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22. Scisena nebulosa.—The body of this species is marked 
with longitudinal blue and yellowish-brown clouds; a va¬ 
riety has its body marked with obsolete longitudinal violet 
stripes. The head is sloping; fins filamentous, and the tail 
is forked. 
23. Sciaena mahsena.—Body brown, lined, and with 
transverse waved silvery bands. The body is of an oblong 
oval; the scales are brown, with toothed ramifications. 
24. Scisena harah.—This is of a greenish colour; the fins 
are of a pale red; beneath the lateral line is a black linear 
spot on each side. It very much resembles the last. 
25. Scisena ramak.—Greenish-white, with obsolete lon¬ 
gitudinal yellowish-violet lines; the fins are reddish. 
26. Scisena grandoculis.—Blueish ; the lower lip is gib¬ 
bous ; it is of an oblong-oval form, with obsolete lines. 
27. Sciaena cinerascens.—This is of a greenish-ash colour, 
with longitudinal lines. The body is of an oblong-ovate 
shape; the scales are very entire and rhombic; they are 
whitish, with a rusty yellow spot at the base on each side. 
28. Sciaena safgha.—Oblong, silvery, without spots; the 
tail is forked. The jaws are indented, the lower one is the 
longer of the two ; the gill-covers are finely serrate. 
29. Sciaena armata.—This is silvery; between the head 
and dorsal fin is a rigid horizontal spine; the tail is forked. 
The body is compressed, oval, and pointed. The spine be¬ 
hind the head points forwards ; the lateral line is straight, 
and the fins are white ; the dorsal and anal fins are tipt with 
black; the tail is brown, and the inner edge whitish. To 
the foregoing may be added the following: 
30. Sciaena labrax, or basse sciaena; of which the habit 
is that of the salmon ; the size is considerable, growing, it is 
said, to the length of several feet. It is of a blueish silvery 
colour, with a dusky cast on the back; the scales are small; 
the eyes are reddish ; the mouth and gill-covers tinged with 
red; the tail is slightly forked; the lateral line is nearly 
straight.—It is a native of the Mediterranean and Northern 
Seas, and often entering the rivers; it was known to the 
ancients by the names of labrax and lupus, and was much 
esteemed as an article of food, particularly by the Romans, 
31. Sciaena diacantha.—This has longitudinal yellow lines, 
and two spined gill-covers. It is about twelve inches long, 
and like the labrax; the fins are glaucous, but the pectoral, 
ventral fins, arid tail, are reddish at the base; the tail is 
slightly lunated ; the eyes are yellow, and the scales are large, 
—It is a native of the Mediterranean. 
32. Scisena undecimalis.—The abdomen of this is silvery, 
the dorsal fins and tail brownish. It is about a foot in length. 
—Is a native of the American seas, and very common about 
the coasts of Jamaica. 
33. Sciaena lineata.—This has the habit of a trout, and is 
a native of the Mediterranean. 
34. Scisena plumieri.—With transverse brown bands, and 
yellow longitudinal lines and fins; it has the habits of a perch, 
and is a native of the American seas, and was first described 
by Bloch from a drawing by Plumier. 
35. Sciaena Mauritii.—This has a brownish black colour ; 
the first dorsal fin is spiny, with nine rays. It is the size of 
a perch, and has the habit of a salmon ; it is like the labrax, 
except in size.—It is a native of Brasil, described by Bloch 
from a drawing by Prince Maurice. 
36. Sciaena fulviflamma.—With five or six longitudinal 
gold-coloured bands, and a middle black spot. The first 
dorsal fin is dusky ; the second and other fins are yellow ; 
the gold-coloured lines on the body are sometimes obscure; 
the teeth are strong, distant, and conic-subulate. 
37. Scisena macrolepidota.—With transverse brownish- 
violet bands and spotted fins. It is about a foot long; the 
head is short, and sloping rather suddenly ; scales pretty large; 
the dorsal, anal, and caudal fins' spotted with brown; the 
pectoral fins are plain, and tinged with violet; ventral fins 
red, eyes blue.—Native of India. 
