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<body bgcolor="#FFFAFA" text="#330000">
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<h1>The Letter B</h1>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BACK'ED</h2>
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<p>dead; as <i class="eg">He wishes the Senior backed</i>,
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i.e. <span class="meaning">He longs to have his Father upon Six Mens Shoulders</span>.
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<i class="eg">His Backs up</i>, a taunting Expression.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BACON</h2>
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<p>the Prize, or whatever kind
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which Robbers make in their Enterprizes.
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<i class="eg">He has saved his Bacon</i>; 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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<i class="eg">The Cove has a bien
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squawl to maund Bacon</i>; 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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<i class="eg">The Bacon Sweard rakes in his Throttle</i>;
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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>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BADGE</h2>
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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 <i class="eg">he has got his Badge and piked away</i>;
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He has been burned in the
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Hand, &c. and is just set at Liberty.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BADGE-COVES</h2>
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<p>Parish-Pensioners</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BADGERS</h2>
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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>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BAGGAGE</h2>
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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>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BALSOM</h2>
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<p>Money: <i class="eg">The Cove has secured the Balsom</i>,
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i.e. He has seized the Money.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>A BAM</h2>
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<p>a Sham or Cheat: a knavish
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Contrivance to amuse or deceive.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BANBURY <i>story</i></h2>
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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>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BANDITTI</h2>
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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>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BANDOG</h2>
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<p>a Bailiff or his Follower;
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a Sergeant or his Yeomen.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BANTLING</h2>
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<p>a Child.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BARKER</h2>
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<p>a Salesman's Servant that
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walks before the Shop, to invite customers.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BARNACLE</h2>
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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>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BARNACLES</h2>
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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 <i class="eg">I saw the
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Cuffin Quire with his Nose Barnacled,
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making out the Cove's Dispatches</i>, 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>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BAR-WIG</h2>
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<p>between a bob and a long one.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2><i>To</i> BASTE</h2>
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<p>to beat.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BASTONADING</h2>
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<p>a Cudgelling</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BATTEN</h2>
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<p>to fatten; to keep up a
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Fowl, &c. till it is fit for eating.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BATTENER</h2>
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<p>an Ox; <i class="eg">The Cove has
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hushed the Battener</i>; i.e. <span class="meaning"><i>He has killed
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the Ox</i></span>, 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>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BATTERED BULLY</h2>
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<p>an old well
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cudgelled and bruised huffing fellow.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BAUBEE</h2>
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<p>an Halfpenny; as <i class="eg">The Cove
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ript the Maund but a single Baubee let's
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souse him for it</i> i.e. The Gentleman
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has given the Beggar but a single Halfpenny; lets plunder him for his Niggardliness.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BAUBELS</h2>
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<h2>or BAWBLES</h2>
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<p>Jewels, Tweezers, Snuff-boxes, any sort of
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Gold or Silver Trinkets.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BAWD</h2>
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<p>a Female Procuress.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BAWDY-BASKETS</h2>
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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>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BAWDY-HOUSE-BOTTLE</h2>
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<p>a very small one.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BEAR-GARDEN-DISCOURSE</h2>
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<p>common, filthy, nasty talk.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BEARD-SPLITTER</h2>
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<p>a Whore-master.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BEAU-TRAPS</h2>
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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>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BECK</h2>
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<h2>HARMANBECK</h2>
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<p>a Beadle</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BEEF</h2>
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<p>to alarm, as <i class="eg">They have cryed
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Beef upon us</i>; they have discovered,
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us and are in Pursuit of us.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BELCH</h2>
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<p>any sort of Malt-liquor so
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called.</p>
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<h2>BELLY-CHEAT</h2>
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<p>an Apron.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>A BEN</h2>
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<p>a foolish Fellow, a Simpleton.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BENISH</h2>
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<p>foolish, simple.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BENAR</h2>
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<p>better.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BENE</h2>
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<h2><i> or</i> BIEN</h2>
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<p>good, <i class="eg">Pike on the
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Bene</i>, i.e. Run away as fast as you can.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BENE-BOWSE</h2>
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<p>strong Liquor.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BENE-COVE</h2>
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<p>a good Fellow, a merry companion.</p>
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<h2>BENE-DARKMANS</h2>
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<p>good Night.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BENESHIP</h2>
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<p>very good, very well.
