old of thy sleeve.

T. Tusser, _Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry_, x. 28 (1557).

=Scarlet= (_Will_), =Scadlock= or =Scathelocke=, one of the companions of
Robin Hood.

"Take thy good bowe in thy hande," said Robyn.
"Let Moche wend with the
And so shall Wyllyam Scathelocke,
And no man abyde with me."

Ritson, _Robin Hood Ballads_, i. 1 (1520).

The tinker looking him about,
Robin his horn did blow;
Then came unto him Little John
And William Scadlock, too.

Ditto, ii. 7 (1656).

And there of him they made a
Good yeoman Robin Hood,
Scarlet and Little John,
And Little John, hey ho!

Ditto, appendix 2 (1790).

In the two dramas called _The First and Second Parts of Robin Hood_, by
Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle, Scathlock or Scadlock, is called the
brother of Will Scarlet.

... possible that Warman's spite ... doth hunt the lives
Of bonnie Scarlet and his brother, Scathlock.

Pt. i. (1597).

Then "enter Warman, with Scarlet and Scathlock bounde," but Warman is
banished, and the brothers are liberated and pardoned.

=Scarlet Woman= (_The_), popery (_Rev._ xvii. 4).

And fulminated
Against the scarlet woman and her creed.

Tennyson, _Sea Dreams_.

=Scathelocke= (2 _syl._) or =Scadlock=, one of the companions of Robin
Hood. Either the brother of Will Scarlet or another spelling of the name.
(See SCARLET.)

=Scatterbury= (_Juliet_). Ambitious New York woman, who lives in a flat
and pretends to distant friends that she lives in a Fifth Avenue brown
stone front; "an egregious follower of Ananias and Sapphira."--William
Henry Bishop, _The Brown Stone Boy and Other Stories_ (1888).

=Scavenger's Daughter= (_The_), an instrument of torture, invented by Sir
William Skevington, lieutenant of the Tower in the reign of Henry VIII.
"Scavenger" is a corruption of Skevington.

_To kiss the scavenger's daughter_, to suffer punishment by this
instrument of torture, to be beheaded by a guillotine or some similar
instrument.

=Sceaf= [_Sheef_], one of the ancestors of Woden. So called because in
infancy he was laid on a wheatsheaf, and cast adrift in a boat; the boat
stranded on the shores of Sleswig, and the infant, being considered a
gift from the gods, was brought up for a future king.--_Beowulf_ (an
Anglo-Saxon epic, sixth century).

=Scepticism= (_Father of Modern_), Pier