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Show SrC SEG As hard, as fenfslefs 7o ScrAWL Swift and as light @. 2 Jupiter; though he had jogged the balanee t weig Tha not your verfes fterling Though with a golden pen you ferawl An feribble in a berlin 2. {from crawl. Savift To creep like a reptile SerAWL. 7. /. [from the verb. and inclegant writing {erted my ferawvl Our people, who tranfport themfelves, are fettled in thofe interjacent traéts, as a fercen again the infults of the favages I in ScrRAWLER. 7 /. [from ferawl.] A clumi and inelegant writer 9 SCREAK w 7 [properl crzak 2. Any thing ufed to exclude cold or light When there is a fereen between the candle an the eye, yet the light pafieth to the paper whereo one writeth Bacon o Sbriek, from frige, Danifh.] To mak a fhrill or hoarfe noife Bailey Zo ScrREAM. v. 2. [ppeman, Saxon. 2. To cry out fhrilly, as in terrour o agony One fpeaks the glory of the Britith queen An Ladie That ferees' 2. To cry fhrilly I heard the owl fcream, and the crickets cry Shakefpears ScrREAM. 7 /. [from the verb.] A fhrill quick, loud cry of terrour or pain Our chimnies were blown down; and, as they fay ©* th death 7 air, firange Jeream o Shakefpeare Then flafh'd the livid lightning from he eyes And fereans ofhorror rend th' 2firighted fkics. Pope SCREECH w. n [ ferahia to cry Ilandick. 1. To cry out as in terrour or anguifh Screeching is an appetite of expeliing that whic fuddenly ftrikes the fpirits Bacon 2. 'To cry as a night owl: thence called {creechowl ScrEEcH. 7. /. [from the verb. ¥. Cry of horror artd anguith 2. Harfh horrid cry "The birds obfcene, that nightly flock'd to tafte With hollow fcreechs fied from the dire repaft And ravenous dogs, allur'd by feented blood And ftarying wolves, ran howling to the wood., Pope SCREE‘CHOWL A ow n. that hoot [ fereec i th and owl. night an whofe voice is fuppofed to betoken danger, mifery, or death Deep night The time of night whe Troy was fet on fire The time when fcrecchowls cry, and bandogs howl Shake[peare Let him, that will a ferecchow! ay be call'd Go into Troy, and fay there, Hedtor 's dead Shakefpeare By the fereechow!'s difal note By the black pight-raven's throat I charge thee, Hob Pope their old clothes into patchwor 3. A riddle to fift fand 70 ScryErN. @. 2. [from the noun. Back' And filPd with loud laments the fecret fhade Dryden The fearful matrons raife a fereaming cry OMd feeble men with fainter groans reply A jarring found refults, and mingles in the fky Dryden If chance a moufe creeps in her fight Can finely counterfeit a fright So fweetly foreams, if it comes near her She ravifhes all hearts to hear her Swift hear mak for fereens and flools As of a dame diftrefs'd, who cried for aid Lamenting ose defcribes a charming Indian Jereen 1. To fhelter Soon a whirlwind rofe around And from afar he heard a fereaming foun Swift My juniors by a year Who wifely thgught my age a fereen V7hen death approach'd, to ftand between The fcreen remov'd, their hearts are trembling Sawift Pope SCRE‘ABLE. adj. [ fireabilis, Latin.] Tha which may be {pit out Bailey Now nearenough : your leavy fereens throw down And fhow like thofe you are Shakefp. Macketh Some ambitious men feem as fereens to prince in matters of danger and envy Bacon Untkilfu SEraY. n /i [hirunds marina. A bir called a fea-fwallow Ainfav. Bailey Gay cealment Ainfworth writ to you, in whic I forget my fhepherd's wonted loye SCREEN. 7. /. [¢fcran, French. 1. Any thing that affords fhelter or con The left hand will make fuch a ferawl, that i will not be legible. rbuthaor's Hiff. of Fobnr Buil Mz, Wycherly, hearing from me how welcom his letters would be fent the fereechowvl to dif courage him Dryden Sooner fhall fereechorols bafk in funny day 1. To write unikilfully and inelegantly Thin down Turnus Savift to cenceal ; to hide with a ridge of hills thefruits of th' earth, and feats of men From cold Septentrion blafts Miltor's Par. Reg A good magiftrate's retinue of ftate [creens hi from the dangers which he is to incur for the fak of it Atterbury Thi 2 gentle deed fhall fairly be fet foremoft Lo fereen the wild efcapes of lawlefs paflion [cerno, crevi, Lat. To fift Rowe to riddle Let the cafes be filled with natural earth, take the firlt half fpit, from juft under the turf