SCROBY. To be tipt the scroby; to be whipt before
the
justices.
SCROPE. A farthing. Cant.
Scrub. A low mean fellow, employed in all
sorts of dirty
work.
SCRUBBADO. The itch.
Scull. A head of a house, or master of a
college, at the
universities.
Scull, or sculler. A boat rowed by
one man with a
light kind of oar, called a scull; also
a one-horse chaise
or buggy.
Scull thatcher. A peruke-maker.
Scum. The riff-raff, tag-rag, and bob-tail,
or lowest order
of people.
Scut. The tail of a hare or rabbit; also that of a woman.
Scuttle. To scuttle off; to run away.
To scuttle a
ship; to make a hole in her bottom in
order to sink her.
Sea crab. A sailor.
Sea lawyer. A shark.
Sealer, or squeeze wax. One ready
to give bond and
judgment for goods or money.
Secret. He has been let into the secret:
he has been
cheated at gaming or horse-racing.
He or she is in the
grand secret, i.e. dead.
Seedy. Poor, pennyless, stiver-cramped, exhausted.
Sees. The eyes. See daylights.
Served. Found guilty. Convicted. Ordered
to be
punished or transported. To serve
a cull out; to beat a
man soundly.
Seraglio. A bawdy-house; the name of that
part of the
Great Turk’s palace where the women
are kept.
Send. To drive or break in. Hand down
the Jemmy and
send it in; apply the crow to the door,
and drive it in.
Set. A dead set: a concerted scheme
to defraud a person
by gaming.
Setter. A bailiff’s follower, who,
like a setting dog
follows and points the game for his master.
Also
sometimes an exciseman.
To settle. To knock down or stun any
one. We settled
the cull by a stroke on his nob; we stunned
the fellow
by a blow on the head.
Seven-sided animal. A one-eyed
man or woman, each
having a right side and a left side, a
fore side and a back
side, an outside, an inside, and a blind
side.
SHABBAROON. An ill-dressed shabby fellow; also
a mean-
spirited person.
Shaftsbury. A gallon pot full of wine, with a cock.
To shag. To copulate. He is but bad
shag; he is no able
woman’s man.
Shag-bag, or shake-bag. A
poor sneaking fellow; a man
of no spirit: a term borrowed from
the cock-pit.
Shake. To shake one’s elbow; to game
with dice. To
shake a cloth in the wind; to be hanged
in chains.
Shake. To draw any thing from the pocket.
He shook
the swell of his fogle; he robbed the
gentleman of his silk
handkerchief.


