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How hare I wearicd, with many a stroke, Juno pours out the urn, and Vulcan claims The stately walnut-tree, the while the rest The scales, as the just product of his fames.

Urider the tree fell all for nuts at strife! Sperset.

Creech. They assailed the breach, and others with cheir 3. (escaille, French ; squama, Lat.) Small

scaling ladders scaled the walls.

Knolles. shell or crust, of which many lying one

The way seems difficult, and steep, tu scale

With upright wing against a higher foe. Miltort. over another make the coats of fishes.

Heav'n with these engines had been scald, He puts him on a coat of mail,

When mountains heap'd on mountains fail'd. Which was made of fish's scale. Drayton.

Waller Standing aloof, with lead they bruise the scales, When the bold Typheus scal'd the sky, And tear the flesh of the incensed whales. Waller. And forc'd great love from his own heav'n to fly, 4. Any thing exfoliated or desquamated ; The lesser gods ali sutier'd.

Dryden. a thin lamina.

2. [from scale, a balance.] To measure or Take jet and the scales of iron, and with a wet compare ; to weigh. feather, when the smith hath taken an heat, take

You have found, up the scales that fly from the iron, and those Scaling his present bearing with his past, seals you shall grind upon your painter's stone. That he's your fixed enemy. Sbakspeare.

Peacban.

3. [from scale of a fish.) To strip of When a scale of bone is taken out of a wound, burning retards the separation. Sburg.

scales ; to take off in a thin lamina.

Raphael was sent to scale away the whiteness s. [scala, a ladder, Lat.] Ladder ; means

of Tobit's eyes.

Tobit. of ascent.

4. To pare off a surface. Love refiaes

If all the mountains were scaled, and the The thoughts, and heart enlarges; hath his seat earth made even, the waters would not overIn reason, and is judicious; is the scale

flow its smooth surfacc.

Burnet. By which to heav'nly love thou may'st ascend. To SCALE, v. 1). To peel off in thin par.

Milton. On the bendings of these mountains the marks

ticies. of several ancient scales of stairs may be seen, by

Those that cast their shell are the lobster and which they used to ascend them. Addison.

crab; the old skins are found, but the old shells 6. The act of storming by ladders.

never; so as it is like they scale off, and crumble Others to a city strong away by degrees.

Bacon. Lay siege, encamp'd; by bate'ry, scale, and mine

SCHED. adj. [from scale.] Squamous ; Assaulting.

Milton. having scales Tike fishes. 1. Regular gradation ; a regular series

Half my Egypt was submerg'd, and made rising like a ladder,

A cistern for scald snakes. Shakspeare. Well hast thou the scale of nature set,

SCALENE. 11. s.[French; scalenun, Lat.) From centre to circumference; whereon

in geometry, a triangle that has its three In contemplation of created things,

sides unequal to each other. Bailey. By steps we may ascend to God. Miltan. SCA'LINESS. n. s. [from scaly.] The state

The scale of the creatures is a matter of high speculation.

Grecu.

of being scaly. The higher nature still advances, and preserves SCALL. n. s. [skalladur, bald, Islandick. his superiority in the scale of being. Addison. See SCALDHEAD.] Leprosy ; morbid

All the integral parts of nature have a beauti- baldness. ful analogy to one another, and to their mighty Upon thy bald hede maist thou have the scoll. original, whose images are more or less expres

Chaucer. sive, according to their several gradations in the It is a dry scall, a leprosy upon the head. Lev. scale of beings.

Cheyne. SCA'lison.n. so scalogna, Italian; ascaWe believe an iovisible world, and a scale of spiritual beings all nobler than

ourselves. Bentley. Sca'klop. n. 5. (escallop, French, ] A fiska

lonia, Latin.] A kind of onion. Far as creation's ample range extends, The scale of sensual mental pow'rs ascends.Pope.

with a hollow pectinated shell. 8. A figure subdivided by lines like the

So ch' emperour Caligula, steps of a ladder, which is used to mea

That trium.ph'd o'er the British sea, sure proportions between pictures and

Engag'd his legions in fierce bustles

With periwincies, prawns, and muscles; the thing represented.

