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pitched cloth, about two inches diame- otherwise we can get nothing by repining, nor ter, in order to fire a bombchest.

save any thing by resisting.

Temple. With your cost you terminate the cause, Bailey.

And save th' expence of long litigious laws, SA'UCISSON. n. s. (Fr.} In military ar- Where suits are travers'd, and so little won,

chitecture, faggots or fascines made of That he who conquers is but last undone. Dryd. large boughs of trees bound together. 4. To reserve or lay by. They are commonly used to cover men, He shall not feel quietness, he shall not save

of that which he desired.

706. to make epaulment , traverses, or breastworks in ditches full of water, to ren.

They meanly'pilfer, as they bravely fought,

Now save a nation, and now save a groat. Pope. der the way firm for carriages. Bailey. When Hopkins dies, an hundred lights atrend SA'UCY. adj. (I know not how this word The wretch, who living sau'd a candle's end.

can be easily deduced from sauce: it
may come more properly from salsus, s. To spare ; to excuse.

Will you not speak to save a lady's blush? Lat.] Pert; petulant; contemptuous of

Drydex. surrriours; insolent; impudent ; im. Our author saves me the comparison with trá. pertinent.

gedy.

Dryser. You are more saucy with lords than the herald. These sinews are not so much unstrung, ty of your birth and virtue gives you commission. To fail me when my master should be serv'd;

Sbakspeare.

And when they are, then will I steal to death, Study is like the heav'ns glorious sun,

Silent and unobserv'd, to save his tears. Dryd.
That will not be deep search'd with saucy looks; 6. To salve; to reconcile.
Small have continual plodders ever won;

How build, unbuild, contrive
Save base authority from others' books. Sbeks. To save appearances : how gird the sphere
And if thou hast the mettle of a king,

With centrick and eccentrick.

Milton, Being wrong'd as we are by this peevish town, 7. To take or embrace opportunely, so as Turn thou the mouth of thy artillery,

not to lose. As we will ours against these saucy walls. Sbak.

The same persons, who were chief confidents Power's first pedigree from force derịves,

to Cromwell, foreseeing a restoration, seized the And calls to mind the old prerogatives Of free-born man; and with a sancy eye

castles in Ireland, just saving the tide, and put

ting in a stock of merit sufficient. Swift. Searches the heart and soul of majesty. Denban, I lose my patience, when with saucy pride

TO SAVE, V. n. To be cheap. By untun'd ears I hear his numbers try'd. Rose. Brass ordnance saveth in the quantity of the No saucy citizen shall dare

material, and in the charge of mounting and carTo strike a soldier, nor, when struck, resent riage.

Bacor. The wrong.

Dryden. SAVĖ. adv. (This word, adverbially used, Homer, to express a man both timorous and

is, like except, originally the imperative saucy, makes use of a kind of point, namely, that he had the eyes of a dog, but the heart of

of the verb.) Except; not including. a deer.

Spectator.

It is now little used.

But being all defeated, save a few, TO SAVE. v. a. (sauver, saulver, Fr. sal.

Rather than fiy, or be captiv'd, berself she slew. vo, Latin.)

Spensers 1. To preserve from danger or destruction. All the conspirators, save only he, Let me die ere men can say God save the Did that they did in envy of great Cæsar. Shak. queen.

Sbakspeare.

He never put down a near servant, save only One shåll cry, yet cannot he answer, nor save

Stanley, the Lord chamberlain.

Bacon him out of his trouble.

Isaiab.

How have I then with whom to hold converse, A wond'rous ark,

Save with the creatures which I made? Milton. To save himself and houshold from amidst

SA'VEALL: n. s. (save and all.] small A world devote to universal wreck. Milton. '. The circling streams, once thought but pools

pan inserted into a candlestick to save of blood,

the ends of candles. From dark oblivion Harvey's name shall save. SA'VER. N. s. [from save.

