Scatterling
(Scat"ter*ling) n. [Scatter + -ling.] One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond.
[Obs.] "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.
Scaturient
(Sca*tu"ri*ent) a.[L. scaturiens, p. pr. of scaturire gush out, from scatere to bubble, gush.]
Gushing forth; full to overflowing; effusive. [R.]
A pen so scaturient and unretentive.
Sir W. Scott. Scaturiginous
(Scat`u*rig"i*nous) a. [L. scaturiginosus, fr. scaturigo gushing water. See Scaturient.]
Abounding with springs. [Obs.]
Scaup
(Scaup) n. [See Scalp a bed of oysters or mussels.]
1. A bed or stratum of shellfish; scalp. [Scot.]
2. (Zoöl.) A scaup duck. See below.
Scaup duck (Zoöl.), any one of several species of northern ducks of the genus Aythya, or Fuligula.
The adult males are, in large part, black. The three North American species are: the greater scaup duck
(Aythya marila, var. nearctica), called also broadbill, bluebill, blackhead, flock duck, flocking fowl,
and raft duck; the lesser scaup duck (A. affinis), called also little bluebill, river broadbill, and shuffler; the
tufted, or ring-necked, scaup duck called also black jack, ringneck, ringbill, ringbill shuffler, etc. See
Illust.. of Ring-necked duck, under Ring-necked. The common European scaup, or mussel, duck closely
resembles the American variety.
Scauper
(Scaup"er) n. [Cf. Scalper.] A tool with a semicircular edge, — used by engravers to clear
away the spaces between the lines of an engraving. Fairholt.
Scaur
(Scaur) n. A precipitous bank or rock; a scar.
