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the plants are in general all of them hardy enough to bear 
the cold of our ordinary winters in the open air (except the 
last'sort, which is tender); therefore when the plants come 
up, they will require no other care but to thin them where 
they are too close, and keep them clear from weeds. The 
second year the plants will flower and produce ripe seeds ; 
after which those sorts which are biennial will die, but the 
others will continue some years. 
The loth and 16 sorts being ornamental plants, may be 
allowed a place in the pleasure-garden, where, when the 
plants are strong, they will make a good appearance during 
their continuance in flower, which is generally two months, 
unless the season prove very hot and dry. 
SCROPIIULARliE, in Botany, a natural order of plants, 
named from one of the most remarkable and best-known 
genera (see Scrophularia) ; making the fortieth order in 
Jussieu's system, or the seventh of his eighth class. 
The character of the Scrophularia is thus given by Jussieu:— 
Calyx divided; often permanent. Corolla often irregu¬ 
lar ;' divided in the limb. Stamens often four, two longer 
than the others ; rarely often two in all. Style one; stigma 
simple or two-lobed. Fruit capsular, of two cells, split at 
the summit, if not completely separated, into two valves, 
which are in some few instances divided again into two 
parts ; their inside is naked and concave, with a central re¬ 
ceptacle, bordered vertically all round, and bearing seeds at 
each side, supplying the place of a partition, being parallel 
to the valves, and often connected, in its whole circumfer¬ 
ence, with their margins. Seeds often numerous and mi¬ 
nute. Stem herbaceous, rarely shrubby. Leaves opposite 
or alternate. Flowers bracteated. 
SCROPTON, a parish of England, in Derbyshire, near 
the Dove; 11 miles west-south-west of Derby. Population 
494. 
- SCROTBY, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 3 miles 
north-by-west of Caistor 
SCROTOCELE, in Surgery, a hernia, or rupture, which 
has descended into the scrotum. 
SCROTUM, in Anatomy, the bag of skin which contains 
the testes. 
SCROYLE, s. [It seems derived from escrouelles, 
French, a scrofulous swelling; as Shakspeare calls a mean 
fellow a scab from his itch, or a patch from his raggedness.] 
A mean fellow ; a rascal; a wretch. 
The scroyles of Angiers flout you kings, 
And stand securely on their battlements, 
As in a theatre. Shakspeare. 
To SCRUB, v. a. [skrubba , Swedish; schrobben, Dutch.] 
To rub hard with something coarse and rough. 
Now MqII had whirled her mop with dext’rous airs, 
Prepar'd to scrub the entry and the stairs. Swift. 
SCRUB, s. [ schrobber , Dutch,a vile or mean fellow.]— 
They are esteemed scrubs and fools by reason of their car¬ 
riage. Burton. —Any thing mean or despicable. 
With a dozen large vessels my vault shall be stor’d ; 
No little scrub joint shall come on my board. Swift. 
A shrub. See Shrub. —A worn out broom. Ainsworth. 
SCRUB, one of the smaller Virgin Islands, in the West 
Indies, to the east of the north extremity of Tortola, on 
which it depends. Lat. 18. 25. N. long. 62. 57. E. 
SCRU'BBED, or Scru'bby, adj. [scrubet, Danish. Dr. 
Johnson.—Scrub formerly signified shrub, as Mr. Malone 
also has observed.] Mean; vile; worthless; dirty; 
sorry. 
I gave it to a youth, 
A kind of boy, a little scrubbed boy, 
No higher than thyself. Shakspeare. 
The scrubbiest cur in all the pack, 
Can set the mastiff on your back. Swift. 
The scene a wood, produc’d no more 
Than a few scrubby, trees before. Swift. 
SCRUF, s. The same with scurf. Todd. 
SCRUPI, the name of a class of fossils. Under this class 
are comprehended, 1. The telaugia. 2. The petridia. 3. 
The lithoxugia. 4. The jaspides, or jaspers. 
SCRUPLE, s. [scrupule, French; scrupulus, Latin.] 
Doubt; difficulty of determination,; perplexity: generally 
about minute things. 
Macduff, this noble passion. 
Child of integrity, hath from my soul 
Wip’d the black scruples, reconcil’d my thoughts 
To vour good truth. Shakspeare. 
’ Twenty grains ; the third part of a drachm: with goldsmiths 
twenty-four grains.—Milk one ounce, oil of vitriol a scruple, 
doth coagulate; the milk at the bottom, where the vitriol 
goeth. Bacon. —Proverbially, any small quantity. 
Nature never lends 
The smallest scruple of her excellence, 
But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines 
Herself the glory of a creditor. Shakspeare 
SCRUPLE, in Chronology. The Chaldee scruple is 
ji-f part of an hour, called by the Hebrews helakin. These 
scruples are much used by the Jews, Arabs, and other east¬ 
ern people, in computations of time. 
SCRUPLES, in Astronomy. Scruples eclipsed, that 
part of the moon’s diameter which enters the shadow, ex¬ 
pressed in the same measure in which the diameter of the 
moon is expressed.— Scruples of Half Duration, an arc 
of the moon’s orbit, which the moon’s centre describes from 
the beginning of an eclipse to its middle.— Scruples of 
Immersion, or Incidence, an arc of the moon’s orbit, 
which her centre describes from the beginning of the eclipse, 
to the time when its centre falls into the shadow.— Scruples 
of Emersion, an arc of the moon’s orbit, which her centre 
describes in the time from the first emersion of the moon’s 
limb, to the end of the eclipse 
To SCRU'PLE, v. n. To doubt; to hesitate. 
He scrupled not to eat 
Against his better knowledge; not deceiv’d. 
But fondly overcome with female charms. Milton. 
SCRU'PLER, s. A doubter; one who has scruples.— 
Away with those nice scruplers, who, for some further ends, 
have endeavoured to keep us in an undue sense. Bp. Hall. 
To SCRU'PULIZE, v. a. To perplex with scruples.— 
Other articles may be so scrupulized. Mountagu. 
- SCRUPULOSITY, s. Doubt; minute and nice doubt¬ 
fulness. Unused. —Fear of acting in any manner; tender¬ 
ness of conscience.—The first sacrilege is looked upon with 
horror ; but when they have made the breach, their scrupu¬ 
losity soon retires. Dec. of Chr. Piety. 
SCRUPULOUS, adj. [ scrupuleux , Fr.; scrupulosus, 
Lat.] Nicely doubtful; hard to satisfy in determinations of 
conscience.—They warned them that they did not become 
scandalous, by abusing their liberty, to the offence of their 
weak brethren which were scrupulous. Hooker. —Given to 
objections; captious. 
Equality of two domestic powers 
Breeds scrupulous faction. Shakspeare. 
Nice; doubtful.—As the cause of a war ought to be just, 
the justice of that cause ought to be evident; not obscure, 
not scrupulous. Bacon. —-Careful; vigilant; cautious.—I 
have been the more scrupulous and wary, in regard the in¬ 
ferences from these observations are of importance. Wood¬ 
ward. 
SCRUPULOUSLY, ado. Carefully; nicely; anxiously. 
—-Henry V. manifestly derived his courage from his piety, 
and was scrupulously careful not to ascribe the success of it 
to himself. Addison. 
SCRUPULOUSNESS, s. The state of being scrupu¬ 
lous. 
