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<titlepage>
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<title>Canting Dictionary</title>
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<p>A Collection of the Canting Words and
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Terms, both ancient and modern,
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used by Beggars,
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Gypsies, Cheats, House-Breakers, Shop-Lifters,
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Foot-Pads, Highway-Men, &c;</p>
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<p>Taken from <i>The Universal Etymological English Dictionary</i>,
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by N. Bailey, London, 1737, Vol. II, and
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transcrib'd into XML Most Diligently by Liam Quin.</p>
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<note>
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<p>English spelling has evolved greatly since this
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dictionary was publish'd. In the Eighteenth Century, Capital Letters
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were generally used for Nouns, and the spelling of a word could vary
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from one occurrence to the next. <i>Cloaths</i>, <i>Clothes</i> and
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<i>Cloathes</i> all seem to have been used, for example.
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You'll just have to deal with it.</p>
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<p>Note also that <i>i</i> and <i>j</i> are treated as if they were the same
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letter, as are <i>u</i> and <i>v</i>, so that <i>Urchin</i> appears in
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the dictionary quite a way after <i>Vamp</i>, since the U is sorted as if it
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were a V.</p>
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</note>
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</titlepage>
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<letter name="a"><title>A</title>
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<entry c="thing"><title>ABRAM</title>
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<p>Naked, or having scarce
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Cloaths enough to hide Nakedness.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>ABRAM-COVE</title>
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<p>a lusty Rogue,
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with hardly any Cloaths on his
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Back: a Tatterdemallion.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>ABRAM-MEN</title>
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<target>ABRAM-MAN</target>
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<p>otherwise called
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<eg>Toms of Bedlam</eg>, shabby Beggars, patched
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and trick'd up with Ribbons, Red-Tape,
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Fox-tails, Rags of various Colours;
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pretending to be besides themselves,
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to palliate their Thefts of Poultry, Linnen,
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&c;
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A sort of itinerant
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Hedge-Robbers, and Strippers of Children, &c;</p></entry>
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<entry c="place"><title>ACADEMY</title>
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<p>a Bawdy House; a Receptacle for all sorts of Villains, where
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the Young Ones are initiated in the
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<eg>Canting Language</eg>, and all manner of
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Cheats and Impostures, and sorted into
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Tribes and Bands, according to their
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several Capacities for Mischief.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>ADAM TILER</title>
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<p>the Comerade of a
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Pick pocket, who receives stollen
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Goods or Money, and scours off with
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them, <eg>Tip the coal to Adam Tiler</eg>; i.e.
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give the Money, Watch, &c; to a running
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Companion, that the Pick Pocket
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may have nothing found upon him,
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when he is apprehended.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>AFFIDAVIT-MEN</title>
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<p>Knights of the
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Post: mercenary and abandoned Wretches,
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who used to frequent the <i>Temple</i>
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and other Inns of Court, in order to be
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in Readiness to swear any thing that
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was proposed to them.</p></entry>
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<entry c="place"><title>ALSATIA <i>the Higher</i></title>
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<title><i>White-Fryars</i></title>
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<p>once a Privileged Place, as the <i>Mint</i>
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was lately; but suppressed, on Account
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of the notorious Abuses committed in
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it.</p></entry>
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<entry c="place"><title>ALSATIA <i>the Lower</i></title>
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<p>the <i>Mint</i> in <i>Southwark</i>.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>ALSATIANS</title>
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<p>the Inhabitants of
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these two Places, such as broken
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Tradesmen, extravagant Spendthrifts.</p></entry>
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<entry c="money"><title>ALTEMAL</title>
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<p><i>Vide Dutch</i> Reckoning.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>AMBIDEXTER</title>
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<p>one that goes snacks
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in Gaming with both Parties; also a
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Lawyer that takes Fees of Plaintiff and
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Defendant at once.</p></entry>
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<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> AMUSE [in a <i>Canting sense</i>]</title>
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<p>to
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fling Dust in the Eyes; also to invent
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strange Tales to delude Shop keepers
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and others, from being upon their
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Guard.</p></entry>
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<entry c="crime"><title>AMUSEMENT</title>
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<p>a blind, or feint.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>AMU&stress;SERS</title>
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<p>who were wont to have
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their Pockets filled with Dust, which
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they would throw into the Eyes of
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People they had a mind to rob, and so
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run away, while their Comerade, who
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followed them, under the Notion of
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pitying the half blinded Person, laid
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his Hand on whatever came next.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>ANGLERS</title><title><i>alias</i> HOOKERS</title>
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<p>petty
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Thieves, who have a Stick with a
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Hook at the End, wherewith they
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pluck Things out of Windows, Grates,
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&c;
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<eg>Make ready your Angling Stick</eg>; a
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Word of Command used by these petty
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Villains, to get ready the Stick with
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which they perform their Pranks, and
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as a Signal of a Prey in Sight.
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In the Day-time they beg from House to
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House, to spy best where to plant their
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Designs, which at Night they put in
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Execution.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>ANTICKS</title>
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<p>such as dress themselves
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up with Ribbons, mismatched Colours,
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Feathers &c;</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>ANTIQUATED</title>
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<p>an old Rogue, or
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one who has forgot, or left off his
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Trade of thieving, is said to be.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>ARCH-ROGUE</title>
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<p>the <eg>Dimber-Damber Uprightman</eg> or Chief of a Gang; as
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<i>Arch-Dell</i>, or <i>Arch-Doxy</i> signifies the
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same Degree in Rank among the Female
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<i>Canters</i> and <i>Gypsies</i>.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>ARK</title>
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<p>a Boat or Wherry.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>ARK-RUFFIANS</title>
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<p>Rogues, who in
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Conjunction with Watermen, &c; rob
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and sometimes murder on the Water;
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by picking a Quarrel with the Passenger
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and then plundering, stripping and
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throwing him or her over board, &c;</p>
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<p>A Species of <i>Badgers</i>.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>ASSIG.</title>
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<p>An Assignation, Appointment or Meeting</p></entry>
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<entry c="bawd"><title>AUNT</title>
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<p>a Bawd, or Procuress; a Title of Eminence for the <i>Senior Dells</i>,
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who serve for Instructresses, Midwives,
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&c;, to the <i>Morts</i>.</p></entry>
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<entry c="place"><title>AUTEM</title>
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<p>a Church; also married.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>AUTEM-BAWLER</title>
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<p>a Preacher, or Parson, of any sect.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title brace="right">AUTEM-CACKLERS</title>
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<title>AUTEM-PRICKEARS</title>
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<p>Dissenters of any Denomination.</p></entry>
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<entry c="place"><title>AUTEM-CACKLETUB</title>
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<p>a Conventicle,
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a Meeting-House for Dissenters.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>AUTEM-DIPPERS</title>
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<p>Anabaptists.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>AUTEM-DIVERS</title>
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<p>Church-Pick-pockets;
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also Church-wardens, Overseers of the Poor.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>AUTEM-GOGGLERS</title>
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<p>pretended <i>French</i> Prophets.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>AUTEM-MORT</title>
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<p>a marry'd Woman;
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also one who travels up and
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down the Country, with one Child in
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their Arms, another on her Back,
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and often leading a third in her Hand.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>AUTEM-QUAVERS</title>
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<p><i>Quakers</i></p></entry>
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<entry c="place"><title>AUTEM-QUA-VERTUB</title>
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<p>a <i>Quaker's</i>
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Meeting-House.</p></entry>
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</letter>
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<letter name="b" pagesize="big"><title>B</title>
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<entry c="adj"><title>BACK&stress;ED</title>
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<p>dead; as <eg>He wishes the Senior backed</eg>,
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i.e. <meaning>He longs to have his Father upon Six Mens Shoulders</meaning>.
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<eg>His Backs up</eg>, a taunting Expression.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>BACON</title>
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<p>the Prize, or whatever kind
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which Robbers make in their Enterprizes.
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<eg>He has saved his Bacon</eg>; i.e. He
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has himself escaped with the Prize,
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whence it is commonly used for any
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narrow Escape.
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<eg>The Cove has a bien
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squawl to maund Bacon</eg>; i.e. he has a
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good Voice to beg Bacon; used to jeer
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a bad Voice, or an indifferent Singer.
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<eg>The Bacon Sweard rakes in his Throttle</eg>;
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<i>i.e.</i> the Sweard of the Bacon sticks in
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his Throat; used to a person who has
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Hoarseness, or one, who at their Merry-Meetings, excuses himself from
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Singing, on pretence of a Cold.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>BADGE</title>
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<p>is used in a Canting Sense,
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for Burning in the Hand or Cheek (as
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it used to be) as <eg>he has got his Badge and piked away</eg>;
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He has been burned in the
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Hand, &c; and is just set at Liberty.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>BADGE-COVES</title>
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<p>Parish-Pensioners</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>BADGERS</title>
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<p>a Crew of desperate Villains,
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who rob and kill near rivers, and
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then throw the dead bodies therein.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>BAGGAGE</title>
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<p>as the heavy Baggage,
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the Children and Women who are unable
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to travel fast in Gangs of Gypsies,
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and Strowlers.</p></entry>
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<entry c="money"><title>BALSOM</title>
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<p>Money: <eg>The Cove has secured the Balsom</eg>,
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i.e. He has seized the Money.</p></entry>
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<entry sortas="BAM" c="crime"><title>A BAM</title>
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<p>a Sham or Cheat: a knavish
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Contrivance to amuse or deceive.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>BANBURY <i>story</i></title>
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<p>of a Cock and a
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Bull, an idle Relation, in order to pick
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Acquaintance on the Road, till a convenient
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Place or Opportunity offer to
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rob or plunder.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>BANDITTI</title>
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<p>Highwaymen, Horse or
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Foot, now used for Rogues of any kind,
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but strictly <i>Italian</i> Rapparees.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>BANDOG</title>
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<p>a Bailiff or his Follower;
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a Sergeant or his Yeomen.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>BANTLING</title>
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<p>a Child.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>BARKER</title>
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<p>a Salesman's Servant that
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walks before the Shop, to invite customers.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>BARNACLE</title>
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<p>a good Job, or a Snack
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easily got; so called from the Gratuity
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given to Jockeys, for buying and selling
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Horses.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>BARNACLES</title>
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<p>the Irons worn in
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Goal by Felons.
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A Pair of Spectacles
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is also called Barnacles; as <eg>I saw the
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Cuffin Quire with his Nose Barnacled,
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making out the Cove's Dispatches</eg>, i.e. I
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saw the Justice of Peace with his Spectacles
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on making out his <i>Mittimus</i>.</p></entry>
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<entry c="money"><title>BAR-WIG</title>
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<p>between a bob and a long one.</p></entry>
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<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> BASTE</title>
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<p>to beat.</p></entry>
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<entry c="crime"><title>BASTONADING</title>
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<p>a Cudgelling</p></entry>
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<entry c="v"><title>BATTEN</title>
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<p>to fatten; to keep up a
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Fowl, &c; till it is fit for eating.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>BATTENER</title>
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<p>an Ox; <eg>The Cove has
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hushed the Battener</eg>; i.e. <meaning><i>He has killed
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the Ox</i></meaning>, in revenge on some Farmer,
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who, perhaps, had got him sent to the
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House of Correction.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>BATTERED BULLY</title>
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<p>an old well
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cudgelled and bruised huffing fellow.</p></entry>
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<entry c="money"><title>BAUBEE</title>
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<p>an Halfpenny; as <eg>The Cove
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ript the Maund but a single Baubee let's
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souse him for it</eg> i.e. The Gentleman
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has given the Beggar but a single Halfpenny; lets plunder him for his Niggardliness.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>BAUBELS</title><title>or BAWBLES</title>
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<p>Jewels, Tweezers, Snuff-boxes, any sort of
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Gold or Silver Trinkets.</p></entry>
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<entry c="bawd"><title>BAWD</title>
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<p>a Female Procuress.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>BAWDY-BASKETS</title>
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<p>a sort of diminutive Pedlars, who sell Obscene
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Books, Pins, Tape, &c; but live more
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by pilfering and stealing.</p></entry>
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<entry c="bawd"><title>BAWDY-HOUSE-BOTTLE</title>
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<p>a very small one.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>BEAR-GARDEN-DISCOURSE</title>
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<p>common, filthy, nasty talk.</p></entry>
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<entry c="bawd"><title>BEARD-SPLITTER</title>
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<p>a Whore-master.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>BEAU-TRAPS</title>
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<p>an <i>Order</i> of
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Villains, Genteel-dressed Sharpers,
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who lie in wait to insnare and draw in
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young Heirs, raw Country Squires and
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ignorant Fops.
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</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>BECK</title><title>HARMANBECK</title>
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<p>a Beadle</p></entry>
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<entry c="v"><title>BEEF</title>
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<p>to alarm, as <eg>They have cryed
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Beef upon us</eg>; they have discovered,
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us and are in Pursuit of us.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>BELCH</title>
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<p>any sort of Malt-liquor so
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called.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>BELLY-CHEAT</title>
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<p>an Apron.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person" sortas="BEN"><title>A BEN</title>
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<p>a foolish Fellow, a Simpleton.</p></entry>
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<entry c="adj" sortas="BEN A"><title>BENISH</title>
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<p>foolish, simple.</p></entry>
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<entry c="adj"><title>BENAR</title>
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<p>better.</p></entry>
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<entry c="adj"><title>BENE</title><title><i> or</i> BIEN</title>
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<p>good, <eg>Pike on the
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Bene</eg>, i.e. Run away as fast as you can.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>BENE-BOWSE</title>
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<p>strong Liquor.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>BENE-COVE</title>
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<p>a good Fellow, a merry companion.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>BENE-DARKMANS</title>
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<p>good Night.</p></entry>
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<entry c="adj"><title>BENESHIP</title>
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<p>very good, very well.
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<eg>Beneshiply</eg> Worshipfully.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>BENEFEAKERS</title>
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<p>Counterfeiters of
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Bills, Bonds, Notes, Receipts, &c;</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>BENEFEAKERS OF GYBES</title>
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<p>Counterfeiters of Passes.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>BESS</title>
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<p><eg>Bring Bess and Glym</eg>; i.e. Forget not the Instrument to break
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open the Dour, and the Dark Lanthorn.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>BET</title>
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<p>as <eg>secure the Bet</eg>, secure the Prize.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>BETTY</title><title>BESS</title>
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<p>a small Engine to
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force open the Doors of Houses; <eg>Mill
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the Gig with your Betty</eg>; i.e. Break
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open the Door with your Instrument.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>BEVER</title>
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<p>An Afternoons Lunchion.</p></entry>
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<entry c="money"><title>BEVERAGE</title>
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<p>Garnish-money.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>BIDDY</title>
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<p>a Chicken.</p></entry>
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<entry c="crime"><title>BILK</title>
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<p>to cheat or deceive. <eg>Bilk the
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Rattling Cove</eg>; Sharp the Coachman of
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his Hire.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>BILL</title><title>BILBOA</title>
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<p>a Sword. <eg>Bite
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the Bill from the Cull</eg>; i.e. Whip the
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Sword from his Side.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>BILL <i>of Sale</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Bandore, or Widow's
|
|
Peak.</p></entry>
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|
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<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> BING</title>
|
|
<p>to go, &c;</p></entry>
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|
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<entry c="v"><title>BING-AWAST</title>
|
|
<p>Get you hence: Begone;
|
|
haste away; <eg>He Bing'd awast in a
|
|
Darkmans</eg>, i.e. He Stole away in the
|
|
Night-time. <eg>Bing we to Rum vile?</eg> i.e.
|
|
Go we to <i>London</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
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<entry c="thing"><title>BINGO</title>
|
|
<p>Geneva, or Brandy.</p></entry>
|
|
|
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<entry c="rogue"><title>BINGO-BOY</title>
|
|
<p>a great Geneva Drinker.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>BINGO-CLUB</title>
|
|
<p>a Club of Geneva Drinkers.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>BINGO-MORT</title>
|
|
<p>a She Brandy Drinker.</p></entry>
|
|
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|
<entry c="rogue"><title>BIRDS OF A FEATHER</title>
|
|
<p>Rogues
|
|
of the same Gang.</p></entry>
|
|
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|
<entry c="adj"><title>BIRD-WITTED</title>
|
|
<p>hare-brained; not
|
|
solid or stayed.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>BIT</title>
|
|
<p>Robbed, Cheated or Out-Witted. Also Drunk, as <eg>He has bit his
|
|
Grannum</eg>; He is very Drunk. <eg>Bit the
|
|
Blow</eg>, performed the Theft, played the
|
|
Cheat, <eg>You have bit a great Blow</eg>; You
|
|
have robbed somebody of or to a considerable
|
|
Value.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>BITE</title>
|
|
<p>a Rogue, Sharper or Cheat;
|
|
also a Woman's Privities, as <eg>The Cull
|
|
wapt the Morts Bite</eg>; i.e. The Fellow
|
|
enjoyed the Woman briskly. <eg>Bite
|
|
the Biter</eg>, rob the Rogue, sharp the
|
|
Sharper, or Cheat the Cheater. <eg>Bite
|
|
the Cully</eg>, put the Cheat on a silly
|
|
Fellow. <eg>Bite the Roger</eg>, steal the
|
|
Portmanteau. <eg>Bite the Wiper</eg>, steal
|
|
the Handkerchief. <eg>He will not Bite or
|
|
swallow the Bait</eg>; He wont be drawn
|
|
in. <eg>To Bite on the Bit</eg>; To be pinched
|
|
or reduced to hard Meat; a scanty or
|
|
sorry sort of Living.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="phrase"><title>BLACK <i>and</i> WHITE</title>
|
|
<p>under one's
|
|
Hand, or in Writing.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>BLAB</title>
|
|
<p>one that is not to be confided
|
|
in upon an Enterprize or Intrigue.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>BLACK-BOX</title>
|
|
<p>a Lawyer.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>BLACK-COAT</title>
|
|
<p>a Parson.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>BLACK-GUARD</title>
|
|
<p>dirty, nasty, tatterred
|
|
roguish Boys, that formerly
|
|
were wont to attend at the Horse-Guards
|
|
to wipe Shoes, and clean Boots.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>BLACK-JACK</title>
|
|
<p>a leather-Jug to drink in.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>BLACK-INDIES</title>
|
|
<p><i>Newcastle</i>, from
|
|
whence the Coals are brought.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>BLACKMUNS</title>
|
|
<p>Hoods and Scarves of
|
|
Alamode and Lustrings.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>BLACK-SPY</title>
|
|
<p>the Devil.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>BLANK</title>
|
|
<p>down looked, sheepish,
|
|
guilty.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>BLEACH</title>
|
|
<p>as <eg>The Mort lay last Night a
|
|
Bleaching</eg>; the Wench looks very fair
|
|
to Day.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>BLEATERS</title>
|
|
<p>they that are cheated
|
|
by Jack in a Box.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>BLEATING-CHEAT</title>
|
|
<p>a Sheep.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>BLEED</title>
|
|
<p>as, <eg>To bleed freely</eg>, i.e. To
|
|
part with their Money easily.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>BLEEDING-CULLY</title>
|
|
<p>an easy Fellow,
|
|
this is profuse with his Money, or
|
|
persuaded to support all the Exravaganies
|
|
of his Companion or Mistress,
|
|
at his own Expence.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>BLEW-JOHN</title>
|
|
<p>Wash, or After-wort.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>A BLIND</title>
|
|
<p>a Feint, a Pretence, a shift.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>A BLIND ALE-HOUSE</title>
|
|
<p>one fit to
|
|
conceal a pursued or hunted Villain.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>BLIND-CHEEKS</title>
|
|
<p>the Breech.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>BLIND-HARPERS</title>
|
|
<p>Canters, who
|
|
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|
|
counterfeit Blindness, strowl about with
|
|
Harps, Fiddles, Bagpipes, &c; led by
|
|
a Dog or Boy.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>BLOCK-HOUSES</title>
|
|
<p>Prisons, Houses
|
|
of Correction, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue,bawd"><title>BLOSS</title>
|
|
<p>a Shop-lifter; also a Bully's
|
|
pretended Wife, or Mistress, whom he
|
|
guards, while she supports him; also a
|
|
Whore.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> BLOT <i>the Skrip, and jark it</i></title>
|
|
<p>i.e. to stand engaged, or be bound for any
|
|
Body.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>BLOW</title>
|
|
<p>as <eg>He has bit his blow</eg>, he has
|
|
stollen the Goods, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person,bawd"><title>BLOWER</title>
|
|
<p>a Mistress; also a
|
|
Whore.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> BLOW <i>off the Groundsils</i></title>
|
|
<p>i.e. To
|
|
lie with a Women on the Floor or
|
|
Stairs.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> BLOW <i>off the loose Corns</i></title>
|
|
<p>To lie now and then with a Woman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>BLUBBER</title>
|
|
<p>the Mouth, <eg>I've stopt the
|
|
Culls Blubber</eg>, I've stopt the Fellow's
|
|
Mouth; meant either by gagging or
|
|
murdering him.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>BLUBBERING</title>
|
|
<p>much Crying.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To look</i> BLUFF</title>
|
|
<p>To look big or
|
|
like Bull-beef.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>BLUFFER</title>
|
|
<p>an Inn-keeper or victualler.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>BLUNDERBUS</title>
|
|
<p>an awkward Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title><i>A</i> BLUSTRING <i>Fellow</i></title>
|
|
<p>a rude ratling Hector.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>BOARDING-<i>School</i></title>
|
|
<p><i>Bridewell</i> [[prob. rdg; orig. <i>Briedwell</i>]]
|
|
or
|
|
<i>New Prison</i>, or any Work-house, or
|
|
House of Correction, for Vagrants,
|
|
Beggars and Villains, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>BOARDING <i>Scholars</i></title>
|
|
<p>Bridewell-Birds.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>BOB</title>
|
|
<p>a Shop-lifts Comerade, Assistant
|
|
or Receiver. <i>Bob</i> also signifies
|
|
Safety.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title><i>It is all</i> BOB</title>
|
|
<p>i.e. All is Safe.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>BOBBED</title>
|
|
<p>cheated, tricked, baulked.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>BOB-TAIL</title>
|
|
<p>a light woman, also an
|
|
Eunuch or impotent Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person" sortas="BOB-LANDERS"><title>BOG-LANDERS</title>
|
|
<p><i>Irish</i> Men.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>BOB-TROTTERS</title>
|
|
<p><i>Scotch</i> or <i>North</i>
|
|
Country Moss-troopers, or Highway-Men.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>BOLTER <i>of White Fryars</i></title>
|
|
<p>one that
|
|
peeps out, but dares not venture abroad.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>BOLTSPRIT</title>
|
|
<p>the nose, <eg>He has broke
|
|
his Boltsprit</eg>; He has lost his Nose by
|
|
the Pox.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> BONE</title>
|
|
<p>to apprehend, sieze, take
|
|
or arrest.
|
|
<eg>I'll Bone ye</eg>; I'll cause you
|
|
to be arrested.
|
|
<eg>We shall be Boned</eg>, we
|
|
shall be apprehended for the Robbery.
|
|
<eg>The Cove is Boned and gone to the Whit</eg>;
|
|
the Rogue is taken up and carried to
|
|
<i>Newgate</i>.
|
|
<eg>The Cull has Boned the Fen</eg>
|
|
<!--* col *-->
|
|
(for <i>Fence</i>) <i>or</i> <eg>Bloss that bit the Blow</eg>,
|
|
The Man has taken the Thief that
|
|
robbed his House or Shop, or picked
|
|
his Pocket.
|
|
<eg>If he be Boned he must shove
|
|
the Tumbler</eg>; If he be taken he'll be
|
|
whipt at the Gart's-tail.
|
|
<eg>I have Boned
|
|
her Dudds, Fagged and Brushed</eg>; I have
|
|
taken away my Mistress's cloaths, beat
|
|
her and am trooped off.
|
|
<eg>Boning the Fence</eg>; Finding the Goods where concealed
|
|
and siezing them.
|
|
<eg>He made no Bones of it.</eg></p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>BONNY-CLAPPER</title>
|
|
<p>sowre Butter-milk.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>BOOTH</title>
|
|
<p>a House, as <eg>Heave the Booth</eg>;
|
|
Rob the House.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To Play</i> BOOTY</title>
|
|
<p>to play with a design to lose.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>BOOZE</title>
|
|
<p><i>Vide</i> BOWSE.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>BORDE</title>
|
|
<p>a Shilling, <eg>Half a Borde</eg>,
|
|
Six-pence.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>BOTTLE-HEAD</title>
|
|
<p>void of Wit.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>BOUGHS</title>
|
|
<p>as <eg>He is up in the Boughs</eg>,
|
|
said of one upon the Rant, or in a great
|
|
Ferment.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>BOUNCE</title>
|
|
<p>as <eg>a meer Bounce</eg>, a swaggering
|
|
Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>BOUNCER</title>
|
|
<p>a Bully.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>BOUNCING-<i>Cheat</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Bottle.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>BOWMAN</title>
|
|
<p>as a <eg>Bowman-Prigg</eg>, an
|
|
eminent Thief or Villain; a dextrous
|
|
Cheat, or House-breaker.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>BOWSE</title>
|
|
<p>Drink, or to drink; see
|
|
<i>Benbowse</i> [[Bene-Bowse]] and <i>Rumbowse</i>
|
|
[[<i>Rumbowse</i> is not actually defined]].</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>BOWSY</title>
|
|
<p>Drunk.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>BOWSING KEN</title>
|
|
<p>an Ale-house.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>BRACKET-FACE</title>
|
|
<p>ugly, homely,
|
|
ill-favoured.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>BRAT</title>
|
|
<p>a little Child.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>BRAVADO</title>
|
|
<p>a vapouring, or bouncing.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>BRAVO</title>
|
|
<p>a mercenary Murderer,
|
|
that will kill any body.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>BRIM</title><title>or <i>Brimstone</i></title>
|
|
<p>a very impudent, lewd Woman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>BROTHER <i>of the Blade</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Sword-man or Soldier.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>BROTHER <i>of the Gussit</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Pimp,
|
|
Procurer; also a Whore-master.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>BROTHER-STARLING</title>
|
|
<p>that lies
|
|
with the same Woman or builds in the same Nest.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>BROTHER <i>of the String</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Fiddler,
|
|
or Harper.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> BRUSH</title>
|
|
<p>to flee, or run away.
|
|
<eg>The Cully is brushed or rubbed</eg>;
|
|
The Fellow is marched off or broke.
|
|
<eg>Bought a Brush</eg>, run away.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>BRUSHER</title>
|
|
<p>a very full Glass of Liquor.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>BUB</title>
|
|
<p>drink. <eg>Rumbub</eg> very good
|
|
Tipple.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>BUBBER</title>
|
|
<p>a drinking Bowl; also a
|
|
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|
|
great Drinker, also one who steals plate
|
|
from public Houses.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>BUBE</title>
|
|
<p>the Pox.
|
|
<eg>The Mort tipt the
|
|
Bube upon the Cully</eg>; The Wench has
|
|
clapped the Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v,person"><title><i>To</i> BUBBLE</title>
|
|
<p>To cheat or decieve.
|
|
<eg>A Bubble</eg>, an easy soft Fellow, one that is
|
|
fit to be imposed on, deluded, or
|
|
cheated.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>BUCK</title>
|
|
<p>as a <eg>Bold Buck</eg>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>BUCK-FITCHES</title>
|
|
<p>old leacherous Fellows.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>BUCK'S-FACE</title>
|
|
<p>a Cuckold.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title><i>A</i> BUDGE</title>
|
|
<p>one that slips into an
|
|
House in the Dark, and taking what
|
|
comes next to Hand, marches off with
|
|
it. If he meets with any body, he
|
|
asks, if such a Gentleman or Woman
|
|
be within; and is told, they know no
|
|
such Person, he begs Pardon, and says,
|
|
he was mistaken in the House, immediately
|
|
marches off, and will not stay
|
|
for a Reply.
|
|
<eg>To Budge</eg>, also signifies to
|
|
stir or move.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>BUFF</title>
|
|
<p>a Dog.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="phrase"><title><i>How dost do my</i> BUFF</title>
|
|
<p>a familiar
|
|
Salutation among the Canting Tribe.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="phrase"><title><i>To stand</i> BUFF</title>
|
|
<p>is a Phrase used of
|
|
an obstinate hardened Rogue, who in a
|
|
Robbery will not be daunted at Resistance
|
|
or Opposition, or leave his Com-rogues in the Lurch, or a hardened
|
|
Rogue who will confess nothing.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>BUFFER</title>
|
|
<p>a Rogue that kills good
|
|
sound Horses, only for their skins, by
|
|
running a long wire into them, and
|
|
sometimes knocking them on the Head.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>BUFF-KNAPPER</title>
|
|
<p>a Dog-stealer,
|
|
that trades in all Sorts of Dogs, selling
|
|
them at a round Rate, and himself or
|
|
Partner stealing them the first Opportunity.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>BUFFERS-NAB</title>
|
|
<p>a Dog's Head, used
|
|
in a counterfiet Seal to a false Pass.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>BUGGING</title>
|
|
<p>taking Money by Bailiffs
|
|
and Serjeants of the Defendant not to
|
|
arrest him.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>BUGHER</title>
|
|
<p>a Dog.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>BULCHIN</title>
|
|
<p>a chubbingly Boy or Lad.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person,bawd"><title link="ignore">BULL</title>
|
|
<p>as, a <eg>Town Bull</eg>, a Whore-master.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="phrase"><title><i>TO look like</i> BULL <i>beef</i></title>
|
|
<p>to look big
|
|
and grim.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>BULK</title>
|
|
<p>an Assistant to a <i>File</i> or Pick-Pocket,
|
|
who jostles a Person up against
|
|
the Wall, while the other picks his
|
|
Pocket.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>BULKER</title>
|
|
<p>one that lodges all Night
|
|
on Shop windows and bulkheads.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>BULLS-EYE</title>
|
|
<p>a Crown or Five Shilling Piece.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>BULLY</title>
|
|
<p>a supposed Husband to a
|
|
Bawd, or Whore; also a huffing Fellow,
|
|
<!--* col *-->
|
|
a pretended <i>Bravo</i>, but a Coward
|
|
at the Bottom.</p></entry>
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|
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|
<entry c="rogue"><title>BULLY-FOP</title>
|
|
<p>a maggot-pated, huffing,
|
|
silly, rattling Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue,bawd"><title>BULLY-HUFF</title>
|
|
<p>a poor sorry Rogue,
|
|
that haunts Bawdy-houses, and pretends
|
|
to get Money out of Gentlemen
|
|
and others, rattling and swearing the
|
|
Whore is his Wife.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>BULLY-COCK</title>
|
|
<p>a Hector or bravo
|
|
sets on People to quarrel, pretending
|
|
to be a Second to them; and
|
|
then making Advantage of both.
