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Scansion
- noun - analysis of verse into metrical patterns
Scantier
- adjective - lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet"
Scanties
- noun - short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural)
Scantily
- adverb - in a sparse or scanty way; "a barely furnished room"
Scanting
- verb - limit in quality or quantity
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"
- work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
Scantlet
- - A small pattern; a small quantity.
Scaphism
- - An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects until he died.
Scaphite
- - Any fossil cephalopod shell of the genus Scaphites, belonging to the Ammonite family and having a chambered boat-shaped shell. Scaphites are found in the Cretaceous formation.
Scaphoid
- adjective - shaped like a boat
Scapulae
- noun - either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings