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lous.—If the like scrupulousness was observed in registering To SCU'DDLE, v. n. To run with a kind of affected 
the smallest changes in profane authors. Bentley. haste or precipitation. A low and unusedword: commonly 
SCRU'TABLE, adj. [from scrutor, Lat.] Discoverable pronounced scuttle. 
by inquiry. SCUDERI (George de), was born at Havre de Grace in 
SCRUTA'TION, s. [scrutor, Lat.] Search; examina- 1601, of an ancient family, originally from Provence. Ac¬ 
tion ; inquiry. Johnson. cording to his own account, he passed his youth in military 
SCRUTATOR, s. [scrutateur, Fr.; from scrutor, Lat.] service, and in travels through the greater part of Europe, 
Enquirer; searcher; examiner.—In process of time, from but he was not known till he settled at Paris as a 
being a simple scrutator, an archdeacon became to have writer, and in this capacity he had a most prolific pen, 
jurisdiction more amply. Ayliffe. giving to the world plays, poems, essays, &c., in great 
SCRUTATORES, among the Romans, certain officers abundance. Most of his works are sunk in oblivion. His 
or servants, whose business it was to search every body that “ Alaric, ou Rome Vaincue,” has been ranked in the same 
came to salute the emperor, in order to discover if they had class with the “ Pucelle” of Chapelain. His “ Observations 
any kind of arms concealed about them. They were first sur le Cid” obtained for the author the favour of cardinal 
instituted under the emperor Claudius. Richelieu. Scuderi obtained admission into the French 
SCRUTINE'ER, s. [scrutator, Lat.] A searcher; an Academy, and he had also the gift of a petty government 
examiner. in Provence, but he was scarcely able to keep himself above 
SCRUTINOUS, adj. Captious; full of inquiries. A a state of indigence. He died at Paris in 1667. 
word little used. 
Age is froward, uneasy, scrutinous, 
Hard to be pleas’d, and parsimonious. Denham. 
To SCRUTINIZE, or To Scru'tiny, v. a. To search; 
to examine.—The compromissarii should chuse according to 
the votes of such, whose votes they were obliged to scru¬ 
tinize. Ayliffe. 
SCRUTINY, s. [scrutine, oldFr.; scrutinium, Lat. 
The Saxon verb j'cpubman, to scrutiny. ] Enquiry ; search; 
examination with nicety. 
Their difference to measure, and to reach, 
Reason well rectify’d must nature teach; 
And these high scrutinies are subjects fit 
For man’s all-searching and enquiring wit. Denham. 
Also, an examination or probation, practised in the last 
week of Lent, on the catechumens, who were to receive 
baptism on the Easter-day. 
The scrutiny was performed with a great many ceremo¬ 
nies : exorcisms and prayers were made over the heads of 
the catechumens. On Palm Sunday, the Lord’s Prayer and 
creed were given them, which they were afterwards made 
to rehearse. 
The process was called scrutinium, scrutiny; because 
hereby the hearts of the catechumens were scrutinized, or 
searched, that the priest might understand who were fit to 
be admitted to baptism. 
SCRUTOI'RE, s. [for scritoire, or escritoire. ] A case 
of drawers for writing.—-I locked up these papers in my 
scrutoire, and my scrutoire came to be unlocked. Prior. 
SCRUTON, a parish of England, North Riding of York¬ 
shire; 4 miles north-east of Bedale. 
To SCRUZE, v. a. [Perhaps from screw. This word, 
though now disused by writers, is still preserved, at least in 
its corruption, to scrouge, in the vulgar tongue.] To squeeze; 
to compress. 
Tho’ up he caught him twixt his puissant hands, 
And having scruz out of his carrion corse 
The loathful life, now loos’d from sinful bands, 
Upon his shoulders carried him. Spenser. 
SCUCYN, or Szczuczyn, a small town of Poland; 105 
miles north-north-east of Warsaw, and 19 west of Goniondz, 
•containing 1300 inhabitants. 
To SCUD, v. n. [squittire, Italian ; skutta, Swedish; 
skiotur, swift, Icelandic.]—To flee; to run away with 
precipitation.—The vote was no sooner passed, but away 
they scudded to the next lake. L'Estrange. —To be carried 
precipitately before a tempest: applied to a ship. 
2'o SCUD, v. a. To pass over quickly. 
A shepherd, from the lofty brow 
Of some proud cliff, surveys his lessening flock 
In snowy groups diffusive scud the vale. Shenstone. 
SCUD, s. A cloud swiftly driven by the wind. 
The combat thickens, like the storm that flies 
From westward, when the showery scuds arise. Drvden. 
Vol. XXIL No. 1546. 
SCUDERI (Magdalen de), sister of the preceding, born 
at Havre de Grace in 1607, was educated at Paris, and at an 
early age was admitted at the Hotel de Rambomllet, where 
she was encouraged to enter the career of an authoress. She 
was particularly celebrated as a writer of romance. Some 
of her works consist of ten volumes. They were much read 
when they first appeared, though they have long since de¬ 
clined in reputation. They are said, however, to contain 
some elegant writing, and much real elevation and dignity 
of sentiment, which did great honour to the writer. Her 
“ Conversations et Entretiens,” are by some accounted her 
most valuable publication, though the politeness inculcated 
in them would now appear formal and tiresome. 
SCUDO, in Commerce, a money of account, and also a 
silver coin, in different parts of Italy, in Sicily, and also at 
Malta. The scudo weighs 22 denari 10-^ grains, Roman 
weight, or 408^5 English grains; and the silver is 10|J 
ounces fine in the lb.; it therefore contains 403 grains of 
English standard silver, and is worth about 4s. 4<7. sterling. 
SCUFFLE, s. [either from shuffle, or from the Swedish 
skuffa, to push angrily; to jostle.] A confused qnarrel; a 
tumultuous broil. 
His captain’s heart, 
In the scuffles of great fights hath burst 
The buckles on his breast. Shakspeare» 
SCUFFLE, or Scuffler, an implement of somewhat 
the same kind as the scarifier, but which is mostly lighter, 
and employed in working after it. 
To SCUFFLE, v. n. To fight confusedly and 
tumultuously. 
I must confess I’ve seen in former days. 
The best knights in the world, and scuffled in some frays, 
Drayton. 
SCUFFLETOWN, a post village of the United States, in 
Lauren’s district. South Carolina. 
To SCUG, v. a. [skugga, Swedish, shade.] To hide. 
Used in the north of England, according to Grose. 
SCUI.COATES, a parish of England, East Riding of 
Yorkshire, forming a suburb to the town of Hull. Popula¬ 
tion 8645. 
SCULION, in Ichthyology, a name given by Aristotle, 
and many others of the ancient writers, to the fish called, by 
later authors, catulus, and catulus major. 
To SCULK, v. n. [sculckc, Danish.] To lurk in 
hiding-places; to lie close.—It has struck on a sudden into 
such a reputation, that it scorns any longer to sculk, but owns 
itself publily. Gov. of the Tongue. 
SCU'LKER, s. A lurker; one that hides himself for 
shame or mischief. 
SCULL, s. [derived by Skinner from shell, as testa and 
teste, or tete, signify the head. Lye observes that skola is 
in Icelandic the skull of an animal].—The bone which 
incases and defends the brain; the arched bone of the head. 
Fractures of the scull are at all times very dangerous, as the 
brain becomes affected from the pressure. Sharp. —A small 
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