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Farmer - -Release Date: October 21, 2016 [EBook #53336] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PUBLIC SCHOOL WORD-BOOK *** - - - - -Produced by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - - - - - THE PUBLIC SCHOOL - WORD-BOOK - - - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - THE - - PUBLIC SCHOOL WORD-BOOK - - A CONTRIBUTION TO - - A HISTORICAL GLOSSARY OF WORDS PHRASES - AND TURNS OF EXPRESSION OBSOLETE - AND IN PRESENT USE - - PECULIAR TO - - OUR GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS - - TOGETHER WITH SOME THAT HAVE BEEN OR - ARE _MODISH_ AT THE UNIVERSITIES - - BY - - JOHN S. FARMER - - EDITOR OF “AMERICANISMS—OLD AND NEW,” “REGIMENTAL RECORDS - OF THE BRITISH ARMY,” AND (WITH W. E. HENLEY) - “SLANG AND ITS ANALOGUES,” ETC. - - LONDON - PRIVATELY ISSUED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - BY HIRSCHFELD BROTHERS - 13 FURNIVAL STREET, E.C. - MCM - - - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - -[Illustration] - - - - - PREFACE - - -It has been a matter of note and, maybe, of surprise that no attempt -has hitherto been made to gather in one volume the numerous Words, -Phrases, and Turns of Expression peculiar to OUR GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS. -Bare lists of a dozen or more examples may be found in certain (mostly -out-of-date) Records and Histories; but taking the Schools -individually, only in one instance—Winchester—has there been anything -but the most perfunctory attention given to the subject; and in no -case has the question received that analytical, scientific -treatment—historically and comparatively—which has proved so -invaluable in the “Oxford Dictionary” and in “Slang and its -Analogues.” - -It would, however, seem almost necessary to emphasise the fact that this -Word-Book is not, _per se_, a dictionary of school slang. On the -contrary, it is far more than that. For, though such colloquialisms as -are _peculiar_ to Public School life are naturally and rightly included, -yet by far the larger number of the examples here set down do not, by -any accepted method of classification, fall within that category. I am -led to make this clear at the outset by reason of a somewhat curious, -but altogether erroneous idea that the present book was to be a mere -reprint of extracts from the larger work on which, for many years, I -have been engaged. That is not so. - -Nor, moreover, do these words and phrases appear, save in very few -instances, in any other work—not even in so admirably complete a -dictionary, in other respects, as “The Century,” while the monumental -Oxford undertaking will not be available, as a complete authority, for -many years to come. - -Having thus stated what this work is _not_, it seems borne on me to -explain, anew, what it _is_, or rather, what has been my method. Briefly -put, my idea has been to collect such words, phrases, names, and -allusions to customs as now are, or have been, _peculiar_ to English -Public School life, and to apply to their definition and elucidation -what is known as the “historical” method, illustrating such examples as -lent themselves to it by quotations from old and present-day writers. - -The Public Schools with which I have been concerned, arranged -chronologically in order of foundation or charter, are as follows:— - - 1160 Derby. │1564 Felsted. - 1387 Winchester. │1567 Rugby. - 1441 Eton. │1571 Harrow. - 1515 Manchester Grammar. │1592 Stonyhurst. - 1538 Royal High School, Edin. │1611 Charterhouse. - 1541 Durham Grammar. │1619 Dulwich. - 1550 Sherborne. │1830 Loretto. - 1551 Shrewsbury. │1841 Cheltenham. - 1552 Christ’s Hospital. │1843 Marlborough. - 1552 King Edward’s. │1848 Lancing. - 1553 Tonbridge. │1859 Wellington. - 1560 Westminster. │1875 The Leys. - Also the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, - Aberdeen, Dublin, &c. - -How far I have been successful in my task I leave others to judge. I -must confess, however, that the extent and wealth of this special field -of inquiry has somewhat astonished me: yet I fear my lists are, in some -cases, still incomplete. But, even so, this contribution towards a more -perfect glossary will, I think, be a revelation to many. - -No wonder our Mother-tongue is so vigorous, adaptable, and -expansive—reaching out in its creative energy to all the forms and -necessities of modern life—when even Young England shows such aptitude -in coining new expressions, and adapting older forms to its -ever-changing (and, shall I say, ever-increasing) needs. Studied -comparatively, there will be found much significance, not alone in the -survivals from past generations, but also in the relatively newer -phraseology. Many an interesting side-light, too, is thrown on ancient -school customs and usages. - -Though primarily addressing myself to past schoolmen, it is not without -a hope that the general student and scholar, as well as those still _in -statu pupillari_, will find something of use and to interest. - -Finally, I desire, though holding myself alone responsible for aught -that is solecismal in these pages, to acknowledge my indebtedness to -those who have afforded me such unstinted aid in compiling this work. -Especially are my thanks due to Mr. P. K. Tollit (Derby); Mr. W. -Durnford (Eton); Mr. R. D. Hodgson (Manchester Grammar); Mr. C. A. Ross -(Royal High School, Edin.); Rev. A. E. Hillard (Durham); Mr. W. B. -Wildman (Sherborne); Rev. J. F. Cornish (Christ’s Hospital); Rev. E. W. -Badger (King Edward’s, Birm.); Mr. C. H. Crofts (Tonbridge); Rev. E. -Gepp (Felsted); Mr. G. Townsend Warner (Harrow); the Rev. Fathers Gerard -and Browne and Rev. A. Goodier (Stonyhurst); Dr. H. H. Almond (Loretto); -Mr. J. F. L. Hardy (Marlborough); Mr. J. C. Isard (The Leys). - - - SPECIAL NOTICE - -_While the “Public School Word-Book” was passing through the press a -certain amount of additional matter came to hand. Rather than omit -altogether I have included it in an Appendix._ - -_May I also say that I shall welcome any suggestions, additions, or -corrections that may be forwarded to me?_ - -_Communications may be addressed to John S. Farmer, c/o Messrs. -Hirschfeld Bros., 13 Furnival Street, London, E.C._ - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - -[Illustration] - - - - - THE - PUBLIC SCHOOL WORD-BOOK - - - - - - -*A*, TO GET ONE’S “A,” _verb. phr._ (Harrow).—To pass a certain - standard in the Gymnasium: the next step being to the - Gymnasium Eight. _See_ Appendix. - - -*Abber*, _subs._ (Harrow).—1. An abstract: on history, &c.; set - as a punishment. - - 2. An ABSIT (_q.v._): on whole holidays, or under medical - advice. - - -*Abroad*, _adv._ (Winchester).—Convalescent; out of the - sick-room: _e.g._ “I have been (or come) ABROAD a week.” - _Cf._ CONTINENT. - - 1534. UDALL, _Roister Doister_, ... I bid him keepe warme at home, For - if he come ABROADE, he shall cough me a mome. - - 1598. SHAKSPEARE, 2 _Hen. IV._, i. 2. I am glad to see your Lordship - ABROAD. I heard say your Lordship was sicke. I hope your Lordship goes - ABROAD by aduice. - - 1761. _Letter_ [WRENCH]. I have been exceeding ill ... am not just got - ABROAD again. - - -*Abs*, _adj._ (Winchester).—Absent: placed against the name when - away from school. [From _absunt_ on Rolls.] - - _Verb._ To take (get, or go) away. Formerly (_circa_ 1840) - to ABS a tolly (candle) = to put it out; it now = to take it - away whether lighted or unlighted, the modern NOTION - (_q.v._) for putting it out being to “dump” it. As a neuter - verb ABS is generally used in the imperative: _e.g._ “ABS!” - “Oh, do ABS!” Sometimes, however, a fellow is said TO ABS - quickly, and MESS THINGS (_q.v._) are ABSED, or put away. To - HAVE ONE’S WIND ABSED = to have it taken away by a violent - blow in the stomach. - - -*Absence*, _subs._ (Eton).—Names-calling. [This takes place at 3 - and 6 P.M. on half-holidays; at 11.30, 3, and 6 P.M. on - whole-holidays; at 6 P.M. only in summer half.] - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 174. And the elevens were made - up, as they best might, out of such adventurous spirits as dared to - “skip” roll-calls and ABSENCE for the purpose. Eton, when the losers, - attributed the fact to the want of their best men in consequence of - these difficulties. - - -*Absit*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—_See_ quot. - - 1886. DICKENS’S _Dictionary of the University of Cambridge_, p. 3. - Every undergraduate wishing to leave Cambridge for a whole day, not - including a night, must obtain an ABSIT from his tutor. Permission to - go away for a longer period, either at the end of the term or in the - middle, is called an “exeat,” and no undergraduate should go down - without obtaining his “exeat.” - - -*Academia*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—_See_ Appendix. - - -*Academy*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—An exhibition given at the end - of every quarter: the first by RHETORIC (_q.v._), the second - by POETRY (_q.v._), the third by SYNTAX (_q.v._), the last, - called the GREAT ACADEMIES, by all three combined. This last - is the crowning act of the school year, being attended by - many visitors, and is followed by the annual distribution of - prizes. Hence ACADEMY ROOM = the large hall in which the - chief exhibitions, displays, concerts, plays, &c., are held. - [The name may have come from the school at Liège, which was - known as the “Academy”; but more probably it is of much - older date, being derived from the “Academiæ” of the _Ratio - Studiorum Societatis Jesu_.] - - -*Accidence* (Harrow).—_See_ UPPER SCHOOL. - - -*Ack* (or *Ick*), _intj._ (Christ’s Hospital).—No! nothing. - _Ex._ “Lend me your book.” “ACK!” Obsolete. - - -*Action*, _subs._ (King Edward’s, Birm.: obsolete).—A game - in which a number of boys start from one end of the - cloisters and run to the other, trying to avoid being - captured _en route_ by others who seek to intercept - them. The game was also called FOX AND DOWDY. These were - names in use twenty-five years ago. To-day the same game - is called BACCA, because the prisoners must be held long - enough for the captor to say, “one, two, three, caught, - tobacco!” - - -*Ad lib.*, _subs. phr._ (Stonyhurst).—The time when boys are not - bound to study in the STUDY-PLACE (_q.v._). - - -*Admonishing-money*, _subs._ (Westminster).—_See_ quot. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 116. The punishments for - speaking English in hall or school, which have been before alluded to, - were strictly enforced in his [Dr. Busby’s] days in the way of fines, - called ADMONISHING-MONEY, which figure occasionally in his [Lynn’s] - account. The custom was for the second boy of the second election to - act as a sort of monitor for this purpose, and to deliver to any boy - who so offended a “mark” or tally, with the words, _Tu es custos_; - this mark he had to pass in turn to the first whom he could detect in - a similar slip, and the boy with whom the mark remained when hall - broke up incurred a fine. Charles Dryden, son of the poet, thought - himself so hardly used by being made _custos_ three days running (by - some unfairness, as he conceived), that the father wrote a strong - letter on the subject to his old master, Busby, and was very nearly - removing the boy from school. - - -*Ad portas*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A Latin speech - delivered by the Senior College Prefect to the Warden of New - College and the POSERS (_q.v._) under Middle gate at the - commencement of Election week. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 61. When the Warden of New - College, Oxford, with two of his Fellows, called the “posers” (or at - one time “supervisors”), arrive at the college, ... they are received - with a Latin oration AD PORTAS by the senior scholar. Two other - speeches are delivered in school just before their arrival: 1. - _Elizabethæ et Jacobi Laudes_ (commonly known as “Elizabeth and - Jacob”), by the Prefect of School; 2. _Fundatoris Laudes_, formerly - assigned to the senior “Founder’s kin” scholar, but now spoken by the - third prefect. - - -*Adsum*, _intj._ (Charterhouse).—The response made in answer to - names-calling. - - 1855. THACKERAY, _The Newcomes_, p. 774. At the usual evening hour the - chapel bell began to toll, and Thomas Newcome’s hands outside the bed - feebly beat time. And just as the last bell struck a peculiar sweet - smile shone over his face, and he lifted up his head a little and - quickly said ADSUM, and fell back. It was the word we used at school - when names were called; and lo, he whose heart was as that of a little - child had answered to his name, and stood in the presence of the - Master. - - 1900. _Daily Telegraph_, 23rd March, 8. 7. As in the old days of - Colonel Newcome, “ADSUM,” or “Always ready,” is still the watch-word - of the Charterhouse, whose authorities have issued a neatly-printed - list of Old Carthusians serving in South Africa, in a cover of the - school colours. - - 1900. TOD, _Charterhouse_, p. 97. ADSUM is the name of a new - institution.... There was no occasion for it when the school was in - London, and none could pass beyond the school precincts. Colonel - Newcome must have answered ADSUM at prayers only. - - -*Æger*. _See_ ÆGROTAT. - - -*Æger-room*, _subs._ (Felsted).—The sick-room. _See_ ÆGROTAT. - - -*Ægrotat* (or *Æger*), _subs._ (University).—(1) A medical - certificate excusing attendance. (2) The degree taken by - those so excused. READING ÆGROTAT = leave taken (generally - in December) to read for one’s degree. [Lat. _ægrotare_.] - - 1794. _Gent. Mag._, p. 1085. They [at Cambridge] sported an ÆGROTAT, - and they sported a new coat! - - 1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, iv. “That there’s the ‘All, sir, - _that_ is,—where you dines, sir, leastways when you ain’t ‘Æger,’ or - elseweer.” _Ibid._, viii.—“Not very well, Robert, thank you. I—my head - aches, and I’m afraid I shall not be able to get up for chapel.”... - “If you’ll leave it to me, sir, I’ll make it all right for you, _I_ - will. Of course you’d like to take out an ÆGER, sir; and I can bring - you your Commons just the same.” - - 1864. BABBAGE, _Passages from the Life of a Philosopher_, 37. I sent - my servant to the apothecary for a thing called an ÆGROTAT, which I - understood ... meant a certificate that I was indisposed. - - 1870. _Chambers’s Journal_, June 18, p. 395. Dick laughed. “I’ll get - the receipt from him. I often want a good thing for an ÆGER.” - - 1888. H. SMART, in _Temple Bar_, February, p. 213. “Instead of - applying for leave to my tutor, I had resorted to the old device of - pricking ÆGER.” - - 1890. _Felstedian_, Feb., p. 2. What’s up ... with Smith? He went ÆGER - before school this afternoon. I expect he’s rather bad; he is not the - fellow to go ÆGER for nothing. I do hate that ÆGER-room. - - -*After Four.* _See_ FOUR. - - -*Afternoon-tea*, _subs._ (Royal High School, Edin.).—Detention - after 3 o’clock. - - -*After Twelve.* _See_ TWELVE. - - -*-agger*, _inseparable suffix_ (Charterhouse).—As in - COMBINAGGERS, a combination suit of pyjamas. - - -*Alderman*, _subs._ (Felsted: obsolete).—A qualified swimmer. - [From “The Alders,” a deep pool in the river Chelmer.] - - 1893. _Felstedian_, June, p. 79. Years ago there existed at Felsted a - class of beings known as “Swimming ALDERMEN.” What they were, and - whence they came, I know not; perhaps some Old Felstedian will be able - to enlighten me on the point. Perhaps the name was given to those who - could swim so many times from the “Alders” to “Duck-pond”; or, - perhaps, the name was derived from the aldermanic proportions of the - swimmer. _Ibid._ (1895, Ap., p. 44). A fourth term, “ALDERMAN,” was - not in the list. It has certainly “been dead lengthy” but was once - prized by its possessors, who had to swim so many times from the “Duck - Pond” to “The Alders” before they could gain the title. Ten lengths of - the new bath would afford a fair test, and ALDERMEN might have some - privilege or other. Its revival would be a good thing, for there has - of late been a tendency to prefer diving to swimming. - - -*All.* _See_ ALONG; IN; OUT; and ON. - - -*Allows*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The weekly allowance of 2s., from - which breakages, &c., are stopped. - - -*Alma Mater*, _subs._ (general).—One’s school, college, or - university. - - 1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, ii. 2. A white tie and a pair of very - small bands—the two articles which, with the usual academicals, form - the costume demanded by ALMA MATER of all her children when they take - their places in her schools. - - 1874. _The Blue_, Aug., _Reminis. of Christ’s Hospital_. In fact, the - musical arrangements of our ALMA MATER were something exceedingly - below _par_. - - -*Along.* ALL ALONG, _subs. phr._ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—A kind - of dribbling football practice: indulged in during a short - spell of recreation. - - -*Alto-cad*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The paid member of the choir - taking alto. - - -*Amen-chapel*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A long service performed on - the four days set apart for commemorating the Founder, and - on the anniversary of his death. - - -*Ancient-mariner*, _subs._ (University).—A rowing Don. - - -*Anstey’s.* _See_ PLANKS. - - -*Apostles*, _subs._ (University).—_See_ quot. - - 1803. _Gradus ad Cantab._ The APOSTLES are the clodhoppers of - literature, who have at last scrambled through the Senate House - without being plucked, and have obtained the title of B.A. by a - miracle. The last twelve names on the list of Bachelor of Arts are - thus designated. [The term is now (1900) applied to the last twelve in - the Mathematical TRIPOS (_q.v._)] - - -*Appii* (The), _subs._ (Durham: obsolete).—The Three Tuns, a - celebrated Durham inn. [From a misunderstanding of Acts - xxviii. 15.] - - -*Apple-pie Day*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The day on which - SIX-AND-SIX (_q.v._) is played—the Thursday after the first - Tuesday in December. [Because hot apple-pies were served on - GOMERS (_q.v._) in College for dinner.] - - -*Aquatics*, _subs._ (Eton).—Where boys “in the boats” play - cricket; also the WET-BOB cricket team. - - -*Archdeacon*, _subs._ (Oxford).—Merton strong ale. - - -*Armoury, The* (Harrow).—The room under the Old Schools where - rifles, belonging to the Rifle Corps, are kept. - - -*Arrow*, subs. (Harrow).—A challenge arrow, of silver: given to - the COCK-HOUSE (_q.v._) at shooting. - - -*Arundel Day* (The Leys).—The choir summer holiday. - - -*Ascension-day.* _See_ ASCENSIO SCHOLARUM. - - -*Ascensio Scholarum*, _subs. phr._ (Stonyhurst).—The opening - ceremony of the school year. The whole house assembles in - the STUDY-PLACE (_q.v._), and the Prefect of Studies reads - out the new forms, prefixing the formula “_Maneant in_” or - “_Ascendant in_” as the case may be. The day is known as - “Ascension Day.” - - 1843. _Stonyhurst Mag._, Nov. 1883, p. 232. The _Ascensio Scholarum_ - was managed quite otherwise then than now [1843-83].... _Ascension - Day._—The opening day of schools. Mass of the Holy Ghost is said in - the church, after breakfast. The different schools, headed by their - masters, then return to the schoolrooms which they occupied the - preceding scholastic year. Presently the large bell tolls, and then - the Prefect of Studies opens the door of POETRY (_q.v._), and - announces that “RHETORIC (_q.v._) is empty.” The POETS (_q.v._) leave - their room and ascend to Rhetoric, and forthwith become Rhetoricians, - with all their privileges. Then the (late) Poet’s doorkeeper knocks at - SYNTAX’ (_q.v._) door and sings out that “Poetry is empty”; and so on - through the different schools. The little fellows newly arrived have - to wait in the gallery until “LITTLE FIGURES” (_q.v._) is vacant, when - they become Little Figuricians, “Little Figures,” it will be observed, - being what we [1883] call “ELEMENTS” (_q.v._). - - -*Ash-planting*, _subs._ (Rugby).—_See_ quot. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 349. In this room - [Over-School] it was that, in the latter half of the last century, the - punishment of ASH-PLANTING used to take place. It was inflicted by - order and in the presence of a judicial committee of the præposters - (Sixth Form) for some few grave offences against the recognised - internal discipline of the school, _e.g._ personal assault upon one of - their body by a mutinous fag—an offence which would still be severely - punished by the masters, if not by the Sixth themselves. Three - ash-saplings were used; in theory, at least, the two first were to be - broken upon the person of the culprit. The punishment was - severe—perhaps unjustifiably so; but it had the character of being - only inflicted in extreme cases, and with strict justice, and was not - regarded as a cruelty in the school. - - -*Athens* (Eton).—A bathing-place. - - 1865. _Etoniana_, p. 162. No boy is now allowed to go into a boat - until he has passed an examination in swimming before a committee of - masters at ATHENS or at Cuckoo Weir. - - -*Audit-ale* (or *Audit*), _subs._ (Cambridge).—A special brew of - ale, peculiar to Trinity College. [First-made draught on - AUDIT days.] - - 1837. BARHAM, _Ingoldsby Legends_, “Lay of St. Dunstan.” The “Trinity - AUDIT ALE” is not come-at-able, as I’ve found to my great grief when - dining at that table. - - 1876. TREVELYAN, _Life of Macaulay_ (1884), ch. iv. p. 127. A glass of - the AUDIT ALE, which reminded him that he was still a Fellow of - Trinity. - - 1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 55. A lot of Freshmen got together - after Hall (it was a Saints’ day, and they’d been drinking AUDIT) and - went and made hay in Marling’s rooms. - - -*Aul. præ*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Prefect of Hall. [Abbreviation - of _Præfectus Aulæ_.] - - -*Ave Maria Lane* (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—A walk in the - playground. - - - - - - -*B*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A standard in Gymnasium the next below - the A (_q.v._). _See_ Appendix. - - -*Bacca.* _See_ ACTION. - - -*Bacchus*, _subs._ (Eton).—A copy of verses. _See_ quot. - - 1865. _Etoniana_, 27. On Shrove-Tuesday verses were written [_c._ - 1561] in honour or dispraise of Bacchus—“because poets were considered - the clients of Bacchus”—and those composed by the senior boys were - fixed on the inside of the folding-doors of the hall, as was the old - fashion in all schools and colleges. This custom was continued almost - into modern days, and though the subject was changed, the copy of - verses was still called “a BACCHUS.” When Pepys paid a visit to the - school in 1665, he found the subject given out for that year was the - one topic of absorbing interest—the Plague. - - -*Back.* To BACK UP, _verb_ (Winchester).—To call out: _e.g._ - “Why didn’t you BACK UP? I should have come.” [In College - various times are BACKED-UP by Junior in Chambers, such as - “Three quarters!” “Hour!” “Bells go single!” “Bells down!”] - - -*Back Alley* (The Leys: obsolete).—A passage dividing “Upper” - and “Lower” Quadrangle: now done away with. - - -*Backings-up*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Half-burned fagot-ends. - [BACKING (prov. in Linc., Leices., and North country) = - slack; small-coal; turf.] - - -*Backs*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—A favourite walk with - undergraduates. - - 1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 23. I’m in training now for the - Lent races, and have to be out for a walk in the BACKS before - breakfast every morning. - - -*Badger*, _subs._ (Wellington).—A member of the Second XV. at - football. [A “badge” is bestowed when permission is given to - play in this team.] - - -*Bag*, _subs._ (Westminster).—Milk. - - -*Bags* (or *Bags I*), _intj._ (common).—Used to assert a claim - to some article or privilege. Analogous school slang is - FAINS or FAIN IT (_q.v._) for demanding a truce during the - progress of a game, and which is always granted by the - opposing party. In other schools PIKE I or PRIOR PIKE serve - to lay claim to anything, or for asserting priority. Also - BAR: _e.g._ “He wanted me to do so and so, but I BARRED - not.” _Cf._ FAIN. - - -*Bags’-stile*, _subs._ (Rugby).—_See_ quot. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, 363. On the Dunchurch Road there - was a stile long known as BAGS’ STILE; here a certain set of boys, of - whom Lyttelton was one [_c._ 1793], used to sit and “chaff” the - passing “bagsmen”—for the commercial travellers to Rugby then rode - with actual saddle-bags; and this practice led to terrible fights - occasionally with the aggrieved riders. - - -*Bake*, _verb_ (Winchester).—To rest; to sit or lie at ease. - Hence BAKER (_q.v._); BAKESTER (obsolete) = a sluggard; - BAKING-LEAVE (_q.v._); BAKING-PLACE (_q.v._); BAKER-LAYER - (_q.v._). [North. Dial. _beak_ = to bask in the heat. - JAMIESON, _beik_, _beke_, _beek_ = to bask.] - - 1360. _Ywaine_ [RITSON, _E. M. R._]. And ligges BEKEAND in his bed. - - _d._ 1395. _Barbour MS._ Ane Inglis man, that lay BEKAND Hym be a fyr. - - 1577. KENDALL [WRENCH]. At home we take our ease And BEAKE ourselves - in rest. - - 1648. SYMMONS, _Vindication of Chas. I._ Wherefore if that Pope of - Rome when he lay BEAKING himself in the midst of his luxuries, had - cause to cry out, _Heu quantum patimur pro Christo_. - - _d._ 1758. RAMSAY, _Works_. She and her cat sit BEEKING in her yard. - - -*Baker*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A cushion; also anything used - to sit or kneel upon, as a blotting-book, &c. [BAKERS were - of two kinds: that used in “College” was of large size, - oblong in shape, and green in colour. The other, used in - “Commoners,” was thin, narrow, much smaller, and of red - colour.] Hence BAKER-LAYER (obsolete) = a Junior who used - to take a Prefect’s green BAKER in and out of Hall at - meal-times. - - -*Baker-layer.* _See_ BAKER. - - -*Baking-leave*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—1. Permission to - BAKE (_q.v._) in a study in Commoners, or in a SCOB (_q.v._) - place in College. 2. Leave to sit in another’s TOYS - (_q.v._). - - -*Baking-place*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Any place in which to BAKE - (_q.v._), or in connection with which BAKING-LEAVE (_q.v._) - was given. - - -*Balbus*, _subs._ (University).—A Latin prose composition. [From - the frequency with which BALBUS is quoted in ARNOLD’S - well-known text-book, _Latin Prose Composition_.] - - 1870. _Quarterly Review._ BALBUS was in constant use. - - -*Ball.* CALL THE BALL! _phr._ (Stonyhurst).—The “Foul!” of - Association Football. - - -*Balls*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A Junior in College collects - footballs from the lockers in school and takes them through - at 6 o’clock to the Ball-keeper in Commoners to be blown or - repaired. The Ball-keeper is an Inferior who, for service in - looking after cricket and foot-balls, is exempted from - KICKING-IN (_q.v._) and WATCHING-OUT (_q.v._). - - -*Bally*, _subs._ (Sherborne: obsolete).—Ball court, the old name - for the Fives’ courts; there was a game, evidently like - fives, played at Sherborne against the north transept of the - church as early as 1585. The word has long ago passed out of - use. - - -*Banco*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—Evening preparation at HOUSE - under the superintendence of a monitor; the Winchester - TOY-TIME (_q.v._). - - 1900. TOD, _Charterhouse_, 81. At old Charterhouse monitors had - unlimited powers.... They were seldom interfered with by any master; - for instance, the visit of a house master to BANCO was intensely - resented. There was a “boule” in the Sixth Form of 1872, as to what a - monitor should do who was thus insulted. Should he at once put his cap - on, and take no notice of the master? or would it be more dignified to - walk straight out of the room? _Ibid._, 84. The chief duties of a - monitor now are to keep BANCO, and to see that order is preserved in - the cubicles, and in his house generally. BANCO is the time from 7.30 - to 8.55 every week-day evening except Saturday, and from 8.15 to 8.55 - on Sundays, when the Under School sit in Long Room and prepare their - work for the next day. The keeping of BANCO is a fine exercise in - discipline for the monitor, and a very convenient arrangement for the - house master. It is a tradition that a monitor helps every Under - School boy with his work during BANCO if he can. _Ibid._, 95. The term - BANCO was suggested by H. W. Phillott, afterwards Canon of Hereford - ... in 1832, or a little later. - - -*Bandy*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst: nearly obsolete).—The Stonyhurst - form of Hockey: prominent in the Tichborne trial, when the - Claimant at first thought it a nickname, and afterwards a - part of the College buildings. - - 1823. NARES, _Glossary_, s.v. BANDY-BALL. A Yorkshire game, played - with a crooked bat and a ball. It is the same as the Scottish game of - golf. See STOWE’S _Survey_, ed. 1720, i. 251. - - 1847. HALLIWELL, _Archaic Words_, s.v. BANDY. A game played with - sticks called BANDIES, bent and round at one end, and a small wooden - ball, which each party endeavours to drive to opposite fixed points. - Northbrooke, in 1577, mentions it as a favourite game in Devonshire. - It is sometimes called BANDY-BALL, and an early drawing of the game is - copied in STRUTT’S _Sports and Pastimes_, p. 102. - - -*Bangy* (or *Bangay*), _subs._ (Winchester).—Brown sugar. Also - as _adj._ = brown. Hence BANGAY BAGS (or BANGIES) = - brown-coloured trousers. WRENCH says the strong objection to - these in former times probably arose from Tony Lumpkin - coming to school in corduroys. [Suggested derivations are: - (1) from _Bangalore_, a coarse-sugar growing country; (2) - _bhang_ = hemp; (3) _banjy_ (Essex) = dull, gloomy.] A brown - gate formerly leading from Grass Court into Sick House Meads - was known as the BANGY GATE. The term is now often applied - to the gate by Racquet Court into Kingsgate Street. - - -*Bar.* TO BAR OUT, _verb. phr._ (Royal High School, Edin.: - obsolete).—To lock or barricade the doors to exclude the - masters. This custom has been practically extinct since the - day that Bailie John Macmorrane was shot by a pupil, William - Sinclair, son of the Chancellor of Caithness, while - endeavouring to get the door battered down (Sept. 15, 1595). - - -*Barbar*, _subs._ (Durham).—A candidate for scholarship from - another school. [That is, “barbarian” = foreigner.] - - -*Barber*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A thick fagot or bough; one was - included in each bundle. Also any large piece of wood. - - _Verb_ (University).—To work off impositions by deputy. - [Tradition relates that a learned barber was at one time - frequently employed as a scapegoat in working off this - species of punishment inflicted on peccant students.] Also - TO BARBERISE. - - 1853. BRADLEY (“Cuthbert Bede”), _Verdant Green_, xii. As for - impositions, why ... ’Aint there coves to BARBERISE ’em for you? - - -*Barge*, _subs._ (Sherborne).—Small cricket: played, with a - stump for bat, against a wall. - - _Verb_ (Charterhouse).—To hustle; TO MOB UP (_q.v._); TO - BRICK (_q.v._). - - -*Barn, The* (Charterhouse).—A temporary wooden building, - constructed in 1876 to meet deficiencies in class-room - accommodation. It stood on the site now occupied by the - Museum. It disappeared in 1884. - - -*Barnet*, _intj._ (Christ’s Hospital: obsolete).—Nonsense! - Humbug! - - -*Barn-school*, _subs._ (Rugby).—_See_ quot. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, 367. Dr. James found there [Rugby - in 1777] 52 boys; in five years he had raised them to 165. The one - large schoolroom was no longer sufficient ... a new building was - added.... Even the new schools overflowed, for the members rose in - time to near 300; and the head-master was obliged to migrate into a - barn adjoining the Dunchurch Road.... There for more than twenty years - successive head-masters taught the two senior forms.... Connecting - these buildings with the three schools adjoining the old manor-house - was a line of cow-sheds, which served as a shelter in rainy - weather.... Such was the Rugby of 1809; for it was not till long - afterwards that barn and cow-sheds disappeared, though the present - school buildings were begun in that year. - - -*Barracks*, _subs._ (Loretto).—A Form occasionally interpolated - between NIPPERS (_q.v._) and Fourth. [In the Sixties a - master at Loretto was known as the Captain, and when the - first overflow from the school-house took place, the - house in which a few boys slept, and over which he was - master, was called the Garrison. The adjoining house was - afterwards occupied and was called the BARRACKS. Whence the - interpolated Form, which for a time had for its schoolroom a - room at that house, getting the name of the Barracks Form. - The name clung to it when moved to one of the regular - schoolrooms.] - - -*Barter*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A half volley at cricket. Also - as _verb_. [From Warden Barter, who was famous in the - cricket-field for dealing with such balls.] - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, 65. None showed more enthusiastic - interest in these [Public School Cricket] matches than the late - excellent Warden, Robert Speckott Barter.... He seldom missed a match - at Lord’s from the time he played in the school eleven himself. He was - a tremendous hitter in his day; and the remarkable punishment which he - dealt out to the ball, when he was lucky enough to catch it on the - “half-volley,” has given to a long hit of this character at Winchester - (and even elsewhere) the name of a BARTER. - - -*Bartlemytide*, _subs._ (general: old).—The summer holiday. - - -*Base*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A goal: at football. - - -*Basinite*, _subs._ (Charterhouse: obsolete).—A hot-water fag: - he had to get hot water and towels ready for a monitor when - he descended to wash in COCKS (_q.v._). - - -*Bat-mugger*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A wooden instrument used in - oiling cricket-bats. - - -*Battal*, _subs._ (Harrow and Charterhouse).—Battalion drill for - the Rifle Corps: usually (at Harrow) in the evening. [The - second is the syllable accentuated.] - - -*Battler*, _subs._ (general).—A student. _See_ BATTLINGS. - - -*Battlings* (or *Battels*), _subs._ (general).—An allowance, in - money or kind; apparently originally intended to supplement - the meagre fare of fast-days. _Cf._ quots. Hence TO BATTEL = - to take provisions from the buttery. - - 1607. WENTWORTH SMITH, _Puritan_ [MALONE, _Suppl._, ii. 543]. Eat my - commons with a good stomach, and BATTLED with discretion. - - 1611. COTGRAVE, _Dict._... To BATTLE (as scholars do in Oxford), être - debiteur au collège pour ses vivres. _Ibid._, Mot usé seulement des - jeunes écoliers de l’université d’Oxford. - - 16 [?]. _Account rendered to Arch. of York_ [_William of Wykeham and - His Colleges_]. Item for BATTLINGS on fasting days with the lent. 0. - 9. 8. [_i.e._, 9s. 8d.] - - 1678. PHILLIPS, _Dict._, s.v. BATTEL. In the University of Oxford is - taken for to run on to exceedings above the ordinary stint of the - appointed Commons. - - 1744. SALMON, _Present State of Univ._, i. 423. Undergraduates - consisting of Noblemen, Gentlemen-Commoners, Commoners, Scholars of - the Foundation, Exhibitioners, BATTLERS, and Servitors.... The - Commoners, I presume, are so called from their Commoning together, and - having a certain portion of Meat and Drink provided for them, - denominated Commons.... The BATTLERS are entitled to no Commons, but - purchase their Meat and Drink of the Cook and Butler. - - 1786-1805. TOOKE, _Purley_, 390, _s.v._ BATTEL, a term used at Eton - for the small portion of food which, in addition to the College - allowance, the Collegers receive from the Dames. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester College_, p. 184. The - expense was defrayed by the boys subscribing the last three BATTLINGS - (_i.e._ the weekly shilling allowed each boy). This was rather an - illusory coin, for we seldom actually fingered it, as some one of the - College servants generally had a kind of prescriptive right to a - benefit; and whenever Saturday arrived, Præfect of Hall’s valet was - sure to come round to ask the boys if they would give their BATTLING - to Rat Williams, or Dungy, or Pulver, or Long John, or some other - equally deserving individual. - - 1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, II. vii. [Note]. BATTELS are the - accounts of the expenses of each student. It is stated in Todd’s - _Johnson_ that this singular word is derived from the Saxon verb, - meaning “to count or reckon.” But it is stated in the _Gentleman’s - Magazine_ for 1792, that the word may probably be derived from the - Low-German word _bettahlen_, “to pay,” whence may come our English - word _tale_ or _score_. - - 1864. _Household Words_, p. 188. The business of the latter was to - call us of a morning to distribute amongst us our BATTLINGS, or - pocket-money. - - 1880. TROLLOPE, _Autobiogr._, i. 13. Every boy had a shilling a week - pocket-money, which we called BATTELS. [This is probably a - misprint—the Winchester term, as that used at other schools, is - BATTLING. It was advanced out of the pocket of the Second Master.] - - 1886-87. DICKENS, _Dictionary of Oxford and Cambridge_, p. 16. BATTELS - is properly a designation of the food obtained from the College - Buttery. An account of this, and of the account due to the Kitchen, is - sent in to every undergraduate weekly, hence these bills also are - known as BATTELS, and the name, further, is extended to the total - amount of the term’s expenses furnished by the College. In some - Colleges it is made essential to the keeping of an undergraduates’ - term that he should BATTEL, _i.e._ obtain food in College on a certain - number of days each week. - - 1889. MURRAY, _Hist. Eng. Dict._, s.v. BATTELS. Much depends on the - original sense at Oxford: if this was ‘food, provisions,’ it is - natural to connect it with “BATTLE,” to feed, or receive - nourishment.... It appears that the word has apparently undergone - progressive extensions of application, owing partly to changes in the - internal economy of the colleges. Some Oxford men of a previous - generation state that it was understood by them to apply to the - buttery accounts alone, or even to the provisions ordered from the - buttery, as distinct from the “commons” supplied from the kitchen; but - this latter use is disavowed by others, ... but whether the BATTELS - were originally the provisions themselves, or the sums due on account - of them, must at present be left undecided. - - -*Baulk*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A false report. This is SPORTED - (_q.v._), not spread. - - -*Beak*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A master. FORM-BEAK = Form-master. - - -*Beanfielder*, _subs._ (Felsted: obsolete).—A long hit: at - cricket. - - -*Bearded Cad*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A porter employed by the - College to convey luggage from the railway station to the - school. [The term originated in an extremely hirsute - individual, who, at one time, acted in the capacity.] - - -*Beards!* _intj._ (The Leys: obsolete).—An ejaculation of - surprise. - - -*Beast*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—A student who, having left - school, goes up to Cambridge to study before entering the - university. [Because (so it is stated) he is neither man - nor boy.] - - -*Bedmaker* (or *Bedder*) _subs._ 1. (Cambridge).—A charwoman; a - servant who makes beds and does other necessary domestic - duties for residents in College. - - 1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 6. Remember me most kindly to Mrs. - Bloggins. I shall never forget how good she was when we were at - Cambridge last term.... These BEDMAKERS are kind souls after all. - - 2. (Oxford).—BEDDER = a bedroom. - - -*Beef Row*, _subs._ (Shrewsbury).—_See_ quot. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, 247. The dinners themselves [_c._ - 1800-40] were fairly good, with the exception of the “boiled beef” - days, which were highly unpopular. The beef was probably good enough, - but it was cured with saltpetre, and the consequent redness was, in - the boys’ eyes, objectionable. Remonstrances had been made in vain; - and the result was something like a school rebellion, well remembered - as the BEEF ROW. By concerted arrangement, on one day the boys in - every hall rose from the table in a body, and left the masters and the - boiled beef in sole occupation. Butler was indignant; he came into - each of the halls after locking up, and demanded from the heads of the - school a public apology for the insult, giving them an hour for - consideration, and placing before them the alternative of immediate - dismissal. The boys held together, and, early the next morning the - whole of the Sixth Form, comprising no less than three who were to be - future heads of Colleges, were started by chaise or coach for their - respective homes. The rest of the boys declared themselves _en - revolte_; they would not go into school, and the masters walked about - the court alternately threatening and persuading. At last a gentleman - in the town, an old Shrewsbury boy, much respected, harangued the - rebels, and persuaded them to surrender. Some sort of concession seems - almost to have been made by a portion of the absent Sixth Form under - home influence, and the affair ended in the return of all the exiles. - - -*Beeswaxers*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Thick boots for football. - [Pronounced Bĕswaxers.] - - -*Behind*, _subs._ (Eton and Winchester).—A back at football. - At Eton SHORT BEHIND and LONG BEHIND: usually abbreviated - to “short” and “long.” At Winchester, SECOND BEHIND and - LAST BEHIND. These answer to the half-back and back of - Association football. At Winchester, in the Fifteens, - there is also a THIRD BEHIND. - - UP BEHIND, _phr._ (The Leys).—Out of bounds: at back of - College. - - -*Behind one’s Side.* _See_ SIDE. - - -*Bejant*, _subs._ (Aberdeen).—A new student: one of the first or - lowest class. _See_ SEMI-BEJANTS, TERTIANS, and MAGISTRANDS. - - -*Belial*, _subs._ (Oxford).—Balliol College. - - -*Bells.* BELLS GO SINGLE, _phr._ (Winchester).—A single bell is - rung for five minutes before the hour at which chapel - commences. For College evening chapel three three’s are - rung, and then follows a “bell,” one for every man in - College—70. BELLS DOWN = _see_ quots. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester College_, p. 62. The - junior in chamber had a hard time of it; ... while endeavouring to get - through his multifarious duties, he had to keep a sharp ear on the - performance of the chapel bell, and to call out accordingly, “first - peal!” “second peal!” and BELLS DOWN! - - 1878. ADAMS, _Wykehamica_, p. 256. At a quarter to six the peal again - rang out, and the cry of BELLS GO was sounded in shrill tones through - every chamber of College and Commoners.... After ten minutes the peal - changed, and only a single bell continued to ring. This was notified - by the cry BELLS GO SINGLE, and five minutes afterwards, by that of - “BELLS DOWN.”... Presently the head-master ... would descend from his - library: or the second master ... would appear at the archway near - Sixth Chamber, and the warning voice would be heard “Gabell,” or - “Williams through,” “Williams,” or “Ridding in.” Straightway there - would be a general rush, the college-boys darting across the - quadrangle in the rear of the Præfect of Chapel; while the Commoners - hurried in, keeping up a continuous stream from their more distant - quarters. - - -*Belly-hedge*, _subs._ (Shrewsbury).—An obstruction of - such a height that it can easily be cleared: of school - steeplechases. [That is, about belly high.] - - -*Belows*, _subs._ (Rugby).—_See_ CAP (3). - - -*Bender*, _subs._ (common).—The bow-shaped segment of a kite. - - 1873. Dr. BLACKLEY, _Hay Fever_, p. 145. The first kite was six feet - in length by three feet in width, and was made of the usual form, - namely, with a central shaft or “standard,” and a semicircular top or - BENDER. - - -*Bene-book*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—_See_ quot. - - 1900. TOD, _Charterhouse_, 131. Besides prizes, BENE-BOOKS are awarded - to the Sixth Forms on the following system: Every boy generally does - four classical exercises a week, viz., Greek and Latin prose, Greek - and Latin verse, and one mathematical exercise; these are marked, - according to their merit, B, b, sb, s, vs, m, M; that is to say, Big - bene, bene, satis bene, satis, vix satis, male, Big male.... A - BENE-BOOK (value 12s. 6d.) is earned by the winner of two BENES a week - throughout the quarter. There used to be a yet higher mark, _i.e._, - B†, or a WRITE-OUT, which counted four. A B† denoted that the - composition to which it was attached was worthy of being written out - in a book kept with a view to forming a new edition of “Sertum - Carthusianum.” There are many volumes of old WRITE-OUT books on the - shelves of the library, but for years no addition has been made to - them. The WRITE-OUT is quite obsolete. - - -*Bevers*, _subs._ (general).—An afternoon meal or refreshment; - a snack between meals. Whence (Winchester) BEVERS (or - BEVER-TIME) = an interval from 4.30 to 5 in afternoon - school, observed (says WRENCH) long after the distribution - of bread and beer had ceased on whole school-days. [_See_ - BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, i. 20; FORD, i. 392; FLORIO, in v. - _Merénda_; COOPER, in v. _Antecænium_; _Stanihurst’s - Descr. of Ireland_, p. 18; _Nomenclator_, p. 79; Sir JOHN - OLDCASTLE, p. 42; HOWELL, sect. 43; MIDDLETON’S _Works_, - iv. 427, v. 141.] - - 1580. _Lingua_ [DODSLEY, _Old Plays_ (REID, 1825), v. 148]. - _Appetitus._ Your gallants never sup, breakfast, nor BEVER without me. - - 1585. _Nomenclator_, p. 79. A middaies meale: an undermeale: a boire - or BEAVER: a refreshing betwixt meales. - - 1597. HARRISON, _Desc. of England_. Of old we had breakfastes in the - forenoone, BEUARAGES or nuntions after dinner, and thereto reare - suppers, generallie when it was time to go to rest, a toie brought - into England by hardie Canutus; but nowe these are very well past, and - each one, except some young hungrie stomach, that cannot fast till - dinner-time, contenteth him self with dinner and supper. - - 1598. FLORIO, _Worlde of Wordes_, s.v. Merenda, Plauto. Propriè olim - prandium dicebatur quod meridie daretur. Nonius cibum qui post - meridiem sumitur interpretatur. ἑσπέρισμα. Le reciner. - - 1604. MARLOWE, _Dr. Faustus_. Thirty meals a day and ten BEVERS. - - 1607. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, _Woman Hater_, i. 3. He is none of those - same ordinary eaters, that will devour three breakfasts, and as many - dinners, without any prejudice to their BEVERS, drinkings, or suppers. - - 1611. COTGRAVE, _Dict._, s.v. BEVER. An afternoon’s nuncheon. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester College_, p. 83. In - summer time we were let out of afternoon school for a short time about - 4 P.M., when there was a slight refection of bread and cheese laid out - in Hall. It was called BEEVER-TIME, and the pieces of bread BEEVERS. - - 1847. HALLIWELL, _Archaic Words_, s.v. BEVER. An intermediate - refreshment between breakfast and dinner. The term is now applied to - the afternoon snack of harvest-men and other labourers, and perhaps - may be explained more correctly as any refreshment taken between the - regular meals. Sometimes refreshments of drink, or drinkings, were - called BEVERS; but potations were not BEVERS, as Mr. Dyce asserts. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_ [Winchester], p. 23. School opened - again at two o’clock; at half-past three came an interval called - BEVER-TIME, when the boys had again bread and beer allowed them. At - five the school was dismissed, and the whole resident society—warden, - fellows, masters, and scholars—went in procession round the cloisters - and the whole interior circuit of the college. - - 1884. M. MORRIS, in _English Illustrated Magazine_, Nov., p. 73. [At - Eton, we] came up from cricket in the summer afternoons for BEAVER. - - -*Bible-Clerk*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A College Prefect in full - power, appointed for one week. Formerly (with OSTIARIUS, - _q.v._) he kept order in school, and assisted at floggings. - He now reads lessons in Chapel, and takes round ROLLS - (_q.v._). He is absolved from going up to BOOKS (_q.v._) - during his term of office. The Prefect of HALL need not act - as BIBLE-CLERK unless he likes, and the Prefect of School - may choose any week he pleases; the rest take weeks in - rotation, in the order of their Chambers in College. - - 15 [?]. CHRIS. JOHNSON [WRENCH]. In Testamento Veteri caput alter in - Aulâ Clarâ voce legit, qui BIBLIOCLERICUS inde Dicitur; hebdomadam - propriis habet ille Camænsis. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester College_, p. 103. - Order was kept during school hours by the BIBLE-CLERK and Ostiarius, - two of the Præfects, who held these offices in rotation—the former - lasting for a week, the latter for one day only. They paraded School - armed with sticks, and brought up to the Head and Second Masters (who - alone had the power of flogging) the names of the delinquents which - had been “ordered” for punishment; the names of the more heinous - offenders being confided to the BIBLE-CLERK, the others to the - Ostiarius. - - 1847. HALLIWELL, _Archaic Words_, s.v. BIBLE. A great book. (_A.-N._) - The term was constantly used without any reference to the Scriptures. - _Ibid._, s.v. BIBLE-CLERKSHIP. A very ancient scholarship in the - Universities, so called because the student who was promoted to that - office was enjoined to read the Bible at meal-times. - - 1864. _Blackwood’s Magazine_, XCV., p. 73. [At dinner] portions of - beef were served out to the boys ... the BIBLE-CLERK meanwhile reading - a chapter from the Old Testament. _Ibid._, p. 87. An hour ... is - expected to be employed in working under the superintendence of the - BIBLE-CLERK, as the Præfect in daily “course” is termed, who is - responsible for a decent amount of order and silence at these hours. - - 1878. ADAMS, _Wykehamica_, p. 59. There appears to have been no - regular BIBLE-CLERK.... From this it has been inferred that the - institution of these offices must have been subsequent, and (some - think) long subsequent, to the Founder’s time. - - -*Bibler.* _See_ BIBLING. - - -*Bibling* (or *Bibler*), _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A - flogging of six strokes. Hence BIBLING-ROD = the instrument - used in BIBLING: it consisted of a handle with four apple - twigs in the end twisted together. It was first used by - Warden Baker in 1454, and is represented in the _Aut Disce_. - BIBLING UNDER NAIL = a BIBLING administered for very heinous - offences after an offender had stood under NAIL (_q.v._). - - 1864. _Blackwood’s Magazine_, XCV., p. 79. Underneath is the place of - execution, where delinquents are BIBLED. _Ibid._, p. 72. It need - hardly be said that it [the rod] is applied in the ordinary fashion: - six cuts forming what is technically called a BIBLING—on which - occasions the Bible-Clerk introduces the victim; four being the sum of - a less terrible operation called a “scrubbing.” - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 37. Underneath is the place of - execution, where delinquents are BIBLED; and near it is a socket for a - candle-sconce, known as the “nail,” under which any boy who has been - detected in any disgraceful fault—lying, &c.—is placed as in a sort of - pillory to await his punishment; a piece of ancient discipline for - which happily there is seldom occasion. - - -*Bicker*, _subs._ (Royal High School, Edin.).—A fray between the - boys of the school and the town boys, or KEELIES (_q.v._); - generally waged with the aid of stones (_cf._ GEORGE - BORROW’S _Lavengro_, ch. vii.; also SCOTT, _Redgauntlet_, - ch. i.). In the present Rector’s boyhood these school fights - were often waged with “Cowts,” made of a rope twisted firmly - into a thick end, with about four feet attached with which - to swing it. - - ... _Cursor Mundi_, MS. Coll. Trin. Cantab., f. 87. And for she loveth - me out of BIKER, Of my love she may be siker. - - 1581. RICHE, _Farewell to Militarie Profession_. My captaine, feelyng - suche a BICKERYNG within himself, the like whereof he had never - indured upon the sea, was like to bee taken prisoner aboard his owne - shippe. - - 1585. _Nomenclator._ Naturæ et morbi conflictus, Aurel. κρίσις. The - conflict or BICKERMENT of nature and sicknesse. - - 1823. NARES, _Glossary_, s.v. BICKERING and BICKERMENT. Skirmishing. - - 1847. HALLIWELL, _Archaic Words_, s.v. BICKER. To fight; to quarrel; - to act with hostility. _Ibid._, BICKERMENT. Conflict. _Ibid._, s.v. - BIKERE. To skirmish; to fight; to quarrel. Also a substantive, a - quarrel. (_A.-S._) _Cf._ _Leg. Wom._, 2650; _Piers Ploughman_, p. 429; - MINOT’S _Poems_, p. 51; _Arthour and Merlin_, p. 206. - - -*Biddy*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A bath in College. [Fr. _bidet_.] - - -*Big*, _adj._ (Harrow).—Upwards of sixteen years of age; as - “only able to go in for BIG sports.” _See_ SMALL. - - -*Big-game*, _subs._ (Harrow: obsolete).—The chief football game. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 312. There is now a spacious - piece of ground kept for the especial purpose, where as many as six - separate games can be played at once, besides four smaller grounds - belonging to different houses. The BIG-GAME, in which only the _élite_ - of the school players take part, is managed by the monitors under very - stringent regulations. [Now called Sixth Form game.—ED.] - - -*Big-school*, _subs._ (King Edward’s, Birm.).—The room in which - the school assembles for prayers, or on any occasion when it - is addressed as a whole by the Head Master. The room is also - used for teaching, though not so entirely so as twenty-five - years ago. - - -*Big-side*, _subs._ (Rugby and elsewhere).—The combination of - all the bigger fellows in the school in one and the same - game or run. Also the ground specially used for the game so - denominated. Hence BIG-SIDE run = a paper-chase, in which - picked representatives of all Houses take part, as opposed - to a House run. _See_ LITTLE-SIDE. - - 1856. HUGHES, _Tom Brown’s School-days_, vii. “Well, I’m going to have - a try,” said Tadpole; “it’s the last run of the half, and if a fellow - gets in at the end, BIG-SIDE stands ale and bread and cheese and a - bowl of punch; and the Cock’s such a famous place for ale.” - - -*Bill*, _subs._ 1. (Eton).—A list of the boys who go to the Head - Master at 12 o’clock; also of those who get off ABSENCE - (_q.v._): _e.g._ an eleven playing in a match are thus - exempt. _See_ Appendix. - - c. 1850. BRODRICK, _Memories and Impressions_. ... It is credibly - reported of Mr. Cookesley—who, in spite of a tendency to buffoonery, - was an inspiring teacher—that he addressed a remarkably stupid boy in - the following terms: “I tell you what it is, sir, if you ever show me - up a copy of your own verses again, I’ll put you in the BILL” (an - Etonian euphemism for a capital punishment). “Why, a great strong - fellow like you can have no difficulty in getting a decent copy of - verses written for him, and if you ever again bring me one of your own - concoction I’ll have you flogged.” - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 100. Bagshawe even went so far - as to rebuke one of the monitors for rising in Mr. James’ presence; - and when told that it was by Mr. Busby’s order, desired him to write - that down on his BILL; a proceeding equivalent, as Mr. Busby declared, - and as Westminster and Eton men will perhaps agree, to ordering the - head-master up for corporal punishment. - - 1876. BRINSLEY RICHARDS, _Seven Years at Eton_. Some of the small boys - whom this delightful youth tempted to ape his habits, had often - occasion to rue it when they staggered back to College giddy and sick, - carrying with them a perfume which told its tale to their tutors, and - caused them to be put in the BILL. - - 2. (Harrow).—The “call-over” of the whole school on - half-holidays; at 4 P.M. in summer, at 4.15 P.M. in other - terms. Whence BILL-BOOK = the book—the list of the school in - order of forms—from which BILL is called; BILL-ORDER = the - order of the school as in the BILL-BOOK; BILL-MONITOR = a - member of the “First Fourth” who is in charge of the paper - on which monitors sign their names during BILL. Also used at - Westminster. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 284. His pupils were chiefly - boys of rank, and during Thackeray’s time had been exempted from - appearing at BILLS. Sumner stopped this privilege, to the great - disgust of Dr. Glasse and some of his aristocratic friends. Earl - Radnor even threatened to “ruin the school” if Sumner refused to give - way; but the new head-master was firm. Lord Dartmoor, on the other - hand, supported him, and removed his sons into his House from - Glasse’s, who was beaten in the struggle, and left Harrow. _Ibid._, - 293. At the time of his appointment he was only twenty-six, but his - reputation as a scholar stood very high. It is enough to say that - under his rule Harrow has increased in numbers, and certainly not lost - in reputation. The last BILL-BOOK contains 492 names. - - 1899. _Public School Mag._, Dec., p. 446. The uniformity of daily life - at Harrow was interrupted by a pleasant interlude not long ago. The - Chinese Ambassador paid a visit to the school. His Excellency made an - inspection of the school buildings, and was finally cheered at BILL. - - -*Bill-brighter*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A small fagot used for - lighting coal fires in kitchen. [From a servant, Bill - Bright, who was living in 1830.] - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester College_, p. 89. The - Kitchen is a spacious apartment with a vaulted roof, occupying the - entire height of the building on the west side of the quadrangle, and - at least half its length; here we might see a few Fags endeavouring to - coax Jem Sims, John Coward, or Mother Mariner (the cooks) for an extra - supply of mashed potatoes, till Kitchen is cleared by the exasperated - Manciple, who has just detected a delinquent in the act of secreting - under his gown an armful of the small faggots used for lighting the - Kitchen fires (called BILL BRIGHTERS), an opportunity for purloining - which was never allowed to slip by a Junior of a properly regulated - mind. - - -*Bim* (or *Bimb*), _verb_ (Tonbridge).—To cane. Hence BIMB-STICK - = a cane. - - -*Binge*, _subs._ (Oxford).—A drinking-bout. [_Binger_ (Linc.) = - tipsy.] - - -*Birch-broom Race*, _subs. phr._ (Winchester).—_See_ TORCH-RACE. - - -*Birch-room*, _subs._ (Westminster).—_See_ quot. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 178. Behind is the “French - room,” once known as the BIRCH-ROOM (in which those useful implements - were manufactured and used), where a bench is carefully preserved - bearing the name of “John Dryden,” no doubt cut by the poet himself, - as the style of the letters corresponds with his date. - - -*Bird*, _subs._ (Durham).—A credulous boy; one easily cajoled; a - “soft.” - - -*Bishop*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The sapling with which a fagot - is bound together. - - -*Bite*, _intj._ (Charterhouse and Christ’s Hospital).—_Cave!_ - - -*Black*, _subs._ (Rugby).—A nickname. - - 1856. HUGHES, _Tom Brown’s School-days_, I. vi. “There’s plenty of - youngsters don’t care about it,” said Walker. “Here, here’s Scud - East—you’ll be tossed, won’t you, young un?” Scud was East’s nickname, - or BLACK, as we called it, gained by his fleetness of foot. - - -*Black Book, The* (Charterhouse).—_See_ EXTRA. - - -*Black-hole*, _subs._ (Shrewsbury).—_See_ quot. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 241. There used to be a small - four-square apartment, not much larger than a Punch-and-Judy box, - lighted by a single narrow loop-hole—a receptacle for the - flogging-block and other like apparatus. This was known as the - BLACK-HOLE, or sometimes more familiarly as “Rome’s Hole,” from a - traditionary culprit who had been a very regular occupant. - - -*Black-jack*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A large leathern beer jug - used in College. It holds two gallons. In olden times - BLACK-JACKS were in common use for small beer. [_See_ UNTON, - _Inventories_, p. 1; BRAND’S _Pop. Antiq._, ii. 206; _Ord. - and Reg._, p. 392; HEYWOOD’S _Edward IV._, p. 97. Also JACK: - whence (Christ’s Hospital) JACK-BOY = a boy servitor of - beer.] - - 15—. _Simon the Cellarer._ But oh, oh, oh! his nose doth show, How oft - the BLACK-JACK to his lips doth go. - - 1592. NASHE, _Summer’s Last Will_ [DODSLEY, _Old Plays_ (1874), viii. - 59]. Rise up, Sir Robert Toss-pot. [_Here he dubs Will Summer with - the_ BLACK-JACK.] - - 1606. _Return from Parnassus_ [DODSLEY, _Old Plays_ (1874), ix. 207]. - A BLACK-JACK of beer and a Christmas pie. - - 1630. TAYLOR, _Works_, i. 113. Nor of BLACK-JACKS at gentle buttery - bars, Whose liquor oftentimes breeds household wars. - - 1690. B. E., _Dict. Cant. Crew_, s.v. JACK. - - 18[?]. T. WARTON, “The Happy Junior of Sixth Chamber.” Yet still with - pleasure shall we think on The Junior’s happy life at Winton ... - lozenges and snacks ... dispars, gomers, JACKS. - - _c._ 1844. _Reminiscences of Christ’s Hospital_ (_The Blue_, Aug. - 1874). By mistake the Cask was found to contain a fine old ale. The - news soon spread from boy to boy and from ward to ward; and there was - an extraordinary call upon the services of the JACK-BOYS, whose utmost - exertions were scarcely equal to the demand. As might be expected, - these latter took care of themselves upon the occasion. - - -*Black-sheep*, _verb_ (Winchester: obsolete).—To get above (or - “jockey”) a fellow in Middle Part: of men in Junior Part. - - -*Black Tiger, The* (Rugby).—A nickname given to Dr. Ingles, - head-master from 1793 to 1803. - - -*Blandyke* (Stonyhurst).—The monthly recreation day. [From the - village of Blandyke (now Blandecques), a league from St. - Omers, where was a country house or villa at which such days - were spent during the summer months.] _See_ Appendix. - - -*Blazer*, _subs._ (originally Cambridge: now general).—A light - jacket of bright colour. Originally applied to the bright - red uniform of the Lady Margaret Boat Club of St. John’s - College, Cambridge. [Prof. SKEAT (_N. and Q._, 7 S., iii. - 436), speaking of the Johnian BLAZER, says it was always of - the most brilliant scarlet, and thinks it not improbable - that the fact suggested the name which subsequently became - general.] - - 1880. _Times_, June 19. Men in spotless flannel, and club BLAZERS. - - 1885. _Punch_, June 27, p. 304. Harkaway turns up clad in what he - calls a BLAZER, which makes him look like a nigger minstrel out for a - holiday. - - 1889. _Daily News_, Aug. 22, p. 6, col. 6. DRESS BY THE SEA. SIR,—In - your article of to-day, under the above heading, you speak of “a - striped red and black BLAZER,” “the BLAZER,” also of “the pale toned” - ones. This is worth noting as a case of the specific becoming the - generic. A BLAZER is the red flannel boating jacket worn by the Lady - Margaret, St. John’s College, Cambridge, Boat Club. When I was at - Cambridge it meant that and nothing else. It seems from your article - that a BLAZER now means a coloured flannel jacket, whether for - cricket, tennis, boating, or seaside wear.—Yours faithfully, WALTER - WREN. - - 1897. _Felstedian_, June, p. 99. The new football BLAZER is very - handsome. - - -*Bleed*, _subs._ (Tonbridge).—One who is remarkably good at - anything. - - -*Bleyis-sylver* (or *Bent-sylver*), _subs._ (Royal High School, - Edin.).—A gratuity given in olden times by pupils to - masters. He who gave most was proclaimed “_victor_” or - “king.” [BLEYIS is derived from _bleis_ = a torch or blaze - (mod. Scot. _bleeze_). BLEYIS-SYLVER = silver given at - Candlemas on the time of the bleeze. Dr. Jamieson (_Dict._) - suggests _bent_ = Fr. _benit_, _i.e._ blessed, because money - was given on a Saint’s day. Dr. STEVENS, the school - historian, suggests _bent_ = coarse grass. In sixteenth and - seventeenth centuries pupils had leave to go and cut this - coarse grass to strew on floor of school. Afterwards annual - holidays were instituted on first Mondays of May, June, and - July, when a money payment was made to the master to - purchase “bent.” (_Cf._ STEVENS’ _Hist. of High School_, p. - 678.) This is more probable.] - - -*Block, The* (Eton).—A wooden step in the library of the Upper - School upon which a boy set down for flogging kneels. He is - “held down” by two junior Collegers, and the Sixth Form - Preposter hands to the head-master the necessary birch or - birches. - - -*Blockhouse*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—A sick-house. - - -*Bloody Porch* (Harrow: obsolete).—_See_ quot. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 320. Harrow fagging had no - special reputation for cruelty; yet there are those living who can - remember having been called out of their beds at night to have cold - water poured down their backs—for no special reason, but as a part of - the hardening process considered good for fags generally; or to start - from Leith’s boarding-house in the dark, to go round the church-yard - by the north porch—BLOODY PORCH, as it was called, from some obscure - legend. Once a boy was sent upon this dreaded tour at night, when it - so happened that there were a party concealed in the porch, watching - the grave of a newly-buried relative—for these were the days of - resurrection-men; they mistook the unfortunate fag for a - body-snatcher, and fired at him, wounding him slightly, and - frightening him almost to death. - - -*Blotch*, _subs._ (Harrow).—Blotting-paper. - - -*Blow*, _subs._ (old University).—A drunken frolic; a spree. - [_Blowboll_ = a drunkard: _cf._ SKELTON (_Works_, i. 23), - “Thou blynkerd blowboll, thou wakyst too late.”] - - _Verb_ (Winchester).—To blush. _Cf._ BLUE = to blush, as in - quot. 1709. - - 14[?]. _Torrent of Portugal_, 11. His browys began to BLOWE. - - 1645. HABINGTON, _Works_. Th’enamoured spring by kissing BLOWS soft - blushes on her cheek. - - 1709. STEELE and SWIFT, _Tatler_, No. 71, p. 8. If a Virgin blushes, - we no longer cry she BLUES. - - -*Blucher*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete: _ch_ hard).—A College - præfect in half power. His jurisdiction did not extend - beyond “Seventh Chamber passage,” though his privileges were - the same as those of other præfects. These were eight in - number. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester College_, p. 30. The - eight senior præfects were said to have “full power,” and had some - slight privileges not enjoyed by the remaining ten, who were generally - called BLUCHERS. - - 1864. _Blackwood_, p. 86. The remaining eight college præfects (called - in Winchester tongue, BLUCHERS) have a more limited authority, - confined to Chambers and the Quadrangle. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 55. The remaining eight - college prefects (called in Winchester tongue BLUCHERS) have a more - limited authority, confined to chambers and the quadrangle; the form - of making these is—“_Præficio te sociis concameralibus_.” At least two - prefects are located in each of the seven chambers—one from the first - seven in rank, and one from the next seven. The juniors are also - divided into ranks of seven, and out of each rank the prefects, - according to their seniority, chose one each to fill up the numbers in - their own chamber; so that each chamber has, to a certain extent, ties - and associations of its own. - - -*Blue*, _subs._ 1. (Christ’s Hospital).—A scholar of Christ’s - Hospital; a blue-coat boy. [Derived from the colour of the - clothes—a blue drugget gown or body with ample skirts to it, - a yellow vest underneath in winter time, small-clothes of - Russia duck, worsted yellow stockings, a leathern girdle, - and a little black worsted cap, usually carried in the hand, - being the complete costume. This was the ordinary dress of - children in humble life during the reigns of the Tudors.] - _See_ Appendix. - - 1834. W. TROLLOPE (_Title_), Christ’s Hospital ... with Memoirs of - Eminent BLUES. _Ibid._ At the Spital did they first earn the title of - BLUE by appearing in raiment of that hue. Hitherto they had worn - russet cotton. The bands are supposed to be a relic of the ruff, as - the girdle was of the hempen cord. The ruff was regal, or reginal, and - the cord monkish, so a BLUE hovers ’twixt palace and monastery (one - picture pourtrays the dresses of the various Orders of Friars). - - 1877. W. H. BLANCH, _Blue-Coat Boys_, p. 33. To some extent it holds - also with regard to Civil Engineers, amongst whom, however, one - well-known name is that of a BLUE. - - 1895. _Gleanings from “The Blue”_ Dedication. To all BLUES Past and - Present this Book is dedicated. - - 2. (University).—A member of the Universities of Oxford or - Cambridge. [The colours for inter-University sports are dark - and light blue respectively.] - - TO GET ONE’S BLUE, _verb. phr._ (University).—To be selected - as a competitor in inter-University sports: _cf._ “to get - silk” (of Q.C.’s). [From the University colours.] - - 1899. _Stonyhurst Mag._, Feb., p. 194. The expression “to get a BLUE” - is a phrase which is universally recognised as applying to the - athletics and games of the sister Universities, Oxford and Cambridge, - and to them only. As an ardent Oxford man I do not appreciate his - compliment; as an old Stonyhurst boy, I cannot but deplore his - servility. - - -*Blue-book*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A school register (alphabetically - arranged) comprising name, form, house, tutor, age, term of - coming, prizes, and honours. - - -*Bluer*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A blue flannel coat: worn by all - going to FOOTER (_q.v._) in winter, and cricket in summer. - - -*B. N. C.*, _subs._ (Oxford).