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<body bgcolor="#FFFAFA" text="#330000">
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<h1>The Letter C</h1>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CACKLE</h2>
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<p>to discover. <i class="eg">The Cull
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Cackles</i>, The Rogue tells all.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CACKLING-CHEATS</h2>
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<p>Chickens,
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Cocks or Hens.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CACKLING-FARTS</h2>
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<p>Eggs.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CALLE</h2>
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<p>a Cloak or Gown.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CAMBRIDGE-FORTUNE</h2>
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<p>a Woman without any Substance.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CAMESA</h2>
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<p>a Shirt or Shift.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CAMPAIGN-COAT</h2>
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<p>in a <i>Canting</i>
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Sense, the ragged, tatter'd, patch'd
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Coat, worn by Beggars and Gypsies, in
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order to move Compassion.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CANARY-BIRD</h2>
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<p>a little arch or
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knavish Boy; a Rogue or Whore
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taken, and clapp'd into the Cage or
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Round-house.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CANE <i>upon</i> ABEL</h2>
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<p>a good Stick or
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Cudgel, well-favouredly laid on a
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Man's shoulders.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CANK</h2>
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<p>Dumb.
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<i class="eg">The Cull's Cank</i>; the Rogue's Dumb; a Term used by
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<i>Canters</i>, when one of their Fraternity,
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being apprehended, upon Examination,
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confesses nothing.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CANNIKIN</h2>
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<p>the Plague.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2><i>A</i> CANT</h2>
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<p>an Hypocrite, a Dissembler,
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a double-tongu'd, whining Person.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CANTING</h2>
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<p>the mysterious Language
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of Rogues, Gypsies, Beggars,
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Thieves, &c.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CANTING CREW</h2>
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<p>Beggars, Gypsies.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2><i>To</i> CAP</h2>
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<p>to Swear.
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<i class="eg">I will Cap
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downright</i>, I will Swear home.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CAPTAIN-HACKUM</h2>
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<p>a fighting,
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blustering Bully.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CAPTAIN-QUEERNABS</h2>
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<p>a Fellow
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in poor Cloaths, or Shabby.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CAPTAIN-SHARP</h2>
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<p>a great Cheat;
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also a huffing, yet sneaking, cowardly
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Bully.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CAPTAIM-TOM</h2>
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<p>a Leader of the
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Mob; also the Mob itself.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CARAVAN</h2>
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<p>a good round Sum of
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Money about a Man; also him that is
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cheated of it.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CARRIERS</h2>
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<p>a Set or Rogues, who
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are employ'd to look out, and whatch
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upon the Roads, at Inns, &c. in order
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to carry Information to their respective
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Gangs, of a Booty in Prospect.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CARTED-WHORE</h2>
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<p>whipp'd publickly,
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and pack'd out of Town.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CASE</h2>
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<p>a House, Shop, or Warehouse;
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also a Bawdy-house.
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As <i class="eg">Toute
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the Case</i>, view, mark, or eye the House
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or Shop. <i class="eg">'Tis all Bob; now let us dub
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the Gigg of the Case</i>; now the Coast is
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clear, let us fall on, and break open
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the door of the House.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>A CASE-VROW</h2>
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<p>a Whore that
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plie in a Bawdy-house.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CASH</h2>
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<p>or <i>Cassan</i>, cheese.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CASTER</h2>
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<p>a Cloak.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CAT</h2>
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<p>a common Whore or Prostitute.
