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.
SIMKIN. A foolish fellow.