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Common school
-- common scold --
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common scurvy grass
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common scold
| Noun | 1. |  common scold - someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault |
COMMON SCOLD, Crim. law, communes rixatrix. A woman, who, in consequence of
her boisterous, disorderly and quarrelsome tongue, is a public nuisance to
the neighborhood.
2. Such a woman may be indicted, and on conviction, punished. At common
law, the punishment was by being placed in a certain engine of correction
called the trebucket or cocking stool.
3. This punishment has been abolished in Pennsylvania, where the
offence may be punished by fine and imprisonment. 12 Serg. & Rawle, 220;
vide 1 Russ. on Cr. 802 Hawk. B. 2, c. 25, s. 59 1 T. R. 756 4 Rogers' Rec.
90; Roscoe on Cr. Ev. 665.