6.] Dryden. 1. Preserver: rescuer. Will no superiour genius snatch the quill, They were manifoldly acknowledged the And save me on the brink from writing ill? saders of that country.

Sidney Young. 2. One who escapes loss, though without 2. To preserve finally from eternal death. gain.

Whatsoever we read in Scripture concerning Laws of arms permit each injur'd man the endless love and saving mercy which God To make himself a saver where he can. Dryd, sheweth towards his church, the only proper Who dares affirm this is no pious age, subject thereof is this church.

Hooker. When charity begins to tread the stage? There are some that will be saved, and some When actors, who at best are hardly savers, that will be damned.

Shakspeare. Will give a night of benefit to weavers ? Swift. We are not of them who draw back unto per

3. A good husband. dition; but of them that believe, to the saving

4. One who lays up and grows rich. of the soul.

Hebrews.

By nature far from profusion, and yet a His merits save them.

Milton. He who feareth God, and worketh righteous

greater sparer than a saver; for though he had

such means to accumulate, yet his garrisons and ness, and perseveres in the faith and duties of our religion, shall certainly be saved. Rogers.

Wotton.

his feastings soaked his excheques. 3. Not to spend or lose; to hinder from Sa'vin. n. s. (sabina, Lat. savin, sabin, being pent or lost.

Fr.) A plant. We may be confident whatever God does is in- SA'VING. adj. [from save.] tended for our good, and whatever we interpret 1. Frugal; parsimonious ; not lavish.

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She loved money; for she was saying, and ap- Thçugh putting the mind upon an unusual plied her fortune to pay John's clamorjus debis. stress that may discourage, ought to be avoided;

Arbuthnot. ye this must not run it into a lazy sautering Be saving of your candle.

Swift.
about ordinary things.

Locke 2. Notiurn to loss, though not gainful.

If men were weaned from their sauntering hun Silvio, finding his application unsuccessful, was

mour, wherein they let a good part of their lives resolved to make a saving bargain; and since he

run uselessly away, they would acquire skill in could not get the widow's estate, to recover what

hundreds of things.

Locke, he had laid out of his own.

Addison

The brainless stripling

Spells uncouth Latin, and pretends to Greek;. SA'VING. adv. [This is nothing more than A saunt'ring tribe ! such born to wide estares,

a participle of the verb save adverbially With yea and no in senates hold debates. Tickelo used. With exception in favour of. SA'VORY.1.5. ( savorče, French; satureia, All this world's glory seemeth vain,

Latin.] A plant.

Miller And all their shows but shadows, saving she. SA'VOUR, n. s. [seveur, French.]

Spenser.

J. Scent; odour. Such laws cannot be abrogated, saving only by What savour is better, if physick be true, whom they were made ; because the intent of

For places infected, than wormwood and rue? them being known unto none but the author, he

Tussen alone can judge how long it is requisite they Benzo calls its shell a tartareous and hellish should endure. Hooker.

Abbot. S.sving the reverence due to so great a' man, I

Turn then my freshest reputation to doubt not but they did all creep out of their

A savour that may strike the dullest nostril. boles. Ray.

Shekspeare, SA'VING. n. s. [from save.]

i smell sweet savours, and I feel soft things. 1. Escape of expence ; somewhat preserv.

Sbakspeare. ed from being spent.

That Jews stink naturally, that is, that there It is a great saving it all such lights, if they can is in their race an evil savour, is a received opibe made as fair and right as others, and yet last

nion we know not how to admit. Brorun, longer.

Bacon.

Truffles, which have an excellent oil, and a vo. By reducing interest to four per cent. there was

tatile sali of a grateful savour, are heating. a considerable saving to the nation; but this year

Arbuthnot. they give six,

Addison. 2. Taste ; power of affecting the palate.

I taste 2. Exception in favour. Contend not with those that are too strong for

The savour of death from all things. Milton, us, but still with a saving to honesty; for inte

A directer influence from the sun gives fruit a grity must be supported against all violence. better savour and a greater worth. South.