|
|
</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>BULLY-RUFFINS</title>
|
|
<p>Highway-men,
|
|
or Foot Pads, who attack with Oaths
|
|
and Curses, plunder without Mercy,
|
|
and frequently murder without Necessity.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>BULLY-TRAP</title>
|
|
<p>a <i>Trapan</i>, a Sharper or Cheat.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>BUM</title>
|
|
<p>a Bailiff or Serjeant.</p></entry>
|
|
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|
<entry c="person"><title>BUNDLE-TAIL</title>
|
|
<p>a short, fat, or squat Lass.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>BUNG</title>
|
|
<p>a Purse, Pocket or Fob.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>BUNG-NIPPERS</title>
|
|
<p>Cut purses, who
|
|
with a short sharp Knife, and a horn
|
|
Thumb, used to cut Purses. Since the
|
|
wearing of Purses is out of Fashion,
|
|
they are called <i>Files</i> or <i>Pick-Pockets</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>BUNTING-TIME</title>
|
|
<p>when the Grass
|
|
is high enough to hide the young Men
|
|
and Maids.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>BUNT&stress;LINGS</title>
|
|
<p>Petticoats. <eg>Hale up
|
|
the main Buntlings</eg>, throw up the Women's
|
|
Petticoats.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>BURNT</title>
|
|
<p>poxed, or clapt.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> BURN <i>the Ken</i></title>
|
|
<p>is when Strollers
|
|
leave an Alehouse, without paying
|
|
their Quarters.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>BURR</title>
|
|
<p>a Hanger on or Dependant.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v,crime"><title><i>To</i> BUTTER</title>
|
|
<p>signifies also, to cheat
|
|
or defraud in a smooth or plausible
|
|
Manner; as, <eg>He'll not be Battered</eg>;
|
|
He's aware of your Design, He's upon his Guard, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>BUTTER-BOXES</title>
|
|
<p>Dutchmen</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>BUTTERED-BUN</title>
|
|
<p>lying with a
|
|
Woman that has been just lain with by
|
|
another Man.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>BUTTOCK</title>
|
|
<p>a Whore.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>BUTTOCK-<i>Broker</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Bawd, also
|
|
a Match-maker.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title><i>A</i> BUTTOCK <i>and File</i></title>
|
|
<p>both Whore and Pickpocket.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>BUTTOCK <i>and Twang</i></title>
|
|
<p>or <eg>a down-right Buttock and sham File</eg>, a common
|
|
Whore, but no Pickpocket.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>BUZZARD</title>
|
|
<p>a foolish, soft Fellow,
|
|
drawn in and culled or tricked.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>BY-BLOW</title>
|
|
<p>a Bastard.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
</letter>
|
|
|
|
<letter name="c"><title>C</title>
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>CACKLE</title>
|
|
<p>to discover. <eg>The Cull
|
|
Cackles</eg>, The Rogue tells all.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CACKLING-CHEATS</title>
|
|
<p>Chickens,
|
|
Cocks or Hens.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CACKLING-FARTS</title>
|
|
<p>Eggs.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CALLE</title>
|
|
<p>a Cloak or Gown.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>CAMBRIDGE-FORTUNE</title>
|
|
<p>a Woman without any Substance.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CAMESA</title>
|
|
<p>a Shirt or Shift.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CAMPAIGN-COAT</title>
|
|
<p>in a <i>Canting</i>
|
|
Sense, the ragged, tatter'd, patch'd
|
|
Coat, worn by Beggars and Gypsies, in
|
|
order to move Compassion.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person,rogue,bawd"><title>CANARY-BIRD</title>
|
|
<p>a little arch or
|
|
knavish Boy; a Rogue or Whore
|
|
taken, and clapp'd into the Cage or
|
|
Round-house.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime,punishment"><title>CANE <i>upon</i> ABEL</title>
|
|
<p>a good Stick or
|
|
Cudgel, well-favouredly laid on a
|
|
Man's shoulders.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>CANK</title>
|
|
<p>Dumb.
|
|
<eg>The Cull's Cank</eg>; the Rogue's Dumb; a Term used by
|
|
<i>Canters</i>, when one of their Fraternity,
|
|
being apprehended, upon Examination,
|
|
confesses nothing.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CANNIKIN</title>
|
|
<p>the Plague.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue" sortas="CANT"><title><i>A</i> CANT</title>
|
|
<p>an Hypocrite, a Dissembler,
|
|
a double-tongu'd, whining Person.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CANTING</title>
|
|
<p>the mysterious Language
|
|
of Rogues, Gypsies, Beggars,
|
|
Thieves, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>CANTING CREW</title>
|
|
<p>Beggars, Gypsies.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> CAP</title>
|
|
<p>to Swear.
|
|
<eg>I will Cap
|
|
downright</eg>, I will Swear home.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>CAPTAIN-HACKUM</title>
|
|
<p>a fighting,
|
|
blustering Bully.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>CAPTAIN-QUEERNABS</title>
|
|
<p>a Fellow
|
|
in poor Cloaths, or Shabby.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>CAPTAIN-SHARP</title>
|
|
<p>a great Cheat;
|
|
also a huffing, yet sneaking, cowardly
|
|
Bully.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>CAPTAIM-TOM</title>
|
|
<p>a Leader of the
|
|
Mob; also the Mob itself.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money,person"><title>CARAVAN</title>
|
|
<p>a good round Sum of
|
|
Money about a Man; also him that is
|
|
cheated of it.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>CARRIERS</title>
|
|
<p>a Set or Rogues, who
|
|
are employ'd to look out, and whatch
|
|
upon the Roads, at Inns, &c; in order
|
|
to carry Information to their respective
|
|
Gangs, of a Booty in Prospect.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>CARTED-WHORE</title>
|
|
<p>whipp'd publickly,
|
|
and pack'd out of Town.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place,bawd"><title>CASE</title>
|
|
<p>a House, Shop, or Warehouse;
|
|
also a Bawdy-house.
|
|
As <eg>Toute
|
|
the Case</eg>, view, mark, or eye the House
|
|
or Shop. <eg>'Tis all Bob; now let us dub
|
|
<!--* col *-->
|
|
the Gigg of the Case</eg>; now the Coast is
|
|
clear, let us fall on, and break open
|
|
the door of the House.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd" sortas="CASE-VROW"><title>A CASE-VROW</title>
|
|
<p>a Whore that
|
|
plie in a Bawdy-house.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CASH</title>
|
|
<p>or <i>Cassan</i>, cheese.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CASTER</title>
|
|
<p>a Cloak.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>CAT</title>
|
|
<p>a common Whore or Prostitute.
|
|
<eg>Who shall hang the bell about the
|
|
Cat's Neck?</eg> Who shall begin the Attack first? said of a desperate Undertaking.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>CATCH-FART</title>
|
|
<p>a Foot-boy.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CATCHING-HARVEST</title>
|
|
<p>a precarious
|
|
Time for Robbery; when many
|
|
People are out upon the Road, by
|
|
means of any adjacent Fair, Horse-race, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>CATCH-POLL</title>
|
|
<p>a Serjeant, or Bayliff,
|
|
that arrests People.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CATHARPIN FASHION</title>
|
|
<p>when
|
|
People in Company drink cross, and
|
|
not round about from the Right to
|
|
the Left, or according to the Sun's
|
|
Motion.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>CATTING</title>
|
|
<p>drawing a Fellow thro'
|
|
a Pond with a Cat. Also whoring.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CATMATCH</title>
|
|
<p>when a Rook or
|
|
Cully is engag'd amongst bad Bowlers.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>CAVAULTING SCHOOL</title>
|
|
<p>a Bawdy-house.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>CAUDGE-PAW'D</title>
|
|
<p>Left-handed.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>CAW-HANDED</title>
|
|
<p>awkward, not
|
|
dextrous, ready or nimble.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>CHAF'D</title>
|
|
<p>well beaten or bang'd.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>CHAPT</title>
|
|
<p>dry or thirsty.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj,punishment"><title>CHARACTERED</title>
|
|
<p>Burnt in the Hand;
|
|
as, <eg>They have pawn'd the Character upon
|
|
him</eg>; <i>i.e.</i> They have burnt the Rogue
|
|
in the Hand.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>CHATES</title>
|
|
<p>the Gallows.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CHATTS</title>
|
|
<p>Lice. To <eg>Squeeze the
|
|
Chatts</eg>; To crack or kill those Vermin.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>CHICKEN</title>
|
|
<p>a feeble little Creature,
|
|
of mean Spirit.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>CHINK</title>
|
|
<p>Money, so call'd because it
|
|
chinks in the Pocket.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title><i>A</i> CHIP</title>
|
|
<p>a Child. As, <eg>A Chip of the
|
|
old Block</eg>; A Son that is his Father's
|
|
likeness.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>CHIRPING-MERRY</title>
|
|
<p>very pleasant
|
|
over a Glass of good Liquor.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>CHIT</title>
|
|
<p>a Dandyprat, or Durgen, a
|
|
little trifling-Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>CHITTIFACE</title>
|
|
<p>a little puny Child.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CHIVE</title>
|
|
<p>a Kinfe, File or Saw.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v,crime"><title><i>To</i> CHIVE <i>his Darbies</i></title>
|
|
<p>To saw asunder
|
|
his Irons or Fetters.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v,thing"><title><i>To</i> CHOP</title>
|
|
<p>to change or barter. Also
|
|
a Job, or Booty, as <eg>A Chop by Chance</eg>,
|
|
a rare Booty, when 'twas not expected.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> CHOP</title>
|
|
<p>is also used to make Dispatch,
|
|
to slubber over in Post-haste, as
|
|
<!--* page 7 *-->
|
|
<eg>The Autem-Bawler, will soon quit the
|
|
Hums, for he chops up the Whiners</eg>; <i>i.e.</i>
|
|
The Parson will soon have dispatch'd
|
|
the Congregation, for he huddles over
|
|
the Prayers.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v,crime"><title><i>To</i> CHOUSE</title>
|
|
<p>to cheat or trick.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>CHUB</title>
|
|
<p><eg>He is a young Chub</eg>, or <eg>a meer
|
|
Chub</eg>, very ignorant or unexperienc'd
|
|
in Gaming, not at all acquainted with
|
|
Sharping. <eg>A good Chub</eg>, said by the
|
|
Butchers, when they have bit a silly raw
|
|
Customer.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>CHUCK-FARTHING</title>
|
|
<p>a Parish Clerk.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CLACK</title>
|
|
<p>a Woman's Tongue.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>CLAN</title>
|
|
<p>a Family, Tribe, Faction,
|
|
or Party, in <i>Scotland</i> chiefly, but now
|
|
any where else.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CLANK</title>
|
|
<p>a Silver-tankard.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CLANKER</title>
|
|
<p>a swinging Lye.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>CLANK NAPPER</title>
|
|
<p>a Silver-tankard
|
|
Stealer. See <i>Rumbubber</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>CLAPPERDOGEON</title>
|
|
<p>a Beggar born
|
|
and bred.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment,adj"><title>CLAW'D-OFF</title>
|
|
<p>lustily lash'd. Also
|
|
swingingly pox'd or clap'd.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>CLEAR</title>
|
|
<p>very Drunk. <eg>The Cull is
|
|
clear, let's Bite him.</eg> The Fellow is
|
|
very drunk, let's Sharp him.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>CLEAVE</title>
|
|
<p>as, <eg>One that will cleave</eg>;
|
|
used of a Wanton Woman. <i>Vide Clown</i></p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CLENCH</title>
|
|
<p>a Pun or Quibble.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title><i>To</i> CLENCH</title>
|
|
<p>to nick a Business by
|
|
timing it; as <eg>The Cull has clench'd
|
|
the Job at a Pinch</eg>. The Rogue has
|
|
nick'd the Time, before any Passengers
|
|
came by, who might have rescu'd
|
|
the plunder'd Person.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>CLEYMS</title>
|
|
<p>Sores without Pain, raised on Beggars Bodies, by their own
|
|
Artifice and Cunning, (to move Charity)
|
|
by bruising Crows-foot, Spearwort,
|
|
and Salt together, and clapping
|
|
them onthe Place, which frets the
|
|
Skin; then with a Linnen Rag, which
|
|
sticks close to it, they tear off the Skin,
|
|
and strew on it a little Powder'd rsnick,
|
|
which makes it look angrily or
|
|
ill-favouredly, as if it were a real
|
|
Sore.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>CLERK'D</title>
|
|
<p>sooth'd, sunn'd imposed
|
|
on; <eg>The Cull will not be Clerk'd</eg>, <i>i.e.</i>
|
|
He will not be caught or taken by fair
|
|
Words.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> CLICK</title>
|
|
<p>to Snatch. <eg>I have Clickt
|
|
the Nab from the Cull</eg>; I whipt the Hat
|
|
from the Man's Head. <eg>Click the rum
|
|
Topping</eg>. Snatch that Woman's fine
|
|
Commode, or Head-Dress.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>CLICKER</title>
|
|
<p>[among the <i>Canters</i>.] He
|
|
whom they intrust to divide their
|
|
Spoils, and proportion to every one
|
|
his Share.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<!--* col *-->
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>CLICKET</title>
|
|
<p>Copulation of Foxes, and
|
|
thence used in a <i>Canting</i> Sense, for that
|
|
of Men and Women; as <eg>The Cull and
|
|
the Mort are at Clicket in the Dyke</eg>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>CLICKETING</title>
|
|
<p>the Act of Fruition.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>CLINKER</title>
|
|
<p>a crafty Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CLINKERS</title>
|
|
<p>the Irons Felons wear
|
|
in Goals.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>CLOAK-TWITCHERS</title>
|
|
<p>Villains
|
|
who lurk in by and dark Places, to
|
|
snatch them off the Wearer's Shoulders.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>CLOD-HOPPER</title>
|
|
<p>a Ploughman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CLOUD</title>
|
|
<p>Tobacco. <eg>Will you raise a
|
|
Cloud?</eg> Will you smoak a Pipe?</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CLOVEN</title>
|
|
<title><i>Cleave</i></title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Cleft</i></title>
|
|
<p>used of a young Woman who passes for a Maid,
|
|
and is not one.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>CLOUT</title>
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<p>a Handkerchief.</p></entry>
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|
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<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> CLOY</title>
|
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<p>to Steal. <eg>Cloy the Clout</eg>;
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|
steal the Money.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>CLOYERS</title>
|
|
<p>Thieves, Robbers,
|
|
Rogues.</p></entry>
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|
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<entry c="crime"><title>CLOYING</title>
|
|
<p>Stealing, Thieving,
|
|
Robbing.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>CLOWES</title>
|
|
<p>Rogues.</p></entry>
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<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> CLUCK</title>
|
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<p>a Wench's Propension
|
|
to Male-Conversation, by her romping
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|
and playfulness; when they say, <eg>The
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|
Mort Clucks</eg>.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>CUMP</title>
|
|
<p>a Heap or Lump.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>CLUMPISH</title>
|
|
<p>Lumpish.</p></entry>
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|
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<entry c="person"><title>CLUNCH</title>
|
|
<p>a clumsy Clown, an awkward
|
|
or unhandy Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
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|
<entry c="crime,punishment"><title>CLY</title>
|
|
<p>Money. <eg>To cly the Jerk</eg>, to
|
|
be Whipt. <eg>Let's strike his Cly</eg>; Let's
|
|
get his Money from him. Also a
|
|
Pocket, as, <eg>Filed a Cly</eg>, Pick'd a Pocket.</p></entry>
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|
|
<entry c="money"><title>COACH-WHEEL</title>
|
|
<p>as, <eg>A Fore-Coach-Wheel</eg>
|
|
Half a Crown. <eg>A Hind-Coach-Wheel</eg>,
|
|
a Crown or Five-shilling Piece.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>COB</title>
|
|
<p>an <i>Irish</i> Dollar.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>COBBLE-COLTER</title>
|
|
<p>a Turkey. <eg>A
|
|
rum Cobble-colter</eg>, a fat large Cock-Turkey.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>COCK-BAWD</title>
|
|
<p>a Man who follows
|
|
that base Employment, of procuring;
|
|
a Pimp.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>COCKISH</title>
|
|
<p>wanton, uppish, forward.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>COCK-PIMP</title>
|
|
<p>a supposed Husband to
|
|
a Bawd.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>COCK-ROBBIN</title>
|
|
<p>a soft easy Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>COCK-SURE</title>
|
|
<p>very sure.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money,person"><title>COD</title>
|
|
<p>a good Sum of Money; also a
|
|
Fool. <eg>A meer Cod</eg>, a silly, shallow
|
|
Fellow. <eg>A rum Cod</eg>; a good round
|
|
Sum of Money. <eg>An honest Cod</eg>; a trusty
|
|
Friend.</p></entry>
|
|
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|
<entry c="person"><title>COD's-<i>Head</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Fool.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>COFE</title>
|
|
<p>as COVE. Which See.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> COG</title>
|
|
<p>to cheat at Dice. <eg>To Cog a
|
|
Die</eg>; to conceal or secure a Die; also
|
|
the Money or whatever the <i>Sweetners</i>
|
|
<!--* page 8 *-->
|
|
drop, to draw in the Bubbles: Also to
|
|
wheedle.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> COG <i>a Dinner</i></title>
|
|
<p>to wheedle one out of a Dinner.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>COG <i>a Clout</i></title>
|
|
<title>or, <i>Cog a Sneezer</i></title>
|
|
<p>Beg an Handkerchief, or Snuff box.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>COGUE</title>
|
|
<p>of brandy, a small Cup or
|
|
Dram.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>COKER</title>
|
|
<p>a Lye. <eg>Rum Coker</eg>, a whisking Lye.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>COLD-<i>Tea</i></title>
|
|
<p>Brandy. <eg>A couple of cold
|
|
Words</eg>, a Curtain-Lecture. <eg>Cold Iron</eg>,
|
|
a derisory Periphrasis for a Sword.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>COLE</title>
|
|
<p>Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>COLLEGE</title>
|
|
<p><i>Newgate</i>; <i>New College</i>,
|
|
the <i>Royal-Exchange</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>COLLEGIATES</title>
|
|
<p>the Prisoners of
|
|
the one, and the Shop-keepers of the
|
|
other of those Places.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> COLLOGUE</title>
|
|
<p>wheedle.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>COLQUARRON</title>
|
|
<p>a Man's Neck; as,
|
|
<eg>His Colquarron is just about to be twisted</eg>.
|
|
He is just going to be turn'd off.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>COLT</title>
|
|
<p>an Inn-keeper that lends a
|
|
Horse to a Highway-man, or to
|
|
Gentleman Beggars; also a Lad newly
|
|
initiated into Roguery.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>COLT-BOWL</title>
|
|
<p>laid short of the
|
|
Jack, by a [COLT-BOWLER]</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>COL-BOWLER</title>
|
|
<p>a raw or unexperienced Person.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> COME</title>
|
|
<p>to lend. <eg>Has he come it?</eg>
|
|
Has he lent it to you?</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>COMING-<i>Women</i></title>
|
|
<p>such as are free of
|
|
their Flesh; also breeding Women.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>COMMISSION</title>
|
|
<p>a shirt.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>COMMON-<i>Garden-Gout</i></title>
|
|
<p>or rather
|
|
<eg>Covent-Garden-Gout</eg>, the Foul Disease.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>COMFORTABLE-<i>Importance</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Wife.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>CONFECT</title>
|
|
<p>conterfeit, feigned.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj,crime"><title>CONTENT</title>
|
|
<p><eg>I beat him to his Heart's
|
|
Content</eg>; <i>till he had enough of Fighting.</i>
|
|
Also to murder a Person, who resists
|
|
being robb'd. <eg>The Cull's Content</eg>; <i>i.e.</i>
|
|
He is past complaining.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CONTRE-TEMPS</title>
|
|
<p>a fruitless Attempt,
|
|
or at an unseasonable Time.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>CONVENIENT</title>
|
|
<p>a Mistress; also a
|
|
Whore.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>CONVENIENCY</title>
|
|
<p>a Wife; also a
|
|
Mistress.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CONUNDRUMS</title>
|
|
<p>Whims, Maggots,
|
|
and such like.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>CONY</title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Tom Cony</i></title>
|
|
<p>a silly Fellow;
|
|
<eg>A meer Cony</eg>, very silly indeed.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title><i>A</i> COLD-COOK</title>
|
|
<p>an Undertaker of
|
|
Funerals.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>COOK-RUFFIN</title>
|
|
<p>the Devil of a
|
|
Cook; or a very bad one.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>COOL-CRAPE</title>
|
|
<p>When a Person dies,
|
|
he is said to be put into his <i>Cool-crape</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>COOLER</title>
|
|
<p>a Woman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>COOL-LADY</title>
|
|
<p>a Wench that sells
|
|
Brandy (in Camps) a Suttler.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>COOL-NANTZ</title>
|
|
<p>Brandy.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>CORK-BRAIN'D</title>
|
|
<p>a very impudent,
|
|
harden'd, brazen-faced Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>COSTARD</title>
|
|
<p>the Head. <eg>I'll give ye a
|
|
Knock on the Costard</eg>; I'll hit ye a Blow
|
|
on the Pate.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>COTTON</title>
|
|
<p><eg>They don't cotton</eg>; They
|
|
don't agree well.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> COUCH</title>
|
|
<p>to lie down, as <eg>To
|
|
Couch a Hogshead</eg>; To go to Bed.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person,rogue"><title>COVE</title>
|
|
<p>a Man, a Fellow; also a
|
|
Rogue. <eg>The Cove was Bit</eg>; The Rogue
|
|
was out-sharped or out-witted. <eg>The
|
|
Cove has bit the Cole</eg>; The Rogue has
|
|
stollen the Money. <eg>That Cove's a rum
|
|
Diver</eg>; That Fellow is a clever Pick-pocket.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>COVEY <i>of Whores</i></title>
|
|
<p>a well-fill'd Bawdy-house.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>COUNTERFEIT-CRANK</title>
|
|
<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></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>VOURT-<i>card</i></title>
|
|
<p>a gay, fluttering
|
|
Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title brace="right">COURT-<i>Holy-Water</i></title>
|
|
<title>COURT-<i>Promises</i></title>
|
|
<p>fair Speeches without
|
|
Performance.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>COURT-<i>Tricks</i></title>
|
|
<p>State-Policy &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>COWS-BABY</title>
|
|
<p>a Calf.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>CRACK</title>
|
|
<p>a Whore.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v,crime"><title><i>To</i> CRACK</title>
|
|
<p>is also used to break
|
|
open; as, <eg>To Crack up a Door</eg>; To
|
|
break a Door open.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CRACKER</title>
|
|
<p>the Backside; also Crust.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>CRACKING</title>
|
|
<p>boasting, vapouring.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>CRACKISH</title>
|
|
<p>whorish.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CRACKMANS</title>
|
|
<p>Hedges; as, <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</eg>; <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></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CRAG</title>
|
|
<p>a Neck; also the Stomach,
|
|
or Womb.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CRAMP-RINGS</title>
|
|
<p>Bolts or Shackles.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>CRAMP-WORDS</title>
|
|
<p>Sentence of
|
|
Death passed upon a Criminal by the
|
|
Judge: as, <eg>He has just undergone the
|
|
<!--* page 9 *-->
|
|
Cramp-Word</eg>; <i>i.e.</i> Sentence is just
|
|
passed upon him.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>CRANK</title>
|
|
<p>brisk, pert.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>CRAP</title>
|
|
<p>Money. <eg>Nim the Crap</eg>; Steal
|
|
the Money. <eg>Wheedle for Crap</eg>; To
|
|
coax Money out of any Body.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>CRASH</title>
|
|
<p>to Kill. <eg>Crash the Cull</eg>, <i>i.e.</i>
|
|
Kill the Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CRASHING-<i>Cheats</i></title>
|
|
<p>Teeth.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>CREATURES</title>
|
|
<p>Men raised by others,
|
|
and their <i>Tools</i> ever after.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> CREEME</title>
|
|
<p>to slip or slide any
|
|
Thing into another's Hand.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>CREW</title>
|
|
<p>a Knot or Gang; as, <eg>A
|
|
Crew of Rogues</eg>, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>CRIMP</title>
|
|
<p>as, <eg>To play Crimp</eg>, to lay or
|
|
bet on one Side, and (by foul Play) to
|
|
let the other win, having a Share of
|
|
the Purchase.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>Run a</i> CRIMP</title>
|
|
<p>to run a Race or
|
|
Horse-match foully or knavishly.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="phrase"><title><i>He</i> CRIMPS <i>it</i></title>
|
|
<p>He plays booty. <eg>A
|
|
crimping Fellow</eg>, a sneaking Cur.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CRINKUMS</title>
|
|
<p>the foul Disease.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>CROCKERS</title>
|
|
<p>Fore-stallers, Regraters;
|
|
otherwise called <i>Kidders</i> and
|
|
<i>Tranters</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>CROKER</title>
|
|
<p>a Groat or Fourpence.
|
|
<eg>The Cull tipt me a Croker</eg>, the Fellow
|
|
gave me a Groat.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>CRONY</title>
|
|
<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, <eg>Such a one is
|
|
my Crony</eg>; as much as to say, He and I
|
|
go Snacks.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>CROP</title>
|
|
<p>Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CROPPIN</title>
|
|
<p>the Tail, as, <eg>The Croppin
|
|
of the Rotan</eg>, The Tail of the Cart.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CROPPIN-KEN</title>
|
|
<p>a Privy or Bog-house.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> CROSS-BITE</title>
|
|
<p>to draw in a Friend,
|
|
yet snack with the Sharper; also to
|
|
countermine or disappoint.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CROWN <i>Office</i></title>
|
|
<p>as, <eg>He is got into
|
|
the Crown Office</eg>, <i>i.e.</i> He's got drunk.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>CRUISERS</title>
|
|
<p>Beggars; Also Highway
|
|
Spies, who traverse the Road, to give
|
|
Intelligence of a Booty, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>CRUMP</title>
|
|
<p>one that helps Sollicitors
|
|
to <i>Affidavit-Men</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>CRUSTY-BEAU</title>
|
|
<p>one that lies with
|
|
a Cover over his Face all Night, and
|
|
uses Washes, Paint, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title><i>Young</i> CUB</title>
|
|
<p>a new Gamester drawn
|
|
in to be rook'd.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>CUCUMBERS</title>
|
|
<p>Taylors.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>CUDGELLIERS</title>
|
|
<p>a Mob rudely
|
|
arm'd; also Cudgel-Players.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>CUFFIN</title>
|
|
<p>a Man.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>CUFFIN-QUIRE</title>
|
|
<p>See <i>Quire Cuffin</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v,punishment"><title>CULP</title>
|
|
<p>a Kick or Blow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person,rogue"><title>CULL</title>
|
|
<p>a Man, either honest, or
|
|
<!--* col *-->
|
|
otherwise. <eg>A Bob-Cull</eg>, a Sweet-humour'd
|
|
Man to a Wench. <eg>The Cull
|
|
naps us</eg>; The Person robb'd apprehends
|
|
us. <eg>A curst Cull</eg>, an ill-natur'd Fellow,
|
|
a Churl to a Woman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>CULLY</title>
|
|
<p>a Fop, a Fool, one who is
|
|
easily drawn in and cheated by Whores
|
|
and Rogues.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>CUNNING-Shaver</title>
|
|
<p>a sharp Fellow,
|
|
one that sharps or shaves (as they call
|
|
it) close.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>CUP-SHOT</title>
|
|
<p>Drunk.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CUP <i>of the Creature</i></title>
|
|
<p>strong-Liquor.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>CURLE</title>
|
|
<p>Clippings of Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>CURSITORS</title>
|
|
<p>reduced Lawyers, assuming
|
|
to themselves the Knowledge
|
|
of the Quirks and Quiddities of the
|
|
Law, and are perpetually fomenting litigious
|
|
Brawls, and insignificant Contentions,
|
|
among the Scum of the Vulgar.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>CURTAILS</title>
|
|
<p>whose Practice is to
|
|
cut off Pieces of Silk, Cloth, Linnen
|
|
or Stuff, that hang out at the Shop-Windows
|
|
of Mercers, Drapers, &c;
|
|
as also sometimes the Tails of Womens
|
|
Gowns, their Hoods, Scarves,
|
|
Pinners, - if richly Lac'd.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>CURTAIL'D</title>
|
|
<p>cut off, dock'd, shorten'd, reduced.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>CURTAIN-Lecture</title>
|
|
<p>Womens impertinent
|
|
scolding at their Husbands
|
|
behind the Curtain.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person,bawd"><title>CURTEZAN</title>
|
|
<p>a genteel fine Miss,
|
|
or Quality Whore.</p></entry>
|
|
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|
<entry c="adj"><title>CUT</title>
|
|
<p>Drunk. <eg>Deep Cut</eg>, very
|
|
Drunk. <eg>Cut in the Leg or Back</eg>, the
|
|
same. <eg>To Cut</eg>, also signifies to speak.
|
|
<eg>To Cut bene</eg>, to speak gently, civilly or
|
|
kindly; <eg>To Cut bene (<i>or</i> benar) Whidds</eg>,
|
|
to give good Words. <eg>To Cut queere
|
|
Whid's</eg>, to give ill Language. A Blow
|
|
with a Stick or Cane, is also called a
|
|
<i>Cut</i>. As, <eg>I took him a Cut cross the
|
|
Shoulders</eg>.</p></entry>
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|
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|
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|
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|
</letter>
|
|
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|
<letter name="d"><title>D</title>
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>DAB</title>
|
|
<p>expert, well vers'd in
|
|
Roguery.