And led his troops with furious gallops, The map of London was set out in the year To charge whole regiments of scallops. Hudibrasa 165%, by Mr. Newcourt, drawn by a scale of The sand is in Scilly glistering, which may be yards.

Graurt. occasioned from freestone mingled with white 2. The series of harmonick or musical pro

scallop shells.

Mortimer. portions.

To SCA'llop. v. a. To mark on the edge The bent of his thoughts and reasonings run with segments of circles. up and down this scale, chat no people can be happy but under good governments.

SCALP. n. s. [schelpe, Dutch, a shell; Temple.

scalpo, Italian.) 10. Any thing marked at equal distances. They take the fow o'th' Nile

1. The scull; the cranium ; the bone that By certain scale i' th' pyramid: they know

encloses the brain. By th' height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth

High brandishing his bright dew-burning blade, Or foizon follow.

Shakspeare.

Upon his crested scalp so sore did smite, TO SCALE. v. a. [scalare, Italian.]

That to the scull a yawning wound it made.

Fuiry Queen 1. [from scala, a ladder.] To climb as by If the fracture be not complicated with a vond ladders.

of the scalp, or the wound is too small to admit of Often have I scal'd the craggy oak,

the operation, the fracture must be laid bar: by All to dislodge the raven of ber nest;

saking away a large piece of the sen! :)

strow

scan

2. The integuments of the head:

Be quick, nay very quick, or he 'll approach, White beards have arm'd their thiri and hair

And, as you 're scamp'ring, stop you in your less scalps.

coach.

King. Against thy majesty:

Sbakspeare. To SCAN. v. a. (scandre, Fr. scando, Lat.] The hairy scalps

1. To examine a verse by counting the Are whirld aloof, while numerous trunks be- feet.

Harry, whose tuneful and well-measur’d song Th' ensanguin'd field.

Pbilips.

First taught our English musick how to span TO SCALP. v. a. [from the noun.] To Words with just note and accent, not to scan deprive the scull of its integuments. With Midas' ears, committing short and long.

Milton. We seldom enquire for a fracture of the scull by scalping, but that the scalp itself is contused. They scan their verses upon their fingers. Sbarp.

Walsb. SC A'LPEL. n. š. (French; scalpellum,

2. To examine nicely. Latin.] An instrument used to scrape

So he goes to heav'ni, a bone by chirurgeons.

And so am I reveng'd: that would be scann'd.

Sbakspeare. Sca'ly. adj. [from scale.] Covered with

The rest the great architect scales.

Did wisely to conceal; and not divulge The river horse and scaly crocodile. Milton. His secrets to be scann'd by them, who ought His awful summons they so soon obey;

Rather admire.

Milten, So hear the scaly herd when Proteus blows, Every man has guilt, which he desires should And so to pasture follow through the sea. Dryd. not be rigorously scanned; and therefore, by the

A scaly fish with a forked tail. Woodward. rule of charity and justice, ought not to do that TO SCA‘MBLE. v. n. (This word, which which he would not suffer. Gov.of the Tongue.

is scarcely in use, has much exercised At the final reckoning, when all men's actions the etymological sagacity of Meric Ca

shall be scanned and judged, the great King shall saubon; but, as is usual, to no purpose.]

pass his sentence, according to the good men

have done, or neglected to do. Calamy. 1. To be turbulent and rapacious ; to Sir Roger exposing his palm, they crumpled

scramble; to get by struggling with it into all shapes, and diligently scanned every others.

wrinkle that could be made in it. Addison. Have fresh chaff in the bin,

One moment and one thought might let him And somewhat to scamble for hog and for hen.

