Vocabulary : Scutiped to Scylla

Scutiped : Having the anterior surface of the tarsus covered with scutella, or transverse scales, in the form of incomplete bands terminating at a groove on each side; -- said of certain birds.
Scutter : To run quickly; to scurry; to scuttle.
Scuttle : A broad, shallow basket. ;; A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod. ;; To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle. ;; A quick pace; a short run. ;; A small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid. ;; A small opening or hatchway in the deck of a ship, large enough to admit a man, and with a lid for covering it, also, a like hole in the side or bottom of a ship. ;; An opening in the roof of a house, with a lid. ;; The lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like. ;; To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose. ;; To sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship.
Scuttled : of Scuttle
Scuttling : of Scuttle

Scutum : An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; -- carried chiefly by the heavy-armed infantry. ;; A penthouse or awning. ;; The second and largest of the four parts forming the upper surface of a thoracic segment of an insect. It is preceded by the prescutum and followed by the scutellum. See the Illust. under Thorax. ;; One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.
Scybala : Hardened masses of feces.
Scye : Arm scye, a cutter's term for the armhole or part of the armhole of the waist of a garnment.
Scyle : To hide; to secrete; to conceal.
Scylla : A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying "Between Scylla and Charybdis," signifying a great peril on either hand.

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