|
|
<eg>A Rum Dab</eg>, a very
|
|
dextrous Fellow at Thieving, Cheating, Sharping, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>DACE</title>
|
|
<p>Two-pence; Tip me a <i>Dace</i>, Lend me Two-pence, or pay
|
|
so much for me.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>DAG</title>
|
|
<p>a Gun.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>DAMBER</title>
|
|
<p>a Rascal. See <i>Dimber</i></p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>DAMME-BOY</title>
|
|
<p>a roaring, mad,
|
|
blustring Fellow, a Scourer of the
|
|
Streets.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>DANCERS</title>
|
|
<p>Stairs.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>DANDYPRAT</title>
|
|
<p>a little puny Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>DARBY</title>
|
|
<p>ready Money; as, <eg>The Cull
|
|
tipp'd us the Darby</eg>; The Fellow gave
|
|
us all his ready Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>DARBIES</title>
|
|
<p>Irons, Shackles or Fetters.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>DARK <i>Cully</i></title>
|
|
<p>a married Man, who
|
|
keeps a Mistress, and creeps to her in
|
|
the Night, for fear of Discovery.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>DARKMANS</title>
|
|
<p>the Night; <eg>The Child
|
|
of Darkmans or Darkness</eg>, a Bell-man.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>DARKMANS-<i>Budge</i></title>
|
|
<p>one that slides
|
|
into a House in the Dusk, to let in
|
|
more Rogues to rob.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>DASH</title>
|
|
<p>a Tavern-Drawer.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>DAWB</title>
|
|
<p>a Bribe, a Reward for
|
|
secret Service; as, <eg>The Cull was gybbed,
|
|
because he could not dawb</eg>. The Rogue
|
|
was punished, because he had no Pence
|
|
to bribe off his Sentence.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>DEAD <i>Cargo</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Term used by
|
|
Rogues, when they are disappointed in
|
|
the Value of their Booty.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>DEAD-MEN</title>
|
|
<p>empty Pots or Bottles
|
|
ona Tavern Table.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>DEAR <i>Joyes</i></title>
|
|
<p><i>Irishmen</i></p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>DECUS</title>
|
|
<p>a Crown or Five Shilling
|
|
Piece.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>DEFT <i>Fellow</i></title>
|
|
<p>a tidy, neat, little
|
|
Man.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>DEGEN</title>
|
|
<p>a Sword. <eg>Nim the Degen</eg>,
|
|
whip the Sword from the Gentleman's
|
|
side.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>DELLS</title>
|
|
<p>young bucksome Wenches,
|
|
rip and prone to Venery, but who
|
|
have not lost their Virginity, which
|
|
the <i>Upright Man</i> pretends to, and
|
|
seizes: Then she is free for any of the
|
|
Fraternity. Also a common Strumpet.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>DEVIL-<i>drawer</i></title>
|
|
<p>a sorry Painter.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>DEUSEAVILE</title>
|
|
<p>the Country.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>DEUSEAVILE-<i>Stampers</i></title>
|
|
<p>Country Carriers.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>DEWS-<i>wins</i></title>
|
|
<title>or, <i>Deux-wins</i></title>
|
|
<p>Two-pence.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>DIDDLE</title>
|
|
<p><i>Geneva</i>, a Liquor very
|
|
much drank by the lowest Rank of
|
|
People.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>DIMBER</title>
|
|
<p>pretty.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>DIMBER-<i>Cove</i></title>
|
|
<p>a pretty Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>DIMBER-<i>Damber</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Top Man or
|
|
Prince amongst the <i>Canting Crew</i>;
|
|
also the chief Rogue of the Gang, or
|
|
the compleatest Cheat.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>DIMBER-<i>Mort</i></title>
|
|
<p>a pretty Wench.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> DING</title>
|
|
<p>to knock down.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>DING-<i>Boy</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Rogue, a Hector, a
|
|
Bully, a Sharper.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>DING-<i>Dong</i></title>
|
|
<p>helter-skelter.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>DIPT</title>
|
|
<p>engag'd or in Debt, pawn'd
|
|
or mortgag'd.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>DISMAL-<i>Ditty</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Psalm at the Gallows.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>DISPATCHES</title>
|
|
<p>a <i>Mittimus</i>, a Justice
|
|
<!--* col *-->
|
|
of Peace's Warrant to send a Rogue
|
|
to Prison, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> DIVE</title>
|
|
<p>to pick a Pocket.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>DIVER</title>
|
|
<p>a Pick-pocket. See <i>File</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>DOASH</title>
|
|
<p>a Cloak.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title><i>To</i> DOCK</title>
|
|
<p>to lie witha Woman.
|
|
<eg>The Cull Docks the Dell in the Darkmans</eg>;
|
|
the Rogue lay with the Wench all
|
|
Night.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>DOCTOR</title>
|
|
<p>a false Die that will run
|
|
but two or three Chances. <eg>They put
|
|
the Doctor upon him</eg>; they cheated him
|
|
with false Dice.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>DOMERARS</title>
|
|
<title>or DROMMERARS</title>
|
|
<p>Rogues, pretending to have had their
|
|
Tongues cut out, or to be born Dumb
|
|
and Deaf, who artificially turn their
|
|
Tip of their Tongues into their
|
|
Throat, and with a Stick making it
|
|
bleed.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>DOSE</title>
|
|
<p>Burglary, a breaking open a
|
|
House, Lock, Door, &c; as, <eg>He is cast
|
|
for Felon and Dose</eg>; <i>i. e.</i> found Guilty
|
|
of Felony and Burglary.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>DOWN-HILLS</title>
|
|
<p>Dice that run low.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>DOXIES</title>
|
|
<p>She beggars, Wenches,
|
|
Whores.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>DRAB</title>
|
|
<p>a Whore, or Slut; a <eg>dirty
|
|
Drab</eg>, a very nasty Slut.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>DRAWERS</title>
|
|
<p>Stockens.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>DRAW-<i>Latches</i></title>
|
|
<p>Robbers of Houses
|
|
that were fastened only by <i>Latches</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>DRIPPER</title>
|
|
<p>a sort of Clap, or venereal
|
|
Gleet.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>DROMEDARY</title>
|
|
<p>a heavy, bundling
|
|
Thief or Rogue. <eg>A purple Dromedary</eg>;
|
|
a Bungler or a dull Fellow at Thieving.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>DROMMERARS</title>
|
|
<p>See <i>Domerars</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>DROP <i>a Cog</i></title>
|
|
<p>to let fall (with Design
|
|
to draw in and cheat) a Piece of Gold;
|
|
also the Piece itself.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>DROP <i>in his Eye</i></title>
|
|
<p>almost drunk.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>DRUMBELO</title>
|
|
<p>a dull, heavy Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>DRY-<i>Bob</i></title>
|
|
<p>a smart or sharp Repartee.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>DRY-<i>Boots</i></title>
|
|
<p>a sly, close cunning
|
|
Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>DUB</title>
|
|
<p>a pick-lock Key.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>DUB <i>the Gigger</i></title>
|
|
<p>open the Door.
|
|
<eg>We'll strike it upon the Dub</eg>, We will
|
|
rob that Place.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>DUBBER</title>
|
|
<p>a Picker of Locks.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title><i>A</i> DUCE</title>
|
|
<p>Two pence.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>DUDDS</title>
|
|
<p>Cloaths or Goods. <eg>Rum
|
|
Dudds</eg>; fine or rich Cloaths or Goods.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>DUDD-<i>Cheats</i></title>
|
|
<p>Cloaths and things
|
|
stollen. <eg>Abraham Cove has wonne<interj>, (or <i>bit</i>)</interj> Rumm Dudds</eg>; the poor Fellow
|
|
has stollen very costly Cloaths.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title><i>To</i> DUM-<i>found</i></title>
|
|
<p>to beat soundly.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>DUNAKER</title>
|
|
<p>a Stealer or Cows, or
|
|
Calves, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<!--* page 11 *-->
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>DUDDERING <i>Rake</i></title>
|
|
<p>a thundering
|
|
Rake, or of the first Rank, one devilishly
|
|
lewd.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>DUP</title>
|
|
<p>to enter, or open a Door:
|
|
<eg>Dup the Ken</eg>, Enter the House. <eg>Dup
|
|
the Boozing Ken and booz a Gage</eg>, Go
|
|
into the Ale-house and drink a Pot.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title link="ignore">DUST</title>
|
|
<p>Money; <eg>Down with your
|
|
Dust</eg>, Deposite your Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v,drink"><title>DUST <eg>it away</eg></title>
|
|
<p>Drink quick about.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>DUTCH-<i>Reckoning</i></title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Alte-mall</i></title>
|
|
<p>a
|
|
verbal or lump Accompt, without Particulars;
|
|
as brought in at the <i>Spunging-Houses</i>,
|
|
at <i>Bawdy Houses</i>, and other
|
|
such like Places of ill Repute.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<!--* end of D *-->
|
|
|
|
</letter>
|
|
|
|
<letter name="e"><title>E</title>
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>EAGLE</title>
|
|
<p>a winning Gamester.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>EARNEST</title>
|
|
<p>Part or Share.
|
|
<eg>Tip me my Earnest</eg>,
|
|
Give me my Snack or
|
|
Dividend.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>EASY</title>
|
|
<p>facile, supple, pliable, mnageable.
|
|
<eg>As make the Cull easy</eg>; Gagg
|
|
him, tht he may make no Noise;sometimes used for murdering a Person
|
|
robbed, for fear of Discovery.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>EBB <i>water</i></title>
|
|
<p>when there is but little
|
|
money in the Pocket.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>EDGE</title>
|
|
<p>as, <eg>Fall Back, fall Edge</eg>; <i>i.e.</i>
|
|
<meaning><i>At all Adventures</i></meaning>; used to express a
|
|
villainous and daring Resolution for
|
|
Mischief, whatever may be the Consequence.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> EDGE</title>
|
|
<p>or, as 'tis vulgarly call'd,
|
|
<i>To</i> EGG one on; to stimulate, provoke,
|
|
push forwards, so sharpen, or whet on
|
|
for Mischief.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>ELBOW-<i>shaker</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Ganester or Sharper.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>ELF</title>
|
|
<p>little.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>EMPTY</title>
|
|
<p>as, <eg>The Cull looks Empty</eg>;
|
|
or, <eg>'Tis all Empty</eg>; i.e. the Person or
|
|
House has not the Riches reported, or
|
|
is not worth attempting.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>ENGLISH <i>Manufacture</i></title>
|
|
<p>Ale, Beer,
|
|
or Cyder.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>EQUIPT</title>
|
|
<p>rich; also having new
|
|
Cloaths. <eg>Well equipt</eg>, plump in the
|
|
Pocket, or very full of Money; also
|
|
very well drest. <eg>The Cull equipt me
|
|
with a Brace of Meggs</eg>, The Gentleman
|
|
furnish'd me with a Coupleof Guineas.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>ERIFFS</title>
|
|
<p>Rogues just initiated, and
|
|
beginning to practice.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>EVES</title>
|
|
<p>Hen-Roosts.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>EVES-<i>Dropper</i></title>
|
|
<p>one that lurks about
|
|
to rob or steal.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>EWE</title>
|
|
<title>or, <i>The white Ewe</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Top-woman very beautiful.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<!--* col *-->
|
|
|
|
|
|
</letter>
|
|
|
|
<letter name="f"><title>F</title>
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>FACER</title>
|
|
<p>a Bumber without Lip-room.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>FADGE</title>
|
|
<p>as, It won't fadge or do.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>FAG</title>
|
|
<p>to Beat; as, <eg>Fag the Bloss</eg>,
|
|
Bang the Wench; <eg>Fag the Fen</eg>, Drub
|
|
the Whore. Whence [[to Faggot, next entry]].</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment,crime"><title><i>To</i> FAGGOT</title>
|
|
<p>to bind Hand and
|
|
Foot; as <eg>Faggot the Culls</eg>; <i>i.e.</i> Bind
|
|
the Men.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>FAIR-<i>Roe-Buck</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Woman in the
|
|
Bloom of her Beauty.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>FAMBLE-<i>Cheats</i></title>
|
|
<p>Gold Rings, or
|
|
Gloves.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>FAMBLERS</title>
|
|
<p>Villains that go up and
|
|
down selling counterfeit rings, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>FAMBLES</title>
|
|
<p>Rings; also the Hands.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> FAMGRASP</title>
|
|
<p>to agree or make
|
|
up a Difference. <eg>Famgrasp the Cove</eg>,
|
|
to agree with the Adversary.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>FAMILY <i>of Love</i></title>
|
|
<p>Lew'd Women,
|
|
Whores; also a Sect.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>FAMMS</title>
|
|
<p>Hands.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>FARTING-<i>Crackers</i></title>
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<p>Breeches.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>FASTNER</title>
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<p>a Warrant.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>FASTNESS</title>
|
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<p>Boggs.</p></entry>
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<entry c="adj"><title>FAT</title>
|
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<p>rich, as, <eg>A Fat Cull</eg>; a rich
|
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Fellow.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>FAULKNER</title>
|
|
<p>a Tumbler, a Juggler,
|
|
a Shewer of Tricks, &c;</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>FAYTORS</title>
|
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<title>or FATORS</title>
|
|
<p>A kind of Gypsies, pretending to tell People
|
|
their Fate or Destiny, or what they
|
|
were born to.</p></entry>
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|
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<entry c="thing"><title>FEATHER-<i>bed-lane</i></title>
|
|
<p>any bad Road,
|
|
but particularly that betwixt <i>Dunchurch</i>
|
|
and <i>Daintry</i>. <eg>To Feather his nest</eg>, to
|
|
inrich himself by indirect Means, or
|
|
at the expence of others.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>FEINTING</title>
|
|
<p>an Attempt on one part
|
|
of a House, or Road, &c; when their
|
|
cheif Stress or Attempt lies in another.</p></entry>
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|
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<entry c="bawd"><title>FEN</title>
|
|
<p>a Strumpet, or Bawd, a common
|
|
prostitute.</p></entry>
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|
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<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> FENCE</title>
|
|
<p>to spend, <eg>Fence his Hog</eg>,
|
|
spend his Shilling.</p></entry>
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|
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<entry c="rogue"><title><i>A</i> FENCE</title>
|
|
<p>is also a Receiver and
|
|
Securer of Stollen Goods.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>FENCING-<i>Cully</i></title>
|
|
<p>the fame.</p></entry>
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<entry c="place"><title>FENCING-<i>Ken</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Warehouse,
|
|
where Stollen Goods are secured.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>FERME</title>
|
|
<p>a Hole.</p></entry>
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|
|
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<entry c="rogue"><title>FERMERLY-<i>Beggars</i></title>
|
|
<p>all those that
|
|
have not the sham Sores or <i>Cleymes</i>.</p></entry>
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|
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|
<entry c="rogue"><title>FERRET</title>
|
|
<p>a Parn-broker, or
|
|
Tradesman that sells Goods upn Trust
|
|
at excessive Rates, and then hunts
|
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them, and often throws them into
|
|
Goal, where they perish for his Debt.</p></entry>
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<entry c="adj"><title>FERRETED</title>
|
|
<p>cheated</p></entry>
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|
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|
<entry c="rogue"><title>FETCH</title>
|
|
<p>a Trick or Wheedle. <eg>A
|
|
meer Fetch</eg>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> FIB</title>
|
|
<p>to beat; <eg>Fib the Cove's
|
|
Quarron in the Rompad, for the Lour in
|
|
his Bung</eg>. Beat the Man in the Highway
|
|
for the Money in his Purse.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>FIDDLE</title>
|
|
<p>a Writ to Arrest.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>FIDLERS-<i>Pay</i></title>
|
|
<p>Thanks and Wine.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime" sortas="FILCH1"><title><i>To</i> FILCH</title>
|
|
<p>to Steal.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing" sortas="FILCH2"><title><i>A</i> FILCH</title>
|
|
<p>a Staff, with a Hole thro'
|
|
and a Spike at the Bottom, to pluck
|
|
Cloaths from a Hedge or any thing out
|
|
of a Casement.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>FILCHERS</title>
|
|
<p>the same with ANGLERS.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>FILCHING-<i>Cove</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Man-Thief.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>FILCHING-<i>Mort</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Woman-Thief.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v" sortas="FILE 01"><title><i>To</i> FILE</title>
|
|
<p>to Rob, or Cheat.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue" sortas="FILE 02"><title><i>A</i> FILE</title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Bungnipper</i></title>
|
|
<p>Pick-pockets,
|
|
who generally go in Company with a
|
|
Rogue, called a <i>Bulk</i> or <i>Bulker</i>, whose
|
|
Business 'tis to jostle the Person against
|
|
the Wall, while the <i>File</i> picks his
|
|
Pocket; and generally gives it to an
|
|
<i>Adam-tiler</i>, who scowers off with it.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>FILE-<i>Cloy</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Pick-Pocket, Thief or
|
|
Rogue; the same as FILE.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>FIRE-<i>Ship</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Pockey Whore.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money,adj"><title>FLAG</title>
|
|
<p>a Groat; <eg>The Flag of Defiance
|
|
is out</eg>, (among the Tarrs) the
|
|
Fellow's Face is very red, and he is
|
|
drunk.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>FLAM</title>
|
|
<p>a Trick or Sham Story.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>FLANDERS-<i>Fortunes</i></title>
|
|
<p>of small Substance.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>FLANDERS-<i>Pieces</i></title>
|
|
<p>Pictures that
|
|
look fair at a Distance, but coarser
|
|
near at Hand.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>FLAP DRAGON</title>
|
|
<p>a Clap or Pox.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>FLASH</title>
|
|
<p>a Peruke. <eg>Rum Flash</eg>, a
|
|
long, full, high-priz'd Wig. <eg>Queer-Flash</eg>,
|
|
a sorry weather-beaten Wig.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>FLASH-<i>Ken</i></title>
|
|
<p>a House were Thieves
|
|
use, and are connived at.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>FLAW'D</title>
|
|
<p>Drunk.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> FLEECE</title>
|
|
<p>to Rob, Plunder or
|
|
Strip.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue,bawd"><title>FLESH <i>Broker</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Match-maker;
|
|
also a Bawd.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>FLIBUSTERS</title>
|
|
<p><i>West Indian</i> Pirates,
|
|
or Buckaneers, Free-booters.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>FLICKER</title>
|
|
<p>a Drinking Glass. <eg>The
|
|
Flicker snapt</eg>, the Glass is broken. <eg>Nim
|
|
the Flicker</eg>. Steal the Glass. <eg>Rum
|
|
Flicker</eg>, a large Glass or Rummer.
|
|
<eg>Queer Flicker</eg>, a green or ordinary
|
|
Glass.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>FLICKING</title>
|
|
<p>to cut, cutting, as, <eg>Flick
|
|
me some Panom and Cossam</eg>; Cut me
|
|
some Bread and Cheese. And, <eg>Flick
|
|
the Peter</eg>, cut off the Cloak-bag or
|
|
Portmanteau.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
<entry c="v,punishment"><title>FLOGG</title>
|
|
<p>to Whip</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>FLOGG'D</title>
|
|
<p>severely lash'd.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>FLOGG'D <i>at the Tumbler</i></title>
|
|
<p>whipt at the Cart's Arse.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment,bawd"><title>FLOGGING</title>
|
|
<p>a naked Woman's
|
|
whipping with Rods an old (usually)
|
|
and (sometimes) a young Letcher.
|
|
<eg>The Prancer drew the Queer Cove, at
|
|
the Crop-pin of the Rotan, through the
|
|
Rum Pads of the Runville, and was
|
|
Flogg'd by the Rum Cove</eg>, <i>i. e.</i> The
|
|
Rogue was dragg'd at the Cart's tail
|
|
through the chief Streets of <i>London</i>,
|
|
and was soundly whipt by the Hangman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>FLOGGING-<i>Cove</i></title>
|
|
<p>the Beadle, or
|
|
Whipper in <i>Bridewell</i>, or any such
|
|
Place.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue,bawd"><title>FLOGGING-<i>Cully</i></title>
|
|
<p>an old Letcher,
|
|
who, to stimulate himself to Venery,
|
|
causes himself to be whipp'd with
|
|
Rods.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>FLOGGING-<i>Stake</i></title>
|
|
<p>a whipping
|
|
Post.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>FLORENCE</title>
|
|
<p>a Wench that is
|
|
touz'd and ruffled.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj,money"><title>FLUSH <i>in the Pocket</i></title>
|
|
<p>full of Money.
|
|
<eg>The Cull is Flush in the Fob</eg>, the Spark's
|
|
Pocket is well lin'd with Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink,adj"><title>FLUSTER'D</title>
|
|
<p>Drunk.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>FLUTE</title>
|
|
<p>the Recorder of <i>London</i>,
|
|
or of any other Town.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>FLYERS</title>
|
|
<p>Shoes.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>FLYING <i>Camps</i></title>
|
|
<p>Beggars plying in
|
|
Bodies at Funerals.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>FOB</title>
|
|
<p>a Cheat, or Trick.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>FOB <i>off</i></title>
|
|
<p>to cheat or deceive.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>FOG</title>
|
|
<p>Smoke.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>FOGUS</title>
|
|
<p>Tobacco. <eg>Tip me a Gage of
|
|
Fogus</eg>, Give me a Pipe of Tobacco.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>FOOTMAN's <i>Mawn'd</i></title>
|
|
<p>an artificial
|
|
Sore made with unslak'd Lime, Soap,
|
|
an the Rust of old Iron, on the Back
|
|
of a Beggar's Hand, as if hurt by the
|
|
Bite or Kick of a Horse.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>FOOT-<i>Pads</i></title>
|
|
<title>or LOW <i>Pads</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Crew
|
|
of Villains, who rob on Foot, some
|
|
of them using long Poles or Staves,
|
|
with an Iron Hook at the End, with
|
|
which they either pull Gentlemen from
|
|
their Horses, or knock them down: At
|
|
other Times, they skulk under Hedges
|
|
or behind Banks in the Road, and suddenly
|
|
starting out from their Covert,
|
|
one seizes the Bridle, while the other
|
|
dismounts the Passenger: and so rob,
|
|
and often murder him.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>FORMAN <i>of the Jury</i></title>
|
|
<p>one that engrosses
|
|
all the Talk to himself.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue" sortas="FORK 01"><title>FORK</title>
|
|
<p>a Pick-pocket. <eg>Lets Fork
|
|
him</eg>; Let us pick that Man's Pocket.
|
|
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|
|
It is done by thrusting the Fingers,
|
|
strait, stiff, open and very quick into
|
|
the Pocket, and so closing them, hook
|
|
what can be held between them.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person" sortas="FORK 02"><title>A FORK</title>
|
|
<p>is also used for a Spendthrift.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>FORLORN-<i>Hope</i></title>
|
|
<p>losing Gamesters.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person,rogue"><title>FORTUNE-<i>Hunters</i></title>
|
|
<p><i>Irishmen</i>, Pursuers
|
|
of rich Heiresses, &c; to obtain
|
|
them in Marriage. <eg>A Creature of Fortune</eg>,
|
|
one that lives by his Wit.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>FORTUNE-<i>Tellers</i></title>
|
|
<p>the Judges of
|
|
Life and Death.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>FOUNDLING</title>
|
|
<p>a Child dropt in the
|
|
Streets for the Parish to keep.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue" sortas="FOX"><title link="ignore">A FOX</title>
|
|
<p>a sharp, cunning Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink,adj"><title>FOXED</title>
|
|
<p>Drunk.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>FOYST</title>
|
|
<p>a Cheat, a Rogue.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>FRATERS</title>
|
|
<p>such as beg with sham
|
|
Patents or Briefs for Spitals, Prisons,
|
|
Fires, Innundations, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>FREE-<i>Booters</i></title>
|
|
<p>lawless Robbers, and
|
|
Plunderers; also Soldiers serving for
|
|
that Privilege without Pay, Inroaders.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>FREEHOLDER</title>
|
|
<p>he whose Wife goes
|
|
with him to the Alehouse.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>FREEZE</title>
|
|
<p>a thin, small, hard Cyder,
|
|
much used by Vintners and Coopers in
|
|
parting their Wines, to lower the
|
|
Price of them, and to advance their
|
|
Gain. <eg>A Freezing Vintner</eg>, a vintner
|
|
that balderdashes his Wine.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>FRENCH <i>Gout</i></title>
|
|
<p>the Pox. <eg>A Blow
|
|
with a French Faggot stick</eg>, when the
|
|
Nose is fallen by the Pox.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>FRENCHIFIED</title>
|
|
<p>clapt or Poxt.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>FRIGOT <i>well rigged</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Woman well
|
|
drest and genteel.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person,bawd"><title>FROE</title>
|
|
<p>for <i>Vrowe</i>, (<i>Dutch</i>) a Wife,
|
|
Mistress, or Whore, <eg>Brush to your Froe
|
|
<interj>(or <i>Blos</i>)</interj> and wheedle for Crap</eg>, whip
|
|
to your Mistress, and speak her fair
|
|
to give, or lend you some Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>FROG-<i>Landers</i></title>
|
|
<p>Dutchmen.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment,adj"><title>FRUMMAGEMM'D</title>
|
|
<p>choaked, strangled, or hanged.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>FRUMP</title>
|
|
<p>a dry Bob, or Jest.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>FUDDLE</title>
|
|
<p>Drink. <eg>This is rum Fuddle</eg>,
|
|
this is excellent Tipple.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink,person"><title>FUDDLE-<i>Cap</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Drunkard.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime" sortas="FUN 01"><title>FUN</title>
|
|
<p>a Cheat, or slippery Trick;
|
|
<eg>What do you fun me?</eg> Do you think to
|
|
sharp or trick me? <eg>He put the fun upon
|
|
the Cull</eg>, he sharped the Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing" sortas="FUN 01"><title>FUN</title>
|
|
<p>is also used for the Backside;
|
|
as, <eg>I'll kick your Fun</eg>, <i>i. e.</i> I'll kick your
|
|
Breech. Likewise for Game of Diversion;
|
|
as <eg>We had rare Fun with him</eg>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>FUNK</title>
|
|
<p>Tobacco Smoak.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>FUR-<i>Men</i></title>
|
|
<p>Aldermen.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>FUSSOCKS</title>
|
|
<p>as <eg>A meer Fussocks</eg>, a lazy
|
|
fat wench. <eg>A fat Fussocks</eg>, a fat fulsom,
|
|
strapping Woman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>FUSTILUGGS</title>
|
|
<p>a fulsom, beastly,
|
|
nasty Woman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
</letter>
|
|
|
|
<letter name="g" pagesize="big"><title>G</title>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>GAG</title>
|
|
<p>to put iron pins into the
|
|
Mouths of the Robbed, to hinder
|
|
them from crying out.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>GAGE</title>
|
|
<p>a Pot or Pipe. <eg>Tip me a Gage</eg>,
|
|
give me a Pot or Pipe.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person,bawd"><title>GAME</title>
|
|
<p>Bubbles drawn in to be
|
|
cheated; also at a Bawdy house, lewd
|
|
Women. <eg>Have ye any Game Mother</eg>?
|
|
Have ye any Whores, Mistress bawd.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>GAN</title>
|
|
<p>a Mouth.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>GANS</title>
|
|
<p>the Lips.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>GANG</title>
|
|
<p>an ill Knot or Crew of
|
|
Thieves, Pick-pockets or Miscreants.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>GAOL&stress;ERS-<i>Coach</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Hurdle.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>GARNISH-<i>Money</i></title>
|
|
<p>what is customarily
|
|
spent among the Prisoners at first
|
|
coming in.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>GEE</title>
|
|
<p>as <eg>It won't Gee</eg>, it won't hit,
|
|
or go.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>GELT</title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Gelt</i> [sic]</title>
|
|
<p>Money.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>GENTRY-<i>Cove</i></title>
|
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<p>a Gentleman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>GENTRY-<i>Cove-Ken</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Nobleman's
|
|
or Gentleman's House.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>GENTRY-<i>Mort</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Gentlewoman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>GEORGE</title>
|
|
<p>a Half-Crown piece.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>GIG</title>
|
|
<p>a Nose; also a Woman's Privities.
|
|
<eg>Snichel the Gig</eg>, fillip the Fellow
|
|
on the Nose. <eg>A young Gig</eg>, a wanton
|
|
Lass.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>GIGGER</title>
|
|
<p>a Door, <eg>Dub the Gigger,
|
|
that we may ravage the Ken</eg>, i. e. Open
|
|
the Door with the Pick-lock, that we
|
|
go in and rob the House.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>GIG&stress;GLERS</title>
|
|
<p>wanton Women.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink,person"><title>GILL</title>
|
|
<p>a Quartern (of Brandy, Wine
|
|
&c;) also a homely Woman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person,bawd"><title>GILL-FLURT</title>
|
|
<p>a proud Minks; also
|
|
a Slut or light Housewife.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>GILT</title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Rum dubber</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Picklock, so
|
|
called from <i>Gilt</i>, or <i>Key</i>; may of them
|
|
are so expert, that from a Church-Door,
|
|
to the smallest Cabinet or Trunk
|
|
they will find means to open it. They
|
|
generally pretending Business of Secrecy,
|
|
covet to go up Stairs with their
|
|
Company, in a Publick-House or Tavern,
|
|
and then prying about, open any
|
|
Door, Trunk or Cabinet that they
|
|
think will afford them Booty, and so
|
|
march off.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>GIMCRACK</title>
|
|
<p>a spruce Wench.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>GINGER-<i>Bread</i></title>
|
|
<p>Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>GINGERLY</title>
|
|
<p>gently, soft, easily.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>GINGUMBOBS</title>
|
|
<p>Toys or Baubles.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>GINNY</title>
|
|
<p>an Instrument to lift up a
|
|
Grate, the better to steal what is in the
|
|
Window.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> GLAVER</title>
|
|
<p>to fawn and flatter.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>GLAZE</title>
|
|
<p>a Window.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>GLAZIER</title>
|
|
<p>one that creeps in at
|
|
Casements, or unrips Glass-Windows
|
|
to filch and steal.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>GLAZIERS</title>
|
|
<p>Eyes. <eg>The Cove has
|
|
rum Glaziers</eg>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>GLIB</title>
|
|
<p>smooth, without a Rub.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing,punishment"><title>GLIM</title>
|
|
<p>a Dark-Lanthorn used in robbing
|
|
Houses; also to burn in the Hand
|
|
as <eg>if the Cull was Glimmed, he'll gang to
|
|
the Nub</eg>; i.e. if the Fellow has been
|
|
burnt in the Hand, he'll be hanged
|
|
now.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>GLIMFENDERS</title>
|
|
<p>Andirons. <eg>Rum
|
|
Glimfenders</eg>, silver Andirons.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>GLIMFLASHY</title>
|
|
<p>angry, or in a Passion.
|
|
<eg>The Cull is glimflashy</eg>, the Fellow is in
|
|
a Heat.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>GLIMJACK</title>
|
|
<p>a Link-boy.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>GLIMMER</title>
|
|
<p>Fire.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>GLIMMERER</title>
|
|
<p>such as with sham
|
|
Licences, pretend to Losses by Fire
|
|
&c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>GLIMSTICK</title>
|
|
<p>a Candle-stick. <eg>Rum
|
|
Glimsticks</eg>, Silver Candlesticks. <eg>Queer
|
|
Glimsticks</eg>, Brass, Pewter or Iron Candlesticks.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>GOADS</title>
|
|
<p>those that wheedle in Chapmen
|
|
for Horse-coursers.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>GOAT</title>
|
|
<p>a Letcher, or very lascivious
|
|
Person.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>GOATISH</title>
|
|
<p>letcherous, wanton, lustfull.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing,person"><title>GOB</title>
|
|
<p>the Mouth; also a Bit or
|
|
Morsel; hence <i>Gobbets</i>, now in use for
|
|
Bits; <eg>Gift of the Gob</eg>, a wide, open
|
|
Mouth; also a good Songster, or Singing
|
|
Master.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>GOBBLER</title>
|
|
<p>a Turkey-Cock.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>GOING <i>upon the Dub</i></title>
|
|
<p>Breaking a
|
|
House with Picklocks.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>GOLD-<i>Droppers</i></title>
|
|
<p>Sweetners, Cheats,
|
|
Sharpers.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>GOLD-<i>Finch</i></title>
|
|
<p>he that has often a
|
|
Purse of Gold in his Fob.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>GOLD-<i>Finders</i></title>
|
|
<p>Emptiers of Jakes or
|
|
Houses of Office.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>GOOD <i>Fellow</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Pot Companion or
|
|
Friend of the Bottle.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>GOOSE</title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Goose cap</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Fool. <eg>A
|
|
Taylors Goose roasted</eg>, a Red-hot
|
|
smoothing Iron, to close the seams.
