Saloop bush (Bot.), an Australian shrub (Rhagodia hastata) of the Goosefoot family, used for fodder. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The ascending is the crude sap, the assimilation of which takes place in the leaves, when it becomes the elaborated sap suited to the growth of the plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Sap ball (Bot.), any large fungus of the genus Polyporus. See Polyporus. --
Sap green, a dull light green pigment prepared from the juice of the ripe berries of the Rhamnus catharticus, or buckthorn. It is used especially by water-color artists. --
Sap rot, the dry rot. See under Dry. --
Sap sucker (Zool.), any one of several species of small American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus, especially the yellow-bellied woodpecker (Sphyrapicus varius) of the Eastern United States. They are so named because they puncture the bark of trees and feed upon the sap. The name is loosely applied to other woodpeckers. --
Sap tube (Bot.), a vessel that conveys sap. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sap fagot (Mil.), a fascine about three feet long, used in sapping, to close the crevices between the gabions before the parapet is made. --
Sap roller (Mil.), a large gabion, six or seven feet long, filled with fascines, which the sapper sometimes rolls along before him for protection from the fire of an enemy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Both assaults are carried on by sapping. Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods,
Their houses fell upon their household gods. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) To pierce with saps. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ring out the grief that saps the mind. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The term has also been used to denote any fruit which is fleshy throughout. M. T. Masters. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Cookery) To bake in scallop shells or dishes; to prepare with crumbs of bread or cracker, and bake. See Scalloped oysters, below. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The common edible scallop of the Eastern United States is Pecten irradians; the large sea scallop, also used as food, is Pecten Clintonius syn. Pecten tenuicostatus. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of series of segments of circles joined at their extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One of the shells of a scallop; also, a dish resembling a scallop shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

By the bare scalp of Robin Hodd's fat friar,
This fellow were a king for our wild faction! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, cut or torn off from an enemy by the Indian warriors of North America, as a token of victory. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fig.: The top; the summit. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scalp lock, a long tuft of hair left on the crown of the head by the warriors of some tribes of American Indians. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Surg.) To remove the skin of. [ 1913 Webster ]

We must scalp the whole lid [ of the eye ]. J. S. Wells. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

A workman is said to scamp his work when he does it in a superficial, dishonest manner. Wedgwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

Much of the scamping and dawdling complained of is that of men in establishments of good repute. T. Hughes. [ 1913 Webster ]

From scarped cliff and quarried stone. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A steep descent or declivity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A scaup duck. See below. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scaup duck (Zool.), 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 (Aythya affinis), called also little bluebill, river broadbill, and shuffler; the tufted, or ring-necked, scaup duck (Aythya collaris), 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 (Aythya marila), closely resembles the American variety. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man of my master's . . . great scholarship. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Literary education. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Any other house of scholarship. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Maintenance for a scholar; a foundation for the support of a student. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Learning; erudition; knowledge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Surg.) A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some had lain in the scoop of the rock. J. R. Drake. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. a quantity sufficient to fill a scoop; -- used especially for ice cream, dispensed with an ice cream scoop; as, an ice cream cone with two scoops. [ PJC ]

8. an act of reporting (news, research results) before a rival; also called a beat. [ Newspaper or laboratory cant ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

9. news or information; as, what's the scoop on John's divorce?. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

Scoop net, a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net for sweeping the bottom of a river. --
Scoop wheel, a wheel for raising water, having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum. [ 1913 Webster ]

He scooped the water from the crystal flood. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop, so as to hold above a pint. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have no materials -- not a scrap. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically, a fragment of something written or printed; a brief excerpt; an unconnected extract. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat; as, pork scraps. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. Same as Scrap iron, below. [ 1913 Webster ]

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Scrap forgings, forgings made from wrought iron scrap. --
Scrap iron. (a) Cuttings and waste pieces of wrought iron from which bar iron or forgings can be made; -- called also wrought-iron scrap. (b) Fragments of cast iron or defective castings suitable for remelting in the foundry; -- called also foundry scrap, or cast scrap. [ 1913 Webster ]

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And in requital ope his leathern scrip. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Call them generally, man by man, according to the scrip. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bills of exchange can not pay our debts abroad, till scrips of paper can be made current coin. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A preliminary certificate of a subscription to the capital of a bank, railroad, or other company, or for a share of other joint property, or a loan, stating the amount of the subscription and the date of the payment of the installments; as, insurance scrip, consol scrip, etc. When all the installments are paid, the scrip is exchanged for a bond share certificate. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Paper fractional currency. [ Colloq.U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The same names are also applied to a closely allied Southern species (Stenotomus Gardeni). [ 1913 Webster ]

Water seeps up through the sidewalks. G. W. Cable. [ 1913 Webster ]