root/hodgestar/PythonCode/SmallScripts/canting-1736.txt

ABRAM
    ABRAM, Naked, or having scarce Cloaths enough to hide Nakedness.

ABRAM-COVE
    ABRAM-COVE, a lusty Rogue, with hardly any Cloaths on his Back: a Tatterdemallion.

ABRAM-MEN
    ABRAM-MEN, otherwise called Toms of Bedlam, shabby Beggars, patched and trick'd up with Ribbons, Red-Tape, Fox-tails, Rags of various Colours; pretending to be besides themselves, to palliate their Thefts of Poultry, Linnen, c. A sort of itinerant Hedge-Robbers, and Strippers of Children, c.

ACADEMY
    ACADEMY, a Bawdy House; a Receptacle for all sorts of Villains, where the Young Ones are initiated in the Canting Language, and all manner of Cheats and Impostures, and sorted into Tribes and Bands, according to their several Capacities for Mischief.

ADAM TILER
    ADAM TILER, the Comerade of a Pick pocket, who receives stollen Goods or Money, and scours off with them, Tip the coal to Adam Tiler; i.e. give the Money, Watch, c. to a running Companion, that the Pick Pocket may have nothing found upon him, when he is apprehended.

AFFIDAVIT-MEN
    AFFIDAVIT-MEN, Knights of the Post: mercenary and abandoned Wretches, who used to frequent the Temple and other Inns of Court, in order to be in Readiness to swear any thing that was proposed to them.

ALSATIA the Higher, White-Fryars
    ALSATIA the Higher, White-Fryars; once a Privileged Place, as the Mint was lately; but suppressed, on Account of the notorious Abuses committed in it.

ALSATIA the Lower
    ALSATIA the Lower, the Mint in Southwark.

ALSATIANS
    ALSATIANS, the Inhabitants of these two Places, such as broken Tradesmen, extravagant Spendthrifts.

ALTEMAL
    ALTEMAL, Vide Dutch Reckoning.

AMBIDEXTER
    AMBIDEXTER, one that goes snacks in Gaming with both Parties; also a  Lawyer that takes Fees of Plaintiff and Defendant at once.

To AMUSE [in a Canting sense]
    To AMUSE [in a Canting sense], to fling Dust in the Eyes; also to invent strange Tales to delude Shop keepers and others, from being upon their Guard.

AMUSEMENT
    AMUSEMENT, a blind, or feint.

AMU'SERS
    AMU'SERS, who were wont to have their Pockets filled with Dust, which they would throw into the Eyes of People they had a mind to rob, and so run away, while their Comerade, who followed them, under the Notion of pitying the half blinded Person, laid his Hand on whatever came next.

ANGLERS, alias HOOKERS
    ANGLERS, alias HOOKERS; petty Thieves, who have a Stick with a Hook at the End, wherewith they pluck Things out of Windows, Grates, c. Make ready your Angling Stick; a Word of Command used by these petty Villains, to get ready the Stick with which they perform their Pranks, and as a Signal of a Prey in Sight. In the Day-time they beg from House to House, to spy best where to plant their Designs, which at Night they put in Execution.

ANTICKS
    ANTICKS, such as dress themselves up with Ribbons, mismatched Colours, Feathers c.

ANTIQUATED
    ANTIQUATED, an old Rogue, or one who has forgot, or left off his Trade of thieving, is said to be.

ARCH-ROGUE
    ARCH-ROGUE, the Dimber-Damber Uprightman or Chief of a Gang; as Arch-Dell, or Arch-Doxy signifies the same Degree in Rank among the Female Canters and Gypsies.

ARK
    ARK, a Boat or Wherry.

ARK-RUFFIANS
    ARK-RUFFIANS, Rogues, who in Conjunction with Watermen, c. rob and sometimes murder on the Water; by picking a Quarrel with the Passenger and then plundering, stripping and throwing him or her over board, c.

ASSIG.
    ASSIG., An Assignation, Appointment or Meeting

AUNT
    AUNT, a Bawd, or Procuress; a Title of Eminence for the Senior Dells, who serve for Instructresses, Midwives, c., to the Morts.

AUTEM
    AUTEM, a Church; also married.

AUTEM-BAWLER
    AUTEM-BAWLER, a Preacher, or Parson, of any sect.

AUTEM-CACKLERS, AUTEM-PRICKEARS
    AUTEM-CACKLERS, AUTEM-PRICKEARS; Dissenters of any Denomination.

AUTEM-CACKLETUB
    AUTEM-CACKLETUB, a Conventicle, a Meeting-House for Dissenters.

AUTEM-DIPPERS
    AUTEM-DIPPERS, Anabaptists.

AUTEM-DIVERS
    AUTEM-DIVERS, Church-Pick-pockets; also Church-wardens, Overseers of the Poor.

AUTEM-GOGGLERS
    AUTEM-GOGGLERS, pretended French Prophets.

AUTEM-MORT
    AUTEM-MORT, a marry'd Woman; also one who travels up and down the Country, with one Child in their Arms, another on her Back, and often leading a third in her Hand.

AUTEM-QUAVERS
    AUTEM-QUAVERS, Quakers

AUTEM-QUA-VERTUB
    AUTEM-QUA-VERTUB, a Quaker's Meeting-House.

BACK'ED
    BACK'ED, dead; as He wishes the Senior backed, i.e. He longs to have his Father upon Six Mens Shoulders. His Backs up, a taunting Expression.

BACON
    BACON, the Prize, or whatever kind which Robbers make in their Enterprizes. He has saved his Bacon; i.e. He has himself escaped with the Prize, whence it is commonly used for any narrow Escape. The Cove has a bien squawl to maund Bacon; i.e. he has a good Voice to beg Bacon; used to jeer a bad Voice, or an indifferent Singer. The Bacon Sweard rakes in his Throttle; i.e. the Sweard of the Bacon sticks in his Throat; used to a person who has Hoarseness, or one, who at their Merry-Meetings, excuses himself from Singing, on pretence of a Cold.

BADGE
    BADGE, is used in a Canting Sense, for Burning in the Hand or Cheek (as it used to be) as he has got his Badge and piked away; He has been burned in the Hand, c. and is just set at Liberty.

BADGE-COVES
    BADGE-COVES, Parish-Pensioners

BADGERS
    BADGERS, a Crew of desperate Villains, who rob and kill near rivers, and then throw the dead bodies therein.

BAGGAGE
    BAGGAGE, as the heavy Baggage, the Children and Women who are unable to travel fast in Gangs of Gypsies, and Strowlers.

BALSOM
    BALSOM, Money: The Cove has secured the Balsom, i.e. He has seized the Money.

A BAM
    A BAM, a Sham or Cheat: a knavish Contrivance to amuse or deceive.

BANBURY story
    BANBURY story, of a Cock and a Bull, an idle Relation, in order to pick Acquaintance on the Road, till a convenient Place or Opportunity offer to rob or plunder.

BANDITTI
    BANDITTI, Highwaymen, Horse or Foot, now used for Rogues of any kind, but strictly Italian Rapparees.

BANDOG
    BANDOG, a Bailiff or his Follower; a Sergeant or his Yeomen.

BANTLING
    BANTLING, a Child.

BARKER
    BARKER, a Salesman's Servant that walks before the Shop, to invite customers.

BARNACLE
    BARNACLE, a good Job, or a Snack easily got; so called from the Gratuity given to Jockeys, for buying and selling Horses.

BARNACLES
    BARNACLES, the Irons worn in Goal by Felons. A Pair of Spectacles is also called Barnacles; as I saw the Cuffin Quire with his Nose Barnacled, making out the Cove's Dispatches, i.e. I saw the Justice of Peace with his Spectacles on making out his Mittimus.

BAR-WIG
    BAR-WIG, between a bob and a long one.

