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Show ( SC - 1. Smallnefs of quantity; not plenty; pe [ nury Scarcity and want fhall thun yeu Ceres' bleffing fo is on you Shakefpeare Raphael writes thus conccrnfing his Galatea to paint a fair one, 'tis neceffary for me to fe many fair ones; but, becanfe there is fo grea a fearcity of lovely women, I am confrained t raake ule of one certain idea, which I bave formDryden's Dufrefuy ed in my fancy Corn -does not rife or fall by the differeunce of mor bu money o lefs plent o th b Locke plenty and fzareity that God fends In this grave age, when comedies are few We crave your patronage for oue that's new And let the fearcenefs recommend the fare. Addif They drink very few liquors that have not lai in frefco infomuch that a farcity of fnow woul raile a mutin i 2. Rarenefs Wiy 7 nefe a Addifon Naples common infrequency ; no They that find fault with our ftore, thould b Jeaft willing to reprove our fearcity of thank{givHooker ings is enbance Since the value of an advantag to.give a ma is moft ferviceCollier on Pride by its Jearcendfs, it is hard po leave to love that moft whic able Skin[ feorare, Italian to frighten; toaffright 70 SCARE. . a ner.] Tofright to terrify ; ‘to ftrike with fudden fear ‘They have feared away two of my beft fheep which, I fear, the wolf will fooner find tha Shakefpeare the maiter SC S C' Will you wear the garland about your neck or under your arm, like a lieutenant's fearf Shakefpeare Than her purfled fearf' can fhow Diyden a blue drapery The ready nymphs reccive the erying child learne Dryden their fearfs correfpondent writes a wor i Zo SCARF. @. . [from the noun. 1. To throw loofely on 2. To drefs in any loofe vefture and in a manner neutrals, they had neither goo forward heart to g no liking to ftan goo ftill, nor good affurance to run away. Heyward One great reafon why men's good purpofes f ofte fail, is, tha whe ar the o devout refolve to liv Jeared, they then-in the genera Calamy's Sermons religiondly Let wanton wives by death be frar'd But to my comfort ScA'RECROW #. f I'm prepar'd an [ frar Prior crow. An image or clapper fet up to frigh birds: thence any vain terrour Thereat the fearecrozv waxed wond'rous proud Through fortune of his firft adventure fair And with big thundering voice revil'd him loud Spenfer No eye hath feen fuch fiarecrowws: Ili no march threugh Cuventry with them, that's flat Shakefp. Henry IV We muft not make a fearecrow of the law Setting it up to fear the birds of prey And let it kecp onc fhape, 'till caftom make i Their pearch, avd not theirterrour. Shake/peare Many of thofe great guns, wanting powde and fhot, ftood but as cyphers and fearecromws Raleigh A fiarecrow fet to frighten fools away Dryden ScA'REFIRE. 7. fi [ feare and fire.] A frigh by fire; a fire breaking out fo as to raif terrour their fevera advertifements The drum and trumpet, b founds, ferve for many kind o and bells ferve to proclai fome places' water-breaches a fearefire i an Holder An SCARF. n. /. [cjcharfe, French. thing that hangs loofe upon the fhoulder or drefs _Th matrons flung their gloves Ladies and maids their foarfs and handkerchiefs cies of oak. ScA'RMAGE. ) 7. / SCA'RMOGE.} Jfer. Come, feeling night Searf up the tender eye of pitiful day Shale[p a. f. [ fearf and fhin. Th fcal the oute The fearfikin, being uppermoft, is compofe of feveral lays of fmall fcales, which lie thicke according as it is thicker in one part of the bod of the miliary glands of the true fkin open ScArIFICA'TION. 7. fo [ farificatio, Lat Jearification, French; trom farify.] Incifion of the fkin with a lancet, or fuc It is mof practifed i cupping Quiney H:ppocrate cups th tells you [earificatio that ough t i applyin mad b ScartFIcA'TOR. 7. /. [from foarify: who fcarifies ScA'RIFIER. 7.[o [from fearify. <. a To SCA'RIFY the fkin commonl wit A Ca [ fearifico, On ification Lat, fia o after the applicatio of cupping-glaffes Wathing the JSying ity 1 dreffed i W You quarter foul languag knowin whethe I dcferv upo ScATE me 2 w to be cuppe £ [ efarlate Did 7. [ [efcache French. A kin an clato Frenc Bailey #. f [ fridor Swedith ; fFid, Iflan dick. A kind of wooden fhoe, with fteel plate underneath, on which the flide over the ice Zo ScATE. w. z {lide on fcates ScaTE 7. f [fro [ fyuatus the noun. Latin. T A fith o the ipecies ot thornback Sca'TEpROUS. adj. [from fatebrae, Latin. 