s. To rub hard with any thing rough, in 3. To be purged or lax ; to be diseased order to clean the surface. with looseness. I were better to be eaten to death with a rust, Some apothecaries, upon stamping coloquinthan to be scour'd to nothing with perpetual tida, have been put into a great scouring by the motion. Sbakspeare. Bacon. By dint of sword his crown he shall increase, Convulsion and scouring, they say, do often And scour his armour from the rust of peace. cause one another. Grauni. Dryder. If you turn sheep into wheat or rye to teed, Part scour the rusty shields with seam, and part let it not be too rank, lest it make them scour. New grind the blunted ax, and point the dart. Mortimer. Dryden. Some blamed Mrs. Bull for grudging a quarter 4. To rove; to range. of a pound of soap and sand to scour the rooms. Barbarossa, scouring along the coast of Italy, Arbuthnot. struck an exceeding terror into the minds of the citizens of Rome. Kolles. Poor Vadius,long with learnedspleen devour'd, Can taste no pleasure since ilis shield was scour'd. 5. To run here and there. Pope. The enemy's drum is heard, and fearful scoure 2. To purge violently. Dth choak the air with dust. Sbakspeare. 3. To cleanse; to blcach ; to whiten ; to blanche. 6. To run with great eagerness and swiftIn some lakes the water is so nitrous, as if foul ness; to scamper. clothes : e put into it, it scourith them of itself; She from him fied with all her pow'r, and, if they stay, they roulder away. Bacon. Who after her as hastily 'gan scorr. Fairy Qu. A gar un-worm shel: be well scored eight I saw men se ur so on their way: I ev'd them days in inoss, be are you fish with him. Walion. Even to their ships. Shakspeare. Beneath the lainp her tawdiy ribbons glare, Word was brought him, in the middle of his The new scour'd manteau, and the slattern air. schemes, that's house was robbed; and so away Gay. he siours to learn the truth. L'Estrange. 4. To reinove by scouring. If they be men of fraud, they'll scour off ther:Never came reformation in a flood selves, and leave those that trust then to pay the reckoning L'Estrange. With such a heady current, scouring faults; So four fierce coursers, starting to the race, Nor ever hydra-beaded wilfulness So soon did lose his seat, and all at once, Scour through the plain, and lengthen ev'ry pace; As in this king. Shakspeare. Nor reins, nor curbs, nor threat'ning cries, they fear, I will wear a garment all of blood, "And stain my tavour in a bloody mask, But force along the trembling charioteer. Dryd. As soon as any foreign object presses upon the Which, wash'd away, shall scour my shame with it. Shakspeare. sense, those spirits, which are posted upon the Then, in the clemency of upward air. out-guards, immediately take the alarm, and scour off to the brain, wbich is the head quarters. We'll scour our spots, and ine dire thunder's Collier. Dryden, Swift at her call her husband scour'd away, s. [scorrere, Italian.] To rangé about, in order to catch or drive away something; SCOU'RER. 1.5. [from scour.] To wreak his hunger on the destin'd prey. Pepe. to clear away The kings of Lacedemon having sent out some 1. One that cicans by rubbing. gallies, under the charge of one of their ne- 2. A purge, rough and quick. phews, to scour the sea of the pirates, they met 3. One who runs swiftly. Sidney. Divers are kept continually to scour these seas, SCOURGE. 11. s. [escourgée, Fr. scoresgia, infested greatly by pirates. Sants. Italian; corrigia, Latir.] If with thy guards thou scour'st the streets by 1. A whip; a lash; an instrument of disnigni, cipline. And dost in murders, rapes, and spoils, delight, When he bad made a scourge of small cords, Please not thyself the flatt'ring crowd to hear. he drove them all out of the temple. Fobn. Dryden. 6. To pass swiftly over. Inexorable, and the torturing hour, Milton. He scours the right hand coast, sometimes the 2. A punishment; a vindictive amictiun. left. Milton. What scourge for perjury Not half the number in their seats are found, Can this dark monarchy atförd false Clarence? But men and steeds lie grov'ling on the ground; Sbakspeare. The joints of spears are stuck within the shield, See what a scourge is laid upon your hatë, The steeds without their riders scour the field, That Heav'n finds means to kill your jovs with The knights unhers'd. Dryden. Sakspeare. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to Famine and plague are sent as scourges for throw, amendment. 2 Esdras. The line too labours, and the words move slow: 3. One that afflicts, harasses, or destroys. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along Thus Attila was called flagellum Dei. the main. Pope. Is this the scourge of France ? TO SCOUR. V. n. Is this the Talbot so inuch fear'd abroad, That with his name the mothers still their babes! 1. To perform the office of cleaning do Sbakspeare. mestick utensils. Such conquerors are not the favourites but I keep his house, and wash, wring, brew, bake, scourges of God, the instruments of that vengesccur, dress meat, and make the beds. Sbaksp. Atterbury. 2. To clean. In a?these trials I have borne a part; Warm water is sufter than cold; for it scoureth I was myself the scourge that caus'd the smart. better. Bacon Poper scar. us. The scourge, ance. 1 nance. waves. Immortal Jove! She scowld and frown'd with froward counter Fairy Q reen. Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Shakspears. 4. A whip for a top. Not a courtier, Glad at the thing they scowl at. Sikapcare. 1. To lash with a whip; to whip. The dusky clouds o'erspread Heav'n's cheerful face; the low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape snow or Milton. Fly, fly, prophane fogs! far hence fly away, Milton. With your dull influence; it is for you To sit and scowl upon night's heavy brow, Crasban. In rueful gaze Watts. The cattle stand; and on the scowling heavens Tbomson. 2. To punish; to chastise ; to chasten; Scow lon. s. (from the verb.) Look pf to castigate with any punishment or sulleniress or discontent; gloom. I've seen the morning's lovely ray With rosy wings so richly bright, As if he scorn'd to think of night; When a ruddy storm, whose scorul Tobit. Made heaven's radiant face look foul, SCO'URGER, n. s. [from scourge.] One Callid for an untimely night, that scourges; a punisher or chastiser. To blot the newly-blossom'd light. Grashau. To exchange one Sco'wLINGLY. adv. [from scowl.] With exchange; and hence a horse scourser. felen, to scrape or scratch, Dutch.] To scrabbled on the doors of the gate. 1 Samuel SCRAGG. n. s. (scraghe, Dutch.] Any thing thin or lean, SCRA'GGED. adj. [This seems Sbakspeare. rupted from cragged.] Rough; uneven; full of protuberances or asperities. Milton. us the scragged and knotty back-bone? Beniley. This great vessel may have lesser cabins, wliere- SCRA'GGED stsb. [from scragged.) in sesats may be lodged for the taking of observ SCRAGGINESS. [from scraps.) Wilkins. I. Leanness; marcour. Diyden. SCRAGGY, adj. (from scragg.) I. Luan ; marcid; thin. 1. To go out, in order to observe the mo- Such a constitution is easily known, by the tions of an enemy privately. body being lean, warm, hairy, scrapsy, and dry, Oft on the bordering deep without a disease. Arbuthnot, Milton. from a scraggy ruck, whose prominence Haif overshades the ocean, hardy men, Cut s.mpire. Pbilips. Dryder. scrabble; scraffelen, Dutch.] 1. To catch at any thing eagerly and tumul Dryden. tuously with the hands; to catch vith 2. To ridicule; to sneer. This is a sense haste preventive of muther; to contend unauthorized, and vulgar. tumultuously which shall catch any thing. England now is left skeela sig, to look sour, Islandick.] To To tug and scramble, and to part by th'rreth Suspeare. Sincy. And chove away the worthy bilden guest. 11:11. cor M.S. The coasts. was shaking, there would be no scrambling for 1. To deprive of the surface by the ligh the fruit. Stilling fleet. action of a sharp instrument, used witi They must have scrambled with the wild beasts for crabs and nuts. Ray. the edge almost perpendicular. 2. To climb by the help of the lands: as, These hard woods are more properly scrap than planed. Moxon he scrambled up that rock. 2. To take away by scraping; to erase. SCRA'MBLE. 1. s. [from the verb.] They shall destroy the walls, and I will scrat 1. Eager contest for something, in which her dust, and make her like the top of a rock. one endeavours to get it before another. Ezekie! As they were in the middle of their gambols, Bread for a toast lay on the coals; and, is somebody threw a handful of apples among them, toasted quite through, sirape off the burnt side. that set them presently together by the ears up and serve it up. Szvijft. on the scramble, L'Estrange. 3. To act upon any surface with a harsh Because the desire of money is constantly al- noise. most every where the same, its vent varies very The chiming clocks to dinner call; little, but as its greater scarcity enhances its price A hundred footsteps scrape the marble hall. and increases the scramble. Locke. Pote. 2. Act of climbing by the help of the 4. To gather by great efforts, or penurious hands. or trifling diligence. SCRA'MBLER. n. s. [from scramble.] Let the government be ruined by his avarice, 1. One that scrambles. if, by avarice, he can scrape together so much as All the little scramblers after fame fall upon to make his peace. South. him. Addison. Unhappy those who hunt for a party, and 2. One that climbs by help of the hands. scrape together out of every author all those TO SCRANCH. v. a. (schrantzer, Dutch.] things only which favour their own tenets. Watts. TO SCRAPE. V. n. To grind somewhat crackling between the teeth. The Scots retain it. 1. To make a harsh noise. 2. To play ill on a fiddle. SCRA'NNEL. adj. [Of this word I know 3. To make an awkward bow. Ainsiu. not the etymology, nor any other exam. 4. To SCRAPE Acquaintance. A low ple.] Vile; worthless. Perhaps grating phrase. To curry favour, or insinuate by the sound. into one's familiarity: probably from When they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched strai. the scrapes or bows of a flatterer. Milton. SCRAPE. N. s. (skrap, Swedish.] SCRAP. n.. s. [from scrape, a thing scraped 1. Difficulty ; perplexity; distress. This or rubbed off.] is a low word. 1. A small particle ; a little piece; a frag- 2. The sound of the foot drawn over the noor. ment. It is an unaccountable vanity to spend all our 3. A bow. time raking into the scraps and imperfect re SCR'A'PER. 1. s. [from scrape.] mains of former ages, and neglecting the clearer 1. Instrument with which any thing is notices of our own. Glanville. scraped. Trencher esquires spend their time in hop- Never clean your shoes on the scraper, but in sing from one great man's table to another's, the entry, and the scraper will last the longer. only to pick up scraps and intelligence. L'Estri Swift. Languagues are to be learned only by reading 2. A miser; a man intent on getting moand talking, and not by scraps ct authors got by heart. Locke. ney; a scrapic-penny. No rag, no scrap, of all the beau, or wit, Be thrifty, but not covetous; therefore give That once so fiutter'd, and that once so writ. Thy need, thine honour, and thy friend his due : Pope. Never was scraper brave man. Get to live; I can never have too many of your letters: I Then live, and use it; else it is not true am angry at every scrap of paper lost. Pope. That thou hast gotten: surely, use alone 2. Crumb; small particles of meat left at Makes money not a contemptible stone. Herbert, 3 vile hddler. the table. The contract you pretend with that base Out! ye sempiternal scrapers. Cowley. Have wild boars or dolphins the least emotion wretch, at the most elaborate strains of your modern One bred of alms, and foster'd with cold dishes, scrapers, all which have been tamed and humanWith scraps o'th'court, is no contract. Shaks. ized by ancient musicians ? Arbuthnot. The attendants puff a court up beyond her bounds, for their own scraps and advantage. SCRAT. N. s. (rcritta, Saxon.) An herBacon. maplırodite. Skinner. Junius. On bones, on scraps of dogs, let me be fed, TO SCRATCH. v. a. [kratzen, Dutch.] My limbs uncover'd, and expos’d my head 1. To tear or mark with slight incisions To bleakest colds. Granville. What has he else to bait his traps, ragged and uneven. The lab'ring swain Or bring his vermin in, but scrops? Scrat:b'd with a rake a furrow for his grain, The offils of a church distrest, And cover'd with his hand the shallow seed Stvift. Divden as to scratch glass. Grecu. Pregnant with thousands fits the scrap unseen, 2. To tear with the nails. And silent sells a king, or buys a queeni. Popo. How can I tell but that his talons may To SCRAPE. v. a. (rcheopan, Saxon ; Yet scratch my son, or rend his tender hand? schrapen, Dutch; 'sascrópitigh, Erse.] Fairy Quech. or scurf. I should have scratch'd out your unseeing eyes, SCRA'TCHES. n. s. Cracked ulcers or To make my master out of love with thee. scabs in a horse's foot. Ainsiv. Sbakspeare. SCRATCHINGLY.adv. [from scratching.] I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. With the action of scratching. -Keep your ladyship still in that mind; so Making him turn close to the ground, like a some gentleman or other shall 'scape a predes cat, when scratchingly she wheels about after a cinate scratcbi face. mouse. Sidney --Scratcbing could not make it worse, an't were SCRAW. n. s. [Irish and Erse.] Surface such a face as yours were. Shakspeare. Scots are like witches: do but whet your pen, Scratcb'rill the blood come, they 'll not hurt you Neither shouid that odious custom be allowed, then. Cleaveland. of cutting scraws, which is paying off the green To wish that there were nothing but such dull surface of the ground to cover their cabins, or same things in the world, that will neither bite make up their ditches. Swift. nor scratch, is as childish as to wish