scull

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

scull, n. 

 The skull.  [1913 Webster]

scull, n. [See 1st School.].

 A shoal of fish.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]

scull, n. [Of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. skola to wash.].

•  A boat; a cockboat. See Sculler.  [1913 Webster]
•  The common skua gull.  [1913 Webster]

scull, v. t. 

 To impel (a boat) with a pair of sculls, or with a single scull or oar worked over the stern obliquely from side to side.  [1913 Webster]

scull, v. i. 

 To impel a boat with a scull or sculls.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

scull, n. & v.
--n.
1 either of a pair of small oars used by a single rower.
2 an oar placed over the stern of a boat to propel it, usu. by a twisting motion.
3 (in pl.) a race between boats with single pairs of oars.
--v.tr. propel (a boat) with sculls.

Etymology

ME: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

scull

boat, canoe, carry sail, catch a crab, circumnavigate, coast, cross, cruise, cut a crab, feather, feather an oar, give way, go by ship, go on shipboard, go to sea, make a passage, motorboat, navigate, oar, pace, paddle, ply, ply the oar, pole, pull, punt, row, row away, row dry, run, sail, sail round, sail the sea, seafare, ship oars, shoot, sky an oar, steam, steamboat, steering oar, sweep, take a voyage, traverse, voyage, yacht

ROGET THESAURUS

scull

Navigation

VB sail, put to sea, take ship, get under way, set sail, spread sail, spread canvas, gather way, have way on, make sail, carry sail, plow the waves, plow the deep, plow the main, plow the ocean, walk the waters, navigate, warp, luff, scud, boom, kedge, drift, course, cruise, coast, hug the shore, hug the land, circumnavigate, ply the oar, row, paddle, pull, scull, punt, steam, swim, float, buffet the waves, ride the storm, skim, effleurer, dive, wade, fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter, jet, orbit, rocket, take wing, take a flight, take off, ascend, blast off, land, alight, wing one's flight, wing one's way, aviate, parachute, jump, glide.

Intellect

N intellect, mind, understanding, reason, thinking principle, rationality, cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties, discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties, faculties, senses, consciousness, observation, percipience, intelligence, intellection, intuition, association of ideas, instinct, conception, judgment, wits, parts, capacity, intellectuality, genius, brains, cognitive powers, intellectual powers, wit, ability, wisdom, Vernunft, Verstand, soul, spirit, ghost, inner man, heart, breast, bosom, penetralia mentis, divina particula aurae, heart's core, the Absolute, psyche, subliminal consciousness, supreme principle, brain, organ of thought, seat of thought, sensorium, sensory, head, headpiece, pate, noddle, noggin, skull, scull, pericranium, cerebrum, cranium, brainpan, sconce, upper story, central processing unit, CPU, arithmetic and logical unit, ALU, metaphysics, psychics, psychology, ideology, mental philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of the mind, pneumatology, phrenology, craniology, cranioscopy, ideality, idealism, transcendentalism, spiritualism, immateriality, universal concept, universal conception, metaphysician, psychologist, intellectual, mental, rational, subjective, metaphysical, nooscopic, spiritual, ghostly, psychical, psychological, cerebral, animastic, brainy, hyperphysical, superphysical, subconscious, subliminal, immaterial, endowed with reason, in petto, ens rationis, frons est animi janua, locos y ninos dicen la verdad, mens sola loco non exulat, my mind is my kingdom, stern men with empires in their brains, the mind, the music breathing from her face, thou living ray of intellectual Fire.