Baretti: A dictionary of the English and Italian languages
Scacciá-re, v. a. to drive away, expel, banish, repulse. Un chiodo scaccia l'altro, one nail drives out another. — il freddo, to keep off the cold; s. m. Scacciá-tóre, f. Scacciá-tríce; adj. Scacciá-nte.
Florio: a worlde of wordes, or most copious, dictionarie in Italian and English
scacciare: to chase, to hunt or driue away. Also to expell.