Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SCO'RI-FI-ED, pp.

Reduced to scoria.

SCO'RI-FORM, a. [L. scoria and form.]

Like scoria; in the form of dross. – Kerwan.

SCO'RI-FY, v.t.

To reduce to scoria or drossy matter.

SCO'RI-FY-ING, ppr.

Reducing to scoria.

SCO'RING, ppr.

Notching; marking; setting down as an account or debt; forming a score.

SCO'RI-OUS, a.

Drossy; recrementitions. – Brown.

SCORN, n. [Sp. escarnio, scorn; escarnecer, to mock; Port. escarneo, escarnecer; It. scherno, schernire; W. ysgorn, ysgorniaw.]

1. Extreme contempt; that disdain which springs from a person's opinion of the meanness of an object, and a consciousness or belief of his own superiority or worth. He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone. – Esth. iii. Every sullen frown and bitter scorn / But fann'd the fuel that too fast did burn. – Dryden.
2. A subject of extreme contempt, disdain or derision; that which is treated with contempt. Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are around us. – Ps. xliv. To think scorn, to disdain; to despise. [Obs.] – Sidney. To laugh to scorn, to deride; to make a mock of; to ridicule as contemptible. They laughed us to scorn. – Neh. ii.

SCORN, v.i.

To scorn at, to scoff at; to treat with contumely, derision or reproach. [Obs.] – Shak.

SCORN, v.t.

1. To hold in extreme contempt; to despise; to contemn; to disdain. – Job xvi. Surely he scorneth the scorner; but he giveth grace to the lowly. – Prov. iii.
2. To think unworthy; to disdain. Fame that delights around the world to stray, / Scorns not to take our Argos in her way. – Pope.
3. To slight; to disregard; to neglect. This my long suff'rance and my day of grace, / Those who neglect and scorn, shall never taste. – Milton.

SCORN'ED, pp.

Extremely contemned or despised; disdained.

SCORN'ER, n.

1. One that scorns; a contemner; a despiser. They are great scorners of death. – Spenser.
2. A scoffer; a derider; in Scripture, one who scoffs at religion, its ordinances and teachers, and who makes the mock of sin and the judgments and threatening, of God against sinners. – Prov. i. xix.

SCORN'FUL, a.

1. Contemptuous; disdainful; entertaining scorn; insolent. Th'enamor'd deity / The scornful damsel shuns. – Dryden.
2. Acting in defiance or disregard. Scornful of winter's frost and summer's sun. – Prior.
3. In Scripture, holding religion in contempt; treating with disdain religion and the dispensations of God.

SCORN'FUL-LY, adv.

With extreme contempt; contemptuously; insolently. The sacred rights of the Christian church are scornfully trampled on in print. – Atterbury.

SCORN'FUL-NESS, n.

The quality of being scornful.

SCORN'ING, n.

The act of contemning; a treating with contempt, slight or disdain. How long will the scorners delight in their scorning? – Prov. i. Ps. cxxiii.

SCORN'ING, ppr.

Holding in great contempt; despising; distaining.

SCOR'PI-ON, n. [Fr. from L. scorpio; Gr. σκορπιος; probably altered from the Oriental עקרב. The Arabic verb to which this word belongs, signifies to wound, to strike, &c.]

1. The popular English name of any species of scorpio, which is a genus of pedipalpous pulmonary arachnids. Scorpions have an elongated body, suddenly terminated by a long slender tail formed of six joints, the last of which terminates in an arcuated and very acute sting, which effuses a venomous liquid. This sting gives rise to excruciating pain, but is unattended either with redness or swelling, except in the axillary or inguinal glands, when an extremity is affected. It is seldom, if ever, destructive of life. Scorpions are found in the south of Europe, in Africa, in the East Indies, and in South America. The number of species is not accurately determined.
2. In Scripture, a painful scourge; a kind of whip armed with points like a scorpion's tail. – 1 Kings xii. Malicious and crafty men, who delight in injuring others, are compared to scorpions. – Ezek. ii.
3. In astronomy, the eighth sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters Oct. 23.
4. A sea fish. [L. scorpius.] – Ainsworth. Water scorpion, an aquatic insect of the genus Nepa.

SCOR'PI-ON-FLY, n.

An insect of the genus Panorna, having a tail which resembles that of a scorpion.

SCOR'PI-ON-GRASS, or SCOR'PI-ON'S-TAIL, n.

A plant of the genus Scorpiurus, with trailing herbaceous stalks, and producing a pod resembling a caterpillar, whence it is called caterpillars. – Encyc. The mouse-ear scorpion-grass, is of the genus Myosotis.

SCOR'PI-ON-SEN-NA, n.

A plant of the genus Coronilla.

SCOR'PI-ON'S-THORN, n.

A plant of the genus Ulex.

SCOR'PI-ON-WORT, n.

A plant, the Ornithopus scorpioides. – Parr.

SCORSE, n. [It. scorsa, a course; L. ex and cursus.]

A course or dealing; barter. [Obs.] – Spenser.

SCORSE, v.i.

To deal for the purchase of a horse. [Obs.] – B. Jonson.

SCORSE, v.t.

1. To chase. [Obs.] – Spenser.
2. To barter or exchange. [Obs.] – Spenser.