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SCORDICES, a Celtic or Gaulish people, who inhabited 
the territory south of the Danube, and were some of the most 
warlike people in all Illyria. Some of them occupied the 
banks of the Noarus, on the coast of the town of Segeste ; 
and others were situated on the confluence of the Danube 
and Save. Their limits extended to the mountains of 
Thrace and of Macedonia. These people were ultimately 
subdued by Tiberius, when he commanded the armies of 
Augustus in Pannonia. 
SCORDIUM, in Botany. See Germander. 
SCORE, s. [skora, Icelandick, a mark, cut, or notch; 
from skora, “ baculo incidere, annotare; skaera, Su. Goth, 
ineidere; quoniam inculta vetustas non aliter computabat 
quam imitates, &c., incisuris in baculo factis connotando.” 
Serenius. —A notch or long incision.—Our forefathers had 
no other books but the score and the tally: thou hast caused 
printing to be used. Shakspeare.— A line drawn.—An ac¬ 
count, which, when writing was less common, was kept by 
marks on tallies, or by lines of chalk. 
He’s worth no more: 
They say he parted well, and paid his score. Shakspeare • 
Account kept of something past; an epoch; an era.— 
Universal deluges have swept all away, except two or three 
persons who begun the world again upon a new score. 
Tillotson .—Debt imputed. 
That thou dos’t love her, strikes some scores away 
From the great compt. Shakspeare. 
Reason ; motive.—If your terms are moderate, we’ll 
never break off upon that score. Collier .—Sake: ac¬ 
count ; relative motive.—Kings in Greece were deposed by 
their people upon the score of their arbitrary proceedings. 
Swift .—Twenty. It is supposed because twenty, being a 
round number, was distinguished on tallies by a long score, 
[pcop, Saxon.] 
How many score of miles may we well ride 
'Twixt hour and hour ? Shakspeare. 
A song or air in Score. —The disposition of the 
several parts set on the same leaf; as upon the uppermost 
range of lines are found the treble notes; in another, 
those of the bass; in another, the tenor; and so on ; that 
they may be sung or played jointly or separately; com¬ 
monly called the score. Mus. Diet. 
To SCORE, v. a. To mark ; to cut; to engrave. 
Why on your shield, so goodl y scor'd. 
Bear you the picture of that lady’s head ? Spenser. 
To mark by a line. 
Hast thou appointed where the moon should rise, 
And with her purple light adorn the skies ? 
Scor'd out the bounded sun’s obliquer ways, 
That he on all might spread his equal rays ? Sandy s. 
To set down as a debt. 
Madam, I know when 
Instead of five you scor'd me ten. Swift. 
To impute; to charge. 
Your follies and debauches change 
With such a whirl, the poets of your age 
Are tir’d, and cannot score ’em on the stage; 
Unless each vice in short-hand they indite, 
Ev'n as notcht prentices whole sermons write. Dry den. 
SCORIA, s. [Lat.] Dross; recrement.—The scoria, or vitri¬ 
fied part, which most metals, when heated or melted, do con¬ 
tinually protrude to the surface, and which, by covering the 
metals in form of a thin glassy skin, causes these colours, is 
much denser than water. Newton. 
SCORIFICA'TION, s. in Metallurgy, the art of reducing 
a body either entirely, or in part, into scoria. Chambers. 
SCORING, in Agriculture, a provincial term, signifying 
the glazing, glossing, or making the furrow-slice shine in 
ploughing or turning land up, by the plough acting as a 
trowel. 
Vol. XXII. No. 1543. 
SCO'RIOUS, adj. [from scoria, Lat.] Drossy; recre- 
mentitious.—By the fire they emit many drossy and scorious 
parts. Brown. 
SCORITH, a word used by the chemical writers to 
express sulphur. 
To SCORN, v. a. [sceernen, Teut., escorner, Fr. “ Op¬ 
tima Junius a Sax. pceapn, Su. Goth, skarn, stercus.” 
Serenius .]—To despise; to slight; to revile; to vilify; to 
contemn. 
Back to the infernal pit I drag thee chain’d. 
And seal thee so, as henceforth not to scorn 
The facile gates of hell too slightly barr’d. Milton. 
To neglect; to disregard. 
This my long sufferance, and my day of grace, 
They, who neglect and scorn, shall never taste; 
But hard, be harden’d, blind, be blinded more. Milton. 
To SCORN, v. n. To shew signs of contempt. 
He said mine eyes were black, and my hair black; 
And now, I am remember’d, scorn'd at me. Shakspeare. 
To disdain; to think unworthy. 
I’ve seen the morning’s lovely ray 
Hover o’er the new-born day, 
With rosy wings so richly bright. 
And if he scorn'd to think of night. Crashaw. 
SCORN, s. [cscornc, old Fr.] Contempt; scoff; slight; 
act of contumely. 
Why should you think that I should woo in scorn ?■ 
Scorn and derision never come in tears. Shakspeare. 
Diogenes was asked in scorn. What was the matter that 
philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philoso¬ 
phers ? He answered, Because the one knew what they 
wanted; the others did not. Bacon —Subject of ridicule; 
thing treated with contempt.—Is it not a most horrid ingra¬ 
titude, thus to make a scorn of him that made us ? Tillotson. 
To think Scorn. To disdain; to hold unworthy of 
regard. Not now in use. —If he do fully prove himself the 
honest shepherd Menalcas his brother and heir, I know no 
reason why you should think scorn of him. Sidney. 
To laugh to Scorn. To deride as contemptible.—He 
that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh them to scorn; the 
Lord shall have them in derision. Psalms. 
SCO'RNER, s. Contemner; despiser.—They are very 
active, vigilant in their enterprises, present in perils, and 
great scorners of death. Spenser. —Scoffer; ridiculer. 
They, in the scorneds or the judge’s seat, 
Dare to condemn the virtue which they hate. Prior. 
SCO'RNFUL, adj. Contemptuous; insolent; disdainful. 
The enamour’d deity 
The scornful damsel shuns. Dry den. 
Acting in defiance 
With him I o’er the hills had run. 
Scornful of Winter’s frost and Summer’s sun. .Prior. 
SCO'RNFULLY, ado. Contemptuously ; insolently. 
He used us scornfully ; he should have shew’d us 
His marks of merit, wounds receiv’d for’s country. 
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SCO'RNING, s. Sign or act of contempt or disdain.— 
Our soul is filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, 
and with the contempt of the proud. Psalms. 
SCORODOPRASUM, in Botany, compounded of ctkoqoIov, 
garlick, and ■noacrov, a leek, because the plant which bears 
this name is somewhat intermediate, in appearance and cha¬ 
racter, between both. See Allium. 
SCORPiENA, in Ichthyology, a genus of fishes of the 
order thoracici. The Generic Character is as follows:—the 
head is large, aculeate, cirrous, obtuse, without scales, 
sub-compressed; the eyes are near to each other; teeth in 
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