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<i class="eg">Who shall hang the bell about the
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Cat's Neck?</i> Who shall begin the Attack first? said of a desperate Undertaking.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CATCH-FART</h2>
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<p>a Foot-boy.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CATCHING-HARVEST</h2>
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<p>a precarious
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Time for Robbery; when many
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People are out upon the Road, by
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means of any adjacent Fair, Horse-race, &c.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CATCH-POLL</h2>
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<p>a Serjeant, or Bayliff,
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that arrests People.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CATHARPIN FASHION</h2>
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<p>when
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People in Company drink cross, and
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not round about from the Right to
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the Left, or according to the Sun's
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Motion.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CATTING</h2>
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<p>drawing a Fellow thro'
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a Pond with a Cat. Also whoring.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CATMATCH</h2>
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<p>when a Rook or
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Cully is engag'd amongst bad Bowlers.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CAVAULTING SCHOOL</h2>
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<p>a Bawdy-house.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CAUDGE-PAW'D</h2>
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<p>Left-handed.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CAW-HANDED</h2>
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<p>awkward, not
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dextrous, ready or nimble.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CHAF'D</h2>
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<p>well beaten or bang'd.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CHAPT</h2>
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<p>dry or thirsty.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CHARACTERED</h2>
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<p>Burnt in the Hand;
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as, <i class="eg">They have pawn'd the Character upon
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him</i>; <i>i.e.</i> They have burnt the Rogue
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in the Hand.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CHATES</h2>
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<p>the Gallows.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CHATTS</h2>
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<p>Lice. To <i class="eg">Squeeze the
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Chatts</i>; To crack or kill those Vermin.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CHICKEN</h2>
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<p>a feeble little Creature,
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of mean Spirit.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CHINK</h2>
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<p>Money, so call'd because it
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chinks in the Pocket.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2><i>A</i> CHIP</h2>
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<p>a Child. As, <i class="eg">A Chip of the
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old Block</i>; A Son that is his Father's
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likeness.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CHIRPING-MERRY</h2>
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<p>very pleasant
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over a Glass of good Liquor.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CHIT</h2>
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<p>a Dandyprat, or Durgen, a
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little trifling-Fellow.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CHITTIFACE</h2>
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<p>a little puny Child.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CHIVE</h2>
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<p>a Kinfe, File or Saw.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2><i>To</i> CHIVE <i>his Darbies</i></h2>
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<p>To saw asunder
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his Irons or Fetters.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2><i>To</i> CHOP</h2>
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<p>to change or barter. Also
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a Job, or Booty, as <i class="eg">A Chop by Chance</i>,
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a rare Booty, when 'twas not expected.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2><i>To</i> CHOP</h2>
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<p>is also used to make Dispatch,
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to slubber over in Post-haste, as
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<i class="eg">The Autem-Bawler, will soon quit the
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Hums, for he chops up the Whiners</i>; <i>i.e.</i>
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The Parson will soon have dispatch'd
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the Congregation, for he huddles over
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the Prayers.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2><i>To</i> CHOUSE</h2>
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<p>to cheat or trick.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CHUB</h2>
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<p><i class="eg">He is a young Chub</i>, or <i class="eg">a meer
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Chub</i>, very ignorant or unexperienc'd
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in Gaming, not at all acquainted with
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Sharping. <i class="eg">A good Chub</i>, said by the
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Butchers, when they have bit a silly raw
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Customer.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CHUCK-FARTHING</h2>
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<p>a Parish Clerk.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLACK</h2>
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<p>a Woman's Tongue.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLAN</h2>
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<p>a Family, Tribe, Faction,
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or Party, in <i>Scotland</i> chiefly, but now
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any where else.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLANK</h2>
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<p>a Silver-tankard.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLANKER</h2>
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<p>a swinging Lye.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLANK NAPPER</h2>
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<p>a Silver-tankard
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Stealer. See <i>Rumbubber</i>.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLAPPERDOGEON</h2>
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<p>a Beggar born
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and bred.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLAW'D-OFF</h2>
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<p>lustily lash'd. Also
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swingingly pox'd or clap'd.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLEAR</h2>
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<p>very Drunk. <i class="eg">The Cull is
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clear, let's Bite him.</i> The Fellow is
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very drunk, let's Sharp him.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLEAVE</h2>
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<p>as, <i class="eg">One that will cleave</i>;
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used of a Wanton Woman. <i>Vide Clown</i></p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLENCH</h2>
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<p>a Pun or Quibble.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2><i>To</i> CLENCH</h2>
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<p>to nick a Business by
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timing it; as <i class="eg">The Cull has clench'd
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the Job at a Pinch</i>. The Rogue has
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nick'd the Time, before any Passengers