|
|
<eg>Hot and heavy like a Taylors Goose</eg>. applied
|
|
to a passionate Coxcomb.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>GOREE</title>
|
|
<p>Money but chiefly Gold.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>GRAFTED</title>
|
|
<p>made a Cuckold of.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>GRANNAM</title>
|
|
<p>Corn.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>GREEN <i>Bag</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Lawyer.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>GREEN-<i>Gown</i></title>
|
|
<p>a throwing of young
|
|
Lasses on the Grass, and kissing them.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>GREEN <i>Head</i></title>
|
|
<p>a very raw Novice,
|
|
<!--* col *-->
|
|
or unexperienced Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money,person"><title>GRIG</title>
|
|
<p>a Farthing; <eg>A merry Grig</eg>, a
|
|
merry Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>GRINDERS</title>
|
|
<p>Teeth.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>GROPERS</title>
|
|
<p>blind Men.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>GROUND-<i>Sweat</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Grave.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> GRUB</title>
|
|
<p>to eat, to dine, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>GRUB</title>
|
|
<p>Victuals.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>GRUB <i>street-News</i></title>
|
|
<p>false, forg'd News.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>GRUMBLING <i>of the Gizzard</i></title>
|
|
<p>murmuring, muttering, repining.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>GRUNTER</title>
|
|
<p>a sucking Pig.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>GRUNTING-<i>Cheat</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Pig.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>GRUNTING-<i>Peck</i></title>
|
|
<p>Pork.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>GULL</title>
|
|
<p>a Cheat.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>GULLED</title>
|
|
<p>cheated, rooked, sharped.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>GULL-<i>Gropers</i></title>
|
|
<p>a By-stander that
|
|
lends Money to the Gamesters.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>GUN</title>
|
|
<p>as <eg>He's in the Gun</eg>; he's in Liquor.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title><i>A</i> GUN</title>
|
|
<p>a Lie.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>GUNDIGUTS</title>
|
|
<p>a fat, pursy Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>GUN-<i>Powder</i></title>
|
|
<p>an old Woman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>GUT-<i>foundered</i></title>
|
|
<p>exceeding hungry.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>GUTLING</title>
|
|
<p>eating much.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>GUTS</title>
|
|
<p>a very fat, gross Person.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>GUTTER-<i>Lane</i></title>
|
|
<p>the Throat.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>GUTTING <i>an House</i></title>
|
|
<p>rifling it, clearing it.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>GUTTING <i>an Oyster</i></title>
|
|
<p>eating it.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>GUZZLE</title>
|
|
<p>Drink.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v,drink"><title>GUZZLING</title>
|
|
<p>drinking much.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>GYBE</title>
|
|
<title><i>or</i> JYBE</title>
|
|
<p>any Writing or Pass
|
|
sealed.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>GYBING</title>
|
|
<p>jeering or jerking</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>GYPSIES</title>
|
|
<p>They endeavour to persuade
|
|
the Ignorant, that they derive
|
|
their Origin from the <i>Egyptians</i>, a People
|
|
heretofore very famous for <i>Astronomy</i>,
|
|
<i>Natural Magick</i>, the art of <i>Divination</i>,
|
|
&c; and therefore are great Pretenders
|
|
to <i>Fortune-telling</i>. To colour
|
|
their Impostures, they artificially discolour
|
|
their Faces, and rove up and
|
|
down the Country in a Tatterdemalion
|
|
Habit, deluding the ignorant Vulgar,
|
|
and often stealing from them what is
|
|
not too hot for their Fingers, or too
|
|
heavy to carry off.</p>
|
|
<p>It is the Custom of these Wretches
|
|
to swear all that are admitted into their
|
|
Fraternity, by a Form and Articles
|
|
annexed into it, administred by the Principal
|
|
<i>Maunder</i> or <i>Roguish Strowler</i>, and
|
|
which they generally observe inviolably.
|
|
The Manner of admitting a
|
|
new Member, together with the said
|
|
Oath and Articles, are as follows.</p>
|
|
<p>The Name of the Person is first
|
|
demanded, and a Nick-name is then given
|
|
him in its stead, by which he is ever
|
|
after called, and in Time, his other
|
|
<!--* page 15 *-->
|
|
Name is quite forgotten. Then standing
|
|
up in the middle of the Fraternity,
|
|
and directing his Face to the <i>Dimber-Damber</i>,
|
|
or Prince of the Gang, he
|
|
swears in this Manner, as is dictated to
|
|
him by one of the most experienced,</p>
|
|
<blockquote>
|
|
<p>I <i>Crank-Cuffin</i> do swear to be a
|
|
<i>True Brother</i>, and will in all Things,
|
|
obey the Commands of the great
|
|
<i>Tawny Prince</i>, and keep his <i>Councel</i>,
|
|
and not divulge the Secrets of my
|
|
Brethren.</p>
|
|
<p>I will never leave nor forsake this
|
|
Company, but observe and keep all
|
|
the Times of Appointments, either
|
|
by Day or by Night, in any Place
|
|
whatsoever.</p>
|
|
<p>I will not teach any one to cant;
|
|
nor will I disclose ought of our
|
|
Mysteries to them, although they
|
|
flog me to death.</p>
|
|
<p>I will take my Prince's Part against
|
|
all that shall oppose him, or any of
|
|
us, according to the utmost of my
|
|
Ability; nor will I suffer him, or
|
|
any belonging to us, to be abused by
|
|
any strange, <i>Abrams</i>, <i>Rufflers</i>, <i>Hookers</i>,
|
|
<i>Palliards</i>, <i>Swadlers</i>, <i>Irish-Toyls</i>,
|
|
<i>Swig-men</i>, <i>Whip-Jacks</i>, <i>Jark-men</i>,
|
|
<i>Bawdy-Baskets</i>, <i>Dommerars</i>, <i>Clapperdogeons</i>,
|
|
<i>Patricoes</i> <i>or</i> <i>Curtals</i>, but will
|
|
defend him or them as much as I can
|
|
against all other <i>Outlyers</i> whatever.</p>
|
|
<p>I will not conceal ought I win out
|
|
of <i>Libkins</i>, or from the <i>Ruffmans</i>; but
|
|
will preserve it for the Use of the
|
|
Company.</p>
|
|
<p>Lastly, I will cleave to my <i>Doxy
|
|
Wap</i> stiffly, and will bring her Duds,
|
|
Margery, Praters, Goblet, Grunting-cheats,
|
|
or Tibs of the Buttery, or
|
|
anything else I can come at, as <i>Winnings</i>
|
|
for her <i>Wappings</i>.</p>
|
|
<p>The <i>Canters</i> have, it seems a Tradition,
|
|
that from the Three first articles
|
|
of this Oath, the first Founders
|
|
of a certain boastful, worshipful Fraternity,
|
|
who pretend to derive there
|
|
Origin from the earliest Times, borrowed
|
|
of them, both the Hint and form
|
|
of their Establishment. And that their
|
|
pretended Derivation from the first
|
|
<i>Adam</i>, is a Forgery, it being only from
|
|
the first <i>Adam Tiler</i>. See ADAM TILER.</p>
|
|
<p>At the Admission of a new Brother,
|
|
a general Stock is raised for <i>Booze</i>, or
|
|
Drink, to make themselves merry on
|
|
the Occasion. As for <i>Peckage</i>, or Eatables,
|
|
they can procure it without
|
|
Money; for while some are sent to
|
|
break the <i>Ruffmans</i>, or Woods and
|
|
Bushes, for Firing, others are detached
|
|
<!--* col *-->
|
|
to filch Geese, Chickens, Hens, Ducks
|
|
or Mallards, and Pigs. Their <i>Morts</i>
|
|
are their Butchers, who presently make
|
|
bloody Work with what living Things
|
|
are brought them, and having made
|
|
Holes in the Ground, under some remote
|
|
Hedge in an obscure Place, they
|
|
make a fire, and broil or boil their
|
|
Food, and when 'tis enough, fall to
|
|
work, Tooth and Nail, and having
|
|
eaten more like Beasts than Men, they
|
|
drink more like Swine than human
|
|
Creatures, entertaining one another
|
|
all the Time with Songs in the <i>Canting</i>
|
|
Dialect.</p>
|
|
<p>As they live, so they lie together promiscuously,
|
|
and know not how to claim
|
|
a Property either in their Goods or
|
|
Children, and this general Interest ties
|
|
them more firmly together, than if
|
|
all their Rags were twisted into Ropes
|
|
to bind them indissolubly from a Separation;
|
|
which detestable Union is farther
|
|
consolidated by the above Oath.</p>
|
|
<p>They strowl up and down all Summertime
|
|
in Droves, and dextrously pick
|
|
Pockets, while they are telling of Fortunes;
|
|
and the Money, Rings, Silver-Thimbles,
|
|
&c; which they get, are
|
|
instantly conveyed from one Hand, to
|
|
another, till the remotest Person of the
|
|
Gang, who is not suspected, because
|
|
they come not near the Person robbed,
|
|
gets Possession of it, so that in the strictest
|
|
Search, it is almost impossible to
|
|
recover it, while the Wretches with
|
|
Imprecations, Oaths and Protestations,
|
|
disclaim the Thievery. That by
|
|
which they are said to get the most
|
|
Money, is, when young Gentlewomen
|
|
of good Families and Reputations have
|
|
happenned to be with Child before
|
|
Marriage, a round Sum is often bestowed
|
|
among the <i>Gypsies</i>, for some one
|
|
<i>Mort</i> to take the Child; and as that
|
|
is never heard of more by the true
|
|
Mother and Family, so the Disgrace
|
|
is kept concealed from the World, and
|
|
if the Child lives, it never known its
|
|
Parents.</p></blockquote></entry>
|
|
|
|
|
|
</letter>
|
|
|
|
<letter name="h"><title>H</title>
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>HABERDASHER <i>of Nouns and Pronouns</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Schoolmaster or Usher.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>HACK, <i>and Hue</i></title>
|
|
<p>to cut in pieces.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>HACKS</title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Hackneys</i></title>
|
|
<p>Hirelings.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>HACKUM</title>
|
|
<p>a fighting Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>HADDUMS</title>
|
|
<p><eg>The Shark has been at
|
|
Haddams</eg>; He is clapt or poxed.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>HALFBORD</title>
|
|
<p>Six-Pence.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<!--* page 16 *-->
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>HALF <i>a Hog</i></title>
|
|
<p>Six-Pence.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>HALF <i>an Ounce</i></title>
|
|
<p>Half a Crown.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>HALF <i>Seas over</i></title>
|
|
<p>almost drunk.</p></entry>
|
|
|
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<entry c="thing"><title>HAMS</title>
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<p>Breeches.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>HAMLET</title>
|
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<p>a High Constable.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>HANDY-<i>Blows</i></title>
|
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<p>Fisty-cuffs.</p></entry>
|
|
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<entry c="v"><title>HANG <i>it up</i></title>
|
|
<p>speaking of the Reckoning
|
|
at a <i>Bowsing-Ken</i> score it up.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>HANK</title>
|
|
<p><eg>He has a Hank upon him</eg>; He
|
|
has an Advantage, or will make him do
|
|
what he pleases.</p></entry>
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|
|
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<entry c="person"><title>HANKTELO</title>
|
|
<p>a silly Fellow, a meer
|
|
Codshead.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>HANS-<i>en-Kelder</i></title>
|
|
<p>Jack in the Box,
|
|
Child in the Womb.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>HARE</title>
|
|
<p>as <eg>he has swallowd a Hare</eg>,
|
|
he is very drunk.</p></entry>
|
|
|
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<entry c="thing"><title>HARKING</title>
|
|
<p>whispering on one side
|
|
to borrow Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>HARMAN</title>
|
|
<p>a Constable.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>HARMANS</title>
|
|
<p>the Stocks.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>HARMANBECK</title>
|
|
<p>a Beadle.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>HARRIDAN</title>
|
|
<p>one that is half a
|
|
Whore, half a Bawd, also a notorious
|
|
Shrew, or noisy old Woman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>HARTFORDSHIRE <i>Kindness</i></title>
|
|
<p>drinking
|
|
to the same Man again.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>HATCHET <i>Faced</i></title>
|
|
<p>hard favoured,
|
|
homely.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>HATCHES</title>
|
|
<p>as, <eg>Under the Hatches</eg>, in
|
|
Trouble or Prison.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title><i>To</i> HAZLE <i>Geld</i></title>
|
|
<p>to beat any one
|
|
with a Hazle Stick or Plant.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>HEAD <i>Cully of the Pass</i></title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Passage Bank</i></title>
|
|
<p>the Top Tilter of that Gang,
|
|
throughout the whole Army, who demands
|
|
and receives Contribution from
|
|
all the Pass-Banks in the Camp.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>HEARING-<i>Cheats</i></title>
|
|
<p>Ears.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>HEARTS-<i>Ease</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Twenty Shilling
|
|
Piece.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>HEATHEN <i>Philosopher</i></title>
|
|
<p>a sorry poor
|
|
tattered Fellow, whose Breech may
|
|
be seen through his Pocket-holes.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> HEAVE</title>
|
|
<p>to rob.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>HEAVE <i>a Cough</i></title>
|
|
<p>to rob a House.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>HEAVER</title>
|
|
<p>the Breast.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>HECTOR</title>
|
|
<p>a vapouring, swaggering
|
|
Coward.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> HEDGE</title>
|
|
<p>to secure a desperate Bet,
|
|
Wager or Debt. <eg>By Hedge or by stile</eg>,
|
|
by Hook or by Crook.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>HEDGE-<i>Bird</i></title>
|
|
<p>a scoundrel or sorry
|
|
Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>HEDGE-<i>Creeper</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Robber of Hedges.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>HEDGE-<i>Priest</i></title>
|
|
<p>a sorry hackney Underling,
|
|
an Vagabond. See <i>Patrico</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>HEDGE-<i>Tavern</i></title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Alehouse</i></title>
|
|
<p>a jilting,
|
|
sharping Tavern, or blind Ale-house.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>HELL</title>
|
|
<p>the Place where the Taylors
|
|
lay up their Cabbage, or Remnants.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>HELL-<i>born-babe</i></title>
|
|
<p>a lewd, graceless,
|
|
<!--* col *-->
|
|
notorious Youth.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>HELL-<i>Cat</i></title>
|
|
<p>a very lewd Woman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>HELL-<i>Driver</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Coachman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>HELL-<i>Hound</i></title>
|
|
<p>a profligate, lewd
|
|
Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>HEMPEN-<i>Widow</i></title>
|
|
<p>one whose Husband
|
|
was hanged.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>HEN-<i>peckt-Frigot</i></title>
|
|
<p>whose Commander
|
|
and Officers are absolutely swayed
|
|
by their Wives.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>HENPECT-<i>Husband</i></title>
|
|
<p>whose Wife
|
|
wears the Breeches.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>HICK</title>
|
|
<p>any Person from whom a
|
|
Booty is taken, a silly Country Fellow;
|
|
a Booby.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd,person"><title>HIGH-<i>Flyers</i></title>
|
|
<p>impudent, forward,
|
|
loose, light Women, also bold Adventurers.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>HIGHJINKS</title>
|
|
<p>a Play at Dice who
|
|
Drinks.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>HIGH-PADS</title>
|
|
<title><i>Hightway-men</i> or <i>Bully-Ruffians</i></title>
|
|
<p>an Order of Villains, and the
|
|
boldest of all others. Before they commence,
|
|
they furnish themselves, with
|
|
good Horses, Swords, Pistols, &c; and
|
|
sometimes singly, but mostly in Company,
|
|
commit their execrable Robberies.
|
|
They have a Vizor-Mask, and two or
|
|
three Perukes of different Colours and
|
|
Make, the better to conceal themselves.
|
|
When they meet a Prize upon the
|
|
Road, they have a Watch-Word,
|
|
among them, which is no sooner pronounced,
|
|
but every one falls on. It is
|
|
usually the Rule among them, that the
|
|
strongest and bold seize first; the
|
|
Weaker generally bid <i>stand</i>, and fall
|
|
in afterwards as Occasion requires. The
|
|
Instructions given them are, to catch
|
|
the Bridle in the Left-Hand, and to
|
|
have the Sword or Pistol in the Right,
|
|
and, if Opposition be made, or they
|
|
are likely to be overpowered to kill
|
|
as fast as they can, and then, either
|
|
with Booty or without, to make off
|
|
with all Expedition; and if they are
|
|
pursued by an <i>Hue or Cry</i>, to conceal
|
|
themselves in some By place, and let
|
|
it pass by them.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>HIGH-<i>Shoon</i></title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Clouted-Shoon</i></title>
|
|
<p>a
|
|
Country Clown.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>A HIGHTE-TITY</title>
|
|
<p>a Romp or rude Girl.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>HIGH <i>Tide</i></title>
|
|
<p>when the Pocket is full of Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>HOB</title>
|
|
<p>a plain Country Fellow or Clown.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>HOBINAL</title>
|
|
<p>the same [[as <i>Hob</i>]].</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>HOBBY</title>
|
|
<p>as Sir <eg>Posthumus Hobby</eg>, one
|
|
that draws on his Breeches with a
|
|
Shoeing-horn; a Fellow that is nice
|
|
and whimsical in the Set of his Cloaths.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>HOB <i>Nail</i></title>
|
|
<p>a <i>High-shoon</i> or Country
|
|
Clown.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>HOCUS</title>
|
|
<p>disguised in Liquor; drunk.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>HODGE-<i>Podge</i></title>
|
|
<p>see <i>Hotch-Potch</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>HOG</title>
|
|
<p>a Shilling; <eg>You Darkman
|
|
Budge, will you Fence your Hog at the
|
|
next Boozing Ken?</eg> you House-Creeper,
|
|
will you spend your Shilling at the
|
|
next Ale-house.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>HOG-<i>Grubber</i></title>
|
|
<p>a close-fisted, narrow
|
|
soul'd sneaking Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="phrase"><title>HOLD <i>his Nose to the Grind-stone</i></title>
|
|
<p>to
|
|
keep him under, or tie him Neck and
|
|
Heels into the Bargain.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person,thing"><title>HOLIDAY-<i>Bowler</i></title>
|
|
<p>a very bad Bowler.
|
|
<eg>Blind Man's Holiday</eg>, when it is Night.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>HONEY-<i>Moon</i></title>
|
|
<p>the first Month of Marriage.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>HOOD-<i>wink'd</i></title>
|
|
<p>Blind-folded or Bluffed.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> HOOF <i>it</i></title>
|
|
<title>or <i>beat it on the Hoof</i></title>
|
|
<p>to walk on Foot.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>HOOKERS</title>
|
|
<p>See <i>Anglers</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>HOOKT</title>
|
|
<p>over reached, snapt,
|
|
trikt.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>HOP-<i>Merchant</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Dancing-master.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>HORN <i>mad</i></title>
|
|
<p>stark staring mad because
|
|
Cuckolded.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="phrase,drink"><title><i>It revives the</i> COCKLES <i>of my Heart</i></title>
|
|
<p>said of agreeable News, or a Cup of
|
|
Comfort, Wine or Cordial Water.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title><i>In</i> HUCKSTER'S <i>Hands</i></title>
|
|
<p>at a desperate
|
|
Pass, or Condition, or in a fair
|
|
way to be lost.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>HUED</title>
|
|
<p>severely lash'd or flogg'd.
|
|
<eg>The Cove was Hued in the Naskin</eg>, The
|
|
Rogue was severely lash'd in <i>Bridewell</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title><i>A</i> HUFF</title>
|
|
<p>a Bullying Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>HULVER <i>head</i></title>
|
|
<p>a silly, foolish Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>HUM-<i>Box</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Pulpit.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>HUM-<i>Cap</i></title>
|
|
<p>old, mellow, and very
|
|
strong Beer.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>HUM-<i>Drums</i></title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Hums</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Society of
|
|
Gentlemen, who meet near the <i>Charter-House</i>,
|
|
or at the <i>King's Head</i> in St.
|
|
<i>John's Street</i>. Less of Mystery, and
|
|
more of Pleasantry than the <i>Free Masons</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>HUMMING <i>Liquor</i></title>
|
|
<p>Double Ale,
|
|
Stout, Pharaoh.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>HUMMER</title>
|
|
<p>a great Lye, a Rapper.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>HUMMUMS</title>
|
|
<p>a Bagnio.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>HUMPTEY-<i>Dumptey</i></title>
|
|
<p>Ale boil'd with
|
|
Brandy.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>HUMS</title>
|
|
<p>Persons at Church; as, <eg>There
|
|
is a great Number of Hums in the Autem</eg>;
|
|
i. e. There is a great Congregation.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>HUNTING</title>
|
|
<p>decoying, or drawing
|
|
others into Play.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>HUSH'D</title>
|
|
<p>murder'd, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>HUSH <i>Money</i></title>
|
|
<p>Money given to <i>hush
|
|
up</i>, or conceal a Robbery or Theft, or
|
|
<!--* col *-->
|
|
to take off an Evidence from appearing
|
|
against a Criminal, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>HUSKY-<i>Lour</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Jobs, or Guinea.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
</letter>
|
|
|
|
<letter name="ij"><title>I, J</title>
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>JACK</title>
|
|
<p>a Farthing; <eg>He wou'd not
|
|
tip me a Jack</eg>, Not a Farthing
|
|
wou'd he give me.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>JACK-ADAMS Parish</title>
|
|
<p><i>Clerkenwell</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>JACK <i>in a Box</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Sharper, or Cheat.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>JACKMEN</title>
|
|
<p>See <i>Jarkmen</i></p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>JACK-<i>sprat</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Dwarf, or very little
|
|
Fellow, a Hop on my-thumb.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>JACK <i>at a Pinch</i></title>
|
|
<p>a poor Hackney
|
|
Parson.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>JACOBITES</title>
|
|
<p>Sham or Collar Shirts.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>JAGUE</title>
|
|
<p>a Ditch.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>JANIZARIES</title>
|
|
<p>the Mob, sometimes
|
|
so called, and Bailiffs, Serjeants-Followers,
|
|
yeomen, Setters, and any
|
|
lewd Gang depending upon others.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>JARKE</title>
|
|
<p>a Seal.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>JARKE-MEN</title>
|
|
<p>Those who make
|
|
Counterfeit Licences and Passes, and
|
|
are well paid by the other Beggars for
|
|
their Pains.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>JASON'<i>s Fleece</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Citizen cheated of
|
|
his Gold.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>JAYL <i>Birds</i></title>
|
|
<p>Prisoners.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>JEM</title>
|
|
<p>a Gold Ring; <eg>Rum-Jem</eg>, a
|
|
Diamond one.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>JENNY</title>
|
|
<p>an Instrument to lift up
|
|
a Grate, and whip any thing out of a
|
|
Shop-window.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>JET</title>
|
|
<p>a Lawyer.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title><i>Autem</i> JET</title>
|
|
<p>a Parson.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person,rogue"><title>JEW</title>
|
|
<p>any over-reaching Dealer, or
|
|
hard sharp Fellow. <eg>He treated me like
|
|
a Jew</eg>; He used me very barbarously.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>JEWS</title>
|
|
<p>Brokers behind St. <i>Clement'</i>s
|
|
Church in <i>London</i>, so called by (their
|
|
Brethren) the Taylors.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>JIG</title>
|
|
<p>a Trick; <eg>A pleasant Jig</eg>, a witty
|
|
arch Trick.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>JILT</title>
|
|
<p>a tricking Woman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>JILTED</title>
|
|
<p>abused by such a one [[i.e. by a JILT]]; also
|
|
deceived or defeated in one's Expectation,
|
|
expecially in Amours.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>JINGLE-<i>Boxes</i></title>
|
|
<p>Leathern Jacks tipt
|
|
and hung with Silver Bells, formerly
|
|
in use among Fuddle-caps.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>JINGLERS</title>
|
|
<p>Horse-Coursers frequenting
|
|
Country Fairs.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>JINGLE <i>Brains</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Maggot-pated
|
|
Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money" sortas="JLL"><title>ILL <i>Fortune</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Nine-pence.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>IMPOST-TAKER</title>
|
|
<p>one that stands by,
|
|
and lends Money to the Gamester at a
|
|
very high Interest or Premium.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>INCHING-<i>In</i></title>
|
|
<p>Encroaching upon.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>INLAYED</title>
|
|
<p><eg>Well inlayed</eg>, at Ease in
|
|
his Fortune, or full of Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>JOBE</title>
|
|
<p>a Guinea, Twenty Shillings,
|
|
or a Piece. <eg>Half a Jobe</eg>, Half a Guinea.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v,bawd"><title>JOCK</title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Jockum cloy</i></title>
|
|
<p>to copulate
|
|
with a Woman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>JUCKUM-<i>Gage</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Chamberpot. <eg>Tip
|
|
me the Jockum-Gage</eg>, Give or hand me
|
|
the Looking-Glass. <eg>Rum Jockum-Gage</eg>,
|
|
a Silver Chamber-Pot.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>JORDAIN</title>
|
|
<p>a great Blow or Staff;
|
|
also a Chamber-Pot. <eg>I'll tip him a Jordain,
|
|
if I transnear</eg>; I will give him a
|
|
Blow with my Staff, if I get up to him.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>JOSEPH</title>
|
|
<p>a Cloak or Coat. <eg>A Rum
|
|
Joseph</eg>, a good Cloak or Coat. <eg>A Queer
|
|
Joseph</eg>, a coarse ordinary Cloak or
|
|
Coat; also an old or tatter'd One.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>IRISH-<i>Toyles</i></title>
|
|
<p>Rogues &c; carrying
|
|
Pins, Points, Laces, and such like
|
|
Wares about, and, under pretence of
|
|
selling them, commit Thefts and Robberies.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>IRON-<i>Doublet</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Prison.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>ITCH-<i>Land</i></title>
|
|
<p><i>Scotland</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>JUKRUM</title>
|
|
<p>a Licence.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>JUMBLE-<i>Gut-Lane</i></title>
|
|
<p>any very bad or
|
|
rough Road.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>JUSTICE</title>
|
|
<p><eg>I'll do Justice, Child</eg>; I
|
|
will Peach, or rather Impeach, or
|
|
discover the whole Gang, and so save
|
|
my own Bacon.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
</letter>
|
|
|
|
<letter name="k"><title>K</title>
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>KATE</title>
|
|
<p>a Pick-lock. <eg>'Tis a Rum kate</eg>; She is a clever Pick-lock.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>KEEL-<i>Bullies</i></title>
|
|
<p>Lightermen that carry
|
|
coals to and from the Ships, so called
|
|
in Derision.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>KEEPING <i>Cully</i></title>
|
|
<p>one that maintains
|
|
a Mistress, and parts with his Money
|
|
very generously to her.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>KEFFAL</title>
|
|
<p>a Horse.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>KELTER</title>
|
|
<p>as, <eg>Out of Kelter</eg>, Out of
|
|
sorts.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>KEN</title>
|
|
<p>a House. <eg>A bob-Ken</eg>, or <eg>a
|
|
Bowman-ken</eg>, a good or well furnished
|
|
House; also a House that harbours
|
|
Rogues and Thieves. <eg>Biting the Ken</eg>,
|
|
robbing the House, <eg>'tis a bob Ken, Brush
|
|
upon the Sneak</eg>, i.e., 'Tis a good House,
|
|
go in and tread softly. <eg>We have bit the
|
|
Ken</eg>, The House is robb'd, or the Business
|
|
is done.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>KEN-<i>Miller</i></title>
|
|
<p>a House-breaker, who
|
|
usually, by getting into an empty
|
|
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|
|
House, finds Means to enter into the
|
|
Gutters of Houses inhabited, and so
|
|
in at the Windows, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>KICK</title>
|
|
<p>Six-pence: <eg>Two, Three, Four,
|
|
&c; and a Kick</eg>; Two, Three, Four,
|
|
&c; Shillings and Six-pence.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>KICK'D</title>
|
|
<p>gone, fled, departed; as,
|
|
<eg>The Rum Cull kick'd away</eg>, i.e. The
|
|
Rogue made his Escape.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>KICKS</title>
|
|
<p>Breeches. <eg>Tip us your Kicks,
|
|
we'll have them as well as your Lour</eg>;
|
|
Pull off your Breeches, for we must
|
|
have them as well as your Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>KID</title>
|
|
<p>a Child.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>KIDLAYS</title>
|
|
<p>an Order of Rogues, who
|
|
meeting a Youth with a Bundle or
|
|
Parcel of Goods, wheedle him by fair
|
|
Words, and whipping Six-pence into
|
|
his Hand, to step on a short and sham
|
|
Errand, in the mean Time run away
|
|
with the Goods.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>KIDNAPPER</title>
|
|
<p>one that decoys or
|
|
spirits (as it is commonly called) Children
|
|
away, and sells them for the
|
|
Plantations.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>KILKENNY</title>
|
|
<p>an old sorry Frize
|
|
Coat.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>KILL-<i>Devil</i></title>
|
|
<p>Rum.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v,punishment,crime"><title><i>To</i> KIMBAW</title>
|
|
<p>to Trick, Sharp, or
|
|
Cheat; also to Beat severely, or to
|
|
Bully. <eg>Let's Kimbaw the Cull</eg>, Let's
|
|
beat that Fellow, and get his Money
|
|
(by huffing and bullying) from him.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>KIN</title>
|
|
<p>a Thief: <eg>He's one of the Kin,
|
|
let him pike</eg>; said of a Brother Rogue
|
|
whom one of the Gang knows to be a
|
|
Villain, tho' not one of their own
|
|
Crew.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>KINCHIN</title>
|
|
<p>a little Child.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>KINCHIN-<i>Coves</i></title>
|
|
<p>little Children whose
|
|
Parents are dead, having been Beggars;
|
|
as also young Lads running from their
|
|
Masters, who are first taught Canting,
|
|
then Thieving.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>KINCHIN <i>Cove</i></title>
|
|
<p>a little Man.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>KINCHIN-<i>Morts</i></title>
|
|
<p>Girls of a Year or
|
|
two old, whom the <i>Morts</i> (their Mothers)
|
|
carry at their Backs in <i>Slates</i>
|
|
(<i>Sheets</i>) and if they have no Children
|
|
of thir own, they borrow or steal
|
|
them from others.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>KING <i>of the Gypsies</i></title>
|
|
<p>the Captain,
|
|
Chief, or Ringleader of the Gang, the
|
|
Master of Misrule, otherwise called
|
|
<i>Uprightman</i>. Vide <i>Gypsies</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>KING<i>'s Head Inn</i></title>
|
|
<title>or <i>the Chequer Inn in Newgate-street</i></title>
|
|
<p>the Prison of <i>Newgate</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>KING<i>'s Pictures</i></title>
|
|
<p>Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>KIT</title>
|
|
<p>a Dancing Master.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title><i>A</i> KNACK <i>Shop</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Toy-shop,
|
|
freighted with pretty Devices to pick
|
|
Pockets.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>KNAVE <i>in Grain</i></title>
|
|
<p>one of the First
|
|
Rate.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>KNIGHT <i>of the Blade</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Hector or
|
|
Bully.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>KNIGHT <i>of the Post</i></title>
|
|
<p>a mercenary
|
|
common Swearer, a Prostitute to every
|
|
Cause, an Irish Evidence.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>KNIGHT <i>of the Road</i></title>
|
|
<p>the chief
|
|
Highwayman, best mounted and armed,
|
|
the stoutest Fellow among them.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>KNOB</title>
|
|
<p>the Head or Skull.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>KNOCK <i>Down</i></title>
|
|
<p>very strong Ale or
|
|
Beer.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> KNOCK <i>off</i></title>
|
|
<p>to give over Thieving.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>KNOT</title>
|
|
<p>a Crew of Gang of Villains.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<!--* end of K *-->
|
|
|
|
</letter>
|
|
|
|
<letter name="l"><title>L</title>
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>LAC'D <i>Mutton</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Woman</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>LACING</title>
|
|
<p>beating, drubbing;
|
|
<eg>I'll Lace your Coat, Sirrah!</eg> I will beat
|
|
you soundly!</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>LADY</title>
|
|
<p>a very crooked, deformed
|
|
and ill-shapen Woman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>LADY-birds</title>
|
|
<p>light, or lewd Women.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>LAG</title>
|
|
<p>Water; also last.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>LAG <i>a-dudds</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Buck of Cloths; as,
|
|
<eg>We'll cloy the Lag of Dudds</eg>: Come, let
|
|
us steal that Buck of Cloths.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title><i>To</i> LAMBASTE</title>
|
|
<p>to beat soundly.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>LAMB-<i>Pye</i></title>
|
|
<p>beating or drubbing.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>LAMB-<i>Skin Men</i></title>
|
|
<p>the Judges of the
|
|
several Courts.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>LAND-<i>Lopers</i></title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Land-lubbers</i></title>
|
|
<p>Vagabonds that beg and steal about the
|
|
Country.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>LAND <i>Pyrates</i></title>
|
|
<p>Highwaymen or any
|
|
other Robbers.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>LAND</title>
|
|
<p>as, <eg>How lies the Land?</eg> How
|
|
stands the Reckoning? <eg>Who has any
|
|
Land in Appleby?</eg> a Question ask'd the
|
|
Man, at whose Door the Glass stands
|
|
long.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>LANSPRESADO</title>
|
|
<p>He that comes into
|
|
Company with but Two-pence in
|
|
his Pocket.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>LANTERN-<i>jaw'd</i></title>
|
|
<p>a very lean, thin-faced Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title><i>A Dark</i> LANTHORN</title>
|
|
<p>the Servant
|
|
or Agent that receives the Bribe (at
|
|
Court).</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>LAP</title>
|
|
<p>Pottage, Butter-milk, or Whey.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="phrase"><title>LARE-<i>Over</i></title>
|
|
<p>said when the true
|
|
Name of the Things must (in Decency)
|
|
be concealed.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>LATCH</title>
|
|
<p>let in.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>LAY</title>
|
|
<p>an Enterprize, or Attempt;
|
|
<eg>To be sick of the Lay</eg>, to be tir'd in
|
|
<!--* col *-->
|
|
waiting for an Opportunity to effect
|
|
their Purposes. Also an Hazard or
|
|
Chance; as, <eg>He stands a quuer Lay</eg>; he
|
|
stands an odd Chance, or is in great
|
|
Danger.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>LAY'D <i>Up in Lavender</i></title>
|
|
<p>pawn'd or
|
|
dipt for present Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>LEATHER-<i>Head</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Thick-skill'd,
|
|
heavy-headed Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>LEATHERN <i>Convenience</i></title>
|
|
<p>(by the Quakers) a Coach.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="phrase"><title>LET<i>'s take an Ark and Winns</i></title>
|
|
<p>Let's
|
|
hire a Skuller.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="phrase"><title>LET<i>'s buy a Brush</i></title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Let's lope</i></title>
|
|
<p>Let us scour off, and make what Shift we
|
|
can to secure our selves from being
|
|
apprehended.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>LEVITE</title>
|
|
<p>a Priest or Parson.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title><i>To</i> LIB</title>
|
|
<p>to tumble or lie together.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>LIBBEN</title>
|
|
<p>a private Dwelling-House.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>LIBBEGE</title>
|
|
<p>a Bed.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>LIBKIN</title>
|
|
<p>a House to lie in; also a
|
|
Lodging.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>LICKT</title>
|
|
<p>as Women's Faces with a
|
|
Wash.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>LIFTER</title>
|
|
<p>a Crutch.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>LIG</title>
|
|
<p>See <i>Lib</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>LIGHT <i>Finger'd</i></title>
|
|
<p>Thievish.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>LIGHT-<i>Mans</i></title>
|
|
<p>the Day or Day-break.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd,rogue"><title>LIGHT-<i>Frigate</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Whore; also a
|
|
Cruiser.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>LILLY <i>White</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Chimney-Sweeper.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>LINE <i>of the old Author</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Dram of
|
|
Brandy.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>LINNEN <i>Armorers</i></title>
|
|
<p>Taylors.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>LITTLE <i>Barbary</i></title>
|
|
<p>Wapping.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>LOAP'D</title>
|
|
<p>run away; <eg>He loap'd up the
|
|
Dancers</eg>; He whipt up the Stairs.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>LOB-<i>Cock</i></title>
|
|
<p>a heavy, dull Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title><i>In</i> LOB<i>'s Pound</i></title>
|
|
<p>laid by the Heels,
|
|
or clap'd up in Jail.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>LOBSTER</title>
|
|
<p>a red Coat Soldier.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>LOCK</title>
|
|
<p>as, <eg>He stood a queer Lock</eg>;
|
|
i.e. He stood an indifferent Chance,
|
|
&c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>LOCK <i>all fast</i></title>
|
|
<p>one that buys and
|
|
conceals stollen Goods.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title><i>The</i> LOCK</title>
|
|
<p>the Warehouse whither
|
|
the Thieves carry stollen Goods. Also
|
|
an Hospital for pocky Folks in <i>Southwark</i> &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>LOCKRAM <i>Jaw'd</i></title>
|
|
<p>thin, lean,
|
|
sharp-visag'd</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>LODGE</title>
|
|
<p>a Watch. <eg>As Files a Cly
|
|
of a Lodge, or Scout</eg>, Pickt a Pocket of
|
|
a Watch. <eg>Biting a Loge, or Scout</eg>,
|
|
the same.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>LOLPOOP</title>
|
|
<p>a lazy, idle Droe.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>LONG-<i>Meg</i></title>
|
|
<p>a very tall Woman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>LONG-<i>Shanks</i></title>
|
|
<p>long-legged.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>LOOKING-<i>Glass</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Chamber-pot.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title><i>A</i> LOON</title>
|
|
<p>a Lout. <eg>A false Loon</eg>, a
|
|
<!--* page 20 *-->
|
|
true <i>Scotch</i> Man; or Knave of any Nation.