—The popular abbreviation of - Brasenose College. - - 1885. _Daily News_, March 13, p. 5, col. 1. As when Corpus bumped B. - N. C. years ago, and went head of the river, whereon a spirit of wrath - entered into the B. N. C. men, and next night they bumped Corpus back - again. - - -*Board.* TO KEEP ONE’S NAME ON THE BOARD, _verb. phr._ - (Cambridge).—To remain a member of a College. - - -*Boat* (The Leys).—A shallow valley, in which football is - played. - - PROCESSION OF BOATS (Eton).—_See_ FOURTH OF JUNE. - - TO SIT A BOAT, _verb. phr._ (Eton).—_See_ quot., and FOURTH - OF JUNE. [Long since abandoned.] - - 1865. _Etoniana_, p. 170. The time-honoured custom of SITTING A BOAT - must here claim mention. Some old Etonian, of generous and festive - disposition (generally an old “oar”), signifies to the captain of a - boat his intention of presenting the crew with a certain quantity of - champagne. In return he is entitled to be rowed up to Surly in the - boat to which he presents the wine; he occupies the coxswain’s seat, - who kneels or stands behind him. This giver of good things is called, - from this circumstance, a “sitter”; and the question, “Who SITS YOUR - BOAT?” or, “Have you a sitter?” is one of some interest, which may - often be heard addressed to a captain. The seat of honour in the - ten-oar is usually offered to some distinguished old Etonian. Mr. - Canning occupied it in 1824. - - -*Bob*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A large white beer-jug, about a - gallon in capacity. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester College_, p. 85. Each - end and præfect’s mess had their beer served up in a large white jug, - or BOB. The vessel used for the same purpose in Commoners’ was called - a “Joram.” - - 1888. T. A. TROLLOPE, _What I Remember_. Only those “Juniors” attended - whose office it was to bring away the portions of bread and cheese and - BOBS of beer for consumption in the afternoon. - - _See_ DRY-BOB; WET-BOB. - - -*Bod*, _subs._ (Oxford).—The Bodleian Library; also Bodley. - - -*Bodeites* (Charterhouse).—_See_ OUT-HOUSES. - - -*Bodleian, The* (Oxford).—A famous library, popularly known as - the Bodley, founded by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, - 1445-80. Despoiled in 1550 and again in 1556, it was - restored and added to in 1598 by Sir Thomas Bodley. It now - contains some 600,000 volumes, and is especially rich in - manuscripts (some 30,000 volumes) and other literary - treasures. James Russell Lowell, the distinguished American, - says of this famous library: “Directly we enter, we are - struck by the stillness and solemnity that reign around, - helped by the dim light, the windows with painted glass, the - ponderous shelves, the illuminated missals, the graduates or - attendants conversing in low whispers or moving quietly - about. For reading purposes the library is as free and as - good as the library of the British Museum; with the - advantages that you may be seated in front of a window - commanding a beautiful garden prospect, that your arm-chair - is not disturbed, that books are allowed to accumulate - around you, and that you are not obliged to return them to - the care of the custodian on leaving the library. The - visitor will not fail to notice the portraits in the upper - library, and especially to cast a grateful look at the fine - portrait of Bodley. He will see the exercise-books used by - Edward VI. and Elizabeth when children, and, close by, the - autographs of distinguished visitors.” - - -*Boiler*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A plain coffee-pot used for - heating water—fourpenny and sixpenny boilers, not from their - price, but from the quantity of milk they held. το παν - BOILERS = large tin saucepan-like vessels in which water for - a BIDDY (_q.v._) was heated. - - -*Bolly*, _subs._ (Marlborough).—Pudding. - - -*Bom*, _subs._ (The Leys).—A servant; a waiter. [A waiter was - once dubbed “a vile abomination”; whence the contractions - “vile bom” and “BOM.”] - - -*Bond Street* (Stonyhurst).—A walk along one side of the - playground. Once obsolete but now restored, being applied to - another walk. - - -*Boner*, _subs._ (general).—A sharp blow on the spine. - - -*Bonner*, _subs._ (Oxford).—A bonfire. - - -*Bonnet.* TO HOLD THE BONNETS, _verb. phr._ (Royal High School, - Edin.: obsolete).—To hold the bonnet or handkerchief used to - divide High School boys when fighting. - - -*Bonnet-fire*, _subs._ (Royal High School, Edin.: obsolete).—The - process otherwise known as “running the gauntlet.” - - 1812. JAMIESON, _Dict. Scottish Language_, s.v. - - -*Book*, _verb_ (Westminster).—_See_ PANCAKE, and quot. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 172. They also claim a right - to BOOK the performer (_i.e._ hurl a shower of books at him) if he - fails more than once. This right was liberally exercised in 1865, when - the wrath of the school had culminated owing to repeated failures in - that and the previous year. The exasperated cook replied to the attack - with his only available missile—the frying-pan—and a serious row was - the consequence. - - -*Books*, _subs._ (Winchester).—1. The prizes formerly presented - by Lord Say and Sele, now given by the governing body, to - the “Senior” in each division at the end of “Half.” 2. The - school is thus divided:—SIXTH BOOK—Senior and Junior - Division; the whole of the rest of the School (but _see_ - quotations), is in FIFTH BOOK—Senior Part, Middle Part, - Junior Part, each part being divided into so many divisions, - Senior, Middle, and Junior, or Senior, 2nd, 3rd, and Junior, - as the case may require. Formerly there was also “FOURTH - BOOK,” but it ceased to exist about the middle of the - Sixties. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester College_, p. 104. The - school was divided into three classes, or BOOKS, as they were called. - Of these, the Præfects formed one, SIXTH BOOK; FIFTH BOOK was - subdivided into three parts, called respectively “Senior, Middle, and - Junior part of the Fifth”; in speaking of them, the words “of the - Fifth” were generally omitted. The rest of the boys made up “Fourth - Book.” - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 24. The tiers of stone seats, - which may still be noticed in the deep recesses of the windows, were - the places in which the prefects sat when the boys were arranged in - their respective BOOKS; the term still used at Winchester for what in - other schools would be called “forms” or “classes.” There were then, - as now, four BOOKS only, though the highest was and is numbered as the - “sixth.” Then followed the fifth, fourth, and second fourth. The work - of the sixth BOOK comprised Homer, Hesiod, Virgil, Cicero, Martial, - and “Robinson’s Rhetoric.” _Ibid._, 36. Ninety feet long and - thirty-six in breadth, it is sufficiently spacious to allow all the - BOOKS to be assembled there without more confusion than is inseparable - from the system of teaching so many distinct classes in a single - room—an arrangement peculiar to Winchester alone amongst our large - Public Schools. - - 1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. BOOKS. The name of the - Classes into which the School is divided. The VI^{th}, V^{th}, and - II^{nd} only remain. From _Liber_ in the sense of _Roll_ probably. - - UP TO BOOKS.—In class; repeating lessons; formerly UP AT - BOOKS. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester College_, p. 101. At - each end of school are three tiers of benches rising gradually one - above the other,—that on the ground being called “Senior Row,” and the - others “Middle” and “Junior Row” respectively. On these the Classes - sit when UP AT BOOKS, _i.e._ when repeating lessons. - - 1847. HALLIWELL, _Archaic Words_, s.v. BOOK. This word was formerly - used for any composition, from a volume to a single sheet, - particularly where a list is spoken of. See the _State Papers_, i. - 402. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 37. Three tiers of fixed seats - rise against the wainscotted walls on the east and west, where the - boys are arranged when UP TO BOOKS, the chairs of the different - masters being in front of each. - - 1872. WALCOTT, _Traditions and Customs of Cathedrals_, “Statutes of - Chichester Cathedral.” Four wax candles are always distributed at the - end of Lauds, at the four uppermost BOOKS, to the Senior set of the - BOOKS, to find the lights to the same BOOKS for that time. [Note to - foregoing:—At Winchester College the Forms are still called BOOKS.] - - 1878. ADAMS, _Wykehamica_, 417, _s.v._ - - 1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. BOOKS. It has been - suggested that this phrase arose from the school having originally to - go up to the Donatus—the one book which College boasted; and an entry - is extant of a three days’ remedy being entailed by the book going to - be bound. The pluralization would be no more than an ordinary - Wykehamical inflection.... The following mysterious use of _Libri_, - however, suggests a much more probable origin. CHRIS. JOHNSON says: - “_Seu Chandlerus erat, seu Custos ordine primus, Durus ab inductis - dicitur esse LIBRIS!_” To which a contemporaneous note is appended: - “_Lectionum a cæna repetitiones instituisse creditur, quas Wiccamici - materna lingua Libros dicunt._” What these “repetitiones” were is not - clear; but they were some form of lesson which præ-Elizabethan - Wykehamists had christened BOOKS in their _materna lingua_, and - Johnson’s annotator thought the word strange enough to deserve a note. - We may, therefore, very possibly be only perpetuating this word in our - use of UP TO BOOKS. - - BOOKS CHAMBERS.—Explained by quotations. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester College_, p. 103. On - Remedies (a kind of whole holiday) we also went into school in the - morning and afternoon for an hour or two without masters; this was - called BOOKS CHAMBERS; and on Sundays, from four till a quarter to - five. - - 1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. BOOKS-CHAMBERS. Hours of - preparation in College: in the evening called Toy-time. - - TO GET (or MAKE) BOOKS.—To get the first place, or to make - the highest score at anything. _Cf._ BOOKS, sense 1. - - -*Bookwork*, _subs._ (University).—Mathematics that can be - learned _verbatim_ from books—anything not a problem. - - -*Boots-and-Leathers*, _intj._ (Winchester).—_See_ PEAL. - - -*Bostruchyzer*, _subs._ (Oxford: obsolete).—A small comb for - curling the whiskers.—HOTTEN. - - -*Botany-bay*, _subs._ (University).—(1) Worcester College, - Oxford; and (2) part of Trinity College, Dublin. [On account - of their remote situations.] - - 1841. LEVER, _Charles O’Malley_, xx. note. BOTANY BAY was the slang - name given by college men to a new square rather remotely situated - from the remainder of the college [_i.e._ Trinity, Dublin]. - - 1853. Rev. E. BRADLEY (“Cuthbert Bede”), _Adventures of Verdant - Green_, i. p. 63. BOTANY-BAY, a name given to Worcester College, from - its being the most distant college. - - 1886. GRAVES, _Way about Oxfordshire_, 19. At the end is Worcester - College (1714), from its remote position dubbed ... BOTANY-BAY, but - called by those who wish to speak endearingly of it “Wuggins.” - - 1900. _Athenæum_, 17th Feb., 208. BOTANY-BAY is often found as - strangely misapplied as the “Paradise” of so many rows. For instance, - the “Quad” of Trinity College, Dublin, which has been so called for - generations, can hardly have ever been remarkable for its flora. The - probable explanation is that its buildings were old and uncomfortable, - and it was the favourite abode of the youngest and noisiest members of - the University. - - -*Botolph’s*, _subs._ (The Leys).—A “Run” to St. Botolph’s - Church. - - -*Bottle*, _verb_ (Durham: obsolete).—To make hot: _e.g._ I got - regularly BOTTLED in that room; specifically, “to roast” a - boy before a fire. _See_ Appendix. - - -*Bottled.* TO BE BOTTLED, _verb. phr._ (Sherborne).—To be turned - in work. - - -*Bottom-side*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A wing: at football. The lower - wing (if one be lower than the other); as a rule the one - farthest from the hill. - - -*Boule*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—A general confab or - conversation. _See_ PRIVEE. - - 1900. TOD, _Charterhouse_, 82. There was a BOULE (βουλή) once in the - Sixth Form of 1872 as to what a monitor should do if he were thus - insulted [by a visit of a master to Banco]. - - -*Bounce.* FIRST BOUNCE, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A goal (which is - never allowed) taken by a “drop-kick” at football. - - SECOND BOUNCE, _subs._ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—A kind of - HANDBALL (_q.v._) once very popular. - - 1887. _Stonyhurst Mag._, July, p. 18, “Stonyhurst in the Fifties.” - SECOND BOUNCE, a variety of handball played with small balls most - artistically made of strips of indiarubber, and covered with the best - kid-leather. These balls had to be taken to pieces and remade after - every match, and they had to be quite freshly made when used. Their - seams required to be frequently rubbed over with wax, some of which - was always smeared on the handball wall for the purpose. For a game of - SECOND BOUNCE a whole side of one of the big handballs was required, - and it was played by eight players, four a side. The “over-all” of - ordinary handball was the “over line,” and the bulk of the players - stood out yards beyond it. He whose “hand” it was bounced the ball, - and with a long strong swing of his arm hit it up against the wall, - whence with a sharp smack it rebounded high in the air and far out - into the ground. As it descended one of the opposite party stopped it - with his hand and let it BOUNCE twice on the ground, the FIRST BOUNCE - being, as a rule, too high to let him strike it, and then with a - similar swing hit it up again. The rules, except as to permitting the - ball to be taken up at the SECOND BOUNCE, were similar to those of - handball. Balls perished quickly in such a game, nearly a dozen being - required for one. SECOND BOUNCE used chiefly to be played on Sunday - afternoon, after Vespers, and almost all not engaged in the game would - range themselves on the flanks to watch. - - -*Bounder*, _subs._ (University).—A dog-cart. - - -*Bounds*, _subs._ (general).—The limit or the boundaries beyond - which it is not permissible to go. - - ON BOUNDS (Stonyhurst).—A punishment to which a boy who has - been flagrantly “out of bounds” (the term as in other Public - Schools) is subjected. He is confined during ordinary - recreations to a very limited portion of the playground. - Such a boy is said to be “put ON BOUNDS.” - - -*Bowing-round Sunday*, _subs. phr._ (Christ’s Hospital).—_See_ - PUBLIC-SUPPING. - - 1854. “Our Rebellion” [_The Blue_ (1871) July]. Next day was - BOWING-ROUND SUNDAY. “Hand down, don’t bow,” was the signal that - passed down our ranks as we stood in the Hall Cloisters, and many were - the black looks, but few the nods of reverence, our Treasurer and his - two attendant governors got that morning. - - -*Bowl*, _verb._ 1. (general).—To master; to succeed: as in a - paper, a lesson, an examination, &c.; to overcome: as a - difficulty, an examiner, &c. _See_ FLOOR and THROW. - - 1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 55. My Coach says he thinks I - shall BOWL over the Examiners next term in the General. - - 2. (Winchester).—To “pluck” or “plough” up to books; TO - CROPPLE (_q.v._). - - -*Box*, _verb._ 1. (Westminster).—To take possession of; “to - bag.” - - 2. (Stonyhurst).—To strike a ball with the closed hand when - in the air. _See_ STONYHURST-FOOTBALL. - - 3. (Charterhouse).—Of books: if a member of a House Library - Committee finds a library book lying about, he calls out the - name of the book three times at the top of his voice, and - adds, “BOXED!” The boy who has taken out the book thus BOXED - is fined sixpence, saving the fine if he shouts “Mine!” - before the word of confiscation is uttered. - - -*Box-buildings*, _subs._ (Sherborne: obsolete).—The Sanatorium: - in the seventeenth century called SICK-HOUSE (_q.v._), and - subsequently BOX-BUILDINGS. These buildings were pulled down - in 1850 and the name disappeared. - - -*Boy*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A grade of fag. The Lower School are - put ON BOY, in turns, to go messages, &c., for the Sixth - Form. _See_ Appendix. - - -*Brasenose* (or *B. N. C.*), _subs._ (Oxford).—Brasenose - College. [Founded in 1509 on the site of four ancient - Halls—Little University Hall was one, another being - Brasenose Hall (thirteenth century). Authorities differ as - to the origin of the curious name. _See_ quots.] - - 1512. _Charter of Henry VIII._ The King’s Hall and College of - BRASENOSE. - - 1800. CHURTON, _Life of Bishop Smith_, 227. Brazen Nose Hall, as the - Oxford antiquary has shown, may be traced as far back as the time of - Henry III., about the middle of the thirteenth century; and early in - the succeeding reign, 6 Edward I., 1278, it was known by the name of - Brasen Nose Hall, which peculiar name was undoubtedly owing, as the - same author observes, to the circumstance of a nose of brass affixed - to the gate. It is presumed, however, that this conspicuous appendage - of the portal was not formed of the mixed metal which the word now - denotes, but the genuine produce of the mine; as is the nose, or - rather face, of a lion or leopard still remaining at Stamford, which - also gave name to the edifice it adorned. And hence, when Henry VIII. - debased the coin by an alloy of _copper_, it was a common remark or - proverb, that “Testons were gone to Oxford, to study in _Brasen_ - Nose.” - - 1837. INGRAM, _Memorials of Oxford_. BRASENOSE.... This curious - appellation, which, whatever was the origin of it, has been - perpetuated by the symbol of a brazen nose here and at Stamford, - occurs with the modern orthography, but in one undivided word, so - early as 1278, in an inquisition now printed in _The Hundred Rolls_, - though quoted by Wood from the manuscript record. - - 1837. _British Critic_, xxiv. 139. There is a spot in the centre of - the city where Alfred is said to have lived. BRASENOSE claims his - palace, Oriel his church, and University his school or academy. Of - these BRASENOSE is still called “the King’s Hall,” which is the name - by which Alfred himself, in his laws, calls his palace; and it has its - present singular name from a corruption of _brasinium_, or - _brasin-huse_, as having been originally located in that part of the - royal mansion which was devoted to the then important accommodation of - a brew-house. - - 1898. ALDEN, _Oxford Guide_, 52. Brasenose Hall (thirteenth century) - is said to have derived the name from its occupying the site of a - _brasen-hus_ or brewhouse. Over the old entrance-gate is the - representation of a _brazen nose_, probably added at a much later - date, when punning rebuses of this kind were in fashion. - - -*Brasser*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital: obsolete).—A bully. - - -*Bread-and-beer*, _subs. phr._ (Stonyhurst).—The name given to - the snack which boys may take at five o’clock. - - -*Bread-boy*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—_See_ quot. - - 1798. Narrative “Christ’s Hospital, Three quarters of a Century ago” - [_Chelmsford Chronicle_ (1875), Ap. 16]. The breakfast-bell rang about - seven, when we all went into the hall, the nurses following, with boys - from each ward (called BREAD-BOYS) carrying large baskets on their - shoulders containing bread, which were taken to the head of each - table, where stood the nurse, who, after “grace,” went down the table, - serving out to each boy half of a twopenny loaf of bread. “Well,” - you’ll say, “but where’s the butter?” None was allowed—nothing but - bare bread. Those who had been sparing over night to save a portion of - the small piece of cheese they had for their supper, pulled it out of - their pockets. Sometimes a great fellow would make a little boy always - supply him with cheese of mornings, out of the piece the poor fellow - had had for his supper the night previous. Beer we had certainly, - served out in wooden vessels of an extraordinary shape, called - “piggins”; about six of them for four boys to drink out of, but such - beer! The piggins were seldom replenished, for we could not drink it. - We used to call it “the washings of the brewers’ aprons.” - - 1900. _Pall Mall Gazette_, 20th March, 3. 2. “A Lenten Supper.” Last - of all the BREAD-BOY hoists the tall bread-basket shoulder high and - bows round with it, never failing to raise a laugh as well as a - basket. - - -*Bread-picker*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A Junior - appointed by the four senior Præfects in Commoners: at one - time to put candles in outhouses; but formerly the word is - supposed to relate to the duty of securing bread when served - out. The office exempted from fagging at meal times. - - -*Brekker*, _subs._ (Harrow).—Breakfast. - - 1898. _Stonyhurst Mag._, Dec., p. 149, “Life at Oxford.” Each - undergraduate has two rooms, a bedroom and a sitting-room. In these he - lives, studies, and, with the exception of evening dinner in the Hall, - has his meals. He is thus able to entertain. The fashionable meal to - which to invite a friend is breakfast, or vernacularly BREKKER. - - -*Brew*, _verb._ 1. (Marlborough).—To make afternoon tea. - - 2. (Harrow).—To knock about; to damage. - - 3. (Harrow).—To cook. Hence, as _subs._ = a mess, or - self-cooked meal. - - -*Brick*, _verb_ (Charterhouse).—To hustle; TO MOB UP (_q.v._); - TO BARGE (_q.v._). - - -*Bricks*, _subs._ (Wellington).—A kind of pudding. [Also (var. - dial.) = a kind of loaf.] - - -*Bridge of Grunts* (Cambridge).—_See_ ISTHMUS OF SUEZ. - - -*Bring-on*, _subs._ (The Leys).—A SIZING (_q.v._), or extra in - the way of food (as jam, tinned meat, &c.). [That is, what a - boy “BRINGS ON” to his table, chiefly at tea.] - - -*Broad* (The), _subs._ (Oxford).—Broad Street. - - -*Broad-sheet*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The printed school list: issued - after the TRIALS (_q.v._). - - -*Brock*, _subs._ (Winchester).—To bully; to tease; to badger. - [BROCK, provincial in North and Hants = a badger, and - baiting these animals was a school sport till 1870.] Hence - BROCKSTER = a bully. - - -*Brogues*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—Breeches. [An old - English survival: still dial. in Suffolk.] - - -*Broker*, _subs._ (Oxford).—A member of Pembroke College. - - -*Brooke Hall* (Charterhouse).—At Old Charterhouse the officers’ - common room; at New Charterhouse the masters’ common room: - it is the place to which impositions must be taken. - - 1900. TOD, _Charterhouse_, p. 94. In the seventeenth century - schoolmasters had to be careful of their politics. Thus Master Robert - Brooke, the fourth of the “schoolmasters,” is said to have refused to - sign the Solemn League and Covenant, and to have flogged some of his - boys for Parliamentary proclivities. He was ejected from his office in - 1643. At the Restoration, though not fully restored, he was given “two - chambers in cloisters and a pension of £30 a year.” After his death - these two chambers were knocked into one and it became BROOKE HALL. - - -*Brook-jumping*, _subs._ (Rugby).—_See_ HOUSE-WASHING. - - -*Brosier* (or *Brozier*). TO BROZIER MY DAME, _verb. phr._ - (Eton).—To “eat out of house and home.” When a DAME (_q.v._) - keeps an unusually bad table, the boys agree on a certain - day to eat him literally “out of house and home.” Hence - BROZIERED = cleaned out. [_Brozier_ (Cheshire) = bankrupt.] - - 1796. MERTON, _Way to get Married_ (INCHBALD, _British Theatre_, vol. - xxvi.). [The term is so used here.] - - -*Browse*, _subs._ (Marlborough).—A pleasant or easy time; a - treat; anything enjoyable: _e.g._ MORNING BROWSE = leave off - early school; French is a BROWSE. Hence, CAPTAIN’S BROWSE = - an expedition to which a master takes his House Captains. - [From _browse_ = to eat lazily.] - - _Adj._ Pleasant; enjoyable. Also (more frequently) BROWSY: - _e.g._ a BROWSY morning = a morning in which little work is - done; an awfully BROWSY day, or time = an enjoyable time. - - _Verb._ To enjoy; to like: generally with _on_: _e.g._ “I - BROWSE ON old Smith,” or, “ON Science hour.” - - -*Brum*, _adj._ (Winchester).—(1) Poor; (2) mean, stingy. DEAD - BRUM = penniless. - - -*Brush*, _subs._ 1. (common).—A schoolmaster. - - 2. (Christ’s Hospital).—A flogging. - - 1844. _Reminis. of Christ’s Hospital_ [_The Blue_, Aug. 1874]. The - punishment ... next in severity was flogging with the birch (called - BRUSHING). - - _Verb_ (Christ’s Hospital).—To flog. - - -*Brute*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—_See_ quot. Also BEAST. - - 1868. BREWER, _Phrase and Fable_, s.v. BRUTE, in Cambridge University - slang, is a man who has not yet matriculated. The play is evident. A - “man” in college phrase is a collegian; and as matriculation is the - sign and seal of acceptance, a scholar before that ceremony is not a - “man,” and therefore only a “BIPED BRUTE.” - - -*Buck*, _adj._ 1. (Winchester: obsolete).—Handsome. - - 2. (Felsted).—Fine; jolly. - - 1897. _Felstedian_, July, p. 129. What’s the good of a Præfect? he - never gets anybody up, and has never been known to be in time himself. - He’s a BUCK lot of use. - - TO BE BUCKED, _verb. phr._ (Uppingham).—To be tired. - - TO BUCK DOWN, _verb. phr._ (Winchester).—To grieve; to be - unhappy. - - TO BUCK UP, _verb. phr._ 1. (Winchester).—To cheer; to be - pleased. - - 2. (Westminster).—To exert oneself. - - 3. (Harrow).—To play hard; to hurry. - - -*Bucksome* (or *Buxom*), _adj._ (Winchester).—Happy; cheerful. - - -*Budder*, _subs._ (Felsted: obsolete).—A hard worker; a SWOTTER. - [From a proper name.] - - -*Bug and Tick*, _subs. phr._ (The Leys).—The Natural History - Society. _See_ BUG AND SNAIL (Appendix). - - -*Buissonites*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—Now called BODEITES - (_q.v._). - - -*Bulky*, _adj._ (Winchester).—(1) Rich; (2) generous. - - -*Bull-dog*, _subs._ 1. (University).—A proctor’s assistant or - marshal. - - 1823. LOCKHART, _Reg. Dalton_, I., x. (1842), 59. Long forgotten - stories about proctors bit and BULL-DOGS baffled. - - 1841. LYTTON, _Night and Morning_, bk. iii. chap. iii. The proctor and - his BULL-DOGS came up ... and gave chase to the delinquents; ... the - night was dark, and they reached the College in safety. - - 1847. TENNYSON, _Princess_, Prologue. We unworthier told Of college; - he had climb’d across the spikes, And he had squeezed himself betwixt - the bars, And he had breath’d the Proctor’s DOGS. - - 1880. BREWER, _Reader’s Handbook_. BULL-DOGS, the two servants of a - university proctor, who follow him in his rounds, to assist him in - apprehending students who are violating the university statutes, such - as appearing in the streets after dinner without cap and gown, &c. - - 2. (Cambridge: obsolete).—A Fellow of Trinity College. - - -*Bully*, _subs._ (Eton).—A mellay at football: the equivalent of - the Rugby SCRUMMAGE (_q.v._), and the Winchester HOT - (_q.v._). - - -*Bunker’s Hill* (Stonyhurst).—A row of cottages outside Hodder - grounds. Originally called Bankhurst, but after a battle - here between the inhabitants and the new-comers a century - ago, its present name was given to it. (See _Stonyhurst - Mag._, ii. 92.) - - -*Bum-brusher*, _subs._ (general).—A schoolmaster; also an usher. - - 1704. T. BROWN, _Works_ (1760), ii. 86. [Dionysius] was forced to turn - BUM-BRUSHER. - - 1788. _New London Magazine_, p. 137. A successor was immediately - called from that great nursery of BUM-BRUSHERS, Appleby School. - - 1832. _Blackwood’s Mag._, Oct., p. 426. To protract existence ... in - the shape of BUM-BRUSHERS, and so forth, after the fashion of the - exalted emigrés of 1792. - - 1838. _Comic Almanac_, Dec. [Schoolmaster’s Letter signed] Barnabas - BOM-BRUSH. - - -*Bum-curtain*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—An academical gown—scant and - short; especially applied to the short black gown worn till - 1835 by members of Caius College. - - 1835. (Quoted in WHIBLEY’S _Three Centuries of Cambridge Wit_ [1889].) - ’Tis the College of Caius—’tis the land where the “BUM-CURTAIN” lately - was sported by each jolly chum, But now black and blue are the gowns - that they wear Like the eye of a drunkard returned from a fair. - - -*Bumf*, _subs._ (general).—Paper. _See_ Appendix. - - -*Bumf-hunt*, _subs._ (Wellington).—A paper-chase. - - -*Bumming*, _subs._ (Wellington).—A thrashing. - - -*Bump*, _subs._ and _verb_ (University).—_See_ BUMPING-RACE. - - -*Bumping-race*, _subs._ (University).—Eight-oared - inter-Collegiate races, rowed in two divisions of fifteen - and sixteen boats respectively, including a SANDWICH BOAT - (_q.v._), _i.e._ the top boat of the second division, which - rows bottom of the first. The boats in each division start - at a distance apart of 175 feet from stern to stern in the - order at which they left off at the last preceding race, and - any boat which overtakes and BUMPS another (_i.e._ touches - it in any part) before the winning post is reached, changes - places with it for the next race. Hence BUMP-SUPPER = a - supper to commemorate the event. - - 1849. THACKERAY, _Pendennis_, iii. He listened, and with respect too, - to Mr. Foker’s accounts of what the men did at the University of which - Mr. F. was an ornament, and encountered a long series of stories about - boat-racing, BUMPING, College grass-plats, and milk-punch. - - 1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, x. A BUMP-SUPPER—that is, O ye - uninitiated! a supper to commemorate the fact of the boat of one - College having, in the annual races, BUMPED, or touched the boat of - another College immediately in its front, thereby gaining a place - towards the head of the river,—a BUMP-SUPPER was a famous opportunity - for discovering both the rowing and paying capabilities of Freshmen, - who, in the enthusiasm of the moment, would put down their two or - three guineas, and at once propose their names to be enrolled as - members at the next meeting of the club. - - 1860. _Macmillan’s Magazine_, March, p. 331. The chances of St. - Ambrose’s making a BUMP the first night were weighed. - - 1865. _Sketches from Cambridge_, p. 7. I can still condescend to give - our boat a stout when it makes a BUMP. - - 1886-7. DICKENS, _Dictionary of Cambridge_, p. 11. Any boat which - overtakes and BUMPS another ... before the winning post is reached, - changes place with it for the next race. - - 1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 2. I’m rowing in our first Lent - boat. We ought to make some BUMPS. _Ibid._, 51. We had a grand - BUMP-SUPPER, with lots of speeches. - - 1900. _Westminster Gaz._, 21st Feb., 8. 3. In the Second Division, - Worcester BUMPED Christ Church II. at the Ferry. Hertford left off at - the head of the division. - - -*Bunk*, _verb_ (Wellington and Sherborne).—To expel from school. - - -*Bunky*, _adj._ (Christ’s Hospital).—Awkward; ill-finished. - - -*Bunny-grub*, _subs._ (Cheltenham).—Green vegetables; GRASS - (_q.v._). - - -*Burr*, _verb_ (Marlborough).—To tussle or fight in a noisy, but - friendly manner. Also as _subs._ - - -*Butcher.* TO BUTCHER ABOUT, _verb. phr._ (Wellington).—To make - a great noise; to humbug. - - -*Buttery*, _subs._ (University).—A college kitchen. [See - _Twelfth Night_, i. 3; TAYLOR, _Works_, i. 113.] - - 1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, iv. He was bearing a jug of BUTTERY - ale (they are renowned for their ale at Brazenface). - - -*Buying*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—An opportunity which is - given for the purchase of pastry in the refectory at - “BREAD-AND-BEER” (_q.v._) time. - - - - - - -*Cab*, _subs._ (general).—An adventitious aid to study; a CRIB - (_q.v._); a PONY (_q.v._). [From CABBAGE (_q.v._) = - pilferings.] - - 1853. BRADLEY (“Cuthbert Bede”), _Adventures of Verdant Green_. Those - who can’t afford a coach get a CAB, _alias_ a crib, _alias_ a - translation. - - 1876. _Academy_, 4th Nov., p. 448, col. 2. The use of translations, - “cribs,” or CABS as boys call them, must at some time or other engage - the serious attention of schoolmasters. - - -*Cabbage*, _subs._ (general).—A translation; a CAB (_q.v._). - Also as _verb_ = to use a translation or other adventitious - aid in preparing exercises; to “crib.” - - 1837. GEN. P. THOMPSON, _Exerc._ (1842), iv. 234. A speech, which ... - had been what schoolboys call CABBAGED, from some of the forms of - oration ... published by way of caricature. - - 1862. H. MARRYAT, _Year in Sweden_, ii. 387. Steelyards ... sent by - Gustaf Wasa as checks upon country dealers, who CABBAGED, giving short - weight. - - -*Cacus* (Stonyhurst).—The Library lumber-room. - - 1888. _Stonyhurst Mag._, July, p. 185. The dust and darkness of CACUS - is destined to give place to the (comparatively) gilded splendour of a - Philosopher’s room. Two new windows are being opened in the wall of - the Elizabethan front over the old Bailey window.... Hitherto CACUS - has been shrouded in utter darkness, ... a receptacle for ... all the - literature, which ... had not been assigned a place in the Library. - - -*Cad*, _subs._ (general).—A non-school or non-University man: in - contempt. At Cambridge SNOB, the word Thackeray used, has - long been a common term for a townsman; now the undergrad. - says TOWNEE or TOWNER (_q.v._). The German analogue is - PHILISTER. - - 1831. HONE, _Year-Book_, 670. Preceded by one or two bands of music in - two boats, rowed by CADS. - - 1856. BRADLEY (“Cuthbert Bede”), _Adventures of Verdant Green_, i. p. - 117. And I can chaff a CAD. - - 1860. _Macmillan’s Mag._, March, p. 327. You don’t think a gentleman - can lick a CAD, unless he is the biggest and strongest of the two. - - 1873. _Saturday Review_, September, p. 305. At Oxford the population - of the University and city is divided into “Dons, men, and CADS.” - - -*Café, The* (The Leys).—Head’s House Hall for meals. - - -*Cake*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A stroke with a cane. Also - as _verb_. - - 1844. _Reminis. of Christ’s Hospital_ [_The Blue_, Aug. 1874]. The - mildest punishment consisted of caning on the open hand (ironically - termed CAKES). - - -*Caker*, _subs._ (The Leys).—A bicycle. [Originally - “boneshaker”; whence “shaker” and “CAKER.”] - - -*Calk*, _verb_ (Eton).—To throw. _See_ Appendix, _s.v._ CORK. - - -*Call*, _subs._ (Eton).—A remission of ABSENCE (_q.v._). “It is - a CALL,” _i.e._ “There is no ABSENCE.” - - -*Calling-out*, _subs._ (Charterhouse: obsolete).—_See_ - PULLING-OUT. - - -*Calling-over*, _subs._ (Rugby).—Names-calling. - - 1856. HUGHES, _Tom Brown’s School-days_, v. The master of the week - came down in cap and gown to CALLING-OVER, and the whole school of - three hundred boys swept into the big school to answer to their names. - - -*Calton.* SEE YOU ON THE CALTON, _phr._ (Royal High School, - Edin.).—A challenge to fight. [The Calton Hill lies at the - back of the school; it and THE DUNGEONS (_q.v._) are the two - fighting grounds.] - - -*Calves*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Pronounced _Caves_. _See_ - HALVES. - - -*Calx*, _subs._ (Eton).—The goal line at football. [From a Latin - sense of CALX = a goal, anciently marked with lime or - chalk.] At Eton CALX is a space so marked off at each end of - WALL; GOOD CALX is the end at which there is a door for a - goal; BAD CALX the end where part of an elm-tree serves the - purpose. - - 1864. _Daily Telegraph_, Dec. 1. The Collegers were over-weighted ... - and the Oppidans managed to get the ball down into their CALX several - times. - - -*Campus Martius*, _subs._ (Royal High School, Edin.).—Until - recently the name by which the battle-ground in THE DUNGEONS - (_q.v._) was known; now dying out. Formerly the scene of - encounters between different classes. - - -*Canals, The* (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—The two ponds in front of - the College. - - -*Candle-keepers*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The seven seniors in - College by election who are not Præfects. They enjoy most of - the privileges of Præfects without their powers. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester College_, p. 30. The - Seven CANDLE-KEEPERS (why so called I have no idea, nor have I ever - heard any interpretation of the appellation). These were the seven - inferiors who had been longest in the school, quite independently of - their position in it; they were generally old and tough. Of these, the - senior had almost as much power as a Præfect; he had a “valet” in - chambers, one or two “breakfast fags,” and the power of fagging the - twenty juniors when in school or in meads. The junior CANDLE-KEEPER - was called the “Deputy,” and had also some slight privileges besides - that of having a valet and breakfast fag, which was common to all of - them. - - 1878. ADAMS, _Wykehamica_, p. 418. _See_ Appendix. - - 1881. _Felstedian_, Nov., p. 75, “A Day’s Fagging at Winchester.” The - CANDLE-KEEPERS are the next in chambers to the præfects; generally - fellows who have not much brains, but from having been a long time in - the school, having a certain number of “juniors,” and are excused - fagging and have certain minor privileges approaching those of a - præfect. - - -*Candlestick*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A humorous corruption of - the word “candidate.” - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester College_, p. 175. - Each of these [the Electors] had in turn the privilege of nominating a - boy for admission into Winchester till all vacancies were filled, of - which there were generally about twelve, but always many more - “Candidates” (or CANDLESTICKS, as they were often called). - - 1878. H. C. ADAMS, _Wykehamica_, p. 418. CANDLESTICK, merely a - facetious version of “candidate.” - - -*Cannager-canoodle*, _subs._ (Oxford).—A Canadian canoe. - - 1893. _Felstedian_, June, p. 718, “Oxford Correspondence.” The Char - has been daily gay with bright yellow “CANAGGER-CANOODLES,” and - pink-and-green Japanese parasols and wobbling punts with their - sleeping occupants. - - -*Cannibal*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—In a BUMPING-RACE (_q.v._) a - College may be represented by more than one boat. The best - talent is put into the first, but it has sometimes happened - that the crew of the second have got so well together that - it has disappointed the prophets and bumped the first of its - own College. In this case it is termed A CANNIBAL, it having - eaten up its own kind, and a fine is exacted from it by the - University Boat Club. - - -*Canoodle*, _verb_ (Oxford).—To paddle or propel a canoe. - - 1879. E. H. MARSHALL, in _Notes and Queries_, 5 S., xi. 375. When I - was an undergraduate at Oxford, to CANOODLE was the slang expression - for paddling one’s own canoe on the bosom of the Cherwell or the Isis. - - -*Cantab*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—A student at Cambridge - University. [An abbreviation of “CANTABRIGIAN.”] - - 1750. COVENTRY, _Pompey Litt._, II. x. (1785), p. 18, col. 1. The - young CANTAB ... had come up to London. - - 1803. _Gradus ad_ CANTAB. (Title.) - - 1821. BYRON, _Don Juan_, c. iii., st. 126. And I grown out of many - “wooden spoons” Of verse (the name with which we CANTABS please To dub - the last of honours in degrees). - - -*Canvas*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ quot. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 66. The Winchester football - game is peculiar. It is played in CANVAS, as it is called. A portion - of Meads, some 80 feet by 25, is marked off by screens of canvas on - each side, within which the game is played, the two open ends forming - the lines of goal, across which the ball is to be kicked. It is placed - in the middle of the ground to begin with, and a “hot” formed round it - by the players stooping down all close together, with their heads - down, and at a given signal trying to force the ball or each other - away. The canvas screens answer to the Rugby “line of touch”; when the - ball escapes over these it is returned into play by juniors stationed - for the purpose, and a hot is formed afresh. - - TO GO ON THE CANVAS, _verb. phr._ (Manchester Grammar).—To - finish drill (dumb-bells, clubs, &c.), and do gymnastic - exercises on the ladder, bars, rings, and ropes. [The floor - beneath the latter was once covered with stuffed canvas; the - phrase is retained, though the canvas has given way to - mats.] - - -*Cap*, _subs._ 1. (Westminster).—The collection at Play and - Election dinners. [The College cap was passed round on the - last night of Play for contributions. _Cf._ “to send round - the cap.”] - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 157. Queen Elizabeth seems to - have been present on at least one occasion, and to have contributed - liberally to the CAP, for she is recorded to have paid, in January - 1564, the sum of £8, 6s. 8d. for certain plays by the grammar school - at Westminster and the children at Powle’s. A shout of “CAP, CAP!” - arises, and all available trenchers having been pressed into the - service, the captain distributes them amongst the Old Westminster - portion of the audience, who present substantial proofs of their - satisfaction. The sum collected in the CAP has frequently amounted to - above £200. After discharging all expenses of the play the surplus is - divided among the performers. But as these expenses have a natural - tendency to increase rather than diminish, while the number of old - Westminsters present is necessarily fewer than in the more prosperous - days of the school, the balance has of late been now and then on the - wrong side. - - 2. (Harrow).—A cap of House Colours, given by Captains of - House Cricket elevens to the House eleven, or to some of - them. The gift confers permanent membership. Hence, the - recipient of such a distinction. _See_ FEZ. - - 1890. _Great Public Schools_, 94. Second Eleven matches are played - between the various Houses, and a challenge cup is presented at the - end of the term to the best house. No CAP may play in these matches. - - 3. (Rugby).—Each House had [1871] two CAPS, one the football - cap and the other the house-cap. The former was a sign of - distinction, and worn only by the few boys in the school to - whom it had been given.... If a boy distinguished himself in - cricket, he was allowed to wear a red band; or, as a higher - distinction, a blue band.... Distinctions might be varied in - all manner of ways according as a boy had won his red or his - blue band, his flannels, or his cap.... CAPS are now (1890) - given by the head of the School Fifteen. After the CAPS come - the FLANNELS (_q.v._), and then come the players without - distinction. The CAPS and FLANNELS in each House go to make - up the House Fifteen; the FLANNELS, without the CAPS, go to - make up the second fifteen in each House, which is called - BELOW CAPS, or for brevity, BELOW. The next fifteen in each - House are called TWO BELOWS, and so on, though it rarely - happens that a House has more BELOWS than two.—LEES KNOWLES. - - _Verb_ (general).—To take off or touch one’s hat in - salutation: also TO CAP TO and TO CAP IT. - - 1593. H. SMITH, _Scrm._ (1871), i. 203. How would they CAP me were I - in velvets. - - 1803. _Gradus ad Cantabrigiam_, p. 23, _s.v._ BORE. Other bores are to - attend a sermon at St. Mary’s on Sunday ... TO CAP a fellow. - - -*Captain of Election*, _subs._ (Westminster).—_See_ quot. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 183. The CAPTAIN OF - ELECTION—the boy who gains first place—has the privilege of being - almost entirely exempted from the fagging incidental to his junior - year, and has his name painted on the election board in gold letters. - These tablets, fixed up in the dormitory, go back as far as 1629; and - among the names of the CAPTAINS, besides Lord Mansfield, as already - mentioned, may be read those of Markman, Warren Hastings, Cyril - Jackson and his brother the bishop, Randolph (Bishop), Abbot - (Speaker), Longley, &c. - - -*Captain of the Boats*, _subs. phr._ (Eton).—_See_ quot. - - 1865. _Etoniana_, p. 164. The CAPTAIN OF THE BOATS is perhaps the - greatest person in the school next to the head-master—if, indeed, he - does not rival that great authority in the estimation of the boys. The - whole regulation of the boats, both as to the selection of the crew of - the racing “eight,” and of the CAPTAINS of the several boats which - form the Fourth of June procession, rests entirely with him; and as he - has a great deal of this kind of patronage at his disposal, his - influence is very considerable. The boat crews are in some sort looked - upon as the aristocracy of the school, and for this reason the - position is an object of social ambition amongst the boys. - - -*Cargo*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A hamper from home. The word is - still in use. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester College_, p. 77. The - boys, eager for breakfast, tumultuously rushed out from school-court - ... to see if Poole, the porter, had letters, or, what was even more - delightful, a CARGO (a hamper of game or eatables from home). - - 1881. PASCOE, _Every-day Life in our Public Schools_. Scholars may - supplement their fare with jam, potted meats, ... or, better still, - from the contents of CARGOES, _i.e._ hampers from home. - - -*Cart*, _verb_ (University).—To defeat: in a match, a fight, an - examination, a race, &c. “We CARTED them home” = we gave - them an awful licking. - - -*Case*, _subs._ (Westminster).—The discussion by Seniors and - Upper Election preceding a TANNING (_q.v._), and the tanning - itself. - - -*Cathedral*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A silk hat. [Because worn - when going to Cathedral.] - - -*Cat-and-cartridge*, _subs._ (The Leys).—Rabbit (or chicken) - with sausage. - - -*Cat’s*, _subs._ (University).—St. Catharine’s Hall. Hence - CAT’S-MEN = members of St. Catharine’s Hall. - - _Intj._ (Royal High School, Edin.: obsolete).—The II^{nd} - Class. [Formerly it used to be a custom for the II^{nd} - class to pursue the I^{st} shouting “Gaits! Gaits! - Gai-ai-aits,” to which they replied, “CATS! CATS! Caa-ats!”] - _See_ DOGS. - - -*Cat’s Head*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—The end of a - shoulder of mutton. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester College_, p. 84. His - meal [dinner] took place at six o’clock P.M. in College (in Commoners’ - it was at _one_); it was ample in quantity, and excellent in quality. - That of the Præfects was nicely served in joints, that of the - Inferiors was divided into portions (Dispars); there were, if I - remember rightly, six of these to a shoulder, and eight to a leg of - mutton, the other joints being divided in like proportion. All these - “Dispars” had different names; the thick slice out of the centre was - called “a Middle Cut,” that out of the shoulder a “Fleshy,” the ribs - “Racks,” the loin “Long Dispars”; these were the best, the more - indifferent were the end of the shoulder, or CAT’S HEAD, the breast, - or “Fat Flab,” &c. &c. - - -*Cat’s-skin*, _subs._ (Rugby).—1. _See_ quot. - - 1856. HUGHES, _Tom Brown’s School-days_, v. His go-to-meeting roof, as - his new friend called it. But this didn’t quite suit his fastidious - taste in another minute, being too shiny; so, as they walk up the - town, they dive into Nixon’s the hatter’s, and Tom is arrayed, to his - utter astonishment, and without paying for it, in a regulation - CAT-SKIN at seven-and-sixpence. - - 2. _See_ RABBIT-SKIN. - - -*Cause-money*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—Up-keep money for - the path leading to HILLS (_q.v._). - - 1891. WRENCH, _Word-Book_, s.v. CAUSE-MONEY. Money paid for the - maintenance of the path leading from College towards Hills. - - -*Causey, The* (Stonyhurst).—The avenue between the two ponds in - front of the College. - - -*Cave*, _intj._ (Eton).—“Beware!” A byword among boys out of - bounds when a master is in sight. [From the Latin.] - - -*Cedar*, _subs._ (Eton).—A pair-oared boat inrigged, without - canvas, and very “crank.” [No longer in use.] - - -*Certificate Good-day*, _subs. phr._ (Stonyhurst).—_See_ - GOOD-DAY. - - -*Chaff*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A small article or - plaything. Also as _verb_ = to exchange; to barter. [A.S. - _chaffere_ = to deal, exchange, or barter: as _sub._ = - merchandise. Also (North) _chaffle_ = to haggle.] - - 1388. WIMBELTON, _Sermon_ [MS. Hatton, 57, p. 4]. If thou art a - margchaunt, disceyve not thi brother in CHAFFARYNG. - - 1440. _Promptorium Parvulorum_ [MS. Harl. 221, ff. 206]. Rooryne or - chaungyne on CHAFFARE for another. - - 1450. _MS._ Bibl. Reg. 12 B. i. f. 19. _Emere vel vendere_, Anglice to - CHAFFARYN. - - 1844. _Reminis. of Christ’s Hospital_ [_The Blue_, Aug. 1874]. - Pocket-knives, combs, “precious” marbles, tops, and all the other - numerous nondescript articles which go to make up the CHAFFS of a - Blue. - - 1877. BLANCH, _Blue-Coat Boys_, 96. CHAFF me your knife. - - _Adj._ Pleasant; glad. Also CHAFFY. [Possibly, in this - sense, a memory of chaff = banter.] Whence, CHAFF FOR YOU = - “So much the better for you.” _Cf._ VEX. - - _Intj._ An exclamation of joy or pleasure. - - -*Challenge*, _subs._ (Westminster).—The entrance examination for - Queen’s Scholarship. _See_ quot. [In ancient times (_vide_ - STOW) St. Peter’s was one of the three great schools whose - scholars were accustomed on the days of their patron Saints - to challenge each other to a contest of grammar and - versification, which was apparently the earliest form of - what was afterwards developed not only into the Westminster - CHALLENGE, but into the Eton MONTEM (_q.v._).] - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 182. He undergoes a very - severe examination, called the CHALLENGE, the form of which must have - been preserved from Queen Elizabeth’s days, and is the last surviving - relic of the old scholastic disputations. - - -*Chamber-day*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A day on which access - was allowed to CHAMBERS (_q.v._) during the whole - day.—MANSFIELD. - - -*Chambers*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The College bedrooms: in - Commoners called GALLERIES (_q.v._). [CHAMBER is commonly - dialectical for bedroom.] _See_ ELECTION CHAMBER. - - -*Charity-remove*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A “remove” assigned to boys - who have remained in the Form below for several successive - school quarters. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 297. The intention of these - CHARITY-REMOVES (as they are called) is to prevent boys of dull - abilities being continually outstripped in the race of promotion by - boys younger than themselves; but practically the cases are very few - of boys who would be left in the same Form for above three quarters; - and even then the promotion is removed if the boy has been - “notoriously and ostentatiously” idle. - - -*Charity-tails*, _subs._ (Harrow).—_See_ TAILS. - - -*Charlies*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—Thick gloves made of - twine. [Introduced by a Mr. Charles Griffith: hence the - name.] - - -*Chase*, _verb_ (Christ’s Hospital).—To abscond; to run away; as - from school. - - 1844. _Reminis. of Christ’s Hospital_ [_The Blue_, Aug. 1874]. At - length, to the consternation and perplexity of the authorities, and - the delight, admiration, and envy of the fellows, this incorrigible - character capped all his former misdeeds by an act of pluck and daring - which gained for himself, from that time forth, all the honours of a - hero—he CHASED. - - -*Chaw*, _subs._ 1. (University).—A trick; a device; a sell. - - 2. (Harrow).—A CAD (_q.v._); any non-member of the school. - Whence WORKER-CHAW = the boy who runs messages, &c., for the - work-shop. Also as _verb_ (football), to play roughly. TO BE - CHAWED = to be injured. - - -*Check-nights*, _subs._ (Eton).—Rehearsals of the FOURTH OF JUNE - (_q.v._) performance. Held every alternate Saturday in the - boating season, when the crews rowed up to Surly in their - uniform and there regaled themselves—the staple luxury being - ducks and green pease. These suppers were open to much - objection, and the custom has lately been done away - with.—_Etoniana_ (1865). - - -*Cheese*, _subs._ (Schools and University).—An adept; one - who “takes the shine out of another”; at Cambridge an - overdressed dandy = a HOWLING CHEESE. - - 1864. HEMYNG, _Eton School-days_. “Do you know Homer, Purefoy?” asked - Chudleigh. “No, I have not looked at the lesson yet.” “I am sure I - don’t know why you ever do; you are such a CHEESE. I want you to give - me a construe.” - - -*Chemmy*, _subs._ (Manchester Grammar).—Chemistry. - - -*Chief*, _subs._ (Sherborne).—The Head-master. - - -*Child*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—1. A scholar on the - foundation. - - 1547. Inj. Ed. VI. Commiss. [_William of Wykeham_, 152]. Item: that - all graces to be said or sung at meals within the said College, and - other prayers which the said scholars or CHILDREN are bound to use - shall be henceforth sung or said evermore in English. - - _d._ 1711. KEN, _Manual ... for the use of ... Winchester College_. If - you are a Commoner, you may say your prayers in your own Chamber; but - if you are a CHILD or a Chorister, then to avoid the interruptions of - the Common Chambers, go into the Chappel, between first and second - Peal in the morning, to say your Morning Prayers, and say your Evening - Prayers when you go _Circum_. - - 1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. CHILD. The word “Scholar,” - as used by Ken, included the three classes—“Children,” Commoners, and - Choristers; and it is observable that, though it has been adopted of - late officially to designate the “Children” exclusively, this usage - has not extended to the school. “CHILD” has fallen into desuetude, but - its place has not been supplied by any other term. - - 2. _See_ quot. 1891. - - 1822. NARES, _Glossary_, s.v. CHILD ... The “CHILDREN of the Chapel” - signifies the boys of the Chapel. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 64. One table, by a curious - traditionary custom, is called the CHILDREN’S table—the electors - present each choosing one of the junior scholars for their CHILD, and - presenting him with a guinea and a luxurious dinner at this privileged - table. - - 1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. CHILD. Each of the ELECTORS - (_q.v._) might choose a Scholar on the foundation to attend upon him - (a nominal duty in recent times) at election time. These were known as - Warden’s CHILD, Warden of New College’s CHILD, &c. Of late the Head - Master always chose for his CHILD the head scholar in Cloisters, and - the Warden the second. Each CHILD received a guinea from the Elector - who appointed him. The Children got off all fagging on DOMUM DAY - (_q.v._); at Election Dinner they sat at the same table with Writers - and Election Grace Singers, where the fare was better than that served - to the scholars generally; and they had wine and dessert afterwards in - CHILD’S-room in the Warden’s house. Warden’s CHILD had during the - following year the duty of applying to the Head Master for every - REMEDY (_q.v._), and half-remedy that came in the ordinary course. In - applying he used the set phrase, “The Præpostors’ duty, and they would - be obliged for a remedy” (or “half-remedy”). Whenever the application - was something more than a mere form, it was made by the Præfect of - Hall, _e.g._ where a leave out day disturbed the ordinary arrangements - of the week. - - -*Chince* (or *Chinse*), _subs._ (Winchester).—A chance. - [Apparently a corrupted form of the word.] - - -*Chinner*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A grin. - - -*Chip-entry*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—_See_ quot. - - 1884. _Stonyhurst Mag._, June, p. 294. The old kitchen was very near - the site of the present one, but a part of it jutted into what is now - the end of the Higher Line Washing-place. Just outside this was a - flight of old oaken steps leading to the refectory. Beyond these - stairs, leading out to the back, there was a very old round-headed - oaken door, which is now in the buttery; it is about three hundred - years old. This was called CHIP-ENTRY. - - -*Chips*, _subs._ (Wellington).—A kind of grill. [From its - hardness.] - - -*Choice*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A candidate in course of trial for - an Eleven (House or School), and who has not got his CAP - (_q.v._), FEZ (_q.v._), or FLANNELS (_q.v._). - - -*Chorister*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ quots. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 33. Besides - the Warden, Fellows, masters, and boys, there were twelve - “CHORISTERS,” who must by no means be omitted, as they formed an - important part of the internal economy. I suppose they were called - CHORISTERS because they had not to sing; certainly if ever that was a - part of their duty, it had entirely lapsed. Their office was to wait - on boys, in hall and chambers, till seven o’clock, and especially to - go on errands in the town,—the boys themselves never being allowed to - go there, except when invited by friends on Saints’ days. These little - CHORISTERS wore chocolate-coloured tail-coats and trousers, with metal - buttons; and, on the whole, I think their life must have been a weary - one.... _Ibid._, 189. The CHORISTERS really do sing now, and have not - to run errands in the town for boys, but wait on them in the hall - instead. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 22. The Bible-clerk meanwhile - reading aloud a chapter from the Old Testament, the CHORISTERS waited - at table. An antiphonal grace and psalm were sung, after which the - CHORISTERS and college servants took their dinner. - - -*Chouse*, _subs._ (Eton and Winchester).—A shame; an imposition. - Hence CHOUSER. [A derivative of chouse = trick; swindle: - _see_ quot. 1890.] - - 1864. _Athenæum._ When an Eton boy says that anything is “a beastly - CHOUSE,” he means that it is a great shame; and when an Eton - peripatetic tradesman is playful enough to call his customer “a little - CHOUSER,” he means that a leaf has been taken out of his own book by - one on whom he has practised. - - 1883. BRINSLEY RICHARDS, _Seven Years at Eton_. The boy ... was told - that what he had done was an awful CHOUSE. - - 1890. _Hist. Eng. Dict._ [MURRAY], _s.v._ CHOUSE. “As to the origin of - the Eng. use, Gifford (1814), in a note on the quot. from Ben Jonson, - says, ‘In 1609, Sir Robt. Shirley sent a messenger or CHIAUS to this - country, as his agent from the Grand Signior and the Sophy to transact - some preparatory business.’ The latter ‘CHIAUSED the Turkish and - Persian merchants of £4000,’ and decamped. But no trace of this - incident has yet been found outside of Gifford’s note; it was unknown - to Peter Whalley, a previous editor of Ben Jonson, 1756; also to - Skinner, Henshaw, Dr. Johnson, Todd, and others who discussed the - history of the word. Yet most of these recognised the likeness of - CHOUSE to the Turkish word, which Henshaw even proposed as the etymon - on the ground that the Turkish CHIAUS ‘is little better than a fool.’ - Gifford’s note must therefore be taken with reserve.” - - -*Christians*, _subs. pl._ (Cambridge).—Fellows of Christ’s - College. [Derivation obvious.] - - -*Christopher* (Eton).—An old inn in Eton Street. - - 1865. _Etoniana_, 23. On the great festivals ... they had permission - to spend part of the day in a country walk; not without a strong - caution (so similar are the temptations of schoolboys and the - anxieties of masters in all ages) against turning into taverns and - beer-shops by the way. The “Tap” and the CHRISTOPHER had their earlier - prototypes.... - - -*Chuck*, _subs._ (Westminster). _See_ quot. - - 1864. HOTTEN, _Slang Dict._, s.v. A schoolboy’s treat. - - -*Chucks!* _intj._ (general).—A signal of a master’s approach. A - French equivalent is _Vesse!_ - - -*Circum.* TO GO CIRCUM, _verb. phr._ (Winchester). _See_ quot. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 23 [_temp._ 1570]. At five the - school was dismissed, and the whole resident society—warden, fellows, - masters, and scholars—went in procession round the cloisters and the - whole interior circuit of the college, which was called GOING CIRCUM. - Thus they passed into the hall, where a supper of mutton was - served—one dispar to every three boys. - - -*Clacken*, _subs._ (Royal High School, Edin.).—A wooden bat - about two feet long with a thin handle and rounded head - (_e.g._ [Illustration] ), flat on both sides, originally - used for the game of _hails_. The game is no longer played - at the school, but survives in the Edin. Academy. [A “Hail” - in Scotland denotes the place from which a ball is driven - off at the commencement of a game. “Clacken” is from - “clack,” the clapper of a mill.] - - -*Clarian*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—A member of Clare Hall, - Cambridge; also GREYHOUND (_q.v._). - - 1889. C. WHIBLEY, _Cap and Gown_. E’en stuke-struck CLARIANS strove to - stoop. - - -*Classicus*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A Junior in each PART - (_q.v._): his duty is to get lessons set, &c. - CLASSICUS-PAPER = CUSE (_q.v._). - - -*Clean-straw*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Clean sheets. [Before 1540 - the beds were bundles of straw on a stone floor. At that - date Dean Fleshmonger put in oaken floors, and provided - proper beds, such as existed in 1871 in Third, and later in - the case of the Præfect of Hall’s unused beds in Sixth. The - term is never used in reference to mattresses of any kind, - straw or other.] The dormitory arrangements are now - thoroughly modernised. - - -*Clipe*, _verb_ (general).—To tell tales; to “split”; to peach. - - -*Clodding*, _subs._ (Rugby).—A ceremony of initiation [put - down by Dr. Wooll, _temp._ 1808-28] performed on those who - were promoted into the Fifth. They had to run along the - course of a small gutter which flowed from the cow-sheds - (_see_ BARN-SCHOOL), through a double line of boys, who - pelted them with clods of clay moistened in that not very - delicate stream. Unpopular boys had these clods specially - hardened for their benefit—it was even said with stones - inside. On promotion from the Fourth to the Remove a boy - had to run the gauntlet up and down the big school between - a double line of his fellows, armed with handkerchiefs - tied in “Westminster knots.” He was allowed to protect - himself with books stuffed inside his trousers; but the - punishment was fearful.—COLLINS. - - -*Cloister-peals*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ PEALS. - - -*Cloister-roush*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—_See_ quot. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester College_, p. 117. We - had some singular customs at the commencement of Cloister time. Senior - part and Cloisters, just before the entrance of the Masters into - School, used to engage in a kind of general tournament; this was - called CLOISTER-ROUSH. - - -*Cloisters*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The name given to Middle and - Junior Part of Fifth BOOK (_q.v._), when combined together - in CLOISTER-TIME (_q.v._). - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 24. But the younger commoners - probably seldom came into school, being taught chiefly in the chamber - of the warden or fellow under whose charge they were placed; and in - summer-time the whole of the scholars usually adjourned for lessons - into the adjacent CLOISTERS: a delightful arrangement, from which the - latter portion of the “long-half” is still called CLOISTER-TIME. - - -*Cloister-time*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Ten or twelve weeks at - the latter end of Long Half, commencing about Whitsunday and - ending at STANDING-UP WEEK (_q.v._). - - -*Clow*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Pronounced _clō_. A box on the - ear. [Possibly from _clout_. HALLIWELL, _clow_ (Cumberland) - = to scratch. Also _clew_ (Glouc.) = a blow.] Also as - _verb_: it was customary to preface the action by an - injunction to “hold down.” - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester College_, p. 140. The - juniors did not get much fun out of the regular games, as their part - consisted solely in kicking in the ball, and receiving divers kicks - and CLOWS in return for their vigilance. _Ibid._, p. 39. Nor, when - ordered to “hold down” (_i.e._ put your head in a convenient position) - for a CLOW, would the victim dare to ward off the blow. - - -*Club-keeper*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A Captain of the side in a - game: at cricket or football. - - 1820-5. WORDSWORTH [_Letter_, 1889]. The old ground which we played - upon was too much upon a slope, and when I was one of the - CLUB-KEEPERS, and head of the eleven, a considerable sum was spent in - endeavouring to improve it, and we succeeded in levelling a sufficient - space for a tolerably good wicket. - - -*Coach*, _subs._ (formerly University and Public Schools: now - common).—A private tutor; and in a transferred sense one who - trains another in mental or physical acquirements: _e.g._ in - Sanskrit, Shakspeare, cricket, or rowing. Analagous terms - are CRAMMER, FEEDER, and GRINDER. Also as _verb_ = to - prepare for an examination by private instruction; to train: - in general use both by coacher and coachee. - - 1846. THACKERAY, _Vanity Fair_, ch. v. The superb Cuff himself ... - helped him on with his Latin verses, COACHED him in play-hours. - - 1850. F. E. SMEDLEY, _Frank Fairleigh_, ch. xxix. p. 240. Besides the - regular college tutor, I secured the assistance of what, in the slang - of the day, we irreverently termed a COACH. - - 1853. C. BEDE, _Verdant Green_, pt. I., pp. 63-4. “That man is Cram, - the patent safety. He’s the first COACH in Oxford.” “A COACH,” said - our freshman in some wonder. “Oh, I forgot you didn’t know college - slang. I suppose a royal mail is the only gentleman COACH _you_ know - of. Why, in Oxford a COACH means a private tutor, you must know; and - those who can’t afford a COACH, get a cab, _alias_ a crib, _alias_ - translation.” - - 1864. _Eton School-days_, ch. ix. p. 103. Lord Fitzwinton, one of the - smallest and best COACHES—in aquatics—in the school. - - 1870. _London Figaro_, June 10, “Quadrille Conversation.” It is, we - fear, Quixotic to hope that ladies and gentlemen invited to the same - ball would COACH with the same master. - - 1871. _Times_, “Report of the Debate in House of Lords on University - Test Bill.” The test proposed would be wholly ineffective; ... while - it would apply to the college tutors, who had little influence over - the young men, it would not affect the COACHES, who had the chief - direction of their studies. - - 1889. _Pall Mall Gazette_, 29th Nov., p. 1, col. 3. The schoolmaster - is concerned with the education of boys up to eighteen; all beyond - that falls either to the COACH or the professor. - - 1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 15. Our COACH is always finding - fault with me. - - -*Coaching*, _subs._ (Rugby: obsolete).—A flogging. - - -*Coat.* TO GET ONE’S COAT, _verb. phr._ (Harrow).—To be made a - member of the “Sixth Form Game”; the equivalent of the - “Twenty-two” at other schools: cricket. - - -*Cob*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A hard hit at cricket; a slogger: a - recent introduction. Also as _verb_ (common), to detect; to - catch. - - _Verb._ 1. (Stonyhurst).—To purloin oranges, &c., after a DO - (_q.v._): _e.g._ “COB for me,” sometimes whispered by an - envious disappointed one to a fortunate friend as he goes - into the “Do-room.” - - 2. (Harrow).—In the verbal sense of COB = to detect; to - catch (_see_ subs., _ante_); the practice at Harrow is - almost always to use the word in the passive, with “badly”: - _e.g._ “I was badly COBBED ‘tollying-up’” (_q.v._). - - -*Cock*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—An elevation from which, at - football, a GUARDER (_q.v._) kicks balls which “go out”: it - corresponds to the “tee” at golf. - - TO BE COCKED UP, _verb. phr._ (Charterhouse).—_See_ quot. - - 1900. TOD, _Charterhouse_, 85. Fags [at Old Charterhouse] had to fag - in reality at cricket; they got COCKED UP if they cut, and they got - COCKED UP if they missed a catch, or muffed a ball. A stump was always - handy. - - -*Cock-house*, _subs._ (general). A champion house; as at - cricket, football—anything. - - 1890. _Great Public Schools_, 95. (Harrow) The various Houses are - divided into “Upper Round” Houses (being those which possess a member - of the School Eleven at the beginning of the term), and “Lower Round” - Houses (being those which possess no member of the School Eleven at - the beginning of the term). The “Upper Round” Houses are drawn - together, and play against each other; and the same course is pursued - with regard to the “Lower Round” Houses. When all these ties are - played off, the winner of the “Upper Round” plays the winner of the - “Lower Round” for COCK-HOUSE. A silver challenge cup is presented to - the COCK-HOUSE of the year. - - 1898. WARNER in _Harrow School_, 271. Coming back from the holidays a - boy will eagerly discuss with his comrades the prospects of the term. - Have they any chance of being “COCK-HOUSE” in football or cricket—and - no chance is too small on which to build a mighty castle of hope. - - -*Cockloft, The* (Harrow).—A small room at the top of the Old - Schools; in turn a school-room or the limbo for the - SCHOOL-STOCK (_q.v._) of confiscated books. - - -*Cocks*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—The old washing place. [Early - in the century a leaden trough, into which six taps - discharged water, was fixed in a corner of Writing School, - behind a partition which was constructed to hold Gownboys - Library. These taps suggested the term COCKS. Formerly - Gownboys washed at the pump.] - - -*Cocoa-club*, _subs._ (The Leys).—Afternoon tea, &c., at four in - winter in House rooms or studies. - - -*Codd*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—_See_ quot. - - 1854. THACKERAY, _The Newcomes_. Yonder sit some threescore old - gentlemen, pensioners of the hospital; ... the Cistercian lads called - these old gentlemen CODDS. - - -*Cog.