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<i class="eg">Beneshiply</i> Worshipfully.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BENEFEAKERS</h2>
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<p>Counterfeiters of
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Bills, Bonds, Notes, Receipts, &c.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BENEFEAKERS OF GYBES</h2>
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<p>Counterfeiters of Passes.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BESS</h2>
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<p><i class="eg">Bring Bess and Glym</i>; i.e. Forget not the Instrument to break
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open the Dour, and the Dark Lanthorn.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BET</h2>
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<p>as <i class="eg">secure the Bet</i>, secure the Prize.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BETTY</h2>
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<h2>BESS</h2>
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<p>a small Engine to
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force open the Doors of Houses; <i class="eg">Mill
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the Gig with your Betty</i>; i.e. Break
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open the Door with your Instrument.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BEVER</h2>
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<p>An Afternoons Lunchion.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BEVERAGE</h2>
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<p>Garnish-money.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BIDDY</h2>
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<p>a Chicken.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BILK</h2>
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<p>to cheat or deceive. <i class="eg">Bilk the
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Rattling Cove</i>; Sharp the Coachman of
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his Hire.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BILL</h2>
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<h2>BILBOA</h2>
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<p>a Sword. <i class="eg">Bite
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the Bill from the Cull</i>; i.e. Whip the
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Sword from his Side.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BILL <i>of Sale</i></h2>
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<p>a Bandore, or Widow's
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Peak.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2><i>To</i> BING</h2>
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<p>to go, &c.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BING-AWAST</h2>
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<p>Get you hence: Begone;
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haste away; <i class="eg">He Bing'd awast in a
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Darkmans</i>, i.e. He Stole away in the
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Night-time. <i class="eg">Bing we to Rum vile?</i> i.e.
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Go we to <i>London</i>.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BINGO</h2>
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<p>Geneva, or Brandy.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BINGO-BOY</h2>
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<p>a great Geneva Drinker.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BINGO-CLUB</h2>
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<p>a Club of Geneva Drinkers.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BINGO-MORT</h2>
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<p>a She Brandy Drinker.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BIRDS OF A FEATHER</h2>
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<p>Rogues
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of the same Gang.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BIRD-WITTED</h2>
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<p>hare-brained; not
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solid or stayed.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BIT</h2>
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<p>Robbed, Cheated or Out-Witted. Also Drunk, as <i class="eg">He has bit his
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Grannum</i>; He is very Drunk. <i class="eg">Bit the
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Blow</i>, performed the Theft, played the
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Cheat, <i class="eg">You have bit a great Blow</i>; You
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have robbed somebody of or to a considerable
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Value.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BITE</h2>
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<p>a Rogue, Sharper or Cheat;
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also a Woman's Privities, as <i class="eg">The Cull
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wapt the Morts Bite</i>; i.e. The Fellow
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enjoyed the Woman briskly. <i class="eg">Bite
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the Biter</i>, rob the Rogue, sharp the
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Sharper, or Cheat the Cheater. <i class="eg">Bite
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the Cully</i>, put the Cheat on a silly
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Fellow. <i class="eg">Bite the Roger</i>, steal the
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Portmanteau. <i class="eg">Bite the Wiper</i>, steal
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the Handkerchief. <i class="eg">He will not Bite or
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swallow the Bait</i>; He wont be drawn
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in. <i class="eg">To Bite on the Bit</i>; To be pinched
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or reduced to hard Meat; a scanty or
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sorry sort of Living.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BLACK <i>and</i> WHITE</h2>
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<p>under one's
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Hand, or in Writing.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BLAB</h2>
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<p>one that is not to be confided
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in upon an Enterprize or Intrigue.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BLACK-BOX</h2>
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<p>a Lawyer.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BLACK-COAT</h2>
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<p>a Parson.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BLACK-GUARD</h2>
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<p>dirty, nasty, tatterred
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roguish Boys, that formerly