|
|
</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>LOON-<i>Slate</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Thirteen-pence
|
|
Half-penny.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>LORD</title>
|
|
<p>a very crooked deformed, or
|
|
ill-shapen Person.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>LOUR</title>
|
|
<p>Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>LOUSE <i>Land</i></title>
|
|
<p>Scotland.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>LOUSE <i>Trap</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Comb.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>LOW <i>Pad</i></title>
|
|
<p>a <i>Foot-Pad</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>LOW <i>Tide</i></title>
|
|
<p>when there's no Money
|
|
in a Man's Pocket.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>LUD'<i>s Bulwark</i></title>
|
|
<p>Ludgate Prison.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>LUGGS</title>
|
|
<p>Ears.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>LULLABY-<i>Cheat</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Child.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>LUMB</title>
|
|
<p>too much.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>LURCHED</title>
|
|
<p>beaten at any Game.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>LURRIES</title>
|
|
<p>Money, Watches, Rings,
|
|
or other Moveables.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
</letter>
|
|
|
|
<letter name="m"><title>M</title>
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>Mackarel</title>
|
|
<p>a Bawd.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>MACKAREL-<i>Back</i></title>
|
|
<p>a very
|
|
tall, lank Person.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>MADAM <i>Van</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Whore; <eg>The Cull
|
|
has been with Madam Van</eg>, the Fellow
|
|
has enjoyed such a one.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>MADE</title>
|
|
<p>stolen. <eg>I made this Knife
|
|
at a Heat</eg>, I stole it cleverly.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>MAD <i>Tom</i></title>
|
|
<p>alias of Bedlam; otherwise
|
|
called <i>Abram-men</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>MAIDEN-<i>Sessions</i></title>
|
|
<p>when none are hang'd.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title link="ignore">MAKE</title>
|
|
<p>a Half-penny.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title link="ignore"><i>To</i> MAKE</title>
|
|
<p>to steal; seize; to run
|
|
away with.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>MALKINTRASH</title>
|
|
<p>one in a rueful
|
|
Dress, enough to fright one.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>MALMSEY-Nose</title>
|
|
<p>a jolly red Nose.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>MAN <i>o'th' Town</i></title>
|
|
<p>a lewd Spark, or
|
|
very Debauchee.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>MANUFACTURE</title>
|
|
<p>any Liquor made
|
|
of the Fruits of <i>English</i> Growth, as
|
|
Ale, Beer, Cyder, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>MARGERY <i>Prater</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Hen.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>MARINATED</title>
|
|
<p>transported into
|
|
some Foreign Plantation.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>MARRIAGE <i>Musick</i></title>
|
|
<p>Childrens Cries.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>MASONS <i>Mawn'd</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Sham Sore
|
|
above the Elbow; to counterfeit a
|
|
broken Arm, by a Fall from a Scaffold.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink,punishment"><title>MAUL'D</title>
|
|
<p>swinglingly drunk, or
|
|
soundly beat.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>MAUNDERS</title>
|
|
<p>Beggars</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>MAUNDING</title>
|
|
<p>begging.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>MAUNDRING-<i>Broth</i></title>
|
|
<p>Scolding.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>MAWDLIN</title>
|
|
<p>weepingly drunk.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>MEGGS</title>
|
|
<p>Guineas. <eg>We fork'd the
|
|
rum Cull's Meggs to the Tune of Fifty</eg>;
|
|
<!--* col *-->
|
|
We pickt the Gentleman's Pocket of
|
|
full Fifty Guineas.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title><i>To</i> MELT</title>
|
|
<p>to spend Money. <eg>Will
|
|
you melt a Borde?</eg> Will you spend your
|
|
Shilling? <eg>The Cull melted a Couple of
|
|
Decusses upon us</eg>; The Gentleman spent
|
|
Ten Shillings upon us.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="phrase"><title>MILCH-<i>Kine</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Term used by Goalers,
|
|
when their Prisoners will bleed
|
|
freely to have some Favour, or to be
|
|
at large.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> MILL</title>
|
|
<p>to steal, rob, or kill. <eg>ill
|
|
the Gig with a Dub</eg>, open the Door
|
|
with a Pick-lock, or false Key.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> MILL <i>a Bleating Cheat</i></title>
|
|
<p>to kill a
|
|
Sheep.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>MILL-<i>Clapper</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Woman's Tongue.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> MILL <i>a Crackmans</i></title>
|
|
<p>to break a
|
|
Hedge.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> MILL <i>a Grunter</i></title>
|
|
<p>to kill a Pig.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> MILL <i>a Ken</i></title>
|
|
<p>to rob a House.
|
|
<eg>Milling the Gig with a Betty</eg>, Breaking
|
|
open the Door with an Iron Crow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>MILL-<i>Ken</i></title>
|
|
<p>a House-Breaker.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>MILL <i>the Glaze</i></title>
|
|
<p>break open the
|
|
Window.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>MILL <i>Them</i></title>
|
|
<p>kill them.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>MILLER</title>
|
|
<p>a Killer or Murderer.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>MINT</title>
|
|
<p>Gold.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>MISH</title>
|
|
<p>Shirt, Smock, or Sheet.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>MISH <i>Topper</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Coat or Petticoat.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>MISS</title>
|
|
<p>a Whore of Quality.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>MOABITES</title>
|
|
<p>Serjeants, Bailiffs and
|
|
their Crew.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>MOB</title>
|
|
<title>or MAB</title>
|
|
<p>a Wench or Harlot.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>MONGREL</title>
|
|
<p>a Hanger-on among
|
|
the Cheats, a Spunger.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>MOON-<i>Curser</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Link-boy, or one
|
|
that, under Colour of lighting Men,
|
|
(especially they who get in Drink, or
|
|
have the Fields, or any uninhabited or
|
|
By place, to go over) robs or leads
|
|
them to a Gang of Rogues, that will
|
|
do it for him.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>MOON-<i>Men</i></title>
|
|
<p>Gypsies.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>MOPSIE</title>
|
|
<p>a Dowdy, or homely
|
|
Woman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>MOP'D</title>
|
|
<p>maz'd.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>MOPUS</title>
|
|
<p>a Half-penny or Farthing.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>MORGLAG</title>
|
|
<p>a Watchman's brown
|
|
Bill; as Glaives, are Bills or Swords.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title><i>To</i> MORRIS</title>
|
|
<p>to hang dangling in the
|
|
Air, to be executed.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person,bawd"><title>MORTS</title>
|
|
<p>Yeomans Daughters; also
|
|
a Wife, Woman, or Wench.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>MOTHER</title>
|
|
<p>a Bawd.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person,bawd"><title>MOTHER <i>Midnight</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Midwife (often a Bawd).</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>MOVEABLES</title>
|
|
<p>Rings, Watches,
|
|
Swords, and such Toys of Value.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>MOUSE-<i>Trap</i></title>
|
|
<p>as <eg>The Parson's
|
|
Mouse-Trap</eg>, Marriage.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>MOUTH</title>
|
|
<p>a noisy Fellow. <eg>Mouth
|
|
half cockt</eg>, gaping and staring at every
|
|
Thing they see.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>MOWER</title>
|
|
<p>a Cow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>MOW-<i>Heater</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Drover.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>MUCK</title>
|
|
<p>Money, Wealth.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>MUFF</title>
|
|
<p>a Woman's Secrets, <eg>To the
|
|
well wearing of your Muff, Mort</eg>; To
|
|
the happy Consummation of your Marriage,
|
|
Madam. A Health.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>MUFFLING-<i>Cheat</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Napkin.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>MUM <i>for-that</i></title>
|
|
<p>not a Word of the
|
|
Pudding.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>MUM <i>Chance</i></title>
|
|
<p>one that fits mute.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>MUM <i>Glass</i></title>
|
|
<p>the Monument, erected
|
|
at the City Charge, in Memory of the
|
|
dreadful Fire 1666, which consumed
|
|
the greatest part of the City.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>MUMPERS</title>
|
|
<p>genteel Beggars, who
|
|
will not accept of Victuals, but of
|
|
Money or Cloaths. The <i>Male Mumper</i>
|
|
often appears with an Apron before
|
|
him, and a Cap on his Head, pretending
|
|
to be a decayed Tradesman, who having
|
|
been a long Time sick, hath spent
|
|
all his remaining Stock, ans is so weak
|
|
he cannot work. At other times he
|
|
appears like a decayed Gentleman, who,
|
|
especially since the fatal <i>South Sea
|
|
Scheme</i>, has been undine, and reduced
|
|
to the Necessity of imploring good People's Charity.</p>
|
|
<p>The <i>Female Mumper</i> will confidently
|
|
knock at the Door of a House, and desire
|
|
to speak with the Mistress, and
|
|
after apologizing for her Boldness, she
|
|
acquaints her how urgent her Necessity
|
|
is: That she has a Husband and two
|
|
small Children lying at the Point of
|
|
Death: That she was a Gentlewoman
|
|
born; but marrying against her Friends
|
|
Consent, was by them disowned, and
|
|
so by her Husbands Sickness, is reduced
|
|
to this miserable Condition. Sometimes
|
|
she appears big with Child, and
|
|
begs Cloaths or Linnen to make Clouts
|
|
of. The Word <i>Mumper</i> is now generally
|
|
used to denote all sorts of Beggars.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>MUMPERS <i>Hall</i></title>
|
|
<p>several Ale-houses
|
|
in and about this City and Suburbs, in
|
|
Alleys, and By-places, much used by
|
|
them, and resorted to in the Evening,
|
|
where they will be very merry, drunk,
|
|
and frolicksome.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>MUNNS</title>
|
|
<p>the Face; <eg>Toute his Munns</eg>,
|
|
Note his Phiz, or, Mark his Face well.
|
|
<eg>Pay his Munns</eg>, i.e. Strike him in the
|
|
Face, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="phrase"><title>MUSICK</title>
|
|
<p>the Watch-word among
|
|
High-way-men, to let the Company
|
|
<!--* col *-->
|
|
they were to rob, alone, in return to
|
|
some Courtesy from some Gentleman
|
|
among them.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>MUTTON <i>Monger</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Lover of
|
|
Women; also a Sheep-stealer.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>MUTTON-<i>in-long-coats</i></title>
|
|
<p>Women
|
|
<eg>A Leg of Mutton in a Silk Stocking</eg>, a
|
|
Woman's leg.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>MUZZLE</title>
|
|
<p>a beard, (usually) long
|
|
and nasty.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>MYRMIDONS</title>
|
|
<p>the Constable's Attendants,
|
|
or those whom he commands
|
|
(in the King's Name) to aid and assist
|
|
him: Also the Watchmen.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
</letter>
|
|
|
|
<letter name="n"><title>N</title>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>NAB</title>
|
|
<p>a Hat, Cap, or Head, also a
|
|
Coxcomb. <eg>Ill nab ye</eg>, I'll have
|
|
your Hat or Cap. <eg>Nim the Nab</eg>, steal
|
|
the Hat or Cap. <eg>Nabbed</eg>, apprehended,
|
|
taken or arrested.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>NAB <i>Cheat</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Hat.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>NAB-<i>Girder</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Bridle.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>NAN</title>
|
|
<p>a Servant-maid.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>NANNY-<i>House</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Bawdy-house.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> NAP</title>
|
|
<p>by cheating with the Dice
|
|
to ecure one chance; also a Clap or
|
|
Pox, and a short sleep, <eg>Nap the Wiper</eg>,
|
|
steal the Hankerchief. <eg>You have napt
|
|
it</eg>, You are Clapt.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>NAPPER</title>
|
|
<p>a Cheat, or Thief.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>NAPPER</title>
|
|
<p><i>of Naps</i>, a sheep-stealer.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>NAPPY-<i>Ale</i></title>
|
|
<p>very strong, heady.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>NASK</title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Naskin</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Prison or Bridewell.
|
|
<eg>The new Nask</eg>, Clerkenwell
|
|
Bridewell: <eg>Tuttle Nask</eg>, the Bridewell
|
|
in Tuttle-Fields: <eg>He napt it at the
|
|
Nask</eg>; he was lasht at Bridewell.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>NATURAL</title>
|
|
<p>a Mistress, a Wench.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>NAY-<i>Word</i></title>
|
|
<p>a By-word, or Proverb.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>NAZIE</title>
|
|
<p>Drunken.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>NAZIE-<i>Cove</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Drunkard.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>NAZY-<i>Mort</i></title>
|
|
<p>a she Drunkard.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>NAZY-<i>Nabs</i></title>
|
|
<p>Drunken Coxcombs.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person,drink"><title>NECK-<i>Stamper</i></title>
|
|
<p>the Pot-Boy at a
|
|
Tavern or Ale-house.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>NEEDLE-<i>Point</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Sharper.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>NETTLED</title>
|
|
<p>tiezed, provoked, made
|
|
uneasy.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> NICK <i>it</i></title>
|
|
<p>to win at Dice, to hit
|
|
the Mark.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue,drink"><title>NICKUM</title>
|
|
<p>a Sharper, also a rooking
|
|
Ale house or Inn-keeper,Vintner, or
|
|
any Retailer.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>NICKUM-<i>Poop</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Fool, also a silly,
|
|
soft, uxorious Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>NICK-<i>Ninny</i></title>
|
|
<p>an emty Fellow, a
|
|
meer Gods-head.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>NIG</title>
|
|
<p>the clippings of Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>NIGGING</title>
|
|
<p>Clipping.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>NIGGLER</title>
|
|
<p>a Clipper.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>NIGGLING</title>
|
|
<p>accompanying with a
|
|
Woman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>NIGHT-<i>Magistrate</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Constable.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>NIGHT-<i>Walker</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Bellman; also a
|
|
light Woman; a Thief, a Rogue.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>NIGIT</title>
|
|
<p><i>qu.</i> an Ideot, i.e. a Fool.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>NIGMENOG</title>
|
|
<p>a very silly fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>NIKIN</title>
|
|
<p>a Natural, or very soft
|
|
Creature.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> NIM</title>
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<p>to steal.</p></entry>
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|
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<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> NIM</title>
|
|
<p>or whip off or away any thing;
|
|
<eg>To Num a Togeman</eg>, to steal a
|
|
Cloack. <eg>To Nim a Cloak</eg>, to cut off the
|
|
Buttons in a Crowd, to whip it off a
|
|
Man's Shoulders.</p></entry>
|
|
|
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<entry c="person"><title>NIM <i>Gimmer</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Doctor, Surgeon,
|
|
Apothecary, or any one that cures a
|
|
Clap or a Pox.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>NINNY</title>
|
|
<p>a canting, whining Beggar;
|
|
also a Fool.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>NIP</title>
|
|
<p>a Cheat.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> NIP</title>
|
|
<p>to pinch or sharp any thing.
|
|
<eg>Nip a Bung</eg>, to cut a Purse.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>NIPPS</title>
|
|
<p>the Shears with which
|
|
Money was wont to be clipt.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>NIZY</title>
|
|
<p>a Fool or Coxcomb.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>NOB</title>
|
|
<p>a Head.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>NOCKY</title>
|
|
<p>a silly, dull Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>NODDLE</title>
|
|
<p>the Head.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>NODDY</title>
|
|
<p>a Fool. <eg>Knave Noddy</eg>, a
|
|
Game on the Cards.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>NOOZED</title>
|
|
<p>or <eg>caught in a Nooze</eg>,
|
|
married; also hanged.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime,punishment"><title>NOPE</title>
|
|
<p>a Blow, a Knock on the
|
|
Pate; as <eg>We hit him a Nope on the Costard</eg>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>NOSE-<i>Gent</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Recluse or Nun.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>NUB</title>
|
|
<p>the Neck; also Coition.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>NUBBING</title>
|
|
<p>hanging. <eg>To be nubbed</eg>,
|
|
to be hanged.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place,punishment"><title>NUBBING-<i>Cheat</i></title>
|
|
<p>the Gallows.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment,person"><title>NUBBING-<i>Cove</i></title>
|
|
<p>the Hangman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>NUBBING-<i>Ken</i></title>
|
|
<p>the Sessions House.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>NUG</title>
|
|
<p>a Word of Love, as <eg>my Dear
|
|
Nug</eg>, my Dear Love.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>NUMMS</title>
|
|
<p>a sham, or Collar-shirt,
|
|
to hide the other when dirty.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>NUT-<i>crackers</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Pillory, <eg>The Cull
|
|
lookt thro' the Nut-crackers</eg>, i.e. The
|
|
Rogue stood in the Pillory.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
</letter>
|
|
|
|
<letter name="o"><title>O</title>
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>OAK</title>
|
|
<p>a rich Man, of good Substance
|
|
and Credit.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>OGLES</title>
|
|
<p><eg><i>Eyes</i> Rum Ogles</eg>, fine, bright
|
|
clear, piercing Eyes.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>OLD-<i>Dog at it</i></title>
|
|
<p>good or expert.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>OLD-<i>Dog at Common-Prayer</i></title>
|
|
<p>a poor
|
|
Hackney Parson that can read but not
|
|
preach well.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>OLD-<i>Harry</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Composition used by
|
|
Vintners when they bedevil their
|
|
Wines.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>OLD-<i>Mr-Gory</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Piece of Gold.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>OLD <i>Roger</i></title>
|
|
<p>the Devil.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>OLD <i>Toast</i></title>
|
|
<p>a brisk old Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>OLIVERS <i>Skull</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Chamber Pot.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>ONE <i>in Ten</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Parson.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>ONE <i>of my Cousins</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Wench.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>OS <i>Chives</i></title>
|
|
<p>Bone handled Knives.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>OUT-At-Heels</title>
|
|
<title>or <i>elbows</i></title>
|
|
<p>in a declining
|
|
Condition going down the
|
|
Wind.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>OYL <i>of Barley</i></title>
|
|
<p>strong Drink.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>OX <i>House</i></title>
|
|
<p><eg>He must go thro' the Ox-house
|
|
to Bed</eg>, said of an old Fellow that
|
|
marries a young Woman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
</letter>
|
|
|
|
<letter name="p"><title>P</title>
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>PAD</title>
|
|
<p>the Highway; also a Robber
|
|
thereon.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place,punishment"><title>PADDINGTON-<i>Fair</i></title>
|
|
<p>an Execution
|
|
of Malefactors at <i>Tyburn</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="phrase" sortas="PAINTER"><title><i>Ill cut your</i> PAINTER <i>for ye</i></title>
|
|
<p>I'll
|
|
prevent your doing me any Mischief:
|
|
the Tar Cant when they quarrel onw
|
|
with another.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>PALLIARDS</title>
|
|
<p>those whose Fathers
|
|
were <i>Clapperdogeons</i>, or born Beggars,
|
|
and who themselves follow the same
|
|
Trade. The Female sort of these
|
|
Wretches frequently borrow Children
|
|
if they have none of their own, and
|
|
planting them about in Straw,
|
|
draw the greater Pity from the Spectators, screwing their Faces to the
|
|
moving Postures, and crying at Pleasure,
|
|
and making the Children also
|
|
cry by pinching them, or otherwise;
|
|
mean time her Com rogue, the Male
|
|
<i>Palliard</i>, lies bagging in the Fields,
|
|
with <i>Cleymes</i> or artificial Sores, which
|
|
he makes by <i>Spere-wort</i> or <i>Arsnick</i>,
|
|
which draws them into Blisters.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>PANAM</title>
|
|
<p>Bread.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>PANTER</title>
|
|
<p>a Heart.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>PANTLER</title>
|
|
<p>a Butler.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>PAPLER</title>
|
|
<p>Milk-Pottage.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>PARINGS</title>
|
|
<p>the Clippings of Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>PATRI-COVES</title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Pater Cove</i></title>
|
|
<p>strolling Priests that marry under a Hedge,
|
|
without Gospel or Common-prayer
|
|
Book: The couple standing on each
|
|
side a dead Beast, are bid to live together
|
|
till Death them does part; so
|
|
shaking Hands the Wedding is ended,
|
|
also any Minister, or Parson.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>PAUME</title>
|
|
<p>See <i>Palm</i> [[not present]].</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>PAW</title>
|
|
<p>a Hand.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>PAWN</title>
|
|
<p>the same as <i>Palm</i>, which
|
|
see. [[not present]]</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>PEAK</title>
|
|
<p>any kind of Lace.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>PECULIAR</title>
|
|
<p>a Mistress; also particular,
|
|
private, proper.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>PED</title>
|
|
<p>a Basket.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>PEEPERS</title>
|
|
<p>a Looking-glass. <eg>Track
|
|
the Dancers and Pike with the Peepers</eg>;
|
|
Whip up the Stairs, and trip off with
|
|
the Looking-glass.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>PEEPERS</title>
|
|
<p>Eyes.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>PEERY</title>
|
|
<p>fearful, shy, fly. <eg>The Cull's
|
|
Peery</eg>; The Rogue's afraid to venture.
|
|
<eg>There's a Peery, 'tis snitch</eg>, there are a
|
|
great many People, there'sno good to
|
|
be done.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>PEETER</title>
|
|
<p>a Portmanteau, or Cloak-bag.
|
|
<eg>Bite the Peelter</eg>, to whip off the
|
|
Cloak-bag.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>PEG-<i>Trantums</i></title>
|
|
<p>as <eg>Gone to Peg-Trantums</eg>, dead.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>PELTING <i>Village</i></title>
|
|
<p>blind, obscure.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>PENNANCE <i>Board</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Pillory.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>PENTHOUSE <i>Nub</i></title>
|
|
<p>a very broad
|
|
brimmed hat.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>PEPPERED <i>off</i></title>
|
|
<p>soundly clapt or
|
|
Poxt.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>PERIWINKLE</title>
|
|
<p>a Peruke, or Perriwig.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>PETER <i>Lay</i></title>
|
|
<p>Rogues who follow
|
|
petty Thefts; such as cutting Portmanteau's, &c;
|
|
from behind Coaches,
|
|
breaking Shop Glasses, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="phrase"><title>PETER <i>Lug</i></title>
|
|
<p><eg>Who is Peter Lug?</eg> who
|
|
let's the Glass stand at his Door.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>PETTICOAT <i>Pensioner</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Gallant
|
|
maintained for secret Service.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>PHARAOH</title>
|
|
<p>very strong Malt Drink.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>PHENIX <i>Men</i></title>
|
|
<p>See <i>Firedrakes</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person,drink"><title>PHILISTINES</title>
|
|
<p>Serjeants, Bailiffs and
|
|
their Crew. Also Drunkards. <eg>I fell
|
|
among the Philistines</eg>, I chopt upon a
|
|
Knot of drunken Fellows.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>PICKING</title>
|
|
<p>little Stealing, Pilfering
|
|
Petty Larceny.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>PICKAROON</title>
|
|
<p>a very shabby poor
|
|
Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>PICKLED</title>
|
|
<p>very arch or waggish. <eg>In
|
|
Pickle</eg>, Poxt. <eg>Rods in Pickle</eg>, or <eg>Revenge
|
|
in Lavender</eg>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>PIG</title>
|
|
<p>Six-pence. <eg>The Cull tipt me a
|
|
Pig</eg>, The Man gave me Six pence.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>PIG-<i>Widgeon</i></title>
|
|
<p>a silly Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> PIKE</title>
|
|
<p>to run away, flee, quit or
|
|
leave the Place; also to die, <eg>Pike on the
|
|
Been</eg>, run away as fast as you can.
|
|
<eg>Pik'd off</eg>, run away, fled, broke; also
|
|
dead. <eg>To pass the Pikes</eg>, to be out of
|
|
Danger. <eg>There's a Cull knos us; if we
|
|
dont pike, he'll bone us</eg>, that Fellow sees
|
|
is' if we don't scour off, he'll apprehend
|
|
us. <eg>Then we'll pike, 'tis all Bowman</eg>;
|
|
we'll be gone, all is well, the
|
|
Coast is clear.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>PIMP-<i>Whiskin</i></title>
|
|
<p>a top Trader in
|
|
pimping.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> PINCH</title>
|
|
<p>to steal or convey slily
|
|
any Thing away. <eg>To pinch on the Parsons
|
|
side</eg>; to sharp him of his Tithes.
|
|
<eg>At a Pinch</eg>, upon a Push or Exigence.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>PINK'D</title>
|
|
<p>pricked with a Sword in a
|
|
re-encounter or Duel. <eg>He pinked his
|
|
Dubblet</eg>, he run him through.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>PIT</title>
|
|
<p>the Hole under the Gallows,
|
|
into which those that pay not the Fee,
|
|
(viz. 6<i>s</i>. 8<i>d</i>.) are cast and buried.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>PIT <i>a Pat</i></title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Pintle de Pantledy</i></title>
|
|
<p>sadly scared, greviously frighted.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>PLANT</title>
|
|
<p>to lay, place or hide.
|
|
<eg>Plant your Whids and stow them</eg>, Be
|
|
wary what you say or let slip.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>PLAISTER <i>of hot Guts</i></title>
|
|
<p>one warm
|
|
Belly clapt to another.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>PLATE <i>Fleet coes in</i></title>
|
|
<p>when the
|
|
Money comes to Hand.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>PALTTER-<i>Faces</i> Jade</title>
|
|
<p>a very broad
|
|
ordinary faced Woman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>PLAY <i>it off</i></title>
|
|
<p>to play Booty; also to
|
|
throw away, at Gaming, so much and
|
|
no more. <eg>He plays it off</eg>, he cheats.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>PLUCK <i>the Ribbon</i></title>
|
|
<p>Ring the Bell at
|
|
the Tavern.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>PLUMP <i>in the Pocket</i></title>
|
|
<p>flush of Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>PLYER</title>
|
|
<p>a Crutch; also a Trader.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>POKER</title>
|
|
<p>a Sword.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>POLT <i>on the Pate</i></title>
|
|
<p>a good Rap there.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>POPS</title>
|
|
<p>Pistols, <eg>To pop</eg>, to fire a Pistol,
|
|
&c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>PORKER</title>
|
|
<p>a Sword.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>POST</title>
|
|
<p>as <eg>From Pillar to Post</eg>, from
|
|
Constable to Constable.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>POT-<i>Valiant</i></title>
|
|
<p>Drunk.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>POULAIN</title>
|
|
<p>a Bubo.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>POWDERING-<i>Tub</i></title>
|
|
<p>the pocky Hospital
|
|
at <i>Kingsland</i> near <i>London</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>POISONED</title>
|
|
<p>big with Child.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>POISON <i>Pate</i></title>
|
|
<p>red Haired.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>PRANCER</title>
|
|
<p>a Horse.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>PRANCER's <i>Nab</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Horse's Head,
|
|
used in a sham Seal to such a Pass.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>PRATTS</title>
|
|
<p>the Thighs or Buttocks;
|
|
also a Tinder-box or Touch-box.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>PRATING-<i>Cheat</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Tongue.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>PRATE-<i>Roast</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Talking Boy.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title link="ignore">PREY</title>
|
|
<p>Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>PRICKEAR'D <i>Fellow</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Crop whose
|
|
Ears are longer than his Hair.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>PRICK <i>Louse</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Taylor.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>PRIEST <i>Linked</i></title>
|
|
<p>married.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue,person"><title>PRIG</title>
|
|
<p>a Thief, a Cheat: also a nice,
|
|
beauish, silly Fellow, is called a <eg>meer
|
|
Prig</eg>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>PRIGGERS</title>
|
|
<p>Thieves.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>PRIGGING</title>
|
|
<p>lying with a Woman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>PRIGSTAR</title>
|
|
<p>a Rival in Love.</p></entry>
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<entry c="adj"><title>PRIGGISH</title>
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<p>Thievish.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>PRIG <i>Napper</i></title>
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<p>a Horse-stealer; also a Thief Taker.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>PRIGGERS <i>of the Cacklers</i></title>
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<p>Poultry-stealers.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>PRIGGERS <i>of Prancers</i></title>
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<p>Horse-stealers, who carry a Bridle in their Pockets,
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and a small pad Saddle in their
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Breeches.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>PRINCE <i>Prig</i></title>
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<p>a King of the Gypsies;
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also Top-Thief, or Receiver General.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>PRINCOCK</title>
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<p>a pert, forward Fellow.</p></entry>
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<entry c="v"><title>PRINKING</title>
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<p>nicely dressing. <eg>Prinked
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up</eg>, set up on the Cupboards head, in
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their best Clothes, or in State. Stiff-starched.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title><i>Mistress</i> PRINCUM-<i>Prancium</i></title>
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<p>such a stiff, overnice precise Madam.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>PROG</title>
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<p>Meat. <eg>Rum Prog.</eg>, nice eating.
