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; also a fart. SCOUNDREL. A man void of every principle of honour. SCOUR. To scour or score off; to run away: perhaps from SCORE; i.e. full speed, or as fast as legs would carry one. Also to wear: chiefly applied to irons, fetters, or handcuffs, because wearing scours them. He will scour the darbies; he will be in fetters. To scour the cramp ring; to wear bolts or fetters, from which, as well as from coffin hinges, rings supposed to prevent the cramp are made. SCOURERS. Riotous bucks, who amuse themselves with breaking windows, beating the watch, and assaulting every person they meet: called scouring the streets. SCOUT. A college errand-boy at Oxford, called a gyp at Cambridge. Also a watchman or a watch. CANT. SCRAGGED. Hanged. SCRAGGY. Lean, bony. SCRAGG'EM FAIR. A public execution. SCRAP. A villainous scheme or plan. He whiddles the whole scrap; he discovers the whole plan or scheme. SCRAPE. To get into a scrape; to be involved in a disagreeable business. SCRAPER. A fiddler; also one who scrapes plates for mezzotinto prints. SCRAPING. A mode of expressing dislike to a person, or sermon, 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. SCRATCH. Old Scratch; the Devil: probably from the long and sharp claws with which he is frequently delineated. SCRATCH LAND. Scotland. SCRATCH PLATTER, or TAYLOR'S RAGOUT. Bread sopt in the oil and vinegar in which cucumbers have been sliced. SCREEN. A bank note. Queer screens; forged bank notes. The cove was twisted for smashing queer screens; the fellow was hanged for uttering forged bank notes. SCREW. A skeleton key used by housebreakers to open a lock. To stand on the screw signifies that a door is not bolted, but merely locked. TO SCREW. To copulate. A female screw; a common prostitute. To screw one up; to exact upon one in a bargain or reckoning. 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.