Scotch warming pan. A wench; also a fart.
Scoundrel. A man void of every principle of honour.
Scour. To scour or score off; to run away:
perhaps from
score; i.e. full speed, or as
fast as legs would carry one.
Also to wear: chiefly applied to
irons, fetters, or
handcuffs, because wearing scours them.
He will scour the
darbies; he will be in fetters. To
scour the cramp ring;
to wear bolts or fetters, from which,
as well as from
coffin hinges, rings supposed to prevent
the cramp are
made.
SCOURERS. Riotous bucks, who amuse themselves
with
breaking windows, beating the watch, and
assaulting
every person they meet: called scouring
the streets.
Scout. A college errand-boy at Oxford, called
a gyp at
Cambridge. Also a watchman or a watch.
Cant.
SCRAGGED. Hanged.
Scraggy. Lean, bony.
SCRAGG’EM fair. A public execution.
Scrap. A villainous scheme or plan.
He whiddles the
whole scrap; he discovers the whole plan
or scheme.
Scrape. To get into a scrape; to be involved
in a
disagreeable business.
Scraper. A fiddler; also one who scrapes
plates for
mezzotinto prints.
Scraping. A mode of expressing dislike to
a person, or
sermon, practised at Oxford by the students,
in scraping
their feet against the ground during the
preachment;
frequently done to testify their disapprobation
of a proctor
who has been, as they think, too rigorous.
Scratch. Old Scratch; the Devil: probably
from the
long and sharp claws with which he is
frequently
delineated.
Scratch land. Scotland.
Scratch Platter, or taylor’s
ragout. Bread sopt in
the oil and vinegar in which cucumbers
have been sliced.
Screen. A bank note. Queer screens;
forged bank notes.
The cove was twisted for smashing queer
screens; the
fellow was hanged for uttering forged
bank notes.
Screw. A skeleton key used by housebreakers
to open a
lock. To stand on the screw signifies
that a door is not
bolted, but merely locked.
To screw. To copulate. A female
screw; a common
prostitute. To screw one up; to exact
upon one in a
bargain or reckoning.
Screw jaws. A wry-mouthed man or woman.
Scrip. A scrap or slip of paper. The
cully freely blotted
the scrip, and tipt me forty hogs; the
man freely signed
the bond, and gave me forty shillings.—Scrip
is also a
Change Alley phrase for the last loan
or subscription.
What does scrip go at for the next rescounters?
what
does scrip sell for delivered at the next
day of settling?


