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body is depreffed.-Thefe infects are very formi dable and noxious in the warm countries, where they grow to the length of a quarter of a yard or more, though in this climate they feldom grow above an inch long. The fcolopendra is alfo called the centipes from its number of feet. In the Eaft Indies it grows to fix inches in length, and as thick as a man's finger: it confifts of many joints; and from each joint proceeds a leg on each fide: they are covered with hair, and feem to have no eyes; but there are two feelers on the head, with which they find out the way they are to pafs: the head is very round, with two fmall sharp teeth, with which they inflict wounds that are very painful and dangerous. A failor that was bit by one on board a thip felt exceffive pain, and his life was fuppofed to be in danger; but by the application of roafted onions to the part he recovered. The bite of the SCOLOPENDRA MORSITANS, (See Plate CCXCV.) in Jamaica is faid to be as poifonous as the fting of a fcorpion.-Some of the fpecies live in holes in the earth: others under ftones, and among rotten wood; fo that the removing of thefe is exceedingly dangerous in the countries where the fcolopendra breed.-Thefe infects, like the fcorpion, are fuppofed to be produced perfect from the parent or egg, and to undergo no changes after their firft exclufion. They are found of all fizes; which is a fufficient reafon for believing that they preferve their first appearance through the whole of their exiftence. It is probable, however, that, like moft of this clafs, they often change their fkins; but of this we have no certain information. The fcolopendra forficata is the largest in this country, of a dun colour, fmooth, and compofed of wine fcaly fegments, without reckoning the head. The feet are 15 in number on each fide, and the laft longer than the reft, and turned backwards, form a kind of forky tail. The antennæ are twice the length of the head, and confift of 42 fhort fegments. The infect's progreffive motion is very quick, and fometimes ferpentine. It is found under ftones on the ground, under flower-pots and garden boxes.

SCOLUS, 1. An ancient town of Macedonia, near Olynthus: 2. A mountain of Boeotia. Strabo. SCOLYMUS, in botany, GOLDEN THISTLE; a genus of the polygamia æqualis order, belonging to the fyngenelia clafs of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 49th order, Compofita. The receptacle is paleaceous; the calyx imbricated and prickly, without any pappus.

SCOMBER, the MACKEREL, in ichthyology, a genus belonging to the order of thoracici. The head is imooth and compreffed, and there are feven rays in the gill membrane. There are ten fpecies; the moft remarkable are the following:

1. SCOMBER COMMUNIS, the Common MACKE REL, a fummer fifh of paffage that vifits our fhores in vaft fhoals. It is lefs ufeful than other fpecies of gregarious fish, being very tender, and unfit for carriage; but it may be preferved by pickling and fatting. (See FISHERY, 1.) It was great ly esteemed by the Romans, because it furnished the precious garum, a fort of pickle that gave a high relifh to their fauces; and was alfo ufed medicinally. It was drawn from different kinds of

fifh, but that made from the mackerel had preference: the beft was made at Carthage waft quantities of mackerel being taken near adjacent ifle, called from that circumftance Sco BRARIA, and the garum, prepared by a cert company in that city, bore a high price, and w diftinguished by the title of garum fociorun. T fifh is eafily taken by a bait; but the beft time during a fresh gale of wind, which is thence ca ed a mackerel gale. In the fpring the eyes mackerel are almoft covered with a white fil during which period they are half blind. Ti film grows in winter, and is caft the beginning fummer. It is not often that a mackerel excee two pounds in weight, yet there have been infta ces of fome that weighed upwards of 5. T nofe is taper and fharp pointed; the eyes larg the jaws of an equal length; the teeth fmall, b numerous. The form of this fish is very elegan The body is a little compreffed on the fides: t wards the tail it grows very flender, and a litt angular. It is a most beautiful fish when alive for nothing can equal the brilliancy of its colou which death impairs, but does not wholly obliterat