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<eg>The Cull tipt us rum Prog</eg>; the
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Gentleman, so serve a Turn; a Cat's Foot.</p></entry>
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<entry c="punishment"><title><i>To</i> PUMMEL</title>
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<p>to beat, <eg>I pummelled
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his Sides for him.</eg>, I beat him soundly.</p></entry>
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<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> PUMP</title>
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<p>to wheedle-Secrets out
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of any one.</p></entry>
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<entry c="bawd"><title>PUNCH-<i>Houses</i></title>
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<p>bawdy-houses.</p></entry>
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<entry c="bawd"><title>PUNK</title>
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<p>a little Whore.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>PUPIL <i>Mongers</i></title>
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<p>Tutors at the Universities.</p></entry>
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<entry c="bawd"><title>PURE</title>
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<p>a Mistress.</p></entry>
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<entry c="bawd,person"><title>PUREST-<i>Pure</i></title>
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<p>a Top-Mistress or
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fine Woman.</p></entry>
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<entry c="drink"><title>PURL-<i>Royal</i></title>
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<p>Canary with a Dash of
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Wormwood.</p></entry>
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<entry c="place,bawd"><title>PUSHING-<i>School</i></title>
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<p>a Fencing-School;
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also a Bawdy house.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title link="ignore">PUT</title>
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<p><eg>A Country Put</eg>, a silly, shallow
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pated, Fellow. <eg>Put so it</eg>, beset.</p></entry>
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</letter>
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<letter name="q"><title>Q</title>
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<entry c="thing"><title>QUACKING-<i>Cheat</i></title>
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<p>a Duck.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>QUAIL Pipe</title>
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<p>a Woman's Tongue.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>QUAKING <i>Cheat</i></title>
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<p>a Calf or Sheep.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>QUARREL <i>Picker</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Glazier.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>QUARRON</title>
|
|
<p>a Body.</p></entry>
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<entry c="bawd"><title>QUEAN</title>
|
|
<p>a Whore or Slut. <eg>A dirty
|
|
Quean</eg>, a Puzzle or Slut.</p></entry>
|
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<entry c="adj"><title>QUEERE</title>
|
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<title>or <i>Quire</i></title>
|
|
<p>base, roguish,
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|
naught. <eg>How queerely the Cull Trouts?</eg>
|
|
How roguishly the Fellow loocks.</p></entry>
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|
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<entry c="rogue"><title>QUEERE-Birds</title>
|
|
<p>such as having got
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|
loose, return to their old Trade of
|
|
roguing and thieving.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue,drink"><title>QUEERE <i>Bluffer</i></title>
|
|
<p>a sneaking sharping,
|
|
Cut-throat Ale-house Man or Inn-keeper.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>QUEERE-<i>Bung</i></title>
|
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<p>an empty Purse.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>QUEERE-<i>Clout</i></title>
|
|
<p>a sorry old Handkerchief,
|
|
not worth nimming.</p></entry>
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<entry c="adj,money"><title>QUEERE-<i>Cole</i></title>
|
|
<p>clipt, counterfeit
|
|
Money.</p></entry>
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<entry c="money"><title>QUEERE <i>Cole-maker</i></title>
|
|
<p>a false Coiner.</p></entry>
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|
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<entry c="rogue,money"><title>QUEERE <i>Cole-fencer</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Receiver and
|
|
Putter off of false Money.</p></entry>
|
|
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|
<entry c="rogue"><title>QUEERE-<i>Cove</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Rogue.</p></entry>
|
|
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|
<entry c="person"><title>QUEERE-<i>Cussin</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Justice of Peace;
|
|
also a churl.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>QUEERE-<i>Cull</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Fop or Fool, a
|
|
Cods-head; also a shabby poor Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
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|
<entry c="thing"><title>QUEERE <i>Degen</i></title>
|
|
<p>an Iron, Steel or
|
|
Brass hilted Sword.</p></entry>
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|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>QUEERE-<i>Diver</i></title>
|
|
<p>a bungling Pick-pocket.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>QUEERE-<i>Doxy</i></title>
|
|
<p>a jilting Jade, a sorry
|
|
shabby Wench.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>QUEERE-<i>Drawers</i></title>
|
|
<p>Yarn, or coarse
|
|
Worsted, ordinary or old Stockings.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>QUEERE-<i>Duke</i></title>
|
|
<p>a poor decayed
|
|
Gentleman, also a lean, thin, half-starved Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>QUEERE-<i>Fun</i></title>
|
|
<p>a bungling Cheat or
|
|
Trick; also Game or Merriment.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place,punishment"><title>QUEERE-<i>Ken</i></title>
|
|
<p>an ill House, a Prison
|
|
or a place of Correction.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>QUEERE-<i>Kicks</i></title>
|
|
<p>course ordinary or
|
|
old tattered Breeches.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>QUEERE-<i>Mort</i></title>
|
|
<p>a dirty Drab, a jilting
|
|
Wench, a pocky Jade.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>QUEERE <i>Nab</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Felt, <i>Carolina</i> Cloth
|
|
or ordinary Hat.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>QUEERE-<i>Peepers</i></title>
|
|
<p>old-fashioned,
|
|
ordinary or common Looking glasses.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing,rogue"><title>QUEERE-<i>Prancer</i></title>
|
|
<p>a foundered Jade,
|
|
an ordinary low prized Horse: also a
|
|
cowardly or faint hearted Horse-stealer.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>QUEERE-<i>Topping</i></title>
|
|
<p>sorry Head-dresses.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> QUIBBLE</title>
|
|
<p>to trifle or pun.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title><i>Sir</i> QUIBBLE-<i>Queere</i></title>
|
|
<p>a trifling, silly
|
|
shatter-brained Fellow; a meer Wittol
|
|
or Punter, likewise a Whiffler.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>QUIDDS</title>
|
|
<p>Cash, or ready Money.
|
|
<eg>Can you tip me any Quidds</eg>? Can you
|
|
lend me any Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>QUOD</title>
|
|
<p><i>Newgate</i>; also a Prison, tho'
|
|
generally for Debt. <eg>The Poor Dabs in
|
|
the Quod.</eg> the poor Rogue is in <i>Limbo</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>QUOTA</title>
|
|
<p>Snack, Share, Part, Proportion or Dividend.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
</letter>
|
|
|
|
<letter name="r"><title>R</title>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>RABBET-<i>Suckers</i></title>
|
|
<p>young Unthrifts
|
|
taking Goods on Tick of Pawnbrokers
|
|
or Tallymen, at excessive
|
|
Rates.</p></entry>
|
|
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|
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|
<entry c="drink"><title>RABBITS</title>
|
|
<p>wooden Cans to drink
|
|
out of, once used on the Roads, now
|
|
almost laid by.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>RAG</title>
|
|
<p>a Farthing. <eg>Not a Rag left</eg>; I
|
|
have lost or spent all my Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>RAGAMUFFIN</title>
|
|
<p>a Taterdemallion.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>RAG-<i>Water</i></title>
|
|
<p>a common sort of strong
|
|
Water.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>RAKE</title>
|
|
<title><i>Rake-hell</i></title>
|
|
<title><i>Rake shame</i></title>
|
|
<p>a lewd Spark or Debauchee.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>RALPH <i>Spooner</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Fool.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>RANGING</title>
|
|
<p>intriguing, and enjoying
|
|
many Women.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>RANK <i>Rider</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Highwayman; also
|
|
a Jockey.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>RANTIPOLE</title>
|
|
<p>a rude wild Boy or
|
|
Girl.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>RAP</title>
|
|
<p>to swop or exchange a Horse
|
|
or Goods; also a Polt on the Pate.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>RAPPER</title>
|
|
<p>a swinging great Lye.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>RAREE-SHOW-<i>Men</i></title>
|
|
<p>poor <i>Savoyards</i>
|
|
strolling up and down with portable
|
|
Boxes of Puppet-shows at their
|
|
Backs; Pedlars of Puppets.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person,drink"><title>RAT</title>
|
|
<p>a drunken Man or Woman
|
|
taken up by the Watch, and carried
|
|
by the Constable to the Compter. <eg>To
|
|
smell a Rat</eg>, To suspect a Trick.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>RATTLER</title>
|
|
<p>a Coach.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>RATTLING <i>Cove</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Coach-man.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>RATTLING-<i>Mumpers</i></title>
|
|
<p>such as run
|
|
after, or ply Coaches &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> RATTLE</title>
|
|
<p>to move off, or be
|
|
gone. <eg>We'll take Rattle</eg>, We must not
|
|
tarry, but whip away.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>READY <i>Rhino</i></title>
|
|
<p>Money in Possession.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>RECRUITS</title>
|
|
<p>Money (expected.) <eg>Have
|
|
yuo rais'd the Recruits?</eg> Is the Money
|
|
come in?</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>RED-<i>Fustian</i></title>
|
|
<p>Claret, or red Port-Wine.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>RED-<i>Letter-Man</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Roman Catholick.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>RED-<i>Rag</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Tongue.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>REMEMBER <i>Parson Malham</i></title>
|
|
<p>q. d.
|
|
Pray Sir drink about. A <i>Norfolk</i>
|
|
Phrase.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>RHINO</title>
|
|
<p>ready Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>RIBBIN</title>
|
|
<p>Money. <eg>The Ribbin Runs
|
|
shick</eg>; his Breeches are well lined
|
|
with Money. <eg>The Ribbin runs thin</eg>,
|
|
He has but little Cash about him.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>RICH-<i>Face</i></title>
|
|
<p>a red-Face.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>RIDG-<i>Cully</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Gold-smith.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>RIFF-<i>Raff</i></title>
|
|
<p>the Rabble or Scum of
|
|
the People, Tagrag and Longtail.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>RIG</title>
|
|
<p>Game, Diversion, Ridicule.
|
|
See <i>Fun</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>RIGGING</title>
|
|
<p>Cloaths. <eg>I'll unrig the
|
|
Bloss</eg>; I will strip the Wench.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title><i>Rum</i> RIGGING</title>
|
|
<p>fine Cloaths. <eg>The
|
|
Cull has Rum Rigging, let's ding him,
|
|
mill him, and pike</eg>; The Man has very
|
|
good Cloaths, let us knock him down,
|
|
kill him, and scour off.
|
|
</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>RING</title>
|
|
<p>Money extorted by Rogues
|
|
on the Highway, or by Gentlemen
|
|
Beggars.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>ROAST-<i>Meat-Cloaths</i></title>
|
|
<p>Holiday-Cloaths. <eg>To rule the Roast</eg>, To be master
|
|
or Paramount. <eg>Roasted</eg>, Arrested:
|
|
<eg>I'll Roast the Dab</eg>, I will arrest the
|
|
Rascal: To <eg>Roast</eg>, signifies also to rally;
|
|
to teize, to hunt, or banter.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>ROBERDS-<i>Men</i></title>
|
|
<p>mighty Thieves,
|
|
like <i>Robin Hood</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>ROCHESTER-<i>Portion</i></title>
|
|
<p>two torn
|
|
Smocks, and what Nature gave.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing,person"><title>ROGER</title>
|
|
<p>a Portmanteau, a Goose;
|
|
also a Man's Yard. Likewise a Thief-taker.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>ROGUE</title>
|
|
<p>a name which includes all
|
|
the other Denominations.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>ROMBOYL&stress;D</title>
|
|
<p>sought after with a Warrant.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>ROMBOYLES</title>
|
|
<p>Watch and Ward.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>ROMER</title>
|
|
<p>a drinking Glass; also
|
|
wider.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>ROOK</title>
|
|
<p>a Cheat a Knave. <eg>To Rook</eg>,
|
|
To cheat or play the Knave.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>ROSY-<i>Gills</i></title>
|
|
<p>sanguine or fresh colour'd</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>ROTAN</title>
|
|
<p>a Coach, or Waggon, any
|
|
thing that runs upon Wheels; but
|
|
prinicipally a Cart.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>ROT-<i>Gut</i></title>
|
|
<p>very small or thin Beer.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>ROVERS</title>
|
|
<p>Pyrates, Wanderers, Vagabonds.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>ROUGH</title>
|
|
<p>as, <eg>To lie Rough</eg>, to lie in
|
|
one's Cloaths all Night.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>ROYSTERS</title>
|
|
<p>rude roaring Rogues.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> RUB</title>
|
|
<p>to run away. <eg>A Rub</eg>, an
|
|
Impediment, Obstacle, Hinderance,
|
|
Stop, Hardship, or Difficulty. <eg>Rub on</eg>,
|
|
to live indifferently. <eg>Rub through the World</eg>,
|
|
to live tolerably well in it.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="phrase,punishment"><title><i>He</i> RUBS <i>us to the Whit</i></title>
|
|
<p>He sends us
|
|
to <i>Newgate</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>RUFF</title>
|
|
<p>an old-fashioned double
|
|
Band; from whence the Pillory is called, <eg>The Wooden Ruff</eg>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>RUFFIN</title>
|
|
<p>the Devil; as <eg>The Ruffin
|
|
nab the Cuffin Quire, and let the Harman
|
|
beck trine with his Kinchins about
|
|
his Col quarron</eg>; i.e. Let the Devil take
|
|
the Justice, and let the Constable hang
|
|
with his Children about his Neck.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>RUFFLERS</title>
|
|
<p>notorious Rogues,
|
|
who, under Pretence of being maimed
|
|
Soldiers or Seamen, implore the Charity
|
|
of well disposed Persons, and fail
|
|
not to watch Opportunities either to
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|
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|
|
steal, break open Houses, or even
|
|
commit Murder.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>RUFFMANS</title>
|
|
<p>the Woods or Bushes.</p></entry>
|
|
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<entry c="thing"><title>RUFF-<i>Peck</i></title>
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<p>Bacon.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>RUG</title>
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<p><eg>It's all a Rug</eg>, The Game is
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secured.</p></entry>
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<entry c="adj"><title>RUM</title>
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<p>gallant, fine, rich, best or
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excellent.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>RUM-<i>Beck</i></title>
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<p>any Justice of the Peace.</p></entry>
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<entry c="crime"><title>RUM-<i>Bite</i></title>
|
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<p>a clever Cheat, a neat
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Trick.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>RUM-<i>Bleating-Cheat</i></title>
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<p>a very fat
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Weather. [[See Bleating-Cheat]]</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>RUM-<i>Blower</i></title>
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<p>a veru handsom Mistress,
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kept by a particular Man.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person,drink"><title>RUM-<i>Bluffer</i></title>
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<p>a jolly Host, Inn-keeper,
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or Victualler.</p></entry>
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<entry c="place"><title>RUMBO</title>
|
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<p>a Prison or Goal.</p></entry>
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|
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<entry c="rogue"><title>RUM-<i>Bob</i></title>
|
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<p>a young Apprentice;
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also a sharp, sly Trick. Likewise a
|
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pretty short Wig.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>RUM <i>Boile</i></title>
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<p>a Ward or Watch.</p></entry>
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<entry c="drink"><title>RUM-<i>Booze</i></title>
|
|
<p>Wine; also very good
|
|
or string Drink.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>RUM-<i>Boozing-Welts</i></title>
|
|
<p>Bunches of Grapes.</p></entry>
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|
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<entry c="rogue"><title>RUM-<i>Bubber</i></title>
|
|
<p>a dexterous Fellow at
|
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stealing Silver Tankards from Publick
|
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Houses.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>RUM-<i>Bughar</i></title>
|
|
<p>a very pretty and
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valuable Dog.</p></entry>
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<entry c="money"><title>RUM-<i>Bung</i></title>
|
|
<p>a full Purse.</p></entry>
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|
|
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<entry c="adj"><title>RUMLY</title>
|
|
<p>bravely, cleverly, delicately, &c;</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>RUM-<i>Chub</i></title>
|
|
<p>which is, (among the
|
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Butchers) an ignorant Market-man or
|
|
Woman, that is <i>bit</i> by them.</p></entry>
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|
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<entry c="thing"><title>RUM-<i>Clank</i></title>
|
|
<p>a large Silver Tankard.
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|
<eg>Tip me a Rum-Clank of Bowse</eg>; i.e. Give
|
|
me a Double-tankard of Drink.</p></entry>
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|
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<entry c="thing"><title>RUM-<i>Clout</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Silk, fine Cambrick,
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|
or Holland Handkerchief.</p></entry>
|
|
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|
<entry c="money"><title>RUM-<i>Cod</i></title>
|
|
<p>a good Purse of Gold, or
|
|
round Sum of Money.</p></entry>
|
|
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|
<entry c="money"><title>RUM-<i>Cole</i></title>
|
|
<p>new Money, or Medals
|
|
curiously coin'd.</p></entry>
|
|
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<entry c="rogue"><title>RUM-<i>Cove</i></title>
|
|
<p>a great Rogue.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>RUM-<i>Cull</i></title>
|
|
<p>a rich Fool, that can be
|
|
easily <i>bit</i>, or cheated by any body;
|
|
also one that is very generous and kind
|
|
to a Mistress.</p></entry>
|
|
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|
<entry c="thing"><title>RUM <i>Degen</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Silver-hilted or inlaid Sword.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>RUM-<i>Dell</i></title>
|
|
<p>the same as, <i>Rum-Doxy</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>RUM-<i>Diver</i></title>
|
|
<p>a compleat or clever
|
|
Pick-pocket, The same with <i>Files</i> or
|
|
<i>Bung-nippers</i>. Which see.</p></entry>
|
|
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|
<entry c="person"><title>RUM-<i>Doxy</i></title>
|
|
<p>a beautiful Woman,
|
|
or light Lady.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>RUM-<i>Drawers</i></title>
|
|
<p>Silk Stokings, or
|
|
very fine worsted Hose.</p></entry>
|
|
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|
<entry c="person,drink"><title>RUM-<i>Dropper</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Vintner.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>RUM-<i>Dabber</i></title>
|
|
<p>an experienc'd or
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|
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|
|
expert Picker of Locks. The same
|
|
with GILT, which see.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>RUM-<i>Duke</i></title>
|
|
<p>a jolly handsome Man,
|
|
<eg>Rum-Dukes</eg>, the boldest or stoutest Fellows
|
|
(lately) amongst the <i>Alsatians,
|
|
Minters, Sawyards, &c;</i> sent for to
|
|
remove and guard the Goods of such
|
|
Bankrupts as intended to take Sanctuary
|
|
in those Places.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>RUM-<i>Dutchess</i></title>
|
|
<p>a jolly handsome Woman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>RUM-<i>File</i></title>
|
|
<p>the same as <i>Rum-diver</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>RUMFORD-<i>Lyon</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Calf.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>RUM-<i>Fun</i></title>
|
|
<p>a clever Cheat or sharp
|
|
trick.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>RUM-<i>Gelt</i></title>
|
|
<p>the same as <i>Rum-Cole</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>RUM-<i>Glimmer</i></title>
|
|
<p>the King or Chief
|
|
of the Linkboys.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>RUM-<i>Gutlers</i></title>
|
|
<p>Canary-Wine; also
|
|
fine Eating.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>RUM-<i>Hopper</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Drawer. <eg>Rum-hopper,
|
|
tip us presently a Boozing-cheat of
|
|
Rum gutlers</eg>; Drawer, fill us presently
|
|
a Bottle of the best Canary.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>RUM-<i>Kicks</i></title>
|
|
<p>Silver or Gold Brokade
|
|
Breeches, or very rich with Gold or
|
|
Silver Galloon.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>RUM-<i>Mawnd</i></title>
|
|
<p>one that counterfeits
|
|
himself a Fool.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>RUM-<i>Mort</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Queen, or great Lady.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>RUM-<i>Nab</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Beaver, or very good Hat.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>RUM-<i>Nantz</i></title>
|
|
<p>true <i>French</i> Brandy.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>RUM-<i>Ned</i></title>
|
|
<p>a very silly Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>RUM-<i>Pad</i></title>
|
|
<p>the Highway.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>RUM-<i>Padders</i></title>
|
|
<p>the better Sort of
|
|
Highwaymen, well mounted and armed.
|
|
See <i>High Pad</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>RUM-<i>Peepers</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Silver Looking-glass.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>RUMP <i>and Kidney Men</i></title>
|
|
<p>Fidlers that
|
|
play at Feasts, Fairs, Weddings &c;
|
|
and live chiefly on the Remnants of
|
|
Victuals.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>RUM-<i>Prancer</i></title>
|
|
<p>a very beautiful Horse.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>RUM-<i>Quidds</i></title>
|
|
<p>a great Booty, or
|
|
large Snack.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>RUM-<i>Ruff-Peck</i></title>
|
|
<p>Westphalia-Ham.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>RUM-<i>Squeeze</i></title>
|
|
<p>much Wine or good
|
|
Liquor given among the Fidlers.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>RUM-<i>Snitch</i></title>
|
|
<p>a good Fillip on the
|
|
Nose.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>RUM-<i>Tol</i></title>
|
|
<p>the same as <i>Rum-degen</i>,
|
|
being the newest Cant Word of the two.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>RUM-<i>Tilter</i></title>
|
|
<p>the same as <i>Rum-tol</i>,
|
|
or <i>Rum-degen</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>RUM-<i>Topping</i></title>
|
|
<p>a rich Head-dress.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>RUM-<i>Ville</i></title>
|
|
<p><i>London</i></p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>Wiper</title>
|
|
<p>the same as <i>Rum-Clout</i></p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> RUN-<i>Riot</i></title>
|
|
<p>to turn Spark, and
|
|
run out of all.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>RUNNING <i>Stationers</i></title>
|
|
<p>Hawkers, or
|
|
those that cry News and Books about
|
|
the Streets.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>RUNNER</title>
|
|
<p>the same as <i>Budge</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>RUSTYGUTS</title>
|
|
<p>an old blunt Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
</letter>
|
|
|
|
<letter name="s"><title>S</title>
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SACK</title>
|
|
<p>a Pocket. <eg>To Dive into his
|
|
Sack</eg>; To pick his Pocket.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>SACK</title>
|
|
<p>also signifies to be drunk;
|
|
As, <eg>He bought the Sack</eg>; i.e. He got
|
|
drunk.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SALESMAN'S <i>Dog</i></title>
|
|
<p>the same as <i>Barker</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SALAMON</title>
|
|
<p>the Beggar's Sacrament
|
|
or Oath.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>SCAB</title>
|
|
<p>a sorry Wench, or scoundrel Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SCANDALOUS</title>
|
|
<p>a sorry Perriwig.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>SCANDAL-<i>Proof</i></title>
|
|
<p>a thorough-pac'd
|
|
<i>Alsatian</i>, or <i>Minter</i>; one harden'd, or
|
|
past Shame.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SCEW</title>
|
|
<p>See <i>Skew</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>SCHOOL <i>of Venus</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Bawdy-house.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>SCONCE</title>
|
|
<p><eg>To build a large sconce</eg>;
|
|
To run deep upon Tick or Trust.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SCOTCH <i>Fiddle</i></title>
|
|
<p>the Itch.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SCOTCH-<i>Mist</i></title>
|
|
<p>a sober, soaking
|
|
Rain.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>SCOUNDREL</title>
|
|
<p>a Hedge bird or sorry
|
|
Scab.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> SCOURE</title>
|
|
<p>to wear. <eg>To Scoure the
|
|
Cramp-rings</eg>; To wear Bolts. Also
|
|
to run away. See <i>Scowre</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> SCOWRE</title>
|
|
<p>to run away or scamper.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue,drink"><title>SCOWRERS</title>
|
|
<p>Drunkards beating
|
|
the Watch, breaking Windows, clearing
|
|
the Streets, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink,money"><title>SCRAN</title>
|
|
<p>a Reckoning at a Boozing-ken, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SCRAP</title>
|
|
<p>s Design, a purpos'd Villainy, a vile Intention; also a perpetrated
|
|
Roguery: <eg>He whiddles the whole
|
|
Scrap</eg>: He discovers all he knows.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SCRIP</title>
|
|
<p>a Shred or Scrap of Paper.
|
|
As, <eg>The Cully did freely blot the Scrip,
|
|
and tipt me 40 Hogs</eg>; One enter'd into
|
|
Bond with me for 40 Shillings.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>SCRUB</title>
|
|
<p>a Ragamuffin.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SCRUBADO</title>
|
|
<p>the Itch.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title><i>To</i> SCREW</title>
|
|
<p>to copulate with a
|
|
Woman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title><i>A</i> SCREW</title>
|
|
<p>a Strumper, a common
|
|
Prostitute.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>SCUM</title>
|
|
<p>the Riff-raff, or Tagrag and
|
|
Longtail.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>SEALER</title>
|
|
<p>one that gives Bonds and
|
|
Judgement for Goods and Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SECRET</title>
|
|
<p>as, <eg>Let into the Secret</eg>;
|
|
When one is drawn in at Horse-racing,
|
|
Cock-fighting, Bowling, and other
|
|
such Sports or Games, and <i>bit</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj,money"><title>SEEDY</title>
|
|
<p>poor, Money-less, exhausted.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>SERAGLIO</title>
|
|
<p>a Bawdy-house; so
|
|
called from the Great Turk's Palace.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>SERAGLIETTO</title>
|
|
<p>a lousy, vile,
|
|
sorry Bawdy-house, a meer Dog-hole.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title link="ignore">SET</title>
|
|
<p>as <eg>Dead Set</eg>, a Term used by
|
|
Thief-catchers when they have a Certainty
|
|
of seizing zome of their Clients,
|
|
in order to bring them to Justice.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SETTERS</title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Setting-dogs</i></title>
|
|
<p>they
|
|
that draw in <i>Bubbles</i>, for old Gamesters
|
|
to rook; also a Serjeant's Yeoman,
|
|
or Bailiff's Follower, or Second.
|
|
Also an Excise Officer.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> SETTLE</title>
|
|
<p>to stun, or knock
|
|
down; as, <eg>We settled the Cull by a
|
|
Stoter on his Nob</eg>; i.e. We took him
|
|
such a Blow on the Head, as quite stunn'd him.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>SHABBY</title>
|
|
<p>in poor sorry Rigging.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>SHABBEROON</title>
|
|
<p>a Ragamuffin.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>SHAB'D-<i>Off</i></title>
|
|
<p>sneak'd, or fled away.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>SHAG-<i>Bag</i></title>
|
|
<p>a poor shabby Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SHAM</title>
|
|
<p>a Cheat, or Trick. <eg>To Cut a
|
|
Sham</eg>; To play a Rogue's Trick.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>SHAMBLE-<i>Legg'd</i></title>
|
|
<p>one that goes
|
|
wide, and shuffles his Feet about.
|
|
<eg>Shake your Shambles</eg>; Haste, be gone.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SHAPPEAU</title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Shappo</i></title>
|
|
<p>for <i>Chappeau</i>, F. a Hat.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>SHARPER</title>
|
|
<p>a Cheat, one that lives by his Wits.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SHARPERS-<i>Tools</i></title>
|
|
<p>false Dice.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>SHAVER</title>
|
|
<p><eg>A cunning Shaver</eg>; A
|
|
subtle, smart Fellow. <eg>He shaves close</eg>;
|
|
He gripes, squeezes, or extorts very
|
|
severely.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>SHAVINGS</title>
|
|
<p>the Chippings of Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person,bawd,rogue"><title>SHE-<i>Napper</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Woman Thief-catcher; also
|
|
a Hen-bawd, or Procuress;
|
|
a Debaucher of young Virgins; a
|
|
Maiden head-jobber.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title link="ignore">SHOP</title>
|
|
<p>a Prison.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>SHOP-<i>Lift</i></title>
|
|
<p>one that Steals under
|
|
pretence of cheap'ning.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>SHOPT</title>
|
|
<p>imprison'd.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>SHOT</title>
|
|
<p>as, <eg>To pay one's Shot</eg>; To
|
|
pay one's Club or Proportion.</p></entry>
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<entry c="phrase"><title>SHOT <i>'twixt Wind and Water</i></title>
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<p>Clapt or Pox'd.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>SHOULDER-<i>Clapper</i></title>
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<p>a Serjeant or Bailiff.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>SHOULDER-<i>Sham</i></title>
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<p>a Partner to a <i>File</i>.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>SHRED</title>
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<p>a Taylor.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>SHUFFLER</title>
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<title>or <i>Shuffling-Fellow</i></title>
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<p>a slippery, shifting Fellow.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>SHURK</title>
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<p>a Shark or Sharper.</p></entry>
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<entry c="money"><title>SICE</title>
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<p>Six-pence.</p></entry>
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<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> SILENT <i>a Man</i></title>
|
|
<p>to knock him
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down, so as to stun him: To lay him
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|
down for dead. <eg>See the Cull is Silent</eg>,
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|
is also us'd by desperate Villains, for
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|
cutting the Throat, or shooting the
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unhappy Person who falls in their way.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>SILK <i>Snatchers</i></title>
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|
<p>a Set of Varlets,
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who snatch Hoods, Scarves, Handkerchiefs,
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or any Thing they can come at.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>SIMKIN</title>
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<p>a Fool.</p></entry>
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<entry c="money"><title>SIMON</title>
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<p>Six-pence.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>SINGLE-<i>Ten</i></title>
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<p>a very foolish, silly Fellow.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>SIR JOHN</title>
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<p>the Country-Vicar or Parson.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>SIR TIMOTHY</title>
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<p>one that treats
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every Body, and pays the Reckonings
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every where.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>SKEW</title>
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<p>a Beggar's wooden Dish.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>SKIN-<i>Flint</i></title>
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<p>a griping, sharping,
|
|
close-fisted Fellow.</p></entry>
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|
|
<entry c="person,drink"><title>SKINKER</title>
|
|
<p>that fills the Glass or Cup.
