(n.) A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The former Massachusetts governor, who was always an odd choice for Trump’s cabinet given the pair’s scatching attacks on one another during the campaign season, called it an “honor to have been considered for secretary of state”.
(2) Scatched plots also indicated binding of each steroid to two sites--a high-affinity, low-capacity binding site and a low-affinity, high-capacity binding site.
(3) Scatching face, palms, or soles does not produce referred itching.
Scotch
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish.
(n.) The dialect or dialects of English spoken by the people of Scotland.
(n.) Collectively, the people of Scotland.
(v. t.) To shoulder up; to prop or block with a wedge, chock, etc., as a wheel, to prevent its rolling or slipping.
(n.) A chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping; as, a scotch for a wheel or a log on inclined ground.
(v. t.) To cut superficially; to wound; to score.
(n.) A slight cut or incision; a score.
Example Sentences:
(1) In methods A and B the round biopsy field was bordered by copalite varnish, while method C utilized a scotch tape border.
(2) Successful photosensitization was achieved only when the nuchal skin was stripped with scotch tape before application of musk ambrette and ultraviolet radiation.
(3) The 2 Fat Butchers in Walmer offers high-quality free-range meat and excellent pork pies and scotch eggs.
(4) But the deficit story was allowed to run and run, and poor Miliband failed to scotch it on at least two prominent occasions.
(5) Scotch also took a hit, with Johnnie Walker Black Label's sales down 28% in the country.
(6) Scotch, by contrast, has incredibly strict regulation “which means you don’t get people making it in their garages”.
(7) An Australian walked into a bar in Edinburgh and asked for a scotch and soda.
(8) But in light of Trump’s international portfolio, the little-tested clause is unlikely to be scotched so easily.
(9) When advised for medical reasons to give up Scotch, he merely quadrupled his intake of champagne.
(10) Extracted maxillary pre-molars with MOD slot preparations were restored with composite resin bonded to enamel (P-30 and Enamel Bond) or composite resin bonded to enamel and dentin (P-30 and Scotch-bond).
(11) The bonding agents were Gluma (Bayer), Scotch-bond LC (3M) and Dentin Adhesit (Vivadent).
(12) A near record number of football fans discarded their TV sets to catch the Europa League final on YouTube, but despite its success the web giant has scotched the idea that it wants to challenge Sky and BT for Premier League rights.
(13) A 4-year-old Scotch Collie bitch was presented for examination because of hyperthermia and anaemia.
(14) • The Irish version suffered another blow in the 1920s when bootleggers labelled their illicit drink "Irish whiskey" • US soldiers who arrived in Britain and Northern Ireland when America entered the second world war in 1941 sampled the delights of Scotch and were cut off from consuming Irish whiskey as the Republic was neutral • The formerly state-owned Cooley Distillery near the border with Northern Ireland was soldin 2012 to American whiskey giant Jim Beam.
(15) The social services minister, Scott Morrison, who had been regarded as a potential treasurer in a Turnbull government, said in a statement that he was “voting for the prime minister and not standing in any ballots”, scotching earlier claims that he could be a contender for deputy.
(16) Alec O’Connell, headmaster of Scotch College, where Mo went to school, said the “catastrophe was a tragedy of the highest order”.
(17) There were also suggestions that Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe was being sought for the role, but Radcliffe quickly scotched the rumour .
(18) Ninety-one women employed full-time were administered the Jenkins Activity Survey (JAS; Jenkins, Rosenman, & Zyzanski; 1974) and the Framingham Type A Scale (FTAS; Haynes, Levine, Scotch, Feinleib, & Kennel, 1978).
(19) The method used in these tests was the Scotch tape perianal swab.
(20) Daniel Ben Said, who supervises jetskis on the beach and used his motorboat to pluck a British man who had been wounded in the arm from the sea, scotched reports that Rezgui had reached the beach using a boat or jetski.