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Meanings of Scurries:

verb

(of a person or small animal) move hurriedly with short quick steps.

Usage examples:

Pedestrians scurried for cover

noun

A situation of hurried and confused movement.

Usage examples:

I was in such a scurry

Meanings of Scurrilities:

noun

The quality of being scurrilous.

Usage examples:

A mixture of humour and mild scurrility

Meanings of Scurrility:

noun

The quality of being scurrilous.

Usage examples:

A mixture of humour and mild scurrility

Meanings of Scurrilous:

adjective

Making or spreading scandalous claims about someone with the intention of damaging their reputation.

Usage examples:

A scurrilous attack on his integrity

Meanings of Scurrilously:

adverb

In an unfair or false way that is likely to damage someone's reputation

Usage examples:

He was scurrilously accused of dishonesty.

Meanings of Scurry:

verb

(of a person or small animal) move hurriedly with short quick steps.

Usage examples:

Pedestrians scurried for cover

noun

A situation of hurried and confused movement.

Usage examples:

I was in such a scurry

Meanings of Scurrying:

verb

(of a person or small animal) move hurriedly with short quick steps.

Usage examples:

Pedestrians scurried for cover

noun

A situation of hurried and confused movement.

Usage examples:

I was in such a scurry

Meanings of Scurvier:

adjective

Worthless or contemptible.

Usage examples:

That was a scurvy trick

noun

A disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin c, characterized by swollen bleeding gums and the opening of previously healed wounds, which particularly affected poorly nourished sailors until the end of the 18th century.

Usage examples:

The ravages of scurvy

Meanings of Scurviest:

adjective

Worthless or contemptible.

Usage examples:

That was a scurvy trick

noun

A disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin c, characterized by swollen bleeding gums and the opening of previously healed wounds, which particularly affected poorly nourished sailors until the end of the 18th century.

Usage examples:

The ravages of scurvy

Meanings of Scurvy:

noun

A disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin c, characterized by swollen bleeding gums and the opening of previously healed wounds, which particularly affected poorly nourished sailors until the end of the 18th century.

Usage examples:

The ravages of scurvy

adjective

Worthless or contemptible.

Usage examples:

That was a scurvy trick

Meanings of Scut:

noun

The short tail of a hare, rabbit, or deer.

Usage examples:

Across the sward (rife with sandroses, wood anemones and wild cyclamen) a hare, its scut uplifted i…

Meanings of Scuta:

noun

Another term for scute.

proper noun

A small constellation near the celestial equator (the shield), lying in the milky way between aquila and serpens.

adjective

Used with preceding greek letter or numeral to designate a star in the constellation scutum.

Usage examples:

The star beta scuti

Meanings of Scutage:

noun

(in a feudal society) money paid by a vassal to his lord in lieu of military service.

Usage examples:

By the 13th cent. the arrangements were unravelling as lords increasingly paid scutage rather than …

Meanings of Scutch:

verb

Dress (fibrous material, especially retted flax) by beating it.

Usage examples:

It drove mills for scutching flax

Meanings of Scutched:

verb

Dress (fibrous material, especially retted flax) by beating it.

Usage examples:

It drove mills for scutching flax

Meanings of Scutcheon:

noun

Archaic spelling of escutcheon.

Meanings of Scutcheons:

noun

Archaic spelling of escutcheon.

Meanings of Scutches:

verb

Dress (fibrous material, especially retted flax) by beating it.

Usage examples:

It drove mills for scutching flax

Meanings of Scutching:

verb

Dress (fibrous material, especially retted flax) by beating it.

Usage examples:

It drove mills for scutching flax

Meanings of Scute:

noun

A thickened horny or bony plate on a turtle's shell or on the back of a crocodile, stegosaurus, etc.

Usage examples:

Our recapture data indicated that texas tortoises accumulate 1 annulus/yr and the scute annuli tech…

Meanings of Scutella:

noun

A small structure shaped like a shield.

Usage examples:

Peptide transport activity appears in the scutellum of barley seeds after 6-12 h imbibition, before…

Meanings of Scutellar:

adjective

Relating to a scutellum.

Usage examples:

The flies have four scutellar bristles

Meanings of Scutellum:

noun

A small structure shaped like a shield.

Usage examples:

Peptide transport activity appears in the scutellum of barley seeds after 6-12 h imbibition, before…

Meanings of Scutes:

noun

A thickened horny or bony plate on a turtle's shell or on the back of a crocodile, stegosaurus, etc.

Usage examples:

Our recapture data indicated that texas tortoises accumulate 1 annulus/yr and the scute annuli tech…

Meanings of Scuts:

noun

The short tail of a hare, rabbit, or deer.

Usage examples:

Across the sward (rife with sandroses, wood anemones and wild cyclamen) a hare, its scut uplifted i…