v. t. 1. To scatter over. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cover sparsely by scattering (something); to strew. “With flowers bescattered.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. confiscatus, p. p. of confiscare to confiscate, prop., to lay up in a chest; con- + fiscus basket, purse, treasury. See Fiscal. ] Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Confiscated; p. pr. & vb. n. Confiscating. ] To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was judged that he should be banished and his whole estate confiscated and seized. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. taken without permission or consent, especially by or as if by a public authority; as, the confiscated liquor was poured down the drain; teh customs agents confiscated the banned fruits.
Syn. -- appropriated, confiscate, seized, taken over. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. confiscatio. ] The act or process of taking property or condemning it to be taken, as forfeited to the public use. [ 1913 Webster ]

The confiscations following a subdued rebellion. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., a treasurer. ] One who confiscates. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Effecting confiscation; characterized by confiscations. “Confiscatory and exterminatory periods.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. coruscare to flash, vibrate. ] To glitter in flashes; to flash.

Syn. -- To glisten; gleam; sparkle; radiate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. coruscatio: cf. F. coruscattion. ] 1. A sudden flash or play of light. [ 1913 Webster ]

A very vivid but exceeding short-lived splender, not to call &unr_;t a little coruscation. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A flash of intellectual brilliancy. [ 1913 Webster ]

He might have illuminated his times with the incessant cor&unr_;&unr_;cations of his genius. I. Taylor.

Syn. -- Flash; glitter; blaze; gleam; sparkle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. dis- + F. bosquet grove. ] Converting forest land into cleared or arable land; removal of a forest. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. emuscare to clear from moss; e out + muscus moss. ] A freeing from moss. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. expiscatus, p. p. of expiscari to fish out; ex out+piscari to fish, piscis fish. ] To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out. “To expiscate principles.” [ R. ] Nichol. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dr. Burton has with much ingenuity endeavored to expiscate the truth which may be involved in them. W. L. Alexander. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of expiscating; a fishing. [ R. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to fish out; searching out [ R. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. fuscare, fuscatum, to make dark, fr. fuscus dark. ] A darkening; obscurity; obfuscation. [ R. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. inescatus, p. p. of inescare; in- in + esca bait. ] To allure; to lay a bait for. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To inescate and beguile young women! Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. inescatio. ] The act of baiting; allurement. [ Obs. ] Hallywell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. infuscatus, p. p. of infuscare; pref. in- in + fuscare to make dark, fr. fuscus dark. ] To darken; to make black; to obscure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Darkened with a blackish tinge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of darkening, or state of being dark; darkness; obscurity. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Inviscated p. pr. & vb. n. Inviscating ] [ L. inviscatus, p. p. of inviscare to birdlime; pref. in- in + viscum, viscus, the mistletoe, birdlime. ] To daub or catch with glue or birdlime; to entangle with glutinous matter. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. lemniscatus adorned with ribbons, fr. lemniscus a ribbon hanging down, Gr. lhmni`skos. ] (Geom.) A curve in the form of the figure 8, with both parts symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Muscadel. ] (Bot.) A name given to several varieties of Old World grapes, differing in color, size, etc., but all having a somewhat musky flavor. The muscat of Alexandria is a large oval grape of a pale amber color. [ Written also muskat. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or designating, or derived from, a muscat grapes or similar grapes; as, muscatel grapes; muscatel wine, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A common name for several varieties of rich sweet wine, made in Italy, Spain, and France. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Finest raisins, dried on the vine; “sun raisins.” [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Variously written moscatel, muscadel, etc. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. obfuscatus, p. p. of obfuscare to darken; ob (see Ob-) + fuscare, fuscatum, to darken, from fuscus dark. ] Obfuscated; darkened; obscured. [ Obs. ] [ Written also offuscate. ] Sir. T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Obfuscated p. pr. & vb. n. Obfuscating. ] 1. To darken; to obscure; to becloud. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: To confuse; to bewilder; to make unclear. [ 1913 Webster ]

His head, like a smokejack, the funnel unswept, and the ideas whirling round and round about in it, all obfuscated and darkened over with fuliginous matter. Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Clouds of passion which might obfuscate the intellects of meaner females. Sir. W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. obfuscatio. ] The act of darkening or bewildering; the state of being darkened. “Obfuscation of the cornea.” E. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ . See Obfuscate, Obfuscation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. piscatio, fr. piscari to fish. ] Fishing; fishery. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] A fisherman; an angler. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. piscatorius, fr. piscator a fisherman, fr. piscari to fish, fr. piscis a fish. See Fish the animal. ] Of or pertaining to fishes or fishing. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Sp. rescattar. ] To ransom; to release; to rescue. [ Obs. ] Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. rescate. ] Ransom; release. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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

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

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

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 ]

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

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

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 ]

{ } 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 ]

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

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

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

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

a. Injurious; scathful. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Icel. skattr. ] Tribute. [ R. ] “Seizing scatt and treasure.” Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Scattered p. pr. & vb. n. Scattering. ] [ OE. scateren. See Shatter. ] 1. To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order. [ 1913 Webster ]

And some are scattered all the floor about. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains,
Their scattered cottages, and ample plains? Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Teach the glad hours to scatter, as they fly,
Soft quiet, gentle love, and endless joy. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to separate in different directions; to reduce from a close or compact to a loose or broken order; to dissipate; to disperse. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scatter and disperse the giddy Goths. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence, to frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow; as, to scatter hopes, plans, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To disperse; dissipate; spread; strew. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be dispersed or dissipated; to disperse or separate; as, clouds scatter after a storm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention. [ Written also scatter-brains. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Giddy; thoughtless. [ 1913 Webster ]