2. SCOMBER THUNNUS, the TUNNY. See FISH ERY, § 18. Thefe fish are caught in nets, an amazing quantities are taken; for they come i vaft fhoals, keeping along the fhores. They fre quent our coafts, but not in fhoals like the turnie of the Mediterranean. They are not uncommon in the lochs on the W. coaft of Scotland; where they come in pursuit of herrings; and often du ring night ftrike into the nets, and do confiderable damage. When the fishermen draw them up it the morning, the tunny rifes at the fame time to wards the furface, ready to catch the fish that drop out. On perceiving it, a strong hook baited with a herring, and faftened to a rope, is instantly flung out, which the tunny feldom fails to take As foon as hooked, it lofes all fpirit; and after a very little refiftance fubmits to its fate. It is drag ged to the fhore and cut up, either to be fold fre to people who carry it to the country markets, or preferved falted in large cafks. The pieces, when fresh, look exactly like raw beef; but when boiled turn pale, and have fomething of the fla vour of falmon. One that was taken when Mr Pennant was at Inverary in 1769, weighed 460 lb. The fish was 7 feet 10 inches long: the greatest circumference s feet 7; the leaft near the tail one foot fix. The body was round and thick, and grew fuddenly very fender towards the tail, and near that part was angular. The irides were of a plain green; the teeth very minute. The tail was in form of a crefcent; and 2 feet 7 inches be tween tip and tip. The fkin on the back was fmooth, very thick, and black. On the belly the fcales were visible. The colour of the fides and belly was filvery, tinged with cærulean and pale purple: near the tail marbled with grey. On the coaft of Scotland they are called mackrelsture; Mackrel, from being of that' and fart, from the Danish, flor, great. SCOMBRARIA, a fmall island in the Mediter ranean, at the entrance into the harbour of Carthagena; fo named from its coaft abounding with mackerel. See SCOMBER, N° 1.

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SCOMBRUS, a mountain of Thrace, near irmount Rhodope. Lempriere.

SCOMM. .f. [Perhaps from comma, Lat.] A buffoon. A word out of ufe, and unworthy of revival-The fcomms, or buffoons of quality, are wolrish in converfation. L'Eftrange.

SCONCE. .. [fchantz, German.] 1. A fort; a bulwark.-They will learn you by rote where fervices were done; at fuch and fuch a e, at fuch a breach. Shak., 2. The head: perhaps as being the acropolis, or citadel of the body. Alow word-Why does he suffer this rude knave how to knock him about the Sconce with a dirty hovel. Shak. 3. A penfile candlestick, generally with a looking-glafe to reflect the light. Golden fconces hang upon the walls. Dryden. Triumphant Umbriel on a fconce's height, Clapp'd his glad wings. Pope. Put candles into feonces. Swift. 4. A mulet, or

fine.

To SCONCE. v. a. [A word used in the univerfities, and derived plaufibly by Skinner, whofe etymologies are generally rational, from conce, as it faites the head; to fconce being to fix a fine on any one's head.] To mulct; to fine. A low word which ought not to be retained.

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(1) SCONE, or ScooN, an ancient town of Scotland, in Perthshire, remarkable for being the place where the kings were anciently crowned. Here was once an abbey of great antiquity, which was burnt by the reformers at Dundee. Kenneth pon his conqueft of the Picts in the 9th century, having made Scone his principal refidence, delivered his laws, called the Macalpine laws, from alu, named the Mote Hill of Scone. The old pice was begun by the earl of Gowrie; but was Capleted by Sir David Murray of Gofpatric, the favourite of K. James VI. to whom that monarch had granted it; and the new poffeffor in gratitude to bis benefactor put up the king's arms in feveral parts of the houfe. It is built around two courts. The dining room is large and handfome; od has an ancient and magnificent chimney-piece, and the king's arms, with this motto:

The modern house, including a very small portion of the ancient palace, is now (1812) completed, and forms one of the most magnificent houses in Scotland. The population of Scone, in 1795, was 466. The church erected in 1784 was taken down, and a new one built in 1804 upon the fame plan, decorated with an ancient family feat of the Stormonth family, the ancestors of the Earl of Mansfield, of very curious workmanship. Scone confifts of two ftreets, one of them very wide, where the crofs ftands. Scone lies 41 miles N. of Edinburgh, and 2 from Perth. Lon. 3. 10. W. Lat. 56. 28. N.

Nobis hec invicta miferunt centum sex proavi. Beneath are the Murray's arms. In the drawing room is fome good old tapeftry, with an excellent gare of Mercury. In a fmall bed-chamber is a medley fcripture piece in needle-work, with a border of animals, pretty well done, the work of queen Mary during her confinement in Loch Leren Cafle. The gallery is about 155 feet long, the top arched, divided into compartments filled with paintings in water-colours. The pieces reprefented are various kinds of huntings; that of Nimrod, and king James and his train, appear in every piece. Till the deftruction of the abbey, the kings of Scotland were crowned here, fitting in the famous marble chair which Edward I. tranfported to Weftminster abbey, to the great mortification of the Scots, who looked upon it as a kind of palladium. Charles II. before the battle of Worcester, was crowned in the chapel. The old pretender refided for fome time at Scone in 1715; and his fon paid it a vifit in 1745. Such Was the palace of Scone, till about the year 1803, that part of it was taken down and rebuilt in more modern style by the Earl of Mansfield.