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|
<eg>Who Skinks?</eg> Who pours out the Liquor.</p></entry>
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<entry c="rogue"><title>SKIP-<i>Jacks</i></title>
|
|
<p>Yougsters that ride
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|
Horses for Sale.</p></entry>
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|
<entry c="place"><title>SKIPPER</title>
|
|
<p>a Barn.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>SKRIP</title>
|
|
<p>Paper.</p></entry>
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|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SLAM</title>
|
|
<p>a Trick; also also a Game intirely
|
|
lost, without getting one on that
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|
Side.</p></entry>
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|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SLAT</title>
|
|
<p>a Sheet.</p></entry>
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|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>SLATE</title>
|
|
<p>a half Crown; also the
|
|
same as <eg>Slot</eg>.</p></entry>
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|
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|
<entry c="place"><title>SLEEPING-<i>House</i></title>
|
|
<p>without Shop,
|
|
Warehouse or Cellar, only for a private Family.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SLOUCH</title>
|
|
<p>See <i>Zlouch</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>SLUBBER-<i>Degullion</i></title>
|
|
<p>a slovenly,
|
|
dirty, nasty Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>SLUR</title>
|
|
<p>a Cheat at Dice; also a slight
|
|
Scandal or Affront.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>SLY-<i>Boots</i></title>
|
|
<p>a seeming silly, but subtle Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>SMACKING-<i>Cove</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Coachman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v,crime"><title><i>To</i> SMASH</title>
|
|
<p>to quell, to beat or
|
|
abuse violently; to kill.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>SMASH</title>
|
|
<p>to smite, to kick down
|
|
Stairs. <eg>The Chubs tout the Blosses, they
|
|
smash them, and make them brush</eg>; The
|
|
Sharpers catch their Mistress at the
|
|
Tavern, making merry without them,
|
|
kick them down Stairs, and force
|
|
them to rub off.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>SMEAR</title>
|
|
<p>a Painter, or Plaisterer,
|
|
&c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SMELLER</title>
|
|
<p>a Nose.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SMELLING-<i>Cheat</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Nose-gay; also
|
|
an Orchard or Garden.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>SMELTS</title>
|
|
<p>Half-Guineas.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SMITER</title>
|
|
<p>an Arm.</p></entry>
|
|
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|
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|
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|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> SMOKE</title>
|
|
<p>to suspect or smell a Design.
|
|
<eg>It is smok'd</eg> It is made Publick, all
|
|
have Notice.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>SMOKER</title>
|
|
<p>a Tobacconist.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>SMOKY</title>
|
|
<p>Jealous, as, <eg>He is a smoky
|
|
Cull</eg>; He is a suspicious Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>SMUG</title>
|
|
<p>a Blacksmith.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>SMUGGLING-KEN</title>
|
|
<p>a Bawdy-house.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>SMUTTY</title>
|
|
<p>Bawdy.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>SNACK</title>
|
|
<p>Share or Part. <eg>To go snacks</eg>.
|
|
To go halves, or Share and Share alike.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> SNABBLE</title>
|
|
<p>to rifle, to strip, or
|
|
plunder. <eg>To Snabble a Poll</eg>, to run
|
|
away with a Peruke or Head-dress.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> SNAFFLE</title>
|
|
<p>to steal, to rob, to
|
|
purloin. <eg>A snaffler of Prancers</eg>; a
|
|
Horse-Stealer. <eg>Snuffle</eg>, is also a Highwayman
|
|
that has got a Booty.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>SNAPT</title>
|
|
<p>taken, caught.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>SNEAK</title>
|
|
<p><eg>He goes upon the Sneak at
|
|
Darkmans</eg>, He privately gets into Houses
|
|
or Shops at Night and Steals undiscovered.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title><i>A</i> SNEAKING <i>Budge</i></title>
|
|
<p>one that robs
|
|
alone, and deals chiefly in petty Larcenies.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> SNIC</title>
|
|
<p>to cut.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> SNILCH</title>
|
|
<p>to eye or see any Body.
|
|
<eg>The Cull snilches</eg>; the Man eyes or sees
|
|
you.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>SNIP</title>
|
|
<p>a Cheat; <eg>T snip</eg>, to cheat.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SNITCH</title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Snitchel</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Filip on the
|
|
Nose.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>SNITE</title>
|
|
<p>to wipe, or flap. <eg>Snite his
|
|
Snitch</eg>; wipe his Nose, or give him a
|
|
good Flap on the Face.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SNOUT</title>
|
|
<p>a Hogshead.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>SNOW-<i>Broth</i></title>
|
|
<p>Snow-water.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>SNUDGE</title>
|
|
<p>one that lurks under a
|
|
Bed, to watch an Opportunity to rob
|
|
the House.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>SNUG</title>
|
|
<p><eg>All's snug</eg>; All's quiet, used
|
|
by Villains, when every thing is silent
|
|
and they hear no body stir to oppose
|
|
their intended Rogueries.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money,punishment"><title>SOCK</title>
|
|
<p>a Pocket. <eg>Not a Rag in my
|
|
Sock</eg>; I han't a Farthing in my Pocket.
|
|
Also beat; <eg>I'll Sock ye</eg>; I'll drub
|
|
ye tightly.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>SOCKET <i>Money</i></title>
|
|
<p>demanded and
|
|
spent upon <i>Marriage</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>SOLDIERS-<i>Bottle</i></title>
|
|
<p>a large one.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SOLOMON</title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Soloman</i></title>
|
|
<p>the Mass.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>SON <i>of Apollo</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Scholar.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>SON <i>of Mars</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Soldier.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>SON <i>of Venus</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Lover of Women.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>SON <i>of Mercury</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Wit. Also a
|
|
Thief.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>SON <i>of Prattlement</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Lawyer.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>SOUL-<i>Driver</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Parson.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person,drink"><title><i>A</i> SOUL</title>
|
|
<p>one that loves Brandy.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>SOULDIER's <i>Mawnd</i></title>
|
|
<p>a counterfeit
|
|
Sore or Wound in the left Arm.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>SOUSE</title>
|
|
<p><eg>Not a Souse</eg>; not a Penny.
|
|
From <i>Sous</i>, <i>French</i> Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v,crime"><title><i>To</i> SOUDSE</title>
|
|
<p>to fall upon, to beat
|
|
cruelly; also to plunder or kill.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>SOUTH-SEA</title>
|
|
<p>a strong distill'd Liquor,
|
|
so called by the Inhabitants and
|
|
Clients of <i>Newgate</i>, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>SOUTH-SEA <i>Mountain</i></title>
|
|
<p>Geneva.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SOW's <i>Baby</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Pig.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>SOWSE <i>Crown</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Fool.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>SOW-<i>Child</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Female Child.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title><i>To</i> SOWR</title>
|
|
<p>to beat violently, &c;
|
|
As, <eg>Sowr the Cull</eg>; <i>i. e.</i> knock him
|
|
down: Beat him without Mercy, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>SPANGLES</title>
|
|
<p>Ends of Gold or Silver.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SPANISH-<i>Gout</i></title>
|
|
<p>the Pox.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SPANISH-<i>Money</i></title>
|
|
<p>fair Words and
|
|
Compliments.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>SPANKS</title>
|
|
<p>Money, Gold or Silver.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v,crime"><title><i>To</i> SPEAK <i>with</i></title>
|
|
<p>to steal.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SPECKT-<i>Wiper</i></title>
|
|
<p>a coloured Handkerchief.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> SPIRIT-<i>Away</i></title>
|
|
<p>the same as<i>Kidnap</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>SPIRITUAL-<i>Flesh Broker</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Parson.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>SPLIT-<i>Fig</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Grocer.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>SPLITTER-<i>of-Causes</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Lawyer.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> SPRING <i>a Partridge</i></title>
|
|
<p>to draw a
|
|
Person in to be bit. <eg>To spring Partridges</eg>;
|
|
to raise a Crowd in order to
|
|
rob or pick Pockets.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title><i>To</i> SPUNGE</title>
|
|
<p>to drink at others Cost.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>SPUNGING-<i>House</i></title>
|
|
<p>a By-prison.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title><i>A</i> SPUNGING <i>Fellow</i></title>
|
|
<p>one tat lives
|
|
upon the rest, and pays nothing.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>SQUAB</title>
|
|
<p>a very fat, truss Person; a
|
|
new-hatch'd Chick; also a Couch.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SQUAWL</title>
|
|
<p>a Voice; as, <eg>The Cove has
|
|
a bien Squawl</eg>; The Fellow has a good
|
|
Voice.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> SQUEEK</title>
|
|
<p>to discover, or impeach;
|
|
also to cry out. <eg>They squeek
|
|
Beef upon us</eg>; They cry out Highway-men
|
|
or Thieves after us. <eg>The Cull
|
|
squeeks</eg>; The Rogue peaches.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>SQUEEKER</title>
|
|
<p>a Barboy; also a Bastard,
|
|
or any other Child. <eg>Stifle the
|
|
Squueker</eg>; Murder the Child, and
|
|
throw it into a House of Office.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SQUEEZING <i>of Wax</i></title>
|
|
<p>being bound
|
|
for any Body; also sealing of Writings.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>SQUINTE-<i>Fuego</i></title>
|
|
<p>one that squints
|
|
very much.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>SQUIRE <i>of Alsatia</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Man of Fortune,
|
|
drawn in, cheated, and ruin'd by
|
|
a Pack of poor, lowsy, spunging Fellows,
|
|
that lived (formerly) in <i>White-Fryars</i>.
|
|
<eg>The Squire</eg>, a Sir <i>Timothy
|
|
Treat-all</i>; also a Sap-Pate. <eg>A fat
|
|
Squire</eg>; A rich Fool.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>SQUIRISH</title>
|
|
<p>foolish; also one that
|
|
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|
|
pretends to pay all Reckonings, and is
|
|
not strong enough in the Pocket.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>STAG</title>
|
|
<p>a Term (inverting Qualities)
|
|
used for an Enemy, a Pursuer;
|
|
as, <eg>I spy a Stag</eg>, used by that notorious
|
|
young Robber <i>Shepherd</i>, lately executed,
|
|
when he first saw the Turnkey
|
|
of <i>Newgate</i>, who pursu'd and took
|
|
him after his first Escape from the <i>Condemn'd Hold</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>STALE <i>Jest</i></title>
|
|
<p>old, dull.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>STALE <i>Maid</i></title>
|
|
<p>at her last Prayers.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>STALLION</title>
|
|
<p>a Whore-Master; so
|
|
called from a Stone-horse kept to cover
|
|
Mares.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>STALL-<i>Whimper</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Bastard.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>STALLING</title>
|
|
<p>making or ordaining.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>STALLNG-<i>Ken</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Broker's Shop,
|
|
or any House that receives stollen
|
|
Goods.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> STAM-<i>Flesh</i></title>
|
|
<p>to Cant; as, <eg>The
|
|
Cully Stamfleshes rumly</eg>; He cants very
|
|
well.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>STAMMEL</title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Strammel</i></title>
|
|
<p>a brawny,
|
|
lusty, strapping Wench.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>STAMPS</title>
|
|
<p>Legs.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>STAMPERS</title>
|
|
<p>Shoes; also Carriers.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>STARTER</title>
|
|
<p>a Question; also a Flincher.
|
|
<eg>I am no Starter</eg>; I shan't flinch,
|
|
or cry to go home.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>STICK <i>Flams</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Pair of Gloves.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>STINGO</title>
|
|
<p>humming, strong Liquor.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>STITCH-<i>Back</i></title>
|
|
<p>very strong Ale.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>STOCK-<i>Drawers</i></title>
|
|
<p>Stockings.</p></entry>
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<entry c="adj"><title>STONE-<i>Dead</i></title>
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<p>quite dead.</p></entry>
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<entry c="place"><title>STONE <i>Doublet</i></title>
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<p>a Prison.</p></entry>
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<entry c="v"><title>STOP</title>
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<p>as, <eg>I have stopt his Blubber</eg>;
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I have stopt his Mouth.</p></entry>
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<entry c="place"><title>STOP-<i>Hole Abbey</i></title>
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<p>the Nick-name of
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|
the chief Rendezvous of the Canting
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Crew of <i>Gypsies</i>, <i>Cheats</i>,
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<i>Thieves</i>, &c;</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>STOTER</title>
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|
<p>a great Blow. <eg>Stoter
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|
him</eg>, or, <eg>Tip him a Stoter</eg>; Settle him;
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|
give him a swinging Blow.</p></entry>
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<entry c="v"><title>STOW</title>
|
|
<p><i>i.e.</i> You have said enough.
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|
<eg>Stow you, bene Cove</eg>; Hold your Peace,
|
|
good Fellow. <eg>Stow your Whids and
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|
plant them; for the Cove of the Ken can
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|
cant them</eg>; Take care what you say;
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|
for the Man of the House understands
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|
you.</p></entry>
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<entry c="bawd"><title>STRAPPING</title>
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<p>lying with a Wench.</p></entry>
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<entry c="bawd"><title>STRAPPING-<i>Lass</i></title>
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|
<p>a swinging two-handed Woman.</p></entry>
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<entry c="punishment"><title>STRETCHING</title>
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|
<p>hanging. <eg>He will
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|
stretch for it</eg>; He will be hang'd.</p></entry>
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|
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<entry c="crime"><title link="ignore"><i>To</i> STRETCH</title>
|
|
<p>to tell a Lye; as,
|
|
<eg>He stretcht hard</eg>; He told a whicking
|
|
Lye.</p></entry>
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|
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<entry c="crime,v"><title>STRIKE</title>
|
|
<p>to beg or rob; also to
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|
borrow Money. <eg>Strike all the Cheats</eg>;
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|
Rob all that you meet. <eg>Strike the Cull</eg>;
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|
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Beg of that Gentleman. <eg>Strike the
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Cloy</eg>; Get the Fellow's Money from
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|
him. <eg>He has struck the Quidds</eg>; He has
|
|
got the Money from him. <eg>He strikes
|
|
every Body</eg>; He borrows Money every
|
|
where; he runs in every one's Debt.</p></entry>
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|
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|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> STRIP</title>
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|
<p>to rob or <i>gut</i> a House,
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|
to unrig any Body; or to <i>bite</i> them of
|
|
their Money.</p></entry>
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|
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|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> STRIP <i>the Ken</i></title>
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|
<p>To <i>gut</i> the
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|
House.</p></entry>
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|
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|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> STRIP <i>the Table</i></title>
|
|
<p>To win all
|
|
the Money on the Place. <eg>We have stript
|
|
the Cull</eg>; We have got all the Fool's
|
|
Money. <eg>The Cove's stript</eg>; The Rogue
|
|
has not a <i>Jack</i> left to help himself.</p></entry>
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|
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|
<entry c="thing"><title>STROMMEL</title>
|
|
<p>Strap, or Hair, as,
|
|
<eg>She hath good Store of Strommel on her
|
|
Nob</eg>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>STROWLERS</title>
|
|
<p>Vagabonds, Itinerants,
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|
Men of no settled Abode, of a
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|
precarious Life, Wanderers of Fortune,
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|
such as Gypsies, Beggars, Pedlars,
|
|
Hawkers, Mountebanks, Fidlers,
|
|
Country-Players, Rope-dancers, Jugglers,
|
|
Tumblers, Shewers of Tricks,
|
|
and Raree-show-men.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>STROWLING-<i>Morts</i></title>
|
|
<p>who,
|
|
pretending to be Widows, often travel
|
|
the Countries, making Laces upon
|
|
Yews, Beggar's-tape, &c; Are light-finger'd,
|
|
subtle, hypocritical, cruel,
|
|
and often dangerous to meet, especially
|
|
when a <i>Ruffler</i> is with them.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing,bawd"><title>STRUM</title>
|
|
<p>a Ferriwig. <eg>Rum-strum</eg>;
|
|
A long Wig. Also a handsome Wench,
|
|
or Strumpet.</p></entry>
|
|
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|
<entry c="v"><title>STUBBLE-<i>It</i></title>
|
|
<p>Hold your Tongue.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>STULING-<i>Ken</i></title>
|
|
<p>the same as <i>Stalling Ken</i>. Which see.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>SUCK</title>
|
|
<p>Wine or strong Drink. <eg>This
|
|
is rum Suck</eg>; It is excellent Tipple.
|
|
<eg>We'll go and Suck our Faces; but if they
|
|
toute us, we'll take Rattle, and brush</eg>;
|
|
Let's go to drink and be merry; but if
|
|
we be smelt by the People of the
|
|
House, we must scowre off. <eg>He loves
|
|
to Suck his Face</eg>; He delights in Drinking.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>SUCKY</title>
|
|
<p>drunkish, maudling, half-Seas over.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>SUIT <i>and Cloak</i></title>
|
|
<p>good Store of
|
|
Brandy or any agreeable Liquor.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SUN-<i>Burnt</i></title>
|
|
<p>clapt.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SUNNY-<i>Bank</i></title>
|
|
<p>a good, rousing
|
|
Winter-Fire.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>SUPERNACULUM</title>
|
|
<p>not so much as
|
|
a Drop left to be poured upon the
|
|
Thumb nail, so cleverly was the Liquor
|
|
tipt off.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>SU-POUCH</title>
|
|
<p>an Hostess or Landlady.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>SUTLER</title>
|
|
<p>he that pockets up Gloves,
|
|
Knives, Handkerchiefs, Snuff and Tobacco-boxes,
|
|
<!--* col *-->
|
|
and other lesser Moveables.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>SWADDLERS</title>
|
|
<p>Rogues, who, not
|
|
content to rob and plunder, beat and
|
|
barbarously abuse, andoften murder
|
|
the Passengers. Hence, <eg>To seaddle</eg>;
|
|
To beat lustily with a Cane, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>SWAG</title>
|
|
<p>a Shop. <eg>Rum Swag</eg>; Full
|
|
of rich Goods.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> SWAGGER</title>
|
|
<p>to vapour or bounce.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>SWEET</title>
|
|
<p>easy to be taken in; Also
|
|
expert, dexterous, clever: As, <eg>Sweet's
|
|
your Hand</eg>; said of one who has the
|
|
Knack of stealing by Sleight of Hand.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>SWEETNERS</title>
|
|
<p>Guinea-droppers,
|
|
Cheats, Sharpers. <eg>To Sweeten</eg>; To
|
|
decoy, draw in, and <i>bute</i>. <eg>To be sweet
|
|
upon</eg>; To coax, wheedle,entice or
|
|
allure.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>SWIG</title>
|
|
<p>a draught of Liquor; <eg>To
|
|
swig it off</eg>; To drink it all up.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>SWIG-<i>Men</i></title>
|
|
<p>carrying small Haberdashery-Wares about, pretending to
|
|
sell them, to colour their Roguery.
|
|
Fellows crying <i>Old Shoes, Boots, or
|
|
brooms</i>; and thos pretending to buy
|
|
<i>Old Suits, Hats</i> or <i>Cloaks</i>, are also
|
|
called <i>Swig-Men</i>, and oftentimes, if
|
|
an Opportunity offers, make all Fish
|
|
that comes to Net.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>SWINDGING-<i>Clap</i></title>
|
|
<title><i>Swindging Fellow</i></title>
|
|
<title><i>Swindging Lye</i></title>
|
|
<p>a very great one.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title><i>To</i> SWINDE <i>one off</i></title>
|
|
<p>to beat him soundly.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
</letter>
|
|
|
|
<letter name="t"><title>T</title>
|
|
<entry c="person,thing"><title>TACKLE</title>
|
|
<p>a Mistress; also good
|
|
Cloaths. <eg>The Cull has tipt his Tackle
|
|
Rum-rigging</eg>, or <eg>has tipt his Bloss
|
|
Rum Tackle</eg>; The keeping Coxcomb
|
|
has given his Mistress very fine Cloaths.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>TAKE <i>the Culls in</i></title>
|
|
<p>Seize the Men
|
|
in order to rob them.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>TALE-<i>Tellers</i></title>
|
|
<p>a sort of Servants in
|
|
use with the great Men in <i>Ireland</i>, to
|
|
lull them asleep with Stories of a Cock
|
|
and a Bull, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>TALESMAN</title>
|
|
<p>as, <eg>I tell you my Tale,
|
|
and my Talesman</eg>, or Author.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>TALL-<i>Boy</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Pottle or two Quart
|
|
Pot.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>TALLY-<i>Men</i></title>
|
|
<p>Brokers that let out
|
|
Cloaths to wear <i>per</i> Week, Month or
|
|
Year. See <i>Rabbit-Suckers</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>TAP</title>
|
|
<p>a Blow; a small Tap, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>TAPE, <i>Red</i> or <i>White</i></title>
|
|
<p>Geneva,
|
|
Aniseed, Clove water, so called by
|
|
<i>Canters</i> and <i>Villains</i>, and the Renters
|
|
<!--* page 31 *-->
|
|
of the Trap, &c; in <i>Newgate</i>, ans other
|
|
Prisons.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>TAPLASH</title>
|
|
<p>wretched, sorry Drink,
|
|
or Hogwash.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>TART <i>Dames</i></title>
|
|
<p>sharp, quick, pert.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>TARTAR</title>
|
|
<p>a notorious Rogue or
|
|
Sharper, who sticks not to rob his
|
|
Brother Rogue. Hence <eg>To catch a
|
|
Tartar</eg>, is said, among the Canting
|
|
Varlets, when a Rogue attacks one
|
|
that he thinks a Passenger, but proves
|
|
to be of this Clan of Villains, who in
|
|
his Turn having overcome the Assailant,
|
|
robs, plunders and binds him.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>TATTER-<i>De-mallion</i></title>
|
|
<p>a tattered
|
|
Beggar, sometimes half naked, with
|
|
Design to move Charity, having better
|
|
Cloaths at Home. <eg>in Tatters</eg>; in Rags.
|
|
<eg>Tattered and Torn</eg>; rent and torn.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>TATTLE</title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Tattler</i></title>
|
|
<p>an Alarum,
|
|
or striking Watch; or indeed any
|
|
other Watch.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>TATS</title>
|
|
<p>false Dice.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>TAUDRY</title>
|
|
<p>garish, gawdy, with
|
|
Lace, or mismatched and staring Colours:
|
|
A Term borrow'd from those
|
|
Times when they trick'd and bedeck'd
|
|
the Shrines and Altars of the Saints, as
|
|
being at Emulation with each other
|
|
upon that Occasion. The Votaries of
|
|
St. <i>Audery</i> (in Isle of <i>Ely</i> Saint) exeeding
|
|
all the rest in the Dress and
|
|
Equipage of their Altar, it grew into a
|
|
By-word, upon any thing very gawdy,
|
|
that it was <i>All Taudry</i>; as much as to
|
|
say, <eg>All St. Audery</eg>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>TAYLE</title>
|
|
<p>a Sword.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>TAYLE <i>Drawers</i></title>
|
|
<p>Sword-Stealers.
|
|
The same as <i>Wiper-Drawers</i>. <eg>He drew
|
|
the Cull's Tayle Rumly</eg>; He whipt away
|
|
the Gentleman's Sword cleverly.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>TEAGUE-<i>Land</i></title>
|
|
<p>Ireland.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>TEAGUE-<i>Landers</i></title>
|
|
<p>Irishmen.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>TEARS <i>of the Tankard</i></title>
|
|
<p>Drops of
|
|
the good Liquor that fall beside.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>TEMPLE <i>Pickling</i></title>
|
|
<p>the Pumping of
|
|
Bailiffs, Bums, Setters, Pick-Pockets,
|
|
&c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>TENDER-<i>Parnel</i></title>
|
|
<p>a very nicely educated
|
|
Creature, apt to catch cold on
|
|
the least Puff of Wind.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>TERCEL <i>Gentle</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Knight or Gentleman
|
|
of a good Estate; also any
|
|
rich Man.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>TERRA-<i>Firma</i></title>
|
|
<p>an Estate in Land;
|
|
<eg>Has the Cull got any Terra Firma?</eg> Has the
|
|
Fool got any Land.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>THE <i>Dragon upon St. George</i></title>
|
|
<p>the Woman uppermost.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person,rogue"><title>THIEF-<i>Takers</i></title>
|
|
<p>who make a Trade
|
|
of helping People (for a Gratuity) to
|
|
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|
|
their lost Goods and sometimes, for
|
|
Interest, or Envy, snapping the Rogues
|
|
themselves, being usually in Fee with
|
|
them, and acquainted with their Haunts.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>THOROUGH-<i>Cough</i></title>
|
|
<p>farting and
|
|
coughing at the same time.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>THOROUGH <i>Passage</i></title>
|
|
<p>in at one Ear
|
|
and out at t'other.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>THOROUGH <i>Stitch</i></title>
|
|
<p>over Shoes,
|
|
over Boots.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>THREE <i>Legged Stool</i></title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Three legged Mare</i></title>
|
|
<p>Tyburn.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>THREE <i>Threads</i></title>
|
|
<p>half common Ale,
|
|
and half Stout or double Beer.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>THREPPS</title>
|
|
<p>Three-pence.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>THROTTLE</title>
|
|
<p>Throat or Gullet; <eg>He
|
|
siezed is Throttle</eg>: i.e. He took him
|
|
by the Throat.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>THRUMS</title>
|
|
<p>Three Pence. <eg>Tip me
|
|
Thrums</eg>; Lend me Three Pence.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>THUMMIKINS</title>
|
|
<p>a Punishment (in
|
|
<i>Scotland</i>) by hard squeezing or pressing
|
|
of the Thumbs, to extort Confession,
|
|
which stretches them prodigiously,
|
|
and is very painful. In Camps,
|
|
and on Board of Ships, lighted Matches
|
|
are clapt between the Fingers to the
|
|
same Intent.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>THWACK</title>
|
|
<p>to beat with a Stick or
|
|
Cudgel.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>TIB</title>
|
|
<p>a young Lass.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>TIB <i>of the Buttery</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Goose.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>TICK</title>
|
|
<p>as, <eg>to run on Tick</eg>; To go on
|
|
the Score, or Trust.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>TICKLE-<i>Pitcher</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Tosspot, or Pot-companion.
|
|
A lewd Man or Woman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>TICKRUM</title>
|
|
<p>a Licence.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd,drink"><title>TIFFING</title>
|
|
<p>lying with a Wench, also
|
|
Drinking.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>TILTER</title>
|
|
<p>a Sword. <eg>To Tilt</eg>, to fight
|
|
with a Rapier. <eg>Run a Tilt</eg>; a swift
|
|
Pursuit.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>TINT <i>for Tant</i></title>
|
|
<p>Hit for Hit, Dash
|
|
for Dash.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>TIP</title>
|
|
<p>to give or lend: <eg>Tip your Lour</eg>
|
|
or <eg>Cole or I'll mill ye</eg>; Give me your
|
|
Money, or I'll kill ye. <eg>Tip the COle to
|
|
Adam Tiler</eg>; Give your Pick-pocket
|
|
Money presently to your running
|
|
Comrade. <eg>Tip the Mish</eg>; Give me the
|
|
Shirt. <eg>Tip me a Hog</eg>; Lend me a Shilling.
|
|
<eg>Tip it all off</eg>; Drink it all off at
|
|
a Draught. <eg>Don't spoil his Tip</eg>; Don't
|
|
baulk his Draught. <eg>A Tub of good Tip</eg>;
|
|
(for Tipple) a Cask of strong Drink.
|
|
<eg>To tip off</eg>, also signifies to die.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>TIPLER</title>
|
|
<p>a Fuddle-cap, or Toss pot.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>TIPSY</title>
|
|
<p>almost drunk.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing,person"><title>TIT</title>
|
|
<p>a Horse; also a young prim
|
|
Lass.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>TIT-<i>Bit</i></title>
|
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<p>a fine Snack, or choice
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Morsel.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>TITTLE-<i>Tattle</i></title>
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<p>idle, impertinent
|
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Talk.</p></entry>
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<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> TITTER</title>
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<p>to laugh at a Feather.</p></entry>
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<entry c="drink"><title>TITTER-<i>Totter</i></title>
|
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<p>one ready to reel,
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at every Jog, or Blast of Wind.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>TOGE</title>
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<p>a Coat.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>TOGEMANS</title>
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|
<p>a Gown, or Cloak. <eg>I
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|
have bit the Togemans</eg>; I have stole the
|
|
Cloak. <eg>Tis a Rum Togemans lets nim it</eg>;
|
|
'Tis a good Camblet-Cloak; lets whip
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|
it off.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing,money"><title>TOKENS</title>
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|
<p>the Plague; also Presents
|
|
from one to another; also a Farthing.
