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n. Any of various arachnids of the order Scorpionida, of warm dry regions, having a segmented body and an erectile tail tipped with a venomous sting.

n. See Scorpius.

n. Any of various arachnids of the order Scorpiones, related to the spiders, characterised by two large front pincers and a curved tail with a poisonous sting in the end.

n. An ancient military engine for hurling stones and other missiles.

n. Any one of numerous species of pulmonate arachnids of the order Scorpiones, having a suctorial mouth, large claw-bearing palpi, and a caudal sting.

n. The pine or gray lizard (Sceloporus undulatus).

n. The scorpene.

n. A painful scourge.

n. A sign and constellation. See Scorpio.

n. An ancient military engine for hurling stones and other missiles.

n. In zoology, an arthropod of the order Scorpionida.

n. Hence Some creature likened to or mistaken for a scorpion, and poisonous or supposed to be so.

n. In ichthyology, a scorpion-fish or sea-scorpion; one of several different members of the Scorpænidæ, some of which are also called scorpene and sculpin. See cut under Scorpæna, and etymology of Scolopendra.

n. [capitalized] In astronomy, the eighth sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about October 23d. See Scorpio, 2.

n. A kind of whip said to have been armed with points like that of a scorpion's tail; a scourge, described as having a handle of iron, or of wood braced and ferruled with iron, and two, three, or more chains attached, like the lashes of a whip, and set with balls, rings, or angled and pointed masses of iron.

n. An old military engine, used chiefly in the defense of the walls of a town.

n. An instrument for grappling a batteringram.

n. A gun whose dolphins represented the scorpion.

n. the eighth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about October 23 to November 21

n. arachnid of warm dry regions having a long segmented tail ending in a venomous stinger

n. (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Scorpio

"The sting of a scorpion is a thousand times more hurtful than the scratch of a brier."

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