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Scammony
- noun - resin from the root of Convolvulus scammonia
- tropical American morning glory
- twining plant of Asia Minor having cream-colored to purple flowers and long thick roots yielding a cathartic resin
Scamorza
- unknown - An Italian cow's milk cheese, similar to mozzarella. Often grilled or used in baked dishes.
- Type of Italian cheese, related to mozarella
Scampers
- noun - rushing about hastily in an undignified way
- to move about or proceed hurriedly; "so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground"
Scamping
- verb - perform hastily and carelessly
Scampish
- - Of or like a scamp; knavish; as, scampish conduct.
Scandals
- noun - a disgraceful event
- disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
Scandent
- adjective - used especially of plants; having a tendency to climb; "plants of a creeping or scandent nature"
Scandium
- noun - scandium - a white trivalent metallic element; sometimes classified in the rare earth group; occurs in the Scandinavian mineral thortveitite
Scanners
- noun - a radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area
- a radio receiver that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for some signal or condition; "they used scanners to monitor police radio channels"
- an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer
- someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables
Scanning
- verb - conform to a metrical pattern
- examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"
- examine minutely or intensely; "the surgeon scanned the X-ray"
- make a wide, sweeping search of; "The beams scanned the night sky"
- move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image
- obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This dictionary can be read by the computer"
- read metrically; "scan verses"
- the act of systematically moving a finely focused beam of light or electrons over a surface in order to produce an image of it for analysis or transmission
- the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer