RUTTING, copulating; rutting time, the season when deer go to rut.

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SACHEVEREL, the iron door, or blower to the mouth of a stove, from a divine of that name, who made himself famous for blowing the coals of dissention, the latter end of the reign of Queen Ann.

SACK, a pocket; to buy the sack, to get drunk; to dive into the sack, to pick a pocket.

SADDLE SICK, galled with riding, one who has lost leather. SAD DOG, a wicked debauched fellow, one of the ancient family of the sad dogs, Swift translates it into Latin by the words, tristis canis.

SAINT LUKE'S BIRD, an ox, that evangelist being always represented with an ox.

SAL, an abbreviation of salivation; in a high sal, in the pickling tub, or under a salivation.

SALESMAN'S DOG, a barker. Vide barker.

SALMON or SALAMON, the beggar's sacrament or oath. SALT, lecherous; a salt bitch, a bitch at heat, or proud bitch salt eel, a rope's end used to correct boys, &c., at sea; you shall have a salt eel for supper.

SANGAREE, rack punch was formerly so called in bagnios. SANK, SANKY, or SANCIPEE'S, a taylor employed by clothiers in making soldier's clothing.

SANDY PATE, a red haired man or woman.
SAPSCULL, a simple fellow; sappy, foolish.

SATYR, a libidinous fellow, those imaginary beings are by poets reported to be extremely salacious.

SAVEALL, a kind of candlestick used by our frugal forefathers to burn snuffs and ends of candles; figuratively, boys running about gentlemen's houses in Ireland, who are fed on broken meats that would otherwise be wasted; also a miser.

SAW, an old saw, an ancient proverbial saying.

SAWNY or SANDY, a general nick name for a Scotchman as

Paddy is for an Irishman, Taffy for a Welchman; Sawny or Sandy being the familiar abbreviation or diminutive of Alexander, a very favourite name among the Scottish nation. SCAB, a worthless man or woman.

SCANDALBROTH, tea.

SCANDALPROOF, one who has eat shame and drank after it, or would blush to be ashamed.

SCANDALOUS, a perriwig (cant).

SCAMP, a highwayman; royal scamp, a highwayman who robs civilly; royal foot scamp, footpads who behave in like manner. SCAMPER, to run away hastily.

SCAPEGRACE, a wild dissolute fellow.

SCAPEGALLOWS, one who deserves and has narrowly escaped the gallows; a slip gibbet, one for whom the gallows is said to groan.

SCALY FISH, an honest rough blunt sailor.

SCARCE, to made one's self scarce, to steal away.

SCARLET HORSE, i. e. a high-red, hired or hack horse, a pun on the word hired.

SCAVEY, sense, knowledge; "massa me no scavey," master I don't know (negro language), perhaps from the French scavoir. SCHEME, a party of pleasure.

SCHOOL OF VENUS, a bawdy house.

SCHOOL BUTTER, cobbing, whipping.

SCONCE, the head, probably as being the fort and citadel of a man; from sconce an old name for a fort derived from a Dutch word of the same signification ; to build a sconce, a military term for bilking one's quarters; to sconce or skonce, to impose a fine, academical phrase.

SCOTCH BAIT, a halt and a resting on a stick, as practised by pedlars.

SCOTCH CHOCOLATE, brimstone and milk.

SCOTCH FIDDLE, the itch.

SCOTCH MIST, a sober soaking rain; a Scotch mist will wet an Englishman to the skin.

SCOTCH WARMING PAN, a wench.

SCOUNDREL, a man void of every principle of honour.

SCOUT, a college errand boy at Oxford, called a gyp at Cambridge. SCOWER, to scower or score off, to run away, perhaps from score, i. e. full speed, or as fast as legs would carry one; to scower the cramp ring, to wear bolts or fetters, from which as well as from coffin hinges, rings, supposed to prevent the cramp, are made; scowerers, riotous bucks, who amuse themselves with breaking windows, beating the watch, and assaulting every person they meet, called scowering the streets. SCRAN, victuals.

SCRAP, a villainous scheme or plan; he whiddles the whole scrap, he discovers the whole plan or scheme.

SCRIP, a scrap or slip of paper; the cully did freely blot the script and tip 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.

