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to the foot of the Grampians; the foundations of the ancient 
town of Bertha, and a fortification called Silver Castle, the 
history of which is unknown. The vestiges of the house of 
the famous John Hay, chief of the Hays, are still religiously 
preserved, and are pointed out by the inhabitants with ex¬ 
ultation, that their parish should have given birth to a man, 
whose heroic conduct, aided by that of his sons and follow¬ 
ers, retrieved the disasters of the field of Lancarty, and changed 
the inglorious flight of the Scottish army into a decisive vic¬ 
tory.—Scone also boasts of having been the birth-place of 
the celebrated Earl of Mansfield. 
SCONIE, a parish of Scotland, in Fifeshire, otherwise 
called Leven, from the town of that name, situated at the 
mouth of the river Leven, on the east bank of which the 
village of Leven is situated. Population of the parish and 
village, 1761. 
SCONONDOA, a post village of the United States, in 
Oneida county, New York. 
SCONSER, a small village of the Isle of Skye; 8 miles 
south of Portree, where there is a post-office. 
SCOOP, s. [schoepe, Teut.] A kind of large ladle; a 
vessel with a long handle used to throw out liquor.—They 
turn upside down hops on malt-kilns, when almost dry, 
with a scoop. Mortimer. — A surgeon’s instrument.— 
Endeavour with thy scoop, or fingers, to force the stone 
outwards. S/iarp. —-A sweep ; a stroke. Perhaps it should 
be swoop. 
O hell-kite! 
What, all my pretty chickens and their dam, 
At one fell scoop ! Shale spear e. 
To SCOOP, ». a. [schoeptn, Teut.] To lade out. 
The savory pulp they chew, and in the rind, 
Still as they thirsted, scoop the brimming stream. Milton. 
As by the brook he stood. 
He scoop'd the water from the crystal flood. Dryden. 
Contained in a hollow. 
Melted Alpine snows 
The mountain cisterns fill, those ample stores 
Of water scoop'd among the hollow rocks. 
To empty by lading. 
• ’Tis as easy with a sieve to scoop the ocean, as 
Thomson. 
To tame Petruchio. 
Beaum, and FI, 
If some penurious source 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 dash th’ untasted moisture from him ? Addison. 
To carry off, so as to leave the place hollow. 
To his single eye, that in his forehead glar’d 
Like a full moon, or a broad burnish’d shield, 
A forky staff we dext’rously apply’d, 
Which, in the spacious socket turning round. 
Scoop't out the big round jelly from its orb. Addison. 
To cut into hollowness or depth. 
The genius of the place 
Or helps the ambitious hill the heav’n to scale, 
Or scoops in circling theatres the vale. Pope. 
SCO'OPER, s. One who scoops. 
SCOP ARIA [from scope, a broom; to form which it is 
adapted], in Botany, a genus of the class tetrandria, order 
monogyuia, natural order of personatae, scrophularia (Juss.J 
-—Generic Character. Calyx: perianth one-leafed, four- 
parted, concave: segments slender, rugged. Corolla: one- 
petalled, wheel-shaped, spreading, concave, four-parted: 
segments tongue-shaped, obtuse, equal; throat bearded. 
Stamina: filaments four, equal awl-shaped, shorter than the 
corolla. Anthers simple. Pistil: germ conical. Style awl- 
shaped, length of the corolla, permanent. Stigma acute. 
Pericarp: capsule oblong-conical, acuminate, one-celled, 
two-valved. Seeds very many, oblong.-— Essential Cha~ 
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racier. Calyx four-parted. Corolla four-parted, wheel" 
shaped. Capsule one-celled, two-valved, many-seeded. 
1. Scoparia dulcis, or sweet scoparia.—Root annual. 
Stalk hexangular, rising near two feet high, and sending 
out many branches, which have three leaves placed round 
at each joint, about an inch long, and a quarter of an inch 
broad, serrate, and of a deep-green colour: the flowers 
come out from the side of the stalks at each joint on pe¬ 
duncles: they are small, white, and their petals have bearded 
threads on their edges.—Native of Jamaica and all the 
Caribbee islands and the neigbouring continent; also in Co¬ 
chin-china. 
2. Scoparia procumbens.—Leaves in fours, flowers sessile. 
This plant is scarcely half a foot high, with nearly the same 
habit as the preceding.—Native of Carthagena in New 
Spain, on the sandy coast about Boca Chica. 
3. Scoparia arborea.—Leaves lanceolate, alternate, quite 
entire, corymb super-decompound trichotomous. This is a 
tree, having the habit of the Olive or Phillyrea. The in¬ 
florescence is very large and extremely compounded. The 
flowers are small.—Native of the Cape of Good Hope, where 
it was found by Thunborg. 
Propagation and Culture. —Sow the seeds upon a hot¬ 
bed in the spring; and when the plants are fit to remove, 
plant them upon a fresh hot-bed, shading and watering 
them, until they have taken new root; after which admit 
air to them daily according to the warmth of the season, 
and refresh them frequently with water. In June they may 
be taken up with balls of earth to their roots, and planted 
into open borders, where they will flower, perfect their 
seeds in the autumn, and soon after perish. 
SCOPAS, an eminent Grecian artist of the isle of Paros, 
flourished in the year before Christ 430. He was equally 
distinguished as a statuary and sculptor, and was the author 
of many works which placed his name on a level with those 
of Phidias and Praxiteles. One of the columns in the tem¬ 
ple of Ephesus was his performance; also one of the four 
sides of the famous tomb of Mausolus. Rome possessed 
several fine works, the productions of Scopas, among which 
the most admired was the great group of Neptune, and other 
marine deities in the Flaminian circus, which, of themselves, 
might, according to Pliny, have been the labour of a whole 
life. The same writer speaks of a Venus, the work of Scopas, 
surpassing that of Praxiteles. Horace, in one of his odes, 
refers to Scopas as an artist at the head of his profession : 
■ Divite me scilicet artium 
Quas aut Parrhasius protulit, aut Scopas 
Hie saxo, liquidis file coloribus 
Solers nunc horoinem ponere, nunc Deum.” 
Ilorat. Od, 
SCOPE, s. [scopus , Lat.] Aim , intention; drift. 
Your scope is as mine own, 
So to inforce or qualify the laws, 
As to your soul seems good. Shakspeare. 
Thing aimed at; mark; final end. 
He, 
In what he counsels, and in what excels. 
Mistrustful, grounds his courage on despair, 
And utter dissolution, as the scope 
Of all his aim. Milton. 
Room; space; amplitude of intellectual view.—An he¬ 
roic poet is not tied to a bare representation of what is true, 
but that he might let himself loose to visionary objects, which 
may give him a freer scope for imagination. Dry den ,— 
Liberty ; freedom from restraint.—If this constrain them to 
grant that their axiom is not to take any place, save in those 
things only where the church hath larger scope , it resteth 
that they search out some stronger reason. Hooker. 
Ah, cut my lace asunder. 
That my pent heart may have some scope to beat, 
Or else I swoon with this dead killing news, Shakspeare. 
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