* TO COG ON, _verb. phr._ (Durham).—To swindle; to cheat: - _e.g._ “TO COG ON marks.” Also TO COCK ON. - - -*Coke on Littleton*, _subs. phr._ (Eton).—_See_ quot. - - 1743. DANIEL WRAY, _Letter_ from Cambridge [quoted in _Etoniana_ - (1865), 70]. One blowing a chafing-dish with a surplice sleeve, - another warming a little negus or sipping “COKE UPON LITTLETON,” - _i.e._ tent and brandy. - - -*Coll*, _subs._ (United Services).—The College. - - 1899. _Public School Mag._, Nov., p. 345. To deal first with the - outward appearance of the COLL.—(COLL, be it noted, not College.) - “That long white barrack by the sea Stares blankly seaward still,” - sings Kipling in one of his very early poems. - - -*Collections*, _subs._ (Oxford).—College Terminal Examinations. - - 1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, II. viii. Witless men were cramming - for COLLECTIONS. - - -*College-John* (Westminster).—The porter and factotum of - College: invariably so-called, whatever his name may be. - - -*Colleger*, _subs._ 1. (general).—A square cap; a MORTAR-BOARD - (_q.v._). - - 2. (Eton).—A boy on the foundation as opposed to an OPPIDAN - (_q.v._). - - 1899. _Public School Mag._, Nov., p. 367. The discussion continues as - to whether the COLLEGERS should compete for the House Cup. As we have - always said, this seems a ridiculous suggestion. If COLLEGE is on a - separate foundation to the Oppidans, we can see no reason for them to - desire to join in competing for Oppidan events. - - 1890. _Great Public Schools_, 14. Parents of independent means rejoice - when their sons obtain places on the Foundation at Eton. Admitted - after a severe competitive examination, and specially encouraged in - the habits of industry, the seventy COLLEGERS generally win a large - proportion of the prizes and other distinctions that are offered to - Etonians, and maintain the high reputation of their old school in the - class lists at Oxford and Cambridge. - - -*College-ware*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Crockery that falls - without breaking.—MANSFIELD. - - -*Combie*, _subs._ (University).—The “Combination room,” a - parlour in which college dons drink wine after Hall. - - -*Come.* COME UP! _intj._ (Sherborne).—The order given by the - Captain of the Games, after 3 Roll on a half-holiday, to - start the games at football. - - -*Come-up*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A regulation as to the - conditions by which one player might try to take the ball - from another: football. - - -*Commoner*, _subs._ (general).—A boy not on the foundation. - Whence (Winchester) COMMONERS = the building they lived in. - [Now abolished as a residence and converted into class-rooms - with a handsome library. The old building, which presented - externally (_vide_ MANSFIELD) the appearance of an inferior - workhouse, was successfully altered by Mr. BUTTERFIELD, and - is now, in its architecture, worthy of its purpose and - surroundings.] - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 26. Of the fellow-commoners, - or COMMONERS, as they are now termed, who have so increased as to form - a supplementary body of scholars doubling in number the College boys - themselves, it will be necessary to give some account. Provision had - been made in the original statutes for the reception and instruction - of independent students to the number of ten, sons of noblemen or of - “special friends” of the College, who, though not claiming the other - advantages of the foundation, might yet wish to avail themselves of - its sound teaching; with a proviso that these should not be in any way - burdensome to the revenues.... In [Dr. Burton’s] time the College rose - rapidly as a place of education for many of the young nobility, and - the accommodations were found insufficient. He built what is now - remembered by Wykehamists of the past generation as “OLD COMMONERS.” - ... The number of COMMONERS gradually increased, until in 1820 they - reached 135. “OLD COMMONERS” was pulled down in 1839-41 to make way - for the present building, which was the result of a general Wykehamist - subscription. _Ibid._, 115 [Westminster]. In every public school the - masters were entirely dependent for any income beyond their statutable - salaries on the liberality of the parents of those boys who were - admitted as COMMONERS, or oppidans. _Ibid._, _Etoniana_, 10. [At Eton] - there were two classes of these boys—“_generosorum filii - Commensales_,” and simple “_Commensales_”—corresponding to the - “gentleman-COMMONER” and “COMMONER” of Oxford; the former probably of - higher social rank, paying more for their commons, and dining at a - separate table. - - -*Commoner-grub*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A dinner formerly given - by COMMONERS (_q.v._) to College after cricket matches. - - -*Commoners-speaking*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The day on which the - speakers, selected from among the INFERIORS (_q.v._), - declaimed. - - -*Common Innings*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—A form of - cricket. - - -*Common-time*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The Short Half, and - beginning of Long up to Easter time. - - -*Commons*, _subs._ (University).—Rations of bread, butter, and - milk, supplied from the buttery. [When a number of men - breakfast together, the student whose rooms are the - rendezvous tells his scout the names of those _in_-college - men who are coming to breakfast with him. The scout then - collects their COMMONS, which thus forms the substratum of - the entertainment. The other things are of course supplied - by the giver of the breakfast, and are sent in by the - confectioner. As to the knives and forks and crockery, the - scout produces them from his common stock.] - - 1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, viii. Of course you’d like to take out - an æger, sir; and I can bring you your COMMONS just the same. - - -*Compo*, _subs._ (King Edward’s, Birm.).—The championship - competition in the gymnasium, or at fives; place-kicking. - - -*Compositions*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—Three days coming at the - end of each quarter, during which the composition work of - the various Forms is tested. According to the results is - arranged the “Order of Compositions,” which is accepted as - fixing a boy’s place in his Form for the ensuing quarter. - There is a hill some distance from the College known as - “Composition Hill,” so called because the Poets (_q.v._) - went there for inspiration on composition days. The first - and second boys according to the order of Compositions are - known respectively as “Roman Imperator” and “Carthaginian - Imperator.” The last Compositions of the year used to be - known as the “Great Compositions.” By them the Form medals, - &c., were decided. - - -*Compound-kish* (or *Hish*), _subs._ (Marlborough).—The rules of - the Latin compound sentence. - - -*Compul*, _adj._ and _adv._ (Harrow).—That is, “compulsory.” - - -*Compulsory*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—_See_ RUNABOUT. - - -*Con*, _subs._ 1. (Winchester).—A rap on the head with the - knuckles, or with anything hard, such as a cricket ball. - Also as _verb_: to rap with the knuckles. [The derivation - formerly accepted at Winchester was κονδυλον = a knuckle, - but the editors of the _Wykehamist_ suggest its origin in - the North Country _con_, “to fillip,” with which the French - _se cogner_ exactly corresponds.] - - 2. (general).—That is, “construe.” Hence TO GET A CONSTRUE = - to get some one to translate a piece. - - -*Conduct*, _subs._ (Eton).—A chaplain. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 163. I was stopped on my entry - into school by the “Minos.” The title of “CONDUCT,” by which the - chaplains of Eton College are known, was for many years ludicrously - misprinted by the successive editors of Horace Walpole’s Letters, who - made him talk of “standing funking over against a conduit to be - catechised.” - - -*Conduit*, _subs._ (Winchester).—(1) In College, a water-tap; - (2) in Commoners, a lavatory. - - -*Continent*, _adv._ (Winchester).—Ill; on the sick-list: _cf._ - ABROAD. [From _continens cameram vel lectum_.] Hence - CONTINENT-ROOM = a sick-chamber. - - 1605. SHAKSPEARE, _Lear_, i. 2. I pray you have a CONTINENT - forbearance; ... if you do stir abroad, go armed. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester College_, p. 146. - When a boy felt ill, or inclined to quit school for a period, he had - to get leave CONTINENT, which was done by sending a boy in the morning - first to get leave from his tutor, and then from the Head Master. - - 1878. ADAMS, _Wykehamica_, p. 224. We suggested the “CONTINENT room”; - and on being required to say what was to become of the sick boys? - replied, that it was notorious that there was never anything the - matter with them! - - 1881. _Felstedian_, Nov., p. 75, “A Day’s Fagging at Winchester.” I - remember that I have to get “LEAVE CONTINENT” for one of the fellows, - _i.e._ he wants to be “æger for the day” (“continent,” of course = - “keeping indoors,” being confined to “sick house” or the infirmary). I - have to ask leave from the senior præfect in chambers, the præfect of - hall, the second master, and the head-master, whom I waylay going to - chapel. - - -*Cool* (or *Cool-kick*), _subs._ (Eton).—A kick at football with - no one near. Also as _verb_ = to kick hard. - - -*Copus*, _subs._ (University).—A wine or beer cup: commonly - imposed as a fine upon those who talked Latin in Hall, or - committed other breaches of etiquette. [Dr. Johnson derives - it from _episcopus_, and if this be correct it is doubtless - the same as BISHOP.] - - -*Copy*, _subs._ (Harrow).—An asterisk: _e.g._ as placed on the - broadsheet against the name of any boy who comes out top of - his division in any subject; three COPIES secure a prize in - Speech-room. _See_ Appendix. - - -*Corn* (The), _subs._ (Oxford).—Cornmarket Street. - - -*Corner*, _intj._ (The Leys).—Look out! Clear the way! - [Originally shouted as a warning by boys cycling about the - buildings on approaching a corner.] - - -*Corner-monitor*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The monitor in turn at BILL - (_q.v._) to keep line and preserve order generally. - - -*Corps-board*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The Rifle Corps notice-board. - - -*Cosh*, _subs._ (King Edward’s, Birm.).—A caning. Also as _verb_ - = to cane. A rarer word is TANK (_q.v._). - - -*Cots*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—_See_ quot. [A corruption - of “cotton.”] - - 1810. CHARLES LAMB, _Recollections of Christ’s Hospital_ [1835], p. - 24. The COTS, or superior Shoe Strings of the Monitors. - - -*Coup*, _verb._ 1. (Durham).—To upset: in frequent use on the - river. [North dia. COUP = to empty or overset.] - - 2. (Stonyhurst).—At BANDY (_q.v._), to lift the ball from - the ground by means of the crook of the stick. - - -*Course*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Duty: in _rota_. IN COURSE = on - duty. [COURSE-KEEPER (obsolete) = a Commoner who drew up a - table of fagging duties.—WRENCH.] - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_, 206. COURSE-KEEPER, - an office in the patronage of the Commoner Præfects, the duties of - which were principally connected with the organisation of the fagging - department. He was required to have been three years in the school, to - be of reasonable bodily strength, and in Middle Part. His privileges - were numerous, the principal being that he was allowed to fag. When he - ascended into Senior Part his duties ceased, but his privileges - remained; he was then called EX-COURSE-KEEPER. - - -*Court, The* (Stonyhurst).—The quadrangle behind the College - Towers; now more commonly called the Quadrangle. - [“Quadrangle” was one of the names which puzzled the - Claimant in the famous Tichborne Trial. _Cf._ _Times_ - reports; also _Stonyhurst Magazine_, vol. i. p. 294, and - vol. ii. p. 317.] - - -*Courts*, _subs._ (Sherborne).—The school quadrangles: the - earliest known use of the term is at the end of the - sixteenth century. - - -*Cowshed*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital). _See_ Appendix. - - _c._ 1890. _More Gleanings from_ THE BLUE, 84. Time was when it was - looked upon as a sacred duty on the first Sunday of each term to - introduce Hertford boys to those three stones in the Ditch which - represent the toffee man, to show them his six little children, his - brush and comb, his windmill, and whatsoever else belonging to him the - imaginative youth can discern in the bare stones under the COWSHED, as - it is called. Those “sermons in stones” belonged essentially to - Sunday. - - -*Cow-shooter*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A “deer-stalker” - hat: worn by Præfects and CANDLE-KEEPERS (_q.v._). - - -*Coxy*, _adj._ (general).—Stuck up; conceited; impudent. [COXY = - conceited (Warwickshire).—HALLIWELL.] - - 1856. HUGHES, _Tom Brown’s School-days_, p. 202. He’s the COXIEST - young blackguard in the house—I always told you so. _Ibid._, p. 214. - “Confoundedly COXY those young rascals will get if we don’t mind,” was - the general feeling. - - 1882. F. ANSTEY, _Vice Versâ_, ch. iv. “Now then, young Bultitude, you - used to be a decent fellow enough last term, though you were COXY. So, - before we go any further—what do you mean by this sort of thing?” - - -*Coy*, _adv._ (Sherborne).—Shy. - - -*Crackle* (or *Crackling*), _subs._ (University).—The velvet - bars on the gowns of the JOHNIAN “HOGS” (_q.v._). [From a - resemblance to the scored rind on roast pork.] The covered - bridge between one of the courts and the grounds of John’s - is called the Isthmus of Suez (Latin _sus_, a swine). - - 1885. CUTHBERT BEDE, in _Notes and Queries_, 6 S., xi. 414. The word - CRACKLE refers to the velvet bars on the students’ gowns. - - -*Cram*, _subs._ (general).—An adventitious aid to study; a - translation; a crib. As _verb_ = to study at high pressure. - Hence, CRAMMER = a COACH (_q.v._); a GRINDER (_q.v._); and - CRAMMING = studying hard. - - 1803. _Gradus ad Cantab._, s.v. - - 1812. Miss EDGEWORTH, _Patronage_, ch. iii. Put him into the hands of - a clever grinder or CRAMMER, and they would soon cram the necessary - portion of Latin and Greek into him. - - 1825. HONE, _Every-Day Book_, Feb. 22. Shutting my room door ... and - CRAMMING Euc. - - 1841. _Punch_, vol. i. p. 201, col. 1. Aspirants to honours in law, - physic, or divinity, each know the value of private CRAMMING. - - 1844. _Puck_, p. 13. Though for Great Go and for Small, I teach Paley, - CRAM and all. - - 1853. BRADLEY (“C. Bede”), _Verdant Green_, pt. II. p. 68. The - infatuated Mr. Bouncer madly persisted ... in going into the school - clad in his examination coat, and padded over with a host of CRAMS. - - 1863. CHARLES READE, _Hard Cash_, i. p. 16. “All this term I have been - (‘training’ scratched out and another word put in: c—r oh, I know) - CRAMMING.” “CRAMMING, love?” “Yes, that is Oxfordish for studying.” - - 1869. SPENCER, _Study of Sociology_, ch. xv. 574 (9th ed.). And here, - by higher culture, I do not mean mere language-learning, and an - extension of the detestable CRAMMING system at present in use. - - 1872. BESANT AND RICE, _My Little Girl_. The writer of one crushing - article CRAMMED for it, like Mr. Pott’s young man. - - 1872. _Evening Standard_, Aug. 16. “The Competition Wallah.” The - CRAMMER follows in the wake of competitive examinations as surely as - does the shadow the body. - - 1872. _Daily News_, Dec. 20. Competitive examinations for the public - service defeated in a great measure the object of their promoters, - which was to place rich and poor on an equality, because success was - made to depend very largely on successful CRAMMING, which meant a - high-priced CRAMMER. - - -*Crib*, _subs._ (general).—A surreptitious aid to study. Also as - _verb_. - - 1841. _Punch_, i. 177. CRIBBING his answers from a tiny manual ... - which he hides under his blotting-paper. _Ibid._, 185. He has with a - prudent forethought stuffed his CRIBS inside his double-breasted - waistcoat. - - 1855. THACKERAY, _Newcomes_, ch. xxii. I wish I had read Greek a - little more at school, ... when we return I think I shall try and read - it with CRIBS. - - 1856. T. HUGHES, _Tom Brown’s School-days_, pt. II. ch. vi. Tom, I - want you to give up using vulgus books and CRIBS. _Ibid._, ii. 3. Two - highly moral lines ... which he CRIBBED entire from one of his books. - - 1889. _Globe_, 12th Oct., p. 1, col. 4. Always, it seems likely, there - will be men “going up” for examinations; and every now and again, no - doubt, there will be among them a wily “Heathen Pass-ee” like him of - whom Mr. Hilton speaks—who had CRIBS up his sleeve, and notes on his - cuff. - - -*Crick, The* (Rugby). _See_ quot. - - 1890. _Great Public Schools_, 182. THE CRICK is the most celebrated of - all school runs. Everybody, I fancy, in the running world has heard of - it. On a day at the end of the Christmas term—generally on the first - Thursday in December—you may see all the School assembled at the “Quad - gates.”... THE CRICK is only run once a year. Its course is along - roads and footpaths to Crick village, and then back by Hillmorton, the - finish being a length of about a third of a mile along the Hillmorton - Road. It is a race pure and simple; and is in this respect a race - against time.... The length of the race is supposed to be about eleven - or twelve miles, and the time in which it is run is generally between - an hour and twenty minutes and an hour and a half. - - -*Cricket-bill*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A “call-over” on the - cricket-ground. All fall into line, down which a master goes - noting the number of those absent as stated by the SHEPHERDS - (_q.v._). - - -*Cricket-Quarter*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—_See_ LONG QUARTER. - - -*Croc*, _subs._ (Cheltenham).—A ladies’ school when walking out. - - -*Crocketts*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A kind of bastard cricket, - sometimes called “small CROCKETTS.” A stump was used and a - fives ball, with a bat of plain deal about two inches broad, - or a broomstick. TO GET CROCKETTS = to fail to score; to get - a “duck’s egg.” _Cf._ BOOKS. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester College_, p. 122. The - more noisily disposed would indulge in ... playing Hicockolorum, or - CROCKETTS. - - -*Cropple*, _verb_ (Winchester).—To pluck; to plough—UP TO Books. - [_Wykehamicé_ for _cripple_.] - - -*Cross.* TO BE CROSSED, _verb. phr._—For not paying term bills - to the bursar (treasurer), or for cutting chapels, or - lectures, or other offences, an undergrad. can be CROSSED at - the buttery, or kitchen, or both, _i.e._ a CROSS is put - against his name by the Don, who wishes to see him, or to - punish him. - - 1853. BRADLEY (“Cuthbert Bede”), _Verdant Green_, pt. II. ch. x. - Sir!—You will translate all your lectures; have your name CROSSED on - the buttery and kitchen books; and be confined to chapel, hall, and - college. - - -*Crow*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A master. [From the black gown - with “wings.”] - - -*Crown* (Charterhouse).—The school tuck-shop. - - 1900. TOD, _Charterhouse_, 96. At Old Charterhouse the word CROWN, - with a sort of coronet above it, was painted in large white letters on - a wall near the racket courts. The story is that the Crown Inn once - stood just outside this wall.... When the inn was pulled down, Lord - Ellenborough, then a boy in the school, painted a crown on a wall near - the place where the inn had stood. Years after, on his return from - India, being touched to find his boyish work still in existence, he - expressed a hope that it might never be allowed to vanish; so it has - been painted again from time to time, and Merchant Taylors’ still keep - it fresh. This “CROWN” was not near the tuck-shop, which was a grimy - cellar under the old school, with the face of a disused clock for a - signboard, and the superscription, “NO TICK HERE.” But it was thought - fit that the memory of this old word should be kept up somehow and - somewhere at the new school, so a large theatrical-looking crown was - suspended, like a tavern sign, outside the school tuck-shop in the - pavilion. In this way the name and memory of this bit of antiquity are - preserved. - - -*Crow Wood* (Stonyhurst).—A wood in the Park. - - 1884. _Stonyhurst Mag._, June, p. 294. The churn was in the latter - days [1834] turned by a wheel worked by water supplied from the CROW - WOOD. - - -*Crug*, _subs._ 1. (Christ’s Hospital).—At Hertford, a crust; in - the London school, crust and crumb alike. - - 1820. LAMB, _Elia_ (_Christ’s Hospital_) [_Works_ (1852), 322]. He had - his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our - quarter of a penny loaf—our CRUG. - - 2. A BLUE (_q.v._); especially an “old boy.” - - 1877. BLANCH, _Blue-Coat Boys_, p. 80. All CRUGS will well remember, - &c. - - -*Cruganaler*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A biscuit given on - St. Matthew’s Day. [Orthography dubious. Blanch inclines to - the following derivation: “The biscuit had once something to - do with those nights when bread and beer, with cheese, were - substituted for bread-and-butter and milk. Thence the - term ‘crug and aler.’ The only argument against this is - the fact that the liquid was never dignified with the - name of ale, but was invariably called ‘the swipes.’ By - another derivation = ‘hard as nails.’ It is then spelt - CRUGGYNAILER.”] Obsolete. - - -*Cruggy*, _adj._ (Christ’s Hospital).—Hungry. [From CRUG - (_q.v._).] - - -*Crump*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A hard hit; a fall. Also as - _verb_. - - -*Cud*, _adj._ 1. (Winchester).—Pretty; handsome. [A suggested - derivation is from κυδος; another is the A.S. _cuð_, the - Scots _couthie_, and whence _cuðle_, to cuddle (a derivative - of _cuð_), the meaning formerly given to a verbal usage of - CUD at Winchester.] - - 2. (Christ’s Hospital).—Severe. Whence CUDDY = hard: - difficult; said of a lesson. Also _Hertfordicé_ for - PASSY (_q.v._). [There is a common hard biscuit called a - “cuddy-biscuit” which doubtless has this derivation.] - Obsolete. - - -*Culminate*, _verb_ (University: obsolete).—To mount a - coach-box. - - 1803. _Gradus ad Cantabrigiam_, s.v. - - -*Cup-fag*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—A boy whose duty it is to - place the challenge cups, should his House have any, in - their cases each morning, and remove them to a safe place - every night. He has also to keep them clean, and for neglect - of any of these duties he is fined. He receives a quarterly - payment for his services, and is exempt from other forms of - fagging. - - -*Curtain.* ABOVE THE CURTAIN, _phr._ (Westminster).—_See_ quot. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 108. A curtain formerly was - drawn across the school, dividing the upper forms from the lower. One - day a boy was so unlucky as to tear it; and Busby’s known severity - left no doubt of the punishment that would follow. The offender was in - despair, when a generous schoolfellow volunteered to take the blame - upon himself and suffered in his friend’s stead accordingly.... In - three year’s time he was sufficiently advanced to be admitted by Busby - ABOVE THE CURTAIN—that is, into the fourth class, the lowest in the - upper school. Of this class, however, he says the head-master “took - little or no care,” but as he rose into the higher forms he found the - teaching more satisfactory. - - -*Cuse*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A book in which a record is kept - of the “marks” in each division; a CLASSICUS PAPER (_q.v._): - also used for the weekly order. - - -*Custos*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The official who looks after all - arrangements in the way of stationery, &c., keeps the keys, - cuts names on the House-boards, &c. - - Also _see_ ADMONISHING-MONEY. - - -*Cut*, _verb_ (general).—To avoid; to absent oneself from: - _e.g._ TO CUT LECTURE, TO CUT CHAPEL, TO CUT HALL, TO CUT - GATES. _See_ Appendix. - - TO CUT INTO, _verb. phr._ (Winchester).—Originally to hit - one with a “ground ash.” The office was exercised by - Bible-clerks upon a man kicking up a row when up to Books. - Now generally used in the sense of to correct in a less - formal manner than TUNDING (_q.v._). - - TO CUT IN A BOOK, _verb. phr._ (Winchester).—_See_ quot. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866). CUT IN A - BOOK.—A method of drawing lots. A certain letter was fixed on (_e.g._ - the first in the second line on the left page), each boy then turned - over a leaf, and whoever turned over the leaf in which the - corresponding letter was nearest to A, won. - - -*Cuts*, _subs._ (general).—Flannel trousers; SHORTS (_q.v._). - - - - - - -*Dab*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The entrance examination: held at the - beginning of term. - - To be a DAB = to be skilled at anything. Hence, the two - entrance examinations, one at the end of term, and the other - at the very beginning of the next, are the SKEW (_q.v._) and - the DAB respectively. The DAB offers no second chance; hence - a bad candidate tries the “skew” first. - - -*Dame*, _subs._ (Eton).—A mathematical or other master (except a - classical) who keeps a boarding-house for boys in College. - Also (obsolete) at Harrow. _See_ Appendix, and quot. 1867. - - 1786-1805. TOOKE, _Parley_, 390, s.v. BATTEL. A term used at Eton for - the small portion of food which in addition to the College allowance - the Collegers receive from their DAMES. - - 1865. _Etoniana_, 133. Formerly these [boarding] houses were almost - entirely kept by “DAMES” or “Dominies”—the latter being the old style - when there was a male head of the establishment, though now the term - “DAMES” applies to all without reference to sex. Tutors and - assistant-masters used to live in most of these houses, but had no - charge over the boys. Only the lower master and some of the senior - assistant-masters kept houses of their own. There are now twenty - boarding-houses kept by masters, and ten by “DAMES”—of whom four only - are ladies. - - 1866-72. “MAC,” _Sketchy Memories of Eton_ (1885). I am thankful to - say that I did not attend the show. But I happened to see the World - conducted back to his DAME’S, and the spectacle was gruesome. The - punishment inflicted had been very considerable, and I do not think - the World appeared in public for quite a fortnight. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_ [Harrow], p. 293. All these - [sixteen boarding-houses other than the head-master’s] are kept by - assistant-masters, and form one considerable source of their income. - No DAMES’ boarding-houses are now sanctioned; and for the good order - of his establishment each master is responsible. - - 1890. _Great Public Schools_, 16. Until recently some of the - boarding-houses were kept by assistant-masters, the remainder by - “dominies” or “DAMES,” who took no part in the work of education, and - had little or no disciplinary jurisdiction. The boys, therefore, who - boarded in DAMES’ houses had as their tutors assistant-masters - residing elsewhere. Now, although there remains only one female DAME, - the teachers of mathematics, science, and French are for some purposes - accounted DAMES. - - -*Damnation-corner*, _subs._ (Eton).—_See_ quot., and - DAMNATION-HILL (Appendix). - - 1866-72. “MAC,” _Sketchy Memories of Eton_ (1885). Meanwhile, - “regardless of our doom, we little victims played,” or rather watched - the play; we little knew what cruel fate awaited us, or that the - present head-master of Eton and the Rev. F. W. Cornish lay in ambush - for our outcoming behind that very sharp turn in the High Street, - which, on account of its acute angle, and the consequent danger of - being nailed in shirking in old days, was somewhat flippantly termed - DAMNATION-CORNER. - - -*Dancing Gallery, The* (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—The old name of - the Picta Gallery. - - 1884. _Stonyhurst Mag._, i. 290. The gallery now known as “Our Lady’s - Gallery,” which in former times was designated THE DANCING GALLERY. It - is by competent judges pronounced to be one of the finest bits of - “Baronial Gothic” architecture in England, but the door is quite a - solecism, for it is of a much later design. - - -*Dark Walk, The* (Stonyhurst).—A long avenue of tall yew trees - in the garden. Tradition says the last of the Shireburns was - poisoned by eating some of the berries from these trees. - _Cf._ _Stonyhurst Mag._, ii. 179; iv. 703. - - 1885. _Stonyhurst Mag._, i. 179. The DARK WALK formerly extended a - considerable way nearer the house than now, and when the Jesuits came - it was found necessary to encroach upon the gardens to make room for - the playgrounds, and a certain part of the DARK WALK was taken in. - - -*Darker* (Harrow).—The photographic “dark-room”: formerly under - the Science Schools. - - -*Dark-lanthorn* (Harrow).—_See_ JACK-O’-LANTERN. - - -*Date-card*, _subs._ (Haileybury).—_See_ quot. - - 1890. _Great Public Schools_, 297. Besides the ordinary forms of - punishment, there is the DATE-CARD, of which refractory or forgetful - youths write out selected “twelves.” It is much more useful to know - “Gutenberg prints from moveable type, 1453,” than to record “Infaudum, - regina, jubes renovare dolorem.” - - -*Daviesites* (Charterhouse).—_See_ OUT-HOUSES. - - -*Day* (Stonyhurst).—Rector’s Day, Provincial’s Day, General’s - Day—whole holidays given in honour of superiors; in the two - former instances accompanied by presentations of verses - written by the boys. [The word “DAY” seems as peculiar as - “PLACE” (_q.v._). _Cf._ the “Three hundred-day,” given when - the number of boys first reached three hundred; “Kenna’s - Day,” on the occasion of the visit of Captain Kenna, V.C., - to the College, &c.] - - -*Day-boys*, _subs._ (Cheltenham).—An exercise on the horizontal - bar. - - -*Dean*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A small band of wood round a - BILL-BRIGHTER (_q.v._); that securing a fagot is called a - BISHOP (_q.v._). - - -*Debater*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The school debating society. - - -*Deeds* (or *Dees*), _subs._ (Felsted).—Private prayers. - - -*Deg*, _subs._ and _verb_ (The Leys).—To degrade; to depose. - Hence, one who has forfeited rank or office by misconduct. - - -*Degra*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—A degradation. - - -*Degrade*, _verb_ (Christ’s Hospital).—To feel degradation: - _e.g._ he is DEGRADED to do so-and-so. - - -*Dep*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A deputy GRECIAN (_q.v._), - _i.e._ a boy in the form below the GRECIANS. - - -*Deputy*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The Junior CANDLEKEEPER - (_q.v._), who had the organisation of the Fagging - department, and assisted the Senior CANDLEKEEPER in - thrashing the Juniors in Hall.—MANSFIELD (_c._ 1840). - - -*Derrywag*, _subs._ (Harrow).—Paper used for parsing: ruled - twenty lines down, and six across. [That is, “derivation - paper.”] - - -*Deten*, _subs._ (King Edward’s, Birm.).—A card issued to a boy - set down for Saturday afternoon detention. Also called a - SOUP-TICKET. - - -*Devor*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—Plum-cake. [From the Latin - verb.] - - -*Dex*, _subs._ (Loretto).—A form of “small cricket” once - extremely popular at Loretto. [The name originated with - Andrew Lang, and was not intended to be complimentary to the - game. Often called PUDDEX, owing to a mistaken derivation.] - - -*Dibs* (or *Dobs*), _subs._ (Sherborne).—Prayers. - - -*Dic*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A dictionary. - - -*Dinge*, _subs._ (Royal Military Academy).—A picture or - painting. - - -*Dip*, _subs._ 1. (Westminster).—A pocket-inkstand. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 165. Two pen-knives, two - pieces of india-rubber, two pencils, two pieces of sealing-wax, two - pieces of penstring, two DIPS (little globular ink-bottles), two - DIP-CORKS, two wedges, two pieces of gutta-percha (for putting on the - points of foils), and any number of pens. [Contents of a Westminster - fag’s pocket.] - - 2. (Felsted).—An “incandescent” electric lamp. Hence DIP-KEY - = an electric light switch-key. - - -*Dispar* (or *Disper*), _subs._ (Winchester).—A portion; a - share. _See_ quot., and CAT’S-HEAD. - - 1847. HALLIWELL, _Arch. Words_, s.v. DISPAR ... A commons or share. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 22. Under the superintendence - of the _præfectus ollæ_ (prefect of tub), portions of beef, called - DISPARS, were served out to the boys in messes of four, with a - sufficiency of bread, and beer in large black jacks. - - -*Distinction-breakfast*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—_See_ - GOOD-BREAKFAST. - - -*Distinguished*, _adj._ (Stonyhurst).—Said of a boy who obtains - two-thirds of the marks in any examination. “Distinction” in - the year’s work wins a prize, and term “distinctions” are - otherwise rewarded. - - -*Ditch* (The), _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—_See_ Appendix. - - 1854. _The Blue_ [quoted in] July 1871. The Steward did not attempt to - quiet us; he got us out of the Hall as quickly as he could, and we - rushed to the Treasurer’s house in the DITCH, and cried “Shame” till - we were tired. - - -*Ditto-blues*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A suit of clothes all of - blue cloth. - - -*Div*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A “division”: _e.g._ TIQUE-DIV - (_q.v._). - - -*Do*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A general name for minor and special - suppers: usually given to some privileged class, or in - reward for some extra work: e.g. Choir-DO; Magazine-DO - (given to the staff and contributors to the School - magazine). _Cf._ GOOD-SUPPER and GOOD-BREAKFAST. Whence - DO-ROOM = the long room in which a DO is held. [As a rule - words with the suffix “room” are modern; “PLACE” (_q.v._) is - the older form.] - - -*Dock*, _verb_ (Winchester).—To erase: as by rubbing out, or by - a stroke of the pen; to tear out: as leaves from a book. - Also DOCK OUT. - - -*Doctor*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The Head-master. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester College_, p. 27. The - Head Master, or the DOCTOR, as he is always called, lives in - “Commoners’ buildings.” - - -*Dog-biscuit*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—A biscuit, which with a - glass of milk, or (in winter) a cup of coffee, may be had - before chapel at 7.30 A.M. - - -*Dogger*, _verb_ (Charterhouse).—To cheat; to sell rubbish. - - -*Dogs*, _intj._ (Royal High School, Edin.: obsolete).—The - III^{rd} Class: formerly used as was CATS (_q.v._) of the - II^{nd} Class. - - -*Dog-shooter*, _subs._ (Royal Military Academy).—_See_ quot. - - 1889. BARRERE, _Slang, Jargon, and Cant_, p. 317. Cadets thus term a - student who accelerates, that is, who, being pretty certain of not - being able to obtain a commission in the engineers, or not caring for - it, elects to join a superior class before the end of the term. - - -*Dole*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A stratagem; a trick: as - to get one out of bed. [From Latin _dolus_.] - - -*Dolifier*, _subs._ (Winchester).—One who contrives a trick. - _See_ DOLE. - - -*Dolphin*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A boy who has passed a certain - examination in swimming and diving: about the fifteen best, - as a rule, are so named. - - 1890. _Great Public Schools_, p. 96. On the last Monday of the term - there is a contest for the best swimmer and the best diver, a - challenge cup being given for these events by Lord Ebrington. There - are also contests for racing, picking up eggs, and to become - “DOLPHINS,” and for a Humane Society medal. - - -*Dome* (or *Doom*), _subs._ (Sherborne).—A bedroom. - - -*Domum*, _intj._ (Winchester; obsolete).—The summons back from - Hills: given by College Juniors. Also as in quot. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_, 207. DOMUM—a Latin - Canticle, supposed to have been written by a boy who was not allowed - to go home for the holidays. The tradition says that he carved it on a - tree, and then committed suicide. On the last Friday in Long Half, - after Election, a kind of festival was held in the evening, when - numbers of people came into College, and DOMUM was sung over and over - again in School, Meads, and the principal Quadrangle ... at each place - (p. 183) singing DOMUM louder than before, till at last the power - failed, and the ladies, visitors, and superannuates went to recruit - their energies for a brief period before going to the DOMUM-BALL at - St. John’s rooms. - - -*Domum-ball*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A ball given by the - superannuated College Prefects on the evening after the - “men” go home for the Midsummer holidays. - - -*Domum-day*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Going-home day at Midsummer. - - -*Don*, _subs._ (University).—A fellow or officer of a college; - whence the vulgar usage = an adept; a swell. [From Latin - _dominus_, a lord, through the Spanish title.] - - 1665. DRYDEN, _Indian Emperor_, Epilogue, 21. For the great DONS of - wit—Phœbus gives them full privilege alone, To damn all others, and - cry up their own. - - 1698-1700. WARD, _London Spy_, pt. XIII. p. 299. Like the Great Old - DONS of the Law, when they dance the Measures in an Inns-of-Court Hall - upon the first day of Christmas. - - 1730. JAS. MILLER, _Humours of Oxford_, i. p. 7 (2nd ed.). The old - DONS ... will come cringing, cap in hand, to offer to show the ladies - the curiosities of the college. - - 1826. REYNOLDS (“Peter Corcoran”), _Song on the Fancy_. Dull - innocence! Twaddle on, Thy weary worshipper—and fain Would give thee - up, to be a DON, And beat the watch in Drury Lane. - - 1855. THACKERAY, _Newcomes_, ch. xi. Does not go much into society, - except ... once or twice to the houses of great country DONS who dwell - near him in the country. - - _c._ 1880. _Broadside Ballad_, sung by Jenny Hill. “’Arry, ’Arry, - There you are now, ’Arry, I say, ’Arry, by Jove, you are a DON.” - - 1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 11. What the DONS can be about to - allow boys ... to have a bottle of champagne each, and then “more,” I - can _not_ understand. - - -*Dor*, _subs._ (Old Westminster).—_See_ quot. [TO OBTAIN A DOR = - to get leave to sleep.—HALLIWELL.] - - 1715. J. KERSEY, _English Dictionary_. _Sub voce_, a term used at - Westminster School for leave to sleep awhile. - - -*Double*, _subs._ 1. (Loretto).—A general assembly of the - school. The first double is for morning prayers at 9.30 A.M. - after first hour’s school. After prayers, sides for the day - are arranged in Hall. The head boy holds a double after - dinner, when the exercise of those not playing in regular - games is arranged. [Originally summoned by a double bell.] - - 2. (Harrow).—A room shared by one other. _See_ SINGLE. - - -*Double Puff*, _subs. phr._ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—_See_ quot. - - 1886. _Stonyhurst Mag._, iii. 18. DOUBLE PUFF, ... a game played after - the fashion of “tip and run,” except that instead of a wicket and - tennis ball a Stonyhurst cricket bat is used, and a ball about the - size of an ordinary BANDY (_q.v._) ball, made of soft material and - covered with sheepskin, which made it very hard to hit far, and still - harder either to catch, or to pick up and throw in.... The distance - between the wickets is not as long as in wicket cricket; and the rule - about bowling is the same as in Stonyhurst cricket, namely, under-arm - and not waiting till the batsman is ready. It used to be played a good - many years ago on Sunday afternoons, between Vespers and supper; and - the community used to come out in large numbers to play it. - - -*Double-ruled*, _subs._ (Harrow).—Punishment paper. [Ruled - double like a copy-book.] - - -*Dough*, _subs._ (general).—Pudding. - - -*Doul*, _subs._ (Shrewsbury and Durham).—A fag. Also as _verb_. - Obsolete at Durham. _Cf._ DOWLINGS. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_ [Shrewsbury], p. 250. Four boys - are “put on” by rotation every week as general fags for the head - common room, whose duties in modern days consist chiefly in fetching - and carrying. These fags are called DOULS (δουλος) in the classical - Shrewsbury vernacular. - - -*Dove*, _subs._ (Cambridge: obsolete).—A member of St. - Catharine’s College. - - 1889. C. WHIBLEY, _Three Centuries of Cambridge Wit_, p. xxix. It is - said that the members of St. Catharine’s Hall were first of all called - “Puritans” from the derivation of the name of their patroness from - καθαίρειν. The “dove” being the emblem of purity, to change a name - from “Puritans” to DOVES was but one short step. - - -*Dowlings*, _subs._ (Shrewsbury).—Football. - - 1883. PASCOE, _Life at our Public Schools_. There are four or five - compulsory games a week (football) known as DOWLINGS (δουλος). - - -*Down.* TO BE DOWN, _verb. phr._ (Winchester).—To be engaged in - fagging: as in the cricket field, &c. A COLLEGE usage. - - Also _see_ GO and SEND. - - -*Draw.* TO DRAW ROUND, _verb. phr._ (Felsted).—Originally to - bustle about; to chastise in a jocular way. Later, and - usually = to smack on the face or head. - - -*Dreep* (or *Dreip*), _subs._ (Royal High School, Edin.).—A - curiously dressed person: _e.g._ “That’s a funny-looking - DREEP.” - - -*Dribbler*, _subs._ (Sherborne).—A weak-minded person. - - -*Drifty*, _adj._ (Felsted: obsolete).—Cold: _e.g._ “a DRIFTY - day.” - - -*Drive*, _verb_ (Felsted).—To be late, or nearly late, for a - roll-call. Also as _subs._: _e.g._ “He did a drive.” - - _Intj._ (Felsted).—A contemptuous retort, signifying that a - piece of news is stale: originally DRIVE UP! [The original - usage.] - - -*Dry-bob*, _subs._ (Eton).—A boy who goes in for cricket rather - than boating. _See_ WET-BOB. - - 1839. BUCKLAND [_Macmillan’s Mag._ (Nov. 1889), “Eton Fifty Years - Ago”]. It was the ambition of most boys to be a wet-bob, and to be “in - the boats.” The school was divided between wet-bobs and DRY-BOBS, the - former taking their pleasure on the river, and the latter in the - cricket-field. - - -*Duchess’ Rooms* (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—A section of the old - College once inhabited by a Dowager Duchess of Norfolk. - - 1885. _Stonyhurst Mag._, ii. 100. The whole of this building ... stood - in what is now the back court.... It was entirely of wood and plaster, - in the style denominated “post and pattern.” The Duchess of Norfolk, - the last of the Shireburns, daughter of Sir Nicholas, resided in it, - hence the name of THE DUCHESS’ ROOMS by which it was last known. She - faced the front of the wooden building with stone, and inserted sash - windows, a style then coming into fashion. - - -*Dubs*, _adj._ (Winchester).—Double. - - -*Duck*, _subs._ 1. (Winchester).—The face. TO MAKE A DUCK = to - grimace. [DUCK (var. dial.) = to bow.] - - 2. (Felsted).—A school matron. - - 3. (Harrow).—One of the House swimming four, upwards of - sixteen. Whence DUCKLING = one under sixteen. - - 1890. _Great Public Schools_, p. 96. “Ducker” is open all the summer - term, and for two weeks after the boys go back in September. For those - who care for swimming there are inter-House swimming matches; and each - House elects DUCKS (boys over sixteen) and DUCKLINGS (boys under - sixteen) to compete for Cock-House. - - -*Ducker, The* (Harrow).—The school bathing-place beyond the - Footer Fields: the largest artificial open-air bathing place - in England. Originally the DUCK-PUDDLE. [Probably the first - example of the “-ER” terminations: it is at least forty - years old.] - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 322. Bathing was always, until - very lately, practised under difficulties at Harrow. The common - bathing-place, known as DUCK-PUDDLE ... was a long piece of muddy - water, varying from four to eight feet in depth. There, after it had - been stirred up by all possible means into more of a puddle than - usual, new boys were formally dipped.... To avoid mixing in the - general wash at DUCK-PUDDLE, many boys used to go out to the Brent at - Perivale, or even as far as Ellestree reservoir, for bathing; and - these were favourite expeditions on the mornings of Saints’ days. But - Dr. Vaughan had the old “puddle” lined with brick, and supplied with - water by a steam-engine, to the great additional comfort of the - bathers. - - -*Ducks*, _subs._ (Harrow).—Football knickerbockers. [Made of - white “duck.”] - - -*Dump*, _verb_ (Winchester).—To extinguish: as a candle. _Ex._ - DUMP the TOLLY (_q.v._). [_Dump_ (Devon) = to knock heavily; - to stump.] - - -*Dungeons.* MEET YOU IN THE DUNGEONS, _phr._ (Royal High School, - Edin.).—A challenge to fight. _See_ CALTON, and CAMPUS - MARTIUS. - - -*Dusthole*, _subs._ (Cambridge: obsolete).—Sidney Sussex - College. - - - - - - -*Early* (or *Late*) *Play*, _subs._ (Westminster).—_See_ quot. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 186. Besides the regular - weekly half-holidays, there are others specially granted, known as - EARLY and LATE PLAYS. The latter, given by the head-master at his - discretion, consists in the remission of all school work after eleven - A.M. But an EARLY PLAY—when school is “up” at nine—is a much more - formal indulgence, accorded by very ancient custom only to the - personal request of some visitor of distinction. St. David’s Day - (March 1st) and St. Patrick’s (March 17) have always been holidays of - this class: for the former, the late and the present Sir Watkin Wynn - have always come down to Westminster; and for the latter, the late - Marquess of Lansdowne (as an Irish peer) and Sir Everard Home. The - custom, even now observed on some occasions, was for the visitor’s - arrival at the gate to be formally announced to the head-master by - Monos, who received a “tip” for his services. The master at once “came - down school,” and reappeared through the great door, accompanied by - the hero of the day, who was received by the boys with great - demonstrations of welcome, expressed by the vigorous rapping of books - on the desks. Both knelt down side by side, while the “monitor of - school,” kneeling immediately in front of them, proceeded with the - usual school prayers. The visitor then “begged a play,” which was - granted. The applause was renewed, and acknowledged by a bow, after - which the whole of the boys rushed joyously down school, the masters - following in more grave and stately fashion. The visits of the “King - of North Wales” were doubly popular, since he presented every Welsh - boy with a sovereign—a custom which the present baronet liberally - continues. - - -*East.* _See_ WISE MEN OF THE EAST. - - -*Ecky*, _subs._ (Manchester Grammar).—Exercise. - - -*Egg* (or *Egg-up*), _verb_ (Marlborough).—To show ostentatious - zeal. Whence EGGER (_subs._) and EGGY (_adj._). - - -*Egg-flip Day*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The Founder’s - Commemoration Day. [Because a favourite beverage at the - festivities succeeding the great annual football match - played on that day between the “first sixes” of Commoners - and College was “Egg-flip.”] - - -*Eggotty*, _adj._ (Felsted).—Used as follows: A boy seen - carrying an egg or eggs, if addressed by another as - “EGGOTTY,” might, must in fact, almost in honour, throw an - egg at him. If the egg-owner was a good shot he would invite - his friend “call me EGGOTTY.” - - -*Eight*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The school Shooting EIGHT: also the - Gym. EIGHT. - - -*Election*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The examination of Præfects - and Senior Part for New College, and of candidates for - admission to Winchester. - - _Intj._ (Westminster).—A fag-call. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 164. From about 8 to 10 he - [the fag] is supposed to be at work, in a sort of common room assigned - to the juniors collectively, preparing his lessons for next day; but - the call of “ELECTION,” which signifies that the services of one of - the junior election is required by one of the seniors, used to be - frequent enough to be a very serious interruption. It is admitted that - these demands upon a junior’s time have commonly been such that “a boy - tempted to be idle, as most of them are, finds very considerable - difficulty in doing his work.” In order to check these interruptions - as far as possible, a late regulation has made all fagging unlawful - during these evening hours of work. - - TO GAIN A YEAR BY ELECTION, _verb. phr._ (Winchester).—A boy - not being a FOUNDER (_q.v._) was obliged to leave at the - Election immediately succeeding his eighteenth birthday; he - whose birthday came shortly after Election, was thus enabled - to stay till he was nearly nineteen, and was so said “to - gain a year.”—MANSFIELD (_c._ 1840). - - -*Electors*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The Warden and two Fellows of - New College, and the Warden, Sub-Warden, and Head-master of - Winchester, who conducted ELECTION (_q.v._).—MANSFIELD (_c._ - 1840). - - -*Elegant Extracts*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—Students who, though - “plucked,” were still given their degrees. A line was drawn - below the poll-list, and those allowed to pass were - nicknamed the ELEGANT EXTRACTS. There was a similar limbo in - the honour-list. - - -*Elements*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The first Form. - - -*End*, _subs._ 1. (Winchester).—A table or division of a table - in College Hall, practically meaning “mess.”—WRENCH. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 208. END.—At - dinner-time the INFERIORS (_q.v._) were divided into six companies, - each being presided over by a _Candlekeeper_ (_q.v._). These companies - and the table at which they sat were called ENDS. - - 2. (Felsted).—_See_ TIP. - - -*English*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A translation; an adventitious - aid to study; a crib. - - -*Ensign* (Eton).—_See_ MONTEM. - - -*Enterta*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—An entertainment. - - -*-er*, _inseparable suffix_ (Harrow). - - -*Erasmus.* GREAT (or LITTLE) ERASMUS FORM, _subs. phr._ - (Christ’s Hospital).—_See_ quot. - - 1834. TROLLOPE, _History of Christ’s Hospital_. THE GREAT AND LITTLE - ERASMUS FORMS get their respectable and respective titles from the - fact that their tenants in old time studied the larger and smaller - Colloquies of the learned Erasmus. - - 1870-95. _More Gleanings from_ THE BLUE, 191. THE GREAT ERASMUS.—The - origin of a name is seldom what one thinks it ought to be. Those of us - who rejoice in being able to write after our names the mystic letters, - L.E._x._, L.E._y._, L.E._z._, are distinguished from our less - fortunate neighbours by the lightning fluency with which we are able - to talk secrets in Greek. ERASMUS is a Greek word, and the Dutchman, - thanks to a visit to Oxford, became so great a scholar in Greek, that - he was appointed first Regius Professor of Greek in the University of - Cambridge.... Unfortunately, this is all wrong as far as the LITTLE - ERAS. are concerned, for they were not called ERAS. because they knew - Greek, but because they read Latin.... Erasmus did a kindness to - Christ’s Hospital long after his death in having written a number of - “Colloquies,” conversations between typical characters of his day, in - clear and faultless Latin. - - -*Ewe-lamb*, _subs._ (The Leys).—A school hour in which a Master - or Prefect has no appointed lesson. - - -*Ex*, _subs._ (Harrow).—(1) An exercise of any sort; and (2) an - EXEAT (_q.v._). Also (Charterhouse) in sense 2, but _not_ - EXTRA, sense 3 (_q.v._). - - -*Ex-Course-keeper*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ COURSE-KEEPER. - - -*Exeat*, _subs._ 1. (general).—Written permission to go away - from School or College either at the end or during the term - for a longer period than a day. _Cf._ ABSIT. - - 1886. DICKENS, _Dict. of Cambridge_, 3. No undergraduate should go - down without obtaining his EXEAT. - - 2. (Charterhouse).—An interval in the middle of each of the - three terms of the school year; it was instituted so that - there might be no leaving at odd times. It lasts from noon - on Saturday to 6.45 P.M. on the following Monday. Formerly - Upper School had a GOING-OUT SATURDAY every week, and the - Under School one every other week, and leave lasted from - noon on Saturday till Sunday evening chapel. Also at Harrow - a similar term of leave. - - -*Exercises*, _subs._ (Sherborne: obsolete).—Ordinary Form - lessons, not merely written work: seventeenth century. - - -*Explain.* DON’T EXPLAIN! _intj._ (The Leys).—An injunction to - silence; “Shut up!” - - -*Extra*, _subs._ (Harrow).—1. Extra school on Tuesdays, when - those SENT (_q.v._) copy out Latin grammar for two hours and - a half: an extreme punishment. - - 2. (Harrow).—An extra day’s BOY (_q.v._): given to those who - CUT (_q.v._) when “on boy.” - - 3. (Charterhouse).—Extra school: it lasts from 2 to 4 every - Wednesday afternoon. The ways of procuring admission to it - are various: to neglect a REP (_q.v._) or a “construe,” to - be late for anything, to make a noise in the cubicles, to - come into school in slippers, or any misdemeanour leads to a - boy being “down for EXTRA.” The entries are kept in ... THE - BLACK BOOK. EXTRA school is for offences committed during - the first part of the week. There is also EXTRA drill on - Saturdays in Scholars’ Court, which lasts half the time of - EXTRA school, and which is much more disliked, for offences - committed between a Thursday and a Saturday. - - -*Extra Drill*, _subs._ (The Leys).—Imposed by way of punishment. - - -*Ex Trumps*, _adv. phr._ (Winchester).—Extempore. TO GO UP TO - BOOKS EX TRUMPS = to go to class without preparing one’s - lesson. - - - - - - -*Fag*, _subs._ 1. (general).—A boy who does menial work for a - schoolfellow in a higher Form. [From FAG, to grow weary.] - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 37. The - duties of a FAG, in the days of which I write, may be more easily - described by informing the reader what he had not to do, than by - endeavouring to make out a list of his positive duties. I believe when - I say that he had not to make the beds, nor to clean shoes, I have - exhausted the negative catalogue. - - 1855. THACKERAY, _Newcomes_, ch. xviii. Bob Trotter, the diminutive - FAG of the studio, who ran on all the young men’s errands, and fetched - them in apples, oranges, and walnuts. - - 1856. HUGHES, _Tom Brown’s School-days_, vii. These were the principal - duties of the FAGS in the house. From supper until nine o’clock three - FAGS taken in order stood in the passages, and answered any præposter - who called “Fag,” racing to the door, the last comer having to do the - work. This consisted generally of going to the buttery for beer and - bread and cheese (for the great men did not sup with the rest, but had - each his own allowance in his study or the fifth-form room), cleaning - candlesticks and putting in new candles, toasting cheese, bottling - beer, and carrying messages about the house.... And besides this - nightwork, each præpostor had three or four fags specially allotted to - him, of whom he was supposed to be the guide, philosopher, and friend, - and who in return for these good offices had to clean out his study - every morning by turns, directly after first lesson and before he - returned from breakfast. - - 1857. G. A. LAWRENCE, _Guy Livingstone_, ch. i. Is still enumerated - among the feats of the brave days of old, by the FAGS over their - evening small beer. - - 2. (Christ’s Hospital).—_See_ quot. - - 1850. L. HUNT, _Autobiography_, ch. iii. FAG, with us [at Christ’s - Hospital] meant eatables. The learned derived the word from the Greek - _phago_, to eat. - - 3. (Stonyhurst).—A fielder: at cricket. Also FAGGER. - - 4. (Stonyhurst).—A bore. - - _Verb._ 1. (general).—To do menial work for a schoolfellow - in a higher Form. Hence FAGGER, FAG-MASTER, FAGGING, and - FAGGERY. - - 1853. DE QUINCEY, _Autob. Sketches_, i. 210. FAGGERY was an abuse too - venerable and sacred to be touched by profane hands. - - 1873. _Pall Mall Gazette_, 17th May. The Winchester “tunding” system, - with all its faults, is hardly less objectionable than the FAGGING - system pursued in the Scotch endowed hospitals. - - 1881. _Felstedian_, Nov., p. 75. As I was smaller and weaker than most - of the FAGS running, I hardly ever managed to get a place, and it was - absurd to expect me to do so. I had been “spanked” two or three times - already for failing, but I don’t know that I was more successful for - that. I know I cordially detested that branch of FAGGING. - - 1884. _Temple Bar_, August, p. 514. He must have completely marred his - chance of happiness at the school when he refused to FAG and took - countless thrashings, snivelling. - - 1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 46. My new FAG-MASTER, Forker - Major, is a beast. - - 2. (Stonyhurst).—To field: at cricket. The ordinary meaning - either as _subs._ or _verb_ does not exist at Stonyhurst. - - -*Fag-book*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—Formerly a book given by a - monitor on leaving to each of his fags: it is now usual to - give a bat or a racket. - - -*Fain lo!* (or *Loss*), _intj._ (Felsted).—A phrase used to - retain a seat, &c., temporarily vacated. Also LO. - - -*Fains* (*Fainits!* or *Fain it*), _intj._ (general).—A call for - truce during the progress of a game without which priority - of place would be lost; generally understood to be demanded - “in bounds,” or when out of danger. [Thought to be a - corruption of “fend.”] - - _Verb_ (also FEND, FAIN, FAINITS, &c.).—A cry of warning, or - of prohibition: as to prevent any change in the existing - conditions of a game; _e.g._ at marbles, FEN-PLACINGS = - no alteration in position of marbles is permissible; - FEN-CLEARANCES = removal of obstacles is forbidden. [FEND = - _M.E. defend_ in sense of “to forbid.”] FAIN, and FAIN I, - are corruptions. At Winchester, FINGY YOU, or FINGY THAT, - are analagous; but at Christ’s Hospital FIN = “I won’t - have.” - - _Ante_ 1815. E. C. HARRINGTON, in _N. and Q._, 5 S., vii. 98. - Respecting the word FEN ... I can testify to the use of the term by - school-boys prior to the battle of Waterloo ... meaning that we - protested against an exceptional action. - - 1852. DICKENS, _Bleak House_. “I’m fly,” says Jo. “But FEN larks, you - know.” - - 1877. _Notes and Queries_, 5 S., vii. 178. A comical application was, - I remember well, “FEN live lumber!” which, if pronounced in time, - would disable your opponent from moving a bystander out of the way of - his shot. - - -*Fardel*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A division of Sixth - Book for New College Election. [A.S. _ferthe_ = the fourth, - and _del_, a part or portion.] - - 1200. _Orminn._ The FEORRTHE DALE was bitahht (delivered) to Pilate. - - 1283. _William of Palerne._ Non might sen other the FERTHE DEL of a - furlong. - - -*Faside*, _subs._ (Loretto).—To Faside Castle, and back: - altogether about five miles. Boys who have been watching - football matches have always to do this in wet weather; and, - in bad weather, a WALLYFORD (_q.v._). Whence FASIDE AND - THREE TREES = a combined walk and run about seven miles on a - short school-day not wet, when ground is unsuitable for - games. [Why THREE TREES is unknown.] _See_ GRIND-DAYS. - - -*Fat-flab*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A cut off the fat part of a - breast of mutton. _See_ DISPAR. - - -*Feeder-cric*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital: obsolete).—The game - usually known as “rounders.” _See_ Appendix. - - 1874. _The Blue_, Mar. In the country we shall have real unlimited - cricket in the place of rounders, FEEDER-CRIC, and the scanty - bi-weekly game in the suburbs. - - -*Fellow-commoner*, _subs._ (general).—_See_ quots., and - COMMONER. - - 1794. _Gent. Mag._, p. 1084. One [student at Cambridge] was a _Harry - Soph_; another a FELLOW-COMMONER and _senior Soph_, and occasionally - jocularly called an _empty bottle_, whilst _è contrà_, a bottle - decanted, was, from time to time, denominated a FELLOW-COMMONER. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 26. Thomas Middleton petitions - King Charles, on his restoration, to grant his royal letters to the - Winchester electors in favour of his son’s admittance “as a child in - Winchester College, where he has now spent three years as - FELLOW-COMMONER.” - - 1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 38. She said she had heard from - her cousin, who is, I think, a FELLOW-COMMONER, or something of that - sort, at Downing College, that Harry is one of the most popular men at - Cambridge. - - -*Feoffee*, _subs._ (Manchester Grammar: obsolete).—The original - name for the trustees in whose hands the foundation - estate was placed by Hugh Bexwycke. [A.S. _feo_ = fee or - inheritance.] - - -*Ferk.* _See_ *Firk*. - - -*Ferula*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—_See_ TOLLY. - - -*Festive*, _adj._ (Charterhouse).—Said of a boy who has not - learned his duty to his superiors and seniors. - - -*Fez*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The equivalent of the CAP (_q.v._) for - cricket: the FEZ being given to the House Eleven for - distinction at football. - - -*Field*, _verb_. 1. (Winchester).—To take care of; to support: - in swimming. - - 2. (Harrow).—_See_ LICK. - - 3. (Eton).—_See_ WALL. - - THE FIELD, _subs._ (Sherborne).—_See_ FIELDS. - - -*Fields*, _subs._ (Sherborne: obsolete).—The playing-ground: - seventeenth century. The modern term is “The Field,” though - there are five separate grounds. - - -*Fifteens*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A football match. _See_ - SIX-AND-SIX. - - -*Fifty, The*, _subs._ (Tonbridge).—The chief football ground; - the next immediately below it is the Middle Fifty, then the - Lower Fifty, and the Fourth Fifty. _Cf._ HUNDRED, which is - now obsolete. - - -*Fighting-green*, _subs._ (Westminster).—The old battle-ground - in the western cloister. - - -*Figures*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The Second Form: formerly GREAT - FIGURES. _See_ LITTLE FIGURES. - - -*Fin*, _intj._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A form of negative. _Ex._ - “FIN the small court” = “I won’t have, &c.” [Lat. _fend_.] - _See_ FAINS. - - -*Find*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A mess of, usually, two upper boys - which takes breakfast and tea in the rooms of one or other - of the set: a privilege of the Sixth Form. Whence FIND-FAG = - a fag who lays the table for the upper boys. [_Find_ (dial.) - = to supply; to supply with provisions.] Also as _verb_. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 316. Immediately a certain - number of rolls (FINDS they were called—etymology unknown) were - ordered at the baker’s, and were rebaked every morning until they were - pretty nearly as hard as pebbles. At nine o’clock on the morning fixed - for the rolling in, the members of the hall ranged themselves on the - long table which ran along one side of the room, each with his pile of - these rolls before him, and a fag to pick them up. - - -*Finder*, _subs._ (Oxford).—A waiter. - - -*Finjy!* _intj._ (Winchester).—An exclamation excusing one from - participation in an unpleasant or unacceptable task, which - he who says the word last has to undertake. _Cf._ FAINS. - - -*Firk* (or *Ferk*), _verb_ (Winchester).—To proceed; to hasten; - to expel; to send; to drive away. [O.E. _fercian_.] Also TO - FIRK UP and TO FIRK DOWN. - - 1283. _William of Palerne._ Thei bisiliche fondede (tried) fast to - FERKE him forthward. - - _c._ 1400. _Troy Book._ I you helpe shall the flese for to fecche, and - FERKE it away. - - [?] _MS. Lincoln_, _Morte Arthure_, f. 79. The Kyng FERKES furthe on a - faire stede. - - 1599. SHAKSPEARE, _Henry V._, iv. 4. _Pistol._ I’ll fer him, and FIRK - him, and ferret him, discuss the same in French unto him. _Boy._ I do - not know the French for fer and ferret and FIRK. - - 1611. BARRY, _Ram Alley_ [DODSLEY, _Old Plays_ (REED), v. 466]. Nay, I - will FIRK my silly novice, as he was never FIRK’D Since mid-wives - bound his noddle. - - 1640. BROME, _Antipodes_. As tumblers do ... by FIRKING up their - breeches. - - 1795. SEWELL, _Hist. of Quakers_. At this the judge said, “Take him - away: prevaricator! I’ll FERK him.” - - -*Five, The*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—The Five bell. - - -*Flannels*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The members of either School - Eleven. - - 1899. _Public School Mag._, Dec., p. 446. Up to the present the eleven - have won four matches and lost one, while Monro, Cookson, Wyckoff, and - Borwick have all received their FLANNELS. - - -*Flat*, _subs._ (Royal High School, Edin.).—An objectionable - person; a “bounder.” [A misuse of flat = fool.] - - -*Fleshy*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A thick cut out of the middle of - a shoulder of mutton. _See_ DISPAR. - - -*Flies.* SQUASHED FLIES, _subs._ (Durham: obsolete).—Biscuits - with currants. - - -*Floor*, _verb_ (general).—To pluck; to plough. Also = to - master; to prove oneself superior to the occasion: _e.g._ TO - FLOOR A PAPER, LESSON, EXAMINATION, EXAMINER, &c. _Cf._ - BOWL; THROW. - - 1852. BRISTED, _Five Years in an English University_, p. 12. Somehow I - nearly FLOORED the paper. - - 1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, iv. Mr. Filcher thoroughly understood - the science of “FLOORING” a freshman. - - 1861. HUGHES, _Tom Brown at Oxford_. I’ve FLOORED my Little Go. - - 1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 98. These blessed exams. are - getting awfully close now, but I think I shall FLOOR mine. - - -*Fluke*, _verb_ (general).—To shirk. - - 1864. _Eton School-Days_, ch. xvi. p. 203. “By Jove! I think I shall - FLUKE doing Verses; I should like to see Paddy drive tandem through - College,” said Butler Burke. - - -*Flyer*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A half-volley at football. A - MADE-FLYER is when the bound of the ball is gained from a - previous kick, by the same side, against canvas or any other - obstacle, or is dropped, as in a “drop-kick.” This is now - confused with a “kick-up.”—WRENCH. - - -*Flying-man*, _subs._ (Eton).—The boy who stands behind the - “bully,” and either runs down, or kicks hard, as may be - required. - - 1864. _Eton School-Days_, ch. xxiii. p. 255. He possessed good wind, - and was a very good “kick-off,” and he could “bully” a ball as well as - any one. He was a little too heavy for FLYING-MAN, but he made a - decent “sidepost,” and now and then he officiated as “corner.” - - -*Fobs*, _subs._ (Durham: obsolete).—Boiled bread and milk. - - -*Footer*, _subs._ (Harrow).—(1) Football; (2) a player of - football according to Rugby rules; and (3) the ball itself. - - 1890. _Great Public Schools_, p. 96. Directly after the goose match - (Michaelmas Day) FOOTER proper begins, and is the principal game - played at the school during the Christmas term. The game as played at - Harrow differs considerably from the game as played at Eton and other - schools, and has distinct rules of its own; it may be said to be more - like the Association game than any other. - - 1896. _Felstedian_, Nov., p. 139. H. H. H. who wants to have a - “second” FOOTER shirt. - - -*Footer-hill, The* (Harrow).—The hill from the football-fields - and DUCKER (_q.v._). - - -*For*, _phr._ (Tonbridge).—A form of ridicule: _e.g._ “first - eleven FOR one” would be used in jeering at a boy who had - recently obtained his colours. - - -*Forakers* (or *Foricus*), _subs._ (Winchester).—The - water-closet. [Formerly _foricus_, and probably a corruption - of _foricas_, an English plural of the Latin _forica_.] - - -*Force.* OUT BY FORCE, _phr._ (Stonyhurst).—Of a football when - it goes out from two opposite players at the same time. - - -*Founders*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Boys who proved their descent - from the Founder, and were afterwards elected (by rote among - the Electors) as such. Only two were admitted each year, and - only two were sent to New College, but these two were put at - the head of the ROLL (_q.v._) whatever their previous - position in SIXTH BOOK (_q.v._) might have been. They were - not obliged to leave at the age of eighteen, as the other - boys were, but were allowed to remain till they were - twenty-five. They were supposed to have particularly thick - skulls.—MANSFIELD (_c._ 1840). - - -*Founder’s-Com.*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The four days on which - there were festivals in commemoration of the Founder, when - there was AMEN-CHAPEL (_q.v._); the Fellows and Masters gave - a dinner in Common-room, and the FOUNDERS (_q.v._) received - a sovereign each.—MANSFIELD (_c._ 1840). - - -*Founder’s-day*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The 3rd of October, the - anniversary of the death of John Lyon: usually kept on the - nearest Thursday to the date in question. - - -*Founder’s-kin*, _subs._ (various).—Those, who at Winchester, - Harrow, &c., could show descent from William of Wykeham or - John Lyon, &c., as the case might be, and who were entitled - to priority of election on the foundation. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 32. The preference assigned to - FOUNDER’S-KIN in the election soon brought into the field, as may be - supposed, young Wykehams and Williamses from all quarters, with others - who proved more or less satisfactorily their connection with the - founder’s family; and gradually the customs obtained of electing two - only of these favoured candidates at the head of the roll for - admission, and filling up the remaining vacancies by a process of - successive nominations by each of the six electors, the Warden of New - College having the first turn, until the number of vacancies was - supplied. - - -*Founder’s-Ob.*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The anniversary of the - Founder’s death. - - -*Four-holed Middlings*, _subs. phr._ (Winchester: - obsolete).