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were wont to attend at the Horse-Guards
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to wipe Shoes, and clean Boots.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BLACK-JACK</h2>
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<p>a leather-Jug to drink in.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BLACK-INDIES</h2>
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<p><i>Newcastle</i>, from
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whence the Coals are brought.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BLACKMUNS</h2>
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<p>Hoods and Scarves of
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Alamode and Lustrings.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BLACK-SPY</h2>
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<p>the Devil.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BLANK</h2>
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<p>down looked, sheepish,
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guilty.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BLEACH</h2>
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<p>as <i class="eg">The Mort lay last Night a
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Bleaching</i>; the Wench looks very fair
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to Day.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BLEATERS</h2>
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<p>they that are cheated
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by Jack in a Box.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BLEATING-CHEAT</h2>
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<p>a Sheep.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BLEED</h2>
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<p>as, <i class="eg">To bleed freely</i>, i.e. To
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part with their Money easily.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BLEEDING-CULLY</h2>
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<p>an easy Fellow,
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this is profuse with his Money, or
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persuaded to support all the Exravaganies
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of his Companion or Mistress,
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at his own Expence.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BLEW-JOHN</h2>
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<p>Wash, or After-wort.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>A BLIND</h2>
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<p>a Feint, a Pretence, a shift.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>A BLIND ALE-HOUSE</h2>
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<p>one fit to
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conceal a pursued or hunted Villain.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BLIND-CHEEKS</h2>
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<p>the Breech.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BLIND-HARPERS</h2>
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<p>Canters, who
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counterfeit Blindness, strowl about with
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Harps, Fiddles, Bagpipes, &c. led by
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a Dog or Boy.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>BLOCK-HOUSES</h2>
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<p>Prisons, Houses
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of Correction, &c.</p>
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</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BLOSS</h2>
|
|
<p>a Shop-lifter; also a Bully's
|
|
pretended Wife, or Mistress, whom he
|
|
guards, while she supports him; also a
|
|
Whore.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>To</i> BLOT <i>the Skrip, and jark it</i></h2>
|
|
<p>i.e. to stand engaged, or be bound for any
|
|
Body.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BLOW</h2>
|
|
<p>as <i class="eg">He has bit his blow</i>, he has
|
|
stollen the Goods, &c.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BLOWER</h2>
|
|
<p>a Mistress; also a
|
|
Whore.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>To</i> BLOW <i>off the Groundsils</i></h2>
|
|
<p>i.e. To
|
|
lie with a Women on the Floor or
|
|
Stairs.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>To</i> BLOW <i>off the loose Corns</i></h2>
|
|
<p>To lie now and then with a Woman.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BLUBBER</h2>
|
|
<p>the Mouth, <i class="eg">I've stopt the
|
|
Culls Blubber</i>, I've stopt the Fellow's
|
|
Mouth; meant either by gagging or
|
|
murdering him.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BLUBBERING</h2>
|
|
<p>much Crying.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>To look</i> BLUFF</h2>
|
|
<p>To look big or
|
|
like Bull-beef.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BLUFFER</h2>
|
|
<p>an Inn-keeper or victualler.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BLUNDERBUS</h2>
|
|
<p>an awkward Fellow.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>A</i> BLUSTRING <i>Fellow</i></h2>
|
|
<p>a rude ratling Hector.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BOARDING-<i>School</i></h2>
|
|
<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>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BOARDING <i>Scholars</i></h2>
|
|
<p>Bridewell-Birds.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BOB</h2>
|
|
<p>a Shop-lifts Comerade, Assistant
|
|
or Receiver. <i>Bob</i> also signifies
|
|
Safety.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>It is all</i> BOB</h2>
|
|
<p>i.e. All is Safe.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BOBBED</h2>
|
|
<p>cheated, tricked, baulked.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BOB-TAIL</h2>
|
|
<p>a light woman, also an
|
|
Eunuch or impotent Fellow.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BOG-LANDERS</h2>
|
|
<p><i>Irish</i> Men.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BOB-TROTTERS</h2>
|
|
<p><i>Scotch</i> or <i>North</i>
|
|
Country Moss-troopers, or Highway-Men.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BOLTER <i>of White Fryars</i></h2>
|
|
<p>one that
|
|
peeps out, but dares not venture abroad.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BOLTSPRIT</h2>
|
|
<p>the nose, <i class="eg">He has broke
|
|
his Boltsprit</i>; He has lost his Nose by
|
|
the Pox.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>To</i> BONE</h2>
|
|
<p>to apprehend, sieze, take
|
|
or arrest.
|
|
<i class="eg">I'll Bone ye</i>; I'll cause you
|
|
to be arrested.
|
|
<i class="eg">We shall be Boned</i>, we
|
|
shall be apprehended for the Robbery.
|
|
<i class="eg">The Cove is Boned and gone to the Whit</i>;
|
|
the Rogue is taken up and carried to
|
|
<i>Newgate</i>.
|
|
<i class="eg">The Cull has Boned the Fen</i>
|
|
|
|
(for <i>Fence</i>) <i>or</i> <i class="eg">Bloss that bit the Blow</i>,
|
|
The Man has taken the Thief that
|
|
robbed his House or Shop, or picked
|
|
his Pocket.