Tusser. The various turns of life, and fickle state of man. Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys,

Prior. That lie, and cog, and Hout, deprave and slander. The actions of men in high stations are all con

Sbakspeare.

spicuous, and liable to be scanned and sifted. That self bill is urg'd, and had against us past,

Atterbury But that the scambling and unquiet time, SCANDAL. n. s. [créeydan.sy; scandle, Fr.] Did push it out of further question. Shakspeare.

1. Offence given by the faults of others. He was no sooner entered into the town but

His lustful orgies he enlarg'd a scambling soldier clapt hold of his bridle, which

Even to the hill of scandal, by the grove he thought was in a begging or a drunken fashion.

Of Moloch homicide.

Milton Wotton. 2. To shift awkwardly.

2. Reproachful aspersion ; opprobrious Some scambling shifts may be made without

censure ; infamy. them.

More.

If black scandal, or foul-fac'd reproach, TO SCA'MBLE. v. a. To mangle; to maul.

Attend the sequel of your imposition,

Your mere enforcement shall acquittance me My wood was cut in patches, and other parts of it scambled and cut before it was at its growth.

From all the impure blots and stains thereof. Sbak.

My known virtue is from scandal free,
Mortimer.

And leaves no shadow for your calumny. Dryd. SC A'MBLER. n.'s. [Scottish.] A bold in

In the case of scandal, we are to reflect how truder upon one's generosity or table. men ought to judge.

Rogers, SCA'M BLINGLY. adv. (from scambling.) T. SCA'NDAL. v.a. [from the noun.] To With turbulence and noise; with intru

treat opprobriously; to charge falsely sive audaciousness.

with faults. SCAMMO'NIATE, adj. [from scammony.]

You repin'd, Made with scammony.

Scandal'd the suppliants; for the people callid It may be excited by a local, scammoniate, or

them other acrimonious medicines. Wiseman. Time-pleasers, flatterers. Sbakspeare. SCA'MMONY. n. s. (Latin ; scammoneé,

I do fawn on men, and hug them hard,

And after scandal them. French.] A concreted resinous juice,

Sbakspeare. light, tender, friable, of a greyish-brown

TO SCA'NDALIZE. v. a. (ourvoarizw; scancolour, and disagreeable odour. It daliser, French ; from scandal.] flows upon incision of the root of a kind 1. To offend by some action supposed of convolvulus, that grows in many

criminal. parts of Asia.

Trevoux.

I demand who they are whom we scandalize SCA'MPER. v. n. (schampen, Dutch ;

by using harmless things? Among ourselves, that

agree in this use, no man will say that one of us scampare, Italian.) To fly with speed is offensive and scandalousunto another. Hooker, and trepidation.

It had the excuse of some bashfulness, and care A fox seized upon the fawn, and fairly scam- not to scandalize others,

Hammond. pered away with him.

L'Estrange Whoever considers the injustice of some miniYou will suddenly take a resolution, in your sters, in those intervals of parliament, will not cabinet of Highlanders, to scamper off with your be scandalized at the warmth and vivacity of those new crown, Addison. meetings.

Clarendon.

. To reproach ; to disgrace; to defame.

long attendance, received of the bankers scant Thou do'st appear to scandalize

twenty shillings for thirty.

Camden. The publick right, and common cause of kings,

We scant read in any writer, that there have Daniel.

been seen any people upon the south coast. Abbot. Many were scandalized at the personal slander

wild pamphlet, besides other malignities, and reflection flung out by scandalizing libellers.

would scant allow him to be a gentleman. Wotton. Addison.

O'er yonder hill does scant the dawn appear. SCA'NDALOUS. adj. [scandaleux, French; SCA'NTILY. adv. [from scanty. ]

Gay. from scandal.]

1. Narrowly; not plentifully 1. Giving publick offence. Nothing scandalous offensive unto any, espe

2. Sparingly; niggardly. cially unto the church of God: all things in or

He spoke der, and with seemliness.

