Emily Dickinson Lexicon

scintillate (-s), v. [L. 'a spark'.]

Sparkle; twinkle; emit little flashes of light.

scion, n. [OFr, of obscure origin.] (webplay: plant).

(Fig.) Offspring; descendant; shoot of a plant.

scold, v. [ON skáld, a poet, a lampooner.]

1. Admonish harshly; address with angry reproach; chide.
2. Utter continuos reproof; be angry.

scoop (-ed, -ing), v. [MLG < MDu, schoepe, vessel for drawing or bailing out water.] (webplay: liquor; flood).

1. Gather into round-shaped object; draw .
2. Carve, hollow out.
3. Turn upside down so as to make a rounded, concave form; fall down; heap up.
4. Make rounded hollow; empty; turn into a riverbed; form a concavity in; bore.
5. Take possession of; remove.
6. Form into concave shape, like joined hands or a shovel.
7. Gather into hands (or shovel); remove, dig out, excavate.

scope, n. [It. 'aim, purpose' < Gk. 'a mark for shooting, to look out'.] (webplay: sight, viewed).

Limit of view; ability to perceive, to reach, to grasp.

score, n. [OE < ON 'notch, tally, the number of twenty, cut, shear'.]

1. Twenty.
2. Group, number of earthly beings.

scorn, n. [ME 'aphetic' < Du. scherne, mockery, sport.] (webplay: God).

1. Manifestation of disdain; proud expression of contempt for earthly life .
2. Sense of superiority; elevation.
3. Derision, mockery, ridiculing .

scorn (-ing), v. [ME < Du. 'ridicule, treat with contumely'.]

1. Unhappiness; suffering, contempt one experiences from other people .
2. Disregard towards religion; lack of faith .

scourge (-d), v. [Fr. < L. excoriāta, strip off the hide.] (webplay: straight).

1. (Fig.) condemn, pronounce guilty; punish, chastise, correct; (lit.) beat with a whip.
2. Force by whipping, flogging or affliction .
3. Push; beat; drive by blows.

scourged, verbal adj. [see scourge, v.]

Beaten; flogged.