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(2.) SCONE, a parish of Perthshire, fo named from the above ancient town. By the Highlanders it is pronounced Skain. It is bounded on the W. by the TAY, and its form is an irregular fquare, extending 3 miles from E. to W. as well as from N. to S. and containing a furface of fquare miles, or 4600 Scots acres. Of thefe about 3000 are under corn and grafs; 700 planted: 500 in common, in 1795; but fince divided, and the reft occupied by roads and villages, or not yet cultivated. The furface is in general level, but in many places forms fmall hills of eafy afcent. The whole, however, is arable, and exhibits a beautiful and cultivated appearance. The foil is partly a ftrong rich clay, partly light gravel and good loam. The whole is much improved, and produces all the ufual grain, roots, and green crops. The climate is mild, dry, and fo falubrious, that Scone has been ftyled, by a late eminent phyfician, the Montpelier of Perthshire. Longevity is therefore frequent. There are fix or feven quarries of excellent free-ftcne, of red, grey, and bluish colours, all fit for building. The population in 1795 was 1442; the increase 552 Ence 1755, owing to the increase of manufactures. The number of horfes was 203; of sheep, 160: and of black cattle 586. The breed of fheep and cattle has been much improved of late by the exertions of the countefs of Mansfield. A great part of the parish is inclosed. Two thirds of the produce are exported, befides falmon, linen, cloth, free-ftone, &c. There are feveral elegant gardens, particularly that of the E. of Mansfield. There is a good bleach-field on the banks of the Tay, with a house for the machinery, &c. oppofite Luncarty, called STORMONT FIELD, in honour of Lord Mansfield's former Scots title, confifting of about 130 acres. A canal about 3 miles long and 18 feet broad, cut at great expenfe through the fteep banks of the Tay, fupplies it abundantly with excellent water. At this field is bleached a great quantity of Britannias, Diapers, and other forts of linen and cotton cloth. cotton miln near the field. The only other manufacture is linen, which employs about so weavers. The famous Thomas Hay, the Scottifr CINCINNATUS, whofe courage occafioned the defeat of the Danes at the battle of LUNCARTY, A. D. 970, (See SCOTLAND,) and who became the founder of the noble families of the name of HAY, was a native of this parish. The village where he lived, and the veftiges of his houfe, are ftill pointed out. The late patriotic and learned Earl of Mansfield was alfo born in this parish at the palace of Scone, and not a Perth, as has been erroneously stated by his bio..

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David Swan therefore fuggefts, that a brid fhould be erected over it, as the great turnpi road to the E. coaft paffes through it.

graphers, from the circumftance of his having received the rudiments of his education in that city. See MURRAY, N° 6. Befides the antiquities of the palace above mentioned (in No 1.) and the crofs, there are & Druidical temples; relics of a Roman road; a hamlet called Bertha, where the ancient town of BERTHA stood; veftiges of a Roman camp, 535 yards in circumference, and of the old Abbey church; and a small artificial hill, called Omnis Terra, or Every Man's Land, form ed of earth brought by the Scottish barons in their boots from their refpective lands, by way of homage, when King Robert Bruce was crowned, and thrown together after the ceremony. See Sir J. Sinclair's Stat. Acc. Vol. XVIII. p. 85.

(3.) SCONE, or SCHONEN. See SCHONEN. SCOODICK, a river of the United States, in Washington county, Maine. It is properly an arm of the inner Bay of the Paffamaquoddy.

SCOON. See SCONE, N° 1.

