Scythe
(Scythe) n. [OE. sithe, AS. siðe, sigðe; akin to Icel. sigðr a sickle, LG. segd, seged, seed, seid,
OHG. segansa sickle, scythe, G. sense scythe, and to E. saw a cutting instrument. See Saw.] [Written
also sithe and sythe.]
1. An instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with
a sharp edge, made fast to a long handle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenient for use.
The sharp-edged scythe shears up the spiring grass.
Drayton.
Whatever thing
The scythe of Time mows down.
Milton. 2. (Antiq.) A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
Scythe
(Scythe) v. t. To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow. [Obs.]
Time had not scythed all that youth begun.
Shak. Scythed
(Scythed) a. Armed with scythes, as a chariot.
Chariots scythed,
On thundering axles rolled.
Glover. Scytheman
(Scythe"man) n.; pl. Scythemen One who uses a scythe; a mower. Macaulay.
Scythestone
(Scythe"stone`) n. A stone for sharpening scythes; a whetstone.
Scythewhet
(Scythe"whet`) n. (Zoöl.) Wilson's thrush; — so called from its note. [Local, U.S.]
Scythian
(Scyth"i*an) a. Of or pertaining to Scythia (a name given to the northern part of Asia, and
Europe adjoining to Asia), or its language or inhabitants.
Scythian lamb. (Bot.) See Barometz.
Scythian
(Scyth"i*an), n.
1. A native or inhabitant of Scythia; specifically (Ethnol.), one of a Slavonic race which in early times
occupied Eastern Europe.
2. The language of the Scythians.
Scytodermata
(||Scy`to*der"ma*ta) n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. a hide + a skin.] (Zoöl.) Same as Holothurioidea.
Sdain
(Sdain) v. & n. Disdain. [Obs.] Spenser.
('Sdeath) interj. [Corrupted fr. God's death.] An exclamation expressive of impatience or anger. Shak.
Sdeign
(Sdeign) v. t. To disdain. [Obs.]
But either sdeigns with other to partake.
Spenser. Sea
(Sea) n. [OE. see, AS. s&aemacr; akin to D. zee, OS. & OHG. seo, G. see, OFries. se, Dan.
sö, Sw. sjö, Icel. sær, Goth. saiws, and perhaps to L. saevus fierce, savage. &radic151a.]
1. One of the larger bodies of salt water, less than an ocean, found on the earth's surface; a body of
salt water of second rank, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea; as, the
Mediterranean Sea; the Sea of Marmora; the North Sea; the Carribean Sea.
