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sion or use of; to escape loss of. Just saving the tide, and putting in a stock of merit. Swift. To save appearance, to preserve a decent outside; to avoid exposure of a discreditable state of things.

Diseased with the scab, or mange; mangy. Swift.

hamefully. His discourse at table was scandalously unbecoming the digmity of his station. Swift.

wl or handkerchief for the neck; also, a cravat; a neckcloth. Put on your hood and scarf. Swift. With care about the banners, scarves, and staves. R. Browning.

One given to forming schemes; a projector; a schemer. Swift.

ing our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cuttig off our feet when we want shoes. Swift.

Of or pertaining to a scholiast, or his pursuits. Swift.

o set down; to record; to charge. Madam, I know when, Instead of five, you scored me ten. Swift. Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score. Shak.

To pass swiftly over; to brush along; to traverse or search thoroughly; as, to scour the coast. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain. Pope. Scouring barrel, a tumbling barrel. See under Tumbling. -- Scouring cinder (Metal.), a basic slag, which attacks the lining of a shaft furnace. Raymond. -- Scouring rush. (…

A swift sailing boat. [Obs.] So we took a scout, very much pleased with the manner and conversation of the passengers. Pepys.

glass.Grew. Be mindful, when invention fails., To scratch your head, and bite your nails.Swift.

A turf. [Obs.] Swift.

To write unskillfully and inelegantly. Though with a golden pen you scrawl. Swift.

ve already reduced the miserable people to a worse condition than the peasants in France. swift.

iting; expressed in writing; used in writing; as, scriptory wills; a scriptory reed. [R.] Swift.

y, how scrub, does this town lokk! Walpole. No little scrub joint shall come on my board. Swift. Scrub game, a game, as of ball, by unpracticed players. -- Scrub race, a race between scrubs, or between untrained animals or contestants.

To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something. The first nautilus that scudded upon the glassy surface of warm primeval oceans. I. Taylor. The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven. Beaconsfield.

vulgar; contemptible. "A scurvy trick." Ld. Lytton. That scurvy custom of taking tobacco. Swift. [He] spoke spoke such scurvy and provoking terms. Shak.

om firm security. Shak. Some . . . alleged that we should have no security for our trade. Swift.

A seamstress. Two hundred sepstress were employed to make me shirts. Swift.