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<title>W</title>
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<body bgcolor="#FFFAFA" text="#330000">
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<h1>The Letter W</h1>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WADDLE</h2>
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<p>to go like a Duck.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WAG</h2>
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<h2><i>Waggish</i></h2>
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<p>arch, gamesome, pleasant.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WALLOWISH</h2>
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<p>a malkish, ill Taste.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2><i>To</i> WAP</h2>
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<p>to lie with a Man. <i class="eg">If she
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won't wap for a Win, let her trine for a
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Make</i>; if she won't lie with a Man for
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a Penny, let her hang for a Half-penny.
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<i class="eg">Mort wap-apace</i>; a Woman
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of Experience, or very expert at the
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Sport.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WAPPER-<i>Eyed</i></h2>
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<p>that has sore or
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running Eyes.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WAPPING</h2>
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<p>the Act of Coition.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WARM</h2>
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<p>well lined of flush in the
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Pocket.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WARMING-<i>Pan</i></h2>
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<p>an old fashion'd
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large Watch. <i class="eg">A Scotch Warming-Pan</i>;
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a She-bed-fellow.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WARREN</h2>
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<p>he that is Security for
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Goods taken up on Credit, by extravagant
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young Gentlemen; also a
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Boarding-school, or a Bawdy-house,
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which are too much the same Thing.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WASH</h2>
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<p>Paint for Faces.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WASPISH</h2>
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<p>peevish.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WATER-<i>Pad</i></h2>
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<p>one that robs Ships,
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Hoys, Lighters, Barges or Boats in the
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River of <i>Thames</i>. A sort of BADGERS. Which see.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WATTLES</h2>
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<p>Ears; also Sheep-folds.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WEB</h2>
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<p>Cloth of any Sort.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WEDGE</h2>
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<p>Plate, or Silver or Gold
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Moveables and trinkets: Also Money.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WELSH <i>Fiddle</i></h2>
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<h2>or <i>Scotch-Fiddle</i></h2>
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<p>the Itch.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WESTMINSTER-<i>Wedding</i></h2>
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<p>a
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Whore and a Rogue married together.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WET-<i>Quaker</i></h2>
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<p>a Drunkard of that Sect.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHEADLE</h2>
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<p>a Sharper. <i class="eg">To cut a
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Wheadle</i>; to decoy, by Fawning and
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Insinuation.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHEEL-<i>Band in the Nick</i></h2>
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<p>regular
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drinking over the left Thumb.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHETSTONE's <i>Park</i></h2>
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<p>a Lane betwixt
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<i>Holbourn</i> and <i>Lincoln's-Inn-Fields</i>,
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formerly a noted Nest for Whores,
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now dispark'd.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHIDS</h2>
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<p>Words.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2><i>To</i> WHIDDLE</h2>
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<p>to enter into a Parley,
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to compound with, or take off by
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a Bribe; as, <i class="eg">Did you Whiddle with the
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Cull?</i> Did you bribe or compound with
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the Evidence? Also to impeach, or
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discover; as, <i class="eg">He Whiddles</i>; He Peaches.
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<i class="eg">He Whiddles the whole Scrap</i>; He
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discovers all he knows. <i class="eg">The Cull has
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whiddled, because we would not tip him
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a Snack</i>; The Dog has discovered because
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we did not give him a Share.
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<i class="eg">They Whiddle-Thief, and we must Brush</i>;
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They cry out Thieves, and we must
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fly.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHIDDLER</h2>
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<p>a Peacher (or rather
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Impeacher) of his Gang.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHIG-<i>Land</i></h2>
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<p>Scotland.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHINERS</h2>
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<p>Prayers, Supplications, &c.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHIP-<i>Shire</i></h2>
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<p>Yorkshire.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHIPSTER</h2>
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<p>a sharp, or subtle
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Fellow.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2><i>To</i> WHIP <i>off</i></h2>
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<p>to steal, to drink cleverly,
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to snatch and to run away.
