nominates now only two affeffors of the chamber

court.

SAXTED, a small town of England, in Suffex, near Framlingham.

SAXTHORP, a town of England, in Norfolk, NW. of Alefham.

SAXTON, a town of Yorksh. near Aberforth. SAXTON'S RIVER, a river of Vermont, which runs into the Connecticut, at Westminster. SAXULBY, a fmall town of England, in Leiceftershire, NW. of Melton Mowbray.

(1.) SAY, Samuel, an English clergyman and poet, fecond fon of the Rev. Giles Say, vicar of St Michaels in Southampton, was born in 1675. He was educated at the academy of the Rev. Thomas Rowe, London, about 1692. After acting as chaplain and preacher in Andover and Yarmouth, he was fettled at Lowestoffe for 18 years. He next became colleague to the Rev. Samuel Baxter, at Ipfwich for 9 years, and at last, in 1734, fucceeded the celebrated Dr Edmund Calamy at Westminster; where he died April 12, 1743, aged 68. A volume of his Poems was published in 4to, 1743, with 2 Effays in profe, On the Harmony, Variety, and Power of Numbers; which have been much admired. Thefe were published for the benefit of his daughter. He wrote feveral other tracts.

(2.) SAY. n. s. [from the verb.] 1. A fpeech; what one has to fay. He no fooner faid out his say, but up rifes a cunning fnap. L'Etrange. 2. [For affay.] Sample.

Shak.

So good a 'say invites the eye. Sidney. Thy tongue fome 'say of breeding breathes, By rule of knighthood I disdain. 3. Trial by a fample.-This gentleman having brought that earth to the public 'say mafters, and upon their being unable to bring it to fusion, or make it fly away, he had procured a little of it, and with a peculiar flux feparated a third part of pure gold. Boyle. 4. [Soie, Fr.] Silk. Obfolete. 5. A kind of woollen stuff.

(3.) SAY, or SOYE, in commerce, a kind of ferge much ufed abroad for linings, and by the religious for fhirts; with us it is ufed for aprons by feveral forts of artificers, being usually dyed green. (1.) * To SAY. v. a. preter. said. [secgan, Sax. seggen, Dutch.] 1. To fpeak; to utter in words; to tell.

Say it ought Diggon, whatever it hight. Spens. -In this flumbery agitation what have you heard her sag? Shak.-Speak unto Solomon.; for he will not say thee nay. 1 Kings-Say nothing to any man. Mark. 2. To allege by way of argument. -After all can be said against a thing, this will ftill be true, that many things poffible are. Tillotson.-In vain shall we attempt to juftify our felves, as the rich young man in the gospel did, by appealing to the great duties of the law; unlefs we can say fomewhat more. Atterbury. 3. To tell in any manner.

Messenger with letters which his meffage said. Fairy Queen. 4. To repeat; to rehearse; as, to say a part; to Jay a leffon. 5. To pronounce without finging. -Then fhall be said or fung as follows. Common Prayer.

(2.) To SAY, v. n. 1. To ípeak; to pronounce; to utter; to relate.-He said moreover,

I have fomewhat to say unto thee; and she said, say on. Kings.-The council-table and starchamber hold, as Thucydides said of the Athenians, for honourable that which pleased, and for just that which profited. Clarendon.-The lion here has taken his right measures, that is to say, he has made a true judgment. L'Eftrange. Of fome propofitions it may be difficult to say whether they affirm or deny; as when we say, Plato was no fool. Watts. 2. In poetry, say is often used before a queftion; tell.

Say first what caufe

country; say,

..Or he whofe virtue fighed to lofe a day? Pope. SAYA, a town in the island of Cuba; 15 miles SSW. of Spiritu Santo.

SAYAN KIAMEN, a town of Chinese Tartary. Lon. 143. 21. E. of Ferro. Lat. 43. 27. N.

