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m 
Ample licence. 
Being moody, give him line and scope, 
’Till that his passions, like a whale on ground, 
Confound themselves with working. Shakspeare. 
Act of riot ; sally. 
As surfeit is the father of much fast. 
So every scope, by the immoderate use, 
Turns to restraint. Shakspeare. 
Extended quantity.—The scopes of land granted to the 
first adventurers were too large, and the liberties and royalties 
were too great for subjects. Davies. —It is out of use, ex¬ 
cept in the three first senses. 
SCOPELISMUS [a-KO'ice'kia-p.oq, Gr.] A crime practised 
among the Arabians. 
It consisted in placing a certain number of stones upon 
the farm or field of persons these miscreants had a pique at; 
which stones served as a denunciation of utter destruction to 
those, who for the future should attempt to till the ground 
on which they were laid. And such terror attended this 
malevolent threatening, that none ever ventured to till such 
fields. 
SCOPELO. See Skopei.os. 
SCOPER-HOLES, or Scuper-Holes, in a Ship. See 
Scuppers. 
SCOPIA, or Uscup, a considerable town of European 
Turkey, in Bulgaria, situated on the river Vardari (the an¬ 
cient Axius), near the borders of Macedon. It is tolerably 
well-built, contains several mosques, has a fortified castle, an 
aqueduct, and other remains of antiquity. Its population 
amounts to 8000 ; and its chief manufactures are of leather ; 
50 miles south-south-west of Nissa, and 110 north-by-west 
of Salonica. Lat. 42. 40. N. long. 21. 2. E. 
SCOPIA, a small town in the north-west of European 
Turkey, in Croatia, containing 1300 inhabitants. 
SCOPOLIA [so named by Sir J. Smith, in memory of 
his friend John Anthony Scopoli, author of the Flora Car- 
niolica, Entomologia Carniolica, Deliciae Insubricae, and 
many other learned works in every department of natural 
history], in Botany, a genus of the class pentandria, order 
monogynia, natural order of terebintaceae ( Juss .) —Generic 
Character. Calyx : perianth of one leaf, inferior, small, in 
five deep, ovate, acute, concave, spreading, permanent seg¬ 
ments. Corolla: petals five, oblong, sessile, erect, bluntish, 
concave, keeled at the upper part behind. Nectary none. 
Stamina: filaments five, awl-shaped, erect, opposite to the 
petals, and rather longer, dilated and triangular at the base; 
anthers roundish, incumbent. Pistil: germen superior, 
roundish, with five furrowed lobes; style scarcely longer 
than the germen, furrowed lengthwise, swelling in the mid¬ 
dle ; stigma three-lobed, obtuse. Pericarp: capsule of five 
cells, nearly globose, dotted, with a succulent coat, some of 
the cells often abortive. Seeds solitary, oblong, somewhat 
kidney-shaped.— Essential Character. Calyx inferior, 
five-cleft. Petals five. Nectary none. Stigma capitate. 
Capsule succulent, of five cells. Seeds solitary. 
1. Scopolia aculeata, or prickly Scopolia.—(Paullinia 
Asiatica; Linn.) which see. 
2. Scopolia inermis, or blunt-leaved Scopolia.—(Tod- 
dalia paniculata; Lamarck.) Stem without prickle. Leaf¬ 
lets obovate, obtuse, entire Panicle terminal. Flowers 
four-cleft.—-Native of the island of Mauritius. A shrub, re¬ 
sembling some of the Cape species of rhus. Fruit with four 
furrows. 
3. Scopolia lanceolata, or lanceolate-leaved Scopolia.— 
(Toddalia lanceolata; Lamarck.) Stem without prickles. 
Leaflets lanceolate, taper-pointed. Panicle terminal. Flowers 
four-cleft.—Native of the islands of Mauritius and Bourbon. 
The leaflets of this are near three inches long, tapering at 
each end, very acute, shining, elegantly veined; somewhat 
crisped • at the edges. ' Panicle terminal, many-flowered, 
with hairy stalks. The capsules have three, four, or five 
specimen, which seems to be this plant in fruit, with rather 
cells, and are, like the leaves, besprinkled with glandular 
dots. 
