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8. Scandix trichosperma, or hairy-seeded chervil.—Root 
annual. Steins several, oblique, half a foot high, branched, 
flexuose, almost smooth. Leaves bipinnate, smooth: leaflets 
ovate-lanceolate, serrate : petioles somewhat hairy. Pedun¬ 
cles opposite to a leaf. Universal umbel of three or four 
unequal rays: umbellet of ten or twelve, almost equal. In- 
volucrets of seven awl-shaped leaflets, the length of the um¬ 
bellet. Flowers regular, flesh-coloured, fertile.—Native of 
Egypt. 
9. Scandix infesta.—Root annual. Stem erect, about a 
foot high, nigged. Leaves like those of Scandix cerefolium. 
Umbel five-cleft: umbellets hemispherical, crouded. Invo- 
lucrets seven-leaved, awl-shaped, not reflexed. Flowers 
white: florets about six fertile; the rest female. Stamens 
longer than the florets, with purplish anthers. Outer seed 
hispid, with jointed spines: inner rugged only, like both 
seeds of the central floret.—We do not know where it is a 
native. 
10. Scandix grandifiora, or great-flowered chervil.—This 
is an annual plant, with fine-cut leaves. The stalks rise 
eight inches high, have at each joint a fine-cut leaf, and 
are terminated by an umbel of white flowers, with large 
heart-shaped petals. The horns (beaks) of this are longer 
than any of the other sorts, and the peduncles are very hairy. 
—Native of the Levant. 
11. Scandix procumbens, or trailing chervil.—This is a 
low trailing plant.—Native of Virginia. 
Propagation and Culture. —1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 11. These 
will increase fast by seeds, which, if permitted to scatter, 
will produce plenty of plants; these may be left in their 
place, or transplanted to any part of the garden, for 
they will grow in any soil or situation, and require no 
care. 
4. Sow the seeds of chervil in autumn, soon after they are 
ripe, either in drills or broad-cast. The plants continue 
green all the winter, and in April they flower; soon after 
which the seeds ripen, and the whole plants decay. 
SCANDOLERA, a small town of Austrian Italy, in the 
Milanese district of Cremona. 
SCANDULAS, in Ancient House-building, shingles, or 
flat pieces of wood, used by the Romans instead of tiles to 
cover houses. This, according to Cornelius Nepos, was the 
only covering used in Rome till the war with Pyrrhus, or 
470th year of the city. 
SCANDULARII, among the Romans, mechanics who 
prepared the scandulae used in covering houses, who were 
exempted from all public services. 
SCANELLO, [Ital. a ba?ik.] In Music, a bridge of a 
violin, &c., the same as ponticello. 
SCANIA, or Schonen, a province of Sweden, in South 
Gothland, bounded on the south by the Baltic, and on the 
west by the Sound. The latter separates it from Denmark. 
Its length from north to south, is above 65 miles; its breadth 
from east to west, nearly 50 : its population about 260,000. 
Scania is the most pleasant, as well as the most fertile coun¬ 
try in Sweden, resembling, in many respects, the provinces 
of Germany, situated between the Baltic and the Elbe. It 
consists of gentle eminences, which, in the interior, are 
covered with wood, and of fertile plains and valleys, pro¬ 
ducing abundance of corn, and excellent pasturages. Corn 
is an article of export, and the cattle and horses are consi¬ 
derably larger than in the northern provinces of Sweden, 
owing to the richness of the pasture and mildness of the 
climate. The principal mineral products are alum, sulphur, 
coal, chalk, and some lead ore. The inhabitants export oak 
timber, hemp, cordage, as well as horses, sheep, and black 
cattle. The fisheries on the coast are productive. Scania 
was, in remote ages, an independent government; it was 
afterwards long in the possession of Denmark, but was ceded 
to Sweden, along with the adjoining provinces of Blekingen 
and Halland, at the peace of Roschild, in 1658. The Danes 
attempted to re-conquer it after the disasters of Charles XII. 
and during his residence in Turkey; but an army of 50,000 
peasants baffled their attempt, and obliged them to re- 
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embark. It .is now divided into the provinces or Icens of 
Christianstadt and Malmohus. 
SCAN'SION, s. [ scansio , Lat.] The act of scanning. 
SCANsOR, in Ichthyology, a name given by Gesner to 
the fish called, by the generality of writers, Lupus Piscis. 
To SC'ANT, v. a. [jepcsenan, Sax. to break.] To limit; 
to straiten. 
You think 
I will your serious and great business scant ? 
For she is with me. Sbakspeare. 
Looking on things through the wrong end of the perspec¬ 
tive which scants their dimensions, we neglect and contemn 
them. Locke. 
SC'ANT, adj. Not plentiful; scarce.—Be somewhat 
scaiiter of your maiden presence. Sbakspeare. 
SC'ANT, adv. Scarcely ; hardly. 
SCANT'ILY, adv. Niggardly; sparingly. 
SCANTINESS, s. Narrowness; want of space; want 
of compass.—Virgil has sometimes two of them in a line, 
but the scantiness of our heroick verse is not capable of 
receiving more than one. Pry den. 
SCANTING, in Sea Language, the variation of the wind, 
by which it becomes unfavourable to a ship’s course, after 
having been fair or large. It is distinguished from a foul 
wind, as in the former a ship is still enabled to sail on her 
course, although her progress is considerably retarded; but 
in the latter she is obliged to alter from the line of her course, 
as explained in the article Tacking. 
SCAN'TLET, s. A little piece; a small quantity. A 
diminutive of Scantling. 
SCANTLING, s. \eschantillon, Fr.] A quantity cut 
fora particular purpose; a certain proportion— A scantling 
of wit lay under an heap of rubbish. Dry den. 
The success, 
Although particular, shall give a scantling 
Of good or bad unto the general. Sbakspeare. 
SCAN'TLY, adv. Scarcely; hardly.—France had scantly 
one. Clarendon. —Penuriously ; narrowly. 
SCANT'NESS, s. Narrowness; meanness; smallness. 
—He thought scant ness of estate too great an evil. Ham- 
mond. —Did we but compare the miserable scantness of our 
capacities with the vast profundity of things, truth and 
modesty would teach us wary language. Glanville. 
SCA'NTY, adj. [the same with scant.] Narrow; small; 
wanting amplitude; short of quantity sufficient. 
Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, 
And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile and Rhine; 
A small Euphrates through the piece is roll’d. 
And little eagles wave their wings in gold. Pope. 
Small; poor; not copious; not ample.—Their language 
being scanty, and accommodated only to the few necessaries 
of a needy simple life, had no words in it to stand for a thou¬ 
sand. Locke. —Sparing ; niggardly ; parsimonious. 
They with such scanty wages pay 
The bondage and the slavery of years. Swift. 
SCANZANO, a small town of the grand duchy of Tus¬ 
cany, province of Sienna. 
SCANZANO, a small town in the west of the kingdom 
of Naples, in the Principalo Citra, with 1500 inhabitants. 
To SCAPE, v. a. [contracted from escape.] To escape; 
to miss; to avoid ; to shun; not to incur; to fly.—What, 
have I scaped love-letters in the holyday time of my beauty, 
and am I now a subject for them ? Sbakspeare. 
To SCAPE, v. n. To get away from hurt or danger. 
Could they not fall unpity’d on the plain. 
But slain revive, and, taken, scape again ? Dry den. 
SCAPE, s. Escape; flight from hurt or danger; the 
act of declining or running from danger; accident of 
safety. 
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