|
|
<i class="eg">If he be Boned he must shove
|
|
the Tumbler</i>; If he be taken he'll be
|
|
whipt at the Gart's-tail.
|
|
<i class="eg">I have Boned
|
|
her Dudds, Fagged and Brushed</i>; I have
|
|
taken away my Mistress's cloaths, beat
|
|
her and am trooped off.
|
|
<i class="eg">Boning the Fence</i>; Finding the Goods where concealed
|
|
and siezing them.
|
|
<i class="eg">He made no Bones of it.</i></p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BONNY-CLAPPER</h2>
|
|
<p>sowre Butter-milk.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BOOTH</h2>
|
|
<p>a House, as <i class="eg">Heave the Booth</i>;
|
|
Rob the House.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>To Play</i> BOOTY</h2>
|
|
<p>to play with a design to lose.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BOOZE</h2>
|
|
<p><i>Vide</i> BOWSE.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BORDE</h2>
|
|
<p>a Shilling, <i class="eg">Half a Borde</i>,
|
|
Six-pence.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BOTTLE-HEAD</h2>
|
|
<p>void of Wit.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BOUGHS</h2>
|
|
<p>as <i class="eg">He is up in the Boughs</i>,
|
|
said of one upon the Rant, or in a great
|
|
Ferment.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BOUNCE</h2>
|
|
<p>as <i class="eg">a meer Bounce</i>, a swaggering
|
|
Fellow.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BOUNCER</h2>
|
|
<p>a Bully.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BOUNCING-<i>Cheat</i></h2>
|
|
<p>a Bottle.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BOWMAN</h2>
|
|
<p>as a <i class="eg">Bowman-Prigg</i>, an
|
|
eminent Thief or Villain; a dextrous
|
|
Cheat, or House-breaker.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BOWSE</h2>
|
|
<p>Drink, or to drink; see
|
|
<i>Benbowse</i> [[Bene-Bowse]] and <i>Rumbowse</i>
|
|
[[<i>Rumbowse</i> is not actually defined]].</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BOWSY</h2>
|
|
<p>Drunk.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BOWSING KEN</h2>
|
|
<p>an Ale-house.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BRACKET-FACE</h2>
|
|
<p>ugly, homely,
|
|
ill-favoured.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BRAT</h2>
|
|
<p>a little Child.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BRAVADO</h2>
|
|
<p>a vapouring, or bouncing.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BRAVO</h2>
|
|
<p>a mercenary Murderer,
|
|
that will kill any body.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BRIM</h2>
|
|
<h2>or <i>Brimstone</i></h2>
|
|
<p>a very impudent, lewd Woman.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BROTHER <i>of the Blade</i></h2>
|
|
<p>a Sword-man or Soldier.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BROTHER <i>of the Gussit</i></h2>
|
|
<p>a Pimp,
|
|
Procurer; also a Whore-master.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BROTHER-STARLING</h2>
|
|
<p>that lies
|
|
with the same Woman or builds in the same Nest.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BROTHER <i>of the String</i></h2>
|
|
<p>a Fiddler,
|
|
or Harper.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>To</i> BRUSH</h2>
|
|
<p>to flee, or run away.
|
|
<i class="eg">The Cully is brushed or rubbed</i>;
|
|
The Fellow is marched off or broke.
|
|
<i class="eg">Bought a Brush</i>, run away.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BRUSHER</h2>
|
|
<p>a very full Glass of Liquor.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BUB</h2>
|
|
<p>drink. <i class="eg">Rumbub</i> very good
|
|
Tipple.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BUBBER</h2>
|
|
<p>a drinking Bowl; also a
|
|
|
|
great Drinker, also one who steals plate
|
|
from public Houses.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BUBE</h2>
|
|
<p>the Pox.
|
|
<i class="eg">The Mort tipt the
|
|
Bube upon the Cully</i>; The Wench has
|
|
clapped the Fellow.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>To</i> BUBBLE</h2>
|
|
<p>To cheat or decieve.
|
|
<i class="eg">A Bubble</i>, an easy soft Fellow, one that is
|
|
fit to be imposed on, deluded, or
|
|
cheated.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BUCK</h2>
|
|
<p>as a <i class="eg">Bold Buck</i>.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BUCK-FITCHES</h2>
|
|
<p>old leacherous Fellows.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BUCK'S-FACE</h2>
|
|
<p>a Cuckold.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>A</i> BUDGE</h2>
|
|
<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.
