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 256 Scarlet runners. Kidney-bean plants. Scat. A slap. ^Tll giv'ee a scat in the faace;" a sharp frost, as, ^^a scab of frost;" diarrhoea; anything burst or broken open. Scat is a Celtic Cornish word and means a buffet, a box, a blow. Scat. V. To slap, to break, to smash, to be bankrupt. Scat-marchant. One who has failed in business. It was formerly a term of great contempt, and the boys even mobbed a scat-marchant. Now he is " white-washed " not mobbed. Scat abroad. Burst open, smashed, "Tes oal scat abroad.'' A SCat to^ a '^ set to," or quarrel. Scaval-an-gOW. Chattering, confused talking. Scaval- an-gow (Cornish) the bench of lies. U.J.T. Scavel is Celtic Cornish for, a bench, a stool, and gow, a falsehood, a lie. Scavarnoeck^ Skavamak, or Scovamog. Celtic Cornish names for a hare. Scovamog is the oldest form of the w^ord. (Long eared, still used in Cornwall. Polwhele.) Scaw. Elder or scaw trees. Scawen. An elder tree. Scaiv and scawen are Celtic Cornish words. Scawsy-buds. Elder flowers. Schale. A scale, as a ^^schale of earth," or earth slide in an excavation. Sclrnn, Sclow, or ScrOW. To sclaw, to scratch, as " the cat will sclum you,'' also used thus, " Ah ! you old sclum-cat." i.e., you old spite.