Hooker.

Scantily of me, when perforce he could not Something savouring

But pay me terms of honour.

Sbakspeare. Of tyranny, which will ignoble make you,

SCA'NTINESS. n. s. [from scanty.] Yea, scandalous to the world. Sbakspeare. 1. Narrowness; want of space; want of 2. Opprobrious ; disgraceful.

compass. S. Shameful; openly vile.

Virgil has sometimes two of them in a line; You know the scandalous meanness of that

but the scantiness of our heroick verse is not caproceeding, which was used.

Pope.

pable of receiving more than one. Dryden. SCA'NDALOUSLY.adv. (from scandalous.] 2. Want of amplitude or greatness; want 1. Shamefully ; ill to a degree that gives of liberality. publick offence.

Alexander was much troubled at the scantiHis discourse at table was scandalously unbe

ness of nature itself, that there were no more worlds for him to disturb.

South, coming the dignity of his station; noise, brutality, and obsceneness.

Swift.

SCA'NTLET. n. s. (corrupted, as it seems, 2. Censoriously; opprobriously.

from scantling.] A small pattern ; a Shun their fault, who, scandalously nice, small quantity; a little piece. Will needs mistake an author into vice. Pope. While the world was but thin, the ages of SCA'NDALOUSNESS. n. s. [from scandal- mankind were longer; and as the world grew cus.] The quality of giving publick

fuller, so their lives were successively reduced offence.

to a shorter scan:let, 'till they came to that time of lite which they now have.

Hale. Sca'ssion.n. s. [scansio, Latin.] The act SCA'NTLING. n. s. [eschantillon, French ; or practice of scanning a verse.

ciantellino, Italian.) TO SCANT. v. a. (gescænan, Saxon, to 1. A quantity cut for a particular purpose.

break; skaaner, Danish, to spare.] To "Tis hard to find out a woman that's of a just limit; to straiten.

scantling for her age, humour, and fortune, to , You think make a wife of.

L'Estrange I will your serious and great business scant, 2. A certain proportion. For she is with me.

Shakspeare.

The success, They need rather to be scanted in their nourish

Although particular, shall give a scantling ment than replenished, to have them sweet. Of good or bad unto the general. Shakspeare.

. We might do well to think with ourselves; 3. A small quantity. what time of stay we would demand, and he bade

Reduce desires to narrow scantlings and small proportions.

Taylor, us not to scant ourselves.

Bacon. Looking on things through the wrong end of

A scantling of wit lay gasping for life, and the perspective, which scants their dimensions,

groaning beneath a heap of rubbish. Dryden.

In this narrow scantling of capacity, we enjoy we neglect and contemn them. Glanville. Scarve them, but one pleasure at once.

Locke. For fear the rankness of the swelling womb

SCA'NTLY. adv. (from scant. ] Should scant the passage, and contine the room. 1. Scarcely ; hardly. Obsolete.

Dryden.

England, in the opinion of the popes, was preI am scanted in the pleasure of dwelling on

ferred, because it contained in the ecclesiastical your actions.

Dryden. division two large provinces, which had their Scant. adj. (from the verb.)

several legati nati; whereas France had scantly

Camden. 1. Not plentiful; scarce ; less than what is proper or competent. White is a penurious colour, and where mois

plitude. ture is scant: so blue violets, and cther flowers,

My eager love, I 'll give myself the lie; if they be starved, turn pale and white. Bacon.

The very hope is a full happiness, A single violet transplant :

Yet scantly measures what I shall possess. Dryd. The strength, the colour, and the size,

SCA'NTNESS. n. s. (from scant.] Narrowe All which before was poor and scant,

ness ; meanness; smallness. Redoubles still and multiplies.

Donne, He was a man fierce, and of no evil disposition, To find out that,

saving that he thought scantness of estate too In such a scant allowance of star-light,

great an evil.

