Scarcement to Scaur
Scarcement
(Scarce"ment) n. (Arch. & Engin.) An offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc., retreats,
leaving a shelf or footing.
Scarceness
(Scarce"ness Scar"ci*ty) , n. The quality or condition of being scarce; smallness of quantity
in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency; lack of plenty; short supply; penury; as, a scarcity of
grain; a great scarcity of beauties. Chaucer.
A scarcity of snow would raise a mutiny at Naples.
Addison.
Praise . . . owes its value to its scarcity.
Rambler.
The value of an advantage is enhanced by its scarceness.
Collier. Syn. — Deficiency; lack; want; penury; dearth; rareness; rarity; infrequency.
Scard
(Scard) n. A shard or fragment. [Obs.]
Scare
(Scare) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scared ; p. pr. & vb. n. Scaring.] [OE. skerren, skeren, Icel.
skirra to bar, prevent, skirrask to shun , shrink from; or fr. OE. skerre, adj., scared, Icel. skjarr; both
perhaps akin to E. sheer to turn.] To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm.
The noise of thy crossbow
Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost.
Shak. To scare away, to drive away by frightening. — To scare up, to find by search, as if by beating for
game. [Slang]
Syn. — To alarm; frighten; startle; affright; terrify.
Scare
(Scare), n. Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake. [Colloq.]
Scarecrow
(Scare"crow`) n.
1. Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.
A scarecrow set to frighten fools away.
Dryden. 2. A person clad in rags and tatters.
No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march with them through Coventry, that's flat.
Shak. 3. (Zoöl.) The black tern. [Prov. Eng.]
Scarefire
(Scare"fire`) n.
1. An alarm of fire. [Obs.]
2. A fire causing alarm. [Obs.] Fuller.
Scarf
(Scarf) n. [Icel. skarfr.] A cormorant. [Scot.]
Scarf
(Scarf), n.; pl. Scarfs, rarely Scarves [Cf. OF. escharpe a pilgrim's scrip, or wallet F. écharpe
sash, scarf; probably from OHG. scharpe pocket; also (from the French) Dan. skiærf; Sw. skärp, Prov. G.
schärfe, LG. scherf, G. schärpe; and also AS. scearf a fragment; possibly akin to E. scrip a wallet. Cf.