38. Sciaena cylindrica.—With several dusky girdles and 
spotted fins. It is six inches long ; the eyes are promi¬ 
nent, and situated near each other at the upper part of the 
head. 
S C I 
SCIA'GRAPHY, s. [sciagraph ie , Fr., a-Kicaypa^nji, Gr.] 
Art of sketching.—Let those, who are delighted with scio~ 
graphy, paint out, if they please, these shadow-patriarchs. 
Fuller. —[In architecture.] The profile or section of a 
building, to shew the inside thereof. Bailey. —[In astro- 
nomy.] The art of finding the hour of the day or night 
by the shadow of the sun, moon, or stars. Bailey. 
SCIAMACHIA [from the a-Kia and p.ayy>, Gr. I fight ~\, 
the fighting with a person’s own shadow, a sort of exercise 
prescribed by the ancient physicians, in which the motion 
of the arms, and other parts of the body, were of very great 
service in many chronic cases. 
SCIAMAT, a village of Kerman, in Persia; 18 miles east 
of Kerman. 
SCIARRI, the matter which runs down in burning tor¬ 
rents from the craters of Mount iEtna. , 
SCIATHE'RICAL, or Sciathe'ric, adj. [ sciaterique , 
Fr., <TKta,%r[§iKo<, Gr.] Belonging to a sun-dial. Diet. — There 
were also, from great antiquity, sciatherical or sun dials, 
by the shadow of a stile or gnomon denoting the hours; an 
invention ascribed unto Anaxamines by Pliny. Brown. 
SCIATHE'RICALLY, adv. After the manner of a sun¬ 
dial.—Let the plane he sciatherical/y prepared, and it shall 
be necessary for the shadow of the sun to go back. Gre¬ 
gory. 
SCIATHERICUM Telescopium, a horizontal dial with 
a telescope, adapted for observing the true time, both by day 
and night, to regulate and adjust the pendulum-clocks, 
walches, and other time-keepers. It is the invention of the 
ingenious Mr. Molyneux, who has published a book with 
this title, containing an accurate description of this instru¬ 
ment, its uses, and application. 
SCIA'TICA, or Scia'tic, s. [sciatique, Fr., ischiadica 
passio, Lat.] The hip gout. 
Thou cold sciatica. 
Cripple our senators, that their limbs may halt 
As lamely as their manners. Shahspearc 
SCIA'TICAL, adj. Afflicting the hip.—In obstinate 
sciatical pains, blistering and cauteries have been found 
effectual. Arbuthnot. 
SCIE, a small river of Normandy, which falls into the 
sea; 2 miles from Dieppe. 
SCIEFAMES, a village of Palestine, celebrated for its 
cotton. Several ruins near it, prove it formerly to have 
been of some importance. 
SCIEKOCINI, a small town of Poland, on the river 
Pilica. 
SCIELAT, a station in the Nubian desert; 10 miles south 
of Syene. 
SCl'ENCE, s. [scientia, Lat.] Knowledge.—The in¬ 
disputable mathematics, the only science Heaven hath yet 
vouchsafed humanity, have but few votaries among the slaves 
of the Stagirite. Glanvi/le .—Certainty grounded on 
demonstration.—So you arrive at truth, though not at 
science. Berkeley .—Art attained by precepts, or built on 
principles. —Science perfects genius, and moderates that fury 
of the fancy which cannot contain itself within the bounds 
of reason. Dryden. —Any art or species of knowledge.— 
No science doth make known the first principles, whereon it. 
buildeth; but they are always taken as plain and manifest 
in themselves, or as proved and granted already, some former 
knowledge having made them evident. Hooker. 
I present you with a man 
Cunning in music and the mathematics. 
To instruct her fully in those sciences. Shakspeare. 
One of the seven liberal arts, grammar, rhetoric, logic, 
arithmetic, music, geometry, astronomy. 
Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, 
And though no science, fairly worth the sev’n. Pope. 
SCI'ENT, adj. [sciens , Lat.] Skilful. Not in use., 
Cockeram. 
SCIE'NTIAL, adj. Producing science. 
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