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Scant-of-grace (A)

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A madcap; a wild, disorderly, graceless fellow.

“You, a gentleman of birth and breeding, … associate yourself with a sort of scant-of-grace, as men call me.”—Sir W. Scott: Kenilworth, iii.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Scallop Shell
Scalloped [scollopt]
Scammozzi’s Rule
Scamp [qui exit ex campo]
Scandal
Scandal-broth
Scandalum Magnatum [scandal of the magnates]
Scanderbeg
Scanderbeg’s Sword must have Scanderbeg’s Arm—i.e
Scandinavia
Scant-of-grace (A)
Scantling
Scapegoat
Scaphism
Scapin
Scaramouch
Scarborough Dress (A)
Scarborough Warning
Scarlet
Scarlet (Will)
Scarlet Coat