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|
<eg>Not a Token left</eg>; Not a Farthing remaining.
|
|
<eg>Tom Fools token</eg>; Money.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>TOL.</title>
|
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<p><i>Toledo</i>, a Sword. <eg>Bite the
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|
Tol</eg>; Steal the Sword. <eg>A Rum Tol</eg>;
|
|
A silver hilted Sword. <eg>A Queere Tol</eg>;
|
|
A Brass or Steel-hilted or ordinary
|
|
Sword.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>TOM-<i>Boy</i></title>
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<p>a Tom Rig, or Romp.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>TOM <i>of Bedlam</i></title>
|
|
<p>the same as <i>Abram-Man</i>.
|
|
Which See.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>TOM-<i>Cony</i></title>
|
|
<p>a very silly Felow.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>TOM-<i>Thumb</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Dwarf or diminutive Fellow.</p></entry>
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<entry c="adj"><title>TOM-<i>Long</i></title>
|
|
<p>tedious; as <eg>Come by
|
|
Tom Long the Carrier</eg>; of what is very
|
|
long a coming.</p></entry>
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|
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<entry c="person"><title>TONGUE-<i>Pad</i></title>
|
|
<p>a smooth, glib-tongued,
|
|
insinuating Fellow.</p></entry>
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|
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<entry c="person"><title>TONY</title>
|
|
<p>a silly Fellow or Ninny. <eg>A
|
|
meer Tony</eg>; a meer Simpleton.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>TOOL</title>
|
|
<p>an Implement fit for any
|
|
Turn, the Creature of any Cause or
|
|
Faction; a meer Property, or Cat's
|
|
Foot.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title link="ignore"><i>To</i> TOP</title>
|
|
<target>top upon</target>
|
|
<p>to cheat or trick any one;
|
|
also to insult. <eg>What, do you top upon
|
|
me?</eg> Do you stick a little Wax to the
|
|
Dice to keep them together, to get the
|
|
Chance you would have? <eg>He thought to
|
|
have topt upon me</eg>; He designed to have
|
|
put upon, sharped, bullied, or affronted
|
|
me.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>TOP <i>Diver</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Lover of Women.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>To TOPE</title>
|
|
<p>to drink. <eg>An old Toper</eg>;
|
|
a staunch Drunkard. <eg>To tope it about</eg>,
|
|
or <eg>Dust it about</eg>; To drink briskly
|
|
about.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>TOP-<i>Heavy</i></title>
|
|
<p>Drunk.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>TOPPING-<i>Fellow</i></title>
|
|
<p>who has reach'd
|
|
the Pitch and greatest Eminence in any
|
|
Art; the Master, and the Cock of his
|
|
Profession.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment,place"><title>TOPPING-<i>Cheat</i></title>
|
|
<p>the Gallows.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>TOPPING-<i>Cove</i></title>
|
|
<p>the Hangman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>TORCH-<i>Cul</i></title>
|
|
<p>Bum sodder.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>TORIES</title>
|
|
<p><i>Irish</i> Thieves or Rapparees.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> TOST</title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Toast</i></title>
|
|
<p>to name or
|
|
begin a new Health. <eg>Who tosts now?</eg>
|
|
Who Christens the Health? <eg>An old Tost</eg>;
|
|
A pert, pleasant, old Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>TOTTY-<i>Headed</i></title>
|
|
<p>giddy-headed,
|
|
hare-brained.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title brace="right"><i>To</i> TOUR</title>
|
|
<title><i>To</i> TOUT</title>
|
|
<p>to look out sharp, to be
|
|
upon one's Guard. <eg>Who
|
|
touts?</eg> Who looks out sharp? <eg>Tout the
|
|
Culls</eg>; Eye those Folks which way they
|
|
take. <eg>Do you tout and bulk, and I'll
|
|
file</eg>; If you'll eye and jostlehim, I will
|
|
pick his Pockets.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place,drink"><title>TOUTING-<i>Ken</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Tavern or Ale-house Bar.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>TOWER <i>Hill Play</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Slap on the
|
|
Face and a Kick on the Breech.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>TOWN-<i>Bull</i></title>
|
|
<p>one that rides all the
|
|
Women he meets.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>TOWER</title>
|
|
<p>a <i>Cant Word</i>, used to denote
|
|
bad, or clipped Money: as, <eg>They
|
|
have been round the Tower with it</eg>; te he
|
|
Piece of Money has been clipt.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>TRACK</title>
|
|
<p>to go. <eg>Track up the Dancers</eg>;
|
|
Whip up the Stairs.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>TRANSNEAR</title>
|
|
<p>to come up with any
|
|
Body.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>TRANSLATORS</title>
|
|
<p>Sellers of old
|
|
Shoes and Boots, between Shoemakers
|
|
and Cobblers; also that turn or translate
|
|
out of one Language into another.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>TRANSMOGRIFY</title>
|
|
<p>or rather <i>Transmigrafy</i>,
|
|
to alter or new vamp.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>TRANTER</title>
|
|
<p>See <i>Crocker</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>TRAPAN</title>
|
|
<p>he that draws in or
|
|
wheedles a <i>Cull</i>, and <i>Bites</i> him. <eg>Trapann'd</eg>;
|
|
sharp'd, ensnar'd.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>TRAPES</title>
|
|
<p>a dangling Slattern.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>TRES-WINS</title>
|
|
<p>Three Pence.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>TRIGRY-<i>Mate</i></title>
|
|
<p>an idle She-companion.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>TRIP</title>
|
|
<p>a Prison. <eg>He is in Trib</eg>, for
|
|
<i>Tribulation</i>; He is laid by the Heels,
|
|
or in a great deal of Trouble.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>TRIM</title>
|
|
<p>Dress. <eg>In a sad Trim</eg>; dirty,
|
|
undress'd. <eg>A Trim Lad</eg>; A spruce,
|
|
neat, well trick'd Man.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>TRIMMING</title>
|
|
<p>cheating People
|
|
of their Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment,place"><title><i>To</i> TRINE</title>
|
|
<p>to hang; also <i>Tyburn</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>TRINING</title>
|
|
<p>hanging.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>TRINKETS</title>
|
|
<p>Toys and Trifles.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>TRINGUM-TRANGUM</title>
|
|
<p>a Whim or Maggot.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>TRIPE</title>
|
|
<p>the Belly or Guts.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing,person"><title>TRIP</title>
|
|
<p>a short Voyage or Journey;
|
|
also an Error of the Tongue, or Pen;
|
|
a Stumble, a false Step, a Miscarriage.
|
|
Also a Bastard.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>TROT</title>
|
|
<p>as, <eg>An old Trot</eg>, a sorry,
|
|
base, old Woman. <eg>A Dog Trot</eg>; A
|
|
pretty Pace.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>TROTTERS</title>
|
|
<p>Feet, usually Sheeps.
|
|
<eg>Shake your Trotters</eg>; Troop off, be
|
|
gone.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> TROLL<i>About</i></title>
|
|
<p>to saunter, loiter,
|
|
or wander about.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>TROLLOP</title>
|
|
<p><eg>a A great Trollop</eg>, a lusty
|
|
coarse Romp.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>TROOPER</title>
|
|
<p>a half Crown.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>TROUNCED</title>
|
|
<p>troubled, cast in Law
|
|
punished.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>TRUG</title>
|
|
<p>a dirty Puzzle, an ordinary
|
|
sorry Woman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>TRULL</title>
|
|
<p>a Whore, also a Tinker's
|
|
travelling Wife or Wench.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>TRUMPERY</title>
|
|
<p>old Ware, old Stuff.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>TRUNDLERS</title>
|
|
<p>Pease.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>TRUNK</title>
|
|
<p>a Nose<eg>How fares your
|
|
old Trunk?</eg> Does your Nose stand fast?</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>TRUSTY-<i>Trojan</i></title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Trusty Trout</i></title>
|
|
<p>a sure Friend or Confidant.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>TUCK'D</title>
|
|
<p>hang'd.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>TUMBLER</title>
|
|
<p>a Cart. <eg>To shove the
|
|
Tumbler</eg>; To be whipt at the Cart's
|
|
Tail; also one that decoys, or draws
|
|
others into play; and one that shews
|
|
Tricks with and without a Hoop.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>TURK</title>
|
|
<p>any cruel hard-hearted
|
|
Man.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>TURKEY <i>Merchants</i></title>
|
|
<p>Drivers of Turkeys.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>TURKISH-<i>Shore</i></title>
|
|
<p><i>Lambeth</i>, <i>Southwark</i>
|
|
and <i>Rotherhith</i> Side of the Water.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>TURKISH-<i>Treatment</i></title>
|
|
<p>very sharp or
|
|
ill dealing in Business.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>TURN-<i>Coat</i></title>
|
|
<p>he that quits one and
|
|
embraces another Party.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>TURNIP <i>Pate</i></title>
|
|
<p>white or Fair-hair'd.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>TWEAK</title>
|
|
<p>as <eg>In a Tweak</eg>; in a heavy
|
|
Taking, much vexed or very angry.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>TWELVER</title>
|
|
<p>a Shilling.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> TWIG</title>
|
|
<p>to disingage, to sunder,
|
|
to snap, to break off; as, <eg>To twig the
|
|
Darbies</eg>; To knock off the Irons.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>TWIST</title>
|
|
<p>half Tea, half Coffee:
|
|
Likewise Brandy and Eggs mixed. Hot-Pot.
|
|
Also to Eat; as, <eg>To twist lustily</eg>;
|
|
To feed like a Farmer.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title link="ignore"><i>To</i> TWIST</title>
|
|
<p>to eat heartily.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>TWISTED</title>
|
|
<p>executed, hanged.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> TWIT</title>
|
|
<p>to hit in the Teeth.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> TWITTER</title>
|
|
<p>to laugh much
|
|
with little Noise; also to tremble.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
|
|
</letter>
|
|
|
|
<letter name="uv"><title>U, V</title>
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>VAGARIES</title>
|
|
<p>wild Rambles, extravagant Frolicks.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>VAGRANT</title>
|
|
<p>a wandering Rogue, a
|
|
strolling Vagabond.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>VAIN-<i>Glorious</i></title>
|
|
<p>or <i>Ostentatious Man</i>,
|
|
one that boasts without Reason, or, as
|
|
the <i>Canters</i> say, <eg>pisses more than he
|
|
drinks</eg>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>VALET</title>
|
|
<p>a Servant.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v,thing"><title><i>To</i> VAMP</title>
|
|
<p>to parn anything. [[pawn?]]
|
|
<eg>I'll
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|
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|
|
Vamp, and tip you the Cole</eg>; I'll pawn
|
|
my Cloaths, but I'll raise the Money
|
|
for you. <eg>To Vamp</eg>; To new dress,
|
|
liquer, refresh or rub up old Hats,
|
|
Boots, Shoes &c; Also a Sock.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>VAMPERS</title>
|
|
<p>Stockings.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>VAN</title>
|
|
<p>as <eg>Madam Van</eg>. See <i>Madam</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>VARLETS</title>
|
|
<p>now Rogues, Rascals,
|
|
&c; tho' formerly Yeomens Servants.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title><i>To</i> VAULT</title>
|
|
<p>as, <eg>To Vault</eg>, to commit
|
|
Acts of Debauchery.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>VAULTING-<i>School</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Bawdy-house.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>VELVET</title>
|
|
<p>a Tongue. <eg>Tip the Velvet</eg>; To tongue a Woman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing,person"><title>VINEGAR</title>
|
|
<p>a Cloak; also the Fellow
|
|
that makes a Ring, and keeps
|
|
Order amongst Wrestlers, Dudgel-Players, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>VIRAGO</title>
|
|
<p>a masculine Woman, or
|
|
a great two-handed Female.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>UNRIG'D</title>
|
|
<p>stripp'd, undress'd. <eg>Unrig
|
|
the Drab</eg>; pull all the Whore's
|
|
Cloaths off.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>UNTWISTED</title>
|
|
<p>undone, ruin'd.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>UNWASH'D <i>Bawdry</i></title>
|
|
<p>rank, fulsom
|
|
Bawdry.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>UPHILS</title>
|
|
<p>high Dice.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>VOUCHERS</title>
|
|
<p>that put off false Money
|
|
for sham Coiners. Also one that
|
|
warrants Gagers or under Officers Accompts,
|
|
either at the Excise Office;
|
|
or elsewhere.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>UPPISH</title>
|
|
<p>rampant, crowing, full of
|
|
Money. <eg>He is very Uppish</eg>; He is well-lined
|
|
in the Fob; also brisk.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>UPRIGHT-MEN</title>
|
|
<p>As, an <eg>Upright-man</eg>,
|
|
signifies the chief or Principal of a
|
|
Crew. The vilest stoutest Rogue in
|
|
the Pack, is generally chosen to this
|
|
Post, and he has the sole Right to the
|
|
fist Night's Lodging with the <i>Dells</i>,
|
|
who afterwards are used in common
|
|
among the whole Fraternity. He
|
|
carries a short Truncheon in his
|
|
Hand, which he calls his <i>Filchman</i>, and
|
|
has a larger Share than ordinary of
|
|
whatsoever is gotten in the Society.
|
|
He often travels in Company with 30
|
|
or 40 Males and Females, <i>Abram-Men</i>,
|
|
and others, over whom he presides arbitrarily;
|
|
and sometimes the Women
|
|
and Children, who are unable to travel,
|
|
or fatigued, are by Turns carry'd
|
|
in Panniers bu an Ass or two, or by
|
|
some poor Jades which they procure
|
|
for that Purpose. <eg>Go Upright</eg>, said by
|
|
Taylors and and Shoemakers, to their
|
|
Servants, when any Money is given
|
|
to make them drink, and signifies,
|
|
<meaning><i>Bring it all out in Drink</i></meaning>, tho' the Donor
|
|
intended less, and expects Change,
|
|
or some Return of Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing" sortas="VPSTARTS"><title>UPSTARTS</title>
|
|
<p>new raised to Honour.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person,thing" sortas="VRCHIN"><title>URCHIN</title>
|
|
<p>a little sorry Fellow; also
|
|
a Hedge-hog.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>URINAL <i>of the Planets</i></title>
|
|
<p><i>Ireland</i>, with
|
|
us, because of its frequent and great
|
|
Rains; as <i>Heidelberg</i>, and <i>Cologn</i> in
|
|
<i>Germany</i>, have the same Name upon
|
|
the same Account; also a Chamber-pot,
|
|
or Glass.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
</letter>
|
|
|
|
<letter name="w"><title>W</title>
|
|
<entry c="v"><title>WADDLE</title>
|
|
<p>to go like a Duck.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>WAG</title>
|
|
<title><i>Waggish</i></title>
|
|
<p>arch, gamesome, pleasant.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>WALLOWISH</title>
|
|
<p>a malkish, ill Taste.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v,bawd"><title><i>To</i> WAP</title>
|
|
<p>to lie with a Man. <eg>If she
|
|
won't wap for a Win, let her trine for a
|
|
Make</eg>; if she won't lie with a Man for
|
|
a Penny, let her hang for a Half-penny.
|
|
<eg>Mort wap-apace</eg>; a Woman
|
|
of Experience, or very expert at the
|
|
Sport.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>WAPPER-<i>Eyed</i></title>
|
|
<p>that has sore or
|
|
running Eyes.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>WAPPING</title>
|
|
<p>the Act of Coition.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>WARM</title>
|
|
<p>well lined of flush in the
|
|
Pocket.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>WARMING-<i>Pan</i></title>
|
|
<p>an old fashion'd
|
|
large Watch. <eg>A Scotch Warming-Pan</eg>;
|
|
a She-bed-fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person,place,bawd"><title>WARREN</title>
|
|
<p>he that is Security for
|
|
Goods taken up on Credit, by extravagant
|
|
young Gentlemen; also a
|
|
Boarding-school, or a Bawdy-house,
|
|
which are too much the same Thing.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>WASH</title>
|
|
<p>Paint for Faces.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>WASPISH</title>
|
|
<p>peevish.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>WATER-<i>Pad</i></title>
|
|
<p>one that robs Ships,
|
|
Hoys, Lighters, Barges or Boats in the
|
|
River of <i>Thames</i>. A sort of BADGERS. Which see.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>WATTLES</title>
|
|
<p>Ears; also Sheep-folds.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>WEB</title>
|
|
<p>Cloth of any Sort.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing,money"><title>WEDGE</title>
|
|
<p>Plate, or Silver or Gold
|
|
Moveables and trinkets: Also Money.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>WELSH <i>Fiddle</i></title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Scotch-Fiddle</i></title>
|
|
<p>the Itch.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue,bawd"><title>WESTMINSTER-<i>Wedding</i></title>
|
|
<p>a
|
|
Whore and a Rogue married together.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink,person"><title>WET-<i>Quaker</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Drunkard of that Sect.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>WHEADLE</title>
|
|
<p>a Sharper. <eg>To cut a
|
|
Wheadle</eg>; to decoy, by Fawning and
|
|
Insinuation.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>WHEEL-<i>Band in the Nick</i></title>
|
|
<p>regular
|
|
drinking over the left Thumb.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>WHETSTONE's <i>Park</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Lane betwixt
|
|
<i>Holbourn</i> and <i>Lincoln's-Inn-Fields</i>,
|
|
formerly a noted Nest for Whores,
|
|
now dispark'd.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>WHIDS</title>
|
|
<p>Words.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> WHIDDLE</title>
|
|
<p>to enter into a Parley,
|
|
to compound with, or take off by
|
|
a Bribe; as, <eg>Did you Whiddle with the
|
|
Cull?</eg> Did you bribe or compound with
|
|
the Evidence? Also to impeach, or
|
|
discover; as, <eg>He Whiddles</eg>; He Peaches.
|
|
<eg>He Whiddles the whole Scrap</eg>; He
|
|
discovers all he knows. <eg>The Cull has
|
|
whiddled, because we would not tip him
|
|
a Snack</eg>; The Dog has discovered because
|
|
we did not give him a Share.
|
|
<eg>They Whiddle-Thief, and we must Brush</eg>;
|
|
They cry out Thieves, and we must
|
|
fly.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>WHIDDLER</title>
|
|
<p>a Peacher (or rather
|
|
Impeacher) of his Gang.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>WHIG-<i>Land</i></title>
|
|
<p>Scotland.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>WHINERS</title>
|
|
<p>Prayers, Supplications, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>WHIP-<i>Shire</i></title>
|
|
<p>Yorkshire.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>WHIPSTER</title>
|
|
<p>a sharp, or subtle
|
|
Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title><i>To</i> WHIP <i>off</i></title>
|
|
<p>to steal, to drink cleverly,
|
|
to snatch and to run away.
|
|
<eg>Whipt through the Lungs</eg>; Run through
|
|
the Body with a Sword. <eg>Whipt in at
|
|
the Glaze</eg>; Got in at the Window.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>WHIM</title>
|
|
<p>a Maggot.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>WHIMSICAL</title>
|
|
<p>maggotish.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>WHIMPER</title>
|
|
<p>a low or small Cry.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>WHINDLE</title>
|
|
<p>a low or feigned Cry.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> WHINE</title>
|
|
<p>to cry squeekingly.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>WHINYARD</title>
|
|
<p>a Sword.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>WHIPPER-<i>Snapper</i></title>
|
|
<p>a very small
|
|
sprightly Boy.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>WHIP-<i>Jacks</i></title>
|
|
<p>counterfeit Mariners
|
|
begging with false Passes, pretending
|
|
Ship-wrecks, great Losses at Sea, narrow
|
|
Escapes, &c; telling dismal Stories,
|
|
having learnt <i>Tar-Terms</i> on purpose:
|
|
but are meer Cheats, and will
|
|
not stick to rob a Booth at a Fair, or
|
|
an House in soem By-road. They
|
|
often carry their Morts or Wenches,
|
|
which the pretend to be their Wives,
|
|
whom they miraculously saved in the
|
|
Shipwreck, altho' all their Children
|
|
were drowned, the Ship splitting on
|
|
a Rock near the <i>Lands-End</i>, with such
|
|
like Forgeries.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>WHIRLEGIGS</title>
|
|
<p>Testicles.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>WHISK</title>
|
|
<p>a little inconsiderable, impertinent Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>WHISKER</title>
|
|
<p>a great Lye.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>WHISKINS</title>
|
|
<p>shallow, brown Bowls
|
|
to drink out of.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing,drink"><title>WHISTLE</title>
|
|
<p>the Throat. <eg>Wet your
|
|
Whistle</eg>: liquor your Throat.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title>WHIT</title>
|
|
<p>Newgate. As, <eg>Five Rum-padders,
|
|
are rub'd in the Darkmans and
|
|
of the Whit, and are pik'd into the Deuseaville</eg>;
|
|
Five Highway-men in the
|
|
<!--* page *-->
|
|
Night broke <i>newgate</i>, and are gone
|
|
into the Country.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>WHITE-<i>Chappel-Portion</i></title>
|
|
<p>two torn
|
|
Smocks, and what Nature gave.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>WHITE-<i>Tape</i></title>
|
|
<p>See <i>Tape</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>WHITE <i>Wool</i></title>
|
|
<p>Silver.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>WHITHER-<i>D'ye-go</i></title>
|
|
<p>an insolent
|
|
prescribing, <i>very</i>, Wife.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>WHORE's <i>Kitling</i></title>
|
|
<title>or <i>Whore's Son</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Bastard.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>WHOW-<i>Ball</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Milk-maid.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>WIBBLE</title>
|
|
<p>sad Drink.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>WICKET</title>
|
|
<p>a Casement, also a little
|
|
Door. As, <eg>Tout through the Wicket,
|
|
and see where a Cully pikes with his
|
|
Gentry mort, whose Muns are the Rummest
|
|
I ever touted before</eg>; Look through
|
|
the Casement, and see where the Man
|
|
walks with a Gentlewoman, whose
|
|
Face is the fairest, I have ever seen.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>WICHER-<i>Cully</i></title>
|
|
<p>See <i>Witcher-Cully</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing,person"><title>WIDOWS-<i>Weeds</i></title>
|
|
<p>mourning
|
|
Cloaths. <eg>A Grass-Widow</eg>; One that
|
|
pretends to have been married, but
|
|
never was, yet has Children.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>WILD <i>Rogues</i></title>
|
|
<p>such as are trained
|
|
up from Children to <i>Nim</i> golden or
|
|
silver Buttons off of Coats, to creep in
|
|
at Cellar and Shop-windows, and to
|
|
slip in at Doors behind People; also
|
|
that have been whipt, burnt in the
|
|
Fist, and often in Prison for Roguery.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>WILES</title>
|
|
<p>Tricks, Intrigues, cunning
|
|
Stratagems.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>WILY</title>
|
|
<p>cunning, crafty, intriguing.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing,person"><title>WILLING-<i>Tit</i></title>
|
|
<p>a little Horse that
|
|
Travels chearfully; also a coming Girl.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>WILLOW</title>
|
|
<p>poor, and of no Reputation.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v,money"><title>WIN</title>
|
|
<p>a Penny. <eg>To win</eg>; To steal.
|
|
<eg>Won</eg>; Stollen. <eg>The Cull has won a
|
|
Couple of rum Glimsticks</eg>; The Rogue
|
|
has stole a pair of Silver Candlesticks.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>WIND-<i>Fall</i></title>
|
|
<p>a great Fortune fallen
|
|
unexpectedly by the Death of a Friend.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>WINDY-<i>Fellow</i></title>
|
|
<p>without Sense or
|
|
Reason.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>WIND-<i>Mills in the Head</i></title>
|
|
<p>empty
|
|
Projects.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>WINK</title>
|
|
<p>a Signal or Intimation. <eg>He
|
|
tipt the Wink</eg>; He gave the Sign or Signal.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>WINNINGS</title>
|
|
<p>Money, or Reward:
|
|
<eg>Winnings for Wapping</eg>; Money given a
|
|
Woman for lying with her.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>WIPE</title>
|
|
<p>a Blow; also a Reflection.
|
|
<eg>He tipt him a rum Wipe</eg>; He gave him
|
|
a swinging Blow. <eg>I gave him a Wipe</eg>;
|
|
I spoke something that cut him, or
|
|
gaul'd him. <eg>He wip'd his Nose</eg>; He
|
|
gull'd him.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<!--* col *-->
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>WIPER</title>
|
|
<p>a Handkerchief. <eg>Nim the
|
|
Wiper</eg>; To steal the Handkerchief.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>WIPER-<i>Drawer</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Handkerchief-stealer.
|
|
<eg>He drew a broad, narrow, cam,
|
|
or speck'd Wiper</eg>; He pick'd Pockets of
|
|
a broad, or narrow, Ghenting, Cambrick,
|
|
or colour'd Handkerchief.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="crime"><title>WIRE-<i>Draw</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Fetch or Trick to
|
|
wheedle in <i>Bubbles</i>; also to screw,
|
|
over-reach, or deal hard with. <eg>Wire-drawn</eg>;
|
|
so served or treated.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="rogue"><title>WISE <i>Man of Gotham</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Fool.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> WIT</title>
|
|
<p>to know or understand.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="place"><title><i>The</i> WIT</title>
|
|
<p><i>Newgate</i>, <i>New Prison</i>, or
|
|
<i>Bridewell</i>. The same as <i>Whit</i>.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="money"><title>WITCHER</title>
|
|
<p>Silver.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>WITCHER-<i>Bubber</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Silver Bowl.
|
|
<eg>The Cull is piked with the Witcher-bubber</eg>
|
|
The Rogue is marched off with
|
|
the Silver-bowl.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>WITCHER-<i>Cully</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Silver-smith.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>WITCHER-<i>Tilter</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Silver-hilted
|
|
Sword. <eg>He has bit, or drawn the
|
|
Witcher-tilter</eg>; He has stole the Silver-hilted Sword.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> WOBBLE</title>
|
|
<p>to boil. <eg>The Pot wobbles</eg>; i.e. The Pot boils;
|
|
the Meat is enough.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="bawd"><title>WOMAN <i>of the Town</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Prostitute,
|
|
or common Harlot.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="drink"><title>WOMBLE-<i>Ty-Cropt</i></title>
|
|
<p>the Indisposition
|
|
of a Drunkard after a Debauch in
|
|
Wine or other Liquors: As, <eg>He is
|
|
Womble-ty Cropt</eg>; He is Cropsick, &c;</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="punishment"><title>WOODEN-<i>Ruff</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Pillory. <eg>He wore
|
|
the Wooden-ruff</eg>; He stood in the Pillory.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>WOOD-<i>Pecker</i></title>
|
|
<p>a By-stander that
|
|
bets, while others game.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="phrase"><title><i>In a</i> WOOD</title>
|
|
<title>or, <i>In a Maze</i></title>
|
|
<p>In a
|
|
Peck of Troubles; being in a Doubt,
|
|
or at a Loss, what Course to take, by
|
|
Reason of some very critical Turn in
|
|
one's Affairs; or, among <i>Canters</i>, by
|
|
being surpriz'd, and in great Danger
|
|
of being taken, in a Robbery, or any
|
|
other unlawful Act.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>WOOLLY-<i>Crown</i></title>
|
|
<p>a soft-headed
|
|
Fellow.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>WOOL-<i>Gathering</i></title>
|
|
<p>as, <eg>Your Wits
|
|
are a Wool gathering</eg>; said of a Person
|
|
in a serious, or, as 'tis called, in a
|
|
brown Study; or who knows not
|
|
what he does.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>WORD-<i>Pecker</i></title>
|
|
<p>one that plays with
|
|
Words: A Punster.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="adj"><title>WORM'D</title>
|
|
<p>undermined, rooked,
|
|
cheated, tricked; <eg>Wormed out of</eg>, inveigled
|
|
out of, or deluded.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
</letter>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
<letter name="x"><title>X</title>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>XANTIPPE</title>
|
|
<p>a Scold; the Name of
|
|
<i>Socrates</i>'s scolding Wife; who
|
|
never cold move his Patience, tho' by
|
|
premeditated and repeated Injuries.
|
|
Whence it is used for any Shrew, or
|
|
scolding, brawling Woman.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
</letter>
|
|
|
|
<letter name="y"><title>Y</title>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> YAM</title>
|
|
<p>to eat heartily, to stuff
|
|
lustily.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>YARMOUTH-<i>Capon</i></title>
|
|
<p>a red Herring.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>YARMOUTH-<i>Coach</i></title>
|
|
<p>a sorry slow
|
|
Cart to ride on, drawn by one Horse.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>YARMOUTH-<i>Pye</i></title>
|
|
<p>made of Herrings,
|
|
highly spic'd, and presented by
|
|
the City of <i>Norwich</i> annually to the
|
|
King, on pain of forfeiting their Charter.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="thing"><title>YARUM</title>
|
|
<p>Milk, or Food made of
|
|
Milk.</p></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry c="person"><title>YEA-<i>and-Nay-Men</i></title>
|
|
<p>a Phrase originally
|
|
applied to Quakers; but now
|
|
used for any simple Fellows.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>YELLOW</title>
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<p>at first used by the <i>Canters</i>
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only, but now in common Speech,
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for being jealous.</p></entry>
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<entry c="money"><title>YELLOW-<i>Boy</i></title>
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<p>a Guinea, or Piece
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of Gold of any Coin.</p></entry>
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<entry c="v"><title><i>To</i> YELP</title>
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<p>(from the <i>Yelping</i> of a Dog)
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to cry, to bawl, to complain.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>YELPER</title>
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<p>a Town-Cryer; also, one
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subject to complain, or make pitiful
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Lamentation for trifling Incidents.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>YEST</title>
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<p>a Diminutive of <i>Yesterday</i>; a
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Day ago.</p></entry>
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<entry c="adj"><title>YOAK'D</title>
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<p>married.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person"><title>YORKSHIRE-<i>Tike</i></title>
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<p>a <i>Yorkshire</i>
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Manner of Man.</p></entry>
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</letter>
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<letter name="z"><title>Z</title>
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<entry c="adj,person"><title>ZAD</title>
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<p>crooked, like the letter Z;
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as, <eg>A meer Zad</eg>, used of any
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bandy-legg'd, crouch-back'd or deformed
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Person.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person,rogue"><title>ZANY</title>
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<p>a Mountebank's Merry-Andrew,
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or Jester, to distinguish him
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from a Lord's Fool.</p></entry>
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<entry c="person,rogue"><title>ZLOUCH</title>
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<title>or <i>Slouch</i></title>
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<p>a slovenly ungenteel
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Man.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>ZNEES</title>
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<p>Frost, or Frozen; <eg>Zneesy
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weather</eg>; Frosty Weather.</p></entry>
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<entry c="thing"><title>ZNUZ</title>
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<p>the same as <i>Znees</i>.</p></entry>
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</letter>
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</dict>
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