7 Abounding with {prings Dit SCATH w. a [yceaan, ycadan Saxon ; fehaeden, Dut. To wafte; t damage ; to deftroy Both the verb an noun are now obfolete As when Heaven's fir Hath fcath'd the foreft oaks, or meuntain pines With finged top their ftately growth, though bara Stands on the blafled heath, Milton's Par. Loff. n. / [ycead damage ; milchief Saxon. depopulation Wafte Seaz in Scotland denotes fpoil or damage: as he bears the (s and the fcorn. A proverb The ear that budded fair is burnt and blafted And all my hoped gain is turn'd to feath. Spenfer He bore a {piteful mind againft king Edward doing him all the feath that he could, and annoyin fuarbf/vd at this rate SCA''RLET Lt 1s now pronounce Sca'rcHES. 7. Ji {chafles, Freoch. Stili to put the feet in to watk in dirty places Bailey ScatH To let blood by incifion rifier, Fr. o Arbuthnot crooked inftrumeunts 1. He who fcarifies 2. The inftrument with whic are made Spen ScArP. 7. [. [e¢fcarpe, French.] The flop on that fide ¢f a ditch which is next to fortified place, and locks towards th integuments of the body like inftrument [For fkirmith of horfebit for bridles Shakefpeare cuticle; the epidermis A fpe Such cruel game my fearmages difarms Another war, and other weapous, Do love, when Love does give his fweet alarms Hugg'd and embraced by the firumpet wind ScA'RFSKIN ‘Fle ilex by the Londoners fhirmige ScarTcH bay her nativ The fearfed bark puts fro Cheyrne being flrangers Sca'rRrLET-0AKR. 2. / fields or a prodigal like a younker i S/-n]?r My fea-gown fiarft about me in the dar Shakefp. Hamlet Grop'd I to find them out Ho bu reputed the beft to be eaten in winter, when di and boiled Dortimer's Hufbandry defence of large fearves Speclator Put on your hood and fearf; and.take you pleafure Szoift Will fzare the herd, and {o my fhoot is Joft. Shak that beft to ¢at in the fhell, as kidneybeans Milton Titian, in his triumph of Bacchus, havin placed Ariadne on one of the borders of the picof a vermilion colour upo ture, gave her a fean M 7. fi [ fearlet and beap. ScA'RLETEEAN Waters th' odorous banks, that blo Flowers of more mingled he They fwath'd him wit f))'_‘,'r/z'n A plant The fearletbean has a red hulk, and is not the than another : between thefe the excretory duct galled or foared therewith The fearlet honour of your peaceful gown Iris there, with humid bow My grained ath an hundred times hath broke Shakefp And fear'd the moon with {plinters ‘The noife of thy crofs-bo Scarecrows are fet up to keep birds from cor and {ruit; and fome report that the head of wolf, whole, dried, and hanged up in a doveBacon houfe, will fiare away vermin The wing of the Irifh was fo grievoully eithe being olivafter, paint their cheeks fearlet. Bacos Shakefp. Coriclanys, Upon him as he pafs'd his territories Spenfer They placed themr in Rhodes, where dail doing great fcath to the Turk, the great warrio Soliman, with a mighty army, fo overlaid them; that he won the ifland {from them Knolles Still preferv'd from danger, harm, and feaih fearlato, Ital.] A colour compounded oi‘ By manpy a {ea and many an unknown fhore red and yellow ; "cloth .dyed with a fcarFairfax let colour ScA'THFUL. adj. [from fath.] MifchievIf we live thus tamely To be thus jaded by a piece of fearlet Farewel nobility Shakefpeare's Henry VIII As a hul Amid' the circus roars;S provok'd from fa By fight of fear'et and 2 fanguine war. Dryden. Would it not be infufferable for a learned pro- feffor, and that which his fearlet would blufh at to have his authority of forty years ftanding i an inflant overturned Locke ScA'RLET. adj. [from the noun.] Of th colour of fearlet ; red deeply dyed I conjur thee By her high forchead and her fearfet lip Shak The Chinele, who are of an ill complexion ous; deftruétive A bawbling veffel was he captain of For fhallow draught, and bulk unprizable With which fuch feathful grapple did be make That very envy, and the tongue of lofs Cried fame and honour on him Shake/p 7o SCA'TTER. @, a. [ycaTepan, Saxon Jehatteren, Dutch. 1. To throw loofely about ; to fprinkle Teach the glad hours to featter, as they fly Soft quier, gentle love, and endlefs joy. Corruption, til Voracious Prior {wallow'd what the libéral han Of bount yfestter'd 0'ér the favage year. Thomfbn 2. T |