|
|
<i class="eg">To Budge</i>, also signifies to
|
|
stir or move.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BUFF</h2>
|
|
<p>a Dog.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>How dost do my</i> BUFF</h2>
|
|
<p>a familiar
|
|
Salutation among the Canting Tribe.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>To stand</i> BUFF</h2>
|
|
<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>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BUFFER</h2>
|
|
<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>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BUFF-KNAPPER</h2>
|
|
<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>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BUFFERS-NAB</h2>
|
|
<p>a Dog's Head, used
|
|
in a counterfiet Seal to a false Pass.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BUGGING</h2>
|
|
<p>taking Money by Bailiffs
|
|
and Serjeants of the Defendant not to
|
|
arrest him.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BUGHER</h2>
|
|
<p>a Dog.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BULCHIN</h2>
|
|
<p>a chubbingly Boy or Lad.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BULL</h2>
|
|
<p>as, a <i class="eg">Town Bull</i>, a Whore-master.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>TO look like</i> BULL <i>beef</i></h2>
|
|
<p>to look big
|
|
and grim.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BULK</h2>
|
|
<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>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BULKER</h2>
|
|
<p>one that lodges all Night
|
|
on Shop windows and bulkheads.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BULLS-EYE</h2>
|
|
<p>a Crown or Five Shilling Piece.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BULLY</h2>
|
|
<p>a supposed Husband to a
|
|
Bawd, or Whore; also a huffing Fellow,
|
|
|
|
a pretended <i>Bravo</i>, but a Coward
|
|
at the Bottom.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BULLY-FOP</h2>
|
|
<p>a maggot-pated, huffing,
|
|
silly, rattling Fellow.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BULLY-HUFF</h2>
|
|
<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>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BULLY-COCK</h2>
|
|
<p>a Hector or bravo
|
|
sets on People to quarrel, pretending
|
|
to be a Second to them; and
|
|
then making Advantage of both.
|
|
</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BULLY-RUFFINS</h2>
|
|
<p>Highway-men,
|
|
or Foot Pads, who attack with Oaths
|
|
and Curses, plunder without Mercy,
|
|
and frequently murder without Necessity.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BULLY-TRAP</h2>
|
|
<p>a <i>Trapan</i>, a Sharper or Cheat.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BUM</h2>
|
|
<p>a Bailiff or Serjeant.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BUNDLE-TAIL</h2>
|
|
<p>a short, fat, or squat Lass.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BUNG</h2>
|
|
<p>a Purse, Pocket or Fob.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BUNG-NIPPERS</h2>
|
|
<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>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BUNTING-TIME</h2>
|
|
<p>when the Grass
|
|
is high enough to hide the young Men
|
|
and Maids.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BUNT'LINGS</h2>
|
|
<p>Petticoats. <i class="eg">Hale up
|
|
the main Buntlings</i>, throw up the Women's
|
|
Petticoats.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BURNT</h2>
|
|
<p>poxed, or clapt.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>To</i> BURN <i>the Ken</i></h2>
|
|
<p>is when Strollers
|
|
leave an Alehouse, without paying
|
|
their Quarters.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2>BURR</h2>
|
|
<p>a Hanger on or Dependant.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="entry">
|
|
<h2><i>To</i> BUTTER</h2>
|
|
<p>signifies also, to cheat
|
|
or defraud in a smooth or plausible
|
|
Manner; as, <i class="eg">He'll not be Battered</i>;
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He's aware of your Design, He's upon his Guard, &c.</p>
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<h2>BUTTER-BOXES</h2>
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<p>Dutchmen</p>
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<h2>BUTTERED-BUN</h2>
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<p>lying with a
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Woman that has been just lain with by
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another Man.</p>
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<h2>BUTTOCK</h2>
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<p>a Whore.</p>
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<h2>BUTTOCK-<i>Broker</i></h2>
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<p>a Bawd, also
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a Match-maker.</p>
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<h2><i>A</i> BUTTOCK <i>and File</i></h2>
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<p>both Whore and Pickpocket.</p>
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<h2>BUTTOCK <i>and Twang</i></h2>
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<p>or <i class="eg">a down-right Buttock and sham File</i>, a common
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Whore, but no Pickpocket.</p>
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<h2>BUZZARD</h2>
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<p>a foolish, soft Fellow,
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drawn in and culled or tricked.</p>
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<h2>BY-BLOW</h2>
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<p>a Bastard.</p>
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