L'Estrange. To Sa'vour. v. n. [savourer, French; SA'VINGLY. adv. [from saving.] With from the noun.] parsimony.

1. To have any particular smell or taste. SA'VINGNESS. n. s. [from saving.] 2. To betoken; to have an appearance or 1. Parsimony; frugality.

intellectual taste of something. 2. Tendency to promote eternal salva- This ripping of ancestors is very pleasing, and tion,

savouretb of good conceit and some reading.

Spenser. SA'VIOUR. n. s. [sauveur, Fr.] Redeemer; The duke's answers to his appeachments are

he that has graciously saved mankind very diligently and civilly couched; and though from eternal death.

his heart was big, yet they all savour of an humble spirit.

Wotton. So judg'd he man, both judge and Saviour sent.

Milton,

That savours only of rancour and pride. Milt. However consonant to reason his precepts ap

If 't were a secret that concern'd my life,

This boldness might become thee; peared, nothing could have tempted men to ac

But soch unnecessary rudeness savours knowledge him as their God and Saviour, but

Of some design.

Denham. their being firmly persuaded of the miracles he wrought.

Addison.

I have rejected every thing that savours of party.

Addisor. TO SA'UNTER.v.n. (aller à la sainte terre, TO SA'vour. v. a. from idle people who roved about the 1. To like; to taste or smell with delight. country, and asked charity under pre- Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; tence of going' à la sainte terre, to the Filths savour but themselves.

Shakspeare. boly land, or sans terre, as having no

2. To exhibit taste of. settled home.]

Thou savourest not the things that be of God.

Mattbew. 1. To wander about idly.

SA'VOURILY. adv. [from savoury.] The cormorant is still sauntering by the seaside, to see if he can find any of his brass cast up.

1. With gust ;' with appetite. L'Estrange.

The collation he fell to very savourily. L'Estr. Tell me why, saunt'ring thus from place to

This mufti is some English renegado, he talks place,

$0 savourily of toaping.

Dryden. I meet thee; Nævolus, with clouded face? Dryde 2. With a pleasing relish. So the young 'squire, when first he comes

There's a dearth of wit in this dull town, From country school to Will's or Tom's,

When silly plays so savourily go down. Dryden. Without one notion of his own,

SA'VOURINESS n. s. (trun savoury.] He saunters wildly up and down. Prior.

1. Taste pleasing and picquant. Here saunt'ring 'prentices o’er Otway weep.

Gay.

2. Pleasing smell. Led by my hand, he saunter'd Europe round,

SA'VOURY. adj. (savoureux, French; And gather'd ev'ry vice in ev'ry ground. Dunciad,

from savour.] 2. To loiter ; to linger.

1. Pleasing to the smell.

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"If the membrane be fouled by the sin dust of So quicken'd appetite, that I

the bone, wipe it off with a sponge.

Wiseman, Could not but taste!

Milten. Rotten sawdust, mixed with earth, enriches it From the boughs a savo::ry odour blown,

Mortimer. Grateful to appetite ! more pleas'd my sense SA'WFISH. n. s. [saw and fish.] A sort Than smell of sweetest fennel, or the teats of fish with a kind of dentated horn.

Of ewe, or goat, dropping with milk at ev'n. Milt. Sa'weit. n. s. (saw and pit.] Pit over 2. Picquant to the taste.

which timber is laid to be sawn by two Savoury meat, such as my father loveth.

Genesis.
The savoury pulp they chew. Milton,

Let them from forth a sampit rush at once
With some diffused song.

Shakspeure. SAVO'Y. n. s. [brassica sabaudica, Latin.]

They colour it by laying it in a sawpit that A sort of colewort.

hath oak saw-dust therein.

