_Swot_.--I have often heard military men talk of _swot_, meaning
thereby mathematics; and persons eminent in that science are termed
"_good swots_." As I never heard the word except amongst the military,
but there almost universally in "free and {353} easy," conversation,
I am led to think it a cant term. At any rate, I shall be glad to be
informed of its origin,--if it be not lost in the mists of soldierly
antiquity.