all who do so shall be
remembered in the day of judgment." On hearing this, the lord of the
village, with the bride and bridegroom, were duly baptized, and Bouzas
became a Christian Church.--_Sanctoral Portugues_ (copied into the
_Breviaries_ of _Alcoba[c,]a and St. Cucufate_).
Cunctis mare cernentibus,
Sed a profundo ducitur;
Natus Regis submergitur,
Totus plenus conchilibus.
_Hymn for St. James's day._
In sight of all the prince went down,
Into the deep sea dells;
In sight of all the prince emerged,
Covered with scallop-shells.
=Scalping= (_Rules for_). The Cheyennes, in scalping, remove from the part
just over the left ear a piece of skin not larger than a silver dollar.
The Arrapahoes take a similar piece from the region of the right ear.
Others take the entire skin from the crown of the head, the forehead, or
the nape of the neck. The Utes take the entire scalp from ear to ear,
and from the forehead to the nape of the neck.
=Scambister= (_Eric_), the old butler of Magnus Troil, the udaller of
Zetland.--Sir W. Scott, _The Pirate_ (time, William III.).
[Asterism] A udaller is one who holds his lands by allodial tenure.
=Scandal=, a male character in _Love for Love_, by Congreve (1695).
_Scandal_ (_School for_), a comedy by Sheridan (1777).
=Scanderbeg.= So George Castriota, an Albanian hero, was called. Amurath
II. gave him the command of 5000 men, and such was his daring and
success, that he was called Skander (_Alexander_). In the battle of
Morava (1443) he deserted Amurath, and, joining the Albanians, won
several battles over the Turks. At the instigation of Pius II. he headed
a crusade against them, but died of a fever, before Mahomet II. arrived
to oppose him (1404-1467). (Beg or Bey is the Turkish for "prince.")
_Scanderbeg's sword needs Scanderbeg's arm._ Mahomet II. "the Great"
requested to see the scimitar which George Castriota used so
successfully against the Ottomans in 1461. Being shown it, and wholly
unable to draw it, he pronounced the weapon to be a hoax, but received
for answer, "Scanderbeg's sword needs Scanderbeg's arm to wield it."
The Greeks had a similar saying, "None but Ulysses can draw Ulysses's
bow."
=Scapegoat= (_The_), a farce by John Poole. Ignatius Polyglot, a learned
pundit, master of seventeen languages, is the tutor of Charles Eustace,
aged 24 years. Charles has been clandestinely married for four years,
an
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