—Ordinary walking shoes. _Cf._ BEESWAXERS. - - -*Fourth*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—A rear or jakes. [Origin - uncertain; said to have been first used at St. John’s or - Trinity, where the closets are situated in the Fourth - Court. Whatever its derivation, the term is now the only - one in use at Cambridge, and is frequently heard outside - the university.] The verbal phrase is TO KEEP A FOURTH. - - -*Fourth Book*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—All the boys - below Junior Part the Fifth. _See_ BOOKS. - - -*Fourth Former* (Harrow).—The oldest form room in the Old - Schools: now used for morning prayer by those who go to the - Old Schools, and also as the head-master’s torture-chamber. - - -*Fourth of June* (Eton).—_See_ quot. - - 1865. _Etoniana_, p. 166. Since the glories of Montem have departed, - the FOURTH OF JUNE PROCESSION has taken its place as the great yearly - festival of Etonians. It was instituted in commemoration of a visit of - King George III., and is held on his birthday. It is the great - trysting day of Eton, when her sons gather from far and wide, young - and old, great and small,—no matter who or what, so long as they are - old Etonians; that magic bond binds them all together as brothers, and - levels for the time all distinctions of age or rank. The proceedings - begin with the ‘speeches’ delivered in the upper school at twelve - o’clock before the provost, fellows, masters, and a large audience of - the boys’ friends. Selections from classical authors, ancient or - modern, are recited by the Sixth-form boys, who are dressed for the - occasion in black swallow-tail coats, white ties, black knee-breeches - and buckles, silk stockings, and pumps. Then follows the provost’s - luncheon, given in the college hall to the distinguished visitors, - while similar entertainments on a smaller scale are going on in the - various tutors’ and dames’ houses. At 3 o’clock there is full choral - service in chapel. At 6 o’clock all hands adjourn to the Brocas, a - large open meadow, to witness the great event of the day,—the - procession of the Boats to Surly Hall, a public-house of that name, on - the right bank of the river, some three and a half miles from Windsor. - The boats are divided into two classes—Upper and Lower. The Upper - division consists of the _Monarch_ ten-oar, the _Victory_, and the - _Prince of Wales_, or, as it is more usually called, the _Third - Upper_. The Lower boats are the _Britannia_, _Dreadnought_, _Thetis_, - and _St. George_; sometimes, when the number of aspirants to a place - is larger than usual, an eighth boat called the _Defiance_ is added. - The collegers have also for some years put on a four-oar—latterly - expanded into an eight—which follows in the procession. The flotilla - is preceded by the Eton racing eight-oar, manned by the picked crew - who are to contend at Putney or Henley. Each boat has its distinctive - uniform. Formerly these were very fanciful—Greek pirates, or galley - slaves in silver chains, astonishing the quiet reaches of the Thames - for the day. The crews of the Upper boats now wear dark blue jackets - and trousers, and straw hats with ribbons, displaying the name of the - boat in gold letters. The coxswains are dressed in an admiral’s - uniform, with gold fittings, sword, and cocked-hat. The captain of - each boat has an anchor and crown embroidered in gold on the left - sleeve of his jacket. In the Lower boats, the crews wear trousers of - white jean, and all ornaments and embroidery are in silver. Each boat - carries a large silk flag in the stern. The procession is headed by a - quaint old-fashioned boat (an Eton racing boat of primitive days) - rowed by watermen and conveying a military band. The Westminster eight - always receives an invitation to this celebration, and occasionally - makes its appearance on the river, adding very much to the interest of - the procession.... Opposite to Surly Hall, a liberal display of good - things ... awaits the arrival of the crews—the Sixth Form alone being - accommodated with a tent. After a few toasts, and as much champagne as - can be fairly disposed of in a short time, the captain of the boat - gives the word for all to re-embark, and the flotilla returns to Eton - in the same order.... Singing, shouting, racing, and bumping, all go - on together in the most harmonious confusion.... The boats, after - their return through Windsor Bridge, turn and row two or three times - round an eyot in the middle of the stream above the bridge. During - this time a grand display of fireworks takes place on the eyot. The - ringing of the fine old bells in the Curfew Tower, the cheering of the - crews, and the brilliant coloured fires which strike across the water, - and light up the dense masses of spectators along the bridge, the - rafts, and the shore, produce an effect not easily forgotten. A - pyrotechnic illumination of the College arms concludes the ceremonies, - and is the signal for the crews to land and march in jubilant disorder - back to College. - - -*Fox-and-dowdy*, _subs._ (King Edward’s, Birm.: obsolete).—_See_ - ACTION. - - -*Fragment*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A dinner for six - (served in College Hall, after the ordinary dinner), ordered - by a Fellow in favour of a particular boy, who was at - liberty to invite five others to join him. A fragment was - supposed to consist of three dishes.—_Winchester Word-Book_ - [1891]. - - -*Free*, _adj._ (Oxford).—Impudent; self-possessed. - - 1864. TENNYSON, _Northern Farmer_ (Old Style), line 25. But parson a - coomes an’ a goos, an’ a says it eäsy an’ FREEÄ. - - -*Freed*, _adv._ (Stonyhurst).—Of an extra recreation: given for - some special reason. - - -*Fresh*, _adj._ (University).—Said of an undergraduate in his - first term. - - 1803. _Gradus ad Cantabrigiam_, s.v. - - 1866. TREVELYAN, _Horace at Athens_. When you and I were FRESH. - - -*Fresher.* _See_ FRESHMAN. - - -*Freshers.* THE FRESHERS, _subs._ (Cambridge). That part of the - Cam which lies between the Mill and Byron’s Pool. So called - because it is frequented by FRESHMEN (_q.v._). - - -*Fresh-herring*, _subs._ (King Edward’s, Birm.).—A boy newly - admitted to the school. Such a one is seized on his first - or first few visits to the playground, and conveyed to a - corner—a MONKEY DEN—where he is more or less forcibly - SQUABBED (_q.v._) against the wall by as many persecutors - as can get at him. The incongruity of fresh-herrings in a - monkey-den does not seem to be remarked. But twenty-five - to thirty years ago FRESH-HERRINGS were hurled over _the - Precipice_. This was a drop of some six or eight feet from - the general level of the playground over a retaining wall - to the bottom of an incline up which coal-stores, &c., - could be brought into the playground. The new science and - art rooms have covered the site, and MONKEY-DEN has - superseded the terrors of this local Tarpeian Rock. The - FRESH-HERRING is always told that he must bring beeswax - and turpentine for the purpose of polishing his desk, and - he not infrequently comes armed with this or some other - form of furniture-polish, to the glee of the “stuffer-up.” - - -*Freshman* (or *Fresher*), _subs._ (University).—A University - man during his first year. In Dublin University he is a - JUNIOR FRESHMAN during his first year, and a SENIOR FRESHMAN - the second year. At Oxford the title lasts for the first - term. _See_ SOPH. - - 1596. NASHE, _Saffron Walden_, in _Works_, iii. 8. When he was but yet - a FRESHMAN in Cambridge. - - 1611. MIDDLETON, _Roaring Girl_, Act iii. sc. 3. _S. Alex._ Then he’s - a graduate. _S. Davy._ Say they trust him not. _S. Alex._ Then is he - held a FRESHMAN and a sot. - - 1650. HOWELL, _Familiar Letters_ [NARES]. I am but a FRESHMAN yet in - France, therefore I can send you no news, but that all is here quiet, - and ’tis no ordinary news, that the French should be quiet. - - 1671. COTGRAVE, _Wit’s Interpreter_, p. 221. First, if thou art a - FRESHMAN, and art bent To bear love’s arms, and follow Cupid’s tent. - - 1767. COLMAN, _Oxonian in Town_, ii. 3. And now I find you as dull and - melancholy as a FRESHMAN at college after a jobation. - - 1841. LEVER, _Charles O’Malley_, ch. xiv. “This is his third year,” - said the Doctor, “and he is only a FRESHMAN, having lost every - examination.” - - 1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, iii. Mr. Green saw at a glance that - all the passengers were Oxford men, dressed in every variety of Oxford - fashion, and exhibiting a pleasing diversity of Oxford manners. Their - private remarks on the two new-comers were, like stage “asides,” - perfectly audible. “Decided case of governor!” said one. “Undoubted - ditto of FRESHMAN!” observed another. - - 1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 55. A lot of FRESHMEN got together - after Hall (it was a Saints’ day, and they’d been drinking audit) and - went and made hay in Marling’s rooms. - - 1891. _Sporting Life_, Mar. 20. The mile, bar accidents, will be a - gift to B. C. Allen, of Corpus, who has more than maintained the - reputation he gained as a FRESHER. - - 1895. _Felstedian_, Dec., 178. The new trousers and immaculate brown - boots of the “FRESHER” are suffering terribly from the slush. - - 1898. _Stonyhurst Mag._, Dec., p. 149, “Life at Oxford.” Three Seniors - were entertaining some fifteen or more FRESHERS. - - _Adj._ (University).—Of, or pertaining to, a FRESHMAN, or a - first year student. - - -*Freshman’s Bible*, _subs. phr._ (University).—The University - Calendar. - - -*Freshman’s Church*, _subs. phr._ (Cambridge).—The Pitt Press. - [From its ecclesiastical architecture.] - - -*Freshman’s Landmark*, _subs. phr._ (Cambridge).—King’s College - Chapel. [From the situation.] - - -*Freshmanship*, _subs._ (old).—Of the quality or state of being - a freshman. - - 1605. JONSON, _Volpone, or the Fox_, iv. 3. Well, wise Sir Pol., since - you have practised thus, Upon my FRESHMANSHIP, I’ll try your salt-head - With what proof it is against a counter-plot. - - -*Froust*, _subs._ (Harrow).—1. Extra sleep allowed on Sunday - mornings and whole holidays. Also (2) an easy-chair. Hence - FROUSTER. - - -*Frout*, _adj._ (Winchester).—Angry; vexed. - - -*Fudge*, _subs._ 1. (Christ’s Hospital).—To copy; to crib; to - dodge or escape: also _see_ quot. - - 1870-95. _More Gleanings from_ THE BLUE. The Latin Grammar was a - strange book to the new boy; he says he was “relieved from - embarrassment by the readiness with which my schoolfellows in the - class above assisted in explaining,” &c. &c.; so a “FUDGE” is not a - modern invention, though it is expressed by a polite periphrasis. - - 1877. _The Blue-Coat Boys_, p. 97. FUDGE, to prompt a fellow in class, - or prompt oneself in class artificially. Thence to tell: _e.g._ “FUDGE - me what the time is.” - - 2. (common).—To advance the hand unfairly at marbles. - - -*Fug*, _subs._ (Harrow).—1. A small soft football. Also (2) the - game as played with such a ball in a yard, house, &c. _See_ - Appendix. - - _Verb._ 1. (Shrewsbury).—To stay in a stuffy room. - - 2. (Harrow).—To stop indoors. - - -*Fug-footer*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A species of football played in - passages with a FUG (_q.v._) _See_ ante. - - -*Fuggy*, _subs._ (general).—A hot roll. - - _Adj._ (Shrewsbury).—Stuffy. - - -*Fug-shop*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—The carpenter’s shop. - - -*Functior* (or FUNCTURE), _subs._ (Winchester).—An iron bracket - candlestick, used for the night-light in College Chambers. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_, p. 68. Beside the - window yawned the great fireplace, with its dogs, on which rested the - faggots and bars for the reception of the array of boilers. Above it - was a rushlight, fixed in a circular iron pan fastened to a staple in - the wall; it was called the FUNCTIOR. - - 1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. FUNCTURE. The word looks - like _fulctura_, an earlier form of _fulture_, meaning a prop or stay, - with phonetic change of _l_ into _n_. - - -*Funking-Monday*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—_See_ quot. - - 1887. _The Blue_, Nov. Yet it is not from ignorance of vulgar slang - that the author’s elegance springs, for he unbends once so far as to - say that the Monday after the holidays is called “FUNKING-MONDAY.” - - -*Funking-room*, _subs._ (medical).—The room at the Royal College - of Surgeons where students collect on the last evening of - their final during the addition of their marks, and whence - each is summoned by an official announcing failure or - success. - - 1841. _Punch_, i. p. 225, col. 2. On the top of a staircase he enters - a room, wherein the partners of his misery are collected. It is a - long, narrow apartment, commonly known as the FUNKING-ROOM. - - -*Funkster*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A coward. - - -*Furk.* _See_ FIRK. - - - - - - -*Gag*, _subs._ 1. (Christ’s Hospital).—_See_ quot. GAG-EATER = a - term of reproach. - - 1813. LAMB, _Christ’s Hospital_, in _Works_, p. 324 (ed. 1852). L. has - recorded the repugnance of the school to GAGS, or the fat of fresh - beef boiled; and sets it down to some superstition.... A GAG-EATER in - our time was equivalent to a ghoul, ... and held in equal estimation. - - 2. (Winchester: obsolete).—An exercise (said to have been - invented by Dr. Gabell) which consists in writing Latin - criticisms on some celebrated piece, in a book sent in about - once a month. In the Parts below Sixth Book and Senior Part, - the GAGS consisted in historical analysis. [An abbreviation - of “gathering.”] - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester College_, p. 108. - From time to time, also, they had to write ... an analysis of some - historical work; these productions were called GATHERINGS (or GAGS). - - -*Gain.* _See_ ELECTION. - - -*Gaits* (*Geits*, *Gytes*, or *Gites*), _subs._ (Royal High - School, Edin.).—The first, or lowest class. _See_ CATS. - - -*Gallery*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A Commoner bedroom. [From a - tradition of GALLERIES in Commoners.] Hence GALLERY NYMPH = - a housemaid. - - -*Gang*, _subs._ (Felsted: obsolete).—A particular friend. From - the ordinary meaning of the word, applied first to the two - friends, then to each of them. Used only of “acute” - friendship. Also as _verb_ = to carry on such a friendship - with another. - - -*Garden, The* (Stonyhurst).—The playgrounds, built on the site - of part of the old garden, long kept this name. “The boys - went to the GARDEN” = “into the playground”: obsolete. - - -*Gater*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A plunge head foremost - into a POT (_q.v._). - - -*Gates*, _subs._ (University).—The being forbidden to pass - outside the gate of a college. Hence as _verb_ = to confine - wholly or during certain hours within the college gate for - some infraction of discipline. To BREAK GATES = to stay out - of college after hours. GATE-BILL (old) = the record of an - undergraduate’s failure to be within the precincts of his - college by a specified time at night. - - 1803. _Gradus ad Cant._, p. 128. To avoid GATE-BILLS he will be out at - night as late as he pleases ... climb over the college wall, and fee - his gyp well. - - 1835. _The Snobiad_ (WHIBLEY, _Cap and Gown_, p. 141). Two proctors - kindly holding either arm Staunch the dark blood and GATE him for the - term. - - 1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, I. ch. xii. He won’t hurt you much, - Giglamps! GATE and chapel you! - - 1861. HUGHES, _Tom Brown at Oxford_, ch. xii. Now you’ll both be GATED - probably, and the whole crew will be thrown out of gear. - - 1865. _Cornhill Mag._, p. 227. He is requested to confine himself to - college after a specified hour, which is familiarly termed being - GATED. - - 1870. _Morning Advertiser_, May 23. The two least culpable of the - party have been GATED. - - 1881. LANG, _Xxxii. Ballades_, “Of Midsummer Term.” When freshmen are - careless of GATES. - - TO BE AT GATES, _verb. phr._ (Winchester: obsolete).—To - assemble in Seventh Chamber passage, preparatory to going - Hills or Cathedral. - - -*Gaudeamus*, _subs._ (general).—A feast; a drinking bout; any - sort of merry-making. [German students’, but now general. - From the first word of the mediæval (students’) ditty.] - - -*Gaudy* (or *Gaudy-day*), _subs._ (general).—A feast or - entertainment: specifically, the annual dinner of the - Fellows of a college in memory of founders or benefactors; - or a festival of the Inns of Court. [Lat. _gaudere_ = to - rejoice.] - - 1540. PALSGRAVE, _Acolastus_ [HALLIWELL]. We maye make our tryumphe, - kepe our GAUDYES, or let us sette the cocke on the hope, and make good - chere within dores. _Ibid._, I have good cause to set the cocke on the - hope, and make GAUDYE chere. - - 1608. SHAKSPEARE, _Antony and Cleopatra_, iii. 11. Come, Let’s have - one other GAUDY night; call to me All my sad captains; fill our bowls; - once more Let’s mock the midnight bell. - - 1636. SUCKLING, _Goblins_ [DODSLEY, _Old Plays_ (REED), x. 143]. A - foolish utensil of state, Which, like old plate upon a GAUDY day, ’s - brought forth to make a show, and that is all. - - 1724. E. COLES, _Eng. Dict._ GAUDY DAYS, college or Inns of Court - festivals. - - 1754. B. MARTIN, _Eng. Dict._, 2nd ed. GAUDIES, double commons, such - as they have on GAUDY or grand DAYS in colleges. - - 1760. FOOTE, _Minor_, Act i. Dine at twelve, and regale, upon a GAUDY - DAY, with buns and beer at Islington. - - 1803. _Gradus ad Cantab._, p. 122. Cut lectures ... give GAUDIES and - spreads. - - 1820. LAMB, _Elia_ (_Oxford in the Vacation_). Methought I a little - grudged at the coalition of the _better Jude_ with Simon—clubbing, as - it were, their sanctities together, to make up one poor GAUDY-DAY - between them. - - 1822. NARES, _Glossary_, s.v. GAUDY DAY or NIGHT. A time of festivity - and rejoicing. The expression is yet fully retained in the University - of Oxford. BLOUNT, in his _Glossographia_, speaks of a foolish - derivation of the word from a judge Gaudy, said to have been the - institutor of such days. But _such_ days were held in all times, and - did not want a judge to invent them. - - 1822. SCOTT, _Fortunes of Nigel_, ch. xxiii. We had a carouse to your - honour ... we fought, too, to finish off the GAUDY. - - 1878. BESANT AND RICE, _By Celia’s Arbour_, ch. xxxiii. Champagne ... - goes equally well with a simple luncheon of cold chicken, and with the - most elaborate GAUDY. - - -*General’s-day* (Stonyhurst).—_See_ DAY. - - -*Gentlemen-Philosopher*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—_See_ - PHILOSOPHER. - - -*Genuine*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Praise. Also as _verb_ = to - praise. [It is suggested (but _see_ quot.) that the - derivation may be from _genuina_, the “jaw-tooth,” praise - being nothing but “jaw”: _cf._ _Parsius_, i. 115.] - - 1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. GENUINE.... He was awfully - quilled and GENUINED my task. Possibly from calling a thing genuine. - _Cf._ to blackguard, to lord, &c. But fifty years ago it was a _subs._ - only. [_See_ Appendix.] - - -*Gip* (or *Gyp*), _subs._ (Cambridge).—A college servant. - - 1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 8. My GYP said he thought he knew - some one who’d give me eighteen shillings for it. - - -*Girdlestoneites* (Charterhouse).—A boarding-house. [From a - master’s name.] _See_ OUT-HOUSES. - - -*Glope*, _verb_ (Winchester: obsolete).—To spit. - - -*Go.* TO GO DOWN, _verb_ (University).—To leave school or - college: by special EXEAT (_q.v._) or at vacation. Whence TO - BE SENT DOWN = to be under discipline; to be rusticated. - - 1863. H. KINGSLEY, _Austin Elliot_, i. 179. How dare you say “deuce” - in my presence? You can GO DOWN, my Lord. - - 1886. DICKENS, _Dict. of Cambridge_, 3. No undergraduate should GO - down without obtaining his EXEAT. - - 1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 53. I’m thankful to say this - Term’s nearly over now.... We shall be able to GO down next week ... - which is a blessing. - - 1898. _Stonyhurst Mag._, Dec., p. 149, “Life at Oxford.” You will - think, then, that most of us do no work. Well, a good many do precious - little. Still there is this check. All who do not pass their - examinations within a certain time must “GO DOWN,” _i.e._ they must - leave. It wholly depends upon ourselves, then, how much work we do; - and it is naturally a much more difficult matter to “read” in this way - than when one has regular schools and studies. - - -*Goal*, _subs._ (Winchester).—(1) At football the boy who stands - at the centre of each end, acting as umpire; and (2) the - score of three points made when the ball is kicked between - his legs, or over his head, without his touching it. _See_ - SCHITT. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester College_, p. 138. - Midway between each of the two ends of the line was stationed another - boy, as umpire (GOAL he was called), who stood with his legs wide - apart, and a gown rolled up at each foot: if the ball was kicked - directly over his head, or between his legs, without his touching it, - it was a GOAL, and scored three for the party that kicked it. - - -*God*, _subs._ 1. (Eton).—A Sixth Form boy. _See_ Appendix. - - 1881. PASCOE, _Life in our Public Schools_. A GOD at Eton is probably - in a more exalted position, and receives more reverence than will ever - afterwards fall to his lot. - - 2. (Westminster).—The juniors who, at the WESTMINSTER PLAY - (_q.v._), occupy a back gallery. A proposal was made in 1792 - to exclude them from the performance on the grand nights, - which, however, was successfully resisted. Whence GOD-KEEPER - = a Third Election boy, who acts as deputy monitor, and - keeps the gallery deities in order. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 155. A rushing noise is heard - as of a party of inebriated whirlwinds coming up College, and the _Di - Superi_ (in vulgar parlance THE GODS) make their appearance. Now is - the time to see the GOD-KEEPER in his glory, in kid gloves, cane, and - commanding voice: “Here, Jones, go up closer. Room for three or four - more in that corner. Tumble-up, Davis.” - - -*Going-out Saturday*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—_See_ EXEAT 2. - - -*Gold Hatband*, _subs._ (old University).—A nobleman - undergraduate; a TUFT (_q.v._). - - 1628. EARLE, _Microcosmography_. His companion is ordinarily some - stale fellow that has been notorious for an ingle to GOLD HATBANDS, - whom hee admires at first, afterwards scornes. - - 1889. _Gentleman’s Mag._, June, p. 598. Noblemen at the universities, - since known as “tufts,” because of the gold tuft or tassel to their - cap, were then known as GOLD HATBANDS. - - -*Golgotha*, _subs._ (old University).—The Dons’ gallery at - Cambridge; also a certain part of the theatre at Oxford. - [That is, “the place of skulls” (_cf._ Luke xxiii. 33 and - Matt. xxvii. 33); whence the pun, Dons being the heads of - houses.] - - 1730. JAS. MILLER, _Humours of Oxford_, Act ii., p. 23 (2nd ed.). - Sirrah, I’ll have you put in the black-book, rusticated—expelled—I’ll - have you _coram nobis_ at GOLGOTHA, where you’ll be bedevilled, - Muck-worm, you will. - - 1785. GROSE, _Vulg. Tongue_, s.v. - - 1791. G. HUDDESFORD, _Salmagundi_ (Note on, p. 150). GOLGOTHA, “The - place of a Skull,” a name ludicrously affixed to the Place in which - the Heads of Colleges assemble. - - 1808. J. T. CONYBEARE in C. K. SHARP’S _Correspondence_ (1888), i. - 324. The subject then of the ensuing section is _Oxford News_ ... we - will begin by GOLGOTHA.... Cole has already obtained the Headship of - Exeter, and Mr. Griffiths ... is to have that of University. - - -*Gomer*, _subs._ 1. (Winchester).—A large pewter dish used in - College. [Probably from its holding a _homer_ or _omer_ in - measure: _see_ quots.] - - 1610-31. DONNE. Not satisfied with his GOMER of manna. - - _d._ 1656. HALL, _Satires_, Bk. v. He that gave a GOMER to each. - - 1778. _Inventory of Kitchen and Hall._ Twenty-four GOMERS (amongst - dishes and brass pots). - - 2. A new hat: specifically, a beaver when first introduced: - but _see_ quot., PEALS, and Appendix. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, 68. Top-boots are no longer - considered, by young gentlemen of twelve, “your only wear” to go home - in, although the term for them—GOMERS (i.e. _go-homers_)—still - survives in the Winchester vocabulary. - - -*Good-breakfast*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A breakfast given to - those DISTINGUISHED (_q.v._) every term: also called - DISTINCTION-BREAKFAST. _Cf._ DO and GOOD-SUPPER. - - -*Good-creatures*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—Meat, vegetables, - and pudding. [From a quaint old-fashioned “Scholars’ - grace”—“Lord, bless to us these thy GOOD-CREATURES,” &c.] - - -*Good-day*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A free day given at the end of - the school year to those distinguished in mathematics. There - is also a “Rhetoric GOOD DAY,” given to the RHETORICIANS - (_q.v._), and a “Certificate GOOD DAY,” given to candidates - for the Higher Certificate Examination. - - -*Good-Four-o’clock*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—A repast - similar in character to a GOOD-SUPPER and a GOOD-BREAKFAST - (both of which see). - - -*Good-supper*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A supper given for a - special reason: _e.g._ the CHOIR-SUPPER (that given to - members of the Choir); the ACTORS’-SUPPER (that given to the - participants in Shrovetide-plays); the ELEVEN-SUPPER (to the - Cricket eleven after an “out” match), &c. _Cf._ DO and - GOOD-BREAKFAST. - - -*Goose-match*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A cricket match played between - the School Eleven and a team of Old Harrovians on Michaelmas - Day, or as near to it as possible. The Eleven opposing the - School are called “the geese.” _See_ Appendix. - - -*Gosh*, _subs._ (Winchester).—To spit. - - -*Gown*, _subs._ 1. (Winchester: obsolete).—Coarse brown paper. - - 2. (University).—The schools as distinguished from the TOWN - (_q.v._): _e.g._ TOWN and GOWN. - - 1847. THACKERAY, _Punch’s Prize Novelists_, “Codlingsby,” p. 232. From - the Addenbroke’s hospital to the Blenheim turnpike, all Cambridge was - in an uproar—the College gates closed—the shops barricaded—the - shop-boys away in support of their brother townsmen—the battle raged, - and the GOWN had the worst of the fight. - - 1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, II., ch. iii. When GOWN was absent, - Town was miserable. - - 1891. _Pall Mall Gaz._, 30th May, p. 4, c. 3. Town and GOWN joined in - harmony. - - -*Gownboy*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—A scholar on the foundation: - they wore at the Charterhouse black Eton jackets, black - trousers, shoes called GOWSERS (_q.v._), and gowns. This - distinctive garb was abolished in 1872. - - -*Gownboy-arch* (Charterhouse).—An arch near the east end of the - chapel, formerly the doorway from Scholars’ Court into - Gown-boys. The earliest Old Carthusian name inscribed on it - bears date 1778. - - -*Gownboy-cricket*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—Cricket in which - there are twenty bowlers to one batsman, with no fielders. - - -*Gownboys* (Charterhouse).—A boarding-house. [Because on - migration to Godalming in 1872 nearly all the old GOWNBOYS - (_q.v._) were received there.] - - -*Gowner*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The GOAL (_q.v._) at football - stood with his legs stretched out, and a gown, rolled up - into a ball, at each foot. When the ball was kicked over - either of these gowns, without goal’s touching it, this - counted two for the party who kicked it.—MANSFIELD (_c._ - 1840). Also _see_ GOAL and SCHITT. Now obsolete. - - -*Gownsman* (also *Gown*), _subs._ (University).—A student. - - 1800. C. K. SHARPE, in _Correspondence_ (1888), i. 96. A battle - between the GOWNSMEN and townspeople ... in spite of the - Vice-Chancellor and Proctors. - - 1850. F. E. SMEDLEY, _Frank Fairlegh_, ch. xxv. The ancient town of - Cambridge, no longer animated by the countless throngs of GOWNSMEN, - frowned in its unaccustomed solitude. - - 1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, III. By the time Mr. Bouncer finished - these words, the coach appropriately drew up at the “Mitre,” and the - passengers tumbled off amid a knot of GOWNSMEN collected on the - pavement to receive them. - - 1861. HUGHES, _Tom Brown at Oxford_. The townsmen ... were met by the - GOWNSMEN with settled steady pluck. - - -*Gowsers*, _subs._ (Charterhouse: obsolete).—Shoes. - - -*Grammar*, _subs._ 1. (Stonyhurst).—The Lower Fourth Form. - - 2. (Harrow).—_See_ UPPER SCHOOL. - - -*Grand-matches*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The three final matches - of the STONYHURST-FOOTBALL (_q.v._) season, played always on - the Thursday before Shrove-tide, and on the following Monday - and Tuesday. These days are school holidays, and in the - evenings the great plays of the year are given. - - -*Grass*, _subs._ (Royal Military Academy).—Vegetables. - - TO BE SENT TO GRASS, _verb. phr._ (University).—To be - rusticated; to RECEIVE A TRAVELLING SCHOLARSHIP (_q.v._). - - 1794. _Gent. Mag._, p. 1085. And was very near rustication [at - Cambridge] merely for kicking up a row after a beakering party. “Soho, - Jack!” briskly rejoined another, “almost presented with a travelling - fellowship? very nigh being SENT TO GRASS, hey?” - - -*Greaser*, _subs._ 1. (Durham: obsolete).—A cad. - - 2. (Winchester: obsolete).—A mode of torture performed by - rubbing a boy’s head hard with the knuckles.—MANSFIELD (_c._ - 1840). - - -*Great-go* (or *Greats*), _subs._ (Cambridge).—The final - examination for the B.A. degree: _cf._ LITTLE-GO. At Oxford, - GREATER. - - 1841. _Prince of the New-made Baccalere, Oxford._ GREAT-GO is passed. - - 1861. HUGHES, _Tom Brown at Oxford_, ch. x. Both small and GREAT are - sufficiently distant to be altogether ignored, if we are that way - inclined. - - 1856-7. THACKERAY, _King of Brentford’s Test._, st. 7. At college, - though not fast, Yet his little-go and GREAT-GO, He creditably pass’d. - - 1871. _Morning Advertiser_, April 28. Yes, Mr. Lowe has been plucked - for his GREAT GO. - - 1883. _Echo_, 3rd May, p. 2, c. 4. But few, indeed, are the men who - have been in for GREATS during the last twenty years, and who have not - blessed Mr. Kitchin for his edition of the _Novum Organum_. - - -*Grecian*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A senior boy. - - 1870. _Blue Budget_, March. We have the full sanction and approval of - the GRECIANS, and some of them intend even to contribute articles - themselves. - - 1871. _The Blue_, Aug. Boys are taken at the age of seven years and - remain till they are sixteen.... If at their sixteenth year they have - shown remarkable aptitude, they are allowed to remain longer, and as - GRECIANS—a traditional title, the origin of which is unknown—to pursue - more advanced studies and to enjoy certain privileges as to table. - [_See_ Appendix.] - - -*Green.* 1. (Charterhouse).—The cricket-ground. _See_ - UNDER-GREEN. - - 2. (Felsted: obsolete).—A Post-Office Order. [From the - colour.] - - -*Green-back*, _subs._ (University).—One of Todhunter’s series of - mathematical text-books. [Because bound in green cloth. - _Cf._ BLUE-RUIN = Bohn’s _Classical Series_.] - - -*Green Book, The* (Charterhouse).—A record of the date of - entering and leaving the school: this has been somewhat - loosely kept, and gaps are conspicuous. - - -*Green-room Boys*, _subs. phr._ (Stonyhurst).—Boys chosen to be - the stage-manager’s assistants at the Shrove-tide plays. - - -*Greens, The* (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—Two large grass plots, or - lawns and shrubberies, on the south front. A cricket-ball - hit full pitch into either of these from the opposite end of - the playground was known as “A Greener.” Whence GREEN-BOYS = - boys who used to look after the “GREENS.” - - -*Greeze*, _subs._ (Westminster).—A crowd. - - -*Greyers*, _subs._ (Harrow).—Grey flannel trousers: worn by all - the school not entitled to white FLANNELS (_q.v._) at - cricket. - - -*Greyhound*, _subs._ (Cambridge: obsolete).—A member of Clare - College; a CLARIAN (_q.v._). - - 1889. WHIBLEY, _Cap and Gown_, xxviii. The members of Clare ... were - called GRAYHOUNDS. - - -*Grind*, _subs._ (common).—(1) Study; reading for an - examination. Also as a _verb_. (2) A plodding student. (3) - Athletic sports in general: specifically, a training run. - Also as _verb_ = to teach; to instruct; to coach. - - 1856. HUGHES, _Tom Brown’s School-days_, pt. II. ch. v. “Come along, - boys,” cries East, always ready to leave the GRIND, as he called it. - _Ibid._, ch. vii. “The thing to find out,” said Tom meditatively, “is - how long one ought to GRIND at a sentence without looking at the - crib.” - - 1872. _Chambers’s Jour._, April. Joe Rullock, the mighty gymnasiarch, - the hero of a hundred GRINDS, the unwearied haunter of the palæstra, - could never give the lie to his whole past life, and deny his own - gymnastics. - - 1887. _Chambers’s Jour._, 14th May, p. 310. Smalls made just such a - goal as was required, and the GRIND it entailed was frequently of no - slight profit to him. - - THE GRIND, _subs._ (Cambridge).—The ferry-boat at - Chesterton. (Oxford) A diversion popular among the less - athletic tutors and undergraduates, which consists in - walking by the Banbury Road to the 2-1/2 mile stone, - crossing to the Woodstock Road, which is here only a quarter - of a mile distant, and so returning to Oxford, occasionally - varying the proceeding by reversing the order of the walk. - It is, however, probable that the introduction of golf has - dealt a severe blow at the popularity of this innocent - amusement. Also THE FIVE MILES GRIND. - - ’VARSITY GRIND (Oxford).—A steeplechase held at Stratton - Audley. - - -*Grind-days*, _subs._ (Loretto).—The GRIND-DAYS occur twice a - year: in October and March. Privileged boys, school - officers, Sixth and Fifth, and probably Upper Fifth, go by - train to various places, such as Peebles, Pomathorn, &c., - and walk, perhaps about twenty miles, to some other place, - where they dine, returning by train. Some of the rest cross - the Pentlands, and the Juniors go up the highest Pentland. - - -*Grinder*, _subs._ (general).—A private tutor; a COACH (_q.v._). - - 1812. Miss EDGEWORTH, _Patronage_, ch. iii. Put him into the hands of - a clever GRINDER or crammer, and they would soon cram the necessary - portion of Latin and Greek into him. - - 1841. _Punch_, vol. i. p. 201. Then contriving to accumulate five - guineas to pay a GRINDER, he routs out his old note-books from the - bottom of his box and commences to read. - - 1841. A. SMITH, “The London Medical Student” in _Punch_, i. p. 229. G - was a GRINDER, who sharpen’d the fools. - - 1849. THACKERAY, _Pendennis_, ch. v. She sent me down here with a - GRINDER. She wants me to cultivate my neglected genius. - - -*Grinding-mill*, _subs._ (general).—The house of a tutor - or COACH (_q.v._), where students are prepared for an - examination. - - -*Groats.* TO SAVE ONE’S GROATS, _verb. phr._ (old - University).—To come off handsomely. [At the Universities - nine groats are deposited in the hands of an academic - officer by every person standing for a degree, which, if the - depositor obtains, with honour, are returned to him.—GROSE.] - - -*Grotius-time*, _subs._ (Winchester).—From 7 P.M. to 7.45 P.M. - on Sundays, in CLOISTER-TIME (_q.v._) when SIXTH BOOK - (_q.v._) and SENIOR PART (_q.v._) went into school to - translate the work of that author.—MANSFIELD (_c._ 1840). - Now obsolete. - - -*Groute*, _verb_ (Marlborough and Cheltenham).—To work or study - hard; to SWOT (_q.v._). - - -*Grovel*, _subs._ (Sherborne).—A scrummage at football. - - -*Grubber*, _subs._ (general).—A tuck-shop. _See_ LAMB’S-TAILS, - ROUND OTHELLOS, KILL-ME-QUICKS, and PICANINNIES. - - 1899. _Public School Mag._, Dec., p. 441. The shop is privately - managed by Mr. Kimmins, of High Street, Tonbridge [and] is known as - “GRUBBER.” - - -*Grubby*, _subs._ (Royal High School, Edin.).—The luncheon room. - - -*Gruff*, _adj._ (Christ’s Hospital).—Low-pitched: of the voice. - _See_ quot., and SQUEAKY. - - _c._ 1844. _Reminis. of Christ’s Hospital_ [_The Blue_, Aug. 1874]. - The voices, in our own peculiar phraseology, being divided into two - classes—those who sang “squeaky,” and those who sang GRUFF. - - -*Guarder*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A goal-keeper: at football. - Whence SECOND-GUARDER = the “full-back” of Association - Football; and THIRD-GUARDER = the “halfback” of Association - Football. - - -*Gulf*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—The bottom of a list of “passes,” - with the names of those who only just succeed in getting - their degree. At Oxford a man who, going in for honours, - only gets a pass. Hence as _verb_ (Cambridge) = to place in - the GULF; TO BE GULFED = to be on such a list. [Men so - placed were not eligible for the Classical Tripos.] - - 1852. BRISTED, _Five Tears in an English University_, p. 205. Some ten - or fifteen men just on the line, not bad enough to be plucked, or good - enough to be placed, are put into the GULF, as it is popularly called - (the examiners’ phrase is “degrees allowed”), and have their degrees - given them, but are not printed in the calendar. _Ibid._, 297. I - discovered that my name was nowhere to be found—that I was GULFED. - - 1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, pt. III. p. 89. I am not going to let - them GULPH me a second time. - - 1863. H. KINGSLEY, AUSTIN ELLIOT, p. 123. The good Professor scolded, - predicted that they would all be either GULFED or ploughed. - - 1865. _Sporting Gaz._, April 1. A man who was _GULFED_ for - mathematical honours was certainly, in olden time, unable to enter for - the classical examination; but though the arrangement is altered, the - term is _not_ obsolete. A man who is GULFED is considered to know - enough mathematics for an ordinary degree, but not enough to be - allowed his degree in mathematics only; he is consequently obliged to - pass in all the ordinary subjects (except mathematics) for the “poll,” - before taking his degree. - - 1876. TREVELYAN, LIFE OF MACAULAY (1884), ch. ii. p. 61. When the - Tripos of 1822 made its appearance, his name did not grace the list. - In short ... Macaulay was GULFED. - - 1896. _Tonbridgian_, No. 339, 1124. Poole hopes to get a Third in - Honour Mods., and Law hopes to escape a GULF next year in the same. - - -*Gull*, _subs._ (Oxford: obsolete).—A swindler; a trickster. - _Cf._ “GULL-CATCHER,” of which it is probably an - abbreviation. - - 1825. _The English Spy_, v. i. p. 161. “You’ll excuse me, sir, but as - you are _fresh_, take care to avoid the GULLS.” “I never understood - that GULLS were birds of prey,” said I. “Only in Oxford, sir, and - here, I assure you, they bite like hawks.” - - -*Gutter*, _subs._ (Tonbridge).—A scrummage at Rugby football: - now nearly obsolete. [Properly the space between the teams - in the scrummage.] - - _Verb_ (Winchester).—To fall in the water flat on the - stomach. - - -*Gymmy*, _subs._ (Manchester Grammar).—The gymnasium. - - -*Gyp* (or *Gip*), _subs._ (Cambridge).—A college servant. At - Oxford, a scout; at Dublin, a skip. [Etymology doubtful: - according to _Sat. Rev._ an abbreviation of Gipsy Joe: - according to Cambridge undergraduates, from the Greek γυψ - (GUPS) = a vulture; from the creature’s rapacity.] - - 1794. _Gent. Mag._, p. 1085. [A Cambridge college servant is called a - JIP.] - - 1803. _Gradus ad Cantab._, 128. To avoid gate-bills he will be out at - night as late as he pleases, ... climb over the college wall, and fee - his GYP well. - - 1842. _Tait’s Mag._, Oct., “Reminiscences of Coll. Life.” There is - attached to colleges and halls a person more useful than ornamental, - and better known than paid, whom Oxonians name GYP, from his supposed - moral affinity to a vulture (γυψ). The same is in Dublin denominated a - _Skip_, because of the activity which is an indispensable item in his - qualifications. - - 1849. C. KINGSLEY, _Alton Locke_, ch. xii. I’ll send you in luncheon - as I go through the butteries; then, perhaps, you’d like to come down - and see the race. Ask the GYP to tell you the way. - - 1850. SMEDLEY, _Frank Fairleigh_, p. 254. Fellow you call the GYP - wanted to make me believe you were out—thought I looked too like a - governor to be let in, I suppose. - - 1882. F. ANSTEY, _Vice Versâ_, ch. v. Who should we see coming - straight down on us but a Proctor with his bull-dogs (not dogs, you - know, but the strongest GYPS in the college). - - -*Gyte*, _subs._ (Royal High School, Edin.).—A first year’s - student. - - - - - - -*Habit*, _subs._ (old University).—See quot. - - 1803. _Gradus ad Cantabrigiam._ HABIT. College HABIT, College dress, - called of old, livery: the dress of the Master, Fellows, and Scholars. - - -*Hades*, _subs._ (The Leys).—A W.C. _Cf._ STYX. - - -*Haggory*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—One of the gardens in the - _Higher Line_ (_q.v._) playground, which the Irish boys in - the early years of the century turned into a debating-place, - to promote the views of O’Connell and his party. [A - corruption of ἁγορά.] - - -*Hairy*, _adj._ (Oxford).—Difficult. - - _d._ 1861. ARTHUR CLOUGH, _Long Vacation Pastoral_. Three weeks hence - we return to the shop and the wash-hand-stand-bason, Three weeks hence - unbury Thicksides and HAIRY Aldrich. - - 1864. _The Press_, Nov. 12. HAIRY for difficult is a characteristic - epithet. - - -*Half-faggot*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ quot. - - 1881. _Felstedian_, Nov., p. 75, “A Day’s Fagging at Winchester.” At - 6.15, when the first bell for chapel rings, I go round and wake up - everybody; as the præfects like hot water for washing, I make up a - fire, and put on the boilers; in other words, throw a bundle of sticks - called a “HALF-FAGGOT” on the old-fashioned “dogs,” or uprights, which - form the only fireplaces in chambers, coal not being in use. - - -*Hall*, _subs._ 1. (Oxford).—Dinner. Also as _verb_ = to dine. - [Taken in College Hall.] - - 1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 55. A lot of Freshmen got together - after HALL (it was a Saint’s day, and they’d been drinking audit) and - went and made hay in Marling’s rooms. - - 2. (Sherborne).—Evening preparation. - - 3. (Shrewsbury).—_See_ SENIOR HALL. - - TO GO ON HALL, _verb. phr._ (Winchester).—To fag: as a - breakfast waiter. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 48. However, as boys came to - school better scholars, and were consequently higher placed, fourth - form fags grew scarce, and the junior fifth were ordered, as the - phrase was, TO GO ON HALL. One champion stood upon his rights, and - refused; the indignant prefect proposed to thrash him publicly; the - juniors rose in a body and pinioned the prefects. Fond mammas, and - other declaimers against school tyranny, will regret to hear that this - spirited resistance was not appreciated by Dr. Williams; after a - patient hearing of the pleas on both sides, he supported the prefect’s - authority (it may be concluded that they had not really exceeded it), - and six of the ringleaders were expelled. - - -*Hall-crier*, _subs._ (Shrewsbury).—_See_ quot. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 249. And two HALL-CRIERS (or - latterly one), whose chief business was to read out at breakfast time - lists of the fags on duty for cricket or football, descriptions of - lost articles, &c. &c. This office in former days had commonly to be - performed under a fire of such missiles as came handiest—amongst them - often the regulation iron spoons supplied for the bread-and-milk - breakfast which was the fare in the rougher days of Shrewsbury. Each - proclamation began in due form with “Oh yes! oh yes! (Oyez! oyez!)” - and ended with “God save the King (or Queen)! and d—— the Radicals!” - - -*Hall-fagging*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—A duty imposed on - sixteen of the lowest boys in each House. They have to - attend in Hall, usually four at a time, and carry out - orders, while the monitors have breakfast and tea. There - was no need for this duty at Old Charterhouse, fags - being always at hand. At New Charterhouse this was not - always the case; they were often playing at football or - cricket, or sitting in the library. Monitors, therefore, - arranged the system of HALL-FAGGING. Latterly it has - become usual to send into Hall fags who have offended - against monitorial discipline, have been talkative in - BANCO, or noisy in the cubicles. Where such culprits are - available the regular fags are exempt.—TOD. - - -*Halve*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—A half-holiday: on Wednesdays - and Saturdays. - - -*Halves* (pron. _Hāves_), _subs._ (Winchester: - obsolete).—Half-Wellington boots, which were strictly _Non - licet_ (_q.v._). - - -*Hand.* To HAND UP, _verb. phr._ (Winchester).—To give - information against; to betray. - - -*Handball*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—(1) The Stonyhurst form of - Fives. Also (2) the ball used in playing; (3) the wall - against which the game is played; and (4) the courts into - which the wall and ground are divided. - - 1887. _Stonyhurst Mag._, iii. 18, “Stonyhurst in the Fifties.” On - Whit-Saturday HANDBALL came in. We had on that morning 2-1/2 hours’ - school ... and having gone up to the study-place to put away our books - were let out by schools to run for places. In the old playground there - stood one of the present HANDBALLS, one side of it belonging to the - Higher Line, and one to the Lower. Of the Higher Line HANDBALLS [on - each side of this HANDBALL—the wall—were two HANDBALLS or courts] one - belonged to Rhetoric and one to Poetry. Of the Lower Line HANDBALLS - one to Grammar and one to Rudiments. There were besides in both Higher - and Lower Lines, other inferior HANDBALLS in the wall which separated - the playground from the garden, where the rails now stand. They were - called “The Pavilions,” and each contained three courts. Those in the - Higher Line were common property, the Lower Line ones belonged to - Rudiments, Figures, and Elements. Syntax had thus no HANDBALL and - Rudiments had two. In the Higher Line possession of the HANDBALL - always went to the first comers, those who first “touched-in” having - it. In the Lower Line during after-dinner recreation (at least in the - large HANDBALLS) it went by order of Compositions. - - -*Handing-up*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A form of Lynch law inflicted - [up to the second quarter of the century] by monitors on a - boy known to have been guilty of any highly disgraceful - conduct reflecting on the character of the school—stealing, - for example. The monitors satisfied themselves, after - careful inquiry, of the guilt of the accused, and called him - before an assembly of the Upper School in Butler’s Hall, - where he received from each monitor a certain number of - blows with a study toasting-fork. The punishment was severe, - but merciful to the delinquent as an alternative in some - cases to expulsion if the charge had been brought before the - head-master.—THORNTON. - - -*Harder*, _subs._ (Harrow).—Racquets: as opposed to SQUASH - (_q.v._); also a racquet ball. Whence HARDER-COURT = the - racquet court. - - -*Hard-up*, _adv._ (Winchester).—Abashed or out of countenance; - exhausted (as in swimming). - - -*Harlequin*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The wooden centre of a red - indiarubber ball. - - -*Harry-soph*, _subs._ (Cambridge: obsolete).—See SOPH. - - 1795. _Gent. Mag._, p. 20. A HARRY, or ERRANT SOPH, I understand to be - either a person, four-and-twenty years of age, and of an infirm state - of health, who is permitted to dine with the Fellows, and to wear a - plain, black, full-sleeved gown; or else he is one who, having kept - all the terms, by statute required previous to his law-act, is _hoc - ipsa facto_ entitled to wear the same garment, and thenceforth ranks - as bachelor, by courtesy. - - 1803. _Gradus ad Cantabrigiam_. HARRY SOPH, or HENRY SOPHISTER; - students who have kept all the terms required for a law act, and hence - are ranked as Bachelors of Law by courtesy. They wear a plain, black, - full-sleeved gown. - - -*Hash*, _verb_ (general).—To study hard; TO SWAT (_q.v._). - - -*Hasher*, _subs._ 1. (Charterhouse).—A “made” dish. - - 2. (Charterhouse).—A football sweater—tight-fitting, with - the colours running round in horizontal lines. In 1863 - football shirts were introduced in place of HASHERS. - - -*Hat*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—A gentleman commoner. [Who is - permitted to wear a hat instead of the regulation - mortar-board.] Also GOLD HATBAND. - - 1628. EARLE, _Microcosmographie_, “Young Gentleman of the Universitie” - (ed. ARBER, 1868). His companion is ordinarily some stale fellow that - has beene notorious for an ingle to GOLD HATBANDS, whom hee admires at - first, afterwards scornes. - - 1803. _Gradus ad Cantabrigiam._ Hat Commoner; the son of a nobleman, - who wears the gown of a Fellow Commoner with a HAT. - - 1830. LYTTON, _Paul Clifford_, ch. xxxii. I knew intimately all the - HATS in the University. - - 1841. LYTTON, _Night and Morning_, Bk. I. ch. i. He had certainly - nourished the belief that some one of the HATS or tinsel gowns, _i.e._ - young lords or fellow. - - -*Hatch*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A flood-gate. [Hatch = a - flood-gate (BAILEY); also var. dial. = a garden-gate, - wicket-gate, or half-door.] - - -*Hatch-thoke*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A Founder’s - Commemoration-day. [THOKE = to lie late in bed; an old - custom being to lie in bed till breakfast on such occasions, - names being called at HATCH in Commoners.] - - -*Haul*, _verb_ (University).—To summon before the Proctor - for misdemeanour. Whence HAULABLE, _adj._, used of those - whose society authorities deem undesirable for the men: - _e.g._ they’re HAULABLE = those caught with them will be - proctorised. - - 1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 89. At last they were caught - trying to drive in through the big gate of John’s. Next day they were - HAULED and sent down. - - TO HAUL UP, _verb. phr._ (Harrow).—To have a boy up to House - out of school-hours, to say “turned” repetitions. - - -*Haves.* _See_ HALVES. - - -*He*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—A cake. YOUNG HE = a small cake; a - FISH-HE = fish-cake. _See_ SHE. - - -*Head*, _subs._ (Tonbridge).—The chief cricket-ground. - - -*Health Walk*, subs. (Stonyhurst).—When the weather has been bad - for some time, the boys are freed on the first fine day for - “HEALTH WALKS.” The name seems still to be surviving, - through more often the boys have football than walks on such - occasions. - - -*Heder*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A plunge, feet foremost. Fr. _une - chandelle_. - - -*Hedgehog*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A London nickname for a - Hertford BLUE (_q.v._). _See_ Appendix. - - _c._ 1800-29. _The Blue-Coat Boy_ [_More Gleanings from_ THE BLUE], - 203. Another isolated statement of interest (unknown, perhaps, to - some), is that “Hertford boys called the London boys, ‘Jackdaws,’ and - those in London called those at Hertford ‘HEDGEHOGS’;” hedgehog boys - and pigtailed masters! - - -*Heifer*, _subs._ (Charterhouse: obsolete).—A charwoman. - - -*Hell*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A shady nook near Third Pot, - famous for a profusion of violets. [Dial. (Hants) = a dark, - wooded place: originally (SKEAT) a hidden place.] - - -*Hell-and-neck boy*, _subs. phr._ (Royal High School, Edin.: - obsolete).—A venturesome boy who had frequently climbed the - KITTLE-NINE-STEPS (q.v.). - - -*Hell Hole* and “*Hell’s Gates*,” _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The name - of some foundations of an old factory built on the Hodder. - - -*High* (The), _subs._ (Oxford).—High Street. _Cf._ The BROAD, - the TURL, the CORN, &c. - - -*High*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A fruit-pie. _See_ Low. - - _c._ 1890. _More Gleanings from_ THE BLUE, 92. Those greedy gluttons - who during life had lain in wait for monied comrades, assailing them - with importunate entreaties or even with open violence. Now they - outstretched bony hands in vain for juicy “HIGHS,” which mocked and - eluded their grasp; bottles of ginger-beer and cherries hovered above - their skinny lips, as erst in “cherry-bob,” but never were they - granted taste or sip of cool beverage or dainty morsel. - - -*Higher Line*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The three highest classes. - - -*High-master*, _subs._ (St. Paul’s and Manchester Grammar).—The - Head-master: at Manchester the term was used in the earliest - statutes of the school (1515). _See_ SUR-MASTER. - - -*Hills*, _subs._ 1. (Winchester).—St. Catharine’s Hill. Hence, - TO SHIRK HILLS = _see_ quot. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life_, p. 28. Some of his principal - duties were to take the boys “on to HILLS,” call names there, &c. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_, 214. HILLS—St. - Catherine’s Hill, a green hill about one mile and a half from College, - about five hundred feet high, and near the top surrounded by a deep - trench, the remains of an old Roman camp. The boys had to ascend this - twice a day on whole Holidays and Remedies, once before breakfast, and - again at half-past two. In the summer they also went out in the - evening, but did not ascend Hills, but disported themselves below. - These sorties were called “going on to HILLS,” the evening expedition - being called “Underhills.” _Ibid._, iii. Ordinary offences of a - trifling character, such as being late for Chapel or “SHIRKING HILLS” - [_i.e._ evading going Hills], were punished by the infliction of an - imposition—generally thirty lines of Virgil, English and Latin. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 24. Tuesdays and Thursdays - were partial holidays, on which the boys went out to the HILLS twice; - once in the morning, returning at nine to breakfast, and again in the - afternoon, coming off at three. There they played at quoits, football, - and something which seems to have borne a resemblance to cricket. - - 2. (Cambridge).—The Gogmagog Hills; a common morning’s - ride.—_Gradus ad Cantab._ - - -*Hiss* (The), _subs._ (Winchester).—The signal given at the - commencement of school hours when a Master was coming - in.—MANSFIELD (_c._ 1840). - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ [1866], 104. Just - before school-time a boy was always stationed to watch the arrival of - the Master, of which he had to give notice by emitting a loud HISS, - upon which there was a general rush up to books; the previous uproar - dwindled to a calm, and work began. - - -*Hivite*, _subs._ (St. Bees’).—A student of St. Bees’ - (Cumberland). - - 1865. _John Bull_, Nov. 11. To be a HIVITE has long been considered a - little worse than a “literate.”... Of the value of some St. Bees’ - testimonials we may form an estimate, &c. - - -*Hobbs*, _subs._ (Tonbridge).—A fad; a mental eccentricity. - _See_ TACHS. - - -*Hobby*, _subs._ (common).—A translation. To RIDE HOBBIES = to - use CRIBS (_q.v._). - - -*Hockey-sticks and Fourpennies*, _subs. phr._ (Charterhouse).—A - kind of irregular cricket played at Old Charterhouse. The - bats were huge bludgeons called hockey-sticks, but without - any curve at the end; the balls were like large fives-balls, - and a little smaller than a regulation cricket-ball; the - wickets were usually coats or jackets; gownboy jackets were - much the best, because they were stiff and easily stood - upright; the pitch was either on the football ground, where - there was no grass, or on a flagged pavement in cloisters. - - -*Hodgsonites* (Charterhouse).—_See_ OUT-HOUSES. - - -*Hodman* (Oxford).—A scholar from Westminster School admitted to - Christ Church College. - - 1728. BAILEY, _Eng. Dict._, s.v. HODMAN. - - 1847. HALLIWELL, _Arch. Words_, s.v.... A nickname for a Canon of - Christ Church. - - -*Hog*, _subs._ (Cambridge: obsolete).—A student of St. John’s. - Also JOHNIAN HOG. _See_ CRACKLE, BRIDGE OF GRUNTS, and - ISTHMUS OF SUEZ. - - 1690. _Diary of Abraham de la Pryme_ (Surtees Society, No. 54), quoted - in _Notes and Queries_, 6 S., xi. 328. For us Jonians are called - abusively HOGGS. - - 1795. _Gent. Mag._, lxv. 22. The JOHNIAN HOGS were originally - remarkable on account of the squalid figures and low habits of the - _students_, and especially of the _sizars_ of Saint _John’s_ College. - [Another story of how name originated is given in detail in _Gent. - Mag._ (1795), lxv. 107.] - - 1889. WHIBLEY, _In Cap and Gown_, p. 28. An obsolete name for members - of St. John’s College, Cambridge. - - -*Hog Tower*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A coaching room off Rhetoric - school-room. [So called (1) because part of a tower, and (2) - because the RHETORICIANS (_q.v._) originally wished to use - it for other “more profitable” purposes than for study.] - - -*Hoi Polloi*, _subs. phr._ (University).—The candidates for - ordinary degrees. [From the Greek.] _Cf._ GULF. - - -*Hol*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A holiday. Whence HOL-TAG = holiday - task. - - -*Holiday*, _subs._ (Sherborne: obsolete).—A Saint’s day: - sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. - - -*Hollis*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A small pebble. [Said to be - derived from a boy of that name.—WRENCH.] - - -*Holy Club* (The), _subs._ (Oxford: obsolete).—A band of kindred - spirits who gathered round John Wesley while at Lincoln - College: in ridicule. - - -*Home-bill*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—Food supplied by the butler - at breakfast or tea, to supplement the bread-and-butter - supplied by the house master. It consists of eggs, eggs and - bacon, ham, or sausages at breakfast; of poached eggs, - mince, sausages and potatoes, tongue, ham, brawn, beef, - or pork-pie at tea. The price is usually 4d. for each - HOME-BILL; in some houses 6d. is the charge for the Upper - School. - - -*Home-bug*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A home boarder; a day boy. - - -*Honour* (*Legion of*). _See_ LEGION. - - -*Honours*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—Classes in which extra classics - are read in the three highest Forms. - - -*Hook*, _intj._ (Oxford).—An expression implying doubt. [Query - from the note of interrogation (?) or connected with “Hookey - Walker.”] - - 1823. BEE, _Dict. of the Turf_, s.v. HOOKEY WALKER—and WITH A HOOK, - usually accompanied by a significant upliftment of the hand and - crooking of the forefinger, implying that what is said is a lie, or is - to be taken contrariwise. - - 1843. MONCRIEFF, _Scamps of London_, i. 1. _Bob._ Will you have some - gin? _Fogg._ Gin—yes! _Bob_ (turning away). Ha—ha!—WITH A HOOK ... I - wish you may get it. - - 1870. TRAILL, _Saturday Songs_, p. 22. It’s go and go over the left, - It’s go WITH A HOOK AT THE END. - - -*Horse-box*, _subs._ (The Leys).—A cubicle or recess in - dormitory: about 5 or 6 feet high. Whence TO DO TEN - HORSE-BOXES = to perform “Sinking-and-rising exercise” on - the same. - - -*Hot*, _subs._ (Winchester).—1. A mellay at football. 2. A - crowd. Hence to HOT UP (or DOWN) = to crowd; to mob. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_, 215. In Twenty-two - and Twenty-two (_q.v._) when the ball went out of bounds, it was - brought in and placed between the two sides, who all clustered up - close round, with their heads down, each party, by weight and kicking, - trying to force the ball through the other. - - 1878. ADAMS, _Wykehamica_, p. 367. It would be replaced and a fresh - HOT formed. - - -*Hot-end*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A half-burned faggot stick with - one end red-hot. - - -*Hots*, _subs._ 1. (Felsted: obsolete).—Tarts; pastry, &c. - - 2. (Felsted).—Money: specifically “coppers.” - - Whence TRAV-HOTS = travelling money. - - 1893. _Felstedian_, Mar., p. 20. I made two brackets in the workshop, - they liked them awfully; I meant to get them something decent, but I - hadn’t got any HOTS. - - 1893. _Felstedian_, July, p. 82. All right; it’s only a HOT. Did you - hear what we did in our dormy last night? - - 1895. _Felstedian_, April, p. 44. HOTS—“Hots” and “half-hots” very - evidently “burn a hole in one’s pocket” if they are left there long - enough. - - -*Hot-tiger*, _subs._ (Oxford: obsolete).—Hot-spiced ale and - sherry. - - -*Hound*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—_See_ quot. - - 1879. E. WALFORD, in _Notes and Queries_, 5 S., xii. 88. In the - _Anecdotes of Bowyer_ ... we are told that a HOUND of King’s College, - Cambridge, is an undergraduate not on the foundation, nearly the same - as a “sizar.” - - -*House-captain*, _subs._ (The Leys).—A boy, not in studies, - responsible for order in House-room. - - -*House-game*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A game—football or cricket—in - which the whole House play. - - -*House-list*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The printed list, in BILL - (_q.v._) order, of each House. - - -*House-room*, _subs._ (The Leys).—The Common Room of boys below - VI^{th} who have no studies. - - -*House-singing*, _subs._ (Harrow).—An informal concert at which - school songs are sung collectively: held once a fortnight - except in summer. - - -*House-washing*, _subs._ (Rugby: obsolete).—A sort of compressed - paper-chase, backwards and forwards in a short distance over - Clifton Brook, a tributary of the Warwickshire Avon. [The - name suggests that this was not a dry process; each House as - a rule had a HOUSE-WASHING in the Easter term.] - - -*Housey*, _adj._ (Christ’s Hospital).—Belonging or peculiar to - the Hospital. The reverse of TOWNEY = of the town. - - -*Housle*, _verb_ (Winchester).—To hustle. [Dial.: _cf._ doust = - dust; fousty = fusty; rousty = rusty, &c.] - - -*Huff*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Strong ale brewed by the College. - [A survival: also HUFF-CAP.] - - 1579. FULWELL, _Art of Flattery_. Commonly called HUFCAP, it will make - a man look as though he had seene the devil. - - 1586. HOLINSHED, _Description of England_. These men hale at HUFF-CAP - till they be red as cockes, and little wiser than their combes. - - 1602. CAMPION, _English Poesy_ (BULLEN, _Works_, 1889, p. 247). Hunks - detests when HUFFCAP ale he tipples. - - 1614. GREENE, _Looking-Glass_ [DYCE], p. 127. The ale is strong ale, - ’tis HUFCAP; I warrant you, ’twill make a man well. - - 1640. TAYLOR, _Works._ And this is it, of ale-houses and innes, - Wine-marchants, vintners, brewers, who much wins By others losing, I - say more or lesse, Who sale of HUFCAP liquor doe professe. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life_, p. 180. Washed down by libations - of HUFF. - - 1878. ADAMS, _Wykehamica_, s.v. HUFF, the strong ale brewed by the - College. - - -*Hum*, _verb_ (Derby).—To smell. - - -*Hundred* (The), _subs._ 1. (Loretto).—A long straight walk - within the school grounds. - - 2. (Tonbridge: obsolete).—One of the lower football grounds. - There were Upper, Middle, Lower, Fourth, and Fifth Hundreds. - _See_ FIFTY. - - -*Husky*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—_See_ quot. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life_, p. 145. There were two kinds - [Gooseberry fool] HUSKY and non-husky. - - - - - - -*Ick.* _See_ ACK. - - -*Iliad*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—The regular penalty for late - attendance at chapel and other minor offences. - - -*Imperator*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A name given to the two first - boys in each class. - - -*Impo*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—An imposition. - - -*Impositor*, _subs._ (Sherborne: obsolete).—A school Præfect: - sixteenth century. - - -*Inferior*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Any member of the school not a - PRÆFECT (_q.v._). - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life_, p. 28. The Præfect of Hall ... - was looked upon by the INFERIORS with something more than a becoming - awe and reverence. - - -*Inform*, _verb_ (Charterhouse).—To sneak; to show up. - - -*Infra-dig*, _adj._ (Winchester).—Scornful; proud: _e.g._ “He - sported INFRA-DIG duck,” or “I am INFRA-DIG to it.” - - -*Island, The* (Rugby).—A mound or “tumulus” in the Close. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 372. They [the school - volunteer corps] had not only parades, but sham fights—if a fight - could be called a sham from which the combatants retired with broken - heads and bloody noses—attacking and defending the Doctor’s farmyard - on the little ISLAND between what were then the two Closes. - - -*Isthmus-of-Suez*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—The bridge at St. John’s - College, Cambridge, leading from the grounds to one of the - Courts, familiarly known as the “Bridge of Sighs.” Also THE - BRIDGE OF GRUNTS. [From its slight similarity to the - Venetian example. _Sues_ = swine, in punning reference to - the JOHNIAN HOGS (_q.v._).] _See_ CRACKLE and HOG. - - 1857. _Punch_, June 20. A resident Fellowe he was, I wis, He had no - cure of Soules; And across ye BRIDGE OF SUES he’d come From playinge - ye game of bowles. - - 1885. CUTHBERT BEDE, in _N. and Q._, 6 S., xi. 414. Another word is - _Sues_, for swine. This is applied to the bridge leading from the old - courts to the new, familiarly known as the BRIDGE OF SIGHS from its - slight similarity to the Venetian example, but also known as the - ISTHMUS OF SUEZ. This word _Suez_ was then transformed to _Suez_, - swine, to adapt it to its Johnian frequenters. - - - - - - -*Jack.* _See_ BLACK-JACK. - - -*Jackdaw*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—Hertford for a London - BLUE (_q.v._): obsolete. - - _c._ 1800-29. _The Blue-Coat Boy_ [_More Gleanings from_ THE BLUE, - 203]. Hertford boys called the London boys “JACKDAWS,” and those in - London called those at Hertford “Hedgehogs.” - - -*Jack-o’-Lantern*, _subs._ (Eton and Harrow: obsolete).—A - nocturnal form of “Hare and Hounds.” - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 312. But there was an ancient - form of it [“Hare and Hounds”] at Harrow, so especially attractive as - being pursued at unlawful hours and under unusual difficulties, that - it deserves special mention. It was known also in former days at Eton, - and in both schools went by the name of JACK O’ LANTERN. About seven - o’clock on winter evenings, when it was quite dark, the boys, by - sufferance on the part of the authorities, were let out from their - several boarding-houses into the fields below the school. A stout and - active runner started in advance, carrying a lantern, by the light of - which the rest pursued him in full cry. He showed or concealed his - light from time to time, and a great point of the sport was to entice - the hounds into some pool or muddy ditch (which “Jack” himself has - carefully avoided) by showing the light exactly in a line on the other - side. - - 1885. THORNTON, _Harrow School_, p. 276. JACK-O’-LANTERN was abolished - by Dr. George Butler, but re-appeared in Dr. Longley’s time as one of - those forbidden pleasures so dear to youth. Always played in the - evening, and originally by sufferance of the authorities, the game in - question was simply a run across country after a lantern carried by a - swift-footed boy. Oftentimes would the luckless hounds be enticed into - some slough of despond, and the performers return in a condition of - mud which may find its equal on a wet football day or a paper-chase - forty years later, but yet present no adequate idea of the confusion - caused by the return from JACK-O’-LANTERN, of thirty or forty boys at - night when in ordinary clothes. It is one of the most distinct - evidences that no discipline existed when we read of such a proscribed - saturnalia having occurred after lock-up in Dr. Longley’s time. But - the fact has been communicated to us by Harrow men whose word is - indisputable. - - -*Jambi*, _subs._ (Harrow).—Greek Iambics; an exercise in the - Upper School. - - -*Janny*, _subs._ (Royal High School, Edin.).—A janitor. - - -*Jark*, _subs._ (Oxford).—A safe-conduct pass; a JASKER. [_Cf._ - JARK = a seal.] - - 1818. SCOTT, _Heart of Midlothian_, xxix. Stay, gentlemen, ... this is - a JARK from Jim Radcliffe. - - -*Jarrehoe*, _subs._ (Wellington).—A man-servant. _Cf._ GYP and - SCOUT. - - -*Jericho*, _subs._ (Oxford).—A low quarter of Oxford. - - -*Jesuit*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—A graduate or undergraduate of - Jesus College. - - 1771. SMOLLETT, _Humphrey Clinker_, To Sir W. Phillips, April 20. - Direct your next to me at Bath; and remember me to all our fellow - JESUITS. - - 1856. HALL, _College Words and Phrases_, p. 270, _s.v._ - - -*Jib*, _subs._ (Dublin).—A first-year’s man. - - 1841. LEVER, _Charles O’Malley_, xiv. There [referring to Trinity - College Freshmen] ... are JIBS, whose names are neither known to the - proctor nor the police-office. - - TO BE JIBBED, _verb. phr._ (Christ’s Hospital).—To be called - over the coals; to get into trouble. A Hertford word, the - London equivalent being TWIGGED. Obsolete. - - -*Jiffs, The* (Christ’s Hospital). _See_ Appendix. - - _c._ 1890. _More Gleanings from_ THE BLUE, 92. North is the “Hall - playground” (I use the terrene names); south, the “Library”; east, the - “Ditch”; and west, the “JIFFS.” - - -*Jig*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A clever man: fifty years ago it - meant a swindler. The word has now the meanings (1) a low - joke, (2) a swindle, (3) an object of sport. - - 1600. HEYWOOD, 2 _Edward IV._, i. 1. There domineering with his - drunken crew Makes JIGS of us. - - 1620. COTGRAVE, _Dictionarie_, s.v. FARCE ... the JYG at the end of an - enterlude, wherein some pretie knaverie is acted. - - 1652. STAPYLTON, _Herodion_ (quoted in _Notions_). Devising with his - mates to find a JIGG, That he thereby might make himself a king. - - -*Jimmy.* ALL JIMMY, _adv. phr._ (Cambridge).—All nonsense. - [_Cf._ JEMMY-BURTY (Cambridge) = an _ignis fatuus_.] - - -*Jink*, _subs._ (Durham).