Crossword-Solution: SCOPA 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The generic name, _Scoparius_, is derived from the Latin word _scopa_, a besom, this signifying "a shrub to sweep with." It has been long represented that witches delight to ride thereon: and in Holland, if a vessel lying in dock has a besom tied to the top of its mast, this advertises it as in search of a new owner.

There are _Briscola_, _Tresette_, _Calabresella_, _Banco-Fallito_, _Rossa e Nera_, _Scaraccoccia_, _Scopa_, _Spizzica_, _Faraone_, _Zecchinetto_, _Mercante in Fiera_, _La Bazzica_, _Ruba-Monte_, _Uomo-Nero_, _La Paura_, and I know not how many others,--but they are recorded and explained in no book, and are only to be picked up orally.

There would be a group intent on "Scopa," another calling "Mi staio!" "Carta da vente!" throwing down the soldi and picking them up greedily in "Sette e mezzo." Stories would be told, bets given and taken.

Thorax very smooth and shining; the wings colourless and iridescent, their extreme base yellowish, the nervures and stigma brown, the tegulæ pale testaceous-yellow; the posterior tibiæ with a scopa of glittering white hairs, the tarsi ferruginous and with glittering hairs.

Scopa: a brush: a covering of short, stiff hair of equal length: in Hymenoptera, the thick hair covering the posterior tibia of pollen-gathering forms.