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came by, who might have rescu'd
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the plunder'd Person.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLEYMS</h2>
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<p>Sores without Pain, raised on Beggars Bodies, by their own
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Artifice and Cunning, (to move Charity)
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by bruising Crows-foot, Spearwort,
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and Salt together, and clapping
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them onthe Place, which frets the
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Skin; then with a Linnen Rag, which
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sticks close to it, they tear off the Skin,
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and strew on it a little Powder'd rsnick,
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which makes it look angrily or
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ill-favouredly, as if it were a real
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Sore.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLERK'D</h2>
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<p>sooth'd, sunn'd imposed
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on; <i class="eg">The Cull will not be Clerk'd</i>, <i>i.e.</i>
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He will not be caught or taken by fair
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Words.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2><i>To</i> CLICK</h2>
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<p>to Snatch. <i class="eg">I have Clickt
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the Nab from the Cull</i>; I whipt the Hat
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from the Man's Head. <i class="eg">Click the rum
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Topping</i>. Snatch that Woman's fine
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Commode, or Head-Dress.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLICKER</h2>
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<p>[among the <i>Canters</i>.] He
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whom they intrust to divide their
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Spoils, and proportion to every one
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his Share.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLICKET</h2>
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<p>Copulation of Foxes, and
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thence used in a <i>Canting</i> Sense, for that
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of Men and Women; as <i class="eg">The Cull and
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the Mort are at Clicket in the Dyke</i>.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLICKETING</h2>
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<p>the Act of Fruition.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLINKER</h2>
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<p>a crafty Fellow.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLINKERS</h2>
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<p>the Irons Felons wear
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in Goals.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLOAK-TWITCHERS</h2>
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<p>Villains
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who lurk in by and dark Places, to
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snatch them off the Wearer's Shoulders.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLOD-HOPPER</h2>
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<p>a Ploughman.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLOUD</h2>
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<p>Tobacco. <i class="eg">Will you raise a
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Cloud?</i> Will you smoak a Pipe?</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLOVEN</h2>
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<h2><i>Cleave</i></h2>
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<h2>or <i>Cleft</i></h2>
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<p>used of a young Woman who passes for a Maid,
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and is not one.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLOUT</h2>
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<p>a Handkerchief.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2><i>To</i> CLOY</h2>
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<p>to Steal. <i class="eg">Cloy the Clout</i>;
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steal the Money.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLOYERS</h2>
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<p>Thieves, Robbers,
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Rogues.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLOYING</h2>
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<p>Stealing, Thieving,
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Robbing.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLOWES</h2>
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<p>Rogues.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2><i>To</i> CLUCK</h2>
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<p>a Wench's Propension
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to Male-Conversation, by her romping
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and playfulness; when they say, <i class="eg">The
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Mort Clucks</i>.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CUMP</h2>
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<p>a Heap or Lump.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLUMPISH</h2>
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<p>Lumpish.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLUNCH</h2>
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<p>a clumsy Clown, an awkward
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or unhandy Fellow.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>CLY</h2>
|
|
<p>Money. <i class="eg">To cly the Jerk</i>, to
|
|
be Whipt. <i class="eg">Let's strike his Cly</i>; Let's
|
|
get his Money from him. Also a
|
|
Pocket, as, <i class="eg">Filed a Cly</i>, Pick'd a Pocket.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COACH-WHEEL</h2>
|
|
<p>as, <i class="eg">A Fore-Coach-Wheel</i>
|
|
Half a Crown. <i class="eg">A Hind-Coach-Wheel</i>,
|
|
a Crown or Five-shilling Piece.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COB</h2>
|
|
<p>an <i>Irish</i> Dollar.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COBBLE-COLTER</h2>
|
|
<p>a Turkey. <i class="eg">A
|
|
rum Cobble-colter</i>, a fat large Cock-Turkey.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COCK-BAWD</h2>
|
|
<p>a Man who follows
|
|
that base Employment, of procuring;
|
|
a Pimp.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COCKISH</h2>
|
|
<p>wanton, uppish, forward.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COCK-PIMP</h2>
|
|
<p>a supposed Husband to
|
|
a Bawd.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COCK-ROBBIN</h2>
|
|
<p>a soft easy Fellow.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COCK-SURE</h2>
|
|
<p>very sure.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COD</h2>
|
|
<p>a good Sum of Money; also a
|
|
Fool. <i class="eg">A meer Cod</i>, a silly, shallow
|
|
Fellow. <i class="eg">A rum Cod</i>; a good round
|
|
Sum of Money. <i class="eg">An honest Cod</i>; a trusty
|
|
Friend.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COD's-<i>Head</i></h2>
|
|
<p>a Fool.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COFE</h2>
|
|
<p>as COVE. Which See.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>To</i> COG</h2>
|
|
<p>to cheat at Dice. <i class="eg">To Cog a
|
|
Die</i>; to conceal or secure a Die; also
|
|
the Money or whatever the <i>Sweetners</i>
|
|
|
|
drop, to draw in the Bubbles: Also to
|
|
wheedle.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>To</i> COG <i>a Dinner</i></h2>
|
|
<p>to wheedle one out of a Dinner.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COG <i>a Clout</i></h2>
|
|
<h2>or, <i>Cog a Sneezer</i></h2>
|
|
<p>Beg an Handkerchief, or Snuff box.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COGUE</h2>
|
|
<p>of brandy, a small Cup or
|
|
Dram.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COKER</h2>
|
|
<p>a Lye. <i class="eg">Rum Coker</i>, a whisking Lye.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COLD-<i>Tea</i></h2>
|
|
<p>Brandy. <i class="eg">A couple of cold
|
|
Words</i>, a Curtain-Lecture. <i class="eg">Cold Iron</i>,
|
|
a derisory Periphrasis for a Sword.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COLE</h2>
|
|
<p>Money.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COLLEGE</h2>
|
|
<p><i>Newgate</i>; <i>New College</i>,
|
|
the <i>Royal-Exchange</i>.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COLLEGIATES</h2>
|
|
<p>the Prisoners of
|
|
the one, and the Shop-keepers of the
|
|
other of those Places.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>To</i> COLLOGUE</h2>
|
|
<p>wheedle.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COLQUARRON</h2>
|
|
<p>a Man's Neck; as,
|
|
<i class="eg">His Colquarron is just about to be twisted</i>.
