The area on a hard disc that is required for image editing programs to place files in too large for the RAM. Files are stored here only temporarily.

A word used in some of the United States for scrowl or scroll. “The word ‘seal,’ written in a scrawl attached to the name of an obligor, makes the instrument […]

A strategy used when selecting stock where a company is evaluated based on a set of criteria. It can be screened by hand or with an interset based tool or […]

A method of printing onto different materials using a screen over which is wiped to produce a pattern underneath on fabric or paper. Each colouyr is printed seperately. Also known […]

Evaluation of a numnber of subjects to determine which have the right characteristics or attributes you are looking for.

Lat. A scribe; a secretary. Scriba regis, a king’s secretary; a chancellor . Spelman. Scribere est agere. To write Is to act. Treasonable words set down in writing amount to […]

Certificates of ownership, either absolute or conditional , of shares in a public company , corporate profits, etc. Pub. St. Mass. 1882. p. 1295, A scrip certificate (or shortly “scrip”) […]

One paid in scrip, or in certificates of the ownership of a corresponding amount of capital stock of thecompanv thereafter to be issued. Bailey v. Railroad Co., 22 Wall. 604, […]

A transaction that occurs in book keeping where new shares are given to current share holders at no cost in proportion to the number of shares already held.

Trading where no no certifcate is issued. It uses only book entires that represent the security holding.

Where instruments are executed in part and counterpart , the original or principal is so called. In English probate practice. A will, codicil, draft of will or codicil, or written […]

In old records. A place in monasteries, where writlug was done. Spelman.

Lat. A writing; something written. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 00,

A writer; scribe; conveyancer . One whose occupation is to draw contracts, write deeds and mortgages, and prepare other species of written instruments. Also an agent to whom property is […]

A mark intended to supply the place of a seal, made with a pen or other instrument of writing. A paper or parchment containing some writing, and rolled up so […]

An obsolete law society, also called “Serjeants’ Place,” opposite to St. Andrew’s Church, Holborn, London.

A device that is used to remove particles and dust from gaseous pollutants such as smoke. It uses liquid to trap any solid matter.

In old practice. A species of roll or record, on which the bail on habeas corpus was entered.

Lat In old English law . A searcher or bailiff of a river; a water- bailiff, whose business was to look to the king’s rights, as his wrecks, his flotsam, […]

A writ that anciently lay against tenants by knight’s service to serve in the wars, or send sufficient persons, or pay a certain sum. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 83.

a term for a vulgar, foul, indecent or obscene language.

In old European law. Shaken or beaten out; threshed, as grain. Spelman.

In feudal law. A tax or contribution raised by those that held lands by knight’s service, towards furnishing the king’s army, at the rate of one, two or three marks […]

A French coin of gold, coined A. D. 1427, of the value of 3s. 4d.

A scuttle; anything of a flat or broad shape like a shield. Cowell.