[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] 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, 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. S 227  1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 1419100076 SIMON. Sixpence. Simple Simon: a natural, a silly fellow; Simon Suck-egg, sold his wife for an addle duck-egg. TO SIMPER. To smile: to simper like a firmity kettle. SIMPLETON. Abbreviation of simple Tony or Anthony, a foolish fellow. SIMPLES. Physical herbs; also follies. He must go to Battersea, to be cut for the simples Battersea is a place famous for its garden grounds, some of which were formerly appropriated to the growing of simples for apothecaries, who at a certain season used to go down to select their stock for the ensuing year, at which time the gardeners were said to cut their simples; whence it became a popular joke to advise young people to go to Battersea, at that time, to have their simples cut, or to be cut for the simples. TO SING. To call out; the coves sing out beef; they call out stop thief. TO SING SMALL. To be humbled, confounded, or abashed, to have little or nothing to say for one's-self. SINGLE PEEPER. A person having but one eye. SINGLETON. A very foolish fellow; also a particular kind of nails. SINGLETON. A corkscrew, made by a famous cutler of that name, who lived in a place called Hell, in Dublin; his screws are remarkable for their excellent temper. SIR JOHN. The old title for a country parson: as Sir John of Wrotham, mentioned by Shakespeare. SIR JOHN BARLEYCORN. Strong beer. SIR LOIN. The sur, or upper loin. SIR REVERENCE. Human excrement, a t d. SIR TIMOTHY. One who, from a desire of being the head of the company, pays the reckoning, or, as the term is, stands squire. See SQUIRE. SITTING BREECHES. One who stays late in company, is said to have his sitting breeches on, or that he will sit longer than a hen. S 228  1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 1419100076 SIX AND EIGHT-PENCE. An attorney, whose fee on several occasions is fixed at that sum. SIX AND TIPS. Whisky and small beer. IRISH. SIXES AND SEVENS. Left at sixes and sevens: i.e. in confusion; commonly said of a room where the furniture, is scattered about; or of a business left unsettled. SIZE OF ALE. Half a pint. Size of bread and cheese; a certain quantity. Sizings: Cambridge term for the college allowance from the buttery, called at Oxford battles. To SIZE. (CAMBRIDGE) To sup at one's own expence. If a MAN asks you to SUP, he treats you; if to SIZE, you pay for what you eat liquors ONLY being provided by the inviter. SIZAR (Cambridge). Formerly students who came to the University for purposes of study and emolument. But at present they are just as gay and dissipated as their fellow collegians. About fifty years ago they were on a footing with the servitors at Oxford, but by the exertions of the present Bishop of Llandaff, who was himself a sizar, they were absolved from all marks of inferiority or of degradation. The chief difference at present between them and the pensioners, consists in the less amount of their college fees. The saving thus made induces many extravagant fellows to become sizars, that they may have more money to lavish on their dogs, pieces, SKEW. A cup, or beggar's wooden dish. SKEWVOW, or ALL ASKEW. Crooked, inclining to one side. SKIN. In a bad skin; out of temper, in an ill humour. Thin-skinned: touchy, peevish. SKIN. A purse. Frisk the skin of the stephen; empty the money out of the purse. Queer skin; an empty purse. SKIN FLINT. An avaricious man or woman, SKINK. To skink, is to wait on the company, ring the bell, stir the fire, and snuff the candles; the duty of the youngest officer in the military mess. See BOOTS. SKINS. A tanner. S 229  1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 1419100076 SKIP JACKS. Youngsters that ride horses on sale, horse- dealers boys. Also a plaything made for children with the breast bone of a goose. SKIP KENNEL. A footman. SKIPPER. A barn. CANT. Also the captain of a Dutch vessel. TO SKIT. To wheedle. CANT. SKIT. A joke. A satirical hint. SKRIP. See SCRIP. SKULKER. A soldier who by feigned sickness, or other pretences, evades his duty; a sailor who keeps below in time of danger; in the civil line, one who keeps out of the way, when any work is to be done. To skulk; to hide one's self, to avoid labour or duty. SKY BLUE. Gin. SKY FARMERS. Cheats who pretend they were farmers in the isle of Sky, or some other remote place, and were ruined by a flood, hurricane, or some such public calamity: or else called sky farmers from their farms being IN [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] zanotowane.pl doc.pisz.pl pdf.pisz.pl blacksoulman.xlx.pl