Noun

If the action of the electrodynamic waves is so violent that, even without artificial electrification of the secondary conductor, scintillæ occur in its spark-gap, the aluminium leaves remain almost without change.

And, if I except the sagacious remark of General Duane which has been so curtly brushed aside, not a scintilla of light has been cast upon these causes by any researches ever published by the Lighthouse Board of Washington.

Now, it may be we have no scintilla of proof to the contrary, but reason is unnecessary in reference to that belief which is of all the most settled, which nobody doubts or can doubt, and which he who should deny would stultify himself in so doing.

Current medical practice recommends use of heroic measures if there is a scintilla of a chance that the patient will recover, on the assumption that the measures will be discontinued should the patient improve.

Noun

He added just a skosh of vinegar, to give the recipe some zip.

“Fly just a skosh to your one o'clock,” Elroy said.

Just a skosh after the lunch break, Bivvy and Erin were singing a song together.

I set the bit a skosh under the width of the mortise's shoulder;

“More?” “Just a skosh',” Liz says. “A ' skosh ?” Fran says. “Japanese for 'a little,'” Liz says. “Sukoshi.”