To BASTE
    To BASTE, to beat.

BASTONADING
    BASTONADING, a Cudgelling

BATTEN
    BATTEN, to fatten; to keep up a Fowl, c. till it is fit for eating.

BATTENER
    BATTENER, an Ox; The Cove has hushed the Battener; i.e. He has killed the Ox, in revenge on some Farmer, who, perhaps, had got him sent to the House of Correction.

BATTERED BULLY
    BATTERED BULLY, an old well cudgelled and bruised huffing fellow.

BAUBEE
    BAUBEE, an Halfpenny; as The Cove ript the Maund but a single Baubee let's souse him for it i.e. The Gentleman has given the Beggar but a single Halfpenny; lets plunder him for his Niggardliness.

BAUBELS, or BAWBLES
    BAUBELS, or BAWBLES; Jewels, Tweezers, Snuff-boxes, any sort of Gold or Silver Trinkets.

BAWD
    BAWD, a Female Procuress.

BAWDY-BASKETS
    BAWDY-BASKETS, a sort of diminutive Pedlars, who sell Obscene Books, Pins, Tape, c. but live more by pilfering and stealing.

BAWDY-HOUSE-BOTTLE
    BAWDY-HOUSE-BOTTLE, a very small one.

BEAR-GARDEN-DISCOURSE
    BEAR-GARDEN-DISCOURSE, common, filthy, nasty talk.

BEARD-SPLITTER
    BEARD-SPLITTER, a Whore-master.

BEAU-TRAPS
    BEAU-TRAPS, an Order of  Villains, Genteel-dressed Sharpers, who lie in wait to insnare and draw in young Heirs, raw Country Squires and ignorant Fops. 

BECK, HARMANBECK
    BECK, HARMANBECK; a Beadle

BEEF
    BEEF, to alarm, as They have cryed Beef upon us; they have discovered, us and are in Pursuit of us.

BELCH
    BELCH, any sort of Malt-liquor so called.

BELLY-CHEAT
    BELLY-CHEAT, an Apron.

A BEN
    A BEN, a foolish Fellow, a Simpleton.

BENISH
    BENISH, foolish, simple.

BENAR
    BENAR, better.

BENE,  or BIEN
    BENE,  or BIEN; good, Pike on the Bene, i.e. Run away as fast as you can.

BENE-BOWSE
    BENE-BOWSE, strong Liquor.

BENE-COVE
    BENE-COVE, a good Fellow, a merry companion.

BENE-DARKMANS
    BENE-DARKMANS, good Night.

BENESHIP
    BENESHIP, very good, very well. Beneshiply Worshipfully.

BENEFEAKERS
    BENEFEAKERS, Counterfeiters of Bills, Bonds, Notes, Receipts, c.

BENEFEAKERS OF GYBES
    BENEFEAKERS OF GYBES, Counterfeiters of Passes.

BESS
    BESS, Bring Bess and Glym; i.e. Forget not the Instrument to break open the Dour, and the Dark Lanthorn.

BET
    BET, as secure the Bet, secure the Prize.

BETTY, BESS
    BETTY, BESS; a small Engine to force open the Doors of Houses; Mill the Gig with your Betty; i.e. Break open the Door with your Instrument.

BEVER
    BEVER, An Afternoons Lunchion.

BEVERAGE
    BEVERAGE, Garnish-money.

BIDDY
    BIDDY, a Chicken.

BILK
    BILK, to cheat or deceive.
Bilk the Rattling Cove; Sharp the Coachman of his Hire.

BILL, BILBOA
    BILL, BILBOA; a Sword.
Bite the Bill from the Cull; i.e. Whip the Sword from his Side.

BILL of Sale
    BILL of Sale, a Bandore, or Widow's Peak.

To BING
    To BING, to go, c.

BING-AWAST
    BING-AWAST, Get you hence: Begone; haste away; He Bing'd awast in a Darkmans, i.e. He Stole away in the Night-time.
Bing we to Rum vile? i.e. Go we to London.

BINGO
    BINGO, Geneva, or Brandy.

BINGO-BOY
    BINGO-BOY, a great Geneva Drinker.

BINGO-CLUB
    BINGO-CLUB, a Club of Geneva Drinkers.

BINGO-MORT
    BINGO-MORT, a She Brandy Drinker.

BIRDS OF A FEATHER
    BIRDS OF A FEATHER, Rogues of the same Gang.

BIRD-WITTED
    BIRD-WITTED, hare-brained; not solid or stayed.

BIT
    BIT, Robbed, Cheated or Out-Witted.
Also Drunk, as He has bit his Grannum; He is very Drunk.
Bit the Blow, performed the Theft, played the Cheat, You have bit a great Blow; You have robbed somebody of or to a considerable Value.

BITE
    BITE, a Rogue, Sharper or Cheat; also a Woman's Privities, as The Cull wapt the Morts Bite; i.e. The Fellow enjoyed the Woman briskly.
Bite the Biter, rob the Rogue, sharp the Sharper, or Cheat the Cheater.
Bite the Cully, put the Cheat on a silly Fellow.
Bite the Roger, steal the Portmanteau. Bite the Wiper, steal the Handkerchief.
He will not Bite or swallow the Bait; He wont be drawn in.
To Bite on the Bit; To be pinched or reduced to hard Meat; a scanty or sorry sort of Living.

BLACK and WHITE
    BLACK and WHITE, under one's Hand, or in Writing.

BLAB
    BLAB, one that is not to be confided in upon an Enterprize or Intrigue.

BLACK-BOX
    BLACK-BOX, a Lawyer.

BLACK-COAT
    BLACK-COAT, a Parson.

BLACK-GUARD
    BLACK-GUARD, dirty, nasty, tatterred roguish Boys, that formerly were wont to attend at the Horse-Guards to wipe Shoes, and clean Boots.

BLACK-JACK
    BLACK-JACK, a leather-Jug to drink in.

BLACK-INDIES
    BLACK-INDIES, Newcastle, from whence the Coals are brought.

BLACKMUNS
    BLACKMUNS, Hoods and Scarves of Alamode and Lustrings.

BLACK-SPY
    BLACK-SPY, the Devil.

BLANK
    BLANK, down looked, sheepish, guilty.

BLEACH
    BLEACH, as The Mort lay last Night a Bleaching; the Wench looks very fair to Day.

BLEATERS
    BLEATERS, they that are cheated by Jack in a Box.

BLEATING-CHEAT
    BLEATING-CHEAT, a Sheep.

BLEED
    BLEED, as, To bleed freely, i.e. To part with their Money easily.

BLEEDING-CULLY
    BLEEDING-CULLY, 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.

BLEW-JOHN
    BLEW-JOHN, Wash, or After-wort.

A BLIND
    A BLIND, a Feint, a Pretence, a shift.

A BLIND ALE-HOUSE
    A BLIND ALE-HOUSE, one fit to conceal a pursued or hunted Villain.

BLIND-CHEEKS
    BLIND-CHEEKS, the Breech.

BLIND-HARPERS
    BLIND-HARPERS, Canters, who  counterfeit Blindness, strowl about with Harps, Fiddles, Bagpipes, c. led by a Dog or Boy.

BLOCK-HOUSES
    BLOCK-HOUSES, Prisons, Houses of Correction, c.

BLOSS
    BLOSS, a Shop-lifter; also a Bully's pretended Wife, or Mistress, whom he guards, while she supports him; also a Whore.

To BLOT the Skrip, and jark it
    To BLOT the Skrip, and jark it, i.e. to stand engaged, or be bound for any Body.

BLOW
    BLOW, as He has bit his blow, he has stollen the Goods, c.

BLOWER
    BLOWER, a Mistress; also a Whore.

To BLOW off the Groundsils
    To BLOW off the Groundsils, i.e. To lie with a Women on the Floor or Stairs.

