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SACK . a pocket; to sack any thing is to pocket it.
SALT-BOX-CLY . the outside coat-pocket, with a flap.
SALT-BOXES . the condemned cells in Newgate are so called.
SAND . moist sugar.
SAWNEY . bacon.
SCAMP . the game of highway robbery is called the scamp. To scamp a person is to rob him on the highway. Done for a scamp signifies convicted of a highway robbery.
SCAMP, or SCAMPSMAN . a highwayman.
SCHOOL . a party of persons met together for the purpose of gambling.
SCOT . a person of an irritable temper, who is easily put in a passion, which is often done by the company he is with, to create fun; such a one is declared to be a fine scot. This diversion is called getting him out, or getting him round the corner, from these terms being used by bull-hankers, with whom also a scot is a bullock of a particular breed, which affords superior diversion when hunted.
SCOTTISH . fiery, irritable, easily provoked.
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