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257Scoad, or Scud. To spill, to shed, to pour, to scatter.ScOCe. To exchange, to barter. c.Scoanes. The pavement, the stones. See Coanse.U.J.T.Scollucks. Refuse of a slate quarry. Delabole. C.Scollops. The remains of pig's "mord," Q.V.from which the fat has been melted out.Also calledscollop fat,and ^^ scrolls."Scouring-geard.A soft china-stone granite used assand for scouring, or for whitening floors.M.A.C.Scovan lode. A tin lode. Only in contra-distinctionto all other lodes. Fryce.Scove. Tin stuff so rich and pure, that it needs butlittle cleansing. Pryce.Scovy. Looking smeared and blotchy, as a badly orunevenly painted surface.Scoy. Thin, poor, as applied to silks or stuflfs ; small,insignificant, " for my wages would look scoy." tj.j.t.Perhaps from the Celtic Cornish sJcez, a shade, ashadow.Scrabble.Scragged.In Manx, scaa.To scramble.Strangled.Scranny. To scramble, to contend, to strive. InCeltic Cornish it iScranching, Scrunching. Crushing a hard substancebetween the teeth.