To BLOW off the loose Corns
    To BLOW off the loose Corns, To lie now and then with a Woman.

BLUBBER
    BLUBBER, the Mouth, I've stopt the Culls Blubber, I've stopt the Fellow's Mouth; meant either by gagging or murdering him.

BLUBBERING
    BLUBBERING, much Crying.

To look BLUFF
    To look BLUFF, To look big or like Bull-beef.

BLUFFER
    BLUFFER, an Inn-keeper or victualler.

BLUNDERBUS
    BLUNDERBUS, an awkward Fellow.

A BLUSTRING Fellow
    A BLUSTRING Fellow, a rude ratling Hector.

BOARDING-School
    BOARDING-School, Bridewell [[prob. rdg; orig. Briedwell]] or New Prison, or any Work-house, or House of Correction, for Vagrants, Beggars and Villains, c.

BOARDING Scholars
    BOARDING Scholars, Bridewell-Birds.

BOB
    BOB, a Shop-lifts Comerade, Assistant or Receiver.
Bob also signifies Safety.

It is all BOB
    It is all BOB, i.e. All is Safe.

BOBBED
    BOBBED, cheated, tricked, baulked.

BOB-TAIL
    BOB-TAIL, a light woman, also an Eunuch or impotent Fellow.

BOG-LANDERS
    BOG-LANDERS, Irish Men.

BOB-TROTTERS
    BOB-TROTTERS, Scotch or North Country Moss-troopers, or Highway-Men.

BOLTER of White Fryars
    BOLTER of White Fryars, one that peeps out, but dares not venture abroad.

BOLTSPRIT
    BOLTSPRIT, the nose, He has broke his Boltsprit; He has lost his Nose by the Pox.

To BONE
    To BONE, to apprehend, sieze, take or arrest. I'll Bone ye; I'll cause you to be arrested. We shall be Boned, we shall be apprehended for the Robbery. The Cove is Boned and gone to the Whit; the Rogue is taken up and carried to Newgate. The Cull has Boned the Fen  (for Fence) or Bloss that bit the Blow, The Man has taken the Thief that robbed his House or Shop, or picked his Pocket. If he be Boned he must shove the Tumbler; If he be taken he'll be whipt at the Gart's-tail. I have Boned her Dudds, Fagged and Brushed; I have taken away my Mistress's cloaths, beat her and am trooped off. Boning the Fence; Finding the Goods where concealed and siezing them. He made no Bones of it.

BONNY-CLAPPER
    BONNY-CLAPPER, sowre Butter-milk.

BOOTH
    BOOTH, a House, as Heave the Booth; Rob the House.

To Play BOOTY
    To Play BOOTY, to play with a design to lose.

BOOZE
    BOOZE, Vide BOWSE.

BORDE
    BORDE, a Shilling, Half a Borde, Six-pence.

BOTTLE-HEAD
    BOTTLE-HEAD, void of Wit.

BOUGHS
    BOUGHS, as He is up in the Boughs, said of one upon the Rant, or in a great Ferment.

BOUNCE
    BOUNCE, as a meer Bounce, a swaggering Fellow.

BOUNCER
    BOUNCER, a Bully.

BOUNCING-Cheat
    BOUNCING-Cheat, a Bottle.

BOWMAN
    BOWMAN, as a Bowman-Prigg, an eminent Thief or Villain; a dextrous Cheat, or House-breaker.

BOWSE
    BOWSE, Drink, or to drink; see Benbowse [[Bene-Bowse]] and Rumbowse [[Rumbowse is not actually defined]].

BOWSY
    BOWSY, Drunk.

BOWSING KEN
    BOWSING KEN, an Ale-house.

BRACKET-FACE
    BRACKET-FACE, ugly, homely, ill-favoured.

BRAT
    BRAT, a little Child.

BRAVADO
    BRAVADO, a vapouring, or bouncing.

BRAVO
    BRAVO, a mercenary Murderer, that will kill any body.

BRIM, or Brimstone
    BRIM, or Brimstone; a very impudent, lewd Woman.

BROTHER of the Blade
    BROTHER of the Blade, a Sword-man or Soldier.

BROTHER of the Gussit
    BROTHER of the Gussit, a Pimp, Procurer; also a Whore-master.

BROTHER-STARLING
    BROTHER-STARLING, that lies with the same Woman or builds in the same Nest.

BROTHER of the String
    BROTHER of the String, a Fiddler, or Harper.

To BRUSH
    To BRUSH, to flee, or run away. The Cully is brushed or rubbed; The Fellow is marched off or broke. Bought a Brush, run away.

BRUSHER
    BRUSHER, a very full Glass of Liquor.

BUB
    BUB, drink.
Rumbub very good Tipple.

BUBBER
    BUBBER, a drinking Bowl; also a  great Drinker, also one who steals plate from public Houses.

BUBE
    BUBE, the Pox. The Mort tipt the Bube upon the Cully; The Wench has clapped the Fellow.

To BUBBLE
    To BUBBLE, To cheat or decieve. A Bubble, an easy soft Fellow, one that is fit to be imposed on, deluded, or cheated.

BUCK
    BUCK, as a Bold Buck.

BUCK-FITCHES
    BUCK-FITCHES, old leacherous Fellows.

BUCK'S-FACE
    BUCK'S-FACE, a Cuckold.

A BUDGE
    A BUDGE, 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. To Budge, also signifies to stir or move.

BUFF
    BUFF, a Dog.

How dost do my BUFF
    How dost do my BUFF, a familiar Salutation among the Canting Tribe.

To stand BUFF
    To stand BUFF, 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.

BUFFER
    BUFFER, 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.

BUFF-KNAPPER
    BUFF-KNAPPER, 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.

BUFFERS-NAB
    BUFFERS-NAB, a Dog's Head, used in a counterfiet Seal to a false Pass.

BUGGING
    BUGGING, taking Money by Bailiffs and Serjeants of the Defendant not to arrest him.

BUGHER
    BUGHER, a Dog.

BULCHIN
    BULCHIN, a chubbingly Boy or Lad.

BULL
    BULL, as, a Town Bull, a Whore-master.

TO look like BULL beef
    TO look like BULL beef, to look big and grim.

BULK
    BULK, an Assistant to a File or Pick-Pocket, who jostles a Person up against the Wall, while the other picks his Pocket.

BULKER
    BULKER, one that lodges all Night on Shop windows and bulkheads.

BULLS-EYE
    BULLS-EYE, a Crown or Five Shilling Piece.

BULLY
    BULLY, a supposed Husband to a Bawd, or Whore; also a huffing Fellow,  a pretended Bravo, but a Coward at the Bottom.

BULLY-FOP
    BULLY-FOP, a maggot-pated, huffing, silly, rattling Fellow.

BULLY-HUFF
    BULLY-HUFF, 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.

BULLY-COCK
    BULLY-COCK, a Hector or bravo sets on People to quarrel, pretending to be a Second to them; and then making Advantage of both. 

BULLY-RUFFINS
    BULLY-RUFFINS, Highway-men, or Foot Pads, who attack with Oaths and Curses, plunder without Mercy, and frequently murder without Necessity.

BULLY-TRAP
    BULLY-TRAP, a Trapan, a Sharper or Cheat.

BUM
    BUM, a Bailiff or Serjeant.

BUNDLE-TAIL
    BUNDLE-TAIL, a short, fat, or squat Lass.

BUNG
    BUNG, a Purse, Pocket or Fob.

BUNG-NIPPERS
    BUNG-NIPPERS, 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 Files or Pick-Pockets.

BUNTING-TIME
    BUNTING-TIME, when the Grass is high enough to hide the young Men and Maids.

BUNT'LINGS
    BUNT'LINGS, Petticoats.
Hale up the main Buntlings, throw up the Women's Petticoats.

BURNT
    BURNT, poxed, or clapt.

