The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Scrip \Scrip\, n. [OE. scrippe, probably of Scand. origin; cf.
   Icel. & OSw. skreppa, and also LL. scrippum, OF. esquerpe,
   escrepe, F. ['e]charpe scarf. Cf. Scrap, Scarf a piece of
   dress.]
   A small bag; a wallet; a satchel. [Archaic] --Chaucer.
   [1913 Webster]

         And in requital ope his leathern scrip.  --Milton.
   [1913 Webster]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Scrip \Scrip\, n. [From script.]
   1. A small writing, certificate, or schedule; a piece of
      paper containing a writing.
      [1913 Webster]

            Call them generally, man by man, according to the
            scrip.                                --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

            Bills of exchange can not pay our debts abroad, till
            scrips of paper can be made current coin. --Locke.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A preliminary certificate of a subscription to the capital
      of a bank, railroad, or other company, or for a share of
      other joint property, or a loan, stating the amount of the
      subscription and the date of the payment of the
      installments; as, insurance scrip, consol scrip, etc. When
      all the installments are paid, the scrip is exchanged for
      a bond share certificate.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. Paper fractional currency. [Colloq.U.S.]
      [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

scrip
    n 1: a certificate whose value is recognized by the payer and
         payee; scrip is not currency but may be convertible into
         currency

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

126 Moby Thesaurus words for "scrip":
   Federal Reserve note, and pence, article, assignat, autograph,
   baggage check, bank note, bill, blank, brainchild, cash, check,
   chirograph, circulating medium, coinage, coined liberty, cold cash,
   composition, computer printout, copy, counter, coupon, currency,
   docket, document, dollar bill, dollars, dossier, draft,
   edited version, emergency money, engrossment, essay, fair copy,
   fiat money, fiction, file, filthy lucre, final draft,
   finished version, first draft, flimsy, form, fractional currency,
   fractional note, gold, government note, hard cash, hard currency,
   hat check, holograph, instrument, legal document, legal instrument,
   legal paper, legal tender, legal-tender note, letter,
   literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production,
   literature, lucre, lucubration, mammon, managed currency,
   manuscript, matter, medium of exchange, mintage, money,
   national bank note, necessity money, negotiable note, nonfiction,
   note, official document, opus, original, paper, paper money,
   papers, parchment, pelf, penscript, personal file, piece,
   piece of writing, play, poem, postage currency, postal currency,
   pounds, printed matter, printout, production, reading matter,
   recension, roll, screed, script, scrive, scroll, second draft,
   shillings, shinplaster, silver, slug, soft currency, specie,
   sterling, tag, the almighty dollar, the wherewith, the wherewithal,
   the written word, ticket, token, transcript, transcription,
   treasury note, typescript, version, work, writ, writing



Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:

Scrip
   a small bag or wallet usually fastened to the girdle (1 Sam.
   17:40); "a shepherd's bag."

     In the New Testament it is the rendering of Gr. pera, which
   was a bag carried by travellers and shepherds, generally made of
   skin (Matt. 10:10; Mark 6:8; Luke 9:3; 10:4). The name "scrip"
   is meant to denote that the bag was intended to hold scraps,
   fragments, as if scraped off from larger articles, trifles.