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SCOURGE, s. [escourgie, Fr. scoreggia, Italian; 
corrigia, Lat.]—A whip; a lash.—When he had made a 
scourge, of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple. 
St. John.- —A punishment; a vindictive affliction. 
What scourge for perjury 
Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence? 
Shakspeare. 
Famine and plague are sent as scourges for amendment. 
2 Esdras. —One that afflicts, harasses, or destroys. 
Is this the scourge of France? 
Is this the Talbot so much fear’d abroad. 
That with his name the mothers still their babes ? 
Shakspeare. 
Immortal Jove, 
Let kings no more with gentle mercy sway, 
Or bless a people willing to obey, 
But crush the nations with an iron rod. 
And every monarch be the scourge of God. Pope. 
To SCOURGE, v. a. To lash with a whip; to whip. 
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices 
Make instruments to scourge us. Shakspeare. 
To punish; to chastise; to chasten; to castigate with 
any punishment or affliction.—Seeing that thou hast been 
scourged from Heaven, declare the mighty power of 
God. Mac. 
SCO'URGER, s. One that scourges; a punisher or 
chastiser.—One of the sect called flagellants, who scourged 
themselves.—The sect of the scourgers broached several 
capital errours. Tindal. 
SCO'URGING, s. Punishment by the scourge.—Others 
had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings. Heb. 
SCO'URING, s. [old Fr. escourenca, flux de ventre. 
Lacombe.] A looseness; a flux.—Some apothecaries, upon 
stamping coloquintida, have been put into a great scouring 
by the vapour only. Bacon. 
To SCOURSE, or Scorse, v . a. To exchange one 
thing for another. 
SCOUT, s. [according to Serenius from an old 
Teutonic word, which means a viewer, a spy, a watch; 
from schouw, a prospect from the top of any place where 
things are espied far off; from schowwen, to view, to ob¬ 
serve. “ Hence perhaps our northern word scout, a high 
rock; as overlooking the plain below.” Todd. ] One who 
is sent privily to observe the motions of the enemy. 
Are not the speedy scouts return’d again, 
That nogg’d the mighty army of the dauphin ? 
Shakspeare. 
A high rock. Northern. Grose. 
To SCOUT, v. n. To go out in order to observe the 
motions of an enemy privately. 
Oft on the bordering deep 
Encamp their legions; or with obscure wing 
Scout far and wide into the realm of night, 
Scorning surprize. Milton. 
To avoid contemptuously. 
To SCOWL, v. n. [pcyhan, to squint, Saxon; skaela 
sig, to look sour, Icelandic.] To frown; to look sullen. 
With bent louring brows, as she would threat. 
She scow I'd and frowned with fro ward countenance. Spenser. 
In rueful gaze 
The cattle stand, and on the scowling heavens 
Cast a deploring eye. Thomson. 
SCOWL, s. Look of sullenness or discontent; gloom. 
I’ve seen the morning’s lovely ray 
Hover o’er the new-born day. 
With rosy wings so richly bright. 
As if he scorn’d to think of night; 
When a ruddy storm, whose Seoul 
Made heaven’s radiant face look foul, 
Call’d for an untimely night. 
To blot the newly-blossom’d light. Crashaiv. 
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SCO'WLINGLY, adv. With a frowning and sullen 
look. 
SCOUZIE HEAD, a cape of Scotland, on the east coast 
of the county of Caithness; 3 miles south of Duncansby 
Head. Lat. 58. 31. N. long. 2. 25. W. 
To SCRA'BBLE, v. n. [krabbelen, schrabben, Teut. 
To scrape, scratch, or otherwise to write or make marks idly; 
“ pingere, scribere, vel exarare.''] To make unmeaning 
or idle marks.—He feigned himself mad in their hands, and 
scrabbled on the doors of the gate. 
SCRAFEON, a hamlet of England, North Riding of 
Yorkshire; 5 miles south-west of Middleham. 
SCRAG, s. [a corruption of crag, the neck.] Any thing 
thin or lean; as a scrag of mutton, i. e. the small end of 
the neck: the man is a scrag, i. e. he is rawboned. 
SCRA'GGED, adj. Rough; uneven; full of protuber¬ 
ances or asperities.—Is there then any physical deformity in 
the fabrick of a human body, because our imagination can 
strip it of its muscles and skin, and shew us the scragged 
and knotty back-bone? Bentley. 
SCRA'GGEDNESS, or Scra'gginess, s. Leanness; 
unevenness; roughness; ruggedness. 
SCRA'GGILY, adv. Meagerly; leanly. Cotgrave. 
SCRA'GGY, adj. Lean; thin.—Such a constitution is 
easily known by the body being lean, warm, hairy, scraggy, 
and dry, without a disease. Arbuthnot. —Rough; rugged; 
uneven.—The walls are high, and their foundations on 
scraggy rocks. Randolph. 
To SCRA'MBLE, v. n. [From the same source as scrab¬ 
ble.] To catch at any thing eagerly and tumultuously with the 
hands; to catch with haste preventive of another; to con¬ 
tend tumultuously which shall catch auy thing. 
Of other care they little reckoning make. 
Than how to scramble at the shearer’s feast. 
And shove away the worthy bidden guest. Milton. 
To climb by the help of the hands: as, he scrambled 
up that rock. 
SCRA'MBLE, s. Eager contest for something, in which 
one endeavours to get it before another.—Because the desire 
of money is constantly almost every where the same, its vent 
varies very little, but, as its greater scarcity enhances its 
price, and increases the scramble. Locke. —Act of climbing 
by the help of the hands. 
SCRA'MBLER, s. One that scrambles.—All the little 
scramblers after fame fall upon him. Addison. —One that 
climbs by help of the hands. 
To SCRANCH, v. a. [ schrantsen , Dutch.] To grind 
somewhat crackling between the teeth. 
SCRANENBURG, 'a village of the United States, in 
Bergen county. New Jersey. It contains two Dutch 
churches. 
SCRA'NNEL, adj. [ Etymology unknown. Mr. Warton 
long since observed, that scrannel means thin, meagre, 
lean; and Todd says, that, in the Lancashire dialect, scran- 
nel signifies a lean person.] Slight; poor; worthless. 
They when they list, their lean and flashy songs 
Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. Milton. 
SCRAP, s. A small particle; a little piece; a fragment. 
—-It is an unaccountable vanity to spend all our time raking 
into the scraps and imperfect remains of former ages, and 
neglecting the clearer notices of our own. Glanvil/e. _ 
Languages are to be learned only by reading and talking, and 
not by scraps of authors got by heart. Locke. —Crumb; 
small particles of meat left at the table. 
On bones, on scraps of dogs let me be fed. 
My limbs uncover’d and expos’d my head 
To bleakest cold. Granville. 
What has he else to bait his traps. 
Or bring his vermin in, but scraps ? 
The offals of a church distrest, 
A hungry vicarage at best. Swift. 
A small piece of paper. 
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