To BURN the Ken
    To BURN the Ken, is when Strollers leave an Alehouse, without paying their Quarters.

BURR
    BURR, a Hanger on or Dependant.

To BUTTER
    To BUTTER, signifies also, to cheat or defraud in a smooth or plausible Manner; as, He'll not be Battered; He's aware of your Design, He's upon his Guard, c.

BUTTER-BOXES
    BUTTER-BOXES, Dutchmen

BUTTERED-BUN
    BUTTERED-BUN, lying with a Woman that has been just lain with by another Man.

BUTTOCK
    BUTTOCK, a Whore.

BUTTOCK-Broker
    BUTTOCK-Broker, a Bawd, also a Match-maker.

A BUTTOCK and File
    A BUTTOCK and File, both Whore and Pickpocket.

BUTTOCK and Twang
    BUTTOCK and Twang, or a down-right Buttock and sham File, a common Whore, but no Pickpocket.

BUZZARD
    BUZZARD, a foolish, soft Fellow, drawn in and culled or tricked.

BY-BLOW
    BY-BLOW, a Bastard.

CACKLE
    CACKLE, to discover.
The Cull Cackles, The Rogue tells all.

CACKLING-CHEATS
    CACKLING-CHEATS, Chickens, Cocks or Hens.

CACKLING-FARTS
    CACKLING-FARTS, Eggs.

CALLE
    CALLE, a Cloak or Gown.

CAMBRIDGE-FORTUNE
    CAMBRIDGE-FORTUNE, a Woman without any Substance.

CAMESA
    CAMESA, a Shirt or Shift.

CAMPAIGN-COAT
    CAMPAIGN-COAT, in a Canting Sense, the ragged, tatter'd, patch'd Coat, worn by Beggars and Gypsies, in order to move Compassion.

CANARY-BIRD
    CANARY-BIRD, a little arch or knavish Boy; a Rogue or Whore taken, and clapp'd into the Cage or Round-house.

CANE upon ABEL
    CANE upon ABEL, a good Stick or Cudgel, well-favouredly laid on a Man's shoulders.

CANK
    CANK, Dumb. The Cull's Cank; the Rogue's Dumb; a Term used by Canters, when one of their Fraternity, being apprehended, upon Examination, confesses nothing.

CANNIKIN
    CANNIKIN, the Plague.

A CANT
    A CANT, an Hypocrite, a Dissembler, a double-tongu'd, whining Person.

CANTING
    CANTING, the mysterious Language of Rogues, Gypsies, Beggars, Thieves, c.

CANTING CREW
    CANTING CREW, Beggars, Gypsies.

To CAP
    To CAP, to Swear. I will Cap downright, I will Swear home.

CAPTAIN-HACKUM
    CAPTAIN-HACKUM, a fighting, blustering Bully.

CAPTAIN-QUEERNABS
    CAPTAIN-QUEERNABS, a Fellow in poor Cloaths, or Shabby.

CAPTAIN-SHARP
    CAPTAIN-SHARP, a great Cheat; also a huffing, yet sneaking, cowardly Bully.

CAPTAIM-TOM
    CAPTAIM-TOM, a Leader of the Mob; also the Mob itself.

CARAVAN
    CARAVAN, a good round Sum of Money about a Man; also him that is cheated of it.

CARRIERS
    CARRIERS, 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.

CARTED-WHORE
    CARTED-WHORE, whipp'd publickly, and pack'd out of Town.

CASE
    CASE, a House, Shop, or Warehouse; also a Bawdy-house. As Toute the Case, view, mark, or eye the House or Shop. 'Tis all Bob; now let us dub  the Gigg of the Case; now the Coast is clear, let us fall on, and break open the door of the House.

A CASE-VROW
    A CASE-VROW, a Whore that plie in a Bawdy-house.

CASH
    CASH, or Cassan, cheese.

CASTER
    CASTER, a Cloak.

CAT
    CAT, a common Whore or Prostitute. Who shall hang the bell about the Cat's Neck? Who shall begin the Attack first?
said of a desperate Undertaking.

CATCH-FART
    CATCH-FART, a Foot-boy.

CATCHING-HARVEST
    CATCHING-HARVEST, a precarious Time for Robbery; when many People are out upon the Road, by means of any adjacent Fair, Horse-race, c.

CATCH-POLL
    CATCH-POLL, a Serjeant, or Bayliff, that arrests People.

CATHARPIN FASHION
    CATHARPIN FASHION, when People in Company drink cross, and not round about from the Right to the Left, or according to the Sun's Motion.

CATTING
    CATTING, drawing a Fellow thro' a Pond with a Cat.
Also whoring.

CATMATCH
    CATMATCH, when a Rook or Cully is engag'd amongst bad Bowlers.

CAVAULTING SCHOOL
    CAVAULTING SCHOOL, a Bawdy-house.

CAUDGE-PAW'D
    CAUDGE-PAW'D, Left-handed.

CAW-HANDED
    CAW-HANDED, awkward, not dextrous, ready or nimble.

CHAF'D
    CHAF'D, well beaten or bang'd.

CHAPT
    CHAPT, dry or thirsty.

CHARACTERED
    CHARACTERED, Burnt in the Hand; as, They have pawn'd the Character upon him; i.e. They have burnt the Rogue in the Hand.

CHATES
    CHATES, the Gallows.

CHATTS
    CHATTS, Lice.
To Squeeze the Chatts; To crack or kill those Vermin.

CHICKEN
    CHICKEN, a feeble little Creature, of mean Spirit.

CHINK
    CHINK, Money, so call'd because it chinks in the Pocket.

A CHIP
    A CHIP, a Child.
As, A Chip of the old Block; A Son that is his Father's likeness.

CHIRPING-MERRY
    CHIRPING-MERRY, very pleasant over a Glass of good Liquor.

CHIT
    CHIT, a Dandyprat, or Durgen, a little trifling-Fellow.

CHITTIFACE
    CHITTIFACE, a little puny Child.

CHIVE
    CHIVE, a Kinfe, File or Saw.

To CHIVE his Darbies
    To CHIVE his Darbies, To saw asunder his Irons or Fetters.

To CHOP
    To CHOP, to change or barter. Also a Job, or Booty, as A Chop by Chance, a rare Booty, when 'twas not expected.

To CHOP
    To CHOP, is also used to make Dispatch, to slubber over in Post-haste, as  The Autem-Bawler, will soon quit the Hums, for he chops up the Whiners; i.e. The Parson will soon have dispatch'd the Congregation, for he huddles over the Prayers.

To CHOUSE
    To CHOUSE, to cheat or trick.

CHUB
    CHUB, He is a young Chub, or a meer Chub, very ignorant or unexperienc'd in Gaming, not at all acquainted with Sharping. A good Chub, said by the Butchers, when they have bit a silly raw Customer.

CHUCK-FARTHING
    CHUCK-FARTHING, a Parish Clerk.

CLACK
    CLACK, a Woman's Tongue.

CLAN
    CLAN, a Family, Tribe, Faction, or Party, in Scotland chiefly, but now any where else.

CLANK
    CLANK, a Silver-tankard.

CLANKER
    CLANKER, a swinging Lye.

CLANK NAPPER
    CLANK NAPPER, a Silver-tankard Stealer.
See Rumbubber.

CLAPPERDOGEON
    CLAPPERDOGEON, a Beggar born and bred.

CLAW'D-OFF
    CLAW'D-OFF, lustily lash'd. Also swingingly pox'd or clap'd.

CLEAR
    CLEAR, very Drunk. The Cull is clear, let's Bite him.
The Fellow is very drunk, let's Sharp him.

CLEAVE
    CLEAVE, as, One that will cleave; used of a Wanton Woman.
Vide Clown

CLENCH
    CLENCH, a Pun or Quibble.