—A dodge: at football. - - -*Jockey*, _subs._ (Winchester).—(1) To supplant; (2) to - appropriate; (3) to engage: _e.g._ “He JOCKEYED me UP to - books”; “Who has JOCKEYED my baker”; “This court is - JOCKEYED.” Probably an extended use of the word borrowed - from turf slang. JOCKEY NOT = the Commoner cry claiming - exemption, answering to “feign” at other schools: of which - the College “finge” seems a translation. The opposite of - JOCKEY UP = to LOSE DOWN.—_Notions._ - - 1881. _Felstedian_, Nov. p. 75, “A Day’s Fagging at Winchester.” Here - let me observe that only the præfects have separate basins to wash in; - the juniors use the two stone conduits. As there are seven who are not - præfects, there is rather a rush for them, so I JOCKEY (_i.e._ secure) - one for the “candlekeeper” by turning on some water and putting his - sponge into it. - - -*John* (Westminster).—_See_ COLLEGE JOHN. - - -*Johnian*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—A student of St. John’s College: - also JOHNIAN PIG or HOG—_see_ HOG. Also as _adj._: _e.g._ - JOHNIAN blazer, JOHNIAN melody, &c. - - 1785. GROSE, _Vulg. Tongue_, s.v. HOG ... JOHNIAN HOGS, an appellation - given to the members of St. John’s College, Cambridge. - - 1829. PRAED, _Poems_, “The Vicar.” Sit in the Vicar’s seat: you’ll - hear The doctrine of a gentle JOHNIAN. - - 1841. _Westminster Review_, xxxv. 236. The JOHNIANS are always known - as pigs. They put up a new organ the other day which was immediately - christened “Baconi Novum Organum.” - - -*Joram*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A tin beer-can, used in - Commoners; a quart pot. [Var. dial. = a large dish or jug.] - In College a BOB (_q.v._) was used. - - -*Jordan* (Eton).—_See_ PLAYING-FIELDS. - - -*Jossop*, _subs._ (general).—Syrup; juice; gravy; sauce. - - -*Jubilee*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A pleasant time: - _e.g._ The town was all in a JUBILEE of feasts.—_Dryden._ - - 1772. G. A. STEVENS, _Songs Comic and Satyrical_, p. 192. Day by day, - and night by night, Joyful JUBILEES we keep. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 216. - _Jubilee_—Any time when there was nothing to do, either in the way of - lessons or fagging. - - -*June* (Eton).—_See_ FOURTH OF JUNE. - - -*Jungle*, The (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—The Seminary wood. - - 1889. _Stonyhurst Mag._, iii. 347. The welcome shade of what was - facetiously called THE JUNGLE. - - -*Junior*, _subs._ (Winchester).—All Inferiors except the seven - CANDLEKEEPERS (_q.v._) and Senior Inferior. - - _Adj._ (Winchester).—Applied to all comparable objects. Of - two neighbouring trees, the bigger is the “senior”: there - are a “senior” and a “JUNIOR” end to a table, a room, &c. - TIGHT JUNIOR = lowest of all. - - 1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. JUNIOR.... At about the end - of the fifteenth century _senior_ and JUNIOR superseded _major_ and - _minor_, before which the two sets of words seem to have been used - concurrently. - - -*Junior Hall* (Shrewsbury).—_See_ SENIOR HALL. - - -*Junior Soph.* _See_ SOPH. - - -*Junket!* _intj._ (Winchester).—An exclamation of - self-congratulation: _e.g._ “JUNKET” I’ve got a “remi.” - Hence to JUNKET OVER = to exult over. [JUNKETING = a - merry-making.] - - 1630. WADSWORTH [WRENCH]. They made him oft-times go on foot, whilst - they rode about JUNKETTING in his coach. - - _d._ 1745. SWIFT, _Works_. Whatever good bits you can pilfer in the - day, save them to JUNKET with your fellow-servants at night. - - - - - - -*Keelie*, _subs._ (Royal High School, Edin.: obsolete).—A town - boy. Now = “cad.” - - -*Keep.* To KEEP CHAPEL, _verb. phr._ (University).—_See_ quot. - 1852. - - 1850. _Household Words_, ii. p. 161. “As you have failed to make up - your number of chapels the last two weeks,” such were the very words - of the Dean, “you will, if you please, KEEP every CHAPEL till the end - of the term.” - - 1852. BRISTED, _Five Years_, _&c._, 32. The undergraduate is expected - to go to chapel eight times, or, in academic parlance, to KEEP eight - CHAPELS a week. - - TO KEEP CAVE, _verb. phr._ (Eton).—To watch and give warning - on a tutor’s approach. - - 1883. BRINSLEY RICHARDS, _Seven Years at Eton_, ch. iv. Another had to - mount guard in the passage, or on the staircase, TO KEEP _cave_. - - -*Kick.* TO KICK OVER, _verb. phr._ (Winchester).—To kick a ball - up in the air, when it is rolling along, or lying on the - ground: considered very bad play.—MANSFIELD (_c._ 1840). - _Ibid._, 217. KICK-IN.—In a game at football the bounds on - each side were kept by a line of Juniors, whose duty it was - to KICK the ball IN again whenever it passed outside the - line. _See_ KICKING-IN. - - -*Kicking-in*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ quot., and KICK. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester College_, p. 138. But - football wasn’t all beer and skittles to the Fags. There was an - institution called KICKING-IN, which, while it lasted, was much worse - than “watching out” at cricket, although it had the very great merit - of not continuing so long; for, even on a whole holiday, we seldom had - more than two hours of it. - - -*Kick-off*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Taking the football in hand - and kicking it into the air: this was done after each SCHITT - (_q.v._), GOWNER (_q.v._), or GOAL (_q.v._) by the losing - side, and whenever a ball that had been kicked up in the air - had been caught by one of the other side.—MANSFIELD (_c._ - 1840). - - -*Kid*, _subs._ 1. (Winchester).—Cheese. - - 2. (The Leys).—A boy under fifteen. Hence KID-SIXES = - football for KIDS—six a side. - - -*Kill*, _verb_ (Winchester).—To hurt badly. - - 1800. EDGEWORTH, _Castle Rackrent_, “Glossary.” This word [KILL] ... - means not killed, but much hurt. In Ireland, not only cowards but the - brave “die many times before their death.” There “killing is no - murder.” - - 1836. MARRYAT, _Japhet_, iii. Sure enough it cured me, but wasn’t I - quite KILT before I was cured. - - -*Kill-me-quick*, _subs._ (The Leys).—A tuck-shop cake. - - -*King Edward’s, Birm.*—A curious custom exists here of inherited - nicknames: _e.g._ Years ago a boy named Pearson was - nicknamed “Jelly”; every Pearson, though unrelated to the - other, for many years afterwards was nicknamed “Jelly.” A - trio of brothers have been successively named “Tiddley,” - others “Topsy,” and “Bowie.” An elder brother was called - “Pussy,” and his younger brother “Kitten.” - - -*Kings*, TO GET KINGS, _verb. phr._ (Eton).—To obtain a - scholarship at King’s Coll., Cambridge. _See_ RIPPING. - - -*Kingsman*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—A member of King’s College. - - 1852. BRISTED, _Five Years_, 127. He came out the winner, with the - KINGSMAN, and one of our three. - - -*Kip*, _verb_ (Royal High School, Edin.).—To play truant. Common - throughout Scotland. [Possibly from “skip.”] - - -*Kish*, _subs._ (Marlborough).—A cushion: in ordinary use - doubled up under the arm for carrying school books, as well - as for sitting on in Form or Hall. As _verb_ = to use a - cushion as a weapon of offence. _See_ COMPOUND-KISH. - - -*Kittle-nine-steps*, _subs. phr._ (Royal High School, Edin.: - obsolete).—A pass on the very brink of the Castle rock, to - the north, by which it is just possible for a goat or a High - School boy to turn the corner of the building where it rises - from the edge of the precipice. _See_ HELL-AND-NECK-BOY. - - -*Klondyke*, _subs._ (The Leys).—A cross-country run to St. - Botolph’s. - - -*Knave*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A dunce: at Hertford, a - KNACK. - - -*Knock.* TO KNOCK IN, _verb. phr._ (Oxford).—1. To return to - College after GATE is closed. - - 1825. _English Spy_, i. 155. “Close the oak, Jem,” said Horace - Eglantine, “and take care no one KNOCKS IN before we have knocked down - the contents of your master’s musical _mélange_.” - - 1837. BARHAM, _Ingoldsby Legends_, p. 464 [ed. 1862]. That same - afternoon Father Dick, who as soon Would KNOCK IN or “cut chapel,” as - jump o’er the moon, Was missing at vespers—at complines—all night! And - his monks were of course in a deuce of a fright. - - 1853. CUTHBERT BEDE, _Verdant Green_, I. xi. At first, too, he was on - such occasions greatly alarmed at finding the gates of Brazenface - closed, obliging him thereby to KNOCK IN. - - 1861. HUGHES, _Tom Brown at Oxford_, p. 458 [ed. 1864]. There’s twelve - striking. I must KNOCK IN. Good night. You’ll be round to breakfast at - nine? - - 2. TO KNOCK OUT, _verb. phr._ (Oxford).—To leave college - after hours: of out of college men only. _See_ KNOCK IN. - - 1861. H. KINGSLEY, _Ravenshoe_, vii. Five out-college men had KNOCKED - OUT at a quarter to three, refusing to give any name but the dean’s. - - 1861. HUGHES, _Tom Brown at Oxford_, xlv. p. 503 [ed. 1864]. “Hullo!” - he said, getting up; “time for me to KNOCK OUT, or old Copas will be - in bed.” - - 3. TO KNOCK UP, _verb. phr._ (Christ’s Hospital).—To gain a - place in class: _e.g._ I KNOCKED UP, and “I KNOCKED Jones - UP.” The Hertford equivalent is OX UP (_q.v._). Both forms - are now obsolete. - - -*Knuckle.* TO KNUCKLE DOWN, _verb. phr._ (Winchester).—To kneel. - - 1748. DYCHE, _Dict._ (5th ed.). KNUCKLE-DOWN (_verb_) to stoop, bend, - yield, comply with, or submit to. - - - - - - -*Labyrinth* (The), _subs._ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—A part of the - Garden. - - -*Lag*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The last. The “lag of the school,” the - last boy in BILL-order (_q.v._) in the school. - - 1881. PASCOE, _Every-day Life in our Public Schools_. Every morning - the LAG junior prepares and brings to hall the list. - - -*Lage*, _subs._ (University: obsolete).—To wash. [_Cf._ the old - cant term _lagge_ = a bundle of clothes for washing.] - - -*Lamb’s-tails*, _subs._ (The Leys).—A cake sold at the - tuck-shop. - - -*Landies*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—Gaiters. [From - tradespeople—Landy and Currell—who supplied them.] - - -*Land of Promises*, _subs. phr._ (University).—_See_ quot. - - 1823. GROSE, _Vulg. Tongue_, s.v. LAND OF PROMISES. The fair - expectation cherished by a steady novice at Oxford. - - -*Land of Sheepishness*, _subs. phr._ (old University).—_See_ - quot. - - 1823. GROSE, _Vulg. Tongue_, s.v. LAND OF SHEEPISHNESS. Schoolboy’s - bondage. - - -*Largitate*, _subs._ (The Leys).—Apple-pie. [From the College - grace.] - - -*Lash*, _verb_ (Christ’s Hospital).—To envy. Generally in - imperative as a taunt. - - 1890. _The Blue_, Oct., “The Queen in the City.” Our lips LASH on - learning that the “general bill of fare” contained 200 tureens of - turtle, 200 bottles of sherbot (what is this?), 50 boiled turkeys, and - oysters. - - -*Late-play*, _subs._ (Westminster).—A half-holiday or holiday - beginning at noon. _See_ EARLY PLAY. - - -*Launch*, _verb_ (general).—_See_ quots. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 218. - LAUNCH—To drag a boy out of bed, mattress, bed-clothes, and all. - - 1865. G. J. BERKELEY, _My Life_, &c., i. 129. I had [at Sandhurst - about 1815] to undergo the usual torments of being LAUNCHED, that is, - having my bed reversed while I was asleep; of being thrown on the - floor on my face, with the mattress on my back, and all my friends or - foes dancing on my prostrate body. - - -*Lawful Time*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Recess; playtime. - - -*Leave*, _subs._ (general).—Leave of absence from school; a - holiday. - - -*Leaving-money*, _subs._ (Eton). _See_ quot. - - 1865. _Etoniana_, p. 70. The restrictions [_temp._ Eliz.] by which the - masters were forbidden to take any fees (even from oppidans) was - probably evaded, almost from the first, by the system then universal - in all transactions of giving presents, under which heading the sons - of wealthy parents soon began to pay pretty highly for their - education. Traces of this arrangement remain in the custom still - prevailing—not at all to the credit of the school—of presenting a sum - as LEAVING-MONEY to the head-master and the private tutor. At what - time assistant-masters were first appointed does not appear; but they - were no doubt paid, up to a comparatively late date, entirely from - such fees as the parents of those under their tuition chose to give - them. - - -*Lecker*, _subs._ 1. (Oxford).—A lecture. - - 2. (Harrow).—The electric light. - - -*Legion of Honour*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—The last twelve in the - mathematical TRIPOS (_q.v._). - - 1785. GROSE, _Vulg. Tongue_, s.v. PLUCK.... These unfortunate fellows - are designated by many opprobrious appellations, such as the Twelve - Apostles, the LEGION OF HONOUR, Wise Men of the East, &c. - - -*Lemonade*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A day of high festival, coming - twice a year, at Shrove-tide and at Easter. - - -*Lemon Peel Fight*, _subs. phr._ (Charterhouse: obsolete).—_See_ - quot. - - 1900. TOD, _Charterhouse_, 80. On Shrove-Tuesday, according to a - custom dating from 1850 or probably earlier, every boy used to receive - half a lemon with his pancake at dinner. This he reserved to use as a - missile in the fight which was to take place directly afterwards. At - Old Charterhouse, gownboys used to stand against the rest of the - school, and the fight consisted in each side pelting the other with - the half lemons. It lasted for fifteen or twenty minutes, and was - begun and ended by a house bell being rung. During these twenty - minutes a good many bruises and black eyes could be received, for - combatants fought at quite close quarters; and unpopular monitors were - sometimes badly damaged. At New Charterhouse the sides were at first - Old Charterhouse _v._ New. In 1877 they were changed again to - Out-houses _v._ The Rest. This was the last fight. Grave abuses had - crept in. The lemons were no longer simple lemons, but a sort of - bomb-shell, loaded with pebbles or ink, and several boys were badly - hurt. So the Sixth Form in 1878 “totally abolished LEMON PEEL as a - barbarous and obsolete practice.” It required a strong Sixth Form to - do this, for the fight was popular, and their action is one of the - best things that the school has done for itself. Its abolition differs - from the abolition of fighting; the latter became obsolete through the - action of public opinion; LEMON PEEL was abolished by an ukase almost - in defiance of public opinion. - - -*Lent Suppers.* _See_ PUBLIC-SUPPING. - - -*Let.* TO LET IN, _verb. phr._ (Oxford).—To associate with. - - 1861. HUGHES, _Tom Brown at Oxford_, i. He has also been good enough - to recommend to me many tradesmen, ... but, with the highest respect - for friend Perkins (my scout) and his obliging friends, I shall make - some inquiries before LETTING IN with any of them. - - -*Let-out*, _subs._ (Tonbridge).—Any less extensive holiday than - a half holiday. - - -*Levite*, _subs._ (Tonbridge).—A boy leaving the school. - - -*Levy*, _subs._ (Rugby).—_See_ quot. - - 1856. HUGHES, _Tom Brown’s School-days_, viii. In fact, the solemn - assembly, a LEVY of the school, had been held, at which the captain of - the school had got up, and, after premising that several instances had - occurred of matters having been reported to the masters; that this was - against public morality and School tradition; that a LEVY of the sixth - had been held on the subject, and they had resolved that the practice - must be stopped at once. - - -*Lib*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—The Library. Whence LIB. COLL. = - a collection of library books. - - -*Licet*, _adj._ and _adv._ (Winchester).—Allowed; permissible; - befitting a Wykehamist. - - -*Lick.* TO LICK OFF THE FIELD, _verb. phr._ (Harrow).—To get - five BASES (_q.v._) before the other side scores one, in a - FOOTER (_q.v._) House-match: this closes the game. - - -*Lie.* TO LIE IN, _verb. phr._ (Royal Military Academy).—To keep - one’s room when supposed to be out on leave. - - -*Lincoln Devil* (The), _subs._ (Oxford).—A curious gilded - deformed image (copied from a figure in Lincoln Cathedral) - which decorates the bows of the Lincoln boat. Replicas are - honoured by, and found in the rooms of, most Lincoln men. - - -*Lines*, _subs._ (general).—The usual punishment—the copying out - of so many lines of Greek or Latin. Hence TO BE PUT ON LINES - (Harrow) = to have to show up so many lines each half-hour - for a certain number of half-holidays, for being late for - chapel, &c. - - -*Links*, _subs._ (Loretto).—A short run or walk before - breakfast: about half a mile. [Formerly always across - Musselburgh Links: now there are various LINKS according to - circumstances.] - - -*Lion*, _subs._ (old University).—_See_ quot. - - 1785. GROSE, _Vulg. Tongue_, s.v. LION.... Also the name given by the - gownsmen of Oxford to inhabitants or visitors. - - -*Lions, The* (Stonyhurst).—The two pillars in front of the - College. - - -*Little Figures*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—The old name - for the class of ELEMENTS (_q.v._). - - 1895. _Stonyhurst Magazine_, v. p. 519. I was sent to Stonyhurst, when - I was put into the class of LITTLE FIGURES. - - -*Little Figuricians*, _subs. phr._ (Stonyhurst).—_See_ LITTLE - FIGURES. - - -*Little-go*, _subs._ (University).—The public examination which - students at the English Universities have to pass in the - second year of residence: also called the “previous - examination” (as preceding the final one for a degree), and, - at Oxford, SMALLS (_q.v._). - - 1841. THACKERAY, _King of Brentford’s Testament_, 86, 7. At college, - though not fast, Yet his LITTLE-GO and great-go He creditably pass’d. - - 1849. THACKERAY, _Pendennis_, iii. A tutor, don’t you see, old boy? - He’s coaching me, and some other men, for the LITTLE-GO. - - 1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, vii. “Oh,” said Mr. Charles Larkyns, - “they give you no end of trouble at these places; and they require the - vaccination certificate before you go in for your responsions—the - LITTLE-GO, you know.” - - -*Little Man*, _subs._ (Eton).—_See_ quot., and Appendix. - - 1866-72. _Sketchy Memoirs of Eton_, p. 16. He called the footman (or - LITTLE MAN ...) and bade him reach down the obnoxious placard. - - -*Little Refectory*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—A room in - the old College, sometimes used as a refectory for smaller - boys. - - -*Little-side*, _subs._ (Rugby).—A term applied to all games - organised between houses only. _See_ BIG-SIDE. - - 1856. HUGHES, _Tom Brown’s School-days_, vii. In all the games too he - joined with all his heart, and soon became well versed in all the - mysteries of football, by continual practice at the School-house - LITTLE-SIDE, which played daily. - - -*Lob*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A “yorker”; never, as in ordinary - cricket phraseology, an underhand delivery. - - -*Lobster*, _intj._ (general).—A signal of a master’s approach. - - _Verb_ (Winchester).—To cry. [_Lowster_ or _louster_ (South) - = to make a clumsy rattling noise.] - - -*Lockback*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A Holiday or REMEDY (_q.v._), - on which, from bad weather or any other cause, the boys did - not go on to HILLS (_q.v._), but remained on the school side - of Seventh Chamber Passage Gate.—MANSFIELD (_c._ 1840). - - -*Lockees*, _subs._ (Westminster).—Lockhouse. - - -*Lockites* (Charterhouse).—_See_ OUT-HOUSES. - - -*Locks and Keys*, _intj._ (Winchester).—_See_ PEALS. - - -*Lock-up*, _subs._ (Harrow).—Locking up—the time by which all - have to be in their Houses for the night; the hour varies - with the season, from 5.30 P.M. to 8.30 P.M. - - -*Log*, _subs._ (general).—The last boy of his “form” or “house.” - - -*Logie*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Sewage. - - -*Log-pond*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A sewer. - - -*London-cricket*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The modern game: to - distinguish it from STONYHURST-CRICKET (_q.v._). - - -*Long.* THE LONG (University).—The summer vacation. - - 1852. BRISTED, _Five Years in an English University_, p. 37. For a - month or six weeks in THE LONG they rambled off to see the sights of - Paris. - - 1863. READE, _Hard Cash_, i. 17. “I hope I shall not be [‘ploughed for - smalls’] to vex you and puss ...” “... Puss? that is me [sister - Julia]. How dare he? Did I not forbid all these nicknames and all this - Oxfordish, by proclamation, last LONG.” “Last LONG?” [remonstrates - mamma]. “Hem! last protracted vacation.” - - THE LONGS, _subs._ (Oxford).—The latrines at Brasenose. - [Built by Lady Long.] - - -*Long-box*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A deal box for holding bats, - stumps, balls, &c.—MANSFIELD (_c._ 1840). - - -*Long Chamber*, _subs._ (Eton).—_See_ quot. Long Chamber still - exists, but in a very different condition. - - 1890. _Great Public Schools_, 14. To Francis Hodgson, who was elected - Provost in 1840, is primarily due the vast improvement in the - condition of the scholars, or collegers, which was effected in the - course of the next few years.... LONG CHAMBER, a dormitory containing - no less than fifty-two beds, notorious for its filth and discomfort, - was considerably curtailed, and separate rooms were provided for - forty-nine boys by the erection of a new wing. - - -*Long-dispar*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ quot. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life_, 84. There were six of these - [DISPARS (_q.v._) or portions] to a shoulder, and eight to a leg of - mutton, the other joints being divided in like proportion. All these - “dispars” had different names; the thick slice out of the centre of - the leg was called a “middle cut,” ... the ribs “Racks,” the loin LONG - DISPARS. - - -*Long-fork*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ quot. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life_, 80. We had not proper toasting - forks, but pieces of stick called LONG FORKS. - - -*Long-glass*, _subs._ (Eton).—_See_ quot. - - 1883. *Brinsley Richards*, _Seven Years at Eton_, 321. A glass nearly - a yard long, shaped like the horn of a stage-coach guard, and with a - hollow globe instead of a foot. It held a quart of beer, and the - ceremony of drinking out of it constituted an initiation into the - higher circle of Etonian swelldom. There was LONG-GLASS drinking once - or twice a week during the summer half. The _invités_ attended in an - upper room of Tap after two, and each before the long glass was handed - to him had a napkin tied round his neck. It was considered a grand - thing to drain the glass without removing it from the lips, and - without spilling any of its contents. This was difficult, because when - the contents of the tubular portion of the glass had been sucked down, - the beer in the globe would remain for a moment as if congealed there: - then if the drinker tilted the glass up a little, and shook it, the - motionless beer would give a gurgle and come with a sudden rush all - over his face. There was a way of holding the long glass at a certain - angle by which catastrophes were avoided. Some boys could toss off - their quart of ale in quite superior style, and I may as well remark - that these clever fellows could do little else. - - -*Long-grass*, _subs._ (Winchester).—All MEADS (_q.v._) except - the paths and TURF (_q.v._). - - -*Long-meads*, _subs._ 1. (Winchester).—A field between - SICK-HOUSE (_q.v._) and COMMONERS (_q.v._): now thrown into - MEADS (_q.v._). - - 2. (Winchester).—“The time after dinner on summer evenings, - when we went on to UNDERHILLS.”—MANSFIELD (_c._ 1840). - - -*Long-paper*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Foolscap. - - -*Long Quarter*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—One of the school terms: - now the shortest of the three, which are LONG, SUMMER, and - ORATION QUARTER. The SUMMER is colloquially known as - CRICKET-QUARTER, and the oration has been abolished. - - -*Long Room, The* (Stonyhurst).—The Museum. [From its shape.] - - -*Long Wallyford*, _subs._ (Loretto).—The usual run on a wet - short school day: about five miles. _See_ WALLYFORD and - FASIDE. - - -*Lord’s* (Winchester and Harrow).—_See_ Appendix. - - -*Lorettonian*, _subs._ (Loretto).—Frequently applied to boys who - wear even fewer clothes than usual at Loretto; or who - delight in violating the conventions of the outside world in - sensible ways. - - -*Lose.* TO LOSE DOWN (Winchester).—_See_ JOCKEY. - - -*Loss.* FAIN LOSS, _intj._ (Felsted).—The formula by which a - claim was made to a vacant seat. An obsolete equivalent was - FAIN LO; also NO LOSS. _See_ FAIN. - - -*Lounge*, _subs._ (Eton and Cambridge).—A treat; a chief meal. - _See_ Appendix. - - 1864. _The Press_, Nov. 12. By the way, we miss the Etonian word - LOUNGE, for which there is classic authority. “I don’t care for - dinner,” said Harry Coningsby at his grandfather’s table; “breakfast - is my LOUNGE.” - - -*Lout*, _subs._ (Rugby).—Any one of the poorer classes: not - necessarily an awkward, lubberly individual. - - 1856. HUGHES, _Tom Brown’s School-days_, v. “Hullo tho’,” says East, - pulling up, and taking another look at Tom, “this’ll never do—haven’t - you got a hat?—we never wear caps here. Only the LOUTS wear caps. - Bless you, if you were to go into the quadrangle with that thing on, - I——don’t know what’d happen.” - - -*Lower Club* (Eton).—_See_ PLAYING-FIELDS. - - -*Lower Line*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The four lowest classes. - - 1890. _Felstedian_, Feb., p. 2. Well, Johnson _ma_, happening to meet - Tompkins _mi_ just before first Prep, &c. - - -*Low-man*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—A Junior Optimé as compared to a - Senior Optimé or a Wrangler. - - -*Luff*, _verb_ (Derby).—To hit out; to slog: as at cricket. - - -*Lush*, _subs._ (Eton).—A dainty. - - -*Lux*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A good thing; a splendid - thing: _e.g._ My knife is wooston a LUX. A Hertford word [? - luxury]. Obsolete. - - -*Luxer*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A handsome fellow. - - - - - - -*Mad*, _adj._ (Winchester).—Angry; vexed. [Old English, now - dial. in England, but universal in America. “Originally - severely injured” (SKEAT). “Enraged, furious” (JOHNSON).] - - 1369. CHAUCER, _Troilus_ [SKEAT, 1894], line 479. Ne made him thus in - armes for to MADDE. - - 1593. SHAKSPEARE, _Titus And._, iii. 1. 104. Had I but seen thy - picture in this plight, It would have MADDED me. _Ibid._, iii. 1. 223. - If the winds rage doth not the sea wax MAD. - - 1596. JONSON, _Every Man in His Humour_, iv. 1. You’d MAD the - patient’st body in the world. - - 1607. MIDDLETON, _Your Five Gallants_ [DE VERE]. They are MAD; she - graced me with one private minute above their fortunes. - - 1611. _Acts_ xxvi. 11 [Authorised Version].—And being exceeding MAD - against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities. - - 1667. PEPYS, _Diary_, iv. 482 [BICKERS, 1875]. The king is MAD at her - entertaining Jermin, and she is MAD at Jermin’s going to marry from - her, so they are all MAD; and so the kingdom is governed. - - 1816. PICKERING, _Collection of Words, &c._, s.v. MAD, in the sense of - “angry,” is considered as a low word in this country, and at the - present day is never used except in very familiar conversation. - - 1824. R. B. PEAKE, _Americans Abroad_, i. 1. I guess—I’m MADDED, but - I’ll bite in my breath a bit—not that I’m sitch a tarnation fool as to - believe all you tell me. - - 1848. RUXTON, _Life in the Far West_, p. 167. That nation is MAD. - - 1871. _New Era_, April [DE VERE]. The Squire’s MAD riz. - - 1891. N. GOULD, _Double Event_, p. 189. My eye! won’t he be just MAD. - - -*Made-beer*, _subs._ (Winchester).—College swipes bottled with - rice, a few raisins, sugar, and nutmeg to make it “up.” - - -*Magistrand*, _subs._ (Aberdeen).—A student in arts of the last - (the fourth) year. _Cf._ BEJAN. - - -*Make*, _verb_ (Winchester).—1. To appropriate. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life_, 46. In the matter of certain - articles ... supplied by the College, we used to put a liberal - interpretation on the eighth commandment, ... and it was considered - fair to MAKE them if you could. - - 2. To appoint Præfect. - - -*Man*, _subs._ (general).—A student: almost universal in School - phraseology instead of “boy.” - - 1811. _Lex. Bal._, s.v. MAN (Cambridge). Any undergraduate from - fifteen to thirty. As, a MAN of Emanuel—a young member of Emanuel. - - 1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, iii. The thought that he was going to - be an Oxford MAN fortunately assisted him in the preservation of that - tranquil dignity and careless ease which he considered to be the - necessary adjuncts of the manly character ... and Mr. Verdant Green - was enabled to say “Good-bye” with a firm voice and undimmed - spectacles. - - _See_ WISE MEN OF THE EAST. - - -*Marker*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—A person employed to walk up and - down chapel during a part of the service, pricking off the - names of the students present. - - 1849. _Blackwood’s Mag._, May. His name pricked off upon the MARKER’S - roll, No twinge of conscience racks his easy soul. - - -*Master*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A title: of rustics, - bargees, &c. - - -*Match*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A division in which the boys - play: e.g. “I’m in the third MATCH.” “This is the second - MATCH ground.” “He’s a first MATCH bowler.” - - -*Math. Ex.*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—A mathematical exercise. - - -*Mathemat*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—_See_ quots. - - 1895. Gleanings from _The Blue_, 1870-95, 77. It is true that the - MATHEMAT does take the labours of his hands to the Queen, and is proud - to do so; but it is a pity that the reputation of the school should - depend upon such ceremonies as these. [_See_ Appendix.] - - 1900. _Pall Mall Gaz._, 20th Mar., 3. 2. One of the things that strike - a stranger is the metal plate upon some shoulders, so it may be as - well to say here that it merely marks the members of the Mathematical - School, which trains boys for the sea, and interested Mr. Samuel - Pepys. - - -*Mathy*, _subs._ (Manchester Grammar).—Mathematics. - - -*Matron’s-gift*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—_See_ quot. - - _c._ 1844. _Reminiscences of Christ’s Hospital_ [Blue, Aug. 1874]. - Once annually the boys were served at supper with what was called the - “MATRON’S GIFT,”—cream cheese; but they never could appreciate this - luxury. It was in vain that the good old matron, with a sister the - very counterpart of herself, walked round the different tables, - expatiating in glowing terms upon the merits of this “beautiful - cheese,” as she called it, and wondering how any one could fail to - have a liking for this luxurious gift. - - -*May*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—Easter Term examinations, &c. - - 1852. BRISTED, _Five Years, &c._, 70. As the _MAY_ approached I began - to feel nervous. - - 1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 104. I suppose you know the Mater - and the girls are coming up here for the MAY week. It’s called the MAY - week, but we always have it early in June now. I believe, some years - ago, it really used to be in May. - - 1896. _Felstedian_, June, 95, “Cambridge Letter.” The MAYS were rowed - under very favourable conditions, and produced some grand struggles. - - -*Meads*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The College cricket ground. - WATER-MEADS = the valley of the Itchen. - - -*Medes and Persians*, _subs. phr._ (Winchester).—Jumping on a - MAN (_q.v._) when in bed. - - -*Melon*, _subs._ (Royal Military Academy).—A new cadet. - - -*Men.* _See_ WISE MEN OF THE EAST. - - -*Mesopotamia*, _subs._ 1. (Oxford).—_See_ quot. - - 1886. _Pall Mall Gazette_, 23rd June, p. 13. Every Oxford man has - known and loved the beauties of the walk called MESOPOTAMIA. - - 2. (Eton).—_See_ PLAYING-FIELDS. - - -*Mess*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ quot. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 219. - MESS—The Præfects’ tables in Hall were called “Tub, Middle, and Junior - MESS” respectively. The boys who dined at each were also so named. Any - number of boys who habitually breakfasted together were so called with - some distinguishing prefix, such as “Deputy’s MESS.” In Chambers tea - was called MESS; as was also the remains of a joint of meat. Lest the - reader should make a “MESS” of all these different meanings, I will - give a sentence in which they shall all figure: “Look there, Junior - MESS has sat down at Tub MESS, but as they will find nothing left but - a MESS, they had better go down to Chambers, as MESS is ready.” - - -*Middle-briars*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—A recess in the middle - of cloisters where Eleven meetings used to be held; now a - place in cloisters where names are carved: becoming - obsolete. - - -*Middle-cut*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ quot., and DISPAR. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life_, p. 84. There were ... eight - [portions] to a leg of mutton; ... the thick slice out of the centre - of the leg was called a MIDDLE CUT. - - -*Middle Fire* (Westminster).—_See_ UPPER FIRE. - - -*Middle-green* (Charterhouse).—The new cricket-ground used by - “The Maniacs.” - - -*Middle-mess*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ MESS. - - -*Middle Part the Fifth*, _subs. phr._ (Winchester).—Generally - called MIDDLE PART. _See_ BOOKS. - - -*Middle-week*, _subs._ (Rugby).—A half-holiday on every third - Monday. [MODERN RUGS (_q.v._) say “because it was never the - middle of anything.”] - - -*Milk-hole*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The hole formed by the ROUSH - (_q.v._) under POT (_q.v._). - - -*Miller* (Harrow).—“The Milling Ground”: between the school-yard - and SQUASH (_q.v._) courts. Here all fights had to be - conducted in public. The practice is extinct, and the ground - is now used as a Morris-tube range. - - -*Minister*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The superior responsible for - the _matériel_: as food, servants, &c. - - -*Minor*, _subs._ (Eton).—A younger brother. Also MI. - - 1864. _Eton School-days_, vii. “Let my MINOR pass, you fellows!” - exclaimed Horsham. - - 1890. _Felstedian_, Feb., p. 2. I was born in the month of Tompkins - MI. - - -*Mitre*, _subs._ (University).—A hat. _See_ TUFTS. - - -*Moab*, _subs._ 1. (University: obsolete).—A hat; specifically, - the turban-shaped hat fashionable among ladies 1858-9. [From - the Scripture phrase, “MOAB is my wash-pot” (Ps. lx. 8).] - - 1864. _Reader_, Oct. 22. MOAB, a ... hat.... University it is all - over. We feel sure we know the undergraduate who coined the - expression; he is now a solemn don delivering lectures in Cambridge. - - 1884. _Graphic_, 20th Sept., p. 307-2. The third, with his varnished - boots, his stiff brown MOAB of the newest fashion, his well-displayed - shirt-cuffs. - - 2. (Winchester).—_See_ quot. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life_, 190. On the west side of school - court, a spacious room, nicknamed MOAB, has been erected, with - numerous marble basins, and an unlimited supply of fresh water. - - 1865. _Etoniana_, 21. Like Wykeham’s scholars, the Eton boys rose - [_temp._ Eliz.] at five, said their Latin prayers antiphonally while - dressing, then made their own beds and swept out their chambers. Two - by two they then “went down” to wash, probably at some outdoor conduit - or fountain like the old Winchester MOAB. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 45. Independent of very early - hours and somewhat coarse fare, it was not pleasant to have to wash at - the old MOAB, as it was called—an open conduit in the quadrangle, - where it was necessary, on a severe winter morning, for a junior to - melt the ice on the stop-cock with a lighted faggot before any water - could be got to flow at all. - - -*Mob*. TO MOB UP, _verb. phr._ (Charterhouse).—To hustle; TO - BARGE (_q.v._); TO BRICK (_q.v._). - - -*Mods*, _subs._ (Oxford).—The first public examination for - degrees. [An abbreviation of “Moderations.”] - - 1887. _Chambers’s Journal_, 14th May, 310. MODS cannot be attempted - until the end of one year from matriculation, and need not be tackled - until the expiration of two. - - -*Monarch*, _subs._ (Eton).—The ten-oared boat. - - -*Money and Direction Rolls*, _intj._ (Winchester).—_See_ PEALS. - - -*Monitor*, _subs._ 1. (Stonyhurst).—One of the chief members of - the Higher Line SODALITY (_q.v._), responsible for the - behaviour of the other boys in Church and Chapel. - - 2. (general).—A senior scholar entrusted with the - supervision of school work and pastimes. _See_ PRÆFECT. - - -*Monkey.* _See_ FRESH-HERRING, and Appendix. - - -*Monos*, _subs._ (Westminster).—A junior detailed for duty - during regular school hours, who remains on guard at - the door of the college, as a sentinel, to see that no - suspicious characters find their way in. This functionary is - known as MONOS [i.e. _Monitor ostii_].... An officer of the - same kind ... at Winchester ... bore a similar name, - OSTIARIUS (_q.v._).—COLLINS. - - -*Mons*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A crowd. Also as _verb_: _e.g._ - “Square round there, don’t MONS.” - - -*Montem*, _subs._ (Eton).—An Eton custom up to 1847, which - consisted in the scholars going in procession on the - Whit-Tuesday of every third year to a mound (Lat. _ad - montem_) near the Bath Road, and exacting a gratuity from - persons present or passing by. The collection was given to - the captain or senior scholar, and helped to defray his - expenses at the University. _See_ SALT, and _Sloane MS._ - 4839, f. 85. - - 1890. BREWER, _Phrase and Fable_, s.v. SALT-HILL. The mound at Eton - [near the Bath Road], where the Eton scholars used to collect money - from the visitors on Montem day. The mound is still called _Salt - Hill_, and the money given was called _salt_. The word salt is similar - to the Latin _sala’rium_ (salary), the pay given to Roman soldiers and - civil officers. _Ibid._ _Montem_.... Sometimes as much as £1000 was - thus collected. - - -*Morning-hills*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ quot. - - _c._ 1840. Mansfield, _School-Life_, 52. On holidays and Remedies we - were turned out for a couple of hours on to St. Catherine’s Hill ... - once before breakfast (MORNING HILLS), and again in the afternoon - (MIDDLE HILLS). - - -*Mortar-board* (or *Mortar*), _subs._ (general).—The - trencher-cap worn at certain Public Schools and at the - Universities. - - 1600. KEMP, _Nine Days’ Wonder_, “Ded. Ep.” So that methinkes I could - flye to Rome ... with a MORTER on my head. - - _d._ 1635. Bishop CORBET to T. Coryate. No more shall man with MORTAR - on his head Set forward towards Rome. - - 1647. FLETCHER, _Fair Maid of the Inn_, v. 2. He ... may now travel to - Rome with a MORTAR on’s head. - - 1857. CUTHBERT BEDE, _Verdant Green_, pt. II. ch. iii. “I don’t mind - this ’ere MORTAR-BOARD, sir,” remarked the professor of the noble art - of self-defence, as he pointed to the academical cap which surmounted - his head. - - 1864. _Fun_, 21st May, p. 96. Anon I saw a gentle youth (no “_sub - fusc_” undergrad.). “_Toga virilis_” he had none, no MORTAR-BOARD he - had. - - 1881. PASCOE, _Every-day Life_, 147. On admission ... a boy provides - himself with a MORTAR or college-cap. - - 1898. _Stonyhurst Mag._, Dec., p. 149, “Life at Oxford.” The wearing - of a cap and gown is another novelty for freshmen. At first one is apt - to feel very foolish under a “MORTAR-BOARD” and in the folds of the - academic gown, particularly in the miserable garb assigned to - commoners (_i.e._ undergraduates without scholarships). - - -*Mouse-digger*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ quot. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life_, 150. Plying the MOUSE-DIGGER (a - kind of diminutive pick-axe) in search of mice. - - -*Mud-student*, _subs._ (general).—A student at the Agricultural - College, Cirencester. - - 1856. _Notes and Queries_, 2 S., ii. 198. A young friend of mine ... a - MUD-STUDENT. - - -*Muff*, _verb_ (Eton).—To fail in an examination; TO BE SPUN - (_q.v._) or PLUCKED (_q.v._); TO SKIP A COG (_q.v._). - - 1884. JULIAN STURGIS, in _Longmans’ Mag._, iii. 617. Freddy and Tommy - and Dicky have all MUFFED for the army. It’s really dreadful! - - TO MUFF A CATCH, _verb. phr._ (Stonyhurst).—To catch a ball - against the chest, or in any way not clean with both hands. - In cricket, as played at Stonyhurst, such a catch did not - put the batsman out: obsolete. - - -*Mug*, _verb_ (Winchester and Sherborne).—(1) To study; to - work hard: _e.g._ I MUGGED all the morning, and shall - thoke (Winchester) this afternoon. (2) To take pains; to - beautify: _e.g._ “He has MUGGED his study, and made it - quite cud.” [_Cf._ _mug_ = to paint the face or “make - up.”] Hence MUGSTER = a hard-working student. _See_ -STER - and BAT-MUGGER. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life_, 122. The præfects would ... set - to work MUGGING. - - 1881. _Felstedian_, Nov., p. 74. I remember that the senior præfect is - going to get up to MUG early before chapel. - - 1890. G. ALLEN, _The Tents of Shem_, xxiv. “Miss Knyvett,” and he - paused with his brush upturned, “you’re a sight too clever for me to - talk to.” “Not clever,” Iris corrected; “only well read. I’ve MUGGED - it up out of books, that’s all.” _Ibid._, ii. Instead of reading her - “Odyssey” and her “Lucretius,” and MUGGING up amusing works on conic - sections. - - -*Muse*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—The Museum. - - -*Mustard-and-Pepper Keeper*, _subs. phr._ (Winchester).—An - appointment in the gift of Præfect of Hall, which exempted - the holder from WATCHING-OUT (_q.v._) at cricket, or - KICKING-IN (_q.v._) at football.—MANSFIELD (_c._ 1840). - Obsolete. - - -*Muttoner*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A blow on the - knuckles from a cricket-ball while holding the bat. - - -*Muzz*, _verb_ (Westminster).—To read. - - - - - - -*Nail*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ quot., and BIBLING. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 221. To - stand up under the NAIL—the punishment inflicted on a boy detected in - a lie; he was ordered to stand up on Junior Row, just under the centre - sconce, during the whole of school time. At the close of it he - received a Bibler. - - _Verb._ To impress for any kind of fagging; to detect. - - -*Name.* TO ORDER ONE’S NAME, _verb. phr._ (Winchester: - obsolete).—_See_ quots. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_, 223. ORDER YOUR - NAME. An order given to a delinquent by the Head or Second Master, - which was carried out by the boy requesting the Ostiarius to do so, - the consequence of which was, that at the end of school that officer - presented to the Master the victim’s name on a Roll, who forthwith - received a Scrubbing. When the words to the Bible-clerk were added, - the business was confided to that officer, who, with the Ostiarius, - officiated at the subsequent ceremony, which in this case was called a - Bibler. - - 1878. ADAMS, _Wykehamica_, xxiii. 429. ORDER YOUR NAME, the direction - given to an offender by any of the authorities. The boy so directed, - if he was in College, or if the order was given in school, had to go - to the Ostiarius—or to the Præfect in course, if the offence was - committed in Commoners—and give information of the order, and the - reason why it had been given. The Ostiarius, or the Præfect in course, - wrote down the culprit’s name, together with that of the Master, and - the offence, and carried it up to the Head or Second Master, when due - execution was done. - - -*Native* (pron. _nahtive_), _subs._ (The Leys).—Originally a - “crib”: now of varied signification. TO NATIVE A FOOTBALL = - to be tricky with it; as _adj._ = clever: also NATIVEY. - - -*Nescio.* TO SPORT A NESCIO (old University).—_See_ quot. - - 1823. GROSE, _Vulg. Tongue_ [EGAN], s.v. NESCIO. HE SPORTS A NESCIO; - he pretends not to understand anything. After the senate-house - examination for degrees, the students proceed to the schools to be - questioned by the proctor. According to custom immemorial the answers - must be NESCIO. The following is a translated specimen: _Q._ What is - your name? _A._ I do not know. _Q._ What is the name of this - University? _A._ I do not know. _Q._ Who was your father? _A._ I do - not know. - - -*Nestor*, _subs._ (Winchester).—An undersized boy. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 221. - NESTOR—Any boy who was past eighteen, or was old for his position in - the school, or who was known to be much older than he looked. - - -*New-bug*, _subs._ (general).—A new boy. - - -*New Guinea*, _subs._ (Oxford: obsolete).—_See_ quot. - - 1823. GROSE, _Vulg. Tongue_ [EGAN], s.v. NEW GUINEA. First possession - of income. - - -*News*, _subs._ (The Leys).—One division of the “School House,” - with three dormitories—“Upper News,” “Under News,” “Further - News.” _See_ OLDS. - - -*New Settlements*, _subs._ (Oxford: obsolete).—_See_ quot. - - 1823. GROSE, _Vulg. Tongue_ [EGAN], s.v. NEW SETTLEMENTS. Final - reckonings. - - -*Newy*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The CAD (_q.v._) paid to look - after the canvas tent in COMMONER (_q.v._) field. - - -*Nezzar*, _subs._ (Durham: obsolete).—A young lady. - - -*Nick*, _verb_ (Durham).—To pray. - - -*Nicks*, _intj._ (Manchester Grammar).—Cave! Look out! [Said - also to be common in Manchester as a warning of the approach - of the police.] _See_ Appendix. - - -*Niff*, _verb_ (Derby).—To smell. - - -*Nig*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A dodge. Obsolete. - - -*Nigshious*, _adj._ (Christ’s Hospital).—Ingenious: _e.g._ “a - NIGSHIOUS dodge.” Obsolete. - - -*Nihil-ad-rem*, _adj._ (Winchester).—Vague; unconscious. _Ex._ - “He sported NIHIL-AD-REM ducks.” - - -*Nine Steps.* _See_ KITTLE-NINE-STEPS. - - -*Nipper*, _subs._ (Loretto).—Originally a boy of the lowest - Form: since there has been a preparatory House the term is - applied to all the boys there. - - -*Nipperkin*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A stone jug used - for serving beer in College between meals. Tea has long been - substituted for beer. - - _c._ 1696. B. E., _Dict. Cant. Crew_, s.v. NIPPERKIN. Half a pint of - Wine, and but half a Quartern of Brandy, strong waters, &c. - - 1698-1700. WARD, _Lond. Spy_, II. (1706), i. 31. By that time we had - sipp’d off our NIPPERKIN of my Grannums _Aqua Mirabilis_. - - 1719. DURFEY, _Pills to Purge_.... Song, Quart-pot, pint-pot, - NIPPERKEN, &c. - - 1785. GROSE, _Vulg. Tongue_, s.v. - - 1832. _Noctes Ambrosianæ_, Sept. William III., who only snoozed over a - NIPPERKIN of Schiedam with a few Dutch favourites. - - 1882. J. ASHTON, _Social Life in Reign of Q. Anne_, i. 197. [Beer] was - of different qualities, from the “penny NIPPERKIN of Molassas Ale” to - “a pint of Ale cost me five-pence.” - - 1883. TROLLOPE, _What I Remember_. It was the duty of the bedmakers to - carry every evening into each chamber a huge NIPPERKIN of beer. - - -*Nob*, subs. (Oxford: obsolete).—The Fellow of a College. - [Probably the original application of the colloquial usage = - a person of rank or position; from “nobility.” _Cf._ MOB, - from _mobile vulgus_.] - - 1825. _English Spy_, i. 136. “We must find you some more tractable - personage; some good-humoured NOB.” - - -*Noggs*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A hereditary name for Custos’ - assistant. [From Dickens: the first owner’s name was - Newman—hence NOGGS.] - - -*Nomenclature* (Harrow).—_See_ UPPER SCHOOL. - - -*Non-attached* (or *Non-collegiate*), _adj._ (Oxford).—Most of - the students belong to a college or hall, but in 1868 what - was at first known as the “NON-ATTACHED,” and is now - designated the “NON-COLLEGIATE” system, was established. The - system, a revival of one that prevailed in ancient times, is - under the control of a body termed the Delegacy, the chief - officer being named the Censor. Efficient provision is made - for tuition, but its members live in their own lodgings in - the city, and are thus able to suit their own pockets. - Supervision is retained over the lodging-houses in a - sanitary and other points of view, from the fact that they - have to be licensed by the University authorities. - - -*Non-licet*, _adj._ and _adv._ (Winchester).—Illegal; - unbefitting a Wykehamist. _Ex._ “Don’t sport NON-LICET - notions.” - - -*Nonsense*, _subs._ (Eton).—A small division of the Third Form. - Now abolished. - - -*Northwick* (The),_ subs._ (Harrow).—The Northwick rifle: given - by Lord Northwick for the best aggregate of seven shoots - during the season. - - -*Noter*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A note-book. - - -*Notion*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A word, phrase, or usage - peculiar to Winchester College. - - -*Novi*, _subs._ (Tonbridge).—A new boy. - - -*Nurse*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A matron. - - _c._ 1800. “Christ’s Hospital Seventy-five Years Ago” (_Blue_, Nov., - 1875). The NURSES were permitted to flog and punish the boys as they - thought proper, and some of the NURSES were cruel women. One poor - fellow in my ward was labouring under a bodily infirmity. The brute of - a nurse used constantly to flog him with nettles, fresh-gathered from - time to time for the purpose, declaring they had the virtue of - strengthening his bodily frame, &c.! [_See_ Appendix.] - - -*Nursery* (The), _subs._ (King Edward’s, Birm.).—A gallery at - one end of Big School, in which the lowest two classes are - taught. - - - - - - -*Oak*, _subs._ (University).—An outer door. TO SPORT ONE’S OAK = - to be “not at home,” indicated by closing the outer door. - - 1785. GROSE, _Vulg. Tongue_, s.v. - - 1840. _The Collegian’s Guide_, 119. In college each set of rooms is - provided with an OAK or outer door, with a spring lock, of which the - master has one key, and the servant another. - - 1853. BRADLEY (“Cuthbert Bede”), _Verdant Green_, iv. This is the - HOAK, this ’ere outer door is, sir, which the gentlemen sports, that - is to say, shuts, sir, when they’re a-readin’. _Ibid._, viii. Mr. - Verdant Green had, for the first time, SPORTED HIS OAK. - - 1861. HUGHES, _Tom Brown at Oxford_, vii. One evening he found himself - as usual at Hardy’s door about eight o’clock. The OAK was open, but he - got no answer when he knocked at the inner door. - - 1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 55. He tried to keep them out, but - they broke in his OAK, stripped him, tied him up in his table-cloth, - and left him on the grass plot where the porter found him. - - -*Ob*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A contraction of _obit_. - - -*Obeum* (The), _subs._ (Cambridge).—A water-closet building at - King’s College. [Attributed by the undergraduates to the - energy of O[scar] B[rowning].] - - -*Off-bat*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—“Point”: at cricket. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_, 222. OFF BAT, the - station of one of the field in a cricket match, called by the outer - world “Point.” - - -*Officer*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A College Præfect when in - office: as the Præfect of Hall, Chapel, School, or Library. - - -*-oi*, _inseparable suffix_ (Tonbridge).—Indicative of - complaisant disdain: e.g. TO DO THE BLEED-OI (_see_ BLEED) = - to swagger; to appear to be distinguishing oneself. - - -*Oiler*, _subs._ (University).—A cad. - - -*Oips*, _subs._ (Haileybury).—Boys who are not good enough for - the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or Below Bigside Elevens play in the - OIPS. [An abbreviation of _Hoi polloi_.] - - -*Old Cars*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—Old Carthusians: regarded as - a vulgarism. - - -*Old Pig* (The).—_See_ PIG. - - -*Old Schools, The* (Harrow).—The original school building - erected by John Lyon, together with the “Old Speech-room,” - which, however, is of much later date. - - -*Olds*, _subs._ (The Leys).—A division of the “School House,” - three dormitories—“Upper Olds,” “Under Olds,” and “Under - Under.” _See_ NEWS. - - -*On*, _adv._ and _intj._ (Winchester: obsolete).—The word to - start given by the Præfect of Hall when the School went in - procession to Hills, Cathedral, &c. Also as in quot. _See_ - Appendix. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life_, 222. When any person or thing of - importance was known to be likely to meet the boys when on Hills, the - word was passed that he, she, or it was ON—_e.g._ Ridsworth ON, snobs - ON, badger ON, &c. - - 1878. ADAMS, _Wykehamica_, xxiii. - - -*On-and-Off*, _subs._ (Tonbridge).—Lemonade. - - 1894. _Tonbridgian_, No. 330, 919. The scene is one of the wildest - disorder. The writhing mass, in their efforts to obtain the desired - article, tread on each other’s toes, spill the “OFF AND ON” down one - another’s garments, and knock each other about with their elbows. - - 1899. _Public School Mag._, Dec., p. 444. “ON AND OFF” signifies home - lemonade, and is so called because of the tap from which it flows. - - -*Ones*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A competition at football, one player - a side: organised by Mr. Bowen. The play is for five - minutes, the ground measures 40 yards by 30 yards, and the - BASES (_q.v._) 8 feet. - - -*Oppidan*, _subs._ (Eton).—A boy who boards in the town, as - distinguished from a King’s Scholar. - - 1865. _Etoniana_, 31. The Latin-English term OPPIDAN was applied to - these independent scholars at least as early as Fuller’s days. - Speaking of the College, he says, “There be many OPPIDANES there - maintained at the cost of their friends.” - - 1899. _Public School Mag._, Nov., p. 367. If there is any need for a - test match between college and the OPPIDANS, we should suggest that - they should play the winning house in the House match, and hope to - beat it. - - -*Optime*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—The name given to the second - class in the first portion of the public examination for - honours, called the Mathematical Tripos, those placed in the - first class being known as WRANGLERS (_q.v._), and those in - the third class as Junior Optimes. - - -*Oration Quarter*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—_See_ LONG QUARTER. - - -*Oratorio*, _subs._ (Sherborne).—The large choir, as - distinguished from the chapel choir. - - -*Order*, _subs._ (general).—Written permission from a tutor to - make purchases: as from tailor, &c. _See_ NAME. - - -*Orders*, _subs._ (Durham: obsolete).—A Head-master’s promise to - add a day or two to the holidays: sometimes obtained, so - tradition says, by barricading Big School against him. - - -*Ostiar*, _subs._ (Sherborne: obsolete).—The Præfect on duty at - the Big School door: seventeenth century. - - -*Ostiarius*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—_See_ quots. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_, 223. OSTIARIUS, an - office held by the Præfects in succession. The duties were, to keep - order in school, collect the Vulguses, and prevent the boys from - shirking out. It is also the official title for the Second Master. - - 1865. _Etoniana_, 133. A peculiarity in the arrangements at Eton is, - that the school is practically divided into two. The division seems to - have been in force from the very earliest times—the three lower forms - having been then, as now, under the charge of the OSTIARIUS, or, as he - is now called, the lower master, who has the appointment of his own - provost-assistants, and is practically independent of the head-master, - and subject only to the control of the provost. - - 1866. _Wykehamist_, No. 1, Oct. We know of nothing more which calls - for notice, except the revival by Dr. Moberly of the OSTIARIUS—an - office which had been discontinued for many years, but was revived by - the Head-master on account of the great increase in the number of the - school. - - 1878. ADAMS, _Wykehamica_, xxiii. 429. OSTIARIUS, the Præfect in - charge of school. - - -*Othello.* _See_ ROUND. - - -*Outer*, _subs._ (Durham).—A cad; a “bounder.” - - -*Out-houses* (Charterhouse).—All the boarding-houses except - Sanderites, Verites, and Gownboys. The names of the - eight OUT-HOUSES are Girdlestonites, Lockites, Weekites, - Hodgsonites, Bodeites, Daviesites, Pageites, and Robinites - (the last a contraction of Robinsonites). Except Bodeites, - each house bears the name of its first master. One house, - Uskites—from a supposed similarity of the surroundings to - the valley of the Usk—disappeared in 1878. - - -*Out-match*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A match played against a - visiting team. - - -*Over-school*, _subs._ (Rugby).—A kind of common sitting-room - in the “new” building of 1755. The boys’ boxes were kept - there, and ASH-PLANTING (_q.v._) inflicted. The present - school-house hall was built on the site. - - -*Overtoys-box.* _See_ TOYS. - - -*Ovid* (Harrow).—_See_ UPPER SCHOOL. - - -*Owl*, _subs._ (Cambridge: obsolete).—A member of Sidney Sussex - College. - - - - - - -*Packing-up*, _intj._ (Winchester).—_See_ PEALS. - - -*Pad*, _subs._ (King Edward’s, Birm.).—Writing-paper: _e.g._ “a - sheet of PAD”; “lend me some PAD.” [The paper for exercises - is generally in the form of writing-pads, from which a sheet - may be separated as wanted.] - - -*Pageites* (Charterhouse).—_See_ OUT-HOUSES. - - -*Palmer*, _subs._ (Durham: obsolete).—A sly fellow. - - -*Pancake.* TOSSING THE PANCAKE, _verb. phr._ - (Westminster).—_See_ quot. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, 171. The old Shrove-Tuesday - custom of TOSSING THE PANCAKE, though now peculiar to Westminster, is - said to have been also formerly in use at Eton. The ceremony as at - present performed is this. The cook, preceded by the verger, enters - the large school, in full official costume, with the hot cake in the - pan. He tosses it—or tries to toss it, for it is no easy feat—over the - iron bar, which has been already mentioned as having once held a - curtain screening off the upper school from the lower. If he succeeds - he claims a fee of two guineas. There is a scramble among the boys, - who stand on the other side of the bar, for the PANCAKE, and if any - boy can secure it whole, which seldom happens, he carries it up to the - dean, who presents him with a sovereign. They also claim a right to - “book” the performer (_i.e._ hurl a shower of books at him) if he - fails more than once. This right was liberally exercised in 1865, when - the wrath of the school had culminated owing to repeated failures in - that and the previous year. The exasperated cook replied to the attack - with his only available missile—the frying-pan—and a serious row was - the consequence. The battle is celebrated in a clever mock-heroic - poem, in Greek Homeric verse, attributed to a high Westminster - authority. - - -*Pandie*, _subs._ (Royal High School, Edin.: obsolete).—A stroke - from the leather strap known as the TAWSE (_q.v._), used in - Scotland instead of the cane; a PAUMIE (_q.v._). [From the - order given in Latin, _Pande manum_. _See_ _Redgauntlet_.] - - -*Pantile*, _subs._ (general).—A flat cake covered with jam. - - -*Panupetaston*, _subs._ (University: obsolete).—A loose overcoat - with wide sleeves. - - -*Paradise*, _subs._ 1. (Oxford).—A grove of trees outside St. - John’s College. - - 2. (Rugby).—A room in the old school (built in 1755) on the - site of which the school-house hall now stands. [From its - pleasant look-out.] - - -*Part.* _See_ BOOKS. - - -*Party Roll*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A list of boys going home - together. _See_ PEALS. - - -*Passy*, _adj._ (Christ’s Hospital).—Severe: of a master. [That - is, “passionate.”—BLANCH.] _See_ Appendix. - - 1844. _Reminis. of Christ’s Hospital_ [_The Blue_, Aug. 1874]. Rightly - or wrongly, it was the general opinion in our time that punishment in - school depended less upon the correctness with which the lessons were - said, than upon the temper of the particular master. Frequently and - anxiously the question was asked, “Is he PASSY this morning?” and the - arrival of a new master created immense excitement. Our first queries - were invariably of his manners and temper—matters of far more - importance to us than any question as to his ability. - - -*Patrol*, _subs._ (Dulwich).—Keeping order in Form rooms between - morning and afternoon school: a duty of school Præfects. - - -*Paul’s-pigeons*, _subs._ (common).—The scholars of St. Paul’s - School. - - -*Pawmie*, _subs._ (Royal High School, Edin.: obsolete).—A stroke - on the hand from the leather strap known as the TAWSE - (_q.v._), used in Scotland instead of the cane: also PANDIE - (_q.v._). [_Paum_ = palm of the hand.] - - -*Pavvy, The* (Harrow).—The pavilion on the cricket-ground. - - -*Pax*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A chum; an intimate friend. [_Cf._ - Scots _pack_ = intimate, familiar.] - - 1891. WRENCH, _Word-Book_, 30. Possibly the plural of “pack,” which - word has an extended use in reference to friendship ... as _adj._, - _subs._, and _verb_. This seems a more likely origin than the PAX of - the Church. - - _Intj._ An injunction to desist or to silence—“Be quiet!” - “Hands off!” Also HAVE PAX! [Almost the pure Latin use of - the word.] - - -*P. D.*, _subs._ (Dulwich).—Punishment drill: in Junior School. - - -*Peal*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A custom in Commoners of - singing out comments on Præfects at the beginning of - CLOISTER-TIME (_q.v._). Also cheers given on the last three - Sundays of the Half for articles of dress, &c., connected - with going home, such as “Gomer Hats,” “Party Rolls,” &c.... - “The ringing of Chapel bells is also divided into PEALS.” - [HALLIWELL.—PEALS = a noise or uproar. _Cf._ Mid. Eng. - _apel_ = an old term in hunting music, consisting of three - long moots.] - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester College_, p. 62. The - junior in chamber had a hard time of it; ... while endeavouring to get - through his multifarious duties, he had to keep a sharp ear on the - performance of the chapel bell, and to call out accordingly, “first - PEAL!” “second _PEAL_!” “bells down!” - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 22. The scholars at this time - were expected to rise at the sound of “first PEAL” at five o’clock, - and were recommended to say privately a short Latin selection from the - Psalms as soon as they were dressed. _Ibid._ They then swept out their - chambers and made their beds (consisting in those days of nothing - better than bundles of straw with a coverlet), and SECOND PEAL at - half-past five summoned them to chapel. - - 1881. _Felstedian_, Nov., p. 75, “A Day’s Fagging at Winchester.” At - 6.30, I had to get back to call everybody again; and again at 6.40 - (five minutes to second PEAL); at 6.45 (“second PEAL”) when the chapel - bell started and kept on till seven. When the bell stops I wait at the - door and call out “præfect of chapel going in”—_i.e._ the præfect of - the week who calls names; then “præfect of chapel in” when he reaches - the door. - - 1900. _St. James’s Gazette_, Mar. 15, “Arnoldiana.”—He [Matthew - Arnold] was the victim of public expression of disapproval—in - connection, Mr. Arnold thinks, with the lively ceremony known as - CLOISTER PEALINGS, when he was placed at the end of the great school, - and, amid howls and jeers, pelted with a rain of “pontos” for some - time. [CLOISTER pealings is here incorrectly used: _see_ STICKING-UP.] - - -*Pec*, _subs._ (Eton: obsolete).—Money. [Lat. _pecunia_.] - - -*Pempe*, _subs._ (Winchester).—An imaginary object in search of - which a new-comer is sent: the equivalent of “pigeon’s - milk,” or the “squad-umbrella.” [From πεμπε μω̂ρον προτερον - = “Send the fool farther.”] - - -*Penance-table*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A table in the refectory - at which a boy is condemned to sit alone for bad behaviour - during meals. Tradition says, with some authority, that the - present PENANCE-TABLE is the one on which Cromwell slept - when he spent a night at Stonyhurst. It is hence also called - “Cromwell’s Table.” - - -*Penance-walk*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A path in the playground - where malefactors are condemned to tramp in silence during - recreation time. The form of the order given is: “Take an - hour’s PENANCE,” or “Go on PENANCE.” - - -*Pensioner*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—One who pays a “pensio” or - rent for rooms in College. At Oxford a COMMONER (_q.v._). - - 1780. MANSEL [WHIBLEY, _Cap and Gown_]. A Cambridge Commencement’s the - time When gentlemen come for degrees And with wild-looking cousins and - wives Through a smart mob of PENSIONERS squeeze. - - -*Pepper*, _verb_ (University).—To mark the accents of a Greek - exercise. - - -*Pepper-box*, _subs._ (Eton).—_See_ Appendix. - - -*Percher*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A Latin cross marked - horizontally against the name of an absentee. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 225. - PERCHER—A mark (────┼──) put after a boy’s name on a Roll, which - showed that he had been absent from Chapel or Hills without leave; or - that he had not done his Verse or Prose Task, or Vulgus. It was also - often put by a Master in the margin of gags, or a Verse or Prose Task, - to indicate gross errors. - - -*Pets*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—A set (says TOD) of young - ruffians in Under Long Room whom the editor of _The Verite - Chronicle_ (_see_ VERITE) was constrained from self-interest - to place on the free list. Only eight numbers appeared. - - -*Petties*, _subs._ (Harrow).—According to the Founder’s - regulations, the lowest class—“which have not learned their - accidence, or entered into the English rules of grammar.” - - -*Phædras* (Harrow).—_See_ UPPER SCHOOL. - - -*Phil*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The Philathletic Club. It consists of - members of the school elected for merit in athletics, the - first ten monitors being _ex officio_. - - -*Philosophers*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The body of students above - the ordinary forms. Also PHILS. - - -*Pi*, _adj._ (Winchester).—Virtuous; sanctimonious. _Ex._ “His - pitch-up are very PI.” _See_ Appendix. - - 1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. PI.... Abbreviation of - “pious.” _Ex._ “He’s very PI now, he mugs all day. He PI-jawed me for - thoking.” - - -*Pie-match*, _subs._ (Rugby).—A match arranged between teams in - one house, or in one form, followed by a supper, subscribed - for by the players, or provided by the masters. - - -*Pig.* _See_ HOG. - - THE OLD PIG, _subs. phr._ (Rugby).—_See_ quot. - - 1856. HUGHES, _Tom Brown’s School-days_, vii. “The OLD PIG came by.” - “The what?” said the doctor. “The Oxford coach, sir,” explained Hall. - “Hah! yes, the Regulator,” said the doctor. - - -*Pigeon-hole*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A small study. - - -*Piggin*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—_See_ quot. - - 1798. “Christ’s Hospital Three Quarters of a Century Ago” [_Chelmsford - Chronicle_ (1875), Ap. 16]. Beer we had certainly served out in wooden - vessels of an extraordinary shape, called PIGGINS; about six of them - for four boys to drink out of, but such beer! The PIGGINS were seldom - replenished, for we could not drink it. - - -*Pig-market* (The), _subs._ (Oxford).—A corridor leading to the - Divinity School: properly the Proscholium. [Said to have - been so used in the latter part of the reign of Henry VIII.] - - 1837. INGRAM, _Memorials of Oxford_.... The schools built by Abbot - Hokenorton being inadequate to the increasing wants of the University, - they applied to the Abbot of Reading for stone to rebuild them; and in - the year 1532 it appears that considerable sums of money were expended - on them; but they went to decay in the latter part of the reign of - Henry VIII. and during the whole reign of Edward VI. The change of - religion having occasioned a suspension of the usual exercises and - scholastic acts in the University, in the year 1540 only two of these - schools were used by determiners, and within two years after none at - all. The whole area between these schools and the divinity school was - subsequently converted into a garden and PIG-MARKET; and the schools - themselves, being completely abandoned by the masters and scholars, - were used by glovers and laundresses. - - 1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, iv. Our hero proceeded with his father - along the High Street, and turned round by St. Mary’s, and so up Cat - Street to the Schools, where they made their way to the classic - PIG-MARKET, to wait the arrival of the Vice-Chancellor. - - -*Pill*, _verb_ (University).—To talk twaddle or platitudes. - - -*Pin*, _verb_ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—To enjoy: _e.g._ “I PINNED - my innings”; “this is a PINNING book.” - - 1887. _Stonyhurst Mag._, iii. 89. A downright enjoyable PINNABLE game. - - TO PIN A LOZEN, _verb. phr._ (Royal High School, Edin.: - obsolete).—To break a window. [_Lozen_ = a pane of glass.] - - -*Pinch*. TO PINCH IN, _verb. phr._ (Harrow).—_See_ quot. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 315. Dr. Butler ... abolished, - amongst other old customs, certain rites and ceremonies which were - used in celebrating a boy’s remove from one form to the other in the - lower part of the school. No such promotion was considered complete, - so far as the boys were concerned, until the new member had been duly - “PINCHED IN”—remaining a certain fixed time in the play-room, during - which all the fraternity exercised a right of pinching him, limited - only by the tenderness of their dispositions or the strength of their - fingers. There were generally some adepts in this torture, who knew, - and taught others, the tenderest places and the most artistic mode of - taking hold, and who carried this evil knowledge with them from form - to form, to be practised on a succession of victims. The rites of - initiation were completed by tossing in a blanket in the dormitory, - and a certain number of bumps against the ceiling were required to - make the ceremony valid. - - -*Pintle*, _subs._ (Lancing).