SCRAGGED, hanged; scraggy, lean, bony.

SCRAPE, to get into a scrape, to be involved in a disagreeable business.

SCRAPING, a mode of expressing dislike to a person, or ser

mon, 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.

SCRAPER, a fiddler; also one who scrapes plates for ̄mezzotinto prints.

SCREWJAWS, a wry mouthed man or woman.
SCRATCHLAND, Scotland.

SCRATCH PLATTER, or TAYLORS RAGOU, bread sopt
in the oil and vinegar in which cucumbers have been sliced.
SCROBY, to be tipt the scroby, to be whipt before the justices.
SCRUB, a low mean fellow, employed in all sorts of dirty work.
SCRUBADO, the itch.

SCULL, a head of a house, or master of a college at the universities.

SCULL or SCULLER, a one horse chaise, or buggy.

SCULL THATCHER, a peruke maker.

SCUT, the tail of a hare or rabbit; also that of a woman. SCUTTLE OFF, to run away; to scuttle a ship, to make a hole in her bottom in order to sink her.

SCREW, to screw, to copulate; a female screw, a common prostitute; to screw one up, to exact upon one in a bargain or reckoning.

SCUM, the riff raff, tag rag and bobtail, or lowest order of the people.

SEA CRAB, a sailor.

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.

SEES, the eyes. See daylights.

SEEDY, poor, pennyless; stiver cramped, exhausted. SERAGLIO, a bawdy house, the name of the great Turk's palace, where a number of women are kept.

SETTER, a bailiffs follower, who, like a setting dog, follows and points out the game for his master; also sometimes an excise man.

SET, a dead set, a concerted scheme to defraud a person by gaming.

SETTLE, to knock down or stun any one; we settled the cull by a stoter on his nob, we stunned the fellow by a blow on the head.

SHAFTSBURY, a gallon pot full of wine, with a cock.

SHARP, a sharper or cheat; in opposition to a flat, dupe, orgull. SHABBAROON, an ill dressed shabby fellow; also a mean spirited person.

SHANNON, a river in Ireland; persons dipped in that river are perfectly and for ever cured of bashfulness.

SHANKS, legs, or gams.

SHANKS NAGGY, to ride shanks naggy, to travel on foot, (Scotch).

SHAG BAG, a poor sneaking fellow, a man of no spirit; a term borrowed from the cock pit.

SHALLOW PATE, a simple fellow.

SHAM, a cheat, or trick; to cut a sham, to cheat, or deceive; shams, false sleeves to put on over a dirty shirt, or false sleeves with ruffles to put over a plain one; to sham abram, to counterfeit sickness.

SHAMBLE, to walk aukwardly; shamble legged, one that walks wide and shuffles about his feet.

SHANKER, a venereal wart.

SHAPES, to show one's shapes, to be stript, or made peel at the whipping post.

SHAPPO, a hat, corruption of chapeau.

SHARP, subtle, acute, quick witted.

SHARPER, a cheat, one that lives by his wits; sharp set, hungry; sharpers tools, a fool, and false dice.

SHAVER, a cunning shaver, a subtle fellow, one who trims close, an acute cheat.

SHAVINGS, the clippings of money.

SHE HOUSE, a house where the wife rules, or as the term is, wears the breeches.

SHE-LION, a shilling.

SHE NAPPER, a woman thief catcher, also a bawd or pimp. SHEEPISH, bashful; a sheepish fellow, a bashful or shamefaced fellow; to cast a sheep's eye at any thing, to look wishfully at it.

SHERIFF'S BALL, an execution; to dance at the sheriff's ball, and loll out one's tongue at the company, to be hanged, or go to rest in a horse's night cap, i. e. a halter. SHERIFF'S HOTEL, a prison.

SHERIFF'S BRACELETS, handcuffs.

SHERK, to sherk, to evade ; to sherk one's duty, also to disappoint.

SHIFTING BALLAST, a term used by sailors, to signify soldiers, passengers, or any landsmen on board.

S-T SACK, a dastardly fellow.

SHILLALEY, an oaken sapling, or cudgel (Irish), from a wood of that name famous for its oaks.