of th beft pafture-ground, mixed with one part of ver mellow {oil fereened Ezelyn SCrEW. . /. [ feroeve, Dutch s gferon, Fr. One of the mechanical powers, whieh i defined a right cylinder cut into a furrowed {piral : of this there are two kinds the male and female ; the former bein cut convex, {o that its threads rife outwards ; but the latter channelled on it concave fide, {0 as to receiv mer the forQuincy The fereaw is a kind of wedge, that is multiplied or continued by a helical revolution about cylinder, receiving its motion sot from any ftroke but from a ve&tis at one end of it Wilkins's Mathematical Magick After your apples are ground, commit them t the ferezo prefs, which is the beft Mortimer's Hufb 7o ScrREW. v. a. [from the noun. 1. To turn or move by a ferew Some, when the prefs, by utmoft vigour fereev'd Has drain'd the pulpous mafs, regale their fwin With the dry refufe Phillips 2. 'T'o faften with a fcrew We fail But ferew your courage to the fticking place And we'll not fail Shake[peare's Macketh To ferew your lock on the door, make wid holes Jereaw big enoug to recciv the fhank of th DMoxon 3. To deform by contortions Soxpctimcs 2 violent laughter fereqv'd his face An fometime ready tears dropp' dow apace Cozoley He fereav'd his face into a harden'd {mi e And faid, Sebaftian knew to govern flaves Dryd With [erezved face, and doleful whi e, they‘pl,\ you with fenfelefs harangues againft h man inven Drayton tions on tha one hand, and loud outcries f r a fur thex reformation on the othey Sonth Let others firem thei 4 ho She thews herf grie in ;fl}ilx‘cm'i" To f H rce; to bring by v en refolve o govern by fuba t who ferewed up th pins of POwer tog hio Hoge No difcourfe can be, byt th‘:;'fl s Vica] the tide, and draw it all ot they will ferenw in her and t t 3 ons of what they fid o did, The rents of jand i Ireland, been fo enormoully raife computed to be about tw millions 5. To fqueeze; to prefs 6. To opprefs by extortion . Our country landlords by unm cafurable ( ing and racking their tenan s, have alrezgy duced the miferable people to Wworfe. cond than the peafants in France Saf ScrREW Tree. n. f. [ifora, Lat. A pl of the Eaft and Weft Indies To SCRI'BBLE. w. a. [J ribo, feribil Latin. 1. To fill with artlefs or worthlefs writing. How gird the fpher With centrick and eccentrick, fer bbled o'e Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb, ]Wi lm'sPar.I/, 2. To write without ufe or elegance; 2 he feribbled a pamphlet 7o ScrY'BBLE. @. 7. To write with care or beauty If 2 ma thould affirm, that an ape, cafual meeting with pen, ink, and paper, and falling t Jeribble, did happen to write exadtly the Lesiathi of Hobbes, would an atheift believe fuch a o2 And yet he can eafily digeft things as incredible that Bealy If Mevius feribble in Apollo's fpite There are who judge ftill worfe than hecan wri Leave flattery to fulfome dedicators ‘Whom, when they praife, the world believesnomo Than when they promife to give feribbling o'e P ScrI'BBLE. 2. /. [from the verb.] Worthlefs writing m By folemnly endeavouring to countenanc conjeftures, 1 might be thought dogmaticdlin B batty feribble If it firuck the prefent tafte, it was foon trasferred into the plays and current feribbls of the week, and became an addition to our langoage Sfl'{fl SCRIBBLER 7 /. [from feribble] etty author ; a writer without worth B Th); moft copious writers are the arranteft f:r;cb th blers, and in fo much talking the tongue,gms L firfl!é fore the wit The a&ors reprefent fuch things as they are pable, by which they and the Jeribbler mDa'; df: v their living \ill{heljfcribb[ur, pinch'd withhunger,.wrgteswd And to your genius muft conform his mcl;ey'amk- ::; eca lth cll ehe aPp t f ca ha h r f To a treatment with his father, s an lmplrobilt deFrefl e ot bi fe b o t n th o u u f A cribblers th i fe pr fu o n e n c w o o { fl ce du W bl -i le tha [crib was proved 'clL grt:?r 1o Pape' D,,,;id at é f ScrIBE. 7. fi [ feribe, Fr 1. A writer r b s b r f Hearts, tong canno Think, fpeak, caft PIislr;oJc é)o Ar'uony mbery h°'. write, fing, B Sbak.' Armm{l gdec? My mafter, being the feribe t write the letter We are not to wonder, if h Shakdpua Serawld o'er with trifles thus, and quit chinks 00t fitt make any perfeét and unersing é‘:":;f} cq'fld'é';; ) |