SCAMP  , an idle, worthless See also:

• RASCAL

rascal; in earlier (18th cent.) usage especially applied as a cant See also:

• TERM

term for a See also:

• HIGHWAY

highway robber, a See also:

• FOOT

foot-See also:

• PAD

pad, later of one who incurs debts and See also:

• DECAMPS, ALEXANDRE GABRIEL (1803–1860)

decamps without paying them . The word appears to be derived from a shortened See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of " scamper," to run away, decamp, to move quickly or nimbly; which is generally taken to be a military See also:

• SLANG

slang word i It was formerly called diagrydion, probably from Sarspu, a See also:

• TEAR

tear, in allusion to the manner in which the juice exudes from the incised See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root.adapted from Dutch schampen, to See also:

• ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape; O.Fr. escamper; Ital. scampare; See also:

• LAT

Lat. ex, out of, campus, See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field of See also:

• BATTLE

battle, hence a vagabond deserter . This word must be distinguished from " scamp," to do See also:

• WORK

work in a hasty, careless manner, which is apparently a variant of " skimp," " skimpy," and is to be referred to the root seen in O . Nor. skammr, See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short; Dig .