|
|
He is just going to be turn'd off.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COLT</h2>
|
|
<p>an Inn-keeper that lends a
|
|
Horse to a Highway-man, or to
|
|
Gentleman Beggars; also a Lad newly
|
|
initiated into Roguery.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COLT-BOWL</h2>
|
|
<p>laid short of the
|
|
Jack, by a [COLT-BOWLER]</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COL-BOWLER</h2>
|
|
<p>a raw or unexperienced Person.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>To</i> COME</h2>
|
|
<p>to lend. <i class="eg">Has he come it?</i>
|
|
Has he lent it to you?</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COMING-<i>Women</i></h2>
|
|
<p>such as are free of
|
|
their Flesh; also breeding Women.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COMMISSION</h2>
|
|
<p>a shirt.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COMMON-<i>Garden-Gout</i></h2>
|
|
<p>or rather
|
|
<i class="eg">Covent-Garden-Gout</i>, the Foul Disease.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COMFORTABLE-<i>Importance</i></h2>
|
|
<p>a Wife.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CONFECT</h2>
|
|
<p>conterfeit, feigned.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CONTENT</h2>
|
|
<p><i class="eg">I beat him to his Heart's
|
|
Content</i>; <i>till he had enough of Fighting.</i>
|
|
Also to murder a Person, who resists
|
|
being robb'd. <i class="eg">The Cull's Content</i>; <i>i.e.</i>
|
|
He is past complaining.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CONTRE-TEMPS</h2>
|
|
<p>a fruitless Attempt,
|
|
or at an unseasonable Time.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CONVENIENT</h2>
|
|
<p>a Mistress; also a
|
|
Whore.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CONVENIENCY</h2>
|
|
<p>a Wife; also a
|
|
Mistress.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CONUNDRUMS</h2>
|
|
<p>Whims, Maggots,
|
|
and such like.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CONY</h2>
|
|
<h2>or <i>Tom Cony</i></h2>
|
|
<p>a silly Fellow;
|
|
<i class="eg">A meer Cony</i>, very silly indeed.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>A</i> COLD-COOK</h2>
|
|
<p>an Undertaker of
|
|
Funerals.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COOK-RUFFIN</h2>
|
|
<p>the Devil of a
|
|
Cook; or a very bad one.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COOL-CRAPE</h2>
|
|
<p>When a Person dies,
|
|
he is said to be put into his <i>Cool-crape</i>.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COOLER</h2>
|
|
<p>a Woman.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COOL-LADY</h2>
|
|
<p>a Wench that sells
|
|
Brandy (in Camps) a Suttler.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COOL-NANTZ</h2>
|
|
<p>Brandy.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CORK-BRAIN'D</h2>
|
|
<p>a very impudent,
|
|
harden'd, brazen-faced Fellow.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COSTARD</h2>
|
|
<p>the Head. <i class="eg">I'll give ye a
|
|
Knock on the Costard</i>; I'll hit ye a Blow
|
|
on the Pate.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COTTON</h2>
|
|
<p><i class="eg">They don't cotton</i>; They
|
|
don't agree well.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>To</i> COUCH</h2>
|
|
<p>to lie down, as <i class="eg">To
|
|
Couch a Hogshead</i>; To go to Bed.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COVE</h2>
|
|
<p>a Man, a Fellow; also a
|
|
Rogue. <i class="eg">The Cove was Bit</i>; The Rogue
|
|
was out-sharped or out-witted. <i class="eg">The
|
|
Cove has bit the Cole</i>; The Rogue has
|
|
stollen the Money. <i class="eg">That Cove's a rum
|
|
Diver</i>; That Fellow is a clever Pick-pocket.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COVEY <i>of Whores</i></h2>
|
|
<p>a well-fill'd Bawdy-house.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COUNTERFEIT-CRANK</h2>
|
|
<p>a genteel
|
|
Cheat, a Sham or Impostor, appearing in divers Shapes: one who
