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  • scorch
    [Caymans idem (Fuller 68); OED an alter­ation of score, perhaps after scratch, obs. → 1823] v. 1. to score; to cut slashes,
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  • scope
    [OED, a tract (of land); Anglo-Irish?, obs. → 1691] n. a wide expanse of land. (Gen.)
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  • scopcher
    See SCONCHER KNEE.
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  • scoonchy-loonchy
    /skúwnchi lúwnchi/ [etym?] n. a small, reddish-yellow land crab (sp?). (Berry) a black crab. (Cat)
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  • sconcher knee
    [cf. Belize scodgineal idem (Young); cf. W3 cochineal cactus . . . widely cultivated as food for the cochineal insect,
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  • scissors-tail
    [cf. W3 scissor-tailed having a deeply forked tail; from shape of coat tail] n. a frock coat. (Black)
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  • scissors
    [OED idem rare] n. sing, a pair of scissors: a scissors. (Black)
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  • science
    [cf. OED scienced learned obs. → 1836; also US dial. ADD] adj. intelligent. (Black) —n. intelligence: He got science (Eleu.).
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  • school
    [cf. OED to be schooled to receive instruc­tion, by depassivization] v. to go to school: She couldn't believe say I
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  • scheme with a girl
    [cf. OED scheme to effect by intrigue] v. phr. 1. (of young men) to take too long to become intimate with a
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