(1.) SCONIE, or SKUNY, as fpent in old records, a parish of Scotland in Fife-fhire, 9 miles from Kirkcaldy; at the NE. extremity of which the 3 parishes of Scoonie, Largo, and Ceres, and the Prefbyteries of Kirkcaldy, Cupar, and St Andrew's, meet in one point. It is about 5 miles long from S. to N. and nearly two hroad. The ground rifes by a gentle flope from the Forth nearly to the N. end of the parish; and almost every part of it commands an extenfive and beautiful profpect of the Forth, Leith, Edinburgb, and the 3 Lothians, from Queensferry to St Abb's Head. The greateft part of the parish is inclosed; and there are no hills but only gentle eminences, adorned with clumps of planting. There are not above 10 acres of ground unarable. Two 3ds of the parish are partly a fharp dry foil, and partly a rich heavy loam; both yielding large crops of all the ufual grain and roots. The N. part is a moift black foil, moftly allotted to pasture. The climate is mild, except when the S. and SE. winds blow from the fea, which are fharp and penetrating. The parish is watered by and fometimes is named from the Leven, which alfo gives name to the borough, feated on its mouth. (See LEVEN, N° 4, and 6.) The population, in 1792, was 1675; increase 147 fince 1755. That of the borough was 1165.; the number of families 335. Coals abound. The chief manufacture is brown linen; but a confiderable quantity of it is whitened: 140 looms are employed in it. There is an extenfive bleachfield near the town; alfo a ropery; and a manufacture of shoes. The church is a neat modern building, with a ipire. The Gibfons of Durie were proprietors in this parifh for near two centuries; fome of whom were eminent in the law. One was Lord Regifter, and another a lord of Seffion, in the 17th century, and published a collection of Decifions of the Court. But the moft extraordinary native of this parifh was Jerome Stone. See STONE, No. 2.

(2.) SCOONIE, a fmall town in the above parish, 10 miles SW. of St Andrews, 9 S. of Cupar, and 17 NNE. of Edinburgh,

(3.) SCOONIE, a river, in the above parith, which, though fometimes in fummer it is almoft dry, yet in winter its waters often rife to fuch a height as to render it not fordable with fafety. The rev.

* SCOOP. n. s. [schoepe, Dutch.] 1. A kind large ladle; a veffel with a long handle ufed throw out liquor.-They turn upfide down hop on malt-kilns, when almoft dry, with a scoop. Mo timer. 2. A chirurgeon's inftrument.-Endeavou with thy scoop, or fingers, to force the ftone ou wards. Sharp. 3. A fweep; a ftroke. Perhape fhould be savoop.

What, all my pretty chichens and their dan At one fell scoop! Sha *To Scoop. v. a. [schoepen, Dutch.] 1. T lade out.

He scoop'd the water from the cryftal flood. Dryden 2. This word feems to have not been understood by Thomfon.

3.

The mountain cifterns fill, thofe ample ftore Of water scoop'd among the hollow rocks.

To empty by lading.

Thomfor

If fome penurious fource by chance appear'd
Scanty of waters, when you scoop'd it dry,
And offer'd the full helmet up to Cato,
Did he not dafh th' untáfted moisture from him?

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

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

To his fingle eye, that in his forehead glar'd,
A forky ftaff we dext'roully apply'd,
Which, in the fpacious focket turning round,
Scoopt out the big round jelly from its orb.

Addifor 5. To cut into hollownefs or depth.-Whatever part of the harbour they scoop in, it has an influ. ence on all the reft. Addison-Thofe carbuncles the Indians will scoop, fo as to hold above a pint. Arbuthnot.

The little race of birds that hop
From spray to spray, scooping the costlieft fruit.

Philips

The genius of the place Or helps th' ambitious hill the heav'n to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the vale. Pope * SCOOPER. n. s. [from scoop.] One who fcoops.

SCOPARIA, in botany, a genus of the mono gynia order, belonging to the tetrandria clafs of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 40th order, Personata. The calyx is quadripartite; the corolla the fame, and rotaceous; the capfule unilocular, bivalved, and polyfpermous.

SCOPAS, a celebrated Grecian architect and fculptor, a native of Ephefus, according to Lempriere, but Dr Watkins fays he was of the ifle of Paros. He flourished about A. A. C. 430. He built the famous MAUSOLEUM for Q. Artemifia, which was efteemed one of the 7 wonders of the world. See ARTEMISIA, N° 11. But his chief work was a ftatue of Venus, which he carried to Rome, where it was esteemed fuperior even to

that of PRAXITELES.

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Milton.

3. Room; fpace; amplitude of intellectual view. -An heroick poet is not tied to a bare reprefentation of what is true, but that he might let himTelf loofe to vifionary objects, which may give him a freer scope for imagination. Dryden.-Thefe theorems being admitted into opticks, there would be pe enough of handling that fcience voluminosy, after a new manner. Newton. 4. Liberty; freedom from reftraint.-Their axiom is not to take any place, fave in thofe things only where the church hath larger scope. Hooker.

Ab, cut my lace afunder,

SCOPPELLO, a town of France, in the department of the Sefia, and ci-devant province of Piedmont; in the valley of Sefia; 10 miles W. of Varabo.

