ducing science.

From the tree her step she turn'd; But first low reverence done, as to the pow'r That dwelt within; whose presence had infus'd Into the plant sciential sap, deriv'd From nectar, drink of gods.

Milton.

taken from one tree to be ingrafted into another.

Sweet maid, we marry A gentle scion to the wildest stock; And make conceive a bark of baser kind, By bud of nobler race.

Shakspeare.

March is drawn, in his left hand blossoms, and

scions upon his arm.

Peacham.

The scions are best of an old tree. Mortimer. SCIRE FACIAS. n. s. [Latin.) A writ judicial, in law, most commonly to call a man to shew cause unto the court whence it is sent, why execution of a judgment passed should not be made. This writ is not granted before a year and a day is passed after the judgment given. SCIRRHOSITY.n.s. [from scirrhous.] An induration of the glands.

Coquell.

The difficulty of breathing, occasioned by scirrbosities of the glands, is not to be cured. Arbuthnot.

SCI'RRHOUS.adj. [from scirrhus.] Having a gland indurated; consisting of a gland indurated.

How they are to be treated when they are strumous, scirrhous, or cancerous, you may see. Wiseman.

SCI'RRHUS.n.s. [scirrbe, French. This should be written skirrhus, not merely because it comes from axios, but because e in English has before e and i the sound of s. See SKEPTICK.] An indurated gland.

Any of these three may degenerate into a scirrbus, and that scirrbus into a cancer. Wiseman. Sci'SSIBLE. adj. [from scissus, Lat.] Capable of being divided smoothly by a sharp edge.

The differences of impressible and not impressible, scissible and not scissible, and many other passions of matter, are plebeian notions.

Bacon. SCI'SSILE.adj. [scissile, Fr. scissilis, Lat.] Capable of being cut or divided smoothly by a sharp edge.

Animal fat is a sort of amphibious substance, scissile like a solid, and resolvable by heat.

Arbuthnot. SCI'SSION.n. s. [scission, Fr. scissio, Lat.] The act of cutting.

Nerves may be wounded by scission or puncture: the former way they are usually cut through, and wholly cease from action, Wiseman. SCISSOR. N. 5. [This word is variously written, as it is supposed to be derived by different writers; writers; of whom some write cisors, from cado, or incido; others scissors, from scindo; and some cisars, cizars, orscissars, from ciseaux, French.] A small pair of sheers, or blades moveable on a pivot, and intercepting the thing to be cut.

His beard they have sing'd off with brands of fire;

And ever, as it blaz'd, they threw on him Great pails of puddled mire to quench the hair: My master preaches patience to him, and the

while

His man with scissars nicks him for a fool Shaks. Wanting the scissors, with these Lands I'll tear, If that obstruct my flight, thisload of hair. Prior.

When the lawyers and tradesmen brought extravagant bills, sir Roger wore a pair of scissars in his pocket, with which he would snip a quarter of a yard off nicely. Arbuthnot. SCI'SSUE. n. s. [scissum, Lat.] A crack; a rent; a fissure.

The breach seems like the scissures and ruptures of an earthquake, and threatens to swallow all that attempt to close it, and reserves its cure only for omnipotence.

SCLEROTICK.adj. [sclerotique, French; σκλῆς.] Hard : an epithet of one of the coats of the eye.

The ligaments observed in the inside of the sclerotick tunicles of the eye serve instead of a muscle, by their contraction, to alter the figure of the eye. Ray on the Creation. SCLEROTICKS.n.s. [from the adjective.] Medicines which harden and consolidate

the parts they are applied to. Quincy. TO SCOAT.v.a. To stop a wheel by To SCOTCH.) putting a stone or piece of

wood under it before.

Bailey.

To SCOFF. v. n. [schoppen, Dutch.] To treat with insolent ridicule; to treat with contumelious language: with at.

Of two noblemen of the west of England, the one was given to scoff, but kept ever royal cheer in his house; the other would ask of those that had been at his table, Tell truly, was there never a flout or dry blow given ?

Bacon.