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<i class="eg">Whipt through the Lungs</i>; Run through
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the Body with a Sword. <i class="eg">Whipt in at
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the Glaze</i>; Got in at the Window.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHIM</h2>
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<p>a Maggot.</p>
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</div>
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<h2>WHIMSICAL</h2>
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<p>maggotish.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHIMPER</h2>
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<p>a low or small Cry.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHINDLE</h2>
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<p>a low or feigned Cry.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2><i>To</i> WHINE</h2>
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<p>to cry squeekingly.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHINYARD</h2>
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<p>a Sword.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHIPPER-<i>Snapper</i></h2>
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<p>a very small
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sprightly Boy.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHIP-<i>Jacks</i></h2>
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<p>counterfeit Mariners
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begging with false Passes, pretending
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Ship-wrecks, great Losses at Sea, narrow
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Escapes, &c. telling dismal Stories,
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having learnt <i>Tar-Terms</i> on purpose:
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but are meer Cheats, and will
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not stick to rob a Booth at a Fair, or
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an House in soem By-road. They
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often carry their Morts or Wenches,
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which the pretend to be their Wives,
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whom they miraculously saved in the
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Shipwreck, altho' all their Children
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were drowned, the Ship splitting on
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a Rock near the <i>Lands-End</i>, with such
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like Forgeries.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHIRLEGIGS</h2>
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<p>Testicles.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHISK</h2>
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<p>a little inconsiderable, impertinent Fellow.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHISKER</h2>
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<p>a great Lye.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHISKINS</h2>
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<p>shallow, brown Bowls
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to drink out of.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHISTLE</h2>
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<p>the Throat. <i class="eg">Wet your
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Whistle</i>: liquor your Throat.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHIT</h2>
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<p>Newgate. As, <i class="eg">Five Rum-padders,
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are rub'd in the Darkmans and
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of the Whit, and are pik'd into the Deuseaville</i>;
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Five Highway-men in the
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Night broke <i>newgate</i>, and are gone
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into the Country.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHITE-<i>Chappel-Portion</i></h2>
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<p>two torn
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Smocks, and what Nature gave.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHITE-<i>Tape</i></h2>
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<p>See <i>Tape</i>.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHITE <i>Wool</i></h2>
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<p>Silver.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHITHER-<i>D'ye-go</i></h2>
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<p>an insolent
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prescribing, <i>very</i>, Wife.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHORE's <i>Kitling</i></h2>
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<h2>or <i>Whore's Son</i></h2>
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<p>a Bastard.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WHOW-<i>Ball</i></h2>
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<p>a Milk-maid.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WIBBLE</h2>
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<p>sad Drink.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WICKET</h2>
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<p>a Casement, also a little
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Door. As, <i class="eg">Tout through the Wicket,
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and see where a Cully pikes with his
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Gentry mort, whose Muns are the Rummest
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I ever touted before</i>; Look through
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the Casement, and see where the Man
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walks with a Gentlewoman, whose
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Face is the fairest, I have ever seen.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WICHER-<i>Cully</i></h2>
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<p>See <i>Witcher-Cully</i>.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WIDOWS-<i>Weeds</i></h2>
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<p>mourning
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Cloaths. <i class="eg">A Grass-Widow</i>; One that
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pretends to have been married, but
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never was, yet has Children.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WILD <i>Rogues</i></h2>
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<p>such as are trained
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up from Children to <i>Nim</i> golden or
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silver Buttons off of Coats, to creep in
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at Cellar and Shop-windows, and to
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slip in at Doors behind People; also
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that have been whipt, burnt in the
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Fist, and often in Prison for Roguery.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WILES</h2>
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<p>Tricks, Intrigues, cunning
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Stratagems.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WILY</h2>
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<p>cunning, crafty, intriguing.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WILLING-<i>Tit</i></h2>
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<p>a little Horse that
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Travels chearfully; also a coming Girl.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WILLOW</h2>
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<p>poor, and of no Reputation.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WIN</h2>
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<p>a Penny. <i class="eg">To win</i>; To steal.