—(1) A form of cricket played with a - bat narrowed at both sides, a soft ball, and a stone wicket - in a pit. Also (2) = the bat used in the game. Hence - PINTLE-SLINGER = a fast bowler. - - -*Pitch-up*, _subs._ (Winchester).—One’s home circle; a group; a - crowd; a set of chums. Hence TO PITCH UP WITH = to associate - with. - - -*Place*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A room: generic: as study-PLACE, - shoe-PLACE, tailor’s PLACE, washing-PLACE, Dick’s PLACE, - stranger’s PLACE ( = parlour). - - 1891. JOHN GERARD, S.J., _Stonyhurst College_. This evidently comes - from St. Omers, in which district, we are told, the word is still - employed in the same promiscuous way. - - TO RUN FOR A PLACE, _verb. phr._ (Winchester).—_See_ quot. - - 1881. _Felstedian_, Nov., p. 75, “A Day’s Fagging at Winchester.” My - next duty is what is called “running for a PLACE.” There are (or were) - six cricket pitches on “turf,” and any præfect has a right to one of - these all day (a bad arrangement, which I hope is altered now, as - fellows with no idea of cricket could thus keep much better players - off all day) provided he can get a stick with his name on, stuck in - the ground by his fag—the half-dozen out of the fifteen or twenty fags - running, who get their præfect’s sticks stuck in first, claiming the - place for him. It was the same sort of thing, as if the door from the - “underground” was opened about 6.30, and some twenty fellows rushed - out early in the morning to try and get pitches. - - -*Plain-ruled*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The paper usually used for - exercises, sixteen lines to a page. - - -*Planks* (The), _subs._ (Rugby).—_See_ quot. - - 1856. HUGHES, _Tom Brown’s School-days_, viii. The river Avon at Rugby - is ... a capital river for bathing, as it has many nice small pools - and several good reaches for swimming, all within about a mile of one - another, and at an easy twenty minutes’ walk from the School. This - mile of water is rented, or used to be rented, for bathing purposes by - the Trustees of the School, for the boys. The footpath to Brownsover - crosses the river by THE PLANKS, a curious old single-plank bridge - running for fifty or sixty yards into the flat meadows on each side of - the river—for in the winter there are frequent floods. Above THE - PLANKS were the bathing-places for the smaller boys; SLEATH’S, the - first bathing-place, where all new boys had to begin, until they had - proved to the bathing men (three steady individuals, who were paid to - attend daily through the summer to prevent accidents) that they could - swim pretty decently, when they were allowed to go on to ANSTEY’S, - about one hundred and fifty yards below. Here there was a hole about - six feet deep and twelve feet across, over which the puffing urchins - struggled to the opposite side, and thought no small beer of - themselves for having been out of their depths. Below THE PLANKS came - larger and deeper holes, the first of which was WRATISLAW’S, and the - last SWIFT’S, a famous hole, ten or twelve feet deep in parts, and - thirty yards across, from which there was a fine swimming reach right - down to the Mill. SWIFT’S was reserved for the sixth and fifth forms, - and had a spring-board and two sets of steps; the others had one set - of steps each, and were used indifferently by all the lower boys, - though each house addicted itself more to one hole than to another. - The School-house at this time affected WRATISLAW’S hole, and Tom and - East, who had learnt to swim like fishes, were to be found there as - regular as the clock through the summer, always twice, and often three - times a day. - - -*Plant*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A blow with a football. Also as - _verb_. - - -*Play*, _subs._ (Sherborne: obsolete—otherwise general).—A - holiday, half or whole. - - 1865. _Etoniana_, 115. Eton versification was very good indeed ... - exercises ... from their excellence, were laid before the provost, by - a time-honoured custom, as a claim for the weekly half-holiday called - “PLAY”—a ceremony which some other public schools have borrowed. - - TO BEG A PLAY (Westminster).—_See_ EARLY PLAY and - WESTMINSTER PLAY. - - -*Playing-fields*, _subs._ (Eton).—There are seven separate - grounds—Upper Club, Lower Club, Upper Sixpenny, Sixpenny, - Jordan, Mesopotamia, and the new ground in “Agars Plough.” - - 1890. _Great Public Schools_, 59. Every one knows the PLAYING-FIELDS. - They are the crowning glory, the eye of Eton ... they are always - beautiful. - - -*Pleb*, _subs._ (Westminster).—A tradesman’s son. - - -*Pledge*, _verb_ (Winchester).—To give away: _e.g._ “PLEDGE me” - = “after you”; “PLEDGE you” = “give, pass, or lend me;” - “I’ll PLEDGE it you when I’ve done with it.” - - 1882. SKEAT [WRENCH]. SKEAT says it comes from a Latin _præbium_, - connected with præbere, in which case PLEDGE simply means “give.” - - -*Plodge*, _verb_ (Durham).—To paddle. - - -*Plough* (or *Pluck*), _verb_ (common).—To reject: as in an - examination. - - 1785. GROSE, _Vulg. Tongue_, s.v. PLUCK.... Signifies to deny a degree - to a candidate at one of the universities, on account of - insufficiency. The three first books of Euclid, and as far as - Quadratic Equations in Algebra, will save a man from being PLUCKED. - These unfortunate fellows are designated by many opprobrious - appellations, such as the Twelve Apostles, the Legion of Honour, Wise - Men of the East, &c. - - 1847. C. BRONTË, _Jane Eyre_, x. He went to college and he got - PLUCKED, as I think they call it. - - 1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, iii. Verdant read up most desperately - for his matriculation, associating that initiatory examination with - the most dismal visions of PLUCKING, and other college tortures. - _Ibid._, xi. Note. When the degrees are conferred, the name of each - person is read out before he is presented to the Vice-Chancellor. The - proctor then walks once up and down the room, so that any person who - objects to the degree being granted may signify the same by pulling or - PLUCKING the proctor’s robes. This has been occasionally done by - tradesmen, in order to obtain payment of their “little bills,” but - such a proceeding is very rare, and the proctor’s promenade is usually - undisturbed. - - 1855. BRISTED, _Eng. Univ._, 258. If a man is PLUCKED—that is, does - not get marks enough to pass—his chance of a Fellowship is done for. - - 1863. READE, _Hard Cash_, Prol. Gooseberry pie ... adds to my chance - of being PLOUGHED for SMALLS. - - 1886. STUBBS, _Mediæval and Mod. Hist._, 386. I trust that I have - never PLUCKED a candidate ... without giving him every opportunity of - setting himself right. - - 1895. POCOCK, _Rules of the Game_, i. I knew one of that lot at - Corpus; in fact, we were crammed by the same tutor for “smalls,” and - both got PLOUGHED. - - -*Pluck*. _See_ PLOUGH. - - -*Plug*, _subs._ (common).—A translation; a CRIB (_q.v._). - - 1853. BRADLEY (“Cuthbert Bede”), _Verdant Green_.... Getting up his - subjects by the aid of those royal roads to knowledge, variously known - as cribs, crams, PLUGS, abstracts, analyses, or epitomes. - - -*Poacher*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—At football a player stationed - near an enemy’s goals to trouble his SECOND-GUARDERS - (_q.v._). They are not allowed to go within the - “Second-guarder’s” or POACHING line. - - -*Pœna*, _subs._ (general).—An imposition. - - -*Poet*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—See POETRY. - - -*Poetry*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The Fifth Form. [From the former - chief study of the Form: originally THE HUMANITIES. _Cf._ - _Regulæ Professoris Humanitatis_ in the _Ratio Studiorum - Societatis Jesu_.] - - -*Poet’s-walk*, _subs._ (Eton).—A river-walk in the - playing-fields. POET’S-WALK = the tea those playing in Upper - Club have on half-holidays by the river. - - -*Pog*, _subs._ (Felsted).—The face. _See_ Appendix. - - 1895. _Felstedian_, April, p. 44. We won the game by one goal, three - rouges—points to its origin. “POG” may have meant a “melancholy” face - originally, and in time come to denote any Felstedian’s visage, grave - or gay. - - 1897. _Felstedian_, May, p. 87. I ... prayed that he wasn’t going to - drag in “Cheese” or “POG,” or any similar atrocities. - - -*Pojam*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A poem: set as an exercise. - - -*Poker*, _subs._ (Oxford).—A BEDEL (_q.v._) carrying a silver - mace before the Vice-Chancellor. - - 1841. _Rime of the New-Made Baccalere._ Around, around, all, all - around, On seats with velvet lined, Sat Heads of Houses in a row, And - Deans and College Dons below, With a POKER or two behind. - - 1853. BRADLEY (“Cuthbert Bede”), _Verdant Green_, vii. A sort of young - procession—the Vice-Chancellor, with his and Yeoman-bedels. The silver - maces carried by the latter gentlemen, made them by far the most showy - part of the procession.... _Ibid._ Tom is the bell that you hear at - nine each night; the Vice has to see that he is in proper condition, - and, as you have seen, goes out with his POKERS for that purpose. - - 1865. _Cornhill Mag._, Feb., 225. The heads of houses and university - officers attend [St. Mary’s, Oxford] in their robes, and form a - stately procession to and from the church. The Vice-Chancellor is - escorted by his mace-bearers, familiarly called POKERS, to and from - his residence. - - -*Poll*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—The ordinary examination for - the B.A. degree, as distinguished from the “Honours” - examination. Also a student who takes the “Pass” degree - without “Honours.” Hence POLL-DEGREE and POLL-MAN. TO GO - OUT IN THE POLL = to take an ordinary degree. - - 1855. BRISTED, _Eng. Univ._, 62. Several declared that they would GO - OUT IN THE POLL. - - 1884. JAS. PAYN, in _Cornhill_, April, 370. I took my degree, - however—a first-class POLL; which my good folks at home believed to be - an honourable distinction. - - 1889. _Academy_, Mar. 2. It is related of some Cambridge POLL-MAN that - he was once so ill-advised as to desert a private tutor. - - _Verb_ (Christ’s Hospital).—To maltreat; to make impure. - [That is, “pollute.”] - - -*Ponto*, _subs._ (general).—New bread kneaded into a ball. - - 1900. _St. James’s Gazette_, Mar. 15, “Arnoldiana.” He [Matthew - Arnold] was placed at the end of the great school, and, amid howls and - jeers, pelted with a rain of PONTOS for some time. The PONTO, though a - soft missile, being but the inside of a new roll, was probably - sufficient in quantity. - - -*Pony*, _subs._ (general).—A translation; a CRIB (_q.v._)—any - adventitious aid to study. Also as _verb_. - - 1832. _Tour through College_, 30. Their lexicons, PONIES, and - textbooks were strewed round their lamps on the table. - - 1856. HALL, _College Words_, s.v. PONY. So called, it may be, from the - fleetness and ease with which a skilful rider is enabled to pass over - places which to a common plodder may present obstacles. - - -*Poon*, _verb_ (Winchester).—To prop up a piece of furniture - with a wedge under the leg.—WRENCH. - - -*Pop*, _subs._ (Eton).—A club at Eton. Chiefly confined to - OPPIDANS (_q.v._), though COLLEGERS (_q.v._) are sometimes - elected. - - 1865. _Etoniana_, 207. “The Eton Society,” for reading and debates, - has had a longer and more successful existence than the magazines. It - is better known by its sobriquet of “POP,” supposed to be a - contraction of Popina, the rooms where it was held for many years - having been over a cookshop or confectioner’s. It was first instituted - in 1811, when Charles Fox Townshend (who was the elder brother of the - late Marquess, and died young) was the first president, and it has - gone on ever since with considerable popularity and success. The - preparation of the speeches leads to a certain amount of historical - reading for the purpose; but the chief attraction of “POP” lies in its - being a sort of social club, where papers and reviews are taken in; - and, as the numbers are strictly limited (originally twenty-two, since - increased to twenty-eight), to be elected into the society gives a boy - a certain degree of prestige in the school. In summer the debates are - almost nominal, out-door attractions being too strong; but in winter - they sometimes last for several hours, and are kept up with great - spirit. The members are almost exclusively oppidans, this being one of - the points where the jealousy between them and the collegers comes out - very distinctly. A few of the latter are admitted, but only when they - have some special claim to popularity. - - -*Portionist.* _See_ Postmaster. - - -*Poser*, _subs._ (Winchester and Eton).—An examiner: formerly a - bishop’s examining chaplain—at Eton for King’s College, and - at Winchester for New College Scholarships and Exhibitions. - Also APPOSER, OPPOSER, and OPPOSITOR. [_Posen_ = to - examine.—_Prompt. Parv._, 144.] - - 1574. QUEEN ELIZABETH, _Endorsement on Recommendation of Candidates - for College Election_, May 8. To our trustie and welbeloved the - wardens of the new Colledges in Oxford and nere Winchester and other - of them and to the OPPOSITORS and others having interest in the - election of Scollers. - - 1603. BACON, _Discourse_ [1887]. Let his questions not be troublesome, - for that is fit for a POSER. - - 1662. FULLER, _Worthies_, NORFOLK, ii. 462. The University [Cambridge] - ... appointed Doctor Cranmer ... to be POSER-GENERAL of all Candidates - in Divinity. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 61. The election-day, both for - Winchester and New College, is on the Tuesday next after the 7th of - July (St. Thomas Beckett), when the warden of New College, Oxford, - with two of his fellows, called the POSERS (or at one time - supervisors), arrive at the college, where they are received with a - Latin oration “ad portas” by the senior scholar. - - -*Post*, _subs._ (University).—_See_ quot. - - 1855. BRISTED, _Eng. Univ._, 74. Fifty marks will prevent one from - being POSTED, but there are always two or three too stupid as well as - idle to save their POST. These drones are POSTED separately, as “not - worthy to be classed,” and privately slanged afterwards by the master - and seniors. Should a man be POSTED twice in succession, he is - generally recommended to try the air of some small college, or devote - his energies to some other walk of life. - - _Verb._ 1. (University).—To reject: as in an examination; to - PLUCK (_q.v._); TO PLOUGH (_q.v._). - - 2. (Eton).—To put down for doing badly in COLLECTIONS - (_q.v._), the penalty being either a holiday-PŒNA (_q.v._), - or a SWISHING (_q.v._). - - 3. (University).—To put up a man’s name as not having paid - for food supplied by the College: supplies are then stopped - until the account is settled. - - -*Postmaster*, _subs._ (Oxford).—An Exhibitioner of Merton - College. Also PORTIONIST (_q.v._). - - 1853. BRADLEY (“Cuthbert Bede”), _Verdant Green_, vii. Each college - does its own postal department; and at Merton there are fourteen - POSTMASTERS, for they get no end of letters there. “Oh, yes! I - remember Mr. Larkyns ... telling us that the son of one of his old - friends had been a POSTMASTER of Merton; but I fancied that he had - said it had something to do with a scholarship.” “Ah, you see, it’s a - long while since the governor was here, and his memory fails him,” - remarked Mr. Charles Larkyns, very unfilially. - - 1886. _Oxford Guide_ [S. J. & C.]. The POSTMASTERS anciently performed - the duties of choristers, and their payment for this duty was six - shillings and fourpence per annum. - - -*Post-mortem*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—The examination after - failure. - - 1844. _Puck_, 13. And now tho’ I’ve passed the POST-MORTEM at last. - - -*Post-past*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—Dessert: at St. - Omers. - - 1882. _Stonyhurst Mag._, i. 112. The dessert called POST-PAST was - always the best sort of apples or pears, and biscuits, or else - walnuts. - - -*Post te*, _phr._ (Charterhouse).—The most useful (says TOD) of - all the old Charterhouse expressions. For example, POST TE - MATH. EX. = “Will you have the kindness to permit me to - glance over your mathematical exercise?” Or one can give a - POST TE of anything; _e.g._ to give a friend a POST TE of a - book is to give him the right of its perusal when you have - done with it. The word is also used in a subtle and - sarcastic sense; _e.g._ POST TE hat or POST TE chum - signifies disapproval of the hat or friend of which or whom - the remark was made. - - -*Pot*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A canal lock. Whence POT-CAD = a - workman at the saw-mills; POT-GATES = lock-gates; POT-HOUSER - = a jump into the canal from the roof of a house called - POT-HOUSE. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 226. POT—A - canal lock; the one just under Hills was generally meant when the word - was used. - - -*Pot-house* (The), _subs._ (Cambridge).—St. Peter’s College: - formerly Peterhouse. - - 1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 85. He asked me what it was.... I - hadn’t a notion, so I made a shot and said “POT-HOUSE.” He said, “I - suppose you mean St. Peter’s College.” - - -*Potted-fug*, _subs._ (Rugby).—Potted-meat. - - -*Præfect.* _See_ PREFECT. - - -*Præpositor*, _subs._ (Sherborne: obsolete).—A School PRÆFECT - (_q.v._): seventeenth century. - - -*Præpostor*, _subs._ (Rugby).—A PRÆFECT (_q.v._). - - 1856. HUGHES, _Tom Brown’s School-days_, v. The master mounted into - the high desk by the door, and one of the PRÆPOSTORS of the week stood - by him on the steps, the other three marching up and down the middle - of the school with their canes, calling out “Silence, silence!”... - Then the PRÆPOSTOR who stands by the master calls out the names, - beginning with the sixth form; and as he calls, each boy answers - “here” to his name, and walks out. - - -*Prayer-book* (Harrow).—_See_ Upper School. - - -*Precipice.* _See_ FRESH-HERRING. - - -*Prefect*, _subs._ (general).—A superior or senior member of a - school superintending in or out of school hours according to - office and school: as in studies, preparation, games, &c. - _See_ quots., PRÆPOSITOR, PRÆPOSTOR, &c. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 226. - PRÆFECTS—The eighteen Senior boys in College, and the twelve senior in - Commoners. The ten senior of those in College were said to be in “Full - power,” and took the office of Bible-Clerk in rotation; they all had - the power of fagging the Juniors, but those not in full power were - supposed not to have the right of fagging on the School side of - Seventh Chamber Passage; practically, however, they always did. One of - the Senior PRÆFECTS was called PRÆFECT of Hall, and was responsible in - a great measure for the conduct of the boys out of school. His duties - and privileges were numerous. There was also a “PRÆFECT of Tub,” who - was supposed to see that the dinner was properly distributed; a - “PRÆFECT of School,” who had the care of that building; and two - “PRÆFECTS of Chapel,” who during alternate weeks called names in - Chapel. There were fees attached to all these offices; and all the - PRÆFECTS had a certain number of boys allotted to them as Pupils, each - of whom paid one guinea each half. - - 1881. _Felstedian_, Nov., p. 75. Here let me observe that only the - PRÆFECTS have separate basins to wash in; the juniors use the two - stone conduits. - - 1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. PRÆFECTS.... The number of - Præfects was eighteen in College, three to each Chamber ... in - Commoners first eight, with four senior-inferiors, who were like - Præfects in half-power, and later twelve.... The word PRÆPOSTOR was - also used concurrently, it would appear, till the last century, when - it disappeared, except in the formula demanding a remedy, in which it - survives. What the relations of the two words were to each other it is - not easy to determine.... Præpostor occurs in the College Register, - and is still used in asking for Remedies. Both seem, therefore, to be - official words. At Eton Præpostor survives, though they are stated to - have begun with officers bearing other titles. They have also retained - _major_, _minor_, _minimus_, which we have discarded for _senior_, - _secundus_, _junior_. The “Præfect of Tub”—“qui nomen ducit ab - olla”—who presided over meals, and whose perquisites are said to have - been most lucrative—amounting to the value of £80 per annum—and the - “PRÆFECT of Cloisters” are obsolete offices. - - 1900. _MS. Notes_ (Rev. A. GOODIER, Stonyhurst). PRÆFECTS ... These - are four in number. - - -*Prep*, _subs._ 1. (Dulwich).—Evening preparation. _Cf._ BANCO, - TOY-TIME, &c. - - 2. (Felsted).—A place of preparation. - - 1890. _Felstedian_, Feb., p. 2. Johnson _ma_ happened to be in PREP in - good time, so he managed to get in a moment’s conversation with Jones. - - -*Preparatory*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The preparatory Form at - Hodder: originally ABECEDARII. - - -*Pricking Æger.* _See_ ÆGER. - - -*Private-business*, _subs._ (Eton).—Extra work with the tutor. - - -*Privee*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—A private conversation. _See_ - BOULE. - - -*Privs*, _subs._ (Harrow).—Special privileges in the House: - granted to either Sixth Form or THREE-YEARERS (_q.v._). - These take different forms in different houses. TO FIND - (_q.v._) and to TOLLY-UP are PRIVS: so is the right to wear - a coat that is not regulation school dress after LOCK-UP - (_q.v._). - - -*Pro*, _subs._ (Oxford).—A proproctor, or second in command in - the proctorial police. The two proctors appoint a certain - number of proproctors each. - - 1823. _Hints for Oxford_, 10. They (Freshmen) cap the PRO’S too in the - street, speak to people without being introduced, and are guilty of a - thousand _gaucheries_. - - 1869. W. BRADWOOD, _The O.V.H._, x. The proctor (more strictly a PRO) - backed out of the room with wholesale apologies. - - -*Proctorized*, _adj._ and _adv._ (University).—Stopped by a - proctor and told to call on him. - - 1861. HUGHES, _Tom Brown at Oxford_, i. 12. So gets PROCTORIZED in his - old age. - - 1885. _Punch_, May 16, p. 233. PROCTORISED again last night! Coming - home from jolly wine-party at John’s. - - -*Progger*, _subs._ (University).—A proctor. - - 1898. _Stonyhurst Mag._, Dec., p. 149, “Life at Oxford.” But a - Proctor, or—by the common practice—“PROGGER,” soon teaches the unwary - that the wisest course is to wear it at the stated times, however - objectionable it may be. - - -*Progging*, _subs._ (University).—_See_ PROCTORIZED. - - 1898. _Stonyhurst Mag._, Dec., p. 149, “Life at Oxford.” A “PROGGING” - may form part of another article. At present I have passed all due - bounds. - - -*Proggins*, _subs._ (University).—A proctor. - - -*Promo*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—Promotion. - - -*Prompter*, _subs._ (Merchant Taylors’).—A member of the Second - Form. - - -*Proof*, _subs._ (Oxford).—The best ale at Magdalen College. - - -*Pros*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—A W.C. - - -*Prose*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A lecture. Also as _verb_. - - -*Prose-task*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A piece of Latin prose - composition, which all the boys had to do once a - week.—MANSFIELD (_c._ 1840). - - -*Provincial’s-day.* _See_ DAY. - - -*Pruff*, _adj._ (Winchester).—Sturdy; insensible to pain. - - 1610. SHAKSPEARE, _Cor._, i. 4. Now put your shields before your - hearts, and fight With hearts more PROOF than shields. - - 1881. PASCOE, _Public Schools_.... But deprive a Wykehamist of words - in constant use, such as “quill,” meaning to curry favour with; PRUFF, - signifying sturdy, or proof against pain; “spree,” upstart, impudent; - “cud,” pretty, and many more, and his vocabulary becomes limited. - - -*Public-supping*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—_See_ quots. - - 1870. _The Blue_, Mar. It is, we believe, certain that T.R.H. the - Prince and Princess Teck will grace one of the Lent PUBLIC SUPPERS - with their distinguished presence. - - 1900. _Daily Telegraph_, Mar. 16, “London Day by Day.” That quaint and - historic old custom known as the “public supping” of the children was - celebrated last evening at Christ’s Hospital, Newgate Street, in the - presence of the Lord Mayor, Alderman Vaughan Morgan (treasurer of the - school), and other civic and educational dignitaries. - - 1900. _Pall Mall Gazette_, 20th Mar., 3. 2, “A Lenten Supper.” - Attention is directed to this festival this year for two reasons—one, - that it is a very ancient custom; the other, that this is nearly the - last year in which it will be held; for it is clear that when the - school has changed its site, its dress, and certain of its officers - and masters, it will not care to carry on this quaint old ceremony. - And indeed, were the Hospital to hold such revelry at Horsham there - would be few to come as guests, if the name of guest can be assigned - to one who plays a part so passive as that of seeing other people - eat.... The scene of the supping is the Great Hall.... Six hundred - boys and more appear as nothing; they are all seated.... At each table - sits a matron, according to their wards (of which there are fifteen), - and attached to each ward is a matron, who used to be called nurse. - Beside the tables are the monitors, responsible for order—biggish - boys—not “Grecians,” for Grecians do not appear at the Lent suppers, - except to read or pray or sing, having already eaten in their wards. - The first performance, probably, is to light the candles on the - tables; each ward has four candles, and all are lighted at almost the - same moment. The hall is lighted from the roof by gas, so the - candlesticks are little more than ornaments. They are of oak, old, and - well-weighted at the base, and can count their age by centuries.... - Their quaintness is concealed by artificial flowers, which the boys - pay for and the matrons arrange, the result more suggestive of - suburban bonnets than antiquity and quaintness. Ask a boy Why? he will - probably reply that “it always has been done.” Change has come; it - used to be held on Sundays during Lent instead of Thursday as to-day, - and up to absolutely recent years there were six suppers instead of - four. These festivals interfere somewhat with school work, and those - who are officially compelled to attend find sameness, even in a public - supper, in the course of thirty years or so. As the clock strikes - seven there is a rap, the boys stand up, the organ bursts into “God - save the Queen,” and up the hall marches the Lord Mayor, preceded by - the chief beadle of the Hospital, clad in gorgeous raiment and a mace - suggestive of a fish-slice. Behind comes the treasurer of the - Hospital, another alderman, and various governors, each bearing a - green stick to mark his office. These sit in reserved seats at the far - end of the hall, the Lord Mayor in _the_ chair, while on his right - hand by the wall are masters and on his left some “officers.” The - ceremony—a strange mixture of a religious service, a meal, and a - feudal relic—begun with the reading of a passage from the Sermon on - the Mount by a Grecian standing in a pulpit, whence he proceeded to - read special prayers written for the school by Bishop Compton, ending - with the Lord’s Prayer, after which a hymn and “grace” and then the - supper, during which the Lord Mayor, with a select few, made the grand - tour of the hall. Such a supper was soon over, and it was not long - before the boys had gathered up the plates and bowls and cloths and - knives, and then came grace and an anthem well sung by a well-trained - choir. This was followed by the feudal feature in the evening: the - whole school, with the exception of the Grecians, “bows round,” i.e. - the boys walk up two and two, marshalled by two beadles, who stand - near, and drawing near the chair, then bow the head in reverence to an - Authority. Most boys have a “trade,” and in this procession each one - carries a symbol of that “trade.” The matron’s special boy carries a - bonnet-candle in each hand, the knife-boy carries his knife-basket, - and the cloth-boy takes his cloth neatly rolled beneath his wing, - while, last of all, the bread-boy hoists the tall bread-basket - shoulder-high and “bows round” with it, never failing to raise a laugh - as well as a basket. When all have bowed, the boy-marshalling beadles - bow also, and the revels are ended. It is believed that the original - purpose of these suppers was to rouse interest in the outside public - and possibly raise money from their pockets; at all events, collection - boxes used to be placed about the hall on those occasions. - - -*Puddex.* _See_ DEX. - - -*Puke*, _verb_ (Winchester).—To vomit. [A survival.] - - -*Puker*, _subs._ (Shrewsbury).—A good-for-nothing. - - -*Pulling-out*, _subs._ (Charterhouse: obsolete).—PULLING-OUT - took place on Good Fridays. A line was marked from a corner - of green to cloisters. On one side of this line stood the - first and second forms, _i.e._ the Uppers, on the other side - of it the Unders. The Unders had the right of calling on any - unpopular Upper to run the gauntlet between two rows of - Unders from cloister doors to a point near the chapel. They - armed themselves with implements of all kinds, such as - sticks, or stones fastened into stockings, with which to - inflict punishment upon the Uppers. The latter naturally - resisted; hence there were fierce fights and dangerous - rushes. During the PULLING-OUT of 1824, a little fellow - called Howard, a younger son of the Earl of Suffolk, was - entangled in one of these rushes, dragged along the ground - for some distance, with a mass of boys upon him, and - received injuries from which he died soon after. This was - the end of PULLING-OUT, but the custom was as old as the - school.—MOZLEY. Also CALLING-OUT. - - -*Pulpiteers*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ quot. - - 1891. WRENCH, _Word-Book_, s.v. _Pulpiteers_. An arrangement during - Cloister-time of Sixth Book and Senior Part V. going up to books - together.... Middle and Junior Part taken together were called - Cloisters. - - -*Pun*, _subs._ (Harrow).—Punishment. Also as _verb_. Hence - PUN-PAPER = specially ruled paper for PUNS and impositions. - - TO PUN OUT, _verb. phr._ (Christ’s Hospital).—To inform - against. _Ex._ “I’ll PUN OUT”; “I’ll PUN you OUT.” - Exclusively a London term: at Hertford the word is simply TO - PUN, or TO PUN OF. - - -*Punny*, _subs._ (Manchester Grammar).—Punishment School or - Drill: also known as P.S. and P.D.: both cause detention for - three-quarters of an hour after school. - - -*Punt*, _verb_ (Rugby).—To kick the ball (at football) before it - touches the ground. - - -*Punt-about*, _subs._ (Rugby).—The practice-ball: at football. - Also a practice game. - - 1856. HUGHES, _Tom Brown’s School-days_, I. v. He hadn’t long to - wonder, however, for next minute East cried out, “Hurra! here’s the - PUNT-ABOUT,—come along and try your hand at a kick.” The PUNT-ABOUT is - the practice-ball, which is just brought out and kicked about anyhow - from one boy to another before callings-over and dinner, and at other - odd times. - - -*Puny*, _subs._ (old Oxford).—A Freshman: also a student at the - Inns of Court. - - 15 [?]. _Christmas Prince at St. John’s College_, i. Others to make - sporte withall, of this last sorte were they whom they call freshmenn, - PUNIES of the first yeare. - - 15 [?]. _Ulysses upon Ajax_, B. 8. A very worme of wit, a PUNEY of - Oxford, shall make you more hatefull than Battalus the hungrye fidler. - - 1593. NASHE, _Christ’s Teares_ [WORKS (_Grosart_), iv. 228]. Sharing - halfe with the Baudes their Hostesses, and laughing at the PUNIES they - have lurched [robbed]. - - 1634. MARSTON, in _Lectores_, &c. [NARES]. Shall each odd PUISNE of - the lawyer’s inne, Each barmy-froth, that last day did beginne, To - read his little, or his nere a whit. - - _c._ 1640 [SHIRLEY], _Captain Underwit_ [BULLEN, _Old Plays_, ii. - 340]. Preach to the PUISNES of the Inne sobrietie. [PUISNE (_i.e._ - PUNY) was the term applied to students at the Inns of Court; also to - Freshmen at Oxford.—BULLEN.] - - 1847. HALLIWELL, _Arch. and Prov. Words_, s.v. PUNIES. Freshmen at - Oxford were called PUNIES for the first year. - - -*Pupe*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A pupil-room. [ROOM = class or form: - each tutor is assigned a ROOM, for the members of which he - is generally responsible, and for whom he signs orders.] - - -*Puseum* (The), _subs._ (Oxford).—The Pusey House in St. Giles’s - Street. - - -*Put.* TO BE PUT ON, _verb. phr._ (Dulwich).—To be told to - construe. - - -*Pux*, _verb_ (Royal High School, Edin.).—To punish with the - tawse: _e.g._ “Did you get PUXED?” - - - - - - -*Quad* (or *Quod*), _subs._ (general).—A quadrangle. - - 1840. _Collegian’s Guide_, 144. His mother ... had been seen crossing - the QUAD in tears. - - 1884. _Daily News_, Oct. 14, p. 5, col. 1. His undignified nickname is - carved in the turf of the college QUAD. - - _Verb_ (Rugby).—To promenade round Cloisters at calling over - before a football-match. - - -*Quarter* (The), _subs._ (Charterhouse).—The quarter bell. - - -*Quarter-marks*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The aggregate of marks for - work during the term, as opposed to marks gained in TRIALS - (_q.v._). - - -*Quarter of Paper*, _subs. phr._ (Winchester).—A quarter of a - sheet of foolscap, on which the Prose and Verse Tasks were - always written.—MANSFIELD (_c._ 1840). _Cf._ VESSEL. Also - used at Westminster. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 165. Besides this, he had to - carry with him into school a portfolio containing a sufficiency of - QUARTERNS of paper. All or any of these articles he was supposed to - supply, upon requisition, to any boy of the “upper election.” - - -*Quill*, _verb_ (Winchester).—To curry favour; to flatter: _see_ - QUILSTER. Hence (latterly) TO BE QUILLED = to be pleased. - _Cf._ QUILLER = a parasite. - - -*Quiller*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A parasite. - - -*Quilster*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A toady; a lickspittle. - - -*Quod*, _subs._ (Felsted).—_See_ D. (Appendix). - - - - - - -*Rabbiter*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A blow, delivered by the side - of the hand, on the back of the neck: as in killing a - rabbit. - - -*Rabbit-Skin*, _subs._ (University).—The academical hood. Hence - TO GET ONE’S RABBIT-SKIN = to obtain the B.A. degree. - [Because trimmed with rabbit fur. Also CAT’S-SKIN.] - - -*Rack*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A DISPAR (_q.v._), or portion - consisting of a joint (or chop) from a neck or loin of - mutton. [_Rack_ (HALLIWELL) = the neck of mutton or pork; - also (JOHNSON) = a neck of mutton cut for the table.] - - 1594. LYLY, _Mother Bombie_, iii. 4. _Lu._ And me thought there came - in a leg of mutton. _Dro._ What, all grosse meat? a RACKE had beene - dainty. - - 1706. COLES, _Eng. Dict._, s.v. RACK.... Probably from _hracca_, - Saxon, the back of the head. - - ... MAY, _Accomplished Cook_, 57. Then again, put in the crag end of - the RACK OF MUTTON to make the broth good. _Ibid._, p. 25. Take two - joynts of mutton, RACK and loin. - - -*Rag*, _subs._ (University).—1. An undergraduate’s gown. - - 1899. _Answers_, 14th Jan., 1. 1. This matter of the RAG is hedged - about with many unwritten laws. One who has mastered these will never - go to breakfast in another man’s rooms in cap and gown.... Nor will he - wear the RAG in the theatre, which is strictly barred. - - 2. A jollification. - - 1900. _Daily Mail_, 10th Mar., 2. 4. There was keen excitement at - Cambridge yesterday when the magistrates proceeded to deal with the - last two prosecutions of students arising out of the notorious RAG in - celebration of the relief of Ladysmith. - - -*Ragged-soph.* _See_ SOPH. - - -*Ramrod* (or *Raymonder*), _subs._ (Winchester).—A ball bowled - all along the ground.—MANSFIELD (_c._ 1840). - - -*Range*, _verb_ (The Leys).—To play football in the small walled - playground. - - -*Rattle*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The hour of rising: _e.g._ “I - got up at the RATTLE.” [From the instrument by which the - boys are called.] - - -*Rawcliffe’s*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—An old tuck-shop: recently - obsolete. - - -*Rawk.* _See_ RORKE. - - -*Reader*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ quot. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1886), 228. - READER—An office in the gift of every Præfect in Senior FARDEL - (_q.v._), which excused the recipient from watching out at Cricket. - His business was to read out aloud the translation of any book his - Master was cramming for Election examination. - - -*Reading-shelf*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A shelf with a drawer - fixed inside the head of a boy’s bed, on which to place a - candle for nocturnal studies.—MANSFIELD (_c._ 1840). - - -*Recker, The* (Harrow).—The town recreation-ground: here are - held the school sports. - - -*Rector.* 1. _See_ REGENT. - - 2. (Stonyhurst).—The Head-master. _See_ DAY. - - -*Regent*, _subs._ (Royal High School, Edin.: obsolete).—An - assistant master: the Head-master was called “Maister” or - “Principal Maister”; now “Rector.” - - -*Remedy*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A holiday. _See_ WORK, quot. - 1891. - - 1484. _Chapter Register of Southwell Minster._ Nota generaliter. - Ministri Ecclesiæ non vacant scolæ grammaticali. Magister - grammaticalis non attendit debitis horis doctrinæ suorum scolarium in - scola; et quam pluries indiscrete dat REMEDIUM suis scolaribus diebus - ferialibus, quod quasi ad tempus nichil addiscunt, expendendo bona - suorum parentum frustra et inaniter; et non locuntur latinum in scola - sed anglicum. - - _d._ 1519. DEAN COLET, _Statutes of St. Paul’s School_. I will also - that they shall have no REMEDYES. Yf the Maister granteth any REMEDYES - he shall forfeit 40s., totiens quotiens, excepte the Kyng, or an - Archbishopp, or a Bishop present in his own person in the Scole desire - it. - - 1530. THOMAS MAGNUS, _Endowment Deed_, Newark Grammar School. Thomas - Magnus ordeyneth ... that the said maisters shall not be myche - inclyned nor gyven to graunt REMEDY for Recreacyon or Dispoorte to - their scolers unless it be ones in a wooke upon the Thuysday or - Thursday, or that further REMEDY be requyred by any honorable or - worshipfull Person or Personage, &c. &c. - - 1593. _Rites Durham Cathedral Monastic Church_ [Surtees Society]. - There was ... a garding and a bowling allie ... for the Novices - sumetymes to recreate themselves when they had REMEDY of there master. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 49. In the - short half we had at least one “REMEDY,” and a half day every week, - and in summer two always; they were on Tuesdays and Thursdays. These - “REMEDIES” were a kind of mitigated whole holidays. We were supposed - to go into school for an hour or two in the morning and afternoon; but - as no Master was present, it didn’t come to much. This was called - “Books Chambers.” REMEDIES were not a matter of right, but were always - specially applied for by Præfect of Hall on Tuesdays and Thursdays. - The custom was for him to waylay the Doctor on his way to morning - chapel, and make the request, when, if granted, a gold ring was handed - to the applicant, on which was engraved, “_commendant rarior usus_.” - This ring was worn by the Præfect of Hall for the rest of the day, and - returned by him to the Doctor at the beginning of middle school on the - day following. - - 1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. REMEDY. A holiday in the - half, with Books-chambers or Toy-time. Originally there was always - one, and generally two REMEDIES in the week. Later every Tuesday in - Easter-time and Cloister-time was a REMEDY, the Thursday’s REMEDY - being often granted. Now Thursdays in Cloister-time only are REMEDIES - proper in middle-school hours; there are on these days Morning-lines, - and the afternoon is a half-holiday. Ascension-Day and the Queen’s - Accession are _holidays_: all red-letter Saints’-days are - Leave-out-days. _Remedium_ seems to have been the original word for - holiday: translated REMEDY.... The tradition of REMEDIES being granted - by _great persons_ survives in the custom of the Judges on Circuit - demanding a Half-REMEDY. - - -*Remi*, _subs._ 1. (Westminster).—A holiday. _Cf._ REMEDY. - - 2. (Winchester).—REMISSION (_q.v._). - - -*Remission* (or *Remi*), _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ quot. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 229. - REMISSION—When owing to a Saint’s day having fallen on the day - previous to that on which a Verse or Prose Task, or Vulgus, was due, - the boys were excused from doing it, there was said to be REMISSION - from it. - - -*Rep*, _subs._ 1. (Harrow and King Edward’s, Birm.).—A - repetition. - - 1892. ANSTEY, _Voces Populi_, 65. It’s not in Selections from British - Poetry which we have to get up for REP. - - 2. (King Edward’s, Birm.).—The REPRESENTATIVE elected by the - Class to serve on the Committee of the School Club. - - -*Repeal Garden*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—One of the Higher Line - Gardens. [Used for Irish declamation at the beginning of the - century.] Obsolete. - - -*Responsions.* _See_ SMALLS. - - -*Resurrection*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A sort of eat-all feast, - consisting of a meeting to discuss the remnants of an - Academy DO (_q.v._) held on the previous day. - - -*Rhetoric*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The Sixth Form. [From - the chief work once studied in the form. _Cf._ _Regulæ - Professoris Rhetoricæ_ in the _Ratio Studiorum Societatis - Jesu_.] - - -*Rhetoric Good-day*, _subs. phr._ (Stonyhurst).—_See_ GOOD-DAY. - - -*Rhetorician*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—_See_ RHETORIC. - - -*Rigger*, _subs._ (Durham).—A racing-boat. - - -*Rinder*, _subs._ (The Leys and Queen’s).—An outsider. - - -*Riot Act*, _subs._ (King Edward’s, Birm.).—A body of school - rules, read over and commented upon by the Head Master on - the first Wednesday afternoon in term before the whole - school. - - -*Ripping*, _subs._ (Eton).—A ceremony incidental to the - departure of a Senior Colleger for King’s College, - Cambridge: when he has got KING’S (_q.v._) his gown has to - be stitched up that it may be RIPPED afterwards by the - Provost or his deputy. - - -*Robinites* (Charterhouse).—_See_ OUT-HOUSES. - - -*Rock*, _subs._ 1. (Derby).—The school bread. _See_ WASH. - - 2. (Winchester).—A medium-sized stone. - - -*Rod-maker*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The man who made the rods - used in BIBLING (_q.v._). - - -*Rogging*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—Brook-fishing. - - -*Roke*, _verb_ (Winchester).—To stir: as a fire, a liquid, &c. - - 1375. _Percival_ [HALLIWELL]. Were they wighte, were they woke, Alle - that he tille stroke He made their bodies to ROKE. - - 1383. CHAUCER, _Canterbury Tales_. Yet in our ashen cold is fyr - i-REKE. - - 1847. HALLIWELL, _Arch. Words_, s.v. ROKE.... To shake; to roll ... to - stir liquids. - - -*Roker*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A ruler; a stick; a poker. _See_ - ROKE. FLAT-ROKER = a flat ruler. - - -*Roll*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A list of names. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 230. The - ROLL _par excellence_ is the list of the boys who have passed their - examination for New College, and of those who are to come in to - Winchester. There is also a ROLL printed every November, which - contains the name of every one connected with the School, from the - Warden to the Choristers. The lists from which the Præfects of Hall - and Chapel called names; the papers on which the names of the - absentees on such occasions were written; the papers on which were - written the “Standing up”; the lists of the boys who had leave out on - a Saints’ day; the papers put on the Master’s desk when boys wished to - go out of school; those handed to the Master at the close of School by - the Bible-Clerk or Ostiarius with the names of the delinquents, and - many other similar papers, were all called ROLLS. - - TO HAVE A ROLL ON, _verb. phr._ (Shrewsbury).—_See_ quot. - - 1877. PASCOE, _Every-day Life, &c._ Anything approaching swagger is - severely rebuked; there is no more objectionable quality than that - understood by the expression “He’s got such a horrid ROLL ON.” - - TO ROLL IN, _verb. phr._ (Harrow: obs.).—_See_ quot. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, 316. Another ancient barbarism - survived even long after Butler’s accession. There were in the - head-master’s house two public rooms for the use of his boarders—the - hall and the play-room. The latter was open to all, but the hall was - regarded as a sort of club-room, which no boy was allowed to enter, - except at dinner and supper time, until he had become a member by - being ROLLED-IN. Any one who desired the privilege of admission (and - none below the upper fifth were eligible), gave in his name to the - head-boy some days beforehand, in order that due preparations might be - made for the inauguration. Immediately a certain number of rolls - (_finds_ they were called—etymology unknown) were ordered at the - baker’s, and rebaked every morning until they were pretty nearly as - hard as pebbles. At nine o’clock on the morning fixed for the - ROLLING-IN, the members of the hall ranged themselves on the long - table which ran along one side of the room, each with his pile of - these rolls before him, and a fag to pick them up. The candidate - knelt, facing them, on a form close against the opposite wall, with - his head resting on his hands, so as to guard the face, while they - held, as well as they could, a plate on the top of the head by way of - helmet. Thus protected, the head itself formed a mark for the very - peculiar missiles which were ready to be aimed. When all was ready, a - time-keeper, watch in hand, gave the word—“Now!” when fast and - furiously—and very spitefully, if the boy was unpopular—the rolls were - showered upon the devoted head for the space of one minute, neither - more nor less. Such protection as the plate gave was soon lost by its - being broken to pieces. It was, as may be imagined, a very severe - ordeal, the bruises being very painful for weeks afterwards. - - -*Roller*, _subs._ (Oxford).—A roll-call. - - -*Room*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—In Stonyhurst nomenclature, ROOM - as a place-name is modern. _See_ DUCHESS’ ROOMS, DUKE’S - ROOM, PLACE, &c. - - -*Roosh*, _verb_ (Harrow).—To rush about. - - -*Roost*, _verb_ (Derby).—To kick hard: at football. [? Root.] - - -*Root-about*, _subs._ (The Leys).—Promiscuous football practice. - Also as _verb_. - - -*Ropes*, _subs._ (general).—A half-back at football. - - -*Rorke* (or *Rawk*), _subs._ (Tonbridge).—A navvy. [? Latin - _raucus_. _Cf._ RORKER.] - - -*Rorker*, _subs._ (Derby).—A street boy; a cad. [? Latin - _raucus_. _Cf._ RORKE.] - - -*Rosh* (or *Roush*), _verb_ (Royal Military Academy).—To bustle; - to horseplay. Hence STOP ROUSHING! = an injunction to - silence. - - -*Rotten.* _See_ Appendix. - - -*Rotter*, _subs._ (Tonbridge).—A boy who shirks his fair share: - at games, &c.; a _fainéant_. - - -*Rouge*, _subs._ (Eton).—A point in the Eton game of football: 3 - ROUGES = 1 goal. _Cf._ SCROUGE. - - _Verb_ (Felsted).—To “rag”; to “scrag.” See _subs._ - - 1895. _Felstedian_, April, pp. 43-4. “Vic” ... entirely baffles me, - and so does the expression TO ROUGE; but the fact that it occurs in - the early numbers of the _Felstedian_—“we won the game by one goal, - three ROUGES”—points to its origin. - - -*Round-Othello*, _subs._ (The Leys). A Leysian tuck-shop - delicacy. - - -*Roush*, _subs._ (Winchester).—1. A rush, or charge: as by a - man, a beast, or by water. - - -*Rowing-man*, _subs._ (University).—A spreester; a loose fish. - [“Row” as in “bough.”] - - -*Rows*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The fixed benches at each end of - School: called respectively Senior, Middle, and Junior ROW. - - -*Rowsterer*, _subs._ (Derby).—A cad. - - -*Ruck.* TO RUCK ALONG, _verb. phr._ (Oxford).—To walk quickly. - - -*Rudiments*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The Third Form. - - -*Rug*, _subs._ (Rugby).—A Rugbeian. - - 1892. _Evening Standard_, 25th Nov. 4, 5. The controversy was started - by the death of one who succumbed to his exertions. “An Old Medical - RUG” describes the sufferings he endured. - - -*Rugger*, _subs._ (general).—Football: the Rugby game. - - 1896. _Tonbridgian_, No. 339, 1124. At St. John’s, Sells has developed - into a good RUGGER half, Pinching is one of the best forwards, and - also plays Socker for the College at times. - - 1897. _Felstedian_, Nov., p. 194. As regards RUGGER the ’Varsity team - have been somewhat under-rated. - - -*Run.* TO RUN CLOISTERS, _verb. phr._ (Winchester).—A boy was - said TO RUN CLOISTERS when he obtained his remove from - Junior Part to Senior Part at the end of CLOISTER-TIME (a - period of ten or twelve weeks at the end of Long Half). - - -*Run.* _See_ RACE. - - -*Runabout*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—An irregular form of - football: formerly called COMPULSORY. - - -*Running-stone*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A stone set at a distance - from the CRICKET-STONE (_q.v._), to and from which a batsman - ran when making a score. _See_ STONYHURST-CRICKET. - - 1885. _Stonyhurst Mag._, ii. 85. The distance from the Cricket-stone - to the RUNNING-STONE to be twenty-seven yards. - - -*Rusticate*, _verb_ (common).—To send away a student for a time - from a College or University by way of punishment; to SHIP - (_q.v._). Hence RUSTICATION. - - 1714. _Spectator_, No. 596. After this I was deeply in love with a - milliner, and at last with my bedmaker, upon which I was sent away, - or, in the university phrase, RUSTICATED for ever. - - 1779. JOHNSON, _Life of Milton_, par. 12. It seems plain from his own - verses to _Diodati_, that he had incurred RUSTICATION; a temporary - dismission into the country, with perhaps the loss of a term. - - 1794. _Gent. Mag._, p. 1085. And was very near RUSTICATION [at - Cambridge], merely for kicking up a row after a beakering party. - - 1841. LEVER, _Charles O’Malley_, lxxix. You have totally forgotten me, - and the Dean informs me that you have never condescended a single line - to him, which latter enquiry on my part nearly cost me a - RUSTICATION.... Dear Cecil Cavendish, our gifted friend, slight of - limb and soft of voice, has been RUSTICATED for immersing four - bricklayers in that green receptacle of stagnant water and duckweed, - yclept the “Haha.” - - 1841. H. KINGSLEY, _Ravenshoe_, ch. viii. Non-university men sneer at - RUSTICATION; they can’t see any particular punishment in having to - absent yourself from your studies for a term or two. - - 1850. F. E. SMEDLEY, _Frank Fairlegh_, ch. xxx. Who, the landlord - tells me, has just been RUSTICATED for insulting Dr. Doublechin. - - 1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, iv. “The Master ... said as how Mr. - Bouncer had better go down into the country for a year, for change of - hair, and to visit his friends.” “Very kind indeed of Dr. Portman,” - said our hero, who missed the moral of the story, and took the - RUSTICATION for a kind forgiveness of injuries. - - 1885. _Daily Telegraph_, Oct. 29. Students who are liable at any - moment to be RUSTICATED. - - - - - - -*Saccer*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The Sacrament. _Cf._ SOCCER, RUGGER, - BREKKER, COLLECKER, &c. - - -*Salt*, _subs._ (Eton).—The gratuity exacted at the now obsolete - triennial festival of the MONTEM (_q.v._). - - 1886. BREWER, _Phrase and Fable_, s.v. SALT-HILL. At the Eton _Montem_ - the captain of the school used to collect money from the visitors on - Montem day. Standing on a mound at Slough, he waved a flag, and - persons appointed for the purpose collected the donations. The mound - is still called SALT-HILL, and the money given was called SALT. The - word salt is similar to the Latin _sala’rium_ (salary), the pay given - to Roman soldiers and civil officers. - - 1890. SPEAKER, 22nd Feb., 210. 2. In lively but worldly fashion we go - to Eton, with its buried Montem, its “SALT! your majesty, SALT!” its - gin-twirley, and its jumping through paper fires in Long-Chamber. - - -*Salt-bearer*, _subs._ (Eton).—_See_ MONTEM. - - -*Samson*, _subs._ (Durham: obsolete).—A baked jam pudding. - - -*Sanderites* (Charterhouse).—The head-master’s house. [Dr. - Sanders was head-master 1832-53.] - - -*Sands*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The pavement on the north side of - Chapel in Chamber Court. - - -*Sandwich-boat.* _See_ BUMPING-RACE. - - -*Sap*, _subs._ (common).—A hard worker; a diligent student. - - 1827. LYTTON, _Pelham_, ch. ii. When I once attempted to read Pope’s - poems out of school hours, I was laughed at, and called a SAP. - - 1850. SMEDLEY, _Frank Fairlegh_, 117. After several fruitless attempts - to shake my determination, they pronounced me an incorrigible SAP, and - leaving me to my own devices, proceeded to try their powers upon - Oaklands. - - 1856. WHYTE-MELVILLE, _Kate Coventry_, ch. xvii. At school, if he - makes an effort at distinction in school-hours, he is stigmatised by - his comrades as a SAP. - - 1888. GOSCHEN, _Speech at Aberdeen_, Jan. 31. Remember the many - epithets applied to those who, not content with doing their work, - commit the heinous offence of being absorbed in it ... schools and - colleges ... have invented for this purpose, with that peculiar - felicity which attaches to schoolboy nomenclature, phrases, - semi-classical, or wholly vernacular, such as a “SAP,” a “smug,” a - “swot,” a “bloke,” a “mugster.” - - _Verb._ To read or study hard; to sweat. - - 1848. C. KINGSLEY, _Yeast_, i. SAPPING and studying still. - - 1853. LYTTON, _My Novel_, Bk. I. ch. xii. He understands that he was - sent to school to learn his lessons, and he learns them. You call that - SAPPING—I call it doing his duty. - - 1856. Miss YONGE, _Daisy Chain_, ch. xii. “At it again!” exclaimed Dr. - May. “Carry it away, Ethel; I will have no Latin or Greek touched - these holidays.” “You know,” said Norman, “if I don’t SAP, I shall - have no chance of keeping up!” - - 1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 46. I ... haven’t to go SAPPING - round to get it when I want my own tea. - - -*Sappy*, _adj._ (Durham).—Severe: of a caning. - - -*Sark*, _verb_ (Sherborne).—To sulk. - - -*Saturday-nighter*, _subs._ (Harrow).—An exercise set for - Saturday night: usually an essay, map, or poem. - - -*Scadger*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A scamp; a rascal. - Now a general colloquialism. - - -*Scaff*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A selfish fellow. [The - adjectival forms are SCALY and SCABBY, whence may be the - derivation.] Obsolete: _see_ SCOUSE. - - -*Scaldings*, _intj._ (Winchester).—A general injunction to be - gone; “Be off!” - - -*Scan and Prove* (Harrow).—_See_ UPPER SCHOOL. - - -*Scheme*, _subs._ (Winchester).—An alarum worked by a candle. - _See_ quot. - - 1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. SCHEME.... The candle on - reaching a measured point ignites paper, which by burning a string - releases a weight: this falls on the head of the boy to be waked. - - -*Schitt*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A goal: at football. - _See_ GOWNER. - - 1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. SCHITT.... This was the - word in general use till 1860, when it was superseded by “goal.” In - early Winchester football there seems to have been three methods of - scoring—a _goal_, a _gowner_, a SCHITT, worth respectively 3, 2, and - 1. The last behind stood between two gowns, which made a goal. The - ball passing over his head or between his legs scored three, over the - gowns two, over the rest of “worms” one. When the whole of “worms” was - made to count equally, every goal was a SCHITT. - - -*Schol*, _subs._ (Harrow).—(1) A scholar; and (2) a scholarship. - - -*School-stock*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The old books kept by the - school. - - -*School-twelve*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The twelve who take a leading - part at the concert. - - -*Scob* (or *Scobb*), _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ quots. - - 1620. _Account_ [to J. Hutton at his entrance into the College]. For a - SCOBB to hold his books, 3s. 6d. - - 1890. GRANT ALLEN, _Tents of Shem_, xlii. Parker’s SCOB was 220. SCOB - was box in Winchester slang. - - 1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. SCOB.... An oak box with a - double lid, set at the angles of the squares of wooden benches in - school. It is used as desk and book-case.... Probably the word has - been transferred from the bench itself, and comes from Fr. _Escabeau_. - Lat. _Scabellum_. - - -*Sconce*, _verb_. 1. (University: once common).—To fine; to - deduct by way of fine; to discontinue. Also as _subs._ - Whence TO BUILD A SCONCE = to run up a score (as at an - alehouse, or of fines). - - 1632. SHIRLEY, _Witty Fair One_, iv. sc. 2. College! I have had a head - in most of the butteries of Cambridge, and it has been SCONCED to - purpose. - - _c._ 1640. [SHIRLEY] _Captain Underwit_ [BULLEN, _Old Plays_, ii. - 323]. _Tho._ I can teach you to build a SCONCE, sir. - - 1696. B. E., _Dict. Cant. Crew_, s.v. SCONCE. To build a large SCONCE, - to run deep upon tick or trust. - - 1730. JAS. MILLER, _Humours of Oxford_, i. p. 9 (2nd ed.). No, no, my - dear, I understand more manners than to leave my friends to go to - church—no, tho’ they SCONCE me a fortnight’s commons, I’ll not do it. - - 1748. T. DYCHE, _Dictionary_ (5th ed.). SCONCE (v.) ... also a cant - word for running up a score at an alehouse or tavern. - - 1760. JOHNSTON, _Chrysal_, ch. xxviii. [COOKE’S ed., N.D.]. These - youths have been playing a small game, cribbing from the till, and - building SCONCES, and such like tricks that there was no taking hold - of. - - 1765. GOLDSMITH, _Essays_, viii. He ran into debt with everybody that - would trust him, and none could build a SCONCE better than he. - - 1768. FOOTE, _Devil upon Two Sticks_, ii. 1. She paid my bill the next - day without SCONCING off sixpence. - - 1821. _The Etonian_, ii. 391. Was SCONCED in a quart of ale for - quoting Latin, a passage from Juvenal; murmured, and the fine was - doubled. - - 1823. BEE, SLANG DICT., s.v. SCONCE ... To discontinue: as SCONCE his - diet = give less victuals. SCONCE the reckoning = to go no further in - debt, but bolt. - - 1847. HALLIWELL, _Archaic Words_, s.v. SCONCE.... “To SCONCE, to eat - more than another, _Winton_; to SCONCE, to impose a pecuniary mulct, - _Oxon._,” Kennett, MS. To SCONCE at Oxford, was to put a person’s name - in the College buttery books by way of fine. - - 1864. HOTTEN, _Slang Dict._, s.v. SCONCE. The Dons fined or SCONCED - for small offences; _e.g._ five shillings for wearing a coloured coat - in hall at dinner-time. Among undergrads, a pun, or an oath, or an - indecent remark, was SCONCED by the head of the table. If the offender - could, however, floor the tankard of beer which he was SCONCED, he - could retort on his SCONCER to the extent of twice the amount he was - SCONCED in. - - 1883. H. T. ELLACOMBE [_Notes and Queries_, 6 S., viii. 326]. Men were - SCONCED if accidentally they appeared in hall undressed. I think the - SCONCE was a quantity of beer to the scouts. The SCONCE-table was hung - up in the buttery. - - 1899. _Answers_, 14th Jan., i. 1. The average freshman is not very - long at Oxford before he is acquainted with the mysteries of SCONCING. - A SCONCE is a fine of a quart of ale, in which the unlucky fresher is - mulcted for various offences in Hall. - - 1899. _Public School Mag._, Dec., p. 476. Opponents who get in each - other’s way and “SCONCE” the “kicks.” - - 2. (Winchester).—To hinder; to get in the way: as of a kick - at football, a catch at cricket, &c.: _e.g._ “If you had not - SCONCED, I should have made a flyer!” - - -*Scourge*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—To flog. Whence - SCOURGING = a flogging of three strokes. _See_ SCRUBBING and - TUND. - - 1883. TROLLOPE, _What I Remember_.... The words “flog” or “flogging,” - it is to be observed, were never heard among us, in the mouth either - of the masters or the boys. We were SCOURGED. - - -*Scout*, _subs._ (Oxford).—A College servant: combining the - duties of valet, waiter, messenger, &c. - - 1750. _The Student_, i. 55. My SCOUT indeed is a very learned fellow. - - 1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, iii. Infatuated Mr. Green! If you - could have foreseen that those spoons and forks would have soon - passed—by a mysterious system of loss which undergraduate powers can - never fathom—into the property of Mr. Robert Filcher, the excellent, - though occasionally erratic, SCOUT of your beloved son ... you would - have been content to have let your son and heir represent the - ancestral wealth by any sham that would equally well have served his - purpose! - - 1884. JULIAN STURGIS in _Longmans’ Mag._, v. 65. The old don went back - to his chair, and ... thrust the bits into the waste-paper basket, as - his “SCOUT” came in with a note. - - -*Scrape out*, _verb_ (Winchester).—When a Præfect wished to go - out of School, he SCRAPED with his foot till he got a nod - from the Master.—MANSFIELD (_c._ 1840). - - -*Scrub*, _verb_ (Christ’s Hospital).—To write fast: _e.g._ - “SCRUB it down.” Also as _subs._ = handwriting. [Lat. - _scribere_.] _See_ STRIVE. - - -*Scrubbing*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A flogging: four - strokes at SCRUBBING-FORMS. _See_ SCOURGE. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 109. The - ordinary punishment consisted of four cuts, and was called “A - SCRUBBING.” The individual who was to be punished was told “to order - his name,” which he did by going to the Ostiarius, and requesting him - to do so; that officer accordingly, at the end of school time, would - take his name to the Master, who would then call it out, and the - victim had to kneel down at Senior row, while two Juniors laid bare - the regulation space of his back. The first time a boy’s name was - ordered, the punishment was remitted on his pleading “_Primum - tempus_.” For a more serious breach of duty, a flogging of six cuts (a - “Bibler”) was administered, in which case the culprit had to “order - his name to the Bible-Clerk,” and that individual, with the help of - Ostiarius, performed the office of Jack Ketch. If a boy was detected - in a lie, or any very disgraceful proceeding—a rare occurrence, I am - happy to say—he had to stand up in the centre of Junior row during the - whole of the school time, immediately preceding the infliction of the - flogging; this pillory process was called a “Bibler under the nail.” I - have also heard, that for a very heinous offence, a boy might be - punished in Sixth Chamber, in which case the number of stripes was not - limited; but I never knew an instance of this. - - 1864. _Blackwood’s Magazine_, vol. xcv., p. 79. Underneath is the - place of execution, where delinquents are BIBLED. _Ibid._, p. 72. It - need hardly be said that it [the rod] is applied in the ordinary - fashion: six cuts forming what is technically called a BIBLING—on - which occasions the Bible-Clerk introduces the victim; four being the - sum of a less terrible operation called a SCRUBBING. - - 1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. SCRUBBING.... According to - T. A. Trollope, the word in use in his day was SCOURGING: this, - however, he describes as of three strokes: he does not mention - “bibling.” He was in College 1820-28. - - -*Scrutiny*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—_See_ quot. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 62. The Oxford visitors, on - their arrival, proceed at once to “Election Chamber” to hear any - complaints which the boys may have to prefer. This is called the - SCRUTINY, the seven senior prefects, and the seven juniors in chambers - (one from each chamber), are separately questioned; but complaints are - seldom made. Next morning the examination for election of scholars to - New College begins—no longer in the renowned “Election Chamber” - itself, but in the long “Warden Gallery,” as more convenient for the - purpose; all prefects who are of standing to leave the school are - examined with any other who choose. - - 1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. SCRUTINY. An examination of - the seven Seniors and seven Juniors in College, on the subject of - their personal comfort, &c., in College. There were two SCRUTINEES in - the year; one conducted by the Warden of New College and Posers in - Election Week, the other by the Wardens and Fellows of Winchester in - Sealing Week. - - -*Scud*, _subs._ (Rugby).—A runner. - - 1856. HUGHES, _Tom Brown’s School-days_, v. “I say,” said East, as he - got his wind, looking with much increased respect at Tom, “you ain’t a - bad SCUD, not by no means. Well, I’m as warm as a toast now.” - - -*Scull*, _subs._ (University).—The head (or master) of a - College. - - 1864. HOTTEN, _Slang Dict._, s.v. SCULL. The head, or master of a - college: nearly obsolete; the gallery, however, in St. Mary’s (the - Oxford University church), where the “Heads of Houses” sit in solemn - state, is still nicknamed the “Golgotha” by the undergraduates. - - -*Scull-race*, _subs._ (University).—A University Examination. - - -*Scuttle*, _verb_ (Christ’s Hospital, Hertford).—To cry out - under oppression with a view to attracting the notice of one - in authority. Hence SCUTTLE-CAT = one who SCUTTLES. - Obsolete. - - -*Second-bounce*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—A kind of - handball once very popular. - - -*Second-bowler*, subs. (Stonyhurst).—A wicket-keeper. _See_ - STONYHURST-CRICKET. - - -*Second-Elevens*, _subs._ (Harrow).—(1) A match, at football, - for practice: between two Houses, not as a HOUSE-MATCH - (_q.v._). Also (2) a match, at cricket, between any Eleven - from two Houses, save CAPS (_q.v._) and those in a regular - game. Also SECONDERS. - - -*Second-examen*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A punishment for great - carelessness in study during a term: _e.g._ I’ve got - SECOND-EXAM. - - -*Second-guarder.* _See_ GUARDER. - - -*Second-peal.* _See_ PEAL. - - -*Semi-bejan*, _subs._ (Aberdeen).—A student in the second class. - - -*Semper*, _adj._ (Winchester).—Always: _e.g._ I have got SEMPER - leave-out. _See_ Appendix. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 233. A very - common prefix; _e.g._ a boy was said to be SEMPER Continent, Tardy, or - Ex Trumps if he was often at Sick-house, or late for Chapel, or - habitually went up to Books without having looked at his lessons. An - official who was always present at the College meetings went by the - name of SEMPER TESTIS. - - -*Send.* TO SEND DOWN, _verb. phr._ (University).—To expel; to - rusticate. _See_ GO DOWN. - - 1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 89. Next day they were hauled and - SENT DOWN. - - 1891. _Felstedian_, April, p. 32. They SENT him down for two terms for - smashing a shop window. - - TO SEND UP, _verb. phr._ (Harrow).—(1) To send up to the - head-master for some offence. Also (2) of an exercise sent - up to the head-master as “very good.” - - -*Senior.* _See_ JUNIOR. - - -*Senior Hall* (Shrewsbury).—_See_ quot. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 246. The boarders reside - chiefly either in the head-master’s house, or SENIOR HALL, as it is - called, or in a house adjoining rented by him, and called the “Junior - Hall.” The second-master also has a “Hall,” which will accommodate - about twenty. But the buildings are old, in many cases badly adapted - for their present use, and have either been purchased, built, or - rented from time to time by the head-master as the numbers of the - school required. - - -*Senior Part*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ BOOKS. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 233. SENIOR - PART, THE FIFTH—The part next below the Præfects, generally called - SENIOR PART. - - 1900. _St. James’s Gazette_, Mar. 15, “Arnoldiana.” One day they were - both invited to breakfast by the Head, in the company of a “stupid - boy” from SENIOR PART. - - -*Senior Soph.* _See_ SOPH. - - -*Servant*, _subs._ (Eton).—_See_ MONTEM. - - -*Servitor*, _subs._ (old).—_See_ SIZER. - - -*Seventh-chamber*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ quot. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 23. The schoolroom was still - SEVENTH-CHAMBER—_Magna illa domus_, as the founder’s directions call - it—though, as some of the commoners must have been taught together - with the scholars, it is difficult to understand how so many could - have found room there without great confusion. - - -*Shack*, _subs._ (Felsted).—A share. Whence TO GO SHACK = to - give a share. - - -*Shadow*, _subs._ (Westminster).—_See_ quot. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, 187. When a boy is first placed - in the school he is attached to another boy in the same form something - in the relation of an apprentice. The new boy is called the “SHADOW,” - the other, the “Substance.” For the first week the SHADOW follows the - Substance everywhere, takes his place next to him in class, - accompanies him as he rises or falls, and is exempt from any - responsibility for his own mistakes in or out of school. During this - interval of indulgence, his patron is expected to initiate him in all - the work of the school, to see that he is provided with the necessary - books and other appliances, and, in short, to teach him by degrees to - enter upon a substantial and responsible existence of his own. - - -*She*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—A plum-pudding. _Cf._ HE. - - -*Sheep*, _subs._ (Aberdeen).