Short-heeled wench.  A girl apt to fall on her back.

Shot.  To pay one’s shot; to pay one’s share of a reckoning. 
  Shot betwixt wind and water; poxed or clapped.

Shotten herring.  A thin meagre fellow.

To shove the tumbler.  To be whipped at the cart’s
  tail.

Shove in the mouth.  A dram.

Shovel.  To be put to bed with a shovel; to be buried. 
  He or she was fed with a fire-shovel; a saying of a person
  with a large mouth.

Shoulder feast. A dinner given after a funeral, to
  those who have carried the corpse.

Shoulder clapper.  A bailiff, or member of the catch
  club.  Shoulder-clapped; arrested.

Shoulder sham.  A partner to a file.  See file.

Shred. A taylor.

Shrimp.  A little diminutive person.

To shuffle.  To make use of false pretences, or unfair
  shifts.  A shuffling fellow; a slippery shifting fellow.

Shy cock.  One who keeps within doors for fear of bailiffs.

SICE.  Sixpence.

Sick as A horse.  Horses are said to be extremely sick
  at their stomachs, from being unable to relieve themselves
  by vomiting.  Bracken, indeed, in his Farriery, gives an
  instance of that evacuation being procured, but by a
  means which he says would make the Devil vomit.  Such
  as may have occasion to administer an emetic either to
  the animal or the fiend, may consult his book for the
  recipe.

Side pocket.  He has as much need of a wife as a dog of
  a side pocket; said of a weak old debilitated man.  He
  wants it as much as a dog does a side pocket; a simile
  used for one who desires any thing by no means necessary.

SIDLEDYWRY.  Crooked.

Sign of A house to let.  A widow’s weeds.

Sign of the:  Five shillings.  The crown. 
         Ten shillings.  The two crowns. 
         Fifteen shillings.  The three crowns.

Silence.  To silence a man; to knock him down, or stun
  him.  Silence in the court, the cat is pissing; a gird upon
  any one requiring silence unnecessarily.

Silent flute.  See PEGO, sugar stick, &c.

Silk SNATCHERS.  Thieves who snatch hoods or bonnets
  from persons walking in the streets.

Silver laced. Replete with lice.  The cove’s kickseys
  are silver laced:  the fellow’s breeches are covered with
  lice.

SIMEONITES, (at Cambridge,) the followers of the Rev.
  Charles Simeon, fellow of King’s College, author of
  Skeletons of Sermons, and preacher at Trinity church; they
  are in fact rank methodists.