SAYBROOK, a town of Connecticut, in Middiefex county, fo named after Lord Say and Lord Brook, whofe agent built it about 1630. Its fort was a fecurity against the Pequot Indians in 1637; and was useful during the American war. It is feated on the W. fide of the mouth of the Connecticut, across which is a bridge; 15 miles W. of New London, and 15 S. of Hadham,

SAYCOCK, an island of Japan, separated from Niphon, by a narrow channel. The Dutch factors refide in the island of Difnia, which lies on the W. fide of Saycock. Lon. 132. 28. E. Lat. 34. o. N.

-The facred function can never be hurt by their sayings, if not first reproached by our doings. Atterbury.

(1.) SAYN, a river of Germany, now in the French empire, and department of the Sarre, which runs into the Rhine, about five miles below Coblentz.

(2.) SAYN, a town of the French empire, in the dep. of the Sarre, and late electorate of Treves, feated on the Sayn; 6 miles N. of Coblentz, and 6 E. of Andernach.

(3.) SAYN, a county of Germany, in the circle of Weftphalia; thus divided.

i. SAYN ALTENKIRCHEN is invefted in the margraviate of Anspach :

ii. SAYN

.SAYN-HACHENBACH lies in the Westerwald, and is intermixed with the territories of Heffe. Darmstadt.

SAYPAN, one of the MARIANA ISLANDS, in the E. Indian Ocean, about zo miles in circumference. Except Guam, it is the largest and most populous of all these islands. Its foil is fertile, and climate ferene; and it abounds in all the neceffaries of life. Lon, from 140° to 150 E. Lat. 14° 30′ to 15° 22′ N.

SAZA, a town of Spain, in the province of Arragon 6 miles SW. of Ainfa.

SBIRRI, 'n. f. {Ital.] Halberdeers. See ROME, $99.

SBROGLIAVACCA, a town of Auftria, in FriGLIA uli; 8 miles from Concordia.

(1.) * SCAB. n. f. [ scab, Saxon; seabbia, Italian; fchabbe, Dutch; fcabies, Latin.] 1. An incruftation formed over a fore by dried matter.

What's the matter, you diffentious rogues, That rubbing the poor itch of your opinion, Make yourselves fcabs?

Shak.

Clear from feabs produc'd by freezing air. Dryden. 2. The itch or mange of horfes. 3. A paltry fellow, fo named from the itch often incident to negligent poverty.—I would make thee the loathfomeft fcab in Greece. Shak.-Well said, Wart, thou art a good feab. Shak.-A head man of the city took it in dudgeon to be ranked, cheek by joul, with a feab of a currier. L'Eftrange.

This vap'ring feab must needs devife To ape the thunder of the skies. Savift. (2.) SCAB. See ITCH and MEDICINE, Index. (3.) SCAB, in sheep. See SHEEP. *SCABBARD. . f. fchap, German, Junius.] The fheath of a sword.

Nor in thy fcabbard sheath that famous blade, 'Till fettled be thy kingdom and eftate. Fairf. -What eyes! you do well to keep 'em veil'd; they are too fharp to be trufted out o' the scabbard. Dryden.

*SCABBED. adj. [from feab.] 1. Covered or diseased with fcabs.-The briar fruit makes thofe that eat them fcabbed. Bacon. 2. Paltry; forry; vile; worthlefs.

To you fuch fcabb'd harsh fruit is giv'n, as

raw

Young foldiers at their exercifings gnaw. Dryd. * SCABBEDNESS. ».ƒ. [from cabbed.] The ftate of being fcabbed.

* SCABBINESS. n. f. [from scabby] The quality of being fcabby.

*SCABBY. adj. [from Scab.] Difeafed with Icabs.

Her writhled skin, as rough as maple rind, So fcabby was, that 'twould have loathed all womankind. Fairy Queen. A fcabby tetter on their pelts will stick. Dryd. -If the grazier should bring me one wedder fat and well fleeced, and expect the fame price for a whole hundred, without giving me fecurity to reftore my money for thofe that were lean, fhorn, or fcabby, I would be none of his cuftomer. Swift. SCABIOSA, SCABIOUS, in botany, a genus of the monogynia order, belonging to the tetrandria class of plants; and in the natural method ranking

under the 48th order, Aggregate. The common calyx is polyphyllous; the proper one is double fuperior; the receptacle is paleaceous or naked. The most remarkable species are,

1. SCABIOSA ARVENSIS, the meadorv scabious, grows naturally in many places of Britain. It hath a strong, thick, fibrous root, fending out many branching ftalks, which rife to the height of three feet; the lower leaves are sometimes almoft entire, and at others they are cut into many fegments almost to the midrib. The flowers are produced upon naked footftalks at the end of the branches; they are of a purple colour, and have a faint odour.

