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257 Scoad, 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. ScoUucks. Eefuse of a slate quarry. Velahole. C. Scollops. The remains of pig's "mord," Q-V. from which the fat has been melted out. Also called scollop fat, and ^' scrolls.'^ ScOTiring-geard. A soft china-stone granite used as sand for scouring, or for whitening floors. M.A.C. Scovan lode. A tin lode. Only in contra-distinction to all other lodes. Fryce. Scove. Tin stuff so rich and pure, that it needs but little cleansing. Pryce, Scovy. Looking smeared and blotchy, as a badly or unevenly painted surface. Scoy. Thin, poor, as applied to silks or stuffs ; small, insignificant, " for my wages would look scoy." u.J.T. Perhaps from the Celtic Cornish sJcez, a shade, a shadow. In Manx, scaa. Scrabble. To scramble. Scragged. Strangled. Scranny. To scramble, to contend, to strive. In Celtic Cornish it is scornye. Scranching^ Scrunching. Crushing a hard sub- stance between the teeth.