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Scatch
- - A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth.
Scathe
- noun - the act of damaging something or someone
Scatty
- adjective - lacking sense or discretion; "his rattlebrained crackpot ideas"; "how rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for"- Glenway Westcott
- lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"
Schtik
- noun - (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention; "play it straight with no shtik"
- (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating; "how did you ever fall for a shtik like that?"
- (Yiddish) a little; a piece; "give him a shtik cake"; "he's a shtik crazy"; "he played a shtik Beethoven"
- (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning; "his shtik made us laugh"
Scotch
- adjective - a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
- avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally"
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
- make a small cut or score into
- of or relating to or characteristic of Scotland or its people or culture or its English dialect or Gaelic language; "Scots Gaelic"; "the Scots community in New York"; "`Scottish' tends to be the more formal term as in `The Scottish Symphony' or `Scottish authors' or `Scottish mountains'"; "`Scotch' is in disfavor with Scottish people and is used primarily outside Scotland except in such frozen ph
Scoter
- noun - large black diving duck of northern parts of the northern hemisphere
Scotia
- - A concave molding used especially in classical architecture.
Scutal
- - Of or pertaining to a shield.
Scutch
- - To beat or whip; to drub.
Scutes
- noun - large bony or horny plate as on an armadillo or turtle or the underside of a snake