there were To SCRAWL. v. a. (I suppose to be corne fire in nature. More. rupted from scrabble.] To draw or mark Unhand me, or I 'll seratib your face; Let go, for shame. irregularly or clumsily. Dryden. Peruse my leaves through ev'ry part, 3. To wound slightly. And think thou seest its owner's heart, 4. To hurt slightly with any thing pointed Scrawl'd o'er with trities thus, and quite or keen. As hard, as senseless, and as light. Swifi. Daphne, roaming through a thorny wood, TO SCRAIL. V. n. Scratching her inzs, that one shall swear she 1. To write unskilfully and inelegantly. bleeds. Shakspeare. Think not your verses sterling, s. To rub with the nails. Though with a golden pen you scrawl, Francis Cornfield did scratch his elbow, when And scribble in a berlin. Swif!. he had sweetly invented to signify his name St. 2. (from crawl.] To creep like a reptile. Francis, with a triary cowl in a corn field. Ainsworth. Camden. Other mechanical helps Aretæus uses to pro- SCRAW1.. n. s. [from the verb.) Unskilful cure sleep, particularly the scratching of the and inelegant writing. temples and the ears. Arbuthnot. The left hand will make such a scrawl, that it Be mindful, when invention fails, will not be legible. Arbuthnot. To scratcb your nead, and bite your nails. Swift. Mr. Wycherly, hearing from me how wel6. To write or draw awkwardly. come l.is letters would be, writ to you, in which If any of their labourers can scratch out a I inserted my scrawl. Popes pamphlet, they desire no wit, style, or argument. Sui?. SCRA'WLER. n. s. [from scrawl.] A clumSCRATCH.n. s. [from the verb.] sy and inelegant writer. 1. An incision ragged and shallow. SCRAY. n. s. [birundo marina.] A bird The coarse file cuts deep, and makes deep called a sea-swallow. Ainsw. Bailey. scratches in che work; and before you can take SCRE'ABLE. adj. (screabilis, Lat.] That out those deep scratches with your finer cut files, which may be spit out. Bailey. those places where the risings were when your To SCREAK. v. 1. (properly creak, or work was forged, may become dents to your shriek, from skrige, Danish.) To make hammer dents. Moxon. a shrill or loud noise. The smaller the particles of those substances Bailey. are, the smaller will be the seratebes, by which To SCREAM. v. n. (hneman, Saxon.) they continually free and wear away the glass 1. To cry out shrilly, as in terrour or until it be polished; but be chey never so small, they can wear asay the glass no otherwise than Soon a whirlwind rose around, by grating and scratching it, and breaking the And from afar he heard a screaming sound, protuberances; and therefore polish it no other- As of a dame distress'd, who cry'd for aid, wise than by bringing its roughness to a very fine And fili'd with loud laments the secret shade. grain, so that the scratches and frettings of the Dryden. surface become too small to be visible. Newton, The fearful matrons raise a screaming cry, Old feeble men with fainter groans reply; 2. Laceration with the nails. These nails with scratches shall deform my A jarring sound results, and mingles in the sky. Dryden. breast, If chance a mouse creeps in her sight, Lest by my look or colour be express'd Can finely counterfeit a fright; The mark of aught high-born, or ever better dress'd. Prior. So sweetly screams, if it comes near her, She ravishes all hearts to hear her. Swift. 3. A slight wound. 2. To cry shrilly." The valiant beast turning on her with open I heard the owl scream, and the crickets cry. jaws, she gave him such a thrust through his Sbakspeare. breast, that all the lion could do was with his SCREAM. n. s. [from the verb.] A sbrill, open paw to tear off the mantle and sleeve of Żelmane, with a little scratch rather than a quick, loud cry of terro'r or pain. wound. Sidney. Our chimnies were blown down; and, as they Heav'n forbid a shalloir soraich should drive say, Lamencings heard i' th' air, strange screams of The price of Wales from such a field as this. death. Sbakspeare. Shakspeare. Then fash'd the livid lightning from her eyes, SCRATCHER. n. s. [from scratch.] He And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. that scratches. Pope agony: courage him. screzu. TO SCREECH. v. n. (skrakia, to cry, the first half spit, from just under the turf of the Islandick.] best pasture-ground, mixed with one part of very mellow soil screened. Evelyn. 