To CLENCH
    To CLENCH, to nick a Business by timing it; as The Cull has clench'd the Job at a Pinch.
The Rogue has nick'd the Time, before any Passengers came by, who might have rescu'd the plunder'd Person.

CLEYMS
    CLEYMS, 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.

CLERK'D
    CLERK'D, sooth'd, sunn'd imposed on; The Cull will not be Clerk'd, i.e. He will not be caught or taken by fair Words.

To CLICK
    To CLICK, to Snatch.
I have Clickt the Nab from the Cull; I whipt the Hat from the Man's Head. Click the rum Topping. Snatch that Woman's fine Commode, or Head-Dress.

CLICKER
    CLICKER, [among the Canters.]
He whom they intrust to divide their Spoils, and proportion to every one his Share.

CLICKET
    CLICKET, Copulation of Foxes, and thence used in a Canting Sense, for that of Men and Women; as The Cull and the Mort are at Clicket in the Dyke.

CLICKETING
    CLICKETING, the Act of Fruition.

CLINKER
    CLINKER, a crafty Fellow.

CLINKERS
    CLINKERS, the Irons Felons wear in Goals.

CLOAK-TWITCHERS
    CLOAK-TWITCHERS, Villains who lurk in by and dark Places, to snatch them off the Wearer's Shoulders.

CLOD-HOPPER
    CLOD-HOPPER, a Ploughman.

CLOUD
    CLOUD, Tobacco.
Will you raise a Cloud? Will you smoak a Pipe?

CLOVEN, Cleave, or Cleft
    CLOVEN, Cleave, or Cleft; used of a young Woman who passes for a Maid, and is not one.

CLOUT
    CLOUT, a Handkerchief.

To CLOY
    To CLOY, to Steal.
Cloy the Clout; steal the Money.

CLOYERS
    CLOYERS, Thieves, Robbers, Rogues.

CLOYING
    CLOYING, Stealing, Thieving, Robbing.

CLOWES
    CLOWES, Rogues.

To CLUCK
    To CLUCK, a Wench's Propension to Male-Conversation, by her romping and playfulness; when they say, The Mort Clucks.

CUMP
    CUMP, a Heap or Lump.

CLUMPISH
    CLUMPISH, Lumpish.

CLUNCH
    CLUNCH, a clumsy Clown, an awkward or unhandy Fellow.

CLY
    CLY, Money. To cly the Jerk, to be Whipt.
Let's strike his Cly; Let's get his Money from him.
Also a Pocket, as, Filed a Cly, Pick'd a Pocket.

COACH-WHEEL
    COACH-WHEEL, as, A Fore-Coach-Wheel Half a Crown. A Hind-Coach-Wheel, a Crown or Five-shilling Piece.

COB
    COB, an Irish Dollar.

COBBLE-COLTER
    COBBLE-COLTER, a Turkey.
A rum Cobble-colter, a fat large Cock-Turkey.

COCK-BAWD
    COCK-BAWD, a Man who follows that base Employment, of procuring; a Pimp.

COCKISH
    COCKISH, wanton, uppish, forward.

COCK-PIMP
    COCK-PIMP, a supposed Husband to a Bawd.

COCK-ROBBIN
    COCK-ROBBIN, a soft easy Fellow.

COCK-SURE
    COCK-SURE, very sure.

COD
    COD, a good Sum of Money; also a Fool.
A meer Cod, a silly, shallow Fellow.
A rum Cod; a good round Sum of Money.
An honest Cod; a trusty Friend.

COD's-Head
    COD's-Head, a Fool.

COFE
    COFE, as COVE.
Which See.

To COG
    To COG, to cheat at Dice.
To Cog a Die; to conceal or secure a Die; also the Money or whatever the Sweetners  drop, to draw in the Bubbles: Also to wheedle.

To COG a Dinner
    To COG a Dinner, to wheedle one out of a Dinner.

COG a Clout, or, Cog a Sneezer
    COG a Clout, or, Cog a Sneezer; Beg an Handkerchief, or Snuff box.

COGUE
    COGUE, of brandy, a small Cup or Dram.

COKER
    COKER, a Lye.
Rum Coker, a whisking Lye.

COLD-Tea
    COLD-Tea, Brandy.
A couple of cold Words, a Curtain-Lecture.
Cold Iron, a derisory Periphrasis for a Sword.

COLE
    COLE, Money.

COLLEGE
    COLLEGE, Newgate; New College, the Royal-Exchange.

COLLEGIATES
    COLLEGIATES, the Prisoners of the one, and the Shop-keepers of the other of those Places.

To COLLOGUE
    To COLLOGUE, wheedle.

COLQUARRON
    COLQUARRON, a Man's Neck; as, His Colquarron is just about to be twisted. He is just going to be turn'd off.

COLT
    COLT, an Inn-keeper that lends a Horse to a Highway-man, or to Gentleman Beggars; also a Lad newly initiated into Roguery.

COLT-BOWL
    COLT-BOWL, laid short of the Jack, by a [COLT-BOWLER]

COL-BOWLER
    COL-BOWLER, a raw or unexperienced Person.

To COME
    To COME, to lend.
Has he come it? Has he lent it to you?

COMING-Women
    COMING-Women, such as are free of their Flesh; also breeding Women.

COMMISSION
    COMMISSION, a shirt.

COMMON-Garden-Gout
    COMMON-Garden-Gout, or rather Covent-Garden-Gout, the Foul Disease.

COMFORTABLE-Importance
    COMFORTABLE-Importance, a Wife.

CONFECT
    CONFECT, conterfeit, feigned.

CONTENT
    CONTENT, I beat him to his Heart's Content; till he had enough of Fighting. Also to murder a Person, who resists being robb'd.
The Cull's Content; i.e. He is past complaining.

CONTRE-TEMPS
    CONTRE-TEMPS, a fruitless Attempt, or at an unseasonable Time.

CONVENIENT
    CONVENIENT, a Mistress; also a Whore.

CONVENIENCY
    CONVENIENCY, a Wife; also a Mistress.

CONUNDRUMS
    CONUNDRUMS, Whims, Maggots, and such like.

CONY, or Tom Cony
    CONY, or Tom Cony; a silly Fellow; A meer Cony, very silly indeed.

A COLD-COOK
    A COLD-COOK, an Undertaker of Funerals.

COOK-RUFFIN
    COOK-RUFFIN, the Devil of a Cook; or a very bad one.

COOL-CRAPE
    COOL-CRAPE, When a Person dies, he is said to be put into his Cool-crape.

COOLER
    COOLER, a Woman.

COOL-LADY
    COOL-LADY, a Wench that sells Brandy (in Camps) a Suttler.

COOL-NANTZ
    COOL-NANTZ, Brandy.

CORK-BRAIN'D
    CORK-BRAIN'D, a very impudent, harden'd, brazen-faced Fellow.

COSTARD
    COSTARD, the Head.
I'll give ye a Knock on the Costard; I'll hit ye a Blow on the Pate.

COTTON
    COTTON, They don't cotton; They don't agree well.

To COUCH
    To COUCH, to lie down, as To Couch a Hogshead; To go to Bed.

COVE
    COVE, a Man, a Fellow; also a Rogue.
The Cove was Bit; The Rogue was out-sharped or out-witted.
The Cove has bit the Cole; The Rogue has stollen the Money.
That Cove's a rum Diver; That Fellow is a clever Pick-pocket.

COVEY of Whores
    COVEY of Whores, a well-fill'd Bawdy-house.

COUNTERFEIT-CRANK
    COUNTERFEIT-CRANK, 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.

VOURT-card
    VOURT-card, a gay, fluttering Fellow.

COURT-Holy-Water, COURT-Promises
    COURT-Holy-Water, COURT-Promises; fair Speeches without Performance.

COURT-Tricks
    COURT-Tricks, State-Policy c.