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<i class="eg">Won</i>; Stollen. <i class="eg">The Cull has won a
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Couple of rum Glimsticks</i>; The Rogue
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has stole a pair of Silver Candlesticks.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WIND-<i>Fall</i></h2>
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<p>a great Fortune fallen
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unexpectedly by the Death of a Friend.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WINDY-<i>Fellow</i></h2>
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<p>without Sense or
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Reason.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WIND-<i>Mills in the Head</i></h2>
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<p>empty
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Projects.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WINK</h2>
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<p>a Signal or Intimation. <i class="eg">He
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tipt the Wink</i>; He gave the Sign or Signal.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WINNINGS</h2>
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<p>Money, or Reward:
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<i class="eg">Winnings for Wapping</i>; Money given a
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Woman for lying with her.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WIPE</h2>
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<p>a Blow; also a Reflection.
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<i class="eg">He tipt him a rum Wipe</i>; He gave him
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a swinging Blow. <i class="eg">I gave him a Wipe</i>;
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I spoke something that cut him, or
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gaul'd him. <i class="eg">He wip'd his Nose</i>; He
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gull'd him.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WIPER</h2>
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<p>a Handkerchief. <i class="eg">Nim the
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Wiper</i>; To steal the Handkerchief.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WIPER-<i>Drawer</i></h2>
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<p>a Handkerchief-stealer.
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<i class="eg">He drew a broad, narrow, cam,
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or speck'd Wiper</i>; He pick'd Pockets of
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a broad, or narrow, Ghenting, Cambrick,
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or colour'd Handkerchief.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WIRE-<i>Draw</i></h2>
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<p>a Fetch or Trick to
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wheedle in <i>Bubbles</i>; also to screw,
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over-reach, or deal hard with. <i class="eg">Wire-drawn</i>;
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so served or treated.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WISE <i>Man of Gotham</i></h2>
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<p>a Fool.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2><i>To</i> WIT</h2>
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<p>to know or understand.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2><i>The</i> WIT</h2>
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<p><i>Newgate</i>, <i>New Prison</i>, or
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<i>Bridewell</i>. The same as <i>Whit</i>.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WITCHER</h2>
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<p>Silver.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WITCHER-<i>Bubber</i></h2>
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<p>a Silver Bowl.
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<i class="eg">The Cull is piked with the Witcher-bubber</i>
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The Rogue is marched off with
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the Silver-bowl.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WITCHER-<i>Cully</i></h2>
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<p>a Silver-smith.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WITCHER-<i>Tilter</i></h2>
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<p>a Silver-hilted
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Sword. <i class="eg">He has bit, or drawn the
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Witcher-tilter</i>; He has stole the Silver-hilted Sword.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2><i>To</i> WOBBLE</h2>
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<p>to boil. <i class="eg">The Pot wobbles</i>; i.e. The Pot boils;
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the Meat is enough.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WOMAN <i>of the Town</i></h2>
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<p>a Prostitute,
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or common Harlot.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WOMBLE-<i>Ty-Cropt</i></h2>
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<p>the Indisposition
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of a Drunkard after a Debauch in
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Wine or other Liquors: As, <i class="eg">He is
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Womble-ty Cropt</i>; He is Cropsick, &c.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WOODEN-<i>Ruff</i></h2>
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<p>a Pillory. <i class="eg">He wore
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the Wooden-ruff</i>; He stood in the Pillory.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>WOOD-<i>Pecker</i></h2>
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<p>a By-stander that
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bets, while others game.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2><i>In a</i> WOOD</h2>
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<h2>or, <i>In a Maze</i></h2>
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<p>In a
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Peck of Troubles; being in a Doubt,
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or at a Loss, what Course to take, by
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Reason of some very critical Turn in
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one's Affairs; or, among <i>Canters</i>, by
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being surpriz'd, and in great Danger
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of being taken, in a Robbery, or any
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<h2>WOOLLY-<i>Crown</i></h2>
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<p>a soft-headed
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<h2>WOOL-<i>Gathering</i></h2>
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<p>as, <i class="eg">Your Wits
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are a Wool gathering</i>; said of a Person
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in a serious, or, as 'tis called, in a
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brown Study; or who knows not
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<h2>WORD-<i>Pecker</i></h2>
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<p>one that plays with
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Words: A Punster.</p>
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<h2>WORM'D</h2>
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<p>undermined, rooked,
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cheated, tricked; <i class="eg">Wormed out of</i>, inveigled
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out of, or deluded.</p>
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