*SCOPULOUS. adj. [scopulosus, Latin.] Full of rocks. Dia.

SCORBOLO, a town of France, in the late Parmefan; 6 miles ENE. of Parma.

*SCORBUTICALLY. adv. [from scorbutical.] With tendency to the fcurvy; in the fcurvy.-A woman of forty, scorbutically and hydropically affected, having a fordid ulcer, put herself into my hand. Wiseman.

*SCORBUTICAL. adj. [scorbutique, French; * SCORBUTICK. from scorbutus, Latin.] Difeafed with the fcurvy.-A perfon about forty, of a full and scorbutical body, having broke her fkin, endeavoured the curing of it. Wifeman.Violent purging hurts scorbutick conftitutions. Arbuthnot.

SCORBUTUS, the SCURVEY. See MEDICINE,

Index.

* SCORCE. n. s. This word is ufed by Spenfer for difcourfe, or power of reafon. In imitation perhaps of the Italians.

Lively vigour refted in his mind, And recompenfed him with a better scorce. Fairy Queen. (1.) To SCORCH. v. a. [scorened, Saxon, burnt.] 1. To burn fuperficially.-Fire scorchet

That my pent heart may have fome scope to in frofty weather. Bacon.beat;

Or elfe I fwoon with this killing news.

Shak.

5. Liberty beyond juft limits; licence.-
Sith 'twas my fault to give the people scope,
Twould be my tyranny to ftrike and gall them,
For what I bid them do.

Shak.

Being moody, give him line and scope. Shak. 6.Act of riot; fally.

Every scope, by the immoderate ufe, Turns to restraint.

Shak.

Davies.

Extended quantity.-The scopes of land granted to the firft adventurers were too large. 8. It is out of ufe, except in the three first fenfes. SCOPELO. See SCOPOLO. SCOFER HOLES. See SCUPPER. SCOPIA, USCAPIA, or USCUP, a town of European Turkey, in Servia, near Bofnia, on the Vardar, over which it has a bridge of 12 arches; the fee of a Greek archbishop; 56 miles SW. of ND, 67 W. of Sophia, and 120 ESE. of Ragufa. Lon. 22. 21. E. Lat. 42. 10. N. SCOPIUM, a town of Theffaly.

The fainty knights were scorch'd. Dryden 2. To burn.-Power was given to scorch men with fire. Rev. xvi. 8.

Safe from fun's heat, but scorch'd with beauty's beam.

Lightnings, which in ftorms appear,

Fairfax.

Waller

Scorch more than when the fkies are clear.

-The fame beams that fhine, scorch too. South.-
Like a giddy bird in dead of night,
Fly round the fire that scorches me to death.

Dryden,

Tortur'd by cruel change of wild defires, Lafh'd by mad rage, and scorch'd by brutal fires. Prior.

(2.) To SCORCH, v. n. To be burnt fuperficially; to be dried up.

The fwarthy Africans complain
To fee the chariot of the fun

Rofe.

So nigh their scorching country run. -The hunting followed properly, when the heats of that scorching country were declining. Dryden. SCOPOLIA, in botany, a genus of the octan--Scatter a little mungy ftraw or fern amongst dra order, belonging to the gynandria clafs of your feedlings, to prevent the roots from scorch plants; and in the natural method ranking under ing. Mort. the 11th clafs, Sarmentacea. The calyx is diphyl lous; the corolla quadrifid; the antheræ coalefce in two columns, one placed above the other, Of this there is only one fpecies, viz. SCOPOLIA

COMPOSITA.

SCOPCIO, or SCOPELO, a fertile island in the Grecian Archipelago, to miles long, and 5 broad; at the entrance of the Gulf of Salonichi. It conlains about 12,000 inhabitants, mostly Greeks; and abounds with wine, &c. Lon. 41. 36. E. of Ferro. Lat. 39. 29. N. VOL. XX. PART. I.

(1.) SCORCHING FENNEL... A plant. (2.) SCORCHING FENNEL is a fpecies of THAP SIA.

SCORDISCÆ, or an ancient people of PanSCORDISCI, nonia and Thrace, infamous for their barbarity during the reigns of the Roman emperors. They not only facrificed their prifoners to their gods, but drank their blood, Liv. 41, c. 19. Flor. iii. c. 4. Strabo, 7.

(1.) * SCORDIUM. n. s. [Latin.). An herb. Ainsworth. UL (2.)

