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9441 Etymology dictionary, p. scut (n.1).4
Also compare Middle English scut (v.) "make short, hurried runs," as a noun, "a short garment" (mid-15c.), as an adjective, "short" (c. 1200), perhaps from Old French escorter, from Latin excurtare .
9442 Etymology dictionary, p. scuttle (v.1).2
"run hurriedly, scamper, scurry," mid-15c. (implied in scuttling ), probably related to or a frequentative form of scud (v.). Also compare scut (n.1). Related: Scuttled .
9443 Etymology dictionary, p. scuttle (v.1).3
As a noun, "a short, hurried run," by 1620s.
9444 Etymology dictionary, p. seedy (adj.).3
… has run to seed. Compare the figurative expressions go to seed (by 1817), etc., originally in reference to plants, "cease flowering as seeds develop." Related: Seediness …
9445 Etymology dictionary, p. sequence (n.).3
… , "a run of three or more consecutive numbers of the same suit." By 1580s as "order of succession." In biochemistry in reference to nucleic acids, by 1959.
9446 Etymology dictionary, p. serum (n.).2
… - "to run, flow" (source also of Greek oros "whey, watery parts of curdled milk;" Sanskrit sarah "flowing, liquid," sarit "brook, river"). The word was applied by 1893 to blood …
9447 Etymology dictionary, p. shabby (adj.).5
Shabby-genteel "run-down but trying to keep up appearances, retaining in present shabbiness traces of former gentility," is attested by 1754. Shabaroon, shabberoon "disreputable person" is attested from c. 1700.
9448 Etymology dictionary, p. shack (n.).3
… to 'run shack' after a harvest." Also compare shake-down "impromptu bed made upon loose straw" (1730).
9449 Etymology dictionary, p. shad (n.).3
… the running of the shad up the rivers, such as shad-bird, shad-bush, shad-flower, shad-fly, shad-frog. From the shape of the fish comes shad-bellied, 1832 in reference …
9450 Etymology dictionary, p. shingle (n.2).2
… water running over pebbles. Century Dictionary (1891) reports it used "much more commonly in the British Islands than in the U.S." Related: Shingled .
9451 Etymology dictionary, p. shoot (n.1).2
… water running down" (1707); "conduit for coal, etc." (1844). In some senses influenced by or confused with chute (n.1).
9452 Etymology dictionary, p. short (v.).2
Old English sceortian "to grow short, become short; run short, fail," from the source of short (adj.). Transitive meaning "make short or shorter" is from late 12c. Meaning "to short-circuit" is by 1904. Related: Shorted; shorting .
9453 Etymology dictionary, p. short (adj.).6
… . Short run "relatively brief period of time" is from 1879. Short story for "work of prose fiction shorter than a novel" is recorded by 1877. To make short work of …
9454 Etymology dictionary, p. shorten (v.).2
… short; run short, fail," gescyrtan "to make short." For cookery sense (1733) see shortening. Related: Shortened .
9455 Etymology dictionary, p. shun (v.).2
… scunian "run away from, avoid; abhor, loathe; seek safety by concealment," a word of uncertain origin; according to OED not found in other Germanic languages. Perhaps …
9456 Etymology dictionary, p. shutout (n.).2
… any runs in a full game" (baseball); from shut (v.) + out (adv.). Middle English had a verb outshut "to shut out, exclude," mid-15c.
9457 Etymology dictionary, p. shuttle (n.).3
… that runs back and forth" is recorded by 1895, from the image of the weaver's instrument's back-and-forth movement over the warp; extended to aircraft or air …
9458 Etymology dictionary, p. silt (n.).3
The general sense of "mud or fine soil from running or standing water" is by 1690s.
9459 Etymology dictionary, p. single (n.).3
… one run is scored") and 1858 (baseball, "one-base hit"). The meaning "one-dollar bill" is by 1936. The meaning "phonograph record with one song on each side" is from 1949 …
9460 Etymology dictionary, p. skedaddle (v.).2
"run away, betake oneself hastily to flight," American Civil War military slang noted and popularized in newspapers from the summer of 1861, originally often …