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To SCREAM, v. n. [From the Swed. skracma, to 
frighten or be frightened.] To cry out shrilly, as in terror or 
agony. 
Soon a whirlwind rose around, 
And from afar he heard a screaniing sound, 
As of a dame distress'd, who cry’d for aid. 
And fill’d with loud laments the secret shade. Dryclen. 
To cry shrilly.—I heard the owl scream, and crickets 
cry. Shakspeare. 
SCREAM, s. A shrill, quick, loud cry of terror or pain. 
Our chimnies were blown down; and, as they say, 
Lamentings heard i’ th’ air, strange screams of death. 
Shakspeare. 
Then flash’d the livid lightning from her eyes, 
And screams of horror rend the affrighted skies. Pope. 
SCRE'AMER, s. A bird. Pennant.— See Palama- 
1>EA. 
SCREDINGTON, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 
3 miles south-by-east of Sleaford. 
To SCREECH, v. n. [skraeka, Icelandic, to cry.] To 
cry out as in terror or anguish.— Screeching is an appetite 
of expelling that which suddenly strikes the spirits. Bacon. 
—To cry as a night owl: thence called a screech-owl. 
Whilst the screech-owl screeching loud 
Puts the wretch that lies in woe 
In remembrance of a shroud. Shakspeare. 
SCREECH, s. Cry of horror and anguish.—The senate, 
hearing their groans and scritches, stood amazed. Hake-will. 
Their strength [he] slew ; which fill’d their ears. 
With female screeches, and their hearts with fears. Sandys. 
Harsh horrid cry. 
The birds obscene, that nightly flock’d to taste. 
With hollow screechs fled from the dire repast. Pope. 
SCREE'CH-OWL, s. An owl that hoots in the night. 
His voice is supposed to betoken danger, misery, or death. 
Deep night. 
The time of night when Troy was set on fire, 
The time when schreech-owls cry, and bandogs howl. 
Shakspeare. 
SCREEN, s. [escran , Fr.] -Any thing that affords 
shelter or concealment.—Some ambitious men seem as 
screens to princes in matters of danger and envy. Bacon. — 
Any thing used to exclude cold or light. 
One speaks the glory of the British queen. 
And one describes a charming Indian screen. Pope. 
An instrument for keeping off the heat of the fire.—A 
riddle to sift sand. Unused. 
To SCREEN, v. a. To shelter; to conceal; to hide. 
Back’d with a ridge of hills, 
That screen'd the fruits of th’ earth, and seats of men. 
From cold Septentrion blasts. Milton. 
[Cerno crevi, Lat.] To sift; to riddle. 
SCREMBY, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 2 miles 
east-north-east of Spilsby. 
SCREVETON, a parish of England, in Nottingham¬ 
shire; 8| miles south-west of Newark. 
SCREW, s . [ scroeve , Dutch ; escroue, Fr.] One of the 
mechanical powers, which is defined a right cylinder cut 
into a furrowed spiral: of this there are two kinds, the male 
and female, the former being cut convex, so that its threads 
rise outwards; but the latter channelled on its concave side, 
so as to receive the former.—The screw is a kind of wedge, 
that is multiplied or continued by a helical revolution about 
a cylinder, receiving its motion not from any stroke, but 
from a vectis at one end of it. Wilkins. 
To SCREW, v. a. To turn or move by a screw. 
Some, when the press by utmost vigour screw'd. 
Has drain’d the pulpous mass, regale their swine 
With the dry refuse. Philips. 
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To raise up forcibly as with a screw. 
We fail! 
But screw your courage to the sticking place, 
And we’ll not fail. Shakspeare. 
To deform by contortions. 
Sometimes a violent laughter screw'd his face, 
And sometimes ready tears dropp'd down apace. Cowley. 
To force ; to bring by violence.—He resolved to govern 
by subaltern ministers, who screwed up the pins of power 
too high. Howell .—To squeeze; to press; to oppress by 
extortion.—Our country landlords, by unmeasureable screw¬ 
ing and racking their tenants, have already reduced the 
miserable people to a worse condition than the peasants in 
France. Swift. 
SCREW-PINE. See Pinus. 
SCREW-SHELL. See Turbo. 
SCREW-TREE, s. A plant of the East and West In¬ 
dies. See Helicteres. 
SCRIBA, a post township of the United States, in Oswego 
county, New York, at the mouth of the Oswego; 173, 
miles west-north-west of Albany. Population 328. 
SCRIBAN, a large and handsome port of the east coast 
of the isthmus of Panama. Its entrance is so full of rocks, 
as to be impassable for vessels, without a well practised 
pilot; 17 miles east of Porto Bello. 
To SCRI'BBLE, v. a. [scribillo, low Latin.] To fill 
with artless or worthless writing.—Drugs and doses, pre¬ 
scribed in strange affected terms of art, and ill scribbled bills; 
which seem to be as so many charms or spells. Bp. Taylor. 
—To write without use or elegance:, as he scribbled a 
pamphlet.—To comb wool. 
To SCRI'BBLE, v. n. To write without care or beauty. 
If Msevius scribble in Apollo’s spite. 
There are, who judge stiil worse than he can write. Pope. 
SCRI'BBLE, s. Worthless writing.—By solemnly en¬ 
deavouring to countenance my conjectures, I might be thought 
dogmatical in a hasty scribble. Boyle. 
SCRI'BBLER, s. A petty author; a writer without 
worth. 
The scribbler, pinch’d with hunger, writes to dine, 
And to your genius mustconform his line. Granville. 
SCRIBE, s. [ scribe, Fr. scriba, Lat.] A writer. 
Hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards, poets, cannot 
Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number, ho! 
His love to Antony. Shakspeare. 
A public notary.. Ainsworth .—It appears from the fre¬ 
quent mention that is made in the Gospel of the Scribes and 
Pharisees in conjunction, that the greatest number of Jewish 
teachers or doctors of the law, for these are expressions equi¬ 
valent to scribe, were at that time of the pharisaical sect. 
Bp. Percy. 
SCRIBE, or Scriba, was also the title of an officer 
among the Romans, who wrote decrees or acts, and made out 
authentic copies of them; thus every magistrate had his scriba, 
or secretary. In the time of the emperors, they were also 
called notarii. 
SCRIBING, a term used in Joinery, when one side of a 
piece of stuff being to be fitted to the side of some other 
piece, which last is not regular ; to make the two join close 
together all the way, they scribe it. 
SCRIBONIUS (Largus), a Roman physician, who lived 
in the reign of Claudius, and is said to have accompanied 
this emperor in his campaign in Britain. He wrote a 
treatise “ De Compositione Medicamentorum,” which is 
very often quoted by Galen, and was “ most impudently 
pillaged and transcribed” by Marcellus the empiric, according 
to Dr. Freind. This work Scribonius dedicated to Julius 
Callistius, the most favoured of all the freed-men of the 
emperor; and he speaks of Messalina and Claudius in a way 
which evinces that they were living at that time. After 
giving the formula of a dentifrice, he adds, “ Messalina 
Dei nostri Caesaris hoc utitur.” His practice seems to have 
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