|
|
sometimes counterfeits Mens hands, or
|
|
forges Writings; at others personates
|
|
other Men: is sometimes a Clipper or
|
|
Coiner; at others a Dealer in Counterfeit
|
|
Jewels. Sometimes a strowling
|
|
Mountebank: To Day he is a Clergyman
|
|
in Distress; to Morrow a reduced
|
|
Gentleman.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>VOURT-<i>card</i></h2>
|
|
<p>a gay, fluttering
|
|
Fellow.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COURT-<i>Holy-Water</i></h2>
|
|
<h2>COURT-<i>Promises</i></h2>
|
|
<p>fair Speeches without
|
|
Performance.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COURT-<i>Tricks</i></h2>
|
|
<p>State-Policy &c.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>COWS-BABY</h2>
|
|
<p>a Calf.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CRACK</h2>
|
|
<p>a Whore.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>To</i> CRACK</h2>
|
|
<p>is also used to break
|
|
open; as, <i class="eg">To Crack up a Door</i>; To
|
|
break a Door open.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CRACKER</h2>
|
|
<p>the Backside; also Crust.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CRACKING</h2>
|
|
<p>boasting, vapouring.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CRACKISH</h2>
|
|
<p>whorish.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CRACKMANS</h2>
|
|
<p>Hedges; as, <i class="eg">The Cull
|
|
thought to have lop'd, by breaking thro'
|
|
the Crackmans; but we fetch'd him back
|
|
by a Nope on the Costard, which made
|
|
him silent</i>; <i>i.e.</i> The Gentleman thought
|
|
to escape by breaking through the
|
|
Hedges; but we brought him back by
|
|
a great Blow on the Head, which laid
|
|
him for Dead.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CRAG</h2>
|
|
<p>a Neck; also the Stomach,
|
|
or Womb.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CRAMP-RINGS</h2>
|
|
<p>Bolts or Shackles.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CRAMP-WORDS</h2>
|
|
<p>Sentence of
|
|
Death passed upon a Criminal by the
|
|
Judge: as, <i class="eg">He has just undergone the
|
|
|
|
Cramp-Word</i>; <i>i.e.</i> Sentence is just
|
|
passed upon him.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CRANK</h2>
|
|
<p>brisk, pert.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CRAP</h2>
|
|
<p>Money. <i class="eg">Nim the Crap</i>; Steal
|
|
the Money. <i class="eg">Wheedle for Crap</i>; To
|
|
coax Money out of any Body.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CRASH</h2>
|
|
<p>to Kill. <i class="eg">Crash the Cull</i>, <i>i.e.</i>
|
|
Kill the Fellow.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CRASHING-<i>Cheats</i></h2>
|
|
<p>Teeth.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CREATURES</h2>
|
|
<p>Men raised by others,
|
|
and their <i>Tools</i> ever after.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>To</i> CREEME</h2>
|
|
<p>to slip or slide any
|
|
Thing into another's Hand.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CREW</h2>
|
|
<p>a Knot or Gang; as, <i class="eg">A
|
|
Crew of Rogues</i>, &c.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CRIMP</h2>
|
|
<p>as, <i class="eg">To play Crimp</i>, to lay or
|
|
bet on one Side, and (by foul Play) to
|
|
let the other win, having a Share of
|
|
the Purchase.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>Run a</i> CRIMP</h2>
|
|
<p>to run a Race or
|
|
Horse-match foully or knavishly.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>He</i> CRIMPS <i>it</i></h2>
|
|
<p>He plays booty. <i class="eg">A
|
|
crimping Fellow</i>, a sneaking Cur.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CRINKUMS</h2>
|
|
<p>the foul Disease.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CROCKERS</h2>
|
|
<p>Fore-stallers, Regraters;
|
|
otherwise called <i>Kidders</i> and
|
|
<i>Tranters</i>.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CROKER</h2>
|
|
<p>a Groat or Fourpence.
