2. A spark or flash emitted in scintillating.
These scintillations are . . . the inflammable effluences discharged from the bodies collided.
Sir T.
Browne. Scintillous
(Scin"til*lous) a. Scintillant. [R.]
Scintillously
(Scin"til*lous*ly), adv. In a scintillant manner. [R.]
Sciography
(Sci*og"ra*phy) n. See Sciagraphy.
Sciolism
(Sci"o*lism) n. [See Sciolist.] The knowledge of a sciolist; superficial knowledge.
Sciolist
(Sci"o*list) n. [L. sciolus. See Sciolous.] One who knows many things superficially; a pretender
to science; a smatterer.
These passages in that book were enough to humble the presumption of our modern sciolists, if their
pride were not as great as their ignorance.
Sir W. Temple.
A master were lauded and sciolists shent.
R. Browning. Sciolistic
(Sci`o*lis"tic) a. Of or pertaining to sciolism, or a sciolist; partaking of sciolism; resembling a
sciolist.
Sciolous
(Sci"o*lous) a. [L. scilus, dim. of scius knowing, fr. scire to know. See Science.] Knowing
superficially or imperfectly. Howell.
Sciomachy
(Sci*om"a*chy) n. [Gr. a shadow + battle: cf. F. sciomachie, sciamachie.] A fighting with
a shadow; a mock contest; an imaginary or futile combat. [Written also scimachy.] Cowley.
Sciomancy
(Sci"o*man`cy) n. [Gr. a shadow + -mancy: cf. F. sciomance, sciamancie.] Divination by
means of shadows.
Scion
(Sci"on) n. [OF. cion, F. scion, probably from scier to saw, fr. L. secare to cut. Cf. Section.]
1. (Bot.) (a) A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker. (b) A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for
grafting. [Formerly written also cion, and cyon.]
2. Hence, a descendant; an heir; as, a scion of a royal stock.
Scioptic
(Sci*op"tic) a. [Gr. shadow + belonging to sight: cf. F. scioptique. See Optic.] (Opt.) Of or
pertaining to an optical arrangement for forming images in a darkened room, usually called scioptic ball.
Scioptic ball (Opt.), the lens of a camera obscura mounted in a wooden ball which fits a socket in a
window shutter so as to be readily turned, like the eye, to different parts of the landscape.
Sciopticon
(Sci*op"ti*con) n. [NL. See Scioptic.] A kind of magic lantern.
Scioptics
(Sci*op"tics) n. The art or process of exhibiting luminous images, especially those of external
objects, in a darkened room, by arrangements of lenses or mirrors.