Hayward Would over-task the best land-pilot's art. Milt.. Did we but compare the miserable scantness of 2. Wary; not liberal; parsimonious. our capacities with the vast profundity of things, From this time,

truth and modesty would teach us wary language. Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence.

Glanville. Shakspeare. SCA'nty. adj. [The same with scant.) SCANT. adv.(from the adjective.] Scarce- 1. Narrow; small; wanting amplitude ; . ly; hardly. Obsolete.

short of quantity sufficient. The people, beside their travail, charge, and As long as one can increase the number, he

one.

Drowly; penuriously; without am

will think iñe idea he hath a little too scan's' for The viscera were counterpoised with the weight
positive infinity.
Locke. of the scapular part.

Derbame
His dominions were very narrow and scanty; SCAR n. s. (from eschar, escare,

French; for he had not the possession of a foot of land,

loxoprz] A mark made by a hurt or Prill he bought a field of the sons of Heth. Locke.

fire; a cicatrix. Itow scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile and

Scratch thee but with a pin, and there remains

Some scar of it.
Rhine;

Shakspearila

The soft delicious air,
A small Eupărates through the piece is rollid;
And liccle eagles wave their wigs in gold. Paper

To heal the scars of these corrosive fires,
Shall breache her balm.

Miltch. 2. Small; poor; not copious; not ample.

It riay be struck out of the omnisciency of Their language being sranty, and accommodat.

God, and leave no scer nor blemish bebind. ed only to the few necessaries of a needy sim

More plc lite, had no words in it to stand for a chou.

This earth had the beauty of youth and bloom sand.

Locke.

ing nature, and not a wrinkle, scar, or fracture, There remained few marks of the old tradi

on all its body.

Burnet. cio:1, so they had narrow and scanty conceptions

In a hemorrhage from the lungs, stypticks are of providence.

Woodrvard,

often insignificant; and if they could operate 3. Sparingly; niggardly; parsimonious upon the affected part, so far as to make a scar,

In illustrating a point of difficulty, be not too when that fell off, the disease would return. scanty of words, but rather become copious in

Arbuthnot, your language.

Watts. To SCAR. v. a. (from the noun.] To They wich such scanty wages pay

mark as with a sore or wound. The bondage and the slavery of years. Swift.

Yet I 'll not shed her blood,
To SCAPE. v. a. (contracted from escape.] Nor scar that whiter skin of her's than snow,

To escape ; to miss; to avoid ; to shun; And smooth as monumental alabaster. Sbaksp. not to incur; to fly.

SCA'R AB. n. so (scarabee, Fr. scarabæus, What, have I scaped love-letters in the holy- Lat.) A beetle ; an insect with sheathday time of my beauty, and am I now a subject ed wings. for them?

Sbakspears. A small scarab is bred in the very tips of elmI doubt not but to die a fair death, if I scape leaves: these leaves may be observed to be dry hanging

Sbakspeare. and dead, as also turgid, in which lieth a dirty, What can 'scape the eye

whitish, rough maggot, from which proceeds Of God all-seeing ? Milton. beetle.

Derban, To SCAPE. v. n. To get away from hurt SCA'R AMOUCA. n. so [excarmouche, Fr.] or danger.

A buffoon in motiy dress. Could they not fall unpity'd on the plain,

It makes the solemnities of justice pageantry, But, slain, révive, and, taken, scape again ? Dryd. and the bench reverend puppets or scaramouches SCAFE. ". s. (from the verb.]

in scarlet.

Collier. 1. Escape ; flight from hurt or danger; SCARCĘ. adj. [scarso, Italian ; sebaers,

the act of declining or running from Dutch.) danger ; accident of safety.

1. Not plentiful; not copious. I spoke of most disast'rous chances,

A Swede will no more sell you his hemp for Of hair-breadth scapes in th' imminent deadly less silver, because you tell him silver is scarcer breach.

