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S row on the hazel, are hollowed, and somewhat villous at 
le summit, evincing an affinity to the pezizae. 
13. Sclerotium quercinum.—Nearly hemispherical, con¬ 
vex, smooth, of a dirty or blackish hue, scattered over the 
.leaves of plants. . Found on dry fallen oak leaves in summer. 
About a line and a half broad, hardish, attached to the leaves 
by about half its surface. 
14. Sclerotium propulneum.—Crowded, partly sunk in 
the leaves of plants, roundish, or angular and confluent; 
reddish flesh-coloured: at length black. Found on the 
backs of dead leaves of the black poplar, in autumn and 
winter, and on aspen leaves in spring. It appears in the 
form of little black warts, covering the leaves, and giving 
them a rough or scaly appearance. When moistened, the 
dried fungus resumes its original flesh-coloured hue. 
15. Sclerotium purpureum.—Scattered, minute, oval, per¬ 
pendicular, very smooth. Found once only by Mr. Tode, 
early in March, on a fallen branch of oak, under the cuticle. 
It was visible by the help of a magnifier only. The surface 
was very smooth, and of a somewhat shining purple; the 
.substance hard. 
16. Sclerotium sphaeroides.—Clustered, small, roundish, 
or elongated and angular, flatfish, black. On young 
branches of populus tremula, bursting out of the bark, like 
a sphaeria, one-third or half a line in dimensions, white inter¬ 
nally, tumid and slightly fleshy, surrounded with the broken 
cuticle of the bark; its disk minutely wrinkled. The inside 
being neither hollow, nor filled with jelly. Persoon could 
not refer this fungus to sphaeria, though he allows that its 
habit and mode of growth, are not exactly similar to other- 
species of Sclerotium. 
SCLIDO, a small town in the east of Austrian Italy ; 13 
miles from Vicenza. 
SCLOBODA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Braclaw ; 52 miles west of Braclaw. 
SCLOPETOPLAGA [from sclopetum, a gun, and plaga, 
a wound], in Surgery, a gun shot wound. 
SCN1PS, a name given by authors to the small species 
of gnat, always found about the oak-tree, feeding on the 
juices of its leaves, which it sucks by means of its sharp 
trunk. 
It is supposed by some to be hatched of the small oblong 
,-white worm, that inhabits the oak-apples. 
To SCOAT, or Scotch, v. a. To stop a wheel'by 
putting a stone or piece of wood under it before. Bailey. 
SCOBS, s. [Latin; any dross.] Raspings of ivory, 
hartshorn, or other hard substances; scoriae of metals; pot¬ 
ashes. Chambers. 
SCODEPHINO, a pedantic name given to a knife, de¬ 
scribed by Scultetus, and used in performing the Caesarean 
operation, by Rousset. 
SCODINEMA, a word used by some old medical writers 
to express a heaviness of the head. 
To SCOFF, v. n. [schoppen, Teut. probably from the 
Greek a-Konla, to treat with insolent language or ridicule.] 
To treat with insolent ridicule; to treat with contumelious 
language: with at. 
Such is love. 
And such the laws of his fantastic empire, 
The wanton boy delights to bend the mighty, 
And scoffs at the vain wisdom of the. wise. Rowe. 
To SCOFF, v. a. To jeer; to treat with scoffs.—To 
scoff religion, is ridiculously proud and immodest. Glan- 
ville, 
SCOFF, s. Contemptuous ridicule; expression of scorn; 
contumelious language.—Our answer therefore to their 
reasons is no;- to their scoff's, nothing. Hooker. 
With scoff's and scorns, and contumelious taunts. 
In open market place produc’d they me. Shakspeare. 
SCO'FFER, s. Insolent ridiculer; saucy scorner; con¬ 
tumelious reproacher. 
Voi.. XXII. No. 1542. 
Sell what you can; you are not for all markets: 
Cry the man mercy, love him, take his offer; 
Foul is the most foul, being found to be a scoffer. . 
Shakspeare. 
SCO'FFINGLY, adv. In contempt; in ridicule.—Aris¬ 
totle applied this hemistich scojjiingly to the sycophants at 
Athens. Broome. 
SCOGGERBAR, a village of England, in Cumberland, 
near the sea. 
To SCOLD, v. n. [schelden , Teut. schelten, schaelten. 
Germ, skaella, Swed. to bark, to rail.] To quarrel clamo¬ 
rously and rudely. 
Pardon me, ’tis the first time that ever 
I’m forc’d to scold. Shakspeare. 
To SGOLD, v. a. To rate.—She scolded her husband 
one day out of doors. Howell. 
SCOLD, s. A clamorous, foul-mouthed woman. 
Sun-burnt matrons mending old nets; 
Now singing shrill, and scolding oft between; 
Scolds answer foul-mouthed scolds. Swift. 
A common scold. Communis rixatrix, in Law, is 
deemed a public nuisance to her neighbourhood ; for which 
offence she may be indicted (Mod. 213.); and if convicted, 
shall be sentenced to be placed in a certain engine of correc¬ 
tion, called the trebucket, castigatory, or cucking-stool, 
which, in the Saxon language, is said to signify the scolding 
stool; though now it is frequently corrupted into ducking- 
stool, because the residue of the judgment is, that when she 
is so placed therein, she shall be plunged in the water thrice, 
as some say, for her punishment. 1 Hawk. P. C. 198. 200. 
3 Inst. 219. 
SCO'LDER, s. [Teut. scheldcr. ] One who scolds or 
rails.—Whether any be brawlers, slanderers, chiders, scolders 
and sowers of discord between one person and another. A bp. 
Cranmer. 
SCOLDINGLY, adv. With rude clamour; like a scold. 
Huloet. 
SCOLE, or Osmondston, a parish of England, in Nor¬ 
folk ; 2 miles from Diss. 
SCOLECIA, in the Materia Medica of the ancients, a 
name given to a kind of verdigris. 
Of this there were two species; the one found native in 
the earth, the other fictitious. 
SCOLEX, a genus of the Vermes Intestina, class and 
order. The Generic Character is—body gelatinous, variously 
shaped, broadish on the fore-part, and pointed behind; 
sometimes linear and long, sometimes wrinkled and short, 
round, flexuous or depressed; the head is protractile and 
retractile. 
1. Scolex pleuronectidis.—Head with four auricles. It is 
found in the intestinal mucus of the turbot, plaise, sole, 
gwinniad, and lump-fish. It is rarely visible to the naked 
eye. Head pellucid, with two oblong shining red dots 
behind ; the auricles plaited in various forms; the neck is 
pellucid, short, with a lunate margin, which is red while the 
worm is in a living state. 
2. Scolex lophii.—This is found in the intestinal mucus 
of the lophius piscatorius. The body is minute, and hardly 
visible to the naked eye, and is generally supposed to be a 
variety of the last. 
SCOLIA, in Entomology, a genus of insects of the order 
hymenoptera. The Generic Character is as follows: mouth 
with a curved sharp mandible, crenate within; jaw com¬ 
pressed, projecting, entire, and horny ; tongue inflected and 
trifid, very short; the lip is projecting, membranaceous at the 
tip, and entire; the feelers are four, equal, short and filiform, 
situated in the middle of the lip; antennae thick and filiform, 
the first joint longer than the rest. There are thirty-nine 
species described in the Systema Naturae. 
1 . Scolia atrata.—Hairy, black; wings ferruginous* tipt 
with, violet.—It is an inhabitant of the South American 
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