|
|
<i class="eg">The Cull tipt me a Croker</i>, the Fellow
|
|
gave me a Groat.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CRONY</h2>
|
|
<p>a Comerade [in a <i>Canting</i>
|
|
Sense.] Two or Three Rogues, who
|
|
agree to beg or rob in Partnership, call
|
|
one another <i>Crony</i>; as, <i class="eg">Such a one is
|
|
my Crony</i>; as much as to say, He and I
|
|
go Snacks.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CROP</h2>
|
|
<p>Money.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CROPPIN</h2>
|
|
<p>the Tail, as, <i class="eg">The Croppin
|
|
of the Rotan</i>, The Tail of the Cart.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CROPPIN-KEN</h2>
|
|
<p>a Privy or Bog-house.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>To</i> CROSS-BITE</h2>
|
|
<p>to draw in a Friend,
|
|
yet snack with the Sharper; also to
|
|
countermine or disappoint.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CROWN <i>Office</i></h2>
|
|
<p>as, <i class="eg">He is got into
|
|
the Crown Office</i>, <i>i.e.</i> He's got drunk.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CRUISERS</h2>
|
|
<p>Beggars; Also Highway
|
|
Spies, who traverse the Road, to give
|
|
Intelligence of a Booty, &c.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CRUMP</h2>
|
|
<p>one that helps Sollicitors
|
|
to <i>Affidavit-Men</i>.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CRUSTY-BEAU</h2>
|
|
<p>one that lies with
|
|
a Cover over his Face all Night, and
|
|
uses Washes, Paint, &c.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>Young</i> CUB</h2>
|
|
<p>a new Gamester drawn
|
|
in to be rook'd.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CUCUMBERS</h2>
|
|
<p>Taylors.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>CUDGELLIERS</h2>
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|
<p>a Mob rudely
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arm'd; also Cudgel-Players.</p>
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<h2>CUFFIN</h2>
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<p>a Man.</p>
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<h2>CUFFIN-QUIRE</h2>
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<p>See <i>Quire Cuffin</i>.</p>
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<h2>CULP</h2>
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<p>a Kick or Blow.</p>
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<h2>CULL</h2>
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<p>a Man, either honest, or
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otherwise. <i class="eg">A Bob-Cull</i>, a Sweet-humour'd
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Man to a Wench. <i class="eg">The Cull
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naps us</i>; The Person robb'd apprehends
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us. <i class="eg">A curst Cull</i>, an ill-natur'd Fellow,
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a Churl to a Woman.</p>
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<h2>CULLY</h2>
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<p>a Fop, a Fool, one who is
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easily drawn in and cheated by Whores
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and Rogues.</p>
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<h2>CUNNING-Shaver</h2>
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<p>a sharp Fellow,
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one that sharps or shaves (as they call
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it) close.</p>
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<h2>CUP-SHOT</h2>
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<p>Drunk.</p>
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<h2>CUP <i>of the Creature</i></h2>
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<p>strong-Liquor.</p>
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<h2>CURLE</h2>
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<p>Clippings of Money.</p>
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<h2>CURSITORS</h2>
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<p>reduced Lawyers, assuming
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to themselves the Knowledge
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of the Quirks and Quiddities of the
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Law, and are perpetually fomenting litigious
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Brawls, and insignificant Contentions,
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among the Scum of the Vulgar.</p>
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<h2>CURTAILS</h2>
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<p>whose Practice is to
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cut off Pieces of Silk, Cloth, Linnen
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or Stuff, that hang out at the Shop-Windows
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of Mercers, Drapers, &c.
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as also sometimes the Tails of Womens
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Gowns, their Hoods, Scarves,
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Pinners, - if richly Lac'd.</p>
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<h2>CURTAIL'D</h2>
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<p>cut off, dock'd, shorten'd, reduced.</p>
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<h2>CURTAIN-Lecture</h2>
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<p>Womens impertinent
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scolding at their Husbands
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behind the Curtain.</p>
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<h2>CURTEZAN</h2>
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<p>a genteel fine Miss,
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or Quality Whore.</p>
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<h2>CUT</h2>
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<p>Drunk. <i class="eg">Deep Cut</i>, very
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Drunk. <i class="eg">Cut in the Leg or Back</i>, the
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same. <i class="eg">To Cut</i>, also signifies to speak.
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<i class="eg">To Cut bene</i>, to speak gently, civilly or
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kindly; <i class="eg">To Cut bene (<i>or</i> benar) Whidds</i>,
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to give good Words. <i class="eg">To Cut queere
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Whid's</i>, to give ill Language. A Blow
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with a Stick or Cane, is also called a
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<i>Cut</i>. As, <i class="eg">I took him a Cut cross the
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Shoulders</i>.</p>
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