COWS-BABY
    COWS-BABY, a Calf.

CRACK
    CRACK, a Whore.

To CRACK
    To CRACK, is also used to break open; as, To Crack up a Door; To break a Door open.

CRACKER
    CRACKER, the Backside; also Crust.

CRACKING
    CRACKING, boasting, vapouring.

CRACKISH
    CRACKISH, whorish.

CRACKMANS
    CRACKMANS, Hedges; as, The Cull thought to have lop'd, by breaking thro' the Crackmans; but we fetch'd him back by a Nope on the Costard, which made him silent; i.e. 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.

CRAG
    CRAG, a Neck; also the Stomach, or Womb.

CRAMP-RINGS
    CRAMP-RINGS, Bolts or Shackles.

CRAMP-WORDS
    CRAMP-WORDS, Sentence of Death passed upon a Criminal by the Judge: as, He has just undergone the  Cramp-Word; i.e. Sentence is just passed upon him.

CRANK
    CRANK, brisk, pert.

CRAP
    CRAP, Money.
Nim the Crap; Steal the Money.
Wheedle for Crap; To coax Money out of any Body.

CRASH
    CRASH, to Kill.
Crash the Cull, i.e. Kill the Fellow.

CRASHING-Cheats
    CRASHING-Cheats, Teeth.

CREATURES
    CREATURES, Men raised by others, and their Tools ever after.

To CREEME
    To CREEME, to slip or slide any Thing into another's Hand.

CREW
    CREW, a Knot or Gang; as, A Crew of Rogues, c.

CRIMP
    CRIMP, as, To play Crimp, to lay or bet on one Side, and (by foul Play) to let the other win, having a Share of the Purchase.

Run a CRIMP
    Run a CRIMP, to run a Race or Horse-match foully or knavishly.

He CRIMPS it
    He CRIMPS it, He plays booty.
A crimping Fellow, a sneaking Cur.

CRINKUMS
    CRINKUMS, the foul Disease.

CROCKERS
    CROCKERS, Fore-stallers, Regraters; otherwise called Kidders and Tranters.

CROKER
    CROKER, a Groat or Fourpence. The Cull tipt me a Croker, the Fellow gave me a Groat.

CRONY
    CRONY, a Comerade [in a Canting Sense.]
Two or Three Rogues, who agree to beg or rob in Partnership, call one another Crony; as, Such a one is my Crony; as much as to say, He and I go Snacks.

CROP
    CROP, Money.

CROPPIN
    CROPPIN, the Tail, as, The Croppin of the Rotan, The Tail of the Cart.

CROPPIN-KEN
    CROPPIN-KEN, a Privy or Bog-house.

To CROSS-BITE
    To CROSS-BITE, to draw in a Friend, yet snack with the Sharper; also to countermine or disappoint.

CROWN Office
    CROWN Office, as, He is got into the Crown Office, i.e. He's got drunk.

CRUISERS
    CRUISERS, Beggars; Also Highway Spies, who traverse the Road, to give Intelligence of a Booty, c.

CRUMP
    CRUMP, one that helps Sollicitors to Affidavit-Men.

CRUSTY-BEAU
    CRUSTY-BEAU, one that lies with a Cover over his Face all Night, and uses Washes, Paint, c.

Young CUB
    Young CUB, a new Gamester drawn in to be rook'd.

CUCUMBERS
    CUCUMBERS, Taylors.

CUDGELLIERS
    CUDGELLIERS, a Mob rudely arm'd; also Cudgel-Players.

CUFFIN
    CUFFIN, a Man.

CUFFIN-QUIRE
    CUFFIN-QUIRE, See Quire Cuffin.

CULP
    CULP, a Kick or Blow.

CULL
    CULL, a Man, either honest, or  otherwise.
A Bob-Cull, a Sweet-humour'd Man to a Wench.
The Cull naps us; The Person robb'd apprehends us.
A curst Cull, an ill-natur'd Fellow, a Churl to a Woman.

CULLY
    CULLY, a Fop, a Fool, one who is easily drawn in and cheated by Whores and Rogues.

CUNNING-Shaver
    CUNNING-Shaver, a sharp Fellow, one that sharps or shaves (as they call it) close.

CUP-SHOT
    CUP-SHOT, Drunk.

CUP of the Creature
    CUP of the Creature, strong-Liquor.

CURLE
    CURLE, Clippings of Money.

CURSITORS
    CURSITORS, 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.

CURTAILS
    CURTAILS, 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.

CURTAIL'D
    CURTAIL'D, cut off, dock'd, shorten'd, reduced.

CURTAIN-Lecture
    CURTAIN-Lecture, Womens impertinent scolding at their Husbands behind the Curtain.

CURTEZAN
    CURTEZAN, a genteel fine Miss, or Quality Whore.

CUT
    CUT, Drunk.
Deep Cut, very Drunk.
Cut in the Leg or Back, the same.
To Cut, also signifies to speak. To Cut bene, to speak gently, civilly or kindly; To Cut bene (or benar) Whidds, to give good Words.
To Cut queere Whid's, to give ill Language.
A Blow with a Stick or Cane, is also called a Cut.
As, I took him a Cut cross the Shoulders.

DAB
    DAB, expert, well vers'd in Roguery. A Rum Dab, a very dextrous Fellow at Thieving, Cheating, Sharping, c.

DACE
    DACE, Two-pence; Tip me a Dace, Lend me Two-pence, or pay so much for me.

DAG
    DAG, a Gun.

DAMBER
    DAMBER, a Rascal.
See Dimber

DAMME-BOY
    DAMME-BOY, a roaring, mad, blustring Fellow, a Scourer of the Streets.

DANCERS
    DANCERS, Stairs.

DANDYPRAT
    DANDYPRAT, a little puny Fellow.

DARBY
    DARBY, ready Money; as, The Cull tipp'd us the Darby; The Fellow gave us all his ready Money.

DARBIES
    DARBIES, Irons, Shackles or Fetters.

DARK Cully
    DARK Cully, a married Man, who keeps a Mistress, and creeps to her in the Night, for fear of Discovery.

DARKMANS
    DARKMANS, the Night; The Child of Darkmans or Darkness, a Bell-man.

DARKMANS-Budge
    DARKMANS-Budge, one that slides into a House in the Dusk, to let in more Rogues to rob.

DASH
    DASH, a Tavern-Drawer.

DAWB
    DAWB, a Bribe, a Reward for secret Service; as, The Cull was gybbed, because he could not dawb.
The Rogue was punished, because he had no Pence to bribe off his Sentence.

DEAD Cargo
    DEAD Cargo, a Term used by Rogues, when they are disappointed in
the Value of their Booty.

DEAD-MEN
    DEAD-MEN, empty Pots or Bottles ona Tavern Table.

DEAR Joyes
    DEAR Joyes, Irishmen

DECUS
    DECUS, a Crown or Five Shilling Piece.

DEFT Fellow
    DEFT Fellow, a tidy, neat, little Man.

DEGEN
    DEGEN, a Sword.
Nim the Degen, whip the Sword from the Gentleman's side.

DELLS
    DELLS, young bucksome Wenches, rip and prone to Venery, but who have not lost their Virginity, which the Upright Man pretends to, and seizes: Then she is free for any of the Fraternity.
Also a common Strumpet.

DEVIL-drawer
    DEVIL-drawer, a sorry Painter.

DEUSEAVILE
    DEUSEAVILE, the Country.

DEUSEAVILE-Stampers
    DEUSEAVILE-Stampers, Country Carriers.

DEWS-wins, or, Deux-wins
    DEWS-wins, or, Deux-wins; Two-pence.

DIDDLE
    DIDDLE, Geneva, a Liquor very much drank by the lowest Rank of People.

DIMBER
    DIMBER, pretty.