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(2.) SCORDIUM, or WATER GERMANDER, in -botany, is a fpecies of TEUCRIUM.

*SCORE. n. 3. [scora, Inlandick, á mark, cut, or notch.] 1. A notch or long incifion. Our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally. Shak. 2. A line drawn. 3. An account, which, when writing was lefs common, was kept by marks on tallies, or by lines of chalk.

They fay he parted well, and paid his score.
Shak.

-Does not the earth quit scores with all the ele-
ments, in the fruits that iffue from it? South. 4.
Account kept of fomething paft; an epoch; an
era.-Univerfal deluges have fwept all away, ex-
cept two or three perfons, who begun the world
again upon a new score. Tillotson. 5. Debt im-
puted.-

That thou do'ft love her, ftrikes fome scores
away

From the great compt.

6. Reafon; motive.

Shak.

He had been prentice to a brewer, But left the trade, as many more Have lately done on the fame score. Hudib. A lion, that had got a politick fit of fickness, wrote the fox word how glad he fhould be of his company, upon the score of ancient friendship. L'Eftrange. If your terms are moderate, we'll never break off upon that score. Collier. 7. Sake; account; relative motive.

You at your kindness on Cydaria's score. Dryden. -Kings in Greece were depofed by their people npon the score of their arbitrary proceedings. Swift. 8. Twenty. I fuppofe, becaufe twenty, being a round number, was diftinguished on tallies by a long score.

How many score of miles may we well ride?
Shak.
The fewer ftill you name, you wound the

more;

Bond is but one; but Harpax is a score. Pope. -For fome scores of lines there is a perfect abfence of that spirit of poefy. Watts. 9. A song in SCORE. The words with the mufical notes of a fong annexed.

#To SCORE. V. a. 1. To fet down as a debt.
Inftead of five you scor'd me ten. Swift.

2. To impute; to charge.

Your follies and debauches change
With fuch a whirl, the poets of your age
Are tir'd, and cannot score 'em on the stage.

3. To mark by a line.

Dryden.

Haft thou appointed where the moon fhould rife,

Scor'd out the bounded fun's obliquer ways?

Sandys. (r.) * SCORIA. n. f. [Latin] Drofs; recrement. The scoria, or vitrified part, which most metals, when heated or melted, do continually protrude to the furface, and which, by covering the metals in form of a thin glaffy fkin, caufes thefe colours, is much denfer than water. Newton.

(2.) SCORIA, or DROSS, among metallurgifts, is the recrement of metals in fufion; or the mafs produced by melting metals and ores: when cold,

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Scorn and derifion never come in tears. S -If we draw her not unto us, the will laugh to scorn. Jud.-Diogenes was afked in What was the matter that philofophers han rich men, and not rich, men philofophers? anfwered, Becaufe the one knew what they wa ed, the others did not. Bacon.-Whofoever b any thing in his perfon that induces contem hath alfo a perpetual fpur to refcue himself fr scorn: therefore all deformed perfons are bo Bacon.as being on their own defence as expofed to

Every fullen frown and bitter scorn, But fann'd the fuel that too faft did burn. Dryd 2. Subject of ridicule; thing treated with c tempt.-Is it not a moft horrid ingratitude, th to make a scorn of him that made us? Tillot for. Numidia's

grown a scorn. among the nation For breach of publick vows. Addife 3. To think SCORN. To difdain; to hold u worthy of regard. Not now in ufe.-I know reafon why you should think scorn of him. Side -Think no scorn of me. Pf. xxviii. 1. 4. To laug to SCORN. To deride as contemptible. He the fitteth in the heavens fhall laugh them to stor Psalms.

(1.) To SCORN. v. a. [schernen, Dutch; escor to vilify; to contemn. My friends scorn m ner, French.] To defpife; to flight; to revie Job, xvi. 20.

(2.) To SCORN, v. n. 1. To fcoff; to trea with contumely.

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my now, I am remember'd, scorn'd at me. Sbak -Our foul is filled with the scorning of thole that are at ease. Pf. cxxiii, 4. 2. To difdain; to think

unworthy.

He scorn'd to think of night. Crafbac Fame, that delights around the world to ftray, 3. To defpife; to contemn. Surely he scorne Scorns not to take our Argos in her way. Pop the fcorner. Prov.

Back to th' infernal pit I drag thee chain'd, And feal thee fo as henceforth not to storn The facile gates of hell too flightly barr'd. Milton 4. To neglect; to difregard.

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