2. SCABIOSA SUCCISA, or devil's bit, grows naturally in woods and moist places. This bas à fhort tap-root, the end of which appears as if it was bitten or cut off, whence the plant has taken its name. The leaves are open and spear-shaped, and smooth; the stalks are fingle, about two feet high, garnished with two leaves at each joint; they generally fend out two short footftalks from their upper joint, standing opposite, which are terminated by purple flowers.-Both thefe have been recommended as aperient, fudorific, and expectorant; but the prefent practice has no dependence on them.

(1.) SCABIOUS. adj. [fcabiofus, Lat.] Itchy; leprous.-In the fpring fcabious eruptions upon the skin were epidemical, from the acidity of the blood. Arbuthnot.

(2.) SCABIOUS. n. f. [fcabieufe, Fr. fcabiofa, Lat. A plant.

(3.) SCABIOUS, in botany. See SCABIOSA. (4.) SCABIOUS, SHEEP'S. See JASIONE. SCABRITA, in botany, a genus of the monogynia order, 'belonging to the tetrandria clafs of plants. The corolla is monopetalous, and falver thaped; there are two feeds emarginated superior; the calyx is truncated.

* SCABROUS. adj. [feabreux, Fr. fcaber, Lat.] 1. Rough; rugged; pointed on the furface.-U. rine, black and bloody, is occafioned by fomething sharp or fcabrous wounding the small blood-veffels. Arbuthnot. 2. Harsh; unmusical.-Lueretius is fcabrous and rough in these he feeks them, as fome do Chaucerisms. Ben Jenfon.

SCABROUSNESS. n. f. [from scabrous.] Roughness; ruggedness.

(1.) * SCABWORT. n. f. [helenium.] A plant, Ainsworth.

(2.) SCABWORT. See SCABIOSA,

*SCAD. . . A kind of fish. Probably the fame with fad.-Of round fish there are fprat, barn, fmelts, and fead. Carew.

SCAER, a town of France, in the dep. of Finifterre, 10 miles NNE. of Quimperlé, and 15 E. of Quimper.

(1.) SCÆVOLA, in botany, a genus of the monogynia order, belonging to the pentandria clafs of plants. The corolla is monopetalous; the tube flit longitudinally; the border quinquefid and lateral. The fruit is a plum inferior and monofpermous; the nucleus bilocular.

(2-4.) SCEVOLA. See MUTIUS, N° 1-3. (1.)* SCAFFOLD. n. f. [efchofaut, Fr. fchavet, Dutch; from sehawen, to fhow.] 1, A temporary

gallery

-On banks and feaffolds under sky might stand. Milton. 2. The gallery raised for the execution of great malefactors.—Fortune smiling at her fortune therein, that a feaffold of execution fhould grow a feaffold of coronation: Sidney. 3. Frames of timber erected on the fide of a building for the workmen. Thefe outward beauties are but the props and Scaffolds

Ŏn which we built our love. Denham. -Sylla added 300 commons to the fehate; then abolished the office of tribune, as being only a feaffold to tyranny. Swift,

(2.) SCAFFOLD, ( no def. r.) is a timber-work raised in the manner of an amphitheatre, for the more commodious viewing any how or ceremo. ny: it is also used for a little stage raised in fome public place, whereon to behead criminals. I

(3.) SCAFFOLD, among builders, (def. 3.) is an affemblage of planks and boards, fultained by treffels and pieces of wood fixed in the wall; whereon mafons, bricklayers, &c. ftand to work, in building high walls, and plasterers in plaftering cielings, &c. :

*To SCAFFOLD. v. a. [from the noun.] furnish with frames of timber.