DIMBER-Cove
    DIMBER-Cove, a pretty Fellow.

DIMBER-Damber
    DIMBER-Damber, a Top Man or Prince amongst the Canting Crew; also the chief Rogue of the Gang, or the compleatest Cheat.

DIMBER-Mort
    DIMBER-Mort, a pretty Wench.

To DING
    To DING, to knock down.

DING-Boy
    DING-Boy, a Rogue, a Hector, a Bully, a Sharper.

DING-Dong
    DING-Dong, helter-skelter.

DIPT
    DIPT, engag'd or in Debt, pawn'd or mortgag'd.

DISMAL-Ditty
    DISMAL-Ditty, a Psalm at the Gallows.

DISPATCHES
    DISPATCHES, a Mittimus, a Justice  of Peace's Warrant to send a Rogue to Prison, c.

To DIVE
    To DIVE, to pick a Pocket.

DIVER
    DIVER, a Pick-pocket.
See File.

DOASH
    DOASH, a Cloak.

To DOCK
    To DOCK, to lie witha Woman. The Cull Docks the Dell in the Darkmans; the Rogue lay with the Wench all Night.

DOCTOR
    DOCTOR, a false Die that will run but two or three Chances.
They put the Doctor upon him; they cheated him with false Dice.

DOMERARS, or DROMMERARS
    DOMERARS, or DROMMERARS; 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.

DOSE
    DOSE, Burglary, a breaking open a House, Lock, Door, c. as, He is cast for Felon and Dose; i. e. found Guilty of Felony and Burglary.

DOWN-HILLS
    DOWN-HILLS, Dice that run low.

DOXIES
    DOXIES, She beggars, Wenches, Whores.

DRAB
    DRAB, a Whore, or Slut; a dirty Drab, a very nasty Slut.

DRAWERS
    DRAWERS, Stockens.

DRAW-Latches
    DRAW-Latches, Robbers of Houses that were fastened only by Latches.

DRIPPER
    DRIPPER, a sort of Clap, or venereal Gleet.

DROMEDARY
    DROMEDARY, a heavy, bundling Thief or Rogue.
A purple Dromedary; a Bungler or a dull Fellow at Thieving.

DROMMERARS
    DROMMERARS, See Domerars.

DROP a Cog
    DROP a Cog, to let fall (with Design to draw in and cheat) a Piece of Gold; also the Piece itself.

DROP in his Eye
    DROP in his Eye, almost drunk.

DRUMBELO
    DRUMBELO, a dull, heavy Fellow.

DRY-Bob
    DRY-Bob, a smart or sharp Repartee.

DRY-Boots
    DRY-Boots, a sly, close cunning Fellow.

DUB
    DUB, a pick-lock Key.

DUB the Gigger
    DUB the Gigger, open the Door. We'll strike it upon the Dub, We will rob that Place.

DUBBER
    DUBBER, a Picker of Locks.

A DUCE
    A DUCE, Two pence.

DUDDS
    DUDDS, Cloaths or Goods.
Rum Dudds; fine or rich Cloaths or Goods.

DUDD-Cheats
    DUDD-Cheats, Cloaths and things stollen.
Abraham Cove has wonne, (or bit) Rumm Dudds; the poor Fellow has stollen very costly Cloaths.

To DUM-found
    To DUM-found, to beat soundly.

DUNAKER
    DUNAKER, a Stealer or Cows, or Calves, c.

DUDDERING Rake
    DUDDERING Rake, a thundering Rake, or of the first Rank, one devilishly lewd.

DUP
    DUP, to enter, or open a Door: Dup the Ken, Enter the House.
Dup the Boozing Ken and booz a Gage, Go into the Ale-house and drink a Pot.

DUST
    DUST, Money; Down with your Dust, Deposite your Money.

DUST it away
    DUST it away, Drink quick about.

DUTCH-Reckoning, or Alte-mall
    DUTCH-Reckoning, or Alte-mall; a verbal or lump Accompt, without Particulars; as brought in at the Spunging-Houses, at Bawdy Houses, and other such like Places of ill Repute.

EAGLE
    EAGLE, a winning Gamester.

EARNEST
    EARNEST, Part or Share. Tip me my Earnest, Give me my Snack or Dividend.

EASY
    EASY, facile, supple, pliable, mnageable. As make the Cull easy; Gagg him, tht he may make no Noise;sometimes used for murdering a Person robbed, for fear of Discovery.

EBB water
    EBB water, when there is but little money in the Pocket.

EDGE
    EDGE, as, Fall Back, fall Edge; i.e. At all Adventures; used to express a villainous and daring Resolution for Mischief, whatever may be the Consequence.

To EDGE
    To EDGE, or, as 'tis vulgarly call'd, To EGG one on; to stimulate, provoke, push forwards, so sharpen, or whet on for Mischief.

ELBOW-shaker
    ELBOW-shaker, a Ganester or Sharper.

ELF
    ELF, little.

EMPTY
    EMPTY, as, The Cull looks Empty; or, 'Tis all Empty; i.e. the Person or House has not the Riches reported, or is not worth attempting.

ENGLISH Manufacture
    ENGLISH Manufacture, Ale, Beer, or Cyder.

EQUIPT
    EQUIPT, rich; also having new Cloaths.
Well equipt, plump in the Pocket, or very full of Money; also very well drest.
The Cull equipt me with a Brace of Meggs, The Gentleman furnish'd me with a Coupleof Guineas.

ERIFFS
    ERIFFS, Rogues just initiated, and beginning to practice.

EVES
    EVES, Hen-Roosts.

EVES-Dropper
    EVES-Dropper, one that lurks about to rob or steal.

EWE, or, The white Ewe
    EWE, or, The white Ewe; a Top-woman very beautiful.

FACER
    FACER, a Bumber without Lip-room.

FADGE
    FADGE, as, It won't fadge or do.

FAG
    FAG, to Beat; as, Fag the Bloss, Bang the Wench; Fag the Fen, Drub the Whore.
Whence [[to Faggot, next entry]].

To FAGGOT
    To FAGGOT, to bind Hand and Foot; as Faggot the Culls; i.e. Bind the Men.

FAIR-Roe-Buck
    FAIR-Roe-Buck, a Woman in the Bloom of her Beauty.

FAMBLE-Cheats
    FAMBLE-Cheats, Gold Rings, or Gloves.

FAMBLERS
    FAMBLERS, Villains that go up and down selling counterfeit rings, c.

FAMBLES
    FAMBLES, Rings; also the Hands.

To FAMGRASP
    To FAMGRASP, to agree or make up a Difference.
Famgrasp the Cove, to agree with the Adversary.

FAMILY of Love
    FAMILY of Love, Lew'd Women, Whores; also a Sect.

FAMMS
    FAMMS, Hands.

FARTING-Crackers
    FARTING-Crackers, Breeches.

FASTNER
    FASTNER, a Warrant.

FASTNESS
    FASTNESS, Boggs.

FAT
    FAT, rich, as, A Fat Cull; a rich Fellow.

FAULKNER
    FAULKNER, a Tumbler, a Juggler, a Shewer of Tricks, c.

FAYTORS, or FATORS
    FAYTORS, or FATORS; A kind of Gypsies, pretending to tell People their Fate or Destiny, or what they were born to.

FEATHER-bed-lane
    FEATHER-bed-lane, any bad Road, but particularly that betwixt Dunchurch and Daintry.
To Feather his nest, to inrich himself by indirect Means, or at the expence of others.

FEINTING
    FEINTING, an Attempt on one part of a House, or Road, c. when their cheif Stress or Attempt lies in another.

FEN
    FEN, a Strumpet, or Bawd, a common prostitute.

To FENCE
    To FENCE, to spend, Fence his Hog, spend his Shilling.

A FENCE
    A FENCE, is also a Receiver and Securer of Stollen Goods.