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4. Scopolia angustifolia, or narrow-leaved Scopolia.-,- 
(Toddalia angustifolia ; Lamarck.) Stem without prickles. 
Leaflets linear-lanceolate, rather acute. Branches downy. 
Clusters axillary, much shorter than the leaves.—Gathered 
by Sonnerat in the East Indies. The leaflets are described 
by Poiret, in Lamarck’s work, as narrow, shining, veiny, 
especially beneath, entire. Clusters small, very much shorter 
than the leaves, moderately branched. Flowers five-cleft. 
Fruit very small, with four or five cells. 
To SCO'PPET, v. a. [schoepen, Teut] To lade out. 
•—In all either our sense or fear of evils, let us have our re¬ 
course to that Almighty hand which ordereth all the events 
of heaven and earth, and work him by our true repentance to 
a gracious cessation of vengeance; else, what do we with all 
our endeavours but as that, fond man, who wearies himself 
lading out the channel with a shallow dish, while the spring 
runs full and unchecked: Vain man, can he possibly hope to 
scoppet it out so fast as it fills ! Bp. Hall.—A had word. 
SCO'PTICAL, adj. [<tkwhc7h«>s, from o-Kuwla, Gr. See 
To Scoff,] Scoffing: a very had word. —The Roman ora¬ 
tor, discoursing of scoptical urbanity, or jesting, how far it 
was allowable in speeches and pleadings, lays down an ex¬ 
cellent rule. South. 
SCO'PULOUS, adj. [scopulosus, Lat.] Full of rocks. 
Johnson. 
SCOPUS., in Ornithology, a genus of birds of the order 
grallae. Bill long, thick, compressed, a little hooked ; the 
nostrils are linear and oblique; the feet are four-toed and 
cleft. There is but one species. 
Scopus umbretta, or tufted urnbre.—It inhabits Africa, 
and is twenty inches long. The bill is brown, with a longi¬ 
tudinal furrow on each side, in which are placed the nostrils; 
the lower mandible is narrower towards the end, and a little 
truncate; the crest is thick, tufted and lax; the body is 
brown; the tail is obscurely barred ; legs longish, brown ; 
toes connected at the base. The female is not crested. 
SCOPWICH, a hamlet of England, in Lincolnshire; 9 
miles north of Sleaford. 
SCO'RBUTE, s. [scorbutus, Lat.] The scurvy. Not 
in use. —Another observation of this our author, is the 
scurvie or scorbute, whereunto they are much subject in 
navigations near the line. Purchas. 
SCORBUTIC, or Scorbu'ttcal, adj. [scorbutus, Lat.] 
Diseased with the scurvy.—Violent purging hurts scorbutic 
constitutions; lenitive substances relieve.' Arbuthnot. 
SCORBUTIC ALLY, adv. With tendency to the scurvy; 
in the scurvy.—A woman of forty, scorlutically and hy- 
dropically affected, having a sordid ulcer, put herself into 
my hands. Wiseman. 
SCORBUTUS, in Medicine, scurvy. See Pathology, 
p. 294. 
To SCORCH, v. a. [pcopcneb, Saxon ; burnt. “Sine 
dubio a antique Goth, et Pers. skie, slcior, ignis; cujus, 
quanqu.am deperditi, vestigia complura supersunt, e. g. Sueth. 
skorsten, caminus; Su. Goth, skir, skacr, skiaer, clarus.” 
Screnius.~] To burn superficially.—-Fire scorcheth in frosty 
weather. Bacon. —To burn. 
I rave. 
And, like a giddy bird in dead of night. 
Fly round the fire that scorches me to death. Dry den. 
He, from whom the nations should receive 
Justice and freedom, lies himself a slave; 
Tortur’d by cruel change of wild desires, 
Lash’d by mad rage, and scorch'd by brutal fires. Prior. 
To SCORCH, v. n. To be burnt superficially; to be 
dried up. 
■The swarthy Africans complain 1 
To see the chariot of the sun 
So nigh their scorching country run. Roscommon'. 
’ SCORCHING FENNEL, 5. A plant. 
SCO’RDIUM, s. [Latin.] A,n herb. Ainsworth. 
SCORDICES, 