—A second classman or undergraduate. - - 1865. MACDONALD, _Alec Forbes_, ii. 5. At length a certain semi - (second-classman, or more popularly SHEEP) stood up to give his - opinion on some subject in dispute. - - -*Sheepskin*, subs. (University).—The diploma received on taking - a degree. [Because inscribed on parchment.] Hence a person - who has taken a degree. - - -*Shell*, _subs._ (originally Westminster).—_See_ quot. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, 178. At the end of this room [the - school-room] there is a kind of semicircular apse, in which the SHELL - form were formerly taught, and the shape of which is said to have - given rise to this name, since adopted at several other public - schools. - - -*Shepherd*, subs. (Harrow).—Every sixth boy in CRICKET-BILL - (_q.v._): he answers for the five below him being present. - - -*Shield* (The), _subs._ (Harrow).—The Ashburton Shield: shot for - at Bisley by Public School Eights. - - -*Shig*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A shilling.—MANSFIELD (_c._ 1840). - - -*Shimmy*, _subs._ (Felsted: obsolete).—A shirt. - - -*Shin*, _verb_ (Eton).—To kick on the shins. - - 1864. _Eton School-days_, xiii. He could not go out of his tutor’s if - there happened to be any one in the yard without some one throwing a - stone at him, or hissing, or SHINNING him if he passed near enough. - - -*Ship*, _verb._ 1. (Sherborne).—To turn a boy out of bed with - his mattress on top of him. _Cf._ LAUNCH. - - 2. (general).—To RUSTICATE (_q.v._). - - -*Shirk*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—An old building of some - dimensions, containing a number of private rooms; erected - for temporary use, but since found of too much service to be - demolished. - - 1884. _Stonyhurst Mag._, i. 277. Gothic architecture of all - descriptions, including Elizabethan, was trampled out by the - Renaissance (revived Greek), of which SHIRK is a very bad specimen - (where it tries to be ornamental, as in its triangular pediment and - the pilasters beside the larger window). - - _Verb._ 1. (Eton).—To hide when liable to be caught out of - bounds. Obsolete. - - 2. (Winchester).—_See_ HILLS. - - -*Shirkster*, _subs._ (Winchester).—One who shirks. - - TO SHIRK IN, _verb. phr._ (Winchester).—To walk into water - when bathing. - - TO SHIRK OUT, _verb. phr._ (Winchester).—To go out contrary - to rules. - - -*Shirt-sleevie*, _subs._ (Loretto).—A dance; on winter Saturday - evenings, and sometimes in the open air at the end of summer - term. [The costume is rational _de rigeur_: a flannel shirt - open at neck and flannel trousers—no coat or waistcoat may - be worn.] - - -*Shootabout*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—An irregular form of - football. - - -*Shooter*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A black morning coat: as - distinguished from the tail-coat worn by the Fifth and Sixth - Forms. - - -*Shorts*, _subs._ (general).—Flannel trousers; CUTS (_q.v._). - - -*Shot*, _intj._ (Royal High School, Edin.).—A cry of warning at - the approach of a master. - - OUT BY SHOT, _phr._ (Stonyhurst).—At football when the ball - before going out hits one of the opposite side to the one - who last kicked. _See_ FORCE. - - -*Shuffle*, _verb_ (Winchester).—To pretend; to feign: as “to - SHUFFLE asleep.” Hence SHUFFLER. - - -*Shy*, _subs._ (Eton).—A point at the WALL (_q.v._) game. - - -*Siberia*, _subs._ (Felsted).—A section of the house containing - many private rooms. [From its supposed temperature in - winter.] - - 1889. _Felstedian_, July, 65. There lieth here a district which hath - the name SIBERIA: and also its people are called not Siberians, but - SIBERIA. - - -*Sick-house*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The College sanatorium, - which stands in SICK-HOUSE MEADS. _See_ also BOX-HOUSE and - BOX-BUILDINGS. - - -*Silver-fork*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A wooden skewer used as a - chop-stick when forks were scarce.—MANSFIELD (_c._ 1840). - - -*Silver-pence*, _subs._ (Westminster).—Small money rewards—which - were the pride of Westminsters in Cowper’s day—are still - continued. The coins are furnished to the school by the - Queen’s almoner in their unmilled state, prior to their - issue as currency. Some are given by the head-master every - week, and are valued quite as much as more substantial - prizes. Silver money is also furnished by the college - steward to the guests at the Elections dinners, that they - may be prepared to reward the epigrams; but this is the - ordinary coin of the realm. - - -*Sim*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—A Simeonite, or member of the - Evangelical section of the Church of England. The modern - equivalent is PI-MAN (_q.v._). [From the Rev. CHARLES SIMEON - (1759-1836), fifty-four years Vicar of Holy Trinity, - Cambridge.] - - 1826. TODD, _The Sizar’s Table_ [WHIBLEY, _Cap and Gown_, 109]. Some - carnally given to women and wine, Some apostles of Simeon, all pure - and divine. - - 1853. BRISTED, _Eng. Univ._, 39. While passing for a terribly hard - reading-man, and a SIM of the straightest kind with the empty bottles. - - -*Simon*, _subs._ (King Edward’s, Birm.: obsolete).—A cane. [Acts - ix. 43.] - - -*Sines*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Bread. A SINES = a small loaf. - - -*Single*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A room for exclusive use: thus - DOUBLE (_q.v._). - - -*Sink*, _subs._ (The Leys).—(1) A heavy feed; a “stodge.” Also - (2) one who indulges therein; a glutton. - - -*Sitter*, _subs._ (Oxford and Harrow).—A sitting-room. - - -*Six*, subs. (Oxford).—A W.C. - - -*Six-and-Six*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Football: six a side. _Cf._ - TWENTY-TWO AND TWENTY-TWO. _See_ Appendix. - - -*Sixes*, _subs._ (The Leys).—Football teams for competition—six - a side. _See_ KID, and Appendix. - - -*Six of* ..., _phr._ (Harrow).—An order to the value of - sixpence. Thus SIX OF SAUSAGES WITH (archaic) = - sixpennyworth of sausages with potatoes. - - -*Sixpenny*, _subs._ (Eton).—A large field for football and - cricket. _See_ PLAYING-FIELDS. - - 1864. _Eton School-days_, vi. I tell you plainly, if you are not in - SIXPENNY after twelve, I will do my best to give you a hiding wherever - I meet you. - - -*Six-raps*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst: recently obsolete).—A game - consisting chiefly in rapping balls across the playground to - be caught by others. - - 1887. _Stonyhurst Mag._, iii. 18, “Stonyhurst in the Fifties.” SIX - RAPS, it may be remarked, was in those days played with a miniature - Stonyhurst-cricket (_q.v._) ball. - - -*Size*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—An allowance of bread, &c., for a - particular price; but _see_ quots. Whence SIZINGS. - - 1592. NASHE, _Pierce Penilesse_ [_Works_, ii. 68]. The Maister Butler - of Pembrooke Hall, a farre better Scholler than thy selfe, (in my - iudgement) and one that sheweth more discretion and gouernment in - setting vp a SISE of Bread, than thou in all thy whole booke. - - 1605. SHAKSPEARE, _Lear_, ii. 4. To bandy hasty words, to scant my - SIZES. - - 1614. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, _Wit at Several Weapons_, ii. To be so - strict A niggard to your commons, that you’re fain TO SIZE your belly - out with shoulder fees, With kidnies, rumps, &c. - - 1620. MINSHEU, _Dict._, s.v. SIZE. A farthing which schollers in - Cambridge have at the buttery, noted with the letter S. - - 1632. SHIRLEY, _Witty Fair One_, iv. 2. College! I have had a head in - most of the butteries of Cambridge, and it has been sconced to - purpose. I know what belongs to SIZING, and have answered to my cue in - my days. - - 1656. *BLOUNT*, _Glossographia_, ... SIZE.—A farthing’s worth of bread - or drink which scholars at Cambridge had at the buttery. - - 1773. HAWKINS, _Origin of the Drama_, iii. 271. You are still at - Cambridge with your SIZE cue. - - 1795. _Gent. Mag._, p. 21. In general, a SIZE is a small plateful of - any eatable; and at dinner, TO SIZE is to order for yourself any - little luxury that may chance to tempt you, in addition to the general - fare, for which you are expected to pay the cook at the end of the - term. - - 1823. NARES, _Glossary_, s.v. SIZE. To feed with SIZES, or small - scraps. - - 1853. BRISTED, _Five Years_, 20. Go through a regular second course - instead of the SIZINGS. - - 1864. HOTTEN, _Slang Dict._, s.v. - - _Verb_ (Cambridge).—To order extras over and above the - usual commons at the dinner in College hall. Soup, pastry, - &c., are SIZINGS, and are paid for at a certain specified - rate per SIZE, or portion, to the college cook. Whence, to - pay one’s share of the expense: as at a supper-party. - SIZING-PARTY = a number of students who contribute each - his own part towards a supper, &c. - - 1785. GROSE, _Vulg. Tongue_, s.v. SIZE ... 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. - - 1853. BRISTED, _Eng. Univ._, 19. Soup, pastry, and cheese can be SIZED - FOR. - - -*Sizer* (or SIZAR), _subs._ (Cambridge).—A poor scholar. They - were elected annually; paid rent for rooms and other fees on - a lower scale than ordinary students; and got their dinners - including sizings _(see_ SIZE, _subs._ and _verb_) from what - was left at the Upper or Fellows’ table, free, or nearly so. - They were equivalent to the BATTLERS (_q.v._) or SERVITORS - (_q.v._) of Oxford. - - 1574. [R. W. CHURCH, _Spenser_ (1888), ch. i. p. 9.] On the 20th of - May, he was admitted SIZAR, or serving clerk at Pembroke Hall. - - 1670. J. EACHARD, _Contempt of the Clergy_ [ARBER’S _Garner_, vol. - vii. p. 257]. They took therefore, heretofore, a very good method to - prevent SIZARS overheating their brains. Bed-making, chamber-sweeping, - and water-fetching were doubtless great preservatives against too much - vain philosophy. - - 1779. JOHNSON, _Life of Milton_, Par. 7. He was ... removed in the - beginning of his sixteenth year to Christ’s College in Cambridge, - where he entered a SIZAR, Feb. 12, 1624. - - 1820. LAMB, _Elia_ (_Oxford in the Long Vacation_). In moods of - humility I can be a SIZAR, or a Servitor. When the peacock vein rises, - I strut a Gentleman Commoner. - - 1840. LYTTON, _Money_, ii. 3. I was put to school—sent to college, a - SIZAR. Do you know what a SIZAR is? In pride he is a gentleman—in - knowledge he is a scholar—and he crawls about, amidst gentlemen and - scholars, with the livery of a pauper on his back! - - 1847. HALLIWELL, _Archaic Words_, s.v. SIZER.... A student at - Cambridge whose expenses for living are partially provided by the - College, originally a servitor, as serving one of the Fellows. Each - Fellow of a College had one servitor allotted to him. - - 1857. MONCRIEFF, _Bashful Man_, ii. 4. _Collegian._ Who’s that fat - gentleman that’s just got in? _Coachman._ That fat gentleman’s a SIZER - from Corpus. - - -*Skew*, _subs._ (Harrow).—An entrance examination held on the - last Thursday of term. _See_ DAB, and Appendix. - - -*Ski* (or SCI), subs. (Westminster).—A plebeian; an outsider: - specifically the outer rabble of invaders of the territory - of Dean’s yard, belonging of right to the _gens togata_ as - Romans. [Said to be an abbreviation of VOLSCI.] - - -*Skimmer*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A method of entering the water - when bathing: by just skimming beneath the surface, and - rising again immediately.—MANSFIELD (_c._ 1840). - - -*Skimmery*, _subs._ (Oxford).—St. Mary’s Hall. - - 1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, viii. I swopped the beggar to a - SKIMMERY man for regular slap-up sets of the ballet. - - 1860. G. and P. WHARTON, _Wits and Beaux of Society_, p. 427. After - leaving Westminster School he was sent to immortal SKIMMERY (St. - Mary’s Hall), Oxford. - - -*Skip*, _subs._ (Dublin).—A College servant: valet, messenger, - and waiter combined: the Oxford SCOUT (_q.v._), and at - Cambridge a GYP (_q.v._). Formerly (in general use) = a - footman. - - 1703. WARD, _London Spy_, Pt. VII. p. 151. As a Courtier’s Footman - when he meets his Brother SKIP in the middle of _Covent-garden_. - - 1754. MARTIN, _Eng. Dict._, s.v. SKIP.... A nickname for a footman. - - 1839. LEVER, _Harry Lorrequer_, ch. xiii. For the uninitiated I have - only to add that SKIP is the Trinity College [Dublin] appellation for - servant. - - 1842. _Tait’s Mag._, Oct., “Rem. College Life.” The SKIP, or according - to the Oxford etymology, the man-vulture, is not fit for his calling - who cannot time his business so as to be present simultaneously at - several places. - - 1849. THACKERAY, _Pendennis_, ch. xx. His wounded tutor, his many - duns, the SKIP and bedmaker who waited upon him. - - -*Skirmish.* TO SKIRMISH ON, _verb. phr._ (Winchester).—To run - home from HILLS (_q.v._) when it commenced to rain. - - -*Skug* (or *Scug*), _subs._ (Eton).—_See_ Appendix. - - 1889. DRAGE, _Cyril_, vii. Such a little SKUG, to use a word in use at - my tutor’s. - - -*Skull.* _See_ SCULL. - - -*Sky*, _verb_ (Harrow).—(1) To charge any one, or to knock down: - at football. Also (2) = to hit or throw anything away. - - -*Skyte*, _subs._ (Shrewsbury).—A day boy. [Σχυθαι] - - -*Slabs*, _subs._ (Durham: obsolete).—A flat cake. - - -*Slack*, _verb_ (Durham).—To sell: specifically, to dispose of - property to a dealer in second-hand goods. [From the name of - a second-hand bookseller in Durham.] - - -*Slave-driver*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A fag-master: exclusively at - cricket. - - 1890. _Great Public Schools_, p. 95. The upper ground on these days is - given up to practice at the nets for the Eleven and the “Sixth Form” - game, and to practice in fielding and catching. Boys below the Removes - have to fag for them, and these fags are managed by SLAVE-DRIVERS - (three or four boys appointed for the purpose). - - -*Sleath’s.* _See_ PLANKS. - - -*Slime*, _verb_ (Durham).—To try and cut games. Also = to loaf; - to lounge: _e.g._ SLIMING down town. _See_ App. - - -*Slog*, _subs._ (general).—A large slice. - - _Verb_ (Stonyhurst).—At hockey to hit at the ball when the - right hand is less than a foot below the left on the stick. - - -*Sloggers*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—The second division of boats; - corresponding to the Oxford TORPIDS (_q.v._). - - -*Slosher*, _subs._ (Cheltenham).—An assistant in a - boarding-house charged with superintending dormitories, - evening work, &c. - - -*Slow*, _adv._ (Winchester).—Ignorant of Winchester NOTIONS - (_q.v._). - - -*Slum*, _verb_ (Derby).—To evade; to get out of anything, as - work. Also (University), to avoid observation by using - by-streets. - - -*Small*, _adj._ (Harrow).—1. Under sixteen years of age: - eligible to go in for SMALL events in the sports. _See_ BIG. - - 2. Applied to boarding-houses kept by some of the assistant - masters, and strictly limited to seven or eight boys: a - comparatively modern arrangement, having been instituted - _circa_ 1850. - - -*Small-pill*, _subs._ (The Leys).—A diminutive football; used on - “runs.” - - -*Smalls*, _subs._ (Oxford).—The first examination. - - 1853. *Bradley*, _Verdant Green_, II. xi. The little gentleman was - going in for his Degree, _alias_ Great-go, _alias_ Greats; and our - hero for his first examination _in literis humanioribus_, _alias_ - Responsions, _alias_ Little-go, _alias_ SMALLS. - - 1863. READE, _Hard Cash._... Cramming for SMALLS.... Julia reminded - her that SMALLS was the new word for LITTLE-GO. - - -*Smoke.* _See_ COBBLER. - - -*Smoker* (or *Smoke-shell*), _subs._ (Royal Military Academy).—A - chamber-mug. - - -*Smug*, _subs._ (general).—An ill-mannered, ill-dressed, or - unpopular student. Also as _verb_ = to keep indoors hard at - work; whence also (as _subs._) a hard worker. - - -*Smuggler*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A small lead-pencil pointed at - both ends. - - -*Snack*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A racket ball: formerly a - bat-fives ball. [SNACK-BALLS (Glouc.) = balls made of SNACK - (a dried fungus), which are very elastic and bounce well.] - - -*Snap-up*, _verb_ (Winchester).—_See_ quot. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 234. - SNAPPING UP for false quantities.—When up at Books, if any boy, when - translating, made a false quantity, any other boy (however low down in - the Part) who could first correct him was allowed to go up above him. - If, however, the SNAPPER-UP was himself wrong, he had to go to the - bottom of the Part. - - -*Snicks.* TO GO SNICKS, _verb. phr._ (Winchester).—To share. - - -*Snitch*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A term of contempt. - - _Verb_ (Derby).—To hit in the eye. - - -*Sniw.* TO OFFER SNIW, _verb. phr._ (The Leys).—To cheek. [SNIW - = Snow.] - - -*Snob*, _subs._ 1. (University).—A townsman. - - 2. (Marlborough).—Small cricket: as two together, or at tip - and run. - - -*Snoke*, _subs._ (Durham: obsolete).—(1) An underhand person: - _e.g._ “He is a great SNOKE”; (2) an untoward circumstance: - _e.g._ “It was a great SNOKE, we lost the match.” - - _Verb._ To inform: of an offence. Not necessarily “to - sneak,” because it could be used of a master reporting to - the Head-master. - - 1847. HALLIWELL, _Archaic Words_, s.v. SNOKE. To ferret out; to pry - into. _North._ SNOKE-HORNE, _Townley Myst._, p. 68, a sneaking fellow. - - -*Snook*, _verb_ (Shrewsbury).—(1) To do the whole of an - examination proper. Whence (2) to beat in argument or - repartee. - - -*Snooker*, _subs._ (Royal Military Academy).—A newly-joined - cadet of the fourth class. - - -*Soap*, _subs._ (Royal Military Academy).—Cheese. - - -*Socius*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A chum; a companion. - - _Verb_ (Winchester).—To accompany. [The School precept is - _Sociati omnes incedunto_.] - - -*Sock*, _subs._ 1. (Eton).—Edibles of any kind. Hence TO SOCK = - to eat outside regular meals: _e.g._ “We SOCKED Lyndsay - minor three times last week,” _i.e._ we gave him something - to eat outside his regular meals three times last week. - Whence SOCK = to give. - - 1881. PASCOE, _Everyday Life in our Public Schools_.... The - consumption of SOCK, too, in school was considerable, and on occasion - very conspicuous. - - 1883. BRINSLEY-RICHARDS, _Seven Years at Eton_.... We Eton fellows, - great and small, SOCKED prodigiously. By the way, I do not know whence - that term SOCK, as applied to what boys at some schools call “grub,” - and others “tick,” is derived; for I question the theory which makes - it spring from “suck.” I am rather disposed to accept the story that - at the beginning of this century, one of the men, who sold fruits and - tarts at the wall, got nicknamed SOCKS, in consequence of his having - discarded knee-breeches and stockings in favour of pants and short - hose. The man’s nickname might then have spread to his business and to - his wares by a process familiar to etymologists, till SOCKING came to - mean the purchase of good things not from SOCKS only, but from any - other vendor. - - 1889. BUCKLAND, _Eton Fifty Years Ago_ [_Macmillan’s Mag._, Nov.]. “My - governor has SOCKED me a book.”... A boy has also been heard to ask - another to SOCK him a construe of his lesson. - - 2. (Winchester).—To hit hard: especially at cricket. Also to - beat; to defeat: as in a game. - - -*Socker*, _subs._ (general).—Association football. _Cf._ RUGGER. - Also SOCCER. - - 1896. _Tonbridgian_, 339, 1124. Hartley has been playing very well - this season, and has also become a great half-back at SOCKER. - - 1897. _Felstedian_, Nov., p. 194. In _SOCCER_, with old Blues up, we - ought to be very strong. - - -*Sodality*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—Higher Line SODALITY and Lower - Line SODALITY = two confraternities of which boys are - members; they meet at fixed times for devotions. A member is - called a SODALIST. - - -*Sodger* (or *Sojer*), _subs._ (Winchester).—The Latin cross (a - PERCHER, _q.v._) marked against a Præfect’s name when - absent. - - 1880. _Music of a Merry Heart_, 55. The books went up, and in due time - were returned to us after examination, with the most startling faults - indicated by a good big cross in the margin, which crosses, for some - reason, were known as SODGERS. - - -*Sodom*, _subs._ (Oxford).—Wadham College. - - -*Soft-ball*, _subs._ (Royal Military Academy).—Tennis. - - -*Sog*, _subs._ (Charterhouse and Winchester).—Twenty shillings; - a sovereign. - - -*Solo*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A solitary walk—without a SOCIUS - (_q.v._). - - -*Soph*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—A student of the second or third - year; the distinctions are: A first year man = FRESHMAN - (_q.v._); second year = Junior SOPH; third year = Senior - SOPH. - - 1870. GOODRICH [WEBSTER, _Unabridged_, s.v. SOPHOMOSE]. This word has - generally been considered an American barbarism, but it was probably - introduced into our country at a very early period from the University - of Cambridge, England. Among the cant terms at that University, as - given in the “_Gradus ad Cantabrigiam_,” we find SOPH-MOR as the next - distinctive appellation to Freshman. It is added that a writer in the - _Gentleman’s Magazine_ thinks Mor an abbreviation of the Greek μωρία, - introduced at a time when the “Encomium Moriæ,” the “Praise of Folly,” - by Erasmus, was so generally used. The ordinary derivation of the - word, from σοφός and μωρός would seem, therefore, to be incorrect. The - young SOPHS at Cambridge appear formerly to have received the adjunct - mor, μωρός, to their names, either as one they courted for the reason - mentioned above, or as one given them in sport for the supposed - exhibition of inflated feeling in entering upon their new honours. The - term thus implied seems to have passed at a very early period from - Cambridge in England to Cambridge in America, as the next distinctive - appellation to Freshmen, and thus to have been attached to the second - of the four classes in our American colleges, while it has now almost - ceased to be known, even as a cant word, at the parent institution in - England from whence it came. - - -*Sorry*, _intj._ (Winchester).—“I beg your pardon.” [Not now - confined to Winchester.—WRENCH.] - - -*Soup-ticket*, _subs._ (King Edward’s, Birm.).—A card issued to - a boy set down for Saturday afternoon detention: a DETÉN - (_q.v._). - - -*Spadge*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—An affected walk. Also as - _verb._ Formerly merely “to walk.” [_Cf._ Lat. _spatiari_; - Ger. _spatzieren_.] - - -*Spange*, _adj._ (Royal Military Academy).—New; elegant; smart: - _e.g._ “to look SPANGE,” “a SPANGE uniform.” - - -*Sparrow’s-hall*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—The old - infirmary. [The head-bailiff was one Sparrow, and here the - servants received their wages from him.] - - -*Spec*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Something enjoyable or pleasant; a - good thing. ON SPEC = in consequence. - - 1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. SPEC.... What a SPEC! My - pitch-up have turned up, and I’ve got leave-out ON SPEC. - - -*Speecher*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The speech-day: usually the first - Thursday in July, when prizes are given. Greek, German, or - French plays are acted, and there is also an afternoon - concert. THE SPEECHER = the Speech-room, built in 1871. - - -*Speedyman*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—The messenger who - brought the news of a vacancy at New College, Oxford. Whence - SPED TO NEW COLLEGE = elected to a scholarship. - - -*Speg*, _adj._ (Winchester: obsolete).—Smart. - - -*Spending-house*, _subs._ (Rugby).—A pastry-cook’s: the custom, - until Dr. Arnold abolished it, had been for the boys to take - their morning and evening buttery commons of bread and cold - milk to one of these establishments, and with “extras,” such - as tea, coffee, butter, &c., to obtain a more decent meal - than was otherwise possible. - - 1890. _Great Public Schools_, p. 150. Every boy had a SPENDING-HOUSE, - as it was called, at one of the confectioners’ in High Street, where - he left his books, bat, fishing-rod, &c.—to save a journey to his - boarding-house—and spent his spare cash. It was in the back-yards of - these houses that dogs and guns were kept. - - -*Spess*, _subs._ (Felsted).—A specimen: a term of contempt. - - 1889. _Felstedian_, July, 66. Others ... calling out ... frightful - SPESSES, which word is in our language “specimens”; but as this is too - long for their memories, they have shortened it. - - -*Spin*, _verb_ (Royal Military Academy).—To reject: as to an - examination; to pluck; to plough. - - -*Spink*, _subs._ (Royal Military Academy).—Milk: specifically, - condensed milk. - - -*Spinning-house*, _subs._ (University).—The prison of the - Vice-Chancellor’s court. - - -*Spital Sermons* (Christ’s Hospital).—Once the chief feature of - the Easter festivities of this ancient foundation. _See_ - Appendix. - - 1834. TROLLOPE, _History of Christ’s Hospital_ [condensed and - annotated by the editor of _The Blue_]. All Easter festivities - connected with the School seem to be concentrated in the SPITAL - SERMONS. The great antiquity of those discourses may be judged from - the fact, that at the Easter following the foundation and opening of - the School [1552], its members were present at St. Mary Spital. At - this their first appearance at the Spital the boys appeared in that - costume which, with the exception of the hats, still distinguishes - them. A custom had long prevailed, according to which some learned - person was appointed yearly by the Bishop of London to preach at - Paul’s Cross on Good Friday on the Passion; and on the Monday, - Tuesday, and Wednesday following, three others were appointed in like - manner to uphold the doctrine of the Resurrection, at the Pulpit Cross - in the Spital. On the Sunday following, a fifth preached at Paul’s - Cross, passed judgment on the merits of those who had preceded him, - and concluded the ceremony with an appropriate exhortation from - himself. What this passing of judgment meant, and what purpose it - served, is rather hard to decide. It would almost seem as if some - prize or reward were offered for the best sermon. The SPITAL SERMONS - are certainly the oldest institution of their kind in London, and - probably in England. But they have naturally been subject to great - changes. At first there were five, two at Paul’s Cross and three at - St. Mary Spital. Many alterations followed; for instance, the Great - Rebellion put an end for a time both to pulpit and sermons, until the - Restoration, when they were revived, that is, the three SPITAL SERMONS - proper (for the judge disappears) at St. Bride’s Church, which still - stands in Fleet Street. Nothing interrupted them again until 1797, - when the preachers once more were removed to Christ’s Church, where - the SERMONS, now only two in number, have been regularly delivered, - until within the memory of many still in the school [1890] the - Corporation reduced their number to a minimum; and now one SPITAL - SERMON instead of five is listened to, not at St. Mary Spital, or - Paul’s Cross, or St. Bride’s, but at Christ Church, Newgate Street. - Though the scene has not changed since 1797, the accompanying ceremony - has been sadly mutilated. In my [Mr. Trollope’s] time, instead of the - subjects which were wont to be discussed from the Pulpit Cross of St. - Mary Spital, discourses were delivered commemorative of the five - Sister Hospitals of Christ’s Hospital, St. Thomas’, St. Bartholomew’s, - Bridewell, and Bethlehem. This feature has almost entirely - disappeared; the reverend preachers now pass by, or casually mention, - the original reason for their presence in the handsome pulpit of - Christ Church. “On each day the boys of Christ’s Hospital, with the - legend ‘He is risen’ attached to their left shoulder, form part of the - Civic procession; walking on the first day in the order of their - schools, the King’s boys bearing their nautical instruments.” [These - King’s boys are, of course, the Mathemats, who seem in earlier days, - before the development of the Classical side, and the chances of a - University career, to have been the most prominent part of the - School.] They assembled on Monday in the Square of the Royal Exchange, - and on their return were joined by the Lord Mayor and Civic - procession, with the ladies. On Tuesday they proceeded direct to the - Mansion House; each boy received a new sixpence, each monitor a - shilling, and each Grecian half a guinea. [It appears that Alderman - Thomson, whose portrait hangs in the Hall, whose name is engraven on - the walls of the Hospital, and to whom we owe the Classical and - Mathematical Medals, doubled the donation in every case, and his - successors have not returned to the original amount.] The boys were - again followed by the Civic authorities, without the ladies, to Christ - Church, where a Junior Bishop preached on Monday, and a clergyman - selected by the Lord Mayor (usually his chaplain) on Tuesday. But the - most interesting feature of all was that on both occasions an anthem - composed by one of the Grecians, and set to music by the organist, was - sung by the children. - - -*Spite*, _verb_ (Winchester).—To hate: to dislike. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 235. When a - boy suffered some injury himself, in order to spite another person; or - having in some way injured another, received punishment, he was said - to be SPITING GABELL. Dr. Gabell was formerly Head-master, and the - extreme inexpediency of attempting to annoy him gave rise to the - proverb. - - 1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. SPITE. The word in - Wykehamical usage generally connoted the frame of mind rather than the - acts in which it finds expression. But the phrase “to SPITE Gabell” - describes the act popularly known as “cutting off your nose to SPITE - your face.” - - -*Splice*, _verb_ (Winchester).—To throw; to fling: as a missile. - - -*Sport*, _verb_ (Winchester).—To spread: as a baulk (or report); - to wear: as clothes; to provide: as a feast; to indulge in: - as smoking, walking, &c.—a general verb of action. Whence - SPORTING ACTION = an affected manner, gesture, or gait, or - betrayal of emotion. [_Sport_ (var. dial.) = to show, to - exhibit.] - - -*Sportings*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—Clothes worn at the EXEAT - (_q.v._). - - 1900. TOD, _Charterhouse_, p. 102. The splendour of Exeat garb defies - description. It is enough to say that the Carthusian’s apparel then is - as costly as his purse will buy, and that he calls it SPORTINGS. - - -*Spree*, _adj._ (Winchester).—(1) Conceited; stuck-up: of - persons. (2) Smart; stylish; befitting a Wykehamist: of - dress, &c. [_Spree_ (Devon) = spruce, gay.] - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 72. At the - end of the half year we used to have large entertainments called - “SPREE MESSES,” between Toy-time and Chapel, consisting of tea, - coffee, muffins, cakes, &c., the funds for which were generally - provided by fines inflicted during Toy-time for talking loud, slamming - the door, coming in without whistling (to show that it was not a - Master entering), improper language, &c. &c. Sometimes a SPREE MESS - was given by the boys about to leave at the end of that Half. - - 1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. SPREE.... As applied to - juniors, uppish; inclined to assume airs, or usurp privileges not - belonging to juniors. As applied to acts, permissible only to prefects - or those of senior standing. - - -*Spreeman*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A Junior who has to fag hard. - - 1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. SPREEMAN. A Commoner - Inferior, who, in consideration of his social status or long standing - in the School, was invested by Præfects with privileges similar to - those enjoyed by Candle-keepers in College. - - -*Squab* (or *Squob*), _verb_ (King Edward’s, Birm.).—To squeeze - by. [The foot is placed against a wall or desk, and the back - against the victim, who is similarly treated from the - opposite side by some one else, or pressed against a wall.] - Hence SQUAB-UP = “push,” generally. [_Squab_ (Devon) = to - squeeze, to knock, to beat.] - - -*Square.* TO SQUARE ROUND, _verb. phr._ (Winchester).—To make - room: as at a fire, &c. - - -*Squash*, _subs._ 1. (Stonyhurst).—A mellay (at football) of the - two sides round the goal-posts. A goal secured in this way - is called a “squash-goal.” Also Harrow. - - 1876. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_ [Harrow], p. 312. The gravel cut - the leather case of the ball occasionally, as well as the hands and - faces of those who scrambled over it in a SQUASH, as that close - _mêlée_ is called, which Rugby men know as a “scrummage,” and Etonians - as a “rouge.” - - 1885. _Stonyhurst Mag._, i. 144. The second law on the Code enacts - that “no one may push, pull, charge, or trip another player.” How then - is a SQUASH GOAL to be accounted for? - - 2. (Harrow).—A game of racquets not played with a HARDER - (_q.v._), but with an indiarubber ball, which is also called - a SQUASH. - - -*Squashed-flies.* _See_ FLIES. - - -*Squeaky*, _adj._ (Christ’s Hospital).—High-pitched: of the - voice. _Cf._ GRUFF. - - 1844. _Reminis. of Christ’s Hospital_ [_The Blue_, Aug. 1874]. The - voices, in our own peculiar phraseology, being divided into two - classes—those who sang SQUEAKY and those who sang GRUFF. The monitors - were constantly on the look-out for boys with SQUEAKY voices, and did - any youth make himself at all prominent in this respect, down upon him - would pounce the monitor, forthwith to _transpose_ him to the organ - gallery, there to submit his musical abilities to a trial by the - organist. The latter was an elderly gentleman, inclined at times to be - rather irritable. - - -*Squealer*, _subs._ (Wellington).—A small boy. - - -*Squirm* (or *Squirt*), _subs._ (general).—An obnoxious boy. - - -*Squish*, _subs._ 1. (general).—Marmalade. - - 2. (Winchester).—Weak tea. - - -*Squo*, _adj._ (Charterhouse).—SQUASH (_q.v._); as in - SQUO-court, SQUO-ball, SQUO-bat, &c. - - -*Stally*, _adj._ (Derby).—Strong [? stalwart]. - - -*Stamp*, _subs._ (Harrow).—Every one is provided with a “school - stamp”; the name is cut on it, and this must be printed on - all books, &c. Above the Second Fifth boys keep their own - stamp. - - -*Stand.* TO STAND OUT FOR COLLEGE, _verb. phr._ - (Westminster).—To enter for a King’s scholarship. Candidates - must be under fifteen years of age, and have been in the - school as a town boy for not less than a year preceding. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 182. Then if he thinks proper - he “STANDS OUT FOR COLLEGE”—or, in the old Latin phraseology, becomes - one of the _minores candidati_. He undergoes a very severe - examination, called the “Challenge” [_q.v._], the form of which must - have been preserved from Queen Elizabeth’s days, and is the last - surviving relic of the old scholastic disputations; those tournaments - of Latin and logic, in which Queen Bess was wont to reward a - successful champion with a purse of gold from her own virgin hand, and - her successor, James, distributed liberally the more economical - guerdon of royal applause and criticism. - - -*Standing-up Week*, _subs. phr._ (Winchester).—_See_ quot. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 235. - STANDING-UP WEEK—During the last week of Long Half all the boys, - except Sixth Book and Senior Part, had to say a number of lines by - heart in eight lessons, which they were supposed to have learned in - the course of the previous year; this was called STANDING-UP. Marks - were given according to merit, and these marks had a very material - effect on the respective positions of the boys in their Parts. - - -*Station.* ON STATION, _adv. phr._ (Westminster).—The - attendance, by juniors, on the games in the “Green” in Great - Dean’s Yard, or, on a rainy day, in College. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 186. The juniors are expected - to remain ON STATION in college for the short intervals after - breakfast and after dinner, and at other times in the playgrounds (the - “Green” in Dean’s Yard or Vincent Square, according to the time of - year or the game that happens to be in season); except on decidedly - wet days, when STATION is always in college. - - -*Statue* (The), _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A statue of the Virgin - looked after by the boys. They have “Month of May” - devotions, and write “May verses” in her honour. - - -*Stay.* TO STAY OUT, _verb. phr._ 1. (Eton).—To stay out of - school. _See_ quot. - - 1883. BRINSLEY-RICHARDS, _Seven Years at Eton_. Sometimes Blazes had a - lazy fit, and put himself on the sick-list for a day. This was called - STAY OUT, for the reason that one had to stay in. - - 1866-72. “MAC,” _Sketchy Memories of Eton_. Many things at Eton were - called by misnomers, in the construction of which the _lucus a non - lucendo_ principle came out very strong. Thus, when we stayed in, we - said we were STAYING OUT; when “absence” was called, we had to be - _present_; a _third_ of a year was called a _half_, &c. &c. - - 2. (Rugby).—To go on the sick-list. - - -*Stedman promo*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—An unexpected (and - probably undeserved) promotion. [Because announced in the - lists printed by Mr. R. B. Stedman, the school bookseller at - Godalming.] - - -*-ster*, _inseparable suffix_ (Winchester).—The termination - agent: as Brockster, Mugster, Thokester, Quilster, &c. - - -*Stew*, _verb_ (Stonyhurst).—To study. Whence STEW-POT = a hard - student. - - -*St. George*, _subs._ (Eton).—_See_ FOURTH OF JUNE. - - 1891. _Harry Fludyer_, 120. Well, about the boat procession. It went - off splendid. You know I’m in the ST. GEORGE, and Forker Major—a great - heavy brute—is our captain, and Tipkins is steerer. - - -*Sticking-up*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ quot. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 236. - STICKING-UP.—On the last three Fridays of each Half, a boy was - selected by appointment of Commoner Præfects and Course-keeper, and - placed on the top of TOYS (_q.v._) in their Hall, and was pelted with - PONTOS (_q.v._) by the rest. The following PEALS (_q.v._) were chanted - previously, one on each day: “Locks and Keys,” “Boots and Leathers,” - and “Gomer Hats.” - - -*Stick-ups*, _subs._ (Harrow).—Stand-up, or high collars: as - opposed to “turn-downs.” The rules as to collars are very - intricate, and differ in various Houses. At Charterhouse - STICK-UPS are not permissible until the end of the first - year. - - -*Stinks*, _subs._ (general).—Chemistry. Also as a nickname for a - lecturer thereon. - - -*Stizzle*, _verb_ (Tonbridge).—To cane. - - -*Stodge*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—The inside of a roll; the - crumb of new bread. - - _Verb_ (Tonbridge).—To hurt. - - -*Stodger*, _subs._ (Charterhouse and Tonbridge).—A penny bun. - - -*Stone* (The), _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital: obsolete).—The - Steward’s table in Hall. TO GO TO THE STONE = to go up for - trial, judgment, and sentence for misconduct. - - 1844. _Reminis. of Christ’s Hospital_ [_The Blue_, Aug. 1874]. With - respect to misconduct out of school hours, the several monitors were - the police, and the Steward the sole judge. When first appointed, the - young monitors displayed excessive zeal in the discovery of - delinquencies, and would call out with as much severity as it was - possible to throw into the voice of a youth of fourteen, “Go to THE - STONE, you, sir!” “THE STONE” was the name given to the Steward’s - table in the Hall, where offenders were tried, judgment delivered, and - sentence carried out, immediately after meals. The mildest punishment - consisted of caning on the open hand (ironically termed “cakes”), and - next in severity was flogging with the birch (called “brushing”); and - Fate, with a grim sense of humour which we failed to appreciate at the - time, decreed that the head beadle in our time, who was appointed to - administer the said brushings and cakes, should bear the appropriate - name of Honey. - - -*Stonyhurst-cricket* (or *Football*). _See_ Appendix. - - -*Stop.* TO STOP OUT, _verb. phr._ (Harrow and Charterhouse).—To - absent oneself from school: at Harrow, through - indisposition. - - -*Stopping-up*, subs. (Stonyhurst).—An extra time of study - allowed to elder boys when the rest have gone to bed: _e.g._ - “I am going to STOPPING-UP to-night.” - - -*Strangers’ Place*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—The - guest-rooms. When a boy had friends staying in the College - he was said to be “in the STRANGERS’ PLACE.” _Cf._ PLACE. - - -*Straw*,_ subs._ 1. (Harrow).—A straw hat worn by the whole - school all the year round, except on Sundays and at games. - The ELEVEN STRAW = a speckled black-and-white straw hat worn - by the Cricket Eleven. - - 2. (Rugby).—For two years after his first term (during which - a silk hat or “topper” was _de rigueur_) a boy wears a - black-and-white speckled straw hat with a black ribbon. Each - House has its own distinctive ribbon. At the end of his - third year a boy could “take” his “white straw,” but he was - not expected to do this unless he were a SWELL (_q.v._). - - Also _see_ CLEAN STRAW. - - -*Strawer*, _subs._ (general).—A straw hat. - - -*Stretch*, _subs._ (University).—A walk. - - -*Strive*, _verb_ (Christ’s Hospital).—To write with care: _see_ - SCRUB. _E.g._ “Copy this!” “Shall I STRIVE, Sir, or ‘scrub’ - it down?” - - -*Stub*, _verb_ (Felsted).—To kick a football about. - - 1888. _Felstedian_, Dec., p. 98. Now these hollow globes [footballs] - flying through the air, collide with their sandals, and this colliding - they call STUBBING. _Ibid._ (Nov. 1896, 153). Boys are fined for - STUBBING on a forty higher than their own. - - 1895. _Felstedian_, June, p. 104. Among plausible etymologies it is - attempted to derive STUB from “the sound made by a stubbed football.” - ... But the word STUB deserves to be rescued from its fate. I had - always imagined it to be an East Anglian word for “kick,” but it is, - to the best of my belief, obsolete in England.... A contributor to - _Notes and Queries_, writing on a totally different subject, quoted - the following words from a speech by an American judge: “As a - barefooted boy I STUBBED my chapped toes over a rough New England - farm.” [_Stub_ is commonly dialectical, in the sense of “to grub.”] - - -*Stuckling*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A kind of flat pastry made of - the current year’s apples and dried currants. - - 1847. HALLIWELL, _Archaic Words_, s.v. STUCKLING. An apple pasty, - thin, somewhat half circular in shape, and not made in a dish. - - 1883. TROLLOPE, _What I Remember_.... STUCKLING was a kind of flat - pastry made of chopped apples and currants. And the speciality of it - was that the apples must be that year’s apples. They used to be sent - up from Devonshire or Cornwall, and sometimes were with difficulty - obtained. - - 1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. STUCKLING. A pudding at - Election dinner, made of meat, apple, and carraway. - - -*Study-place*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A study. _Cf._ PLACE. - - -*Stuggy*,_ adj._ (general).—Thick-set. [STUGGY (Devon) = thick, - stout.] - - -*Stumper*, _subs._ (Tonbridge).—Small cricket played with a - stump. - - -*Stumps*, _subs._ (Harrow).—Cricket played with a stump and a - soft ball. - - -*Styx*, _subs._ (The Leys).—A urinal. _Cf._ HADES. - - -*Sub-minister*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The superior responsible - for the health of the house. _See_ MINISTER. - - -*Substance*, _subs._ (Westminster).—_See_ SHADOW. - - -*Suck*, _subs._ (University).—A parasite; a toady. - - -*Suction*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Sweetmeats. - - -*Sudden-death*, _subs._ (University).—A crumpet. - - -*Sum*, _intj._ (Winchester).—The response at names-calling; - ADSUM (_q.v._). - - -*Summer Quarter*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—_See_ LONG QUARTER. - - -*Superann*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—Superannuate. - - -*Superannuate*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ quot. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 237. - SUPERANNUATE.—A boy who was obliged to leave at Election, owing to his - being past eighteen years of age. FOUNDERS (_q.v._) were not - SUPERANNUATE till they were twenty-five. - - -*Surly Hall* (Eton).—A public-house on the right bank of the - Thames, some three and a half miles from Windsor. _See_ - FOURTH OF JUNE. - - -*Sur-master*, _subs._ (Manchester Grammar: obsolete).—The second - master; the “Usher.” [There is now no second in command.] - - -*Sus*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—The remains of a - Præfect’s tea: a fag’s perquisite. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 237. - SUS.—The Juniors’ tea: generally drunk out of a pint cup when in bed. - - -*Swank*, _verb_ (general).—To work hard. [O.E. _Swinke_ = to - labour.] Hence SWANKER = a hard worker. _See_ SWINK. - - ... _MS. Cott. Vespas_, D. vii. f. 3. I SWANK in mi sighing stede, I - sal wasche bi al nyghtes mi bede. _Ibid._, 46. I SWANK criand, haase - made. Chekes mine for pine I hade. - - -*Swat.* _See_ SWOT. - - -*Sweat.* _See_ SWOT. - - -*Sweater*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A servant. - - -*Sweat-gallery*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Fagging Juniors. - - -*Swell*, _subs._ 1. (Eton and Harrow). _See_ quot. - - 18[?]. T. R. OLIPHANT, _Eton College_.... It is very hard to define - exactly what is meant by a SWELL at Eton; but it usually implies a boy - who, brought into notice either by athletic prowess or scholarship, or - high standing in the school, by this means becomes acquainted with the - leading members of the school, and is found on acquaintance to develop - considerable social qualities, which make him hand and glove with all - the Eton magnates. - - 2. (Rugby).—The word SWELL (says Mr. LEES KNOWLES) had an - indefinite, but well understood, meaning in the school. A - member of the school “twenty,” or “fifteen” as it is now, or - a member of the eleven, was, for instance, a SWELL. - - _Verb_ (Winchester).—To bathe; to wash. - - -*Swells*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Sunday services; Saints’-days, - &c. [When surplices were worn.] - - -*Swift’s.* _See_ PLANKS. - - -*Swill*, _verb_ (Shrewsbury).—To take a shower-bath; also - (Winchester) to wash by throwing water over the body. - - 1881. _Felstedian_, Nov., p. 75, “A Day’s Fagging at Winchester.” - Having taken out the washing-stool, I proceed to call the Senior - Præfect; when he gets up I have to SWILL him (_i.e._ pour a can of - water over his back in his bath), and then rub him down with a towel. - - -*Swinger*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—A box on the ears. _Cf._ - _Swinge_ = to lash, to beat. Also SWINGE as _verb_. - - 1579. _Mariage of Witt and Wisdome._ O, the passion of God! so I - shalbe SWINGED; So, my bones shalbe bang’d! The poredge pot is stolne: - what, Lob, I say, Come away, and be hangd! - - 1611. COTGRAVE, _Dict._, s.v. DOBER. To beat, SWINGE, lamme, - bethwacke. - - 1637. DU BARTAS [NARES]. Then often SWINDGING, with his sinnewy train, - Somtimes his sides, somtimes the dusty plain. - - [..?..] _Havelok the Dane_ [SKEAT, E.E.T.S. (1868), 214]. An ofte dede - him sore SWINGE, And wit hondes smerte dinge; So that the blod ran of - his fleys, That tendre was, and swithe neys. - - -*Swink*, _verb_ (Winchester).—To sweat; to work hard. Also as - _subs._ _See_ SWANK. - - 1579. _Mariage of Witt and Wisdome._ But now I SWINKE and sweate in - vaine, My labour hath no end, And moping in my study still, My - youthfull yeares I spend. - - 1590. SPENSER, _Faërie Queene_.... Honour, estate, and all this - worlde’s good, For which men SWINCKE and sweat incessantly. - - 1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. SWINK.... The former [to - sweat] is the primary Wykehamical meaning: SWINK and _sweat_ have - therefore changed places. - - -*Swipes*, _subs._ 1. (Stonyhurst).—The boy-servant who serves - out beer at dinner. - - 2. (Harrow).—Supper. - - TO BE SWIPED, _verb. phr._ (Harrow).—To be birched. - - -*Swish*, _verb_ (Eton and Charterhouse).—To flog. Hence SWISHING - = a beating. - - _c._ 1889. _Illustrated London News._ Flogging, or, as it is called at - Eton, SWISHING, is to be abolished at that aristocratic seminary. - - 1891. _Harry Fludyer_, 47. He complained of us and Tipkins, and I got - SWISHED the other day. - - -*Swot* (*Swat* or *Sweat*), _subs._ (general).—Lessons; work: - specifically, mathematics at Royal Military Academy. Also a - hard-working student. - - 1883. PASCOE, _Everyday Life at Our Public Schools_.... So much for - work or SWOT, as the Harrovian, in common with other boys, somewhat - inelegantly terms the more important part of instruction he receives - at school. - - _Verb_ (general).—To work hard: as at lessons. - - IN A SWOT, _phr._ (Shrewsbury).—In a rage. - - -*Syntax*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The upper Fourth Form. - - - - - - -*Tachs*, _subs._ (Tonbridge).—A fad; a mental eccentricity. - _See_ HOBBS. - - _c._ 1327. _Chester Plays_, ii. 27. For south this harde I hym saye, - That he woulde rise the thirde daye; Nowe suerlye and he so maye, He - hath a wounderous TACHE. - - _c._ 1400. _Occleve MS._ [Soc. Ant.], 134, f. 279. And to his fadris - maneris enclyne, And wikkid TACCHIS and vices eschewe. - - [..?..] _MS. Cantab_, Ff. i. 6, f. 157. It is a TACCHE of a devouryng - hounde To resseyve superfluyté and do excesse. - - _d._ 1565. CHALONER, _Moriæ Euc._, p. 3, _b_. It is a common TATCHE, - naturally gevin to all men, as well as priests, to watche well for - theyr owne lucre. - - 1612. WARNER, _Albion’s England_, Bk. xiii. p. 318. First Jupiter that - did usurp his father’s throne, Of whom even his adorers write evil - TACHES many an one. - - 1822. NARES, _Glossary_, s.v. TACHE or TATCH. A blot, spot, stain, or - vice; _tache_, French. - - 1847. HALLIWELL, _Archaic Words_, s.v. TACHE.... A quality, or - disposition; a trick; enterprise; boldness of design. (_A.-N._) - - _Verb_ (Tonbridge).—To stare at: mostly confined to one - House. - - -*Tack*, _subs._ (Sherborne).—A feast in one’s study. - - -*Tag*, _subs._ (Winchester).—An off-side kick: at football. Also - as _verb_. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 237. TAG.... - When a player has kicked the ball well forward, and has followed it, - if it was then kicked back again behind him by the other side, he was - then obliged to return to his original position with his own side. If - the ball had, in the meantime, been again kicked in front of him, - before he regained his position, and he was to kick it, it would be - considered unfair, and he would be said TO TAG. - - -*Tails*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The swallow-tailed coats worn by all - in the Upper School, and (as “charity-tails”) by all in the - Lower School who are considered by the Head of the School to - be tall enough to require them. - - -*Tank*, _verb_ (King Edward’s, Birm.).—To cane: a rarer word - than COSH (_q.v._). [_Tank_ (Warwicks.) = a blow.] - - -*Tap* (Eton).—_See_ Appendix. - - -*Taps.* _See_ TOLLY (sense 2). - - -*Tardy*, _adv._ (Winchester).—Late: as “I was TARDY TASK” - (_q.v._). - - 1881. _Felstedian_, Nov., p. 75, “A Day’s Fagging at Winchester.” That - done I return to chambers, fling on my gown, which I am obliged to - keep off till the last moment as a sign of servitude to shew that I am - only a junior, and then scramble in to chapel somehow, very likely - late, with an impot in store from my form master, and a licking from - the præfect in my chamber for being TARDY, though as likely as not he - was himself the cause of it. - - -*Task*, _subs._ (Winchester).—All kinds of composition other - than an Essay or Vulgus. - - -*Tatol*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A tutor in Commoners. These came - into course in alternate weeks, their duties being to - preside at meals, Toys (_q.v._) and names-calling, and to go - round galleries at 9.15. - - -*Tavern* (The), _subs._ (Oxford).—New Inn Hall. [From its title, - “New Inn,” and also because the buttery is open all day, and - the members of the Hall can call for what they please at any - hour, the same as in a tavern.] - - -*Tawse*, _subs._ (Scots: general).—A leather strap used in - Scotland instead of the cane. [_Tawse_ (North) = a piece of - tanned leather.] - - -*Team*, _subs._ (University).—The pupils of a private tutor or - coach. - - -*Teddy-hall*, _subs._ (Oxford).—St. Edmund’s Hall. - - -*Teejay* (or *Tege*), _subs._ (Winchester).—A new-comer under - the charge of an older scholar, who also instructs him in - NOTIONS (_q.v._). Also as _verb_. [That is, _Protégé_.] - - -*Teek*, _subs._ (Harrow).—Mathematics. _See_ TIQUE. - - -*Temple*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A niche in Mead’s Wall. - - 1881. PASCOE, _Everyday Life in our Public Schools_.... On the last - night of term there is a bonfire in Ball Court, and all the TEMPLES or - miniature architectural excavations in Mead’s Wall are lighted up with - candle-ends. - - -*Ten-o’clock Recreation*, _subs. phr._ (Stonyhurst).—Still keeps - its name, though now for some years it comes nearly an hour - later. - - -*Tepe*, _verb_ (Durham: obsolete).—To smoke: a lane near School - was called Tepe Lane. - - -*Terrace, The* (Harrow).—The terrace below the chapel, towards - the Footer-fields. - - -*Tertian*, _subs._ (Aberdeen).—A student in the third class. - - -*Tetra*, _subs._ (Felsted: obsolete).—A “record”: TO GO BEYOND - THE TETRA = to beat the record. [A stuttering pronunciation - of, some say, “tremendous,” others, “extraordinary.”] _See_ - Appendix. - - -*Thick*, _subs._ (Winchester and Rugby).—A stupid fellow. Also - as _adj._ - - 1856. HUGHES, _Tom Brown’s School-days_, I. vii. What a THICK I was to - come! Here we are, dead beat, and yet I know we’re close to the run - in, if we knew the country. - - -*Thicker*, _subs._ (Harrow).—Thucydides: translated in the Upper - School. - - -*Third Elevens* (or *Thirders*), _subs._ (Harrow).—A house - SECOND ELEVEN (_q.v._) playing another house Second Eleven - at football. - - -*Third-guarder*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—_See_ GUARDER. - - -*Thoke*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Rest; lying in bed. Hence - as _verb_ = to lie in bed late. [Prov. Eng. _thoky_ = - sluggish.] Whence TO THOKE UPON = to anticipate with - pleasure; THOKESTER = an idler. - - 1847. HALLIWELL, _Archaic Words_, s.v. THOKISH. Slothful; sluggish. - _East._ In Lincolnshire it is usually THOKY. - - 1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. THOKE. I’m THOKING ON next - week: what a THOKE it will be, with a Leave-out-day, a Hatch-THOKE, - and a half remedy. - - 1899. _Public School Mag._, Dec., p. 465. He attributed his - success—or, at any rate, his long survival—to the art of “THOKING”—in - the vulgar tongue, “slacking”—which he had laboriously acquired during - his first years of office. - - -*Thoker*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A thick slice of bread soaked in - water and then baked. - - -*Thos’s-hole*, _subs._ (Rugby). _See_ quot. - - 1856. HUGHES, _Tom Brown’s School-days_, vii. And so Tom and the - Tadpole, in night-shirts and trousers, started off downstairs, and - through “THOS’S-HOLE,” as the little buttery, where candles and beer - and bread and cheese were served out at night, was called, across the - School-house court. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, 367. “THOS” [Thomas Woobridge] - the well-remembered old school-house servitor, being mounted on the - leading horse. - - -*Three.* COME BACK AT THREE, _phr._ (Royal High School, - Edin.).—The formula to signify detention after school hours. - - -*Threepenny*, _subs._ (general).—A tuck-shop cake of that value. - - -*Throw*, _verb_ (University).—To master; to succeed: as in a - paper, lesson, examination, examiner, &c. - - 1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 98. These blessed exams. are - getting awfully close now, but I think I shall floor mine, and Dick’s - sure to THROW his examiners down. - - -*Tight*, _adj._ (Winchester).—Fast; hard. - - 1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. TIGHT.... A TIGHT bowler, - &c. As superlative adverb now only used in TIGHT junior. TIGHT-snob, - TIGHT-rot, and other such uses are obsolete. - - -*Tin-gloves*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ quot. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 54. But - there were other ordeals that were not quite so harmless. Green was - liable to be asked whether he possessed a pair of TIN-GLOVES. As this - article does not generally form part of a boy’s outfit, Bully would - proceed to furnish him with a pair in the following manner:—Taking a - half consumed stick from the fire, he would draw the “red-hot end” - down the back of Green’s hand between each of the knuckles to the - wrist, and having produced three satisfactory lines of blisters would - then make two or three transverse lines across. A scientifically - fitted pair of gloves of this description was generally, if not - pleasant wear, of great durability. - - -*Tin-tab*, _subs._ (Dulwich).—The carpenter’s shop. - - -*Tip*, _subs._ (Felsted).—1. A false report. - - 1890. _Felstedian_, Feb., p. 3. Some one ventured to suggest that it - was all a beastly TIP.... Many would just like to get hold of the - fellow that started the TIP. - - 1893. _Felstedian_, Dec., p. 143. Nor is it credible that he stands in - need of those useful and entertaining scraps of general information to - which we apply the term “TIPS” in our ordinary conversation. - - 1895. _Felstedian_, April, p. 45. TIP.—“Tip” and “tip-spreading,” - expressing with that brevity which is the soul of wit, our horror of - scandal and scandal-mongering, again defy analysis. - - 2. (Felsted).—A foolish mistake in translating, &c. - - -*Tipping*, _adj._ (general).—First-rate; jolly. - - -*Tique*, _subs._ (Harrow).—(1) Arithmetic; and (2) mathematics. - [From a French master’s peculiar English pronunciation.] - - -*Tish*, _subs._ (Royal Military College).—A partition; a - cubicle. - - -*Tit.* _See_ ’VARSITY-TIT. - - -*Titch*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A flogging. Also as _verb_ - [Onomatopœia]. _See_ Appendix. - - -*Tizzy-poole*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A fives ball - [costing 6d., and sold by a head porter named Poole.] - - -*Toad*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—In College a piece of - hot toast put into beer. - - -*Toe-fit-tie*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—_See_ quot. - - 1881. _Felstedian_, Nov., p. 84, “A Day’s Fagging at Winchester.” I - remember now; it was that brute A—— who “to FITTI”-ed me last - night.... For the benefit of the uninitiated let me explain the _modus - operandi_ and its etymology: it is nothing more or less than the - commencement of a line in the old familiar “_As in præsenti perfectum, - format in avi_,” which we used to learn, “_to fit-ti_,” in reference - to verbs of the third conjugation, transferred from the similarity of - sound to the school-boy’s toe; it consisted in tying a running noose - on a piece of string, cunningly turning up the bed-clothes at the - foot, putting it round the big toe of an unconscious sleeper, running - the noose up tight, and pulling till the victim followed the direction - of string from the pain, getting farther and farther out of bed and - nearer and nearer the floor, till mercifully released. - - -*Togger*, _subs._ (Oxford).—A TORPID (_q.v._) boat-race. - - 1894. _Felstedian_, Dec., p. 181. Wiltshire will probably row in one - of the University TOGGERS next term. - - 1896. _Tonbridgian_, No. 339, 1124. Rowland rowed in the TOGGER, fifth - on the river. - - -*Toke*, _verb_ (The Leys).—To be lazy; to “loaf.” - - -*Told.* TO BE TOLD, _verb. phr._ (Tonbridge).—To obtain one’s - colours in a school team. - - -*Tolly*, _subs._ 1. (general).—A candle. [From _tallow_.] _Cf._ - BROLLY, YOLLY, &c. - - 2. (Stonyhurst).—The flat instrument for administering - punishment on the hand: the maximum is “twice nine.” - Sometimes called TAPS (_q.v._): _e.g._ “I’ve to get TAPS - to-night.” - - TO TOLLY UP, _verb. phr._ (Harrow).—To surreptitiously light - candles after gas is out. - - -*Tom*, _subs._ (Oxford).—The great bell of Christ Church. [It - tolls 101 times each evening at ten minutes past nine - o’clock (there being 101 students on the foundation), and - marks the time for the closing of the College gates. “TOM” - is one of the lions of Oxford. It formerly belonged to - Oseney Abbey, and weighs about 17,000 pounds, being more - than double the weight of the great bell of St. Paul’s.] - - -*Tommy*, _subs._ (Dublin).—A sham shirt-front. [From the Greek - τομή, a section.] - - -*Tonkabout*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—The hitting up of catches - at cricket: said to be a BODEITE (_q.v._) term. - - -*Toot* (or *Tout*), _verb_ (Royal High School, Edin.).—To treat - to lunch. [Recently introduced by a boy from New Zealand. - Originally shout, then tout, whence TOOT. “Shout” = to stand - treat.] - - -*To-pan*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ quot., and BOILER. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 240. - TOE-PAN.—A large basin of red earthenware placed in each chamber for - washing the feet in. - - -*Top-side*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A wing at football: the opposite - one to BOTTOM-SIDE (_q.v._). - - -*Torch-race*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—Formerly, part of - the breaking-up ceremony of the winter half-year. On the - last morning the boys, after early chapel, rushed out of - gates, each bearing a burning birch-broom, up College Street - and along the wall of the Close up to the old White Hart - Inn, where breakfast was prepared before the chaises started - for their various destinations. This curious TORCH-RACE - subsequently gave way to a race of the seniors in sedan - chairs. - - -*Torpid*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A boy who has not been two years in - the school. There is a cup for the COCK-HOUSE (_q.v._) at - torpids in football. - - -*Torpids*, _subs._ (Oxford).—(1) The eight-oared spring races; - (2) the boats; and (3) the crews. Also TOGGER. - - 1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, II. xii. The Misses Green had the - satisfaction to see their brother pulling in one of the fifteen - TORPIDS that followed immediately in the wake of the other boats. - - 1889. _Felstedian_, Feb., p. 11. After the TORPIDS will come the - Clinker Forms—an institution hitherto unknown in Oxford. - - 1900. _Westminster Gazette_, 21st Feb., 8. 3. Oxford University - TORPIDS. These races were concluded to-day. - - -*Tosh*, _subs._ (general).—A foot-tub; a bath. Also, as _verb_ = - to throw water over a person: _e.g._ “He TOSHED his house - beak by mistake, and got three hundred.” Hence TOSH-POND - (Royal Military Academy) = the bathing-pond. [That is, - “toe-wash.”] - - -*Tosher*, _subs._ (Oxford).—An unattached student. - - -*Tosh-soap*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—Cheese. - - -*T’other-school*, _subs._ (Winchester).—(1) One’s former school; - and (2) any school not a Public School. Also as _adj._ = - NON-LICET (_q.v._), or unbecoming: because more or less - alien to Winchester. - - -*T’other-un*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—A private school. - - -*Touch.* TO TOUCH IN, _verb. phr._ (Stonyhurst).—To reach one’s - block: of a batsman when running. _See_ STONYHURST-CRICKET. - [According to the Rules, “The TOUCHING-IN line is within a - bat’s length of the CRICKET-STONE” (_q.v._).] - - -*Touchy*, _adv._ (Christ’s Hospital).—Rather: _e.g._ TOUCHY a - lux = rather a good thing. - - -*Tow*, _subs._ (Shrewsbury).—A run in: at hare and hounds. - - 1881. PASCOE, _Everyday Life at our Public Schools_.... After that - last “all up,” there is a TOW or continuous run of from one to three - miles. - - -*Town and Gown*, _sub. phr._ (University).—The townsmen _v._ the - members of the University. [In her young days the position - of the University was one of perpetual conflict—with the - town, the Jews, the Friars, and the Papal Court.] - - 1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, II. iii. TOWN AND GOWN disturbances - are of considerable antiquity. Fuller and Matthew Paris give accounts - of some which occurred as early as the year 1238. These disputes not - unfrequently terminated fatally to some of the combatants. One of the - most serious TOWN AND GOWN rows on record took place on the day of St. - Scholastica the Virgin, February 10, 1345, when several lives were - lost on either side. The University was at that time in the Lincoln - diocese; and Grostête, the bishop, placed the townspeople under an - interdict, from which they were not released till 1357, and then only - on condition that the mayor and sixty of the chief burgesses should on - every anniversary of the day of St. Scholastica, attend St. Mary’s - Church and offer up mass for the soul of the slain scholars, and - should also individually present an offering of one penny at the high - altar. They, moreover, paid a yearly fine of 100 marks to the - University, with the penalty of an additional fine of the same sum for - every omission in attending at St. Mary’s. This continued up to the - time of the Reformation, when it gradually fell into abeyance. In the - fifteenth year of Elizabeth, however, the University asserted their - claim to all arrears. The matter being brought to trial, it was - decided that the town should continue the annual fine and penance, - though the arrears were forgiven. The fine was yearly paid on the 10th - of February up to our own time; the mayor and chief burgesses attended - at St. Mary’s and made the offering at the conclusion of the litany, - which, on that occasion, was read from the altar. This was at length - put an end to by Convocation in the year 1825. - - 1899. HEYWOOD, _Guide to Oxford_. The TOWN AND GOWN rows, as occasions - for displays of physical force, lasted until quite recent times, as - readers of _Verdant Green_ and _Tom Brown at Oxford_ will know. - Nowadays, however, they are happily unknown. - - -*Townee* (or *Towner*), _subs._ (general).—_See_ CAD. - - -*Towney* (Christ’s Hospital).—_See_ HOUSEY. - - 1887. _The Blue_, Nov. Thus, a little farther on, mention is made of - the time when a boy leaves the School. The consequent change of dress - might be vulgarly expressed by “exchanging HOUSEYS FOR TOWNEYS,” but - our author is before all things refined. “The boy is at liberty to - exchange the garb of the house for one more congenial to modern - taste.” - - -*Town-lout*, _subs._ (Rugby).—A scholar residing in the town - with his parents. - - -*Toys*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A bureau—desk and book-case - combined. Whence TOY-TIME (or TOYS) = evening preparation - (in College) and (in Commoners) all time so spent. - - 1440. _Prompt. Parv._ _Teye_, of a cofyr or forcer. - - 1881. PASCOE, _Everyday Life in our Public Schools_. The clock - striking seven each junior retires to his TOYS or bureau for an hour - and a half, during what is known as TOYTIME, when the work of the next - morning and the week’s composition have to be prepared. - - 1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. TOYS.... The expression - TOY-TIME suggests that the “s” has been added. If TOYS has not - descended from this word [teye], it must have been transferred from - the contents of the toys, and mean simply _one’s belongings_. - - -*Trades*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—_See_ quot. and - PUBLIC-SUPPING. - - 1900. _Daily Telegraph_, 16th March, “London Day by Day.” After the - boys had concluded their simple repast of tea and bread-and-butter, - they formed up two-and-two, and bowed to the Lord Mayor, the different - wards being headed by the TRADES, as the boys who carry the - candlesticks, the bread-basket, table-cloth, and cutlery are termed. - - -*Travelling-scholarship* (or *Fellowship*), _subs._ - (University).—RUSTICATION (_q.v._). - - -*Treacle-bolly*, _subs._ (Marlborough). A walk by the Kennett - close to the College. [So called from the cottage of a - miller so nick-named.] - - -*Tree of Knowledge, The* (Charterhouse).—The tree under which - books, &c., are piled in the interval between second school - and dinner (say 12.30 to 1.15), while run-about in winter - and cricket-nets or position drill in summer is engaged in. - - -*Treer*, _subs._ (Durham: obsolete).—A boy who avoids organised - games, but plays a private game with one or two friends. - [Presumably because played by the trees at the side of the - ground.] - - -*Trek*, _verb_ (Durham).—To run. - - -*Trencher*, _subs._ 1. (Winchester).—A square wooden platter: in - use in College. - - 2. (general).—A college cap; a MORTAR-BOARD (_q.v._). - - -*Trial*, _subs._ (Harrow).—An examination. Whence TRIALS = the - examinations at the end of the summer and winter terms. - - -*Tribune*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A large pew in - ante-chapel: reserved for ladies. - - -*Tripos*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—A word dating from the sixteenth - century, and used successively in a number of different - senses. At first it was applied to the stool on which the - champion of the University sat at the disputations held at - the admission of Bachelors of Arts to their degree; then it - was transferred to the Bachelor himself; still later to the - humorous, or, in some cases, scurrilous, speech with which - “Mr. Tripos” opened the proceedings, and to the verses of - the Bachelors at the Acts. The honours-lists were printed - (about 1847-8) on the backs of these verses, and so - tripos came to mean an honour-list, and, last of all, the - examination itself. Until the year 1824 there was only one - tripos, the Mathematical; and up to 1850 only those who had - obtained honours in mathematics were admitted to the - Classical examination. The degree was not given for that - examination till a few years later. - - 1877. WORDSWORTH, _Scholæ Academicæ_, 20. Such interest as is now - attached to them belongs rather to the verses than to the list of the - several TRIPOSES (for the name has now at last come to signify degree - examinations) which have been circulated already severally. - - 1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 9. I’m seriously thinking of - chucking my TRIPOS and taking up the History Special. - - -*Trotter*, _subs._ (University).