There is no greater argument of a light and inconsiderate person, than prophanely to scoff at religion. Tillotson.

Such is love,

How could men surrender up their reason to flattery, more abusive and reproachful than the rudest scoffs and the sharpest invectives? South.

Some little souls, that have got a smattering of astronomy or chemistry, for want of a due acquaintance with other sciences, make a scoff at them all, in comparison of their favourite sciWatts. SCO'FFER. n. S. [from scoff.) Insolent ridiculer; saucy scorner; contumelious reproacher.

ence.

Sell when you can; you are not for all markets:

Cry the man mercy, love him, take his offer; Foul is the most foul, being found to be a scoffer. Shakspeare.

Divers have herded themselves amongst these profane stoffers, not that they are convinced by their reasons, but terrihed by their contumelies. Government of the Tongue.

Consider what the apostle tells these scoffers they were ignorant of; not that there was a deluge, but he tells them, that they were ignorant that the heavens and the cartun of old were so and so constituted.

Burnet.

Swift. Scolding and cursing are her common conversation. Swift.

SCOLD.n.s. [from the verb.] A clamorous, rude, mean, low, foul-mouthed,

woman.

A shrew in domestick life is now become a Addison. scold in politicks.

Sun-burnt matrons mending old nets;
Now singing shrill, and scolding oft between;
Scolds answer foul-mouth'd scolds.

Swift. SCO'LLOP. n. s. [Written properly scallop.] A pectinated shell-fish SCOLOPE'NDRA. n. 5. [scolopendre, Fr. σκολόπενδρα. ]

1. A soft of venomous serpent. 2. [scolopendrium, Lat.] An herb. Ainsaw. Scomm.n.s. [perhaps from scomma, Lat.] A buffoon. A word out of use, and unworthy of revival.

The scomms, or buffoons of quality, are wolvish in conversation. L'Estrange.

SCONCE.n.s. [schantz, German.] 1. A fort; a bulwark.

Such fellows are perfect in the great commanders names, and they will learn you by rote where services were done; at such and such a sconce, at such a breach. Sbakspeare.

2. The head: perhaps as being the acropolis, or citadel of the body. A low

4. A mulct, or fine. To SCONCE. v. a. [A word used in the universities, and derived plausibly by Skinner, whose etymologies are generally rational, from sconce, as it signifies the head; to sconce being to fix a fine on any one's head.] To mulct; to fine. A low word, which ought not to be retained.

SCOOP. n. s. [schoepe, Dutch.] 1. A kind of large ladle; a vessel with a long handle used to throw out liquor.

They turn upside down hops on malt-kilns, when almost dry, with a scoop. Mortimer. 2. A chirurgeon's instrument.

Endeavour with thy scoop, or fingers, to force the stone outwards. Sharf.

3. A sweep; a stroke. Perhaps it should be swoop.

Oh hell-kite!

The mountain cisterns fill, those ample stores Of water scoop'd among the hollow rocks.

3. To empty by lading.

Thomson.

If some penurious source by chance appear'd, Scanty of waters, when you scoop'd it dry, And offer'd the full helmit up to Cato, Did he not dash th' untasted moisture from him? Addison.

4. To carry off, so as to leave the place hollow.

A spectator would think this circular mount had been actually scooped out of that hollow space. Spectator. Her fore-feet are broad, that she may scoop away much earth at a time. Addison.

To his single eye, that in his forehead glar'd Like a full moon, or a broad burnish'd shield, A forky staff we dext'rously apply'd, Which, in the spacious socket turning round, Stsopt out the big round gelly from its orb. Addis. 5. To cut into hollowness or depth.

Whatever part of the arbour they scoop in, it has an influence on all the rest; for the sea immediately works the whole bottom to a level.

Addison.

ation of what is true, but that he might let himself loose to visionary objects, which may give him a freer scope for imagination. Dryden.

These theorems being admitted into opticks, there would be scope enough of handling that science voluminously, after a new manner; not only by teaching those things which tend to the perfection of vision, but also by determining mathematically all kinds of phenomena of colours which could be produced by refraction.

Newton.

