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Dick the scavenger, with equal grace, 
Flirts from his cart the mud in Walpole’s face. Swift. 
SCAWBY, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 3 miles 
from Glandford Bridge. Population 658. 
SCAWTHORPE, a hamlet of England, in Lincolnshire, 
near Gainsborough. 
SCAWTON, a parish of England, North Riding of 
Yorkshire; 5 miles west-by-south of Helmsley. 
SCAZONE, in Ichthyology, a name given by Salvian 
and others to the fish which we call the pricked-dog, or 
hound. See Squalus. 
SCEAT, among the Saxons, a small coin equal to four 
farthings. 
SCEAUX, a village of France; 5 miles south of Paris. 
It has a considerable manufacture of stone-ware, and large 
markets of cattle and sheep for the supply of Paris. Popula¬ 
tion 1400. 
SCELAZIUS, in Zoology, the name by which Dr. Hill 
has called a genus of animalcules with visible legs. 
It is common in ditch-water, and is less quick in its 
motions than most other animalcules. 
SCE'LERAT, s. [Fr.; sceleratus, Lat.] A villain; a 
wicked wretch. A word introduced unnecessarily from the 
French.— Scelerats can by no arts stifle the cries of a wound¬ 
ed conscience. Cheyne. 
SCELLIERES, a petty town in the east of France, 
department of the Jura, on the small river Brene. Popula¬ 
tion 1200; 6 miles west of Poligny. 
SCELOTYRBE [o-kO.otvo^-/], Gr.], in Medicine, a disease 
described by the ancients, and characterised principally by a 
contraction of the limbs; quasi cruris perturbatio. 
There has been some difference of opinion, however, as 
to the nature of this contraction; some writers supposing it 
to be of a paralytic nature; others deeming it a convulsive 
affection, resembling St. Vitus’s dance; and others referring 
it to scurvy. 
SCEMI, in Botany, a name given by some authors to the 
carob, or sweet pipe-tree. 
SCENA [Ital.], a scene in Music, is a detached portion of 
an opera, sung at concerts, public and private, as a cantata. 
It generally consists of a recitative and an air, and sometimes 
of two recitatives and two airs. It is, however, very inferior 
in plan to a cantata for concerts, which has a beginning, a 
middle, and an end. Whereas these unconnected scenes 
begin, and often end so abruptly, that they convey no more 
meaning to an audience than a solfeggio, or a poem would 
do, if sung backwards. 
SCE'NARY, s. Properly Sce'nery. The appearances 
of place or things.—He must gain a relish of the works of 
nature, and be conversant in the various scenary of a coun¬ 
try life. Addison. —The representation of the place in which 
an action is performed.—The progress of the sound, and the 
scenary of the bordering regions, are imitated from iEn. vii. 
on the sounding of the horn of Alecto. Pope. —The dispo¬ 
sition and consecution of the scenes of a play.—To make a 
more perfect model of a picture, is, in the language of poets, 
to draw up the scenary of a play. Dry den. 
SCENE, s. \scena, Lat. o-ki Gr. a tent, a bower or 
arbour, in which sort of places public shows, and dramatic 
pieces, were anciently represented.] The stage; the theatre 
of dramatic poetry.—The general appearance of any action; 
the whole contexture of objects; a display; a series; a regu¬ 
lar disposition. 
Cedar and pine, and fir and branching palm, 
A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend 
Shade above shade, a woody theatre 
Of stateliest view. Milton. 
Say, shepherd, say, are these reflections true ? 
Or was it but the woman’s fear that drew 
This cruel scene, unjust to love and you? Prior. 
Fart of a play. 
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It shall be so my care 
To have you royally appointed, as if 
The scene you play were mine. Shakspeare. 
So much of an act of a play as passes between the same 
persons in the same place. 
If his characters were good. 
The scenes entire, and freed from noise and blood. 
The action great, yet circumscrib’d by time 
The words not forc’d, but sliding into rhyme 
He thought, in hitting these, his business done. Dry den. 
The place represented by the stage. 
The king is set from London, and the scene 
Is now transported to Southampton. Shakspeare. 
The hanging of the theatre adapted to the play.—The 
alteration of scenes feeds and relieves the eye, before it be 
full of the same object. Bacon. 
SCE'NERY, or Sce'nary, s. Landscape.—The scenery 
is beautiful: the rock broken, and covered with shrubs at 
the top; and afterwards spreading into one grand and simple 
shade. Gilpin. —The apparatus that represents the site of 
a play. 
SCE'NIC, or Sce'nical, adj. [scenicus, Lat.; scenique, 
Fr.] Dramatic; theatrical.—They dance over a distracted 
comedy of love, expressing their confused affections in the 
scenical persons and habits of the four prime European 
nations. B. Jonson. 
Bid scenick Virtue charm the rising age. 
And Truth diffuse her radiance from the stage. Dr. Johnson. 
SCENKIA, a small town of the island of Gozzo, in the 
Mediterranean, near Malta. It belongs to Great Britain. 
Population 1500. ; 
SCENOGRAPHICAL, adj. [o-kvjw; and yoa^aii] Drawn 
in perspective. 
SCENOGRA'PHICALLY, adv. In perspective.—If the 
workman be skilled in perspective, more than one face may 
be represented in our diagram scenographically. Mortimer. 
SCENO'GRAPHY, s. [otojkij and ytaipa ; scenogra- 
phie, Fr.] The art of perspective.—Representation in per¬ 
spective.—We shall here only represent to you the ichnogra- 
phy, and scenography, of the ancient burial-places of the 
Egyptians, near the pyramids, out of which the mummies 
are brought; with a prospect of Memphis, Babylon, Caro. 
Greenhill. 
SCENOPEGIA [iTKrivonYifia., formed of o-kv)vyi, scene, 
tabernacle, tent, and nrf\fvpu, figo, Ifix\, the third grand 
festival among the Jews, at which all their males were to 
attend at the national altar, more usually called feast of 
tabernacles, instituted after the people of Israel were in pos¬ 
session of the land of Canaan, in memory of their having 
dwelt under tents in the wilderness. 
The scenopegia was held for seven days successively, com¬ 
mencing on the fifteenth of September, i. e. on the fifteenth 
day of the month Tisri, the first of the civil, and seventh of 
the ecclesiastical year. To these seven days there was also 
added an eighth day, which was much the most solemn; 
both on account of the conflux of persons, and of the extra¬ 
ordinary tokens they all gave of their joy. This eighth day 
was called the feast of ingathering, on which they were 
to give thanks for their whole harvest. However, the feast of 
tabernacles, and that of ingathering, though properly distinct 
are sometimes spoken of as one feast, and the name of either 
indifferently applied to the other. 
It is of this eighth day St. John must be understood to 
speak, when he tells us, our Saviour was at the feast of 
tabernacles on the last and great day. 
The rabbies inform us, that there pertained to this feast a 
peculiar ceremony of drawing water out of the pool of 
Siloam, and pouring it, mixed with wine, on the sacrifice, 
as it lay on the altar. This they are said to have done with 
such expressions of joy, that it became a common proverb, 
“ He that never saw the rejoicing of drawing water, never 
saw rejoicing in all his life.” To this ceremony our Saviour 
is supposed to refer, John, vii. 37, 38. 
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