FENCING-Cully
    FENCING-Cully, the fame.

FENCING-Ken
    FENCING-Ken, a Warehouse, where Stollen Goods are secured.

FERME
    FERME, a Hole.

FERMERLY-Beggars
    FERMERLY-Beggars, all those that have not the sham Sores or Cleymes.

FERRET
    FERRET, a Parn-broker, or Tradesman that sells Goods upn Trust at excessive Rates, and then hunts them, and often throws them into Goal, where they perish for his Debt.

FERRETED
    FERRETED, cheated

FETCH
    FETCH, a Trick or Wheedle.
A meer Fetch.

To FIB
    To FIB, to beat; Fib the Cove's Quarron in the Rompad, for the Lour in his Bung.
Beat the Man in the Highway for the Money in his Purse.

FIDDLE
    FIDDLE, a Writ to Arrest.

FIDLERS-Pay
    FIDLERS-Pay, Thanks and Wine.

To FILCH
    To FILCH, to Steal.

A FILCH
    A FILCH, 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.

FILCHERS
    FILCHERS, the same with ANGLERS.

FILCHING-Cove
    FILCHING-Cove, a Man-Thief.

FILCHING-Mort
    FILCHING-Mort, a Woman-Thief.

To FILE
    To FILE, to Rob, or Cheat.

A FILE, or Bungnipper
    A FILE, or Bungnipper; Pick-pockets, who generally go in Company with a Rogue, called a Bulk or Bulker, whose Business 'tis to jostle the Person against the Wall, while the File picks his Pocket; and generally gives it to an Adam-tiler, who scowers off with it.

FILE-Cloy
    FILE-Cloy, a Pick-Pocket, Thief or Rogue; the same as FILE.

FIRE-Ship
    FIRE-Ship, a Pockey Whore.

FLAG
    FLAG, a Groat; The Flag of Defiance is out, (among the Tarrs) the Fellow's Face is very red, and he is drunk.

FLAM
    FLAM, a Trick or Sham Story.

FLANDERS-Fortunes
    FLANDERS-Fortunes, of small Substance.

FLANDERS-Pieces
    FLANDERS-Pieces, Pictures that look fair at a Distance, but coarser near at Hand.

FLAP DRAGON
    FLAP DRAGON, a Clap or Pox.

FLASH
    FLASH, a Peruke.
Rum Flash, a long, full, high-priz'd Wig.
Queer-Flash, a sorry weather-beaten Wig.

FLASH-Ken
    FLASH-Ken, a House were Thieves use, and are connived at.

FLAW'D
    FLAW'D, Drunk.

To FLEECE
    To FLEECE, to Rob, Plunder or Strip.

FLESH Broker
    FLESH Broker, a Match-maker; also a Bawd.

FLIBUSTERS
    FLIBUSTERS, West Indian Pirates, or Buckaneers, Free-booters.

FLICKER
    FLICKER, a Drinking Glass.
The Flicker snapt, the Glass is broken.
Nim the Flicker.
Steal the Glass.
Rum Flicker, a large Glass or Rummer. Queer Flicker, a green or ordinary Glass.

FLICKING
    FLICKING, to cut, cutting, as, Flick me some Panom and Cossam; Cut me some Bread and Cheese.
And, Flick the Peter, cut off the Cloak-bag or Portmanteau.

FLOGG
    FLOGG, to Whip

FLOGG'D
    FLOGG'D, severely lash'd.

FLOGG'D at the Tumbler
    FLOGG'D at the Tumbler, whipt at the Cart's Arse.

FLOGGING
    FLOGGING, a naked Woman's whipping with Rods an old (usually) and (sometimes) a young Letcher. 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, i. e. The Rogue was dragg'd at the Cart's tail through the chief Streets of London, and was soundly whipt by the Hangman.

FLOGGING-Cove
    FLOGGING-Cove, the Beadle, or Whipper in Bridewell, or any such Place.

FLOGGING-Cully
    FLOGGING-Cully, an old Letcher, who, to stimulate himself to Venery, causes himself to be whipp'd with Rods.

FLOGGING-Stake
    FLOGGING-Stake, a whipping Post.

FLORENCE
    FLORENCE, a Wench that is touz'd and ruffled.

FLUSH in the Pocket
    FLUSH in the Pocket, full of Money. The Cull is Flush in the Fob, the Spark's Pocket is well lin'd with Money.

FLUSTER'D
    FLUSTER'D, Drunk.

FLUTE
    FLUTE, the Recorder of London, or of any other Town.

FLYERS
    FLYERS, Shoes.

FLYING Camps
    FLYING Camps, Beggars plying in Bodies at Funerals.

FOB
    FOB, a Cheat, or Trick.

FOB off
    FOB off, to cheat or deceive.

FOG
    FOG, Smoke.

FOGUS
    FOGUS, Tobacco. Tip me a Gage of Fogus, Give me a Pipe of Tobacco.

FOOTMAN's Mawn'd
    FOOTMAN's Mawn'd, 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.

FOOT-Pads, or LOW Pads
    FOOT-Pads, or LOW Pads; 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.

FORMAN of the Jury
    FORMAN of the Jury, one that engrosses all the Talk to himself.

FORK
    FORK, a Pick-pocket.
Lets Fork him; Let us pick that Man's Pocket.  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.

A FORK
    A FORK, is also used for a Spendthrift.

FORLORN-Hope
    FORLORN-Hope, losing Gamesters.

FORTUNE-Hunters
    FORTUNE-Hunters, Irishmen, Pursuers of rich Heiresses, c. to obtain them in Marriage.
A Creature of Fortune, one that lives by his Wit.

FORTUNE-Tellers
    FORTUNE-Tellers, the Judges of Life and Death.

FOUNDLING
    FOUNDLING, a Child dropt in the Streets for the Parish to keep.

A FOX
    A FOX, a sharp, cunning Fellow.

FOXED
    FOXED, Drunk.

FOYST
    FOYST, a Cheat, a Rogue.

FRATERS
    FRATERS, such as beg with sham Patents or Briefs for Spitals, Prisons, Fires, Innundations, c.

FREE-Booters
    FREE-Booters, lawless Robbers, and Plunderers; also Soldiers serving for that Privilege without Pay, Inroaders.

FREEHOLDER
    FREEHOLDER, he whose Wife goes with him to the Alehouse.

FREEZE
    FREEZE, 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.
A Freezing Vintner, a vintner that balderdashes his Wine.

FRENCH Gout
    FRENCH Gout, the Pox.
A Blow with a French Faggot stick, when the Nose is fallen by the Pox.

FRENCHIFIED
    FRENCHIFIED, clapt or Poxt.

FRIGOT well rigged
    FRIGOT well rigged, a Woman well drest and genteel.

FROE
    FROE, for Vrowe, (Dutch) a Wife, Mistress, or Whore, Brush to your Froe (or Blos) and wheedle for Crap, whip to your Mistress, and speak her fair to give, or lend you some Money.

FROG-Landers
    FROG-Landers, Dutchmen.

FRUMMAGEMM'D
    FRUMMAGEMM'D, choaked, strangled, or hanged.

FRUMP
    FRUMP, a dry Bob, or Jest.

FUDDLE
    FUDDLE, Drink.
This is rum Fuddle, this is excellent Tipple.

FUDDLE-Cap
    FUDDLE-Cap, a Drunkard.

FUN
    FUN, a Cheat, or slippery Trick; What do you fun me? Do you think to sharp or trick me?
He put the fun upon the Cull, he sharped the Fellow.

FUN
    FUN, is also used for the Backside; as, I'll kick your Fun, i. e. I'll kick your Breech.
Likewise for Game of Diversion; as We had rare Fun with him.

FUNK
    FUNK, Tobacco Smoak.

FUR-Men
    FUR-Men, Aldermen.

FUSSOