienced …1916 Amer. dial.

• SCISSOR-BILL
n. 1. an ineffectual or incompetent person …1871 sl., chiefly US
n. 2. one regarded as a traitor to his class or associates …1913 Amer. dial.
n. 3. a gullible person; a dupe …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
n. 4. a term of contempt …Bk1942 Amer. Western sl.
n. 5. a non-union man …1958 Amer. dial.
n. 6. a Caucasian …1965 Amer. Indian. usage, derogatory

• SCISSORS-BILL
n. 1. one regarded as foolish; an ineffectual, incompetent, or inexperienced  person …1871 sl., chiefly US
n. 2. a railroad detective …1940 Amer. railroad usage
n. 3. a gullible person; a dupe …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
n. 4. a term of contempt …Bk1942 Amer. Western sl.

• SCITHERS
n. scissors …1851 Eng. dial.

• SCITTURN
n. a shrewd turn …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCIVEY
n. a female domestic servant, esp. a maid-of-all-work …1902 sl., mainly derogatory
vb. to do the work of a servant …1931 sl.

• SCIVVIES
n. underwear …1945 Amer. sl.

• SCIVVY
n. a vest or undershirt …1932 Amer. sl., orig. nautical

• SCIZZOR-BILL
n. one regarded as foolish, incompetent, or inexperienced …1940 Amer. dial.

• SCLAB-DAB
vb. to walk in a flat-footed noisy manner, as if through mud …1931 Sc.

•SCLACK
adj. backward …1880 Sc.

• SCLAFE
adj. 1. thin and flat; also used of a person …1802 Eng. dial. obs.
adj. 2. flat-footed …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. a thin slice of anything …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCLAFF
adv. with a flat light step …1866 Sc.
n. 1. an untidy, slatternly person …c1850 Sc.
n. 2. a blow with the palm of the hand or some flat instrument; a slap; a box on the ear; a falling-flat; a clap, a thud …1866 Sc.
n. 3. a light loose-fitting shoe or slipper; an old worn-down shoe, sometimes used as a slipper …1866 Sc.
n. 4. a thin flat slice of anything, esp. food …1882 Sc.
n. 5. in golf: a muffled shot, caused by the club grazing the ground before striking the ball …1887 Sc.
n. 6. the noise made by a slight blow, or flat, soft fall; the noise made in shuffling the feet …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. 1. to walk in a flat-footed or shuffling way; to plant the feet with a slapping motion or sound on the ground in walking …1825 Sc.
vb. 2. to strike with the open hand, or with some flat surface; to slap; to throw down flat …1866 Sc.
vb. 3. in golf: to graze the ground with the club in the act of striking the ball, and so shorten the shot; to hit the ball in this way …1887 Sc.
vb. 4. to make a flat stone skip over the surface of the water; to play at ducks and drakes …1969 Sc.

• SCLAFFARD
n. a blow, esp. one on the side of the head, given with the palm of the hand or anything having a flat surface …1889 Sc.

• SCLAFFER
adv. flat, ‘plump …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 1. a slight blow, esp. with the open hand; a flat, soft fall …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 2. the noise made by a slight blow or soft fall, or by shuffling the feet …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 3. a light loose-fitting shoe or slipper; an old worn-down shoe, sometimes used as a slipper …1882 Sc.
n. 4. a shuffling gait …1915 Sc.
n. 5. a big, clumsy, flat-footed person; a flat foot …1969 Sc.
vb. 1. to walk in a flat-footed or shuffling way; to plant the feet with a slapping motion or sound on the ground in walking …1866 Sc.
vb. 2. to strike with the open hand or with anything having a flat surface; to throw down flat …Bk1904 Sc.

• SCLAFFERT
n. 1. a slap, a blow with the open palm or anything flat; a box on the ear …1759 Sc.
n. 2. the swellings round the jaws caused by mumps …1808 Sc. obs.
n. 3. thin, light shoes …1866 Sc.
n. 4. a clumsy, flat-footed person …1969 Sc.
vb. to shuffle about, as in thin, worn shoes …Bk1904 Sc.

• SCLAFFIE
adj. untidy …c1850 Sc.

• SCLAFFY
adj. of a stroke in golf: scrapy …1887 Sc.

• SCLAIRTIE
n. a light smear or dab of some soft sticky substance …1954 Sc.

• SCLAIVE
vb. to slander, to calumniate …1871 Sc.

• SCLAIVER
n. 1. a gossip, a rumour-monger, a slanderer …1920 Sc.
n. 2. a piece of scandal; idle or slanderous gossip …1921 Sc.

• SCLAMBER
vb. to wander about in idleness …1832 Sc.

• SCLAMMER
n. clamour …1920 Sc.
vb. to wander about in idleness …1832 Sc.

• SCLANDER
n. slander …1731 Sc.
vb. to slander …1808 Sc.

• SCLANDERAR
n. a slanderer …1808 Sc.

• SCLAP
n. a heavy blow; a hard smack, esp. with something flat …1866 Sc.
vb. 1. to dash, pitch with violence to one side or another …1866 Sc.
vb. 2. to walk in a flat-footed, shuffling manner …1969 Sc.

• SCLAPPER-DAD
n. one who has large feet …1969 Sc.

• SCLAPPERT
n. a smear or splash of some wet sticky or muddy substance …1958 Sc.

• SCLASP
n. a clasp; the act of clasping …Bk1904 Sc. obs.
vb. to clasp …Bk1904 Sc. obs.

• SCLAT
vb. to make a slapping or clapping noise in walking in one’s slippers …1955 Sc.

• SCLATCH
adv. heavily, violently; with a heavy, lumbering step …1866 Sc.
n. 1. a bungling, clumsy workman, a botcher; a big, lubberly fellow …1808 Sc.
n. 2. a heavy fall, esp. into water or mud; a splash, a dashing down, slap, smack or the noise of such …1808 Sc.
n. 3. a large smudge, smear, or patch on a surface; a mass, clot, or daub of something wet or dirty …1866 Sc.
n. 4. a smattering of knowledge …a1897 Sc.
n. 5. a large spot or mark on the skin …1895 Sc.
n. 6. a mess of any kind, a botch, a bungle …1969 Sc.
n. 7. a shuffling, ungainly walker; a heavy, flat-footed person …1969 Sc.
vb. 1. to work in a dirty messy manner; to make or construct clumsily or untidily; to use in a slipshod or careless way; to botch …1808 Sc.
vb. 2. to smear, to bedaub, to cover with or apply some wet or messy substance …1825 Sc.
vb. 3. to dash down or fall heavily, with a great thud or clash …1866 Sc.
vb. 4. to walk or move about in an ungainly, slovenly way; to shuffle …1866 Sc.

• SCLATCHY
adj. shambling, ungainly in movement …1897 Sc.

• SCLATY-SCRAE
n. a contemptible person …Bk1904 Sc.

• SCLAVE
n. 1. a gossip; one who tittle-tattles; a scandal-monger …1969 Sc.
n. 2. a slave, a drudge …1969 Sc.
vb. 1. to spread a story though gossip or tittle-tattle; to rumour-monger; spec. of malicious rumours, to slander, to defame, to calumniate …1825 Sc.
vb. 2. to slave, to drudge …1969 Sc.

• SCLAW
vb. to claw; to tear with the nails; to scratch …1777 Eng. dial.

• SCLEEBERIE
n. a piece of ground, esp. one of little arable value …1911 Sc.

• SCLEET
adj. smooth, sleek …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. 1. to slide or slip smoothly or rapidly …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. 2. to walk so as to wear down the shoes at one side, or as one splay-footed …Bk1904 Sc.

• SCLEM
n. 1. a hungry, thievish animal …1883 Eng. dial.
n. 2. an overreaching person …1883 Eng. dial.
vb. to steal slyly; to purloin trifles …1876 Eng. dial.

• SCLENCH
vb. to check water at boiling point by dashing cold water into it …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCLENT
n. a slant or slope; a slanting or sideward movement; a side look, etc. …1768 Sc.
vb. to move, dart, or fall obliquely; to lie aslant; to give a side look, etc. …1513 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.

• SCLEPPER
n. an insignificant person; a second-rater …1940s sl., orig. US

• SCLEURACH
n. a person untidy in dress and gait; a sloven, a slattern …c1850 Sc.

• SCLIBBERIE
n. a piece of ground, esp. one of little arable value …1911 Sc.

• SCLIFF adv. with a trailing, shuffling motion …1873 Sc.
n. 1. the act of trailing the feet along the ground, or of walking with a dull, heavy step; a rub delivered sideways or in passing with anything having a flat surface; the noise made by trailing, walking, striking, or rubbing …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 2. an old broken shoe or slipper …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 3. an untidy, slatternly person …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. to trail the feet on the ground in walking; to walk with a dull, heavy step; to rub against …1901 Sc.

• SCLIFFAN
n. a thin, useless shoe …1824 Sc.

• SCLIFF-SCLAFF
adv. with a trailing, shuffling motion …1873 Sc.

• SCLIM
vb. to climb …1883 Sc.

• SCLIMB
vb. to climb …1883 Sc.

• SCLIME
vb. to climb …1883 Sc.

• SCLIMPET
n. a small thin piece of anything, as of rock …1825 Sc.

• SCLOMB
n. a scratch …1892 Eng. dial.
vb. to scratch as a cat; to maul …1854 Eng. dial.

• SCLOOT
vb. to squint …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCLOPE
vb. to sleep …15C obs.

• SCLORE
n. 1. rubbishy talk; nonsense; rigmarole; a long, rambling story …1869 Sc.
n. 2. a verbose, empty talker; a chatterbox; one who prates on endlessly …1923 Sc.
vb. to chat or talk in a long gossipy manner; to prate, to babble …c1870 Sc.

• SCLORIN
adj. babbling, chattering …c1870 Sc.

• SCLOW
vb. to claw; to tear with the nails; to scratch …1777 Eng. dial.

• SCLOY
n. a slide; a place where one slides; a sliding motion …1808 Sc.
vb. to slide …1802 Sc. obs.

• SCLUM
n. a scratch …1892 Eng. dial.
vb. to scratch as a cat; to maul …1854 Eng. dial.

• SCLUM-CAT
n. a spiteful person, one who scratches another …1877 Eng. dial.

• SCLUNSH
vb. to walk with a slow heavy tread; to stump along …1882 Sc.

• SCLUTE
adv. with a heavy, awkward step …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 1. a thin, semi-liquid mass; a fall, esp. of a semi-liquid mass; the sound made by such a fall …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 2. a large, clumsy foot …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 3. a lout, an awkward, clumsy fellow; a person of untidy habits, esp. a woman …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. 1. to walk clumsily, dragging the feet along the ground; to walk with the toes much turned out …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. 2. to throw down or pout out in a mass; to fall flat, esp. in mud or soft soil …Bk1904 Sc.

• SCLY
n. a slide, a strip of ice for skating on …1808 Sc.
vb. to slide, to slither, to skate, as on ice …1802 Sc.

• SCLYOG
n. a term of abuse for a dirty, objectionable person …1882 Sc. obs.|

• SCLYTE
adv. flatly; suddenly, as with a fall …1881 Sc.
n. 1. a thin, semi-liquid mass; a heavy fall; the sharp sound made by such a fall …BK1904 Sc.
n. 2. a clumsy, untidy fellow …1804 Sc.
n. 3. a worn-out shoe; a large, clumsy foot …1804 Sc.
vb. to throw down or pour out with force so as to produce a sharp sound; to fall heavily …Bk1904 Sc.