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A form of singing in jazz music in which meaningless syllables and sounds take the place of words, the voice being used rather as a musical instrument. It was invented by the greatest of all jazz musicians, Louis Armstrong, by accident as he was making a record of Heebie Jeebies, about 1926.
An instrument of torture invented by Sir William Skevington, lieutenant of the Tower in the reign of Henry
Sense, knowledge. "Massa, me no scavey;" master, I don't know (NEGRO LANGUAGE) perhaps from the French SCAVOIR.
The incident is commemorated in the following contemporary epigram : —
A party of pleasure.
A dissenting teacher.
A dissenting meeting house.
A Dissenters’ meeting-house.—University.
Very drunk.
To bribe.
Heroin.
A penis.
Nose.
The nose.
Bad money. See SHOFUL.
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
A knot of men or boys; generally a body of idlers or street gamblers. Also, two or more "patterers" working together in the streets.
Experiencing life's difficulties as a means of learning
A banker, treasurer, or confidential clerk.—Anglo-Indian.
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
The street arrangement for Punch and Judy. See SWATCHEL-COVE.
Fiction based on imagined future scientific developments
Anaxag9ras of Clazom- ense (d. about 430 B.C.) held opinions in natural science so far in advance of his age that he was accused of impiety, thrown into prison, and condemned to death. Pericles, with great difficulty, got his sentence commuted to fine and banishment.
Petersburg (Leningrad) was established by Catherine I in 1725.
A scimitar.
Homer. Scio is the modern name of Chios, in the ^Egean Sea one of the "seven cities" that claimed the honour of being his birthplace.
A lesbian.
Compilation, as distin- guished from original literary work. The allusion is obvious.
Work to do; purpose to serve. / have my own scissors to grind is a way of saying "I've got my own work to do, or my own troubles, and can't be bothered with yours.
Food.
A popular jest-book in the 16th century, said by Andrew Boorde (who published it) to be the work of one John Scogan, reputed to have been court fool to
The head, probably as being the fort and citadel of a man: from SCONCE, an old name for a fort, derived from a Dutch word of the same signification; To build a sconce: a military term for bilking one's quarters. To sconce or skonce; to impose a fine. ACADEMICAL PHRASE.
The head; judgment, sense.—Dutch.
A Subaru automobile.
A dollar.
diarrhea
To carefully observe or investigate something
A phrase coined to describe the Chinese policy (as old as war) of retreating before the Japanese and burning the country- side as they went, in the war which began m 1937. It was a phrase much used in World War II.
A reckoning, "to run up a SCORE at a public-house," to obtain credit there until pay-day, or a fixed time, when the debt must be "wiped off." From the old practice of scoring a tippler’s indebtedness on the inside of a public-house door.
to gain an advantage by exploiting someone's mistake
A quantity of anything, a lot, a share.—Anglo-Saxon, SCEAT, pronounced SHOT.
A municipal levy on all according to their ability to pay. Scot is the tax, and lot the allotment or portion allotted. To pay scot and lot, therefore, is to pay the general assessment and also the personal tax allotted to you.
To rape.
A halt and a resting on a stick, as practised by pedlars.
A cloth cap worn in Scotland as part of the national dress.
Lice. The headquarters of the Scotch greys: the head of a man full of large lice.
A type of fine, steady rain
A bottle containing two quarts.
A wench; also a fart.
The legs; also synonymous with notches.
Edward I founded his claim to the lordship of Scotland on four grounds, viz. — (1) the statement of certain ancient chroniclers that Scottish kings had' occasionally paid homage to English sovereigns from time immemorial. (2) From charters of Scottish kings: as those of Edgar, son of Malcolm, William, and his son Alexander II. (3) From papal rescripts; as those of Honorius III, Gregory IX, and Clement IV.
She set out for her kingdom, but died at sea from sea- sickness.
The headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, whence all public orders to the force proceed. The original Scotland Yard, occupied by the Police from 1829-90, was a short street near Trafalgar Square, so called from a palace on the spot, given by King Edgar (about 970) to Kenneth II of Scotland when he came to London to pay homage, and subsequently used by the Scottish kings when visiting England.
Traditional sayings from Scotland
It was from here that Edward I, in 1296, brought the great coronation stone on which the kings of Scot-
A man void of every principle of honour.
Or, an Explanation of the Cant Words used by Thieves, Housebreakers, Street-robbers, and Pickpockets about Town, with some curious Dissertations on the Art of Wheedling, &c., the whole printed from a copy taken on one of their gang, in the late scuffle between the watchman and a party of them on Clerkenwell Green, 8vo. 1754.
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.
Riotous bucks, who amuse themselves with breaking windows, beating the watch, and assaulting every person they meet: called scouring the streets.
A college errand-boy at Oxford, called a gyp at Cambridge. Also a watchman or a watch. CANT.