* SCAFFOLDAGE... [from feaffold.] lery; hollow floor.

To

Gal.

A ftrutting player doth think it rich To hear the wooden dialogue and found, 'Twixt his stretch'd footing and the fenffoldage. Shak. 1.

* SCAFFOLDING. n. f. [from Scaffold.] Temporary frames or ftages,

That obtain'd, down with the feaffolding Of fceptres and of thrones. Congreve. -Sickness, contributing no less than old age to the fhaking down this feaffolding of the body, may difcover the inward ftructure. Pope.. Building flightly erected.-.

This folution but once more affords New change of terms and feaffolding of words. Prior. (1.) SCAGEN, SKAGEN, or SCAVN, a town of Denmark, at the extremity of N. Jutland, near the cape, N° 2. at the entrance of the paffage out of the Ocean into the Baltic. The inhabitants fubfift by fishing, and have alfo fome trade; befides dues for piloting fhips through thefe dange rous feas. It lies r8 miles N. of Fladftrand. Lon. 10. 30. E. Lát. 57. 46. N.

(2.) SCAGEN, a cape on the N. coaft of N. Jutland.

(3.) SCAGEN REEF, a fand bank hear the coaft of Scagen, which extends a great way into the fea from Cape Scagen; and therefore has a large fire kept conftantly burning during the winter nights, in a tower 64 feet high, to warn fhips to avoid it.

(2.) SCALA, an island of the kingdom of Italy, in the department of the Mella diftrict and late territory of Brefcia. It contains 3 towns.

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(3.) SCALA, a well built and populous town in the above island.

(4.) SCALA, a town of Naples, in Calabria Citra 3 miles SW. of Cariati Vecchio.

(5.) SCALA, a town of Naples, in Principato Citra; famous for wine and honey....

(6.) SCALA, Bartholomew, an eminent Italian writer, who fourthed when literatuře was reviving in Europe, and affifted in it. He was born about 1424, and was the only fon of a miller; but going early to Florence, Cofmo de Medicis gave him education. He studied the law became LL.D. and frequented the bar. On Cólmo's death, in 1464, Peter de Medicis employed him in the fervice of the republic, in the most important negociations. In 1471, he was made a citizen of Florence; in 1972 he was ennobledy and made chancellor. In 1484, he was fent on amembaffy to Pope Innocent VIII. to whom he made an oration, that pleased fo well, that the pope made him a Roman knight and fenator. The above fpeech, and another made as chancellor, were published, as were alfo the following: 1. Pro Imperatoriis militaribus fignis dandis Conftantio Sfortiæ imperatori; 1481: 2. Apologia contra vitu peratores Florenties 1496, folio: 3. De Hiftoria Florentina; Libri iv. 4. Vita di Vitaliani Borromeo: Rome, 1677, 4to. He died at Florence, in $497.

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(7) SCALA, Alexandra, daughter of the preceding, was alfo very learned, and became famous for her fkill in the Latin and Greek Languages. She was married to the celebrated Marullus, (fee MARULLUS,) wrote several tracts, and died in 1506. (8.) SCALA. See SCALITZ.

(9.) SCADA NOVA, a handfome town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natalia, anciently called NEAPOLIS, and now by the Turks Koufhadafe, fituated in a bay, on the flope of a hill, the houfes rifing one above another, intermixed with minarees and tall flender cypreffes." Aftreet through which we rode (fays Dr Chandler), was hung with goatfkins exposed to dry, dyed of a 'most lively red. At one of the fountains is an ancient coffin used as a ciftern. The port was filled with small craft. Before it is an old fortress on a rock or iflet frequented by gulls and fea-mews. By the waterfide is a large and good khan, at which we paffed a night on our return. This place belonged once to the Ephefians, who exchanged it with the Samians for a town in Caria." It has a castle and a harbour; and is feated on the fea coaft, in a country abounding with wine, 8 miles from Ephefus, and 40 SSE. of Smyrna. Lon. 27. 31. E. Lat. 37. 54. N.

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SCAGERAC. See CATEGAT.