SCREW JAWS. A wry-mouthed man or woman.
SCRIP. A scrap or slip of paper. The cully freely blotted the scrip, and tipt 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?
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.