Scriptoʹrium.

An apartment in every abbey where writers transcribed service-books for the choir and books for the library. (Warton.)

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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.

Screw Loose (A)
Screw Plot (The)
Screwed
Screwed on Right
Scribe
Scriblerus (Martinus)
Scrimmage
Scripto rēs Decem
Scriptorēs Quinque
Scriptorēs Tres [the three writers]
Scriptorium
Scriptures
Scudamore (Sir)
Scudding under Bare Poles
Scullabogue Massacre
Sculls
Sculpture
Scutch
Scuttle
Scuttle Out (To)
Scylla