Scorpion
['skɔːpɪən] or ['skɚpɪən]
Definition
(noun.) arachnid of warm dry regions having a long segmented tail ending in a venomous stinger.
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Definition
(n.) Any one of numerous species of pulmonate arachnids of the order Scorpiones, having a suctorial mouth, large claw-bearing palpi, and a caudal sting.
(n.) The pine or gray lizard (Sceloporus undulatus).
(n.) The scorpene.
(n.) A painful scourge.
(n.) A sign and constellation. See Scorpio.
(n.) An ancient military engine for hurling stones and other missiles.
Edited by Dinah
Definition
n. a name applicable to any member of the family Scorpionid included along with spiders mites &c. in the heterogeneous class Arachnida—they have an elongated body claws like the lobster and a poisonous sting in the tail: one of the signs of the zodiac: (B.) a whip with points like a scorpion's tail: an old military engine: any person of virulent hatred or animosity.—n. Scor′pio a scorpion: (astron.) a constellation and the eighth sign of the zodiac.—adj. Scor′pioid curled like the tail of a scorpion.—n. Scor′pion-bug a large predacious water-beetle.—n.pl. Scorpiō′nes true scorpions a sub-order of Arachnida.—ns. Scor′pion-fish a sea-scorpion; Scor′pion-fly an insect having its abdomen curled like a scorpion; Scor′pion-grass the forget-me-not: the mouse-ear; Scorpion′ida an order of Arachnida containing the Scorpiones or true scorpions; Scor′pion-lob′ster a long-tailed crustacean; Scor′pion-plant a Javan orchid with large creamy flower supposed to resemble a spider; Scor′pion-shell a gasteropod distinguished by long channelled spines; Scor′pion-spī′der a whip-scorpion; Scor′pion-wort a leguminous plant native of southern Europe; Scorpiū′rus a genus of leguminous plants named scorpion's tail.
Editor: Xenia
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a scorpion, foretells that false friends will improve opportunities to undermine your prosperity. If you fail to kill it, you will suffer loss from an enemy's attack.
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Examples
- You're a scorpion--a brimstone scorpion! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Before the ancestor of the sea scorpion could survive being left by the tide it had to develop its casing and armour. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You held out your hand for an egg, and fate put into it a scorpion. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There were also sea-scorpions, the prefects of that early world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The drops which lashed her face were not scorpions, but prosy rain; Egdon in the mass was no monster whatever, but impersonal open ground. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Presently I was in my bed--my miserable bed--haunted with quick scorpions. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Scorpions abounded, and a number of early spiders, which, however, had no spinnerets for web making. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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