Mortimer. SA'USAGE. n. s. (saucisse, French; salsum, Saw-WORT. n. s. (serratula, Latin.) A

Latin.] A roll or ball made commonly plant like the greater centaury, from of pork or veal, and sometimes of beef,

which this differs in having smaller minced very small, with salt and spice;

heads, and from the knapweed, in hav. sometimes it is stuffed into the guts of

ing the borders of the leaves cut into fowls, and sometimes only rolled in

small sharp segments, resembling the flower.

teeth of a saw.

Miller. Saw. The preterit of see.

SAW-WREST. n. s. [saw and wrest.] A I never saw 'till now

sort of tool. Sight more detestable.

Milton. SAW. n. s. [sawe, Danish; saga, or

With the saw.murest they set the teeth of the

saw; that is, they put one of the notches of the sige, Saxon ; scie, French.]

wrest between the first two teeth on the blade of 1. A dentated instrument, by the attrition the saw, and then turn the handle horizontally of which wood or metal is cut.

a liccle about upon the notch towards the end of The tceth are filed to an angle, pointing to

the saw; and that at once turns the first tooth wards the end of the saw, and not towards the somewhat towards you, and the second tooth handle of the saw, or straight between the handle

Mo.con. and end; because the saw is designed to act only Sa'wer. no sa (scieur, French ; from

saw.] One whose trade is more strength than he can have in drawing back

to saw timber into boards or beams. his samu, and therefore when he draws it back,

The pit-saw is used by joiners, when what they he hears it lightly off the unsawn stuff, which

have to do may be as soon done at home as send enables him the longer to continue his several

it to the suwyers.

Moxon. progressions of the saw.

Moxon, The roach is a leather-mouth'd fish, and has

SA'XIFRAGE. n. s. (saxifrage, French; saw-like teeth in his throat.

Walton. saxifraga, Latin.] A plant. Then saws were tooth'd, and sounding axes

Saxifrage, gaasi saxum frangere, to break the made.

Dryden.

stonc, is applicable to any thing having this proIf they cannot cut,

perty; but is a term most commonly given to a His saws are toothless, and hishatchets lead. Pope.

plant, from an opinion of its medicinal virtues to this effect.

Quincy. 2. [raga, Saxon; saeghe, Dutch.] A say- SA’XIFRAGE, Meadow. ni. s. (silanum,

ing; a maxim; a sentence; an axiom ; Latin.] A plant. a proverb.

SAXIFRAGous. adj. (saxum and frang), Good king, that must approve the common

Latin.] Dissolvent of the stone. Thou out of Heaven's bencdiction com'st

Because goat's blood was found an excellent To the warm sun!

medicine for the stone, it might be conceived to

Sbakspeare. From the table of my memory

be able to break a diamond; and so it came to I 'll wipe away all saws of books. Slakspeare.

be ordered that the goats should be fed on saxiHis weapons, holy saws of sacred writ,'Shak.

fragous herbs, and such as are conceived of power to break the stonc.

Brown, Strict age and sour severity, · With their grave saws, in slumber lie. Miltors.

TO SAY. v. a. pret. said. [recgan, Sax. TO SAW. v. a. part. sawed and sawn.

seggen, Dutch.) [scier, French; from the noun.] To cut

1. To speak; to utter in words; to tell.

Sav it out, Diggon, whatever it hight. Spenser: timber or other matter with a saw.

In this slumbry agitation what have you heard They were stoned, they were sawn asunder.

her say?

Shakspeare. Hebreus. Speak unto Solomon; for he will not say thee A carpenter, after he hath sarun down a tree,

này.

i Kings. and wrought it handsomely, sets it in a wall.

Say nothing to any man, but go thy way. Mark.

Wisdom. Master-workmen,when they direct any of their

2. To allege by way of argument.

After all can be said against a thing, this will underlings to saw a piece of stuff, have several

still be true, that many things possibly are, phrases for the sawing of it: they seldom say, saw which we know not of.

Tillotson, the piece of stuff; but, draw the saw through it; give the picce of stuff a kerf.

