Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SCAM'BLER, n.

A bold intruder upon the generosity or hospitality of others. Steevens.

SCAM'BLING, ppr.

Stirring; scrambling; intruding.

SCAM'BLING-LY, adv.

With turbulence and noise; with bold intrusiveness.

SCAM'MEL, n.

A bird.

SCAM-MO'NI-ATE, a. [from scammony.]

. Made with scammony. Wiseman.

SCAM'MO-NY, n. [L. scammonia, from the Persian.]

1. A plant of the genus Convolvuldur.
2. An inspissated sap obtained from the plant Convolvulus Scammonia, of a blackish gray color, a nauseous smell, and a bitter and acrid taste. The best scammony comes from Aleppo, in light spungy masses, easily friable. That of Smyrna is black, ponderous, and mixed with extraneous matter. Fourcroy. Encyc.

SCAMP, n. [See Scamper.]

A worthless fellow.

SCAMP'ER, v.i. [D. schampen, to slip aside; Fr. escamper; It. scampare, to escape, to save one's self; scampo, safety; compare, to preserve, to fly, to escape; Sp. escampar, to clear out a place.]

To run with speed; to hasten escape. Addison.

SCAMP'ER-ING, ppr.

Running with speed; hastening in flight.

SCAN, v.t. [Fr. scander; Sp. escander; It. scandire, scandere, to climb, to scan. The Italian is the L. ascendo. See Ascend.]

1. To examine with critical care; to scrutinize. The actions of men in high stations are all conspicuous, and liable to be scanned and sifted. Atterbury.
2. To examine a verse by counting the feet; or according to modern usage, to recite or measure verse by distinguishing the feet in pronunciation. Thus in Latin and Greek, a hexameter verse is resolved into six feet by scanniag, and the true quantities are determined.

SCAN'DAL, n. [Fr. scandale; It. scandalo; Sp. escandalo; L. scandalum; Gr. σκανδαλον; Ir. scannail, slander. In Greek, this word signifies a stumbling-block, something against which a person impinges, or which causes him to fall. In Sax. scande, sconde, signifies shame, confusion, dishonor, infamy; D. schande, id.; schandaal, reproach, scandal; G. schande, shame; schänden, to mar, disfigure, spoil, violate; Dan. skiender, to abuse, defame, &c.; Sans. schiande or ishianda, scandal. In Arm. scandal is a quarrel. The primary sense of the root must be to drive, to thrust, or to strike or east down.]

1. Offense given by the faults of another. His lustful orgies he enlarg'd / Even to the hill of scandal. Milton. [In this sense we now generally use offense.]
2. Reproachful aspersion: opprobrious censure; defamatory speech or report; something uttered which is false and injurious to reputation. My known virtue is from scandal free. Dryden.
3. Shame; reproach; disgrace. Such is the perverted state of the human mind that some of the most hainous crimes bring little scandal upon the offender.

SCAN'DAL, v.t.

1. To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to blacken character. I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, / And after scandal them. [Little used.] Shak.
2. To scandalize; to offend. [Not used.] Bp. Story.

SCAN'DAL-IZE, v.t. [Gr. σκανδαλιζω; L. scandalizo; Sp. escandalizar; It. scandaleux; Fr. scandaliser.]

1. To offend by some action supposed criminal. I demand who they are whom we scandalize by using harmless things? Hooker.
2. To reproach; to disgrace; to defame; as a scandalizing libeler. Addison.

SCAN'DAL-IZ-ED, pp.

Offended; defamed; disgraced.

SCAN'DAL-IZ-ING, ppr.

Giving offense to; disgracing.

SCAN'DAL-OUS, a. [It. scanduloso; Sp. escandaloso; Fr. scandaleux; Sw. skändelig.]

1. Giving offense. Nothing scandalous or offensive to any. Hooker.
2. Opprobrious; disgraceful to reputation; that brings shame or infamy; as, a scandalous crime or vice. How perverted must be the mind that considers seduction or dueling less scandalous than larceny!
3. Defamatory.

SCAN'DAL-OUS-LY, adv.

1. Shamefully; in a manner to give offense. His discourse at table was scandalously unbecoming the dignity of his station. Swift.
2. Censoriously; with a disposition to find fault; as, a critic scandalously nice. Pope.

SCAN'DAL-OUS-NESS, n.

The quality of being scandalous; the quality of giving offense, or of being disgraceful. Scandalum-magnatum, n. [Scandalum magnatum.] In law, a defamatory speech or writing made or published to the injury of a person of dignity. Encyc.

SCAN'DENT, a. [L. scandens, scando, to climb.]

Climbing, either with spiral tendrils for its support, or by adhesive fibers, as a stalk; climbing; performing the office of a tendril, as a petiole. Smith. Bigelow.

SCAN'NED, pp.

Critically sifted or examined; resolved into feet in recital.

SCAN'NG, ppr.

Critically examining; resolving into feet, as verse.

SCAN'SION, n.

The act of scanning. Percy.

SCAN-SO'RES, n. [L. scando, to climb.]

An order of fowls whose external toe is directed backward like a thumb, by which they are enabled to cling to and climb upon trees. The whole of this order are not actually climbers; and there are climbing birds that do not belong to this order. The woodpeckers and parrots are an example of this order.

SCANT, a.

1. Not full, large or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; rather less than is wanted for the purpose; as, a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment.
2. Sparing; parsimonious; cautiously affording. Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence. [Not in use.] Shak.
3. Not fair; free or favorable for a ship's course; as, a scant wind. Mar. Dict.

SCANT, adv.

Scarcely; hardly; not quite. The people – received of the hankers scant twenty shillings for thirty. [Obsolete or vulgar.] Camden.