Shakspeare. now in England, and therefore risen one-6fth in 2. Means of escape; evasion.

value, than a tradesman of London will sell his Having purpos'd falsehood, you

commodity cheaper to the Isle of Man, because Can have no way but falschood to be true! money is scarce there.

Locke. Vain lunatick, against these scapes I could 2. Rare; not common. Dispute, and conquer, if I would.

Donne. The scarcest of all is a Pescennius Niger on a 3. Negligent freak; deviation from regu. medalliou well preserved.

Addison. larity.

. ] No natural exhalation in the sky, No scape of nature, no distehiper'd day, i, Hardiy; scantly. But they will pluck away its nat'ral cause,

A thing which we so little hoped to see, that And call them meteors, prodigies, and signis. even they which beheld it done scarcely believed Sbakspeare. thcir own senses.

Hocker. 4. Loose act of vice or lewdness.

When we our betters see bearing our woes, A bearne! a very pretty bearne! sure some We scarcely think our miseries our foes. Sbaks. soape: though I am not bookish, yet I can read Age, which unavoidably is but one remove waiting-gentlewoman in the scape. Sbakspeare. froin death, and consequently should have noThou lurk’dst

thing about it but what looks like a decent preIn valley or green meadow, to way-lay

paration for it, scerce ever appears, of late days: bome beauty rare, Calisto, Clymene:

but in the high mode, the flaunting garb, and ut

South Too long thou laid'st thy scapes on names ador'd. most gaudery of youth.

Milton. You neither have enemies, nor can scarce have SC A'PULA. n. s. (Lat.] The shoulder

any:

Dryden blade.

2. With difficulty. The heat went off from the parts, and spread He scarcely knew him, striving to disown

His blotted form, and blushing to be known. up higher to the breast and scapula. Wiseman.

Dryder SCAPULAR. | adj. (sfapulaire, Fr. from scapula, Lat.) Relating

Slowly he sails, and scarcely stems the tides;

The pressing water pours within her sides. or belonging to the shoulders.

The humours dispersed through the branches SCA'RCENES5. of the axillary artery to the scapulary branches.

1. s. [from scarce.] Wiseman,

SCA'RCITY.

SCA'RCELY. } adv. [from the adjective.]

SCA'PULARY.}

Drida

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master.

I. Smallness of quantity ; not plenty ; The drum and trumpet, by their several penury:

sounds, serve for many kind of advertisements; Scarcity and want shall shun you;

and bells serve to proclaim a scarcfire, and in Ceres' blessing so is on you.

Sbakspeare.
some places water-breaches.

Holder. Raphael writes thus concerning his Galatea: SCARF. 1. s. [escharfe, fr.] Any thing to paint a fair one, 't is necessary for me to see that hangs loose upon the shoulders or many fair ones; but, because there is so great a dress. scarcity of lovely women, I am constrained to

The matrons flung their gloves, make use of one certain idea, which I have Ladies and maids their scarfs and handkerchiefs, formed in my fancy.

Dryden.
Upon him as he pass'd.

Sbakspeare. Corn does not rise or fall by the differences of

Will you wear the garland about your neck, more or less plenty of money, but by the plenty or under your arm, like a lieutenant's scarf? and scarcity that God sends. Loike.

Sbakspeare. In this grave age, when comedies are few,

Iris there, with humid bow,
We crave your patronage for one that 's new, Waters th'odorous banks, that blow
And let the starceness recommend the fare. Flowers of more mingled hew
Addison. Than her purfled scarf can show.

Miltour. They drink very few liquors that have not Titian, in his triumph of Bacchus, having placLain in fresco, insomuch that a scarcity of snow ed Ariadne on one of the borders of the picture, would raise a mutiny at Naples. Addison.

gave her a scarf of a vermilion colour upon a 2. Rareness; infrequency; not common

blue drapery.

Dryden.

The ready nymphs receive the crying child; ness.

