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单词 scute
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scuten.1

Brit. /skjuːt/, U.S. /sk(j)ut/
Forms: Also 1600s sceute, skute.
Etymology: < Latin scūtum shield, whence Old French escut, escu (French écu).
1.
a. An English name for the French coin called écu: see écu n., escu n. Obsolete exc. Historical.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > French coins > silver
scutec1400
shieldc1405
tracent1524
French crown1542
franc1603
cardecu1605
escuc1663
target1671
silver lewis1689
écu1704
c1400 Three Kings of Cologne 100 As men clepe in þis contrey gold of biȝende þe see Scutys, Motouns or floryns.
1420 Treaty of Troyes in Rymer Fœdera (1709) IX. 916 The forsayd Katerine shall take and haue Douer in our Roiaulme of Englond..to the Somme of forty Mill. Scutes be Yere; of the whiche Tweyne algates shall be worth a Noble Englyssh.
1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 16 Scutes of the kyng [Fr. escutz du roy] Ryallis nobles of englond.
a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 167 With scutes and crownes of gold I drede we are bought and solde.
1549–50 King Edward VI Jrnl. Rem. (Roxb.) 251 The French to pay 200,000 scutes within three days after the delivery of Boullein.
1606 G. W. tr. Epit. Liues Emperors in tr. Justinus Hist. sig. Ll 4 The King of England demanded of the Emperor interest for fiue hundred thousand skutes which he had borrowed.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xv. 641/2 Forty thousand sceutes, that is, two to a noble.
1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 80 Peter bought a maids kiss for a scute [L. scutato emit].
b. Used as a (? jocular) name for an English coin; ? a crown. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > other miscellaneous English coins
baselinga1255
scute1472
basel1577
lundress1695
halfling1819
wire money1837
brabant1840
fifty-pence piece1969
twenty-pence piece1981
1472 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 446 I beseche yow to remember my brother to doo hys deueyr thatt I maye haue ageyn my stuffe,..how so euyre hee doo, thoghe I scholde gyffe xxti scutes by hys advyse to my lady Brandon.
1472 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 453 I thynke verrely in tyme to come to gyff hym xx scutys.
c. Used vaguely for a coin of small value.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > small coins collectively > a small coin
orkyn1542
liarda1549
solda1549
scute1594
orkey1648
sock1688
styca1705
dump1821
scuddick1823
bit1829
posh1830
rag1866
tosser1935
1594 T. Nashe Christs Teares (new ed.) To Rdr. *ij b Therein I imitate rich men who hauing gathered store of white single money together, conuert a number of those small little scutes into great peeces of gold, such as double Pistols and Portugues.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. Q The diuell a scute had he to pay the reckoning.
1605 G. Chapman Al Fooles v. i. H 4 b And from a paire of Gloues of halfe a crowne To twenty crownes: will to a very scute Smell out the price.
1834 H. Taylor Philip van Artevelde i. i. iii Five hundred marks—I'll bate you not a scute.
2. An escutcheon. Obsolete.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > escutcheon or shield > [noun]
shieldc1320
scutcheona1366
escutcheon1480
sinister1572
scute1575
cutchion1632
1575 G. Gascoigne Flowers in Posies 51 He..bare the selfe same armes that I dyd quarter in my scute.
3. A disk, small piece. Now only dialect, a small patch of leather on the sole of a boot or shoe; also, a metal heel- or toe-plate. (See Eng. Dial. Dict.)In the first quot. 1635 probably merely transferred from sense 1.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > small piece
fingereOE
snedec1000
seed?a1200
morselc1300
bittlock?a1400
farthingc1405
spota1413
lipetc1430
offe?1440
drewc1450
remnantc1450
parcel1483
crap1520
flakec1525
patch1528
spark1548
a piece1559
sparklec1570
inch1573
nibbling?1577
scantling1585
scrat1593
mincing1598
scantle1598
halfpenny1600
quantity1600
nip1606
kantch1608
bit1609
catch1613
scripa1617
snap1616
sippeta1625
crumblet1634
scute1635
scantleta1642
snattock1654
cantlet1700
tab1729
pallion1738
smallness1818
knobble1823
wisp1836
1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells ix. 574 Round scutes of horne, and pieces of old leather.
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Scute,..a small piece of leather set on a shoe.
4. Zoology. A large scale or bony plate, forming part of the integument of certain animals, as the tortoise, armadillo, echinoderms, various fishes, etc.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [noun] > hard or protective covering > scale > large scale or bony plate
cuirass1605
shield1704
carapace1835
scutcheon1846
scute1848
carapax1849
marginal1883
osteoderm1898
1848 R. Owen in Times 14 Nov. 8/6 Without scales, scutes, or other conspicuous modifications of hard and naked cuticle.
1870 P. Gillmore tr. L. Figuier Reptiles & Birds i. 10 The stiff epidermal scutes crossing the under surface of the body.
1873 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. vii. 278 The ‘scales’ of Fishes should rather be termed ‘scutes’.
1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 107/2 A scute is a hardening of the outermost portion of the dermis, with an investment from the deepest layer of the epidermis.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

scuten.2

Brit. /skjuːt/, U.S. /sk(j)ut/
Etymology: < scute- (in scutellar adj.).
Zoology.
The name of any of a group of closely linked X-linked genes in Drosophila which act to reduce the number of scutellar bristles; also, a phenotype produced by these genes.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > gene > types of gene
sex determinant1902
sex determiner1909
inhibitor1911
multiple factor1912
modifier1915
autosomal dominant1919
autosomal recessive1919
scute1923
gene1925
suppressor1928
rate gene1932
dominigene1938
buffer1939
polygene1941
switch gene1942
mutator1943
oligogene1943
sickle cell gene1946
supergene1949
ob1950
obese1950
regulator1960
regulator gene1960
regulatory gene1960
enhancer1967
oncogene1969
virogene1969
hedgehog1980
1923 C. B. Bridges & T. H. Morgan Third-chromosome Group Mutant Char. Drosophila Melanogaster 160 Scute arose in the line selected for increased number of scutellar bristles.
1923 Anat. Rec. XXVI. 397 In three of these species the closely linked [sc. to yellow] character ‘scute’ or ‘scutellar’ is also known.
1940 Genetics 25 566 The great phenotypic similarity of the three scutes in question is an expression of the extreme similarity of their gene arrangements.
1974 U. Goodenough & R. P. Levine Genetics xi. 500 The Basc chromosome..carries the Bar eye gene B.., the apricot eye color gene apr, and a double inversion involving the scute (sc) region of the chromosome.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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