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Scale Tree – Schoodic Lakes

Scale Tree

an important tree (Lepidodendron), fossil remains of which are found in the coal-measures, whose trunk was very regularly man marked with ornamental patterns like the scales of some fishes. The height was 60 to 70 feet.

Scalene

in mathematics, a term applied to a triangle whose sides are all unequal; also a cone such that a section made by a plane through the axis perpendicular to the plane of the base is a scalene triangle. In this latter case the term is equivalent to oblique.

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Scalper

a term applied in the United States to a man who buys railroad, theater, or steamship tickets at a discount from people unable to use them, and sells them again at an advance on the price he paid for them.

Scamander

a small stream in the Troad, in northwestern Asia Minor; associated with the little river Simois in the story of the Trojan War.

Scandium

in chemistry, an element discovered by Nilson in 1879; symbol, Sc; at. wt. 44.91. It occurs, together with the other rare earths, in gadolinite and euxenite, but the metal itself has not yet been isolated. It forms one oxide, scandia or scandium oxide, Sc2O3, a white infusible powder, resembling magnesia, sp. gr. 3.8, insoluble in water and acids.

Scape

in architecture, the shaft of a column; also, the apophyge of a shaft; also, a botanical term for a flower stalk springing straight from the root, as in the primrose, snow-drop, etc.

Scarlet

a color, brighter than crimson. The finest beautiful bright red scarlet dye is obtained from cochineal.

Scarlet Fish

a name given to the the United States, retiring S. in winter. the Pyranga rubra, a summer visitant to telescope carp, from its brilliant red color. the United States, retiring S. in winter.

Scarlet Tanager

in ornithology, The popular name is derived from the prevailing hue of the summer plumage of the male. in 1867. From 1887 to 1889 he was a can meteorologist, born in Ionia co., Mich.,

Scholarship

a name given in the SCHOLARSHIP, universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, to foundations for maintaining scholars. A scholarship is, like a fellowship, subject to certain regulations and conditions; is inferior to the latter, but superior to an exhibition. In the United States most of the colleges have endowed scholarships..

Schoodic Lakes

a chain of lakes in Maine, forming a part of the boundary between the state and the province of New Brunswick. The two larger lakes are Grand and First. The outlet of the chain is Schoodic river, which flows into the St. Croix river about 50 miles from its mouth; length, 25 miles.