In vain shall we attempt to justify ourselves, as

Moxon. It is an incalescency, from a swift motion, such

the rich young man in the gospel did, by appealas that of running, threshing, or sawing. Ray.

ing to the great duties of the law; unless we can

say somewhat more, even that we have been li If I cut my finger, I shall as certainly feel pain beral in our distributions to the poor. Atterbury. as if my soul was co-extended with thc limb, and had a piece of it sawn through.

3. To tell in any manner.

Collier. SA'WDUST. n. s. (sagu and dust.] Dust

With Aying speed, and secming great pretence,

Came messenger with letters which his message made by the attrition of the saw.

said.

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4. To repeat; to rehearse : as, to say a

That free from gouts thou may'st preserve thy part ; to say a lesson.

care, s. To pronounce without singing.

And clear from scabs produc'd by freezing air.'

Dryden. Then shall be said or sung as follows.

Common Prayer.

2. The itch or mange of horses. TO SAY. v. n.

3. A paltry fellow, so named from the itch 1. To speak; to pronounce; to utter ; to

often incident to negligent poverty.

I would thou did'st itch from head to foot, and relate.

I had the scratching of thee; I would make thee He said, moreover, I have somewhat to say

the loathsom'st scab in Greece.

Sbakspeare. unto thee ; and she said, say on. 1 Kings.

Well said, Wart, thou art a good scab: there The council-table and star-chamber hold, as

is a tester for thee. Thucydides said of the Athenians, for honour.

Sbakspeare.

One of the uşurers, a head man of the city, able that which pleased, and for just that which

took it in dudgeon to be ranked, cheek by joul, profited.

Clarendon.
with a scab of a currier.

L'Estrange. The lion here has taken his right measures; This vapäring scab must needs devise that is to say, he has made a true judgment.

To ape the thunder of the skies. Swift.

L'Estrange. Of some propositions it may be difficult to say

Sca'B BARD. n. s. (schap, German. Juwhether they affirm or deny; as when we say, nius.] The sheath of a sword. Plato was no fool.

Watts.

Enter fortune's gate,

Nor in thy scabbard sheath that famous blade, 2. In poetry, say is often used before a

'Till settled be thy kingdom and estate. Flirfax. question; tell. Say first what cause

What eyes! how keen their glances! you do

well to keep 'em veild; they are too sharp to Mov'd our grand parents to fall off? Milton.

be trusted out o' th' scabbard. Say, Stella, feel you no content,

Dryden. Reflecting on a life well spent ? Swift.

SC A'BBED. adj. (from scab.] And who more blest, who chain'd his country;

1. Covered or diseased with scabs.

The briar fruit makes those that eat them say, Or he whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day? Pope.

scabbed.

Bacon. SAY. n. s. (from the verb.]

2. Paltry ; sorry ; vile ; worthless. 1. A speech ; what one has to say.

To you such scabb'd harsh fruit is giv'n, as raw He no sooner said out his say, but up rises a

Young soldiers at their exercisings gnaw. Dryd. cunning snap.

L'Estrange. SC A'BBEDNESS. n. s. [from scutbed.] The 2. [for assay.] Sample.

state of being scabbed. So good a say invites the eye,

SC A'BBINESS. n. s. [from scabby.] The A little downward to espy,

quality of being scabby. The lively clusters of her breasts. Sidney. SCA'BBÝ. adj. [from scab.] Diseased with Since thy outside looks so fair and warlike,

scabs. And that thy tongue some 'say of breeding

Her writhled skin, as rough as mapple rind, breathes, By rule of knighthood I disdain. Sbakspeare.

So scabby was, that would have loath'd all woman-kind.

Fairy Queens 3. Trial by a sample.