—A tailor’s assistant who goes - on round for orders. - - -*Truck-house*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—The Recreation - rooms. - - 1882. _Stonyhurst Mag._, i. 12, “Rummagings amongst our Records.” - Grammar and Great Figures on their Declamation day ... were exempted - from studies and allowed something of a collation in the TRUCK-HOUSE. - - -*Tub*, _subs._ 1. (University).—A boat broad in the beam, used - by novices. Hence TUBBING = boating; to GET TUBBED = to be - taught to row. - - 1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_.... So to the river he next day went, - and made his first essay in a TUB. - - 1889. _Morning Advertiser._ If “up” at the University, we will - probably pass our time between “grinding hard” and TUBBING on the - river. - - 1898. _Stonyhurst Mag._, Dec., p. 149, “Life at Oxford.” Rowing is - naturally a great attraction to many freshmen, and every College is - always on the look-out for new oarsmen. What one does is to get - “TUBBED,” that is, one is taught to row by members of the College - eight in boats that are too TUB-like to be easily capsized. - - 2. (Winchester).—A chest in Hall into which DISPARS (_q.v._) - not taken by the boys were put. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 79. In front - of the screen stood “TUB,” from which the Præfect of that Ilk took his - title; it was a strong painted oak chest, with a lid, about two feet - high.... As will be seen, it was simply impossible for the Juniors to - be up to time, the consequence of which was that more than half the - dinners were not taken; these were thrown into “TUB” at the end of - Hall, whence they were ultimately taken away by some poor women, and I - always understood (though I am not certain that such was the case) - that the “Præfect of TUB” got a certain sum for each “Dispar” not - taken, and so had a direct interest in managing that as many as - possible should go without their dinner. I will now explain the - absence of the Juniors; immediately the Præfects were seated, the - whole Hall resounded with shouts of “Junior—Junior—Junior,” rising in - savageness of tone, as the supply became exhausted; in five minutes - all the Juniors were darting wildly about in all directions, executing - orders received from their lords and masters; some to Colson’s hatch - for salt, or down in the cellar for beer, back to school for something - forgotten, into chambers for a pint cup, down to the kitchen for - gravy, &c. &c. - - 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 23. Until the last few years - the “præfect of TUB” (whose duty it was to examine the quality of the - meat sent in by the college butcher, and after dinner to see to the - proper collection and distribution of the remains) retained his title. - - -*Tub-mess*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The table at which the Senior - Præfects sat in Hall.—MANSFIELD (_c._ 1840). - - -*Tuck*, _subs._ (general).—Edibles of all kinds, but - particularly pastry. Hence TUCK-SHOP = a pastry-cook’s. - - -*Tuck-parcel*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—A hamper from home: the - word is now becoming obsolete. - - 1856. HUGHES, _Tom Brown’s School-days_, I. vi. Come along down to - Sally Harrowell’s; that’s our school-house TUCK-SHOP. She bakes such - shining murphies. _Ibid._ The slogger looks rather sodden, as if he - didn’t take much exercise and ate too much TUCK. - - -*Tug*, _subs._ (Eton).—A Colleger; a scholar on the foundation. - Whence TUGGERY = College. - - 1881. PASCOE, _Everyday Life in our Public Schools_.... The long - looked-for St. Andrew’s Day arrives, when the great match of - collegers, or, as the small oppidan would term it, TUGS, and oppidans - is to be played. - - 1883. BRINSLEY-RICHARDS, _Seven Years at Eton_.... My interlocutor was - a red-headed freckled little boy of eleven, who had come from Aberdeen - “to try for TUGGERY,” that is, to try and pass in to the foundation as - a King’s Scholar. - - 1890. _Great Public Schools_, 52. The Collegers did not always fare as - bravely as they do now, either at board or bed. Terrible tales of - their manner of life may be read.... Perhaps the recollections of that - time caused the disrespect, almost bordering on contempt, with which - the Oppidans used for many years to regard the _Togati_, or - gown-wearing boys. [_Note._—I suppose there is not much doubt that the - nickname of TUG by which the Collegers used to go among the rest of - the school, was derived from the _toga_ they wore.] - - _Adj._ (Winchester) = stale; ordinary; vapid; common. Whence - TUGS = stale news; TUG-CLOTHES = everyday clothes; TUG-JAW = - wearisome talk. - - -*Tui*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Tuition. - - -*Tumbies*, _subs._ (University).—Ablutions. - - -*Tund*, _verb_ (Winchester).—To thrash. Whence TUNDING = a - thrashing. [Lat. _tundere_.] - - 1881. PASCOE, _Everyday Life in Our Public Schools_.... I never heard - of any case in Eton like the TUNDING which, some years ago, brought - our mother-school into disagreeable notice. - - 1883. TROLLOPE, _What I Remember_.... It was the prefect of hall who - ordered the infliction of a public TUNDING.... The following simple - and truthful statement of what a public TUNDING was may enable those - who take an interest in the matter to form some reasonable opinion - whether the infliction of such punishment were a good or a bad - thing.... Some dozen or so of boys, who had the best capacities for - the performance, were appointed by him for the purpose, and the whole - assembly stood around the daïs, while the hymn _Te de profundis_ was - sung. When all were thus assembled, and before the singers commenced, - the culprit who had been sentenced to a TUNDING stepped out, pulled - off his gown, and received from the hands of one deputed by the - “prefect of hall,” and armed with a tough, pliant, ground-ash stick, a - severe beating. - - _c._ 1890. _Punch_ [Confession by a Wykehamist]. I like to be TUNDED - twice a day, And swished three times a week. - - -*Turf*, _subs._ 1. (Winchester).—The pitch: at cricket. The - field is “long grass.” - - 2. (Felsted).—The cricket-field. - - 1881. _Felstedian_, Nov., p. 75. There are (or were) six cricket - pitches on TURF. - - _Verb._ 1. (Derby).—To send to bed at bed-time: used of - Præpostors. - - 2. (Marlborough).—To chastise. - - -*Turl* (The), _subs._ (Oxford).—Turl Street. [Formerly a narrow - opening through the city wall into the High Street.] - - -*Turn.* TO TURN UP, _verb. phr._ (Marlborough).—To chastise: - with cane, stick, or fives-bat. - - TO BE TURNED, _verb. phr._ (Harrow and Dulwich).—To be - ploughed in a _vive voce_ translation lesson. - - -*Twank*, _verb_ (Durham).—To cane. _See_ LAM and YARK. [_Twank_ - (East) = to give a smart slap with the flat of the hand.] - - -*Tweaker*, _subs._ (Felsted: obsolete).—A catapult. - - -*Twelve.* AFTER TWELVE, _subs. phr._ (Eton).—From noon till two - P.M. - - 1861. WHYTE-MELVILLE, _Good for Nothing_, p. 39. I used to visit him - regularly in the dear old college from the AFTER TWELVE. - - 1864. _Eton School-days_, vi. I tell you plainly, if you are not in - Sixpenny AFTER TWELVE, I will do my best to give you a hiding wherever - I meet you. - - 1883. BRINSLEY-RICHARDS, _Seven Years at Eton_. Croppie, who - abominated all laws and delighted in transgressions, resolved to go to - the fair, and without difficulty he persuaded the Pug and me to join - him. One day AFTER TWELVE the three of us passed over Windsor Bridge - in the same condition as the “bold adventurers” alluded to in Gray’s - Ode. - - THE TWELVE, _subs._ (Harrow).—_See_ quot., and Appendix. - - 1899. _Public School Mag._, Dec., p. 446. The working system of the - school has lately been slightly altered. Above the two sixth forms - there has been placed a Head-master’s “TWELVE,” with the object of - training the first TWELVE on the classical side for ’Varsity life. - They are only in school about three hours a day, but have to get - through a tough amount of work at their leisure. - - -*Twelve Apostles*, _subs._ 1. (Cambridge).—The last twelve in - the Mathematical Tripos. - - 1785. GROSE, _Vulg. Tongue_, s.v. PLUCK.... These unfortunate fellows - are designated by many opprobrious appellations, such as the TWELVE - APOSTLES, the Legion of Honour, Wise Men of the East, &c. - - 2. (Stonyhurst).—The twelve first Stonyhurst boys. - - 1887. _Stonyhurst Mag._, iii. 90. Stonyhurst boys of all past times - since the coming of the original “TWELVE APOSTLES” ... will have - noticed once a year, about Eastertide, a curious notice ... giving - warning of an approaching meeting of the Court Leet. - - -*Twenty* (The), _subs._ (Rugby).—The Sixth Form. - - -*Twenty-two and Twenty-two*, _subs. phr._ (Winchester: - obsolete).—Football: twenty-two a side. - - -*Twig* (The), _subs._ (Marlborough: obsolete).—The Head-master. - [In whose authority rested the use of the birch.] - - -*Twilight*, _subs._ (general).—Toilet. - - -*Twist* (or *Twoster*), _subs._ (Winchester).—A stick spirally - marked by a creeper having grown round it. - - - - - - -*Ulula*, _subs._ (Manchester Grammar).—The school magazine. [The - Owl is the school crest, as it was that of the founder, Hugh - Oldham, Bishop of Exeter.] - - -*Under Fire* (Westminster).—_See_ UPPER FIRE. - - -*Under-green* (Charterhouse).—Formerly the present big or match - football ground: now the Under’s cricket-ground. - - -*Under School* (Harrow).—_See_ UPPER SCHOOL. - - -*Under Selectæ* (Harrow).—_See_ UPPER SCHOOL. - - -*Union*, _subs._ (University).—An undergrad’s debating society. - - 1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 15. I think I shall speak at the - UNION soon.... I tried on Tuesday last, but I couldn’t catch the - President’s eye. - - -*Univ*, _subs._ (Oxford).—University College. - - -*Up*, _adv._ (Harrow).—In school. TO BE UP TO ANY ONE AT SECOND - SCHOOL = to go to any one for work at 10 or 11 o’clock. - - -*Upper Club* (Eton).—_See_ PLAYING-FIELDS. - - -*Upper (Middle, or Under) Fire*, _subs._ (Westminster).—The - three fire-places, under former arrangements, in the present - dormitory. - - -*Upper School*, _subs._ (Harrow).—In 1770 (the first year of the - printed BILLS (_q.v._) of the school) the school comprised - the monitors—their numbers varied from four to ten—the Fifth - Form, the Shell, and the Fourth and Third Forms: these - ranked as the UPPER SCHOOL. The UNDER SCHOOL was divided in - a very peculiar fashion; there was first the “Scan and - Prove” class, then the “Ovid,” the “Phædrus,” the “Upper - Selectæ,” “Under Selectæ,” “Nomenclature,” “Grammar,” and - “Accidence.”... At present there are, besides the monitors - (fifteen in number), an Upper and Lower Sixth, three - separate divisions of the Fifth, two “Removes,” three - “Shells,” and three Fourths. On the Modern Side are one - Sixth, three Fifths, one “Remove,” three Shells, and three - Fourths. - - -*Upper Selectæ* (Harrow).—_See_ UPPER SCHOOL. - - -*Upper Sixpenny* (Eton).—_See_ PLAYING-FIELDS. - - -*Uskites* (Charterhouse).—_See_ OUT-HOUSES. - - - - - - -*Vac*, _subs._ (University).—Vacation. - - 1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 2. I can’t make out why the Pater - is always so crusty about Rover. He told me every day last VAC he - wouldn’t have his house over-run with dogs. - - -*Valet*, subs. (Winchester).—Every Præfect had a Junior in - Chambers who acted in this capacity, made his tea or coffee, - carried his things through from Chambers to School and back - again, and looked after him in general.—MANSFIELD (_c._ - 1840). - - -*Varmint*, _adj._ (old University).—Good; spruce. - - -*Varmint-man*, _subs._ (Cambridge: obsolete). _See_ quots. - - 1803. _Gradus ad Cantab._ A VARMINT-MAN spurns a scholarship, would - consider it a degradation to be a Fellow. - - 1827. _Alma Mater...._ The handsome man, my friend and pupil, was - naturally enough a bit of a swell, or VARMINT-MAN. - - -*’Varsity*, _subs._ (Oxford and Cambridge).—The accepted - corruption of University. - - -*’Varsity-tit* (or *Tit*), subs. (Durham).—A student of Durham - University: in contempt. - - -*Varying*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A VULGUS (_q.v._) done UP TO - BOOKS (_q.v._). - - -*Vaseline*, _subs._ (Royal Military Academy).—Butter. - - -*Vaughan, The* (Harrow).—The school library: named after Dr. - Vaughan. - - -*Verites* (Charterhouse).—A boarding-house. [A corruption of - Oliverites, after Dr. Oliver Walford, 1838-55.] - - -*Vessel*, subs. (Winchester).—The eighth of a sheet of - LONG-PAPER (_q.v._).—[HALLIWELL.] Ital. _vassiola_. - - -*Vex*, _adv._ (Christ’s Hospital).—“So much the worse for”: - _e.g._ “VEX FOR YOU.” _Cf._ CHAFF. - - -*Vic*, _intj._ (Felsted).—An exclamation giving warning of a - master’s approach; the equivalent of _cave_, which is not - used at Felsted. Also TO KEEP VIC. - - -*Vice* (The), _subs._ (University).—The Vice-Chancellor. - - -*Vile-child*, _subs._ (Eton).—_See_ quot., and Appendix. - - 1866-72. _Sketchy Memories of Eton...._ Being called a VILE-CHILD, the - which I subsequently learnt was a very frequent term of mild reproach, - and had no particular reference to the age of the individual to whom - it was addressed. As a proof of this I may add that, being at Eton for - the Winchester Match in 1883, I (_moi-qui-vous-parle_, height 6 feet 2 - inches, and weight 14 stone 7 lbs.) was called a VILE-CHILD for being - on a committee to oppose a certain obnoxious Indian Bill! I wasn’t - sorry when tea was over, although many most pleasant evenings did I - afterwards spend in that room. - - -*Vocab*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—A vocabulary. - - -*Vol*, _adj._ (Harrow).—Voluntary: _e.g._ VOL-GYM. - - -*Voluntary*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A copy of verses written - occasionally by some of the boys in Sixth Book and Senior - Part _ex proprio motu_.—MANSFIELD (_c._ 1840). - - -*Vulgus*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A Latin epigram: four - or six lines long. Hence VULGUS-BOOK = a CRIB (_q.v._). - - 1883. TROLLOPE, _What I Remember_.... The mention of a VULGUS requires - some explanation. Every inferior, _i.e._ non-prefect, in the school - was required every night to produce a copy of verses of from two to - six lines on a given theme—four or six lines for the upper classes, - two for the lowest. This was independent of a weekly verse task of - greater length, and was called a VULGUS, I suppose, because - everybody—the VULGUS—had to do it. - - 1856. HUGHES, _Tom Brown’s School-days_, II. iii. The VULGUS (commonly - supposed to have been established by William of Wykeham at Winchester, - and imported to Rugby by Arnold more for the sake of the lines which - were learnt by heart with it than for its own intrinsic value, as I’ve - always understood), ... is a short exercise in Greek or Latin verse, - on a given subject, the minimum number of lines being fixed for each - form.... At Rugby VULGUS and lines were the first lesson every other - day in the week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays; and ... it is - obvious ... that the master of each Form had to set one hundred and - fourteen subjects every year.... Now, human nature being prone to - repeat itself, it will not be wondered that the masters gave the same - subjects sometimes over again after a certain lapse of time. To meet - and rebuke this bad habit of the masters, the school-boy mind, with - its accustomed ingenuity, had invented an elaborate system of - tradition. Almost every boy kept his own VULGUS written out in a book - ... duly handed down from boy to boy, till ... popular boys, in whose - hands bequeathed VULGUS-BOOKS have accumulated, are prepared with - three or four VULGUSES on any subject in heaven or earth, or in “more - worlds than one,” which an unfortunate master can pitch upon.... The - only objection to the traditionary method of doing your VULGUSES was, - the risk that the successions might have become confused, and so that - you and another follower of traditions should show up the same - identical VULGUS some fine morning; in which case, when it happened, - considerable grief was the result. - - - - - - -*Waffle*, _verb_ (Durham).—To talk nonsense. [North dial. - _waffle_ = to wave, to fluctuate; _waffler_ (Camb.) = a - person who is very weak; _waffy_ (Linc.) = insipid.] - - -*Walking-days*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—Several days - allowed to a new boy during which he was initiated into the - ways of the house by an old boy. - - -*Wall*, _subs._ (Eton).—_See_ quot. - - 1890. _Great Public Schools_, 26. There are, as is well known, two - [football] games played at Eton—one at the WALL, the other in the - FIELD. The first is only played by a very limited number of boys, for - there is but one WALL; the game is of a mysterious and intricate - nature, and the uninitiated spectator cannot as a rule even see how a - point (called a SHY) is obtained. Indeed were it not for the - time-honoured match between Collegers and Oppidans on St. Andrew’s - Day, the game would probably become obsolete.... The Eton FIELD game - has, in the opinion of the writer [the Rev. Sydney R. James], merits, - as a game for boys, superior to those of any other kind of football. - In it speed and skilful dribbling and accurate kicking have their due - success, but strength and dogged perseverance and pluck are not left - out in the cold. - - _Verb_ (Oxford).—To confine to College. - - -*Wallyford*, _subs._ (Loretto).—The usual run on a wet whole - school-day: about 3-1/2 miles. _See_ LONG WALLYFORD. - - -*Wanker*, _subs._ (Felsted).—A bloater. [From - “stinker”—“stwanker”—“wanker.”] - - 1892. _Felstedian_, Oct., 105. My name it is “WANKER”; a leaner or - lanker, Salter or ranker, fish never swam. _Ibid._, June 1897, p. 100. - He sniffs. “’Eugh, WANKERS again.” - - -*Warden*, subs. (Winchester).—See quot. - - _c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 27. The - chief of the whole establishment is the WARDEN, who has nothing to do - with the teaching of the boys; he admits and when necessary expels - them, confers on them the dignity of “Præfect,” listens to their - complaints, and, in fact, in all matters appertaining to the - management of the school and the society is omnipotent. - - -*Wash*, _subs._ (Derby).—School tea or coffee. _See_ ROCK. - - -*Washing-drawer*, _subs._ (Winchester).—In College, a box to - hold toilet requisites. - - -*Washing-stool*, _subs._ (Winchester).—In College, a Præfect’s - table. - - 1881. _Felstedian_, Nov., p. 74, “A Day’s Fagging at Winchester.” I - remember that the Senior Præfect is going to get up to mug early - before chapel, and I have to call him and take his WASHING-STOOL (a - rough wooden table generally used for putting washing basins on, - which, when covered with a cloth, serves as a writing-table) out into - Chamber Court.... Here let me observe that only the præfects have - separate basins to wash in; the juniors use the two stone conduits. - - -*Watch*, _subs._ (Westminster).—A junior who has to remain in - College during play-hours to answer inquiries, receive - messages, and so forth, performing, in fact, the duties of a - servant. - - -*Watch.* TO WATCH OUT, _verb. phr._ (Winchester).—To field: at - cricket. - - -*Water*, _subs._ (Westminster).—Boating. - - 1881. PASCOE, _Everyday Life in Our Public Schools_. Boating, or - WATER, as it is called at Westminster, is in a very flourishing - condition. - - -*Weekites* (Charterhouse).—_See_ OUT-HOUSES. - - -*Westminster Customs.* _See_ CAP; CHALLENGE; EARLY; PLAY; MONOS; - PANCAKE; SHADOW; SILVER-PENCE and WESTMINSTER PLAY. Besides - these are others worthy of mention:— - - 1. THE COLLEGE WAISTCOAT.—A remarkable and original service - was, up to the date of the Public Schools Commission, - exacted of a Westminster junior. He was supposed to be a - treasury of small conveniences for his seniors’ use in and - out of school. He wore a college waistcoat of peculiar - pattern, in the pockets of which he had to carry about and - produce immediately on legal demand—the items are recorded - in the published evidence—two penknives, two pieces of - india-rubber, two pencils, two pieces of sealing-wax, two - pieces of pen-string, two dips (_q.v._), two dip-corks, two - wedges, two pieces of gutta-percha (for putting on the - points of foils), and any number of pens. Besides, he had to - carry a portfolio containing a sufficiency of “quarterns” of - paper. - - 2. LATIN FORMULÆ.—Quaint old Latin formulæ continued in use - at Westminster, unchanged since its earliest foundation. - While the school is at morning lesson, the _monitor ostii_ - (_see_ MONOS) watches the clock, and at half-past eleven - comes to the monitor of school and announces the time. The - monitor goes to the head-master’s desk, makes his bow, and - says, “_Sesqui est undecima_.” At a quarter to twelve he - makes the further announcement, “_Instat duodecima_.” - When twelve o’clock has struck he says again, “_Sonuit - duodecima_;” at a quarter-past twelve, “_Prima quarta acta - est_;” at half-past, “_Sesqui est duodecima_,” at which - welcome words books are shut, and the whole school is - dismissed. The same formalities, with the necessary - variations, are repeated during afternoon lessons. Before - dinner the Captain calls out two boys of the Second - Election, one to say grace—“_Age gratias_”—and the other to - repeat the proper responses—“_Agite responsa_;” and when - dinner is over, before grace again, he pays even the - juniors the compliment of asking whether they have had - enough—“_Satisne edistis et bibistis?_” to which the - compulsory answer is made—in old times too often by hungry - lips—“_Satis edimus et bibimus_.” Every night at ten o’clock - the monitor of chamber gives the order for the juniors to - put out the lights and go to bed—“_Extinctis lucernis - intrate lectos_.” It is only within the last generation or - two that the rule of speaking Latin exclusively, both by - boys and masters, during school hours has fallen into - abeyance. - - -*Westminster Play.*—A Latin comedy, presented annually in the - dormitory of St. Peter’s College, a custom dating from Queen - Elizabeth’s days. The performances take place just before - the Christmas holidays, the play being repeated three times. - The cast is strictly confined to the forty scholars on the - foundation. At the close of last presentation a CAP (_q.v._) - is collected, the surplus of which, after paying expenses, - is divided among the performers. - - -*Wet-bob*, _subs._ (Eton).—A rowing man. _See_ DRY-BOB. - - 1839. C. T. BUCKLAND, _Eton Fifty Years Ago_ [1889, _Macmillan’s_, - Nov.]. It was the ambition of most boys to be a WET-BOB, and to be “in - the boats.” The school was divided between WET-BOBS and dry-bobs, the - former taking their pleasure on the river, and the latter in the - cricket-field. - - -*Whale*, _subs._ 1. (Cheltenham).—Codfish. - - 2. (Royal Military Academy).—A sardine. - - -*Whiter*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A white waistcoat: this may be worn - by those who have been three years in the school. - - -*Whole*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A whole holiday, or whole schoolday. - - -*Wicker*, _subs._ (Felsted: obsolete).—A hamper: as of - provisions. - - -*Wicket-cricket*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—Cricket played with a - stick or “wicket.” - - -*Wilderness* (The), _subs._ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—The Dark - Walk; a part of the garden. _Cf._ GERARD, _Stonyhurst_, p. - 179. - - -*Wilderness* (Charterhouse).—A playing ground at Old - Charterhouse before Thomas Sutton bought the estate: now a - belt of trees to the south of UNDER-GREEN (_q.v._). - - -*Wine*, _subs._ (University).—A wine-party. Also as _verb_. - - 1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, vii. Now I’m going to WINE with Smalls - to-night. - - -*Wise Men of the East*, _subs. phr._ (Cambridge).—The last - twelve in the Mathematical TRIPOS (_q.v._). - - 1785. GROSE, _Vulg. Tongue_, s.v. PLUCK.... These unfortunate - individuals were designated by many opprobrious appellations, such as - the Twelve Apostles, the Legion of Honour, WISE MEN OF THE EAST, &c. - - -*Wooston*, _adv._ (Christ’s Hospital).—Very: _e.g._ WOOSTON a - jolly fellow; a WOOSTON jolly fellow; I am WOOSTON, chaffy. - [That is, “whore son.”—GUILLEMARD.] - - -*Work*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Pain. Also as _verb_ = to hurt. - - 14[?]. _Townley Mysteries_, “Processus Noe.” My bonys are so stark No - wonder if they WARK For I am full old. - - 14[?]. _Alexander_ [ASHMOL.], line 531. So sare WERKIS hire the wame. - _Ibid._, line 539. Of *WERKE* well ne I wede (am mad). - - 1469. MALORY, _Morte d’Arthur_. But I may not stonde, myn hede WERCHES - soo. - - 1750. COLLIER, _Works_. I gran an I thrutcht, till my arms WARTCHD - agen. - - 1860. R. BRIERLY, _Ab. in London_. I shaked his hond till my arm - WARTCHT, then he shaked mine till his arm WARTCHT. - - 1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. WORK. The use of REMEDY - (_q.v._) for a holiday seems to imply that WORK is a painful disease. - - -*Worms*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A trenched line on the turf: used - as goal at football. _See_ quot. - - 1881. PASCOE, _Life in Our Public Schools_. Across the two ends of the - ground a small trench is dug, about four inches wide and two deep, and - a goal is obtained when the ball is fairly kicked across the trench - (Wiccamicé WORMS). - - -*Wrangler*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—The name given to those who are - placed in the first class in the first or elementary portion - of the public examination for honours in pure and mixed - mathematics, commonly called the Mathematical Tripos, those - placed in the second class being known as Senior Optimes, - and those in the third class as Junior Optimes. Up to and - including the year 1882, the student who took absolutely the - first place in the Mathematical Tripos used to be termed - Senior Wrangler; those who came next to him being second, - third, fourth, &c., wranglers. Since then the title has been - given to the student who takes the first place in Part I. of - the Mathematical Tripos. The name is derived from the public - disputations, in which candidates for degrees were formerly - required to exhibit their powers. - - 1870. _The Blue_, March. We were rejoiced to hear of the University - success of a late Grecian—G. A. Greenhill, who was announced as Second - WRANGLER in the late Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge. Further on in - the month we heard of his being bracketed with Mr. Pendlebury (the - Senior WRANGLER) as Smith’s Prizeman, a thing seldom heard of at - Cambridge, and never before has any Blue attained that high honour. - - -*Wratislaw’s.* _See_ PLANKS. - - -*Writer*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A Junior acting as secretary to - a College officer. - - -*Wuggins*, _subs._ (Oxford).—Worcester College; BOTANY-BAY - (_q.v._). - - - - - - -*Yarder*, _subs._ (Harrow).—Cricket played in the school yard: - in the summer term. - - TO GET YARDS, _verb. phr._ (Harrow).—To get a catch at - football and be allowed a free kick, not running more than - can be covered in three running strides. Hence TO GIVE YARDS - = to give such a catch; TO STEP YARDS = to cover the - distance in “kicking off yards” in three strides; TO KNOCK - DOWN YARDS = to prevent another from “taking yards.” - [Originally three yards.] - - -*Yards* (The), _subs._ 1. (Durham).—The list of members, - originally of the First Game, but now of the Second Game—at - football or cricket. [Formerly in the cricket season only a - patch of ground thirty yards square was mowed. Those who had - the privilege of playing on this were said to be “on the - YARDS.”] - - 2. (Royal High School, Edin.).—The gravel-covered - playground. - - -*Yark*, _verb_ (Durham).—To cane. _See_ TWANK and LAM. [_Yark_ - (North) = to strike, to beat.] - - -*Yellow-hammer*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A BLUE (_q.v._) in - disgrace for gross misconduct and under discipline. _See_ - quot. - - 1844. _Reminis. of Christ’s Hospital_ [The Blue, August 1874]. In the - case of a hardened offender, or of gross misdemeanour, a system of - degradation was adopted, by causing the culprit to wear his coat - turned inside out, and as the body of the coat had a yellow lining, - the metamorphosis was remarkably striking, and (unkindest cut of all!) - the subjects of this hideous transformation—these involuntary - turn-coats—were by their schoolfellows nicknamed YELLOW-HAMMERS. - - -*Yolly*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A post-chaise. [That - is, “Yellow,” that having been generally a favourite colour - for these vehicles.] - - -*-y*, _inseparable suffix_ (Manchester Grammar).—_See_ MATHY, - CHEMMY, GYMMY, &c. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - -[Illustration] - - - - - APPENDIX - - - - -*A*, _subs._ (Felsted).—_See_ D, _infra._ - - -*Abbey, The* (Durham).—The Cathedral. The boys of Durham - School (and they alone) speak, and always have spoken, of - the Cathedral as “the Abbey.” This is supposed to show - that the school dates from pre-Reformation days, though - its foundation is put down to the time of Henry VIII. The - Charity Commissioners admit the claim, and pay to the - Head-master a pension founded by Cardinal Langley in 1415 - for the master of his school in Durham. - - -*Academia*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A select literary club: in - vogue where the Jesuit _Ratio Studiorum_ flourishes. Not now - existent at Stonyhurst, but it is in great vigour in America - and on the Continent. - - -*Ambulacrum*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The covered playground used - in wet weather. - - -*Arcady*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—An arched portion of the new - front. - - -*Atramentarius*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—The ink-pot - boy: an office once in vogue, the holder of it being - responsible for the cleanliness, &c., of the ink-pots in the - class-rooms. For this he was given a GOOD-DAY (_q.v._) at - the end of the year. - - - - -*B*, _subs._ (Felsted).—_See_ D, _infra._ - - -*Back-stop*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The wicket-keeper in ordinary - cricket. - - -*Bag*, _verb_ (Stonyhurst).—TO COB (_q.v._). - - -*Ball of Honour*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—_See_ BEGGAR’S-ACE. - - -*Bannet* (and *Bannet-fire*), _subs._ (Royal High School, - Edin.).—_See_ BONNET and BONNET-FIRE, _ante_: in each case - an error has crept in; the correct spelling is, of course, - _bannet_. - - -*Bate*, _adj._ (Harrow).—Angry. - - -*Beast*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—_See_ BRUTE. - - -*Beggar’s-ace* (and *Ball of Honour*), _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—Two - extra balls given by the winning side in a game to enable - their opponents to catch up if possible. - - -*Bill*, _subs._ (Eton).—An old Etonian states that “in the BILL” - used to mean only that a boy was “complained of” to the - Head-master. _See_ ante. - - -*Black Monday* (Stonyhurst).—The day of re-opening of schools. - - -*Blandyke* (Stonyhurst).—_See_ ante. It may be interesting to - call attention to the connection between Stonyhurst and St. - Omers and many of the words and phrases occurring in this - vocabulary. They not only date from the Continental period, - but find their explanation in it alone. The College was - founded in 1592 at St. Omers, and continued without a break - (at Bruges and Liège) previous to the settlement in England - in 1794. - - -*Bloody Wars*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A common name for any - stiffness: such as that usually experienced at the beginning - of the football or cricket season: _e.g._ “I’ve got the - BLOODY WARS.” - - -*Blue*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—_See_ ante; concerning the - dress, I learn that the cap was given up many years ago. - There used to be a yellow petticoat under the blue skirt. - The boys also wear white “bands.” - - -*Bluebottle*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital: Hertford).—A BLUE - (_q.v._): used by girls at Hertford. _See_ GRASSHOPPER - (Appendix) and HEDGEHOG (_ante_). - - -*Bottle*, _verb_ (Durham).—_See_ ante. Also TO BE BOTTLED = to - be in a fix. - - -*Bouncer*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A ball kicked from the hand - before it reaches the ground: Stonyhurst-football (_q.v._). - - -*Boy*, _subs._ (Harrow).—Specifically, a fag a grade above the - lowest form. _See_ ante. As a _verb_, TO BOY = to call for a - fag: all fags are summoned by a long drawn-out shout. - - -*Brick* (and *Clat*), _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The names given - to the two rival camps in a certain notorious - quasi-insurrection in the College some fifty years ago. - A full account appears in Fitzgerald’s _Stonyhurst - Memories_. - - -*Bug and Snail*, _subs._ phr. (Winchester).—The Natural History - Society. - - -*Bug-shooter*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A member of the School Corps. - - -*Bumf.* TO BUY A BUMF, _verb. phr._ (general).—To purchase a - newspaper. MATH-BUMF = mathematical paper. _See_ ante. - - -*Bunker*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—(1) A native; (2) a low fellow. - - -*Bus*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—An extra nondescript class formed - chiefly of boys not born to study. - - -*Butt*, _subs._ (Dulwich).—The school tuck-shop. _See_ BUTTERY. - - -*Butter*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A boy known often to miss a - catch. Hence, as _verb_ = to miss a catch. - - -*Buzz*, _verb_ (Christ’s Hospital).—To cry; to weep. - - - - -*C*, _subs._ (Felsted).—_See_ D, _infra_. - - -*Cæsar’s-bridge* (Stonyhurst).—An old bridge over the Hodder. - Also CROMWELL’S-BRIDGE, though it is probable that Cromwell - crossed the Hodder higher up. _See_ HIGGER BRIG. - - -*Cage, The* (Royal High School, Edin.).—A covered area, between - two gates, in which prisoners at games are confined. Also, - as _verb_ = to put in this enclosure. - - -*Candle-keepers*, _subs._ (Winchester).—MANSFIELD in his - _School-Life at Winchester College_, p. 30 (_see_ quot. - 1840, _ante_), says, “Why so called I have no idea,” but - _see_ ADAM’S _Wykehamica_ (1878), 418. - - -*Cards.* ON CARDS, _phr._ (Harrow).—A report on conduct taken to - the Head-master. - - -*Carthaginians* (Stonyhurst).—_See_ VICTORY-WALK. - - -*Champion*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A boy in a LOWER LINE (_q.v._) - class who, on account of age or size, joins in the games of - the HIGHER LINE (_q.v._). _Cf._ CHARITY-TAILS. - - -*Chisel*, _verb_ (Winchester).—To cheat. - - -*Clap*, _verb_ (Christ’s Hospital: Hertford).—To push in front - of. Whence CLAPPER = one who so pushes. - - -*Clat* (Stonyhurst).—_See_ BRICK. - - -*Clogs*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The boots made by the College - shoemaker. - - -*Common-key*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A key by which most of the - doors on the boys’ side of the house are opened. - - -*Concertatio*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—An exhibition of class-work - given from time to time in the Community refectory by the - LOWER LINE (_q.v._) classes. - - -*Copy*, _subs._ (Harrow).—Formerly COPY = a prize-book, chosen - by the recipient. _See_ ante. - - -*Cork*, _verb_ (Eton).—To throw. [An Old Etonian informs me that - “Cork” and not CALK (_q.v._) is the correct orthography.] - - -*Cowshed, The* (Christ’s Hospital).—_See_ ante. It should be - stated that THE COWSHED is a sort of pent-house near the - Warden’s residence which workmen use for divers purposes. - - -*Cricket-machine*, subs. (Stonyhurst).—A boy who studies cricket - scores with excessive care. - - -*Crock*, _subs._ (general).—An indifferent performer at a game. - - -*Crocked.* TO BE CROCKED, _verb. phr._ (general).—To be injured - at a game. - - -*Crow’s-wing* (and *-refectory*), _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The part - of the house in which the masters live and fare. _See_ CROW. - - -*Cut.* TO CUT IN, _verb. phr._ (Harrow).—If a boy misses his - place in the line at BILL (_q.v._), and tries to run in - irregularly, he is said TO CUT IN. - - - - -*D*, _subs._ (Felsted).—A division of “punishment bounds.” - Nominally the bounds were:—A = practically no bounds; B = - the ordinary bounds, the roads about a mile from the school; - C = punishment bounds, confinement to the cricket-fields and - playground; and D = confinement to the old school-house - playground, one of the commonest forms of punishment till - 1876, when the present school-house was opened. C and D were - also known respectively as MONGREL and QUOD. - - -*Dame*, _subs._ (Eton and Harrow).—Originally many ladies kept - boarding-houses: hence the word. _See_ ante. - - -*Damnation-hill* (Harrow).—_See_ DAMNATION-CORNER and HOWSON and - WARNER, _Harrow School_ (1898), 80. - - -*Degerd*, _adj._ (Harrow).—Degraded. [Pronounced _Daygerd_.] - - -*Dicks’* (Stonyhurst).—The chief tuck-shop at the present time. - - -*Ditch, The* (Christ’s Hospital).—_See_ ante. THE DITCH is one - of the three playgrounds, or rather open spaces, within the - walls of Christ’s Hospital: it takes its name from the old - City ditch which ran beneath it. The two others are the - “Hall Play,” and the “Garden.” - - -*Double-remove.* To get a DOUBLE-REMOVE, _verb. phr._ - (Harrow).—To skip a form. - - -*Dox*, _subs._ (Tonbridge).—The head-master. [An abbreviation of - “doctor.”] - - -*Dub.* TO DUB IN, _verb. phr._ (Christ’s Hospital).—To - subscribe. - - -*Duke’s-room* (Stonyhurst).—The PHILOSOPHERS’ (_q.v._) - drawing-room. - - - - -*Early bed*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—In winter time the smaller - boys go to bed an hour before the rest. Elder boys may avail - themselves of this if sick: _e.g._ “There is no EARLY BED - to-night.” - - -*Extraordinary*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—Classes in which extra - classics are read in the lower forms. - - - - -*Fag-poker*, _intj._ (Harrow: obsolete).—A cry to a fag to fetch - a stake for the fire. - - 1827. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_ [Harrow], p. 318. Poker and tongs - were unknown luxuries in the “play-room” at Butler’s; and the junior - fag, at the call of “FAG poker,” had to rush out in the cold to pull a - hedge-stake of substantial dimensions from the fence or faggot-stack. - - -*Feeder-cric* (Christ’s Hospital).—_See_ ante. This game got its - name from the “feeder,” _i.e._ the thrower of the ball, and - the humble imitation that it was of cricket. The bat was a - stick like a “glorified” ruler, but cut away at one end to - resemble in some sort a cricket-bat. It was played against a - buttress, on which was marked a circle in chalk, which - served as a wicket. The ball was soft, with a hole in it; as - in rounders the batsman might insist on certain conditions - as to the method of “feeding,” and might refuse to recognise - a “feed” unreasonable in height. - - - *First-praise*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—_See_ REPORT. - - - *First-touch.* TO BE FIRST-TOUCH, _verb. phr._ - (Stonyhurst).—To be first in reaching the scene - of a game, a place in which was secured by - touching some object, as a handball, a wicket, - &c. - - - *Flab*, _subs._ 1. (Christ’s Hospital).—Butter. - - 2. (Stonyhurst).—A boy who does not play in - any of the regular (cricket) matches. For - such a practice net is provided, known as - the FLAB’S-NET. - - - *Fob*, _verb_ (Christ’s Hospital).—To put on - carelessly: as bands or buttons, without - trouble, to look right for a minute or so. - - - *Forcing*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—Dribbling. _See_ - STONYHURST-FOOTBALL. - - - *Form-beak*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A form-master. _See_ - BEAK. - - - *Form-game*, _subs._ (Harrow: obsolete).—At - football, the games arranged in grades of - ability, and not by Houses. They were named - on the same principle as the school is - arranged—Sixth Form game, Fifth Form game, - and so on. - - - *Forty*, _subs._ (Felsted).—A division of the school - for football or cricket. Each FORTY has its own - ground. - - - *Fotch*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A blow on the - face. Also as _verb_ = to strike. - - - *Fox*, _verb_ (Stonyhurst).—To pretend to be ill. - - - *Frart*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A potato. - - - *Fug*, _subs._ (Harrow).—_See_ ante. The name is now - given to a diminutive Association ball: formerly - one of hair and chamois-leather. - - - *Fungi*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital)—India-rubber. - - - - - *Gomer*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ ante, sense 2. - I am informed that there is yet another usage. - GOMERS = a suit of clothes in which to go home. - [Because College men wear gowns.] - - - *Goose-match*, _subs._ (Harrow).—_See_ ante, and - quot. - - 1898. S. W. GORE, _Harrow School_, 225. Harrow is, I - believe, one of the few schools where cricket is played in - the Michaelmas term, when the traditional “GOOSE” MATCH is - played. This was started on the 22nd of September 1849 by - Mr. C. O. Eaton. - - - *Grammar-match*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A football - match in which the members of the highest class - of the LOWER LINE (_q.v._)—GRAMMAR (_q.v._)—play - the lower classes combined. - - - *Grasshopper*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital: - Hertford).—A BLUE-girl: used by boys at - Hertford. _See_ BLUEBOTTLE (Appendix) and - HEDGEHOG (_ante_). - - - *Great Figures* (Stonyhurst).—_See_ FIGURES, _ante_. - - - *Grecian*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—Add - following to 1871 quot.:— - - Then on leaving the school for college they obtain a gift - of £60 for clothing and outfit, and an allowance of £70 a - year while at college. Nor do they seem to owe any further - allegiance in after life to Christ’s Hospital. For - instance, many lads are educated specially for the navy, - and are distinguished from the others by wearing a metal - badge on the shoulder, but on leaving Christ’s they do not - necessarily enter maritime life. - - - - - *Head.* HEAD OF THE LINE, _subs. phr._ - (Stonyhurst).—The Captain of the School. - - - *Hedgehog* (Christ’s Hospital).—_See_ BLUEBOTTLE and - GRASSHOPPER (Appendix). - - - *Hell*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A well-known hazard on - the golf links: another is called PURGATORY. - - - *Henner*, _subs._ (Royal High School, Edin.).—A - challenge to do something difficult, which the - challenger must first do himself: _e.g._ “Here’s - a HENNER for you!” [Probably from Old Scots - _hain_.] - - - *Higger Brig*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A bridge over - the Hodder. It was by the old bridge at this - point that Cromwell crossed on his way to - Stonyhurst Hall, though some say it was at - CÆSAR’S BRIDGE (_q.v._). [Derived from an - attempt to pronounce “Higher Bridge” in the - local fashion.] - - - *Hopgarth*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—A part - of the Gardens. - - - *House-beak*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A master. _See_ BEAK - and FORM-BEAK. - - - - - *Immunity-card*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—_See_ - TOLLY-TICKET. - - - *In.* ALL IN, _phr._ (Stonyhurst).—A direction - given (1) at end of recreation; and (2) to - stay indoors at recreation time when wet. - - - *Ink-pot Boy* (Stonyhurst).—_See_ ATRAMENTARIUS. - - - - - *Jicker*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—(1) The - juice of a HIGH (_q.v._). [It is suggested - that this is a “portmanteau word”—from _juice_ - and _liquor_.] Also (2) = blacking. - - - *Jickery*, _adj._ (Christ’s Hospital).—Big: _e.g._ - “You’re in for a JICKERY row.” [Query = - overflowing, like the JICKER (juice) of a “high” - (fruit tart).] - - - *Jiffs, The* (Christ’s Hospital).—THE JIFFS are - about the oldest part of the Hospital building. - The name is given to cloisters lying on the left - hand as one enters from Christ Church passage. - They are at a lower level, and are reached by - four steps. It was the only part not burned in - the Great Fire. The rooms above were destroyed. - [Suggested derivations are:—(1) from “Grey - Friars” = G.F.’s; and (2) from a beadle, - Geoffrey—Geoff’s—Jiffs.] - - - *Joseph*, _subs._ (Harrow: obsolete).—Generic for - boy: _e.g._ BEETLE-JOSEPH = an entomological - collector; MUSIC-JOSEPH = a boy who studied - music, and so forth. - - - - - *Keen*, _adj._ (Christ’s Hospital).—Good: _e.g._ - “jolly KEEN” = very good. - - - *Kenna’s-day* (Stonyhurst).—_See_ DAY, _ante_. - - - *King*, _subs._ (Royal High School, Edin.).—A game - peculiar to the school. The players range - themselves on one side of the playground, one - going into the centre and calling “King!” The - centre player endeavours to catch some one, who - then joins him, and this goes on till all are - caught. A rush is then made for the side, the - last to reach it taking the centre place in a - new game. It forms an excellent training for - football and a source of revenue to tailors. - - - - - *Lady Gallery* (Stonyhurst).—A gallery in which is a - statue of the Blessed Virgin. - - - *Lamm.* TO LAMM IN, _verb. phr._ (Stonyhurst).—_See_ - PEG IN. - - - *Last-quarter*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—An interval at - the end of long recreations for toilet purposes, - &c., before studies or other duties: _e.g._ “Is - there LAST-QUARTER after this recreation?” - - - *Leeming’s Knot* (Stonyhurst).—A ditch or hole in a - neighbouring wood. [From some local farmer who - is said to have jumped into it.] - - - *Little Man*, _subs._ (Eton).—_See_ ante: this term, - I am informed, is only applied to one particular - man in a certain shop. - - - *Lo* (Felsted).—_See_ FAIN LO. - - - *Long Litany Lane* (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—A lane - near the College. - - - *Long Sleep*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A longer time - than usual in bed: _e.g._ “There will be LONG - SLEEP to-morrow,” “May I have LONG SLEEP?” - - - *Long-soft*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A long, low - bounce: STONYHURST-FOOTBALL (_q.v._). - - - *Lord’s.* TO BE IN LORD’S, _verb. phr._ - (Winchester).—To be a member of the first Eleven - at cricket, dating from the old Public School - matches at Lord’s between Winchester, Harrow, - and Eton. Whence LORD’S-EX = the Exeat for the - Eton and Harrow match. - - - *Lounge*, _subs._ (Eton).—Both present and past Eton - schoolmen inform me that, as far as they know, - this word was, and is, never used. - - - *Love-lane* (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—A road near the - College. - - - *Low*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—There are two - sorts of fruit pies sold at the school shop, - called respectively, according to their shape, - “HIGH” and “LOW,” the word “pie” being generally - omitted. - - - - - *Magazine*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The dormitory of - the smaller boys in the College. Once a trunk - room. - - - *Mathemat*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—_See_ ante, - and add following to quot. 1895:— - - The most distinctive feature in the MATHEMAT life was the - yearly “going to Court.” Our hair was trimmed and brushed - for the occasion by the Hospital barber, buttonholes and - gloves lavished on us. When we went to Buckingham Palace - we drove five in a carriage, the redundant gentleman being - literally and metaphorically sat upon by his justly - indignant comrades. But more interesting were our visits - to Windsor, with the march from the station to the Castle, - the long weary waiting in endless corridors and gorgeous - ante-chambers, the well-earned lunch, with John Brown - peeping in at the door; then Her Majesty’s inspection of - our drawings; and finally, our free range over the Castle - and toilsome ascent of the Round Tower. I remember the - following circumstance: One MATHEMAT exhibited a painting - of a ship still building. Prince George of Wales remarked - to his brother, “What a ‘rummy’ ship,” at which the - exhibitor laughed, causing the elder Prince to exclaim, - “Look, George, he’s laughing at you.” - - - *Mayfair* (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—A walk in the - playground. _Cf._ BOND-STREET. - - - *Meeter*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A successful kick at - a ball coming towards the one who kicks. _See_ - STONYHURST-FOOTBALL. - - - *Mob*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A move from one - Form to another. - - - *Mongrel* (Felsted).—_See_ D (Appendix). - - - *Monkey.* MONKEY-ROOM (Stonyhurst).—A lumber-room: - chiefly used as a stable for bicycles. - - - *Mull*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A fight. - - - - - *Nicks*, _intj._ (Stonyhurst).—_See_ ante. Also used - at Stonyhurst by scouts at sight of a Prefect. - - - *Nip’s-night*, _subs._ (Felsted).—The annual - entertainment for the village people. [_Nip_ = a - rustic.] - - - *Nurse*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—_See_ ante. - Obsolete in London, but retained at Hertford. - - - - - *Officiate*, _verb_ (Christ’s Hospital).—To - interfere: _i.e._ to be “officious.” _E.g._ - “Don’t officiate.” - - - *On.* ALL ON, _phr._ (Stonyhurst).—The direction - given at the end of recreation. Also ALL IN. - - - - - *Passy*, _adj._ (Christ’s Hospital).—_See_ ante. Now - obsolete: the modern equivalent is VISH, which - _see_ (Appendix). - - - *Past*, _adv._ (Stonyhurst).—Beyond the goal line. - - - *Peg.* TO PEG IN, _verb. phr._ (Stonyhurst).—(1) To - throw in hard: of cricket. (2) To cane severely: - of corporal punishment: _e.g._ “Does So-and-so - PEG IN?” Also To LAMM IN. - - - *People*, _subs._ (Harrow).—Relations; visitors: - _e.g._ “I’ve got PEOPLE coming down.” - - - *Pepper-box*, _subs._ (Eton).—A buttress in - the original Fives Court on the Chapel - steps—reproduced in all Eton Fives Courts. - - - *Pester*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The special cab used to - convey boys with infectious diseases to SANNY - (_q.v._). - - - *Pet, The* (Felsted).—The petrifying stream: a small - brook near Felsted. - - - *Philathlet* (or *Phil*), _subs._ (Harrow).—_See_ - PHIL, _ante_. Also the large school cricket - ground used for lower games. - - - *Philosopher’s-quarters*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The - part of the house in which the PHILOSOPHERS - (_q.v._) live. - - - *Pi*, _adj._ (originally Winchester).—_See_ ante. - This expression is now pretty general. Also - PI-JAW (or PI-GAS) = a serious admonition. - - - *Pog*, _subs._ (Felsted).—_See_ ante: the suggested - derivation is “Pig—pig-faced—pog.” “Put your - POG” was the usual direction to DRAWING-ROUND - (_q.v._). - - - *Post-office*, _verb_ (Harrow).—To promenade - the High Street. [Where is situated the - post-office.] - - - *Prefect’s-room*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The room in - which corporal punishment is inflicted. “To - visit the PREFECT’S-ROOM” has a recognised - significance. Also known as the TOLLY-SHOP. - - - *Prisoner’s-bars*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—Otherwise - known as “Prisoner’s-base.” - - - *Privates*, _subs._ (Harrow).—Private lessons. - - - *Purgatory*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—_See_ HELL. - - - *Purl* (or *Pearl*), _subs._ (Winchester).—A header. - Also as _verb_. - - - - - *Rabble*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—The Vesper - Choir: _i.e._ the choir formed of boys not in - the College choir proper, who sing alternately - with the latter at Vespers. - - - *Reading-room*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—An hour of - extra study after supper. So called from the - room in which this study may be done. “I am - going to Reading Room.” - - - *Rector’s Tower* (Stonyhurst).—A tower at the end of - the west wing. Also known as Parbrick Tower, - after the Rector who built it. - - - *Report*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The account of the - school work given by the Prefect of Studies in - the Boys’ Refectory, before the whole house - assembled, at the end of each term. The class - which wins most honour is said to get FIRST - PRAISE. After the Report the DISTINCTION LISTS - are read. _Cf._ DISTINGUISHED. - - - *Retreat*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A period of three - days annually devoted by the boys to practices - of piety. - - - *Romans* (Stonyhurst).—_See_ VICTORY-WALK. - - - *Rostrum*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—A pulpit - formerly in the boys’ refectory: used for - reading during certain meals. - - - *Rotten.* BELLS GO ROTTEN, _phr._ - (Winchester).—_See_ MANSFIELD, _School-Life at - Winchester_ (1866), 432. - - - *Roust*, _verb_ (Durham).—To kick. - - - - - *Sabbatine*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—A - kind of academical exhibition given by one of - the HIGHER LINE (_q.v._) classes to the rest - of the Higher Line and visitors on a Saturday - afternoon. [From _Sabbatum_.] - - - *Sack.* TO HAVE (or GET) THE SACK, _verb. phr._ - (Harrow).—To be dismissed from school for an - offence. A common enough word, but its specific - use at Harrow deserves mention. - - - *Sage*, _subs._ (Royal High School, Edin.: - obsolete).—A class. - - - *Sanny*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The School Sanatorium. - - - *Scaley*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A term of contempt: - applied to all foreigners. - - - *Sciff*, _verb_ (Christ’s Hospital).—To knock over. - - - *Sconse*, _subs._ and _adj._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A - selfish fellow; selfish. _See_ SCAFF. - - - *Scratch* (Christ’s Hospital).—The matron’s servant. - - - *Scrub*, subs. (Stonyhurst).—A ball hit close to the - wall or ground: handball. - - - *Scug*, _subs._ (Eton).—A term of contempt for any - boy wanting in self-respect. - - - *Second-dinner*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—When a boy - for any reason has been unable to dine with the - rest, he is said to go to SECOND-DINNER. - - - *Second-tip*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—A form - of STONYHURST-CRICKET (_q.v._), in which the - batsman had to run once at least in two hits. - - - *Second-washing*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The interval - allowed every day before dinner for toilet - purposes. - - - *Semmies* (or *Seminarians*), _subs._ - (Stonyhurst).—Students at the Seminary or St. - Mary’s Hall. - - - *Semper* (Winchester).—_See_ ante. SEMPER TESTIS - also = “a boy always ready to support any - assertion of his friend.” - - - *Senior Philosopher*, subs. (Stonyhurst).—The head - and spokesman of the PHILOSOPHERS (_q.v._). - - - *Shag*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A share. Also - as _verb_. - - - *Shark*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A “cadger.” - Whence, as _verb_ = to make up to; to cadge. - - - *Shinner*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A kick on the - shins. _See_ STONYHURST-FOOTBALL. - - - *Shop-boys*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The boys - responsible for the shop in the “house.” It is - entirely in the boys’ own hands; the profits go - to the games club. - - - *Shuts*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A “sell.” Also - as _intj._ = “Sold again!” - - - *Side.* BEHIND ONE’S SIDE, _phr._ (Winchester).—Said - of a man when nearer the opponents’ goal than - the player on his own side who last touched the - ball. - - Also _see_ SWAGGER (Appendix). - - - *Sig*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A signature for - work: _e.g._ “To get a SIG.” _See_ - SIGNED. - - - *Signed.* TO BE SIGNED, _verb. phr._ - (Harrow).—To be excused work. - - - *Six-and-Six*, _subs._ - (Winchester).—_See_ ante. Originally - one match yearly between College and - Commoners; now three matches between - College, Commoners, and Houses. Also - SIXES. _See_ APPLE-PIE DAY. - - - *Sixes*, _subs._ (Harrow).—Alternate six - balls in the Yard with another - batsman. Hence TO GO SIXES = to go - shares in anything. - - - *Skew* (Harrow).—_See_ ante. Also, as - _verb_ = to turn (or fail) in REP - (_q.v._). - - - *Skit*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A quantity. - - - *Slime*, _verb._ 1. (Felsted).—_See_ - ante. To sneak in, out, or past. - Also as _subs._, TO DO A SLIME (even - in games) = to take a crafty - advantage. - - 2. (Harrow).—To go round quietly. - - 1898. WARNER, _Harrow School_, 282. His house - beak SLIMED and twug him. - - 3. (Harrow).—To make drops at - rackets. - - - *Slop*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A - term of contempt. - - - *Slopper*, _subs._ (The Leys).—A - slop-basin. - - - *Snoring-dormitory*, _subs._ - (Stonyhurst).—A special dormitory - reserved for troublesome sleepers. - - - *Souppy*, _subs._ (Royal High School, - Edin.).—The same as GRUBBY (_q.v._). - - - *Spec*, _verb_ (Harrow and Durham).—To - expect to get; to count on winning - beforehand: as a race, &c. - - - *Spital Sermon* (Christ’s - Hospital).—_See_ ante. In _The Blue_ - of April 1900 appears an account of - a Spital Sermon preached in Christ - Church, Newgate Street, April 23rd, - 1644: it is quaint. In recent years - the Lord Mayor’s chaplain preached - on Easter Monday, a bishop on - Tuesday, but within the last twenty - years the Monday sermon has been - given up. Also, the boys no longer - wear the bit of paper bearing the - words, “He is risen,” and the - “Mathemats” have ceased to carry - their nautical instruments. - - - *Spot.* ON THE SPOT, _phr._ - (Stonyhurst).—(1) In good humour; - (2) in good condition. - - - *Stonyhurst-cricket*, _subs._ - (Stonyhurst: recently obsolete).—A - form of cricket played till very - recent times at Stonyhurst, the - ordinary game being known as - LONDON-CRICKET. The points of - difference are chiefly these: (1) - the balls must be swift, and bowled - along the ground; (2) the batsman - must hit—“slog” is the term; and (3) - the game is played at a single - wicket. Bat, ball, and wickets - differ in shape and size from those - used in cricket proper. In Father - Gerard’s _Stonyhurst_ will be found - a detailed account of the game, and - a connection is traced between it - and a crude form once played at - Eton. It is in all probability a - survival of very primitive cricket - which became stereotyped because of - the life of the College abroad. - - - *Stonyhurst-football*, _subs._ - (Stonyhurst).—A kind of football - played at Stonyhurst and some other - schools. It differs materially from - the Association and Rugby game, - chiefly in these respects: (1) any - number may play at once; (2) the - ball may be touched by the hand - during the game, but not handled or - carried as in Rugby football; (3) - charging, or otherwise roughly - treating another player, is - prohibited. The goal-posts are - longer and the space between them - narrower than in other forms of the - game; the ball is small and round. - It is akin to a species of football - played at Eton, and is clearly a - relic of the past. In matches the - sides usually have names: _e.g._ - “French and English,” in the Grand - Matches—a significant survival from - old continental days; “Federals and - Allies” (now obsolete); “Pipes and - Windows”—a favourite impromptu - match, the “Pipes” being those who - sit on one side of the old “Study - Place,” the “Windows” those who sit - on the other. Now that the “Pipes” - (hot-water pipes) are on the same - side as the windows, the match is - more commonly called “Walls and - Windows,” but sometimes “Chapel - Pipes and Windows.” “Shavers and - Non-shavers” is another favourite - match. - - - *Strue*, _subs._ (general).—A construe. - _See_ CON. - - - *Superd.* TO BE SUPERD, _verb. phr._ - (Harrow).—To be superannuated. - - - *Swack*, _subs._ (Christ’s - Hospital).—Deception. Whence TO - SWACK UP = to deceive; to take in. - - - *Swagger* (or *Side*), _subs._ - (Harrow).—(1) Appropriating - privileges to which one has no - right; and (2) using peculiar - privileges which others may not use. - Etiquette in this respect is very - complex. - - 1898. WARNER, _Harrow School_, 280. The rules - of “SWAGGER” are most complex, like other - traditional and unwritten codes, and in them a - new boy is apt to find himself entangled. He - goes out with his umbrella rolled up, and he - finds he is swaggering; or he carries it by - its middle, or under his arm, or he walks on - the middle terrace after chapel, or he - innocently wears his “blues” open when it is - hot, or turns his trousers up when it is wet, - and again he is swaggering. Lady visitors - sometimes think small boys at Harrow rude. It - is not rudeness which leads boys to stick - close to the wall, even when coming up covered - with mud from football, and shoulder the world - into the gutter, it is modesty; to walk in the - road is SWAGGER. To loiter at the house door, - or to sing or whistle in the passages, and to - wear a hat in the house are also forms of - SWAGGER. - - - - - *Taff*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital: - Hertford).—A potato. - - - *Talker*, _subs._ (Harrow).—One who - cannot sing in time. - - 1898. HOWSON and WARNER, _Harrow School_, 208. - Then followed solos from those who could sing - and those who could not—it made no difference. - The latter class were called TALKERS, and - every boy was encouraged to stand up and “talk - it out.” - - - *Tap*, _subs._ (Eton).—Originally the - CHRISTOPHER (_q.v._). Now the only - place recognised by the authorities - where a boy can get beer. - - - *Tart-feast*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst: - obsolete).—Certain feasts indulged - in by classes at the end of the - school year. - - - *Temple of Bel[l], The* (Royal High - School, Edin.: obsolete).—A square - tower at the north-east corner of - the playground in which the bell was - formerly hung: now rendered - invisible by the new buildings. - - - *Tetra* (Felsted).—_See_ ante. Also as - _adj._: _e.g._ a science boy - regarded “Stinks” as “TETRA-buck.” - - - *Thirders*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The Third - Eleven. - - - *Three Hundred Day* (Stonyhurst).—_See_ - DAY. - - - *Three-yearer*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A boy - who has been three years in the - school, and who, by seniority, has - the right to do certain things, - which his juniors may not do. - - - *Ticket*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A - promise, given by a Prefect to a - Junior, to remit the next punishment - when incurred. - - - *Titch*, _subs._ (Christ’s - Hospital).—_See_ ante. It is - suggested that TITCH is a - “portmanteau word”—“tight breeches,” - the tightening of the garment being - often a preliminary to the - operation. - - - *Tizzy-tick*, _subs._ (Harrow).—An order - on a tradesman to the extent of - sixpence a day. - - - *Tolly, The* (Rugby).—_See_ quot. - - 1900. _Athenæum_, 16th June, p. 743. The - chapel rather loses by its stunted head, - especially as a fine tapering spire - (disrespectfully known as “THE TOLLY”) appears - at the back of the Close. - - - *Tolly-shop*, _subs._ - (Stonyhurst).—_See_ PREFECT’S-ROOM. - - - *Tolly-ticket*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A - custom now generally obsolete, but - still kept up by some masters. It - used to be common, and consisted in - giving a boy a card of good conduct - as a reward for specially good work. - If, later, he were to incur - punishment for some offence, he - would produce this card, and, unless - the offence were too grave, could - thereby receive a free pardon. Such - cards were called TOLLY TICKETS or - IMMUNITY CARDS. [A precisely similar - custom is described as having - existed at Eton in the forties by - Mr. C. Kegan Paul in his - _Memories_.] - - - *Tonk*, _verb_ (Durham).—To hit: a - cricket term. - - - *Trav*, _subs._ - (Felsted).—Travelling-money. _See_ - HOTS. - - - *Tubby* (Christ’s Hospital).—A male - servant of the school: his business - was to move certain tubs, the use of - which has long been discontinued, - but the name remains. - - - *Tuft*, _subs._ (University).—A young - nobleman, entered as a student at a - university, so called from the TUFT - or gold tassel worn on the cap. Also - GOLD-HATBAND (_q.v._). Whence - “tuft-hunter.” - - - *Tuz I*, _phr._ (Felsted).—The same as - FAIN IT (_q.v._), BAGS I (_q.v._), - &c. - - - *Twelve* (Harrow).—_See_ ante. - - THE SCHOOL TWELVE, _subs. phr._ - (Harrow).—The twelve best singers - (bass and tenor voices singing in - unison) in the school. Whence THE - HOUSE TWELVE = the same in each - House. - - - *Twug* (Harrow).—Caught. [The _past - par._ of “twig.”] - - - - - *Vacation-shoes* (or *-clothes*), - _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—Each boy is - measured for these before the summer - holidays. - - - *Victory-walk*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A - recognised reward given every - half-term to the classes of the - LOWER LINE (_q.v._). The system is - as follows:—Each class is divided - into two sides, ROMANS and - CARTHAGINIANS, the boys being set - one against another as rivals. When - lessons are asked, the rivals are - asked in pairs, and each tries to - correct the other. A successful - correction is called a VICTORY. At - the end of the half-term these - victories are counted: the side - which has the greater total is freed - some afternoon for a VICTORY-WALK. - - - *Vile-child*, _subs._ (Eton).—I am - informed that this expression was - only used by a particular tutor, and - was never regarded as _peculiar_ to - Eton phraseology. - - - *Vill*, _subs._ (Felsted).—The village - of Felsted. - - - *Vish*, _adj._ (Christ’s - Hospital).—Cross: the modern - equivalent of PASSY (_q.v._). [That - is, “vicious.”] - - - - - *Whopping*, _subs._ (Harrow).—1. A - beating with a cane inflicted by a - Monitor, Head of House, Sixth Form - boy, &c., on a lower boy for a - breach of discipline. - - 2. A MONITOR’S-WHOPPING—a more - serious affair, only inflicted in - grave cases; the delinquent is - brought before the whole body of the - Monitors in the Vaughan Library, and - punishment given there. - - - *Wooden-spoon*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—The - student last on the list of - mathematical honours. _See_ TRIPOS, - GULF, TWELVE APOSTLES, WRANGLER, &c. - - - - - Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO. - Edinburgh & London - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - Transcriber’s note: - - Unusual and variable spellings, hyphenations, - and capitalizations have been retained. - - All upright instances of ‘Cf.’ italicized - (Bicker, [The] Dark Walk, Poetry, Rhetoric) - - Adsum, double quote inserted before ‘ADSUM,’ - “Newcome, “ADSUM,” or” - - Battlings, ‘67’ changed to ‘87,’ “1886-87. - Dickens, Dictionary” - - Bells, comma inserted following ‘Gabell,’ “be - heard “Gabell,” or” - - Bene-book, comma inserted after ‘male,’ “vix - satis, male, Big male” - - Black-jack, square brace inserted after ‘beer,’ - “boy servitor of beer.]” - - Blow, double quote inserted after ‘late,’ “thou - wakyst too late.”” - - Brasenose, double quote struck before ‘Brazen,’ - “Brazen Nose Hall, as” - - Calk, ‘Cork’ changed to small capitals, “See - Appendix, s.v. CORK” - - Challenge, square brace inserted after ‘q.v.,’ - “the Eton Montem (q.v.).]” - - Continent, double quote inserted after ‘day,’ - ““æger for the day”” - - Dispar, ‘Commons’ changed to ‘commons,’ “A - commons or share.” - - Div, text re-ordered for clarity, “e.g. - Tique-div (q.v.” - - Dreep, ‘or’ changed to medium weight, “Dreep (or - Dreip)” - - Drive, full stop inserted after ‘subs,’ “Also as - subs.” - - Fin, double quote inserted after ‘etc.,’ ““I - won’t have, &c.”” - - Genuine, square brace inserted after ‘115,’ “cf. - Parsius, i. 115.]” - - Go, comma inserted after ‘Kingsley,’ “H. - Kingsley, Austin Elliot” - - Hatch, ‘garden’ changed to ‘garden-gate,’ “a - garden-gate, wicket-gate” - - Haul, full stop inserted after ‘verb,’ “verb. - phr. (Harrow).—To have” - - Long Chamber, ‘Long Chamber’ changed to small - capitals, “years.... LONG CHAMBER, a dormitory” - - Long-meads, double qute inserted before ‘The,’ - ““The time after dinner” - - Mad, ‘Triolus’ changed to ‘Troilus,’ “Chaucer, - Troilus [Skeat” - - Mess, double quote inserted after ‘ready,’ “as - MESS is ready.”” - - Mortar-board, double quote struck before ‘fusc,’ - “(no “sub fusc” undergrad.)” - - Mustard-and-Pepper Keeper, ‘A’ changed to ‘An,’ - “An appointment in the” - - Nob, double quote inserted before ‘We,’ ““We - must find you some” - - Non-attached, double quote inserted after - ‘NON-ATTACHED,’ ““NON-ATTACHED,” and is now” - - Pandie, ‘See’ italicized, “See Redgauntlet” - - Post te, ‘POSTE’ changed to ‘POST,’ “e.g. POST - TE hat” - - Skirmish, full stop inserted after ‘verb,’ - “verb. phr. (Winchester).—To” - - Snicks, full stop inserted after ‘verb,’ “verb. - phr. (Winchester).—To” - - Sniw, full stop inserted after ‘verb,’ “verb. - phr. (The Leys).—To” - - Sock, double quote inserted after ‘week,’ “three - times last week,”” - - Swink, ‘Marriage’ changed to ‘Mariage,’ “Mariage - of Witt and Wisdome” - - Tardy, double quote inserted after ‘TASK,’ ““I - was TARDY TASK”” - - Touch, double quote inserted after ‘STONE,’ “of - the CRICKET-STONE”” - - Waffle, colon changed to semi-colon after - ‘weak,’ “is very weak; waffy” - - Appendix, Fag-poker, ‘LAG’ changed to ‘FAG,’ - “call of “FAG poker” - - Appendix, Stonyhurst-football, ‘form’ changed to - ‘forms,’ “in other forms of” - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's The Public School Word-book, by John S. 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