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scad
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Word definitions for scad in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Friar \Fri"ar\, n. [OR. frere, F. fr[`e]re brother, friar, fr. L. frater brother. See Brother .] (R. C. Ch.) A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. Augustines ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, Cornish name for a type of fish (also known as horse mackerel ) abundant on the British coast; of uncertain origin, perhaps a variant of shad . OED compares Welsh ysgaden "herrings," Norwegian dialectal skad , Swedish skädde "flounder."
Usage examples of scad.
The turrets and gables of the old houses were almost as picturesque as the scads of handsome athletes who decorated the riverscape on weekends and evenings.
Neo-Luddites like Gadarene will denounce all this from pulpits, gaining scads of angry new followers.
The strangest thing is that on the cold side, where Archimedes finds no trace of industrial structures, we pick up scads of radio noise all over the place.
I know better: It was probably scads of different pictures, lung shots all, the music a lament for a time when love came cheap.
While it's great to sell scads of houses, it's not good business when scads of customers and their insurance companies sue your pants off.
They ran scads of tests, poked and prodded and scanned, but it all came down to plain old exhaustion complicated by stress.
Once I have the kit, I can train all my friends and really start making scads and scads of money.
That sort of thing was easy: All you had to do was hit an outer guard station just after it had been relieved, and you would have scads of time to get set up and move in.
And that's why scads of superheroes [and so-called "anti-superheroes"] are flying high in movieland.