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Scumbling
- - A mode of obtaining a softened effect, in painting and drawing, by the application of a thin layer of opaque color to the surface of a painting, or part of the surface, which is too bright in color, or which requires harmonizing. (b) In crayon drawing, the use of the stump.
Scuppered
- verb - put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
- wait in hiding to attack
Scurrying
- verb - moving with great haste; "affection for this hurrying driving...little man"; "lashed the scurrying horses"
- to move about or proceed hurriedly; "so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground"
Scurviest
- adjective - of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"
Scut Work
- noun - trivial unrewarding tedious dirty and disagreeable chores; "the hospital hired him to do scut work"
- trivial, unrewarding, tedious, dirty, and disagreeable chores; "the hospital hired him to do scut work"
Scutcheon
- noun - a flat protective covering (on a door or wall etc) to prevent soiling by dirty fingers
- a shield; especially one displaying a coat of arms
Scutellum
- - A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens.
Scutiform
- - Shield-shaped; scutate.
Scutigera
- noun - a genus of Scutigeridae
Scuttling
- verb - to move about or proceed hurriedly; "so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground"