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.
A New and Comprehensive Vocabulary of the Flash Language by James Hardy Vaux, 1819