4. Liberty; freedom from restraint.

If this constrain them to grant that their axiom is not to take any place, save in those things only where the church hath larger scope, it resteth that they search out some stronger reason. Hook.

Ah, cut my lace asunder,

That my pent heart may have some scope to beat, Or else I swoon with this dead killing news. Shakspeare.

5. Liberty beyond just limits; licence. Sith 't was my fault to give the people scope, "T would be my tyranny to strike and gall them For what I bid them do. Shakspeare.

Being moody, give him line and scope, 'Till that his passions, like a whale on ground, Confound themselves with working. Shakspeare. 6. Act of riot; sally.

As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope, by the immoderate use, Turns to restraint.

7. Extended quantity.

Shakspeare.

The scopes of land granted to the first adventurers were too large, and the liberties and royalties were too great for subjects.

Davies.

SCORBU'TICALLY. adv. [from scorbutical.] With tendency to the scurvy; in the scurvy.

A woman of forty, scorbutically and hydropically affected, having a sordid ulcer, put herself into my hand. Wiseman. SCORCE. n. s. This word is used by Spenser for discourse, or power of reason: in imitation perhaps of the Italians. Lively vigour rested in his mind, And recompens'd him with a better scorce; Weak body well is chang'd for mind's redoubled force. Fairy Queen.

Το SCORCH. v. a. [scopened, Saxon,

burnt.]

He, from whom the nations should receive Justice and freedom, lives himself a slave; Tortur'd by cruel change of wild desires, Lash'd by mad rage, and scorch'd by brutal fires. Prior.

To SCORCH. v. n. To burn superficially; to be dried up.

The swarthy Africans complain

To see the chariot of the sun

So nigh their scorching country run. Roscommon. The love was made in autumn, and the hunting followed properly, when the heats of that scorching country were declining.

Dryden. Scatter a little mungy straw or fern amongst your seedlings, to prevent the roots from searching, and to receive the moisture that falls. Mortimer.

SCORCHING Fennel. n.s. A plant.
SCO'RDIUM. n. s. (Latin.] An herb.

Pope.

For some scores of lines there is a perfect ab

sence of that spirit of poesy.

Watts.

9. A song in SCORE. The words with the musical notes of a song annexed. To SCORE. v. a.

1. To set down as a debt. Madam, I know when Instead of five you scor'd me ten.

2. To impute; to charge.

Swift.

Your follies and debauches change With such a whirl, the poets of your age Are tir'd, and cannot score 'em on the stage; Unless each vice in short-hand they indite, Ev'n as notcht prentices whole sermons write. Dryden.

3. To mark by a line.

Hast thou appointed where the moon should
rise,

And with her purple light adorn the skies?
Scor'd out the bounded sun's obliquer ways,
That he on all might spread his equal rays?

Sandys. SCO'RIA. n. 5. (Lat.] Dross; recrement. The scoria, or vitrified part, which most metals, when heated or melted, do continually protrude to the surface, and which, by covering the metals in form of a thin glassy skin, causes these colours, is much denser than water.

Neruton.

SCO'RIOUS. adj. [from scoria, Latin.] Drossy; recrementitious.

By the fire they emit many drossy and scorious parts.

v. a.

Brozen, To SCORN. [schernen, Dutch; escorner, Fr.] To despise; to slight; to revile; to vilify; to contemn.

My friends scorn me; but mine eye poureth

out tears unto God.

TO SCORN. v. n.

Job.

Fame, that delights around the world to stray, Scorns not to take our Argos in her way. Pope.

3. To despise; to contemn.

Surely he scorneth the scorner, but he giveth grace unto the lowly. Proverbs.

Back to th' infernal pit I drag thee chain'd, And seal thee so, as henceforth not to scorn The facil gates of hell too slightly barr'd. Milt. 4. To neglect; to disregard.

This my long sufferance, and my day of grace, They who neglect and scorn shall never taste; But hard be harden'd, blind be blinded more. Milton.

SCORN. n. s. [escorne, old Fr. from the verb.]