1. To cry out as in terrour or anguish. Screeching is an appetite of expelling that Screw. n. s. [scroeve, Dut. escrou, Fr.] which suddenly strikes the spirits. Bacon. One of the mechanical powers, which is 2. To cry as a night owl : thence called a defined a right cylinder cut into a furscreechow). rowed spiral : of this there are two SCREECH.n. s. [from the verb.] kinds, the male and female; the former 1. Cry of hurrour and anguish. being cut convex, so that its threads 2. Harsh horrid c.y. rise outwards; but the latter channelled The birds obscene, that nightly flock'd to taste, on its concave side, so as to receive the With hollow screribs fled from the dire rep.st; former. Quincy. And ravenous dogs lurid by scented blood, And starving wolves, ran howling to the wood. The screw is a kind of wedge, that is multiPope. plied or continued by a helical revolution about a cylinder, receiving its motion not from any SCREE'CHOwl. n. s. [screech and owl.] stroke, but from a vectis at one end of it. An owl that hoots in the night, and Wilkins. whose voice is supposed to betoken dan. After your apples are ground, commit them to Mortimer. ger, misery, or death. the screw press, which is the best. TO SCREW. v. a. (from the noun.] 1. To turn or move by a screw. Sbakspeare. Some, when the press, by utmost vigour Let him, that will a screechowl ay be callid, screw'd, Go into Troy, and say there, Hector's dead. Has drain’d the pulpous mass, regale their swine Pbilips. By the screechowl's dismal note, 2. To fasten with a screw. By the black night-raven's throat, We fail! I charge thee, Hob. Drayton. But screw your courage to the sticking place, Jupiter, though he had jogged the balance to And we 'll not fail. Shakspeare. Weigh down Turnus, sent the screechowl to dis To screw your lock on the door, make wide Dryden. holes, big enough to receive the shank of the Sooner shall screecbowls bask in sunny day, Moxon. 'Than I forget my shepheru's wonted love. Gay. SCREEN. v. s. (escran, French.] 3. To deform by contortions. Sometimes a violent laughter screwd his face, 1. Any thing that affords shelter or con- And sometimes ready tears dropp'd down apace. cealinent Cowley. Now near enough: your leavy screens throw He screto'd his face into a harden'd smile, down, And said Sebastian knew to govern slaves. And show like those you are. Shakspeare. Dryden. Some ainbitious men seem as screens to princes With screwed face, and doleful whine, they ply in inatters of danger and envy. Bacon. you with senseless harangues against human inOur people, who transport themselves, are ventions on the one hand, and loud outcries for settlud in those interjacent tracts, as a screen a further reformation on the other. Soutb. against the insults of the savages. Swift. Let others screw their hypocritick face, My juniors by a year, She shews her grief in a sincerer place. Swift. Who wisely thought niy age a screen, 4. To force; to bring by violence. When death approach'd, to stand between ; H resolved to govern by subaltern ministers, The screen remov’d, their hearts are trembling. who sarewed up the pins of power too high, Swift. Howel. 2. Any thing used to exclude coid or No discourse can be, but they will try to turn light. the tide, and draw it all into their own channel; When there is a screen between the candle and or they will screw in here and there some inti the eye, yet the light passeth to the paper where- mations of what they said or did. on one writeth. Bacon. Government of the Tongue. One speaks the glory of the British queen, The rents of land in Ireland, since they have And one describes a charming Indian screen. been so enormously raised and screwed up, may Pope. be computed to be about two millions. Swift. Ladies make their old clothes into patchwork 5. To squeeze; to press. for screens and stools. Swift. 6. To oppress by extortion. 3. A riddle to sitt sand. Our country landlords, by uumeasurable screwTo SCREEN. v. a. (from the noun.] ing and racking their tenants, have already reI. To shelter ; to conceal; to hide. duced the miserable people to a worse condition Back'd with a ridge of hills, than the peasants in France. Swift. That screen'd the fruits of th' earth, and seats of Screw Tree. n. s. [isora, Lat.] A plant men, of the East and West Indies. From cold Septentrion blasts. Milton. To SCRIBBLE. v. a. (scribo, scribillo, A good magistrate's retinue of state screens Latin.] him from the dangers which he is to incur for the sake of it. Atterhury. 1. To fill with artless or worthless writing. This gentle deed shall fairly be set foremost, How gird the sphere To screen the wild escapes of lawless passion. With centrick and eccentrick, scribbled o'er Rowe.. Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. Milton. 2. [Cerno crevi, Lat.) To sift ; to riddle. 2. To write without use or elegance : as, Let the cases be filled with natural earth, taken he scribbled a pamphlet. |