TO SCAMPER. To run away hastily.
SCANDAL BROTH. Tea.
SCANDAL PROOF. One who has eaten shame and drank after it, or would blush at being ashamed.
SCAPEGALLOWS. One who deserves and has narrowly escaped the gallows, a slip-gibbet, one for whom the gallows is said to groan.
SCAPEGRACE. A wild dissolute fellow.
SCARCE. To make one's self scarce; to steal away.
SCARLET HORSE. 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.
SCHISM MONGER. A dissenting teacher.