They swath'd him with their scarfs. Dryden. They that find fault with our store, should be

My learned correspondent writes a word in least willing to reprove our scarcity of thanks- defence of large scarves.

Spectator. givings.

Hooker.

Put on your hood and scarf, and take your Since the value of an advantage is enhanced

pleasure.

Swift. by its scarceness, it is hard not to give a man

To SCARF. v. a. [from the noun.] leave to love that most which is most serviceable.

Collier.

1. To throw loosely on. TO SCARE. v. a. [scorare, Ital. Skinner.]

My sea-gown scarft about me, in the dark

Grop'd I to tind them out. Shakspeare. To fright; to frighten ; to affright; to

2. To dress in any loose vesture. terrify; to strike with sudden fear.

How like a younker, or a prodigal,
They have scared away two of my best sheep,
which, I fcar, the wolf will sooner find than the

The scarfed bark puts from her native bay,
Sbakspeare.
Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind!

Shakspeare. My grained ash an hundred times hath broke,

Come, seeling night, And scar'd the moon with splinters. Sbakspeare.

Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day. Shaksp. The noise of thy cross-bow Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost.

SC A'R FSKIN. 1. s. [scarf and skin.] The Sbakspeare.

cuticle; the epidermis; the outer scaly Scarecrows are set up to keep birds from corn integuments of the body. and fruit; and some report that the head of a The scarfskin, being uppermost, is composed wolf, whole, dried, and hanged up in a dove- of several lays of small scales, which lie thicker house, will scare away vermin.

Bacon. according as it is thicker in one part of the body The wing of the Irish was so grievously either than another: between these the excretory ducts galled or scared therewith, that, being strangers, of the miliary glands of the true skin open. and in a manner neutrals, they had neither good

Cheyne. heart to go forward, nor good liking to stand SCARIFICA’TION. n. s. [scarificatio, Lat. still, nor good assurance to run away. Hayward.

scarification, Ir. from scarify.] Incision One great reason why men's good purposes so often fail, is, that when they are devout, or scar

of the skin with a lancet, or such like ed, they then in the general resolve to live re

instrument. It is most practised in cupligiously.

Calamy.
ping.

Quincy. Let wanton wives by death be scar'd;

Hippocrates tells you, that, in applying of cups, But, to my comfort, I'm prepar'd. Prior. the scarification ought to be made with crooked

instruments.

Arbutbrot. SCARECROW. n. s. [scare and crow.) An

SCARIFICA'TOR. n. s. [from scarify.] image or clapper set up to fright birds :

One who scarifies. thence any vain terrour.

SCA'RIFIER. N. s. [from scarify.] Thereat the scarecrow waxed wond'rous proud,

I. He who scarifies. Through fortune of his first adventure fair, And with big thundering voice revil'd nim loud. 2. The instrument with which scarifica.

Spenser.

tions are made. No eye hath seen such scarecrows: 1'll not To SCA'RIFY. v. a. [scarifico, Lat. scari. march through Coventry with them, that's fiat.

Shakspeare.

fier, Fr.] To let blood by incisions of We must not make a scarecrow of the law,

the skin, commonly after the applicaSetting it up to fear the birds of prey,

tion of cupping-glasses. And let it keep one shape, 'till custom make it

Washing the salts out of the eschar, and scar:Their pearch, and not their terrour.

Sbaksp.
fying it, I dressed it.

Wiseman. Many of those great guns, wanting powder

You quarter foul language upon me, without and shot, stood but as cyphers and scarecrowus.

knowing whether I deserve to be cupped and Raleigh. scarified at this rate.

Spectator. A scarecrow set to frighten fools away. Dryd. SCARLET. n. s. [escarlate, Fr. scarlato, SCA'R E PIRE. n. s. [scare and fire.] A Italian.] A colour compounded of red

fright by fire; a fire breaking out so as and yellow; cloth dyed with a scarlet to raise terrour.

colour. VOL. IV.

D.

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