1. Contempt; scoff; slight; act of contumely.

We were better parch in Africk's sun Than in the pride and salt scorn of his eyes.

Sbakspeare. Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?

Scorn and derision never come in tears. Sbaks.

Every sullen frown and bitter scorn But fann'd the fuel that too fast did burn. Dryd. 2. Subject of ridicule; thing treated with contempt.

Is it not a most horrid ingratitude, thus to make a scorn of him that made us? Tillotson. Numidia's grown a scorn among the nations For breach of publick vows.

Addison.

3. To think SCORN. To disdain; to hold unworthy of regard. Not now in use.

If he do fully prove himself the honest shepherd Menalcas his brother and heir, I know no reason why you should think scorn of him Sidney.

Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: think no scorn of me, lest, if thou make as though thou hearest not, I become like them that go down into the pit. Psalms.

4. To laugh to SCORN. To deride as contemptible.

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh them to scorn; the Lord shall have them in derision. Psalms. Common Prayer.

SCO'RNER. n. s. (from scorn.]

I. Contemner; despiser.

They are very active; vigilant in their enterprizes, present in perils, and great scorners of death.

2. Scoffer; ridiculer.

Spenser.

SCO'RNFULLY. adv. [from scornful.] Contemptuously; insolently.

He us'd' us scornfully: he would have shew'd us His marks of merit, wounds receiv'd for 's Shakspeare.

country.

The sacred rights of the christian church are scornfully trampled on in print, under an hypocritical pretence of maintaining them. Atterbury. SCORPION. n. s. [scorpion, Fr. scorpio, Latin.]

1. A reptile much resembling a small lobster, but that his tail ends in a point, with a very venomous sting.

Well, fore-warning winds Did seem to say, seek not a scorpion's nest. Shakspeare. Full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife. Shak. 2. One of the signs of the zodiack. The squeezing crab and stinging scorpion shine. Dryden.

3. A scourge so called from its cruelty.

My father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

1 Kings. 4. [scorpius, Lat.] A sea fish. Ainsworth. SCORPION Sena. n. s. [emerus, Lat.] A Miller. plant.

SCORPION Grass. SCORPION's Tail. SCORPION Wort.

Scor. n. s. [êcot, Fr.] 1. Shot; payment.

2.

SCOT and Lot. Parish payments. 'T was time to counterfeit, or that hot termagant Scot had paid me scot and lot too.

Shakspeare.

Prior.

Protogenes, historians note, Liv'd there a burgess, scot and lot. The chief point that has puzzled the freeholders, as well as those that pay ssot and lot, for about these six months, is, Whether they would rather be governed by a prince that is obliged by law to be good, or by one who, if he pleases, may plunder or imprison?

Addison.

TO SCOTCH. v. a. To cut with shallow incisions.

He was too hard for him: directly before Corioli, he scoteht and notcht him like a carbonado. Shakspeare. SCOTCH. n. s. (from the verb.] A slight cut; a shallow incision.

We 'll beat 'em into bench-holes: I have yet room for six scotches more. Sbakspeare. Give him four scotches with a knife, and then put into his belly, and these scotches, sweet herbs. Walton.

SCOTCH CoNops,

or Scotched Collops. n. s.

[from to scotch, or cut.] Veal cut into small pieces.

A play in which

Scorch Hoppers. n. s. boys hop over lines or scotches in the ground.

Children being indifferent to any thing they can do, dancing and scotch hoppers would be the same thing to them.

Locks.

SCOTFREE'. adj. Without scot or mulct; unhurt; impune. SCOʻTOMY. n. 5. [σκότωμα.] A dizziness or swimming in the head, causing dimness of sight, wherein external objects seem to turn round. Ainsw. Bailey. SCOTTERING.n.s. A provincial word, which denotes, in Herefordshire, a custom among the boys of burning a wad of pease-straw at the end of harvest.

Bailey. SCO'VEL. n. s. [scopa, Lat.] A sort of mop of clouts for sweeping an oven; a maulkin. Ainsworth. Bailey. [scondaruolo, Italian, A mean rascal; a A word rather lu