(n) singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument, Syn. scat singing

scat

(v) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run, Syn. bunk, take to the woods, head for the hills, hightail it, run away, escape, lam, fly the coop, run, turn tail, scarper, break away, Example:If you see this man, run!; The burglars escaped before the police showed up

scathing

(adj) marked by harshly abusive criticism, Syn. vituperative, Example:his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists; her vituperative railing

scathingly

(adv) in a scathing and unsparing manner, Syn. unsparingly, Example:she criticized him scathingly

scatological

(adj) dealing pruriently with excrement and excretory functions, Example:scatological literature

scatology

(n) a preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions)

scatology

(n) (medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes)

scatophagy

(n) the eating of excrement or other filth

scatter

(n) a haphazard distribution in all directions, Syn. spread

scatter

(n) the act of scattering, Syn. scattering, strewing

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53 Collaborative International Dictionary (GCIDE)

Scat

interj. Go away; begone; away; -- chiefly used in driving off a cat. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scat

n. A shower of rain. [ Prov. Eng. ] Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scatch

n. [ F. escache. ] A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth. Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scatches

n. pl. [ OF. eschaces, F. échasses, fr. D. schaats a high-heeled shoe, a skate. See Skate, for the foot. ] Stilts. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Scate

n. See Skate, for the foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scatebrous

a. [ L. scatebra a gushing up of water, from scatere to bubble, gush. ] Abounding with springs. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Scath

{ } v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Scathed p. pr. & vb. n. Scathing ] [ Icel. skaða; akin to AS. sceaðan, sceððan, Dan. skade, Sw. skada, D. & G. schaden, OHG. scadōn, Goth. skaþjan. ] To do harm to; to injure; to damage; to waste; to destroy. [ 1913 Webster ]

As when heaven's fire
Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scath

n. [ Icel. skaði; akin to Dan. skade, Sw. skada, AS. sceaða, scaða, foe, injurer, OS. skaðo, D. schade, harm, injury, OHG. scade, G. schade, schaden; cf. Gr. 'askhqh`s unharmed. Cf. Scathe, v. ] Harm; damage; injury; hurt; waste; misfortune. [ Written also scathe. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

But she was somedeal deaf, and that was skathe. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Great mercy, sure, for to enlarge a thrall,
Whose freedom shall thee turn to greatest scath. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wherein Rome hath done you any scath,
Let him make treble satisfaction. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scathful

a. Harmful; doing damage; pernicious. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Scath"ful*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

Scathless

a. Unharmed. R. L. Stevenson. [ 1913 Webster ]

He, too, . . . is to be dismissed scathless. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

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