A scabby tetter on their pelts will stick, This gentleman having brought that earth to

When the raw rain has pierc'd them to the quick. the publick 'say masters, and upon their being

Dryden. unable to bring it to fusion, or make it fly away,

the grazier should bring me one wether, fat he had procured a little of it, and with a peculiar

and well fleeced, and expect the same price for flux separated a third part of pure gold. Boyle. a whole hundred, without giving me security to 4. (soie, French.] Silk. Obsolete.

restore my money for those that were lean, 5. A kind of woollen stuff.

shorn, or scabby, I would be none of his cusSA'YING, n. s. [from say.) Expression ;

Swift. words; opinion sententiously delivered. SCA'Bious. adj. [scabiosus, Lat.] Itchy;

leprous. I thank thee, Brutus,

In the spring, scabious eruptions upon the skin That thou hast prov'd Lucilius' saying true.Shak.

were epidemical, from the acidity of the blood. Moses filed at this saying, and was a stranger

Arbuthnot. in Midian.

Acts.
Many are the sayings of the wise,

SCA'BIOUS. n. s. (scabieuse, French ; scaExtolling patience as the truest fortitude. Milt. biosa, Latin.] A plant.

Others try to divert the troubles of other men SCA'BROUS. adj. [scabreux, French; scoby pretty and plausible sayings, such as this, that ber, Latin.) if evils are long, they are but light. Tillotson.

1. Rongh; rugged; pointed on the surface. We poetick folks, who must restrain

Urine, black and bloody, is occasioned by Our measur'd sayings in an equal chain,

something sharp or scabrous wounding the small Have troubles utterly unknown to those,

blood-vessels : if the stone is sinooth and well Who let their fancy loose in rambling prose. bedded, this may not happen. Arbuthnot.

Prior. The sacred function can never be hurt by their

2. Harsh ; uninusical.

Lucretius is scabrous and rough in these : he seyings, if not first reproached by our doings.

seeks them, as some do Chaucerisms, which were

Atterbury. SCAB. n. s. [scæb, Saxon ; scabbia, Ital. SCA'BROUSNESS. n. s. [from scabrous.]

better expunged. schabbe, Dutch ; scabies, Latin.] 1. An incrustation formed over a sore by SCA'BWORT.'n. s. ( helenium.] A plant.

Roughness; ruggedness. dried matter. What's the matter, you dissentious rogues,

Ainsworth. That rubbing the poor itch of your opinion,

SCAD. N. S. A kind of fish. Probably the Make yourselves icabs?

Sbakspeare, same with shad.

tomer.

Ben Jonson:

tears.

Of Yound fish there are sprat, barn, smelts, I am scalded with my violent motion,
and scad.

Careτυ. And spleen of speed to see you. Skalspeare SCAFFOLD. n. s. [eschafaut, French ;

Q majesty!

When thou do'st pinch thy bearer, thou do'st siz schavot, Dutch; from schawen, to show.]

Like a'rich armour worn in heat of day, 1. A temporary gallery or stage raised

That scalds with safety.

Sbakspeare either for shows or spectators:

Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Pardon

Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears The flat unraised spirit, that haih dar'd

Do scald like molten lead. Sbukspeare. On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth

Here jhe blue flames of scalding brimstone fall, So grear an object.

Sbakspeare, Involving swiftly in one ruin all. Cowky.
The throng

That I grieve, 't is true ;
On banks and scafolds under sky might stand. But 't is a grief of fury, not despair!

Milion.

And if a manly drop or juo fall down, 2. The gallery raised for execution of It scalds along my cheeks, like the greenwood, great malefactors.

That, sputt'ring in the flame, works outward into Fortune smiling at her fortune therein, that

Dryden. a scaffold of execution should grow a scaffold of It depends not on his will to persuade himself, coronation.

Sidney, that what actually scalds him feels cold. I.ocke. 3. Irames of timber erected on the side of Warn cataplasms discuss; but scalding bot a building for the workmen.

mas

confirm the tumour: heat, in general, doth 'These outward beauties are but the props and

not resolve ard attenuate the juices of a human

body; for too great heat will produce concreSenfolds

tions.

Arbuthnot. On which we built our love, which, now made perfect,

The best thing we can do with Wood is to

scald him; Stands without those supports.

Denham.
Sylla added three hundred commons to the

For which operation there's nothing more proper

Than the liquor he deals in, his own melted copsenate; then abolished the office of tribune, as

per.

Swift. þeing only a scaffold to tyranny, whereof he had no further use.

Squift.

2. A provincial phrase in husbandry. TO SCA'FFOLD. v. a. (from the noun.]

In Oxfordshire, the sour land they fallow when

the sun is pretty high, which they call a scalding To furnish with frames of timber. ] fallow.

Mortimer, SCA'FFOLDAGE. n. s. [from scaffold.] SCALD. n. s. (from the verb.] Scurf on Gallery ; hollow floor.

the head. A strutting player doth think it rich

Her head, altogether bald, To hear the wooden dialogue and sound,

Was overgrown with scurff and filthy scald. Spens Twixt his stretch'd footing and the scaffoldage. SCALD. adj. Paltry ; sorry ; scurvy.

Shakspeare.

Saucy lictors SCAFFOLDING, H. s. [from scaffold.) Will catch at us like strumpets, and scald rhymers 1. Temporary frames or stages.

Ballad us out o' tune.

Sbakspeare. What are riches, empire, power,

SCA'LDHEAD. na s. [skalladur, bald, But steps by which we climb to rise, and reach

Islandick. Hicks.] A loathsome disease; Our wish? and, that obtain'd, down with the scaffolding

a kind of local leprosy in which the bead Of sceptres and of thrones.

Congreve.

is covered with a continuous scab. Sickness, contributing no less than old age to The serum is corrupted by the infection of the shaking down this scaffolding of the body,

the touch of á salt humour, to which the scab, may discover the inward structure.

pox, and scaldhead, are referable. Floyer 2. Buildings slightly erected.

SCALE. n. s. [scale, Saxon; schael, Send forth your lab'ring thought;

Dutch ; skal, Islandick.} Let it return with empty notions fraught, 1. A balance ; a vessel suspended by a Of airy columns every moment broke, Of circling whirlpools, and of spheres of smoke:

beain against another vessel; the dish of Yet this solution but once more affords

a balance. New change of terms and scaffolding of words.

If thou tak'st more
Prior.

Or less than just a pound, if the scale turn
SCALA'DE.? n. s. (French; scalada, Spa-

But in the estimation of a hair, SCALA'DO. nish, from scala, Latin, a

Thou diest. '

Shakspeara

Your vows to her and me, put in two scales; ladder.) A storm given to a place by Will even weigh, and both as light as tales. raising'ladders against the walls.

Shakspeare, What can be more strange than that we should Here's an equivocator, that could swear, in within two months have won one town of im. both the scales, agaiast either scale. Sbakspeare. portance by scalado, battered and assaulted an- Long time in even scale other, and overthrown great forces in the field? The battle hung.

Milton. Bacon, The world's scales are even ; what the main Thou raisedst thy voice to record the strata- In one place gets, another quits again. Cleavieland. gems, the arduous exploits, and the nocturnal The scales are turn'd, her kindness weighs Bo scalade of needy heroes, the terror of your peaceful citizens. Arbutbnot. Now than my vows.

Waller, SCA'LARY. adj. [from scala, Latin.] Pro

In full assemblies let the crowd prevail ; ceeding by steps like those of a ladder. I weigh no merit by the common scale, He made at nearer distances certain elevated

The conscience is the test.

Dryden. places and scalary ascents, that they might bet

If we consider the dignity of an intelligent fer ascend or mount their horses. Brown,

being, and put that in the scales against brure TO SCALD. v. a. (scaldare, Italian; calie

inanimate matter, we may affirm, without over

valuing human nature, that the soul of one vir dus, Latin.]

tuous and religious maa is of greater worth and 1. To burn with hot liquor.

excellency than the sun and his planets. Bentley,

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