Stum. The flower of fermenting wine, used
by vintners to
adulterate their wines.
Stumps. Legs. To stir one’s stumps; to walk fast.
Sturdy beggars. The fifth and last
of the most ancient
order of canters, beggars that rather
demand than ask
cant.
Successfully. Used by the vulgar for successively:
as
three or four landlords of this house
have been ruined
successfully by the number of soldiers
quartered on them.
Irish.
Such A reason PIST my goose, or
my goose PIST. Said
when any one offers an absurd reason.
Suck. Strong liquor of any sort. To
suck the monkey;
see monkey. Sucky; drunk.
To suck. To pump. To draw from a man
all be knows.
The file sucked the noodle’s brains:
the deep one drew
out of the fool all he knew.
Sucking chicken. A young chicken.
Suds. In the suds; in trouble, in a disagreeable
situation,
or involved in some difficulty.
Sugar stick. The virile member.
Sugar sops. Toasted bread soked in
ale, sweetened with
sugar, and grated nutmeg: it is eaten
with cheese.
Sulky. A one-horse chaise or carriage, capable
of holding
but one person: called by the French
a DESOBLIGEANT.
Sun. To have been in the sun; said of one that is drunk.
Sunburnt. Clapped; also haying many male children.
Sunday man. One who goes abroad on
that day only, for
fear of arrests.
Sunny bank. A good fire in winter.
Sunshine. Prosperity.
SUPERNACOLUM. Good liquor, of which there is
not even
a drop left sufficient to wet one’s
nail.
SUPOUCH. A landlady of an inn, or hostess.
Surveyor of the highways. One reeling drunk.
Surveyor of the pavement. One standing in the pillory.
Sus per Coll. Hanged: persons
who have been hanged
are thus entered into the jailor’s
books.
SUSPENCE. One in a deadly suspence; a man just
turned
off at the gallows.
SUTRER. A camp publican: also one that pilfers
gloves,
tobacco boxes, and such small moveables.
SWABBERS. The ace of hearts, knave of clubs,
ace and
duce of trumps, at whist: also the
lubberly seamen, put
to swab, and clean the ship.
SWAD, or SWADKIN. A soldier. Cant.
To swaddle. To beat with a stick.
Swaddlers. The tenth order of the canting
tribe, who not
only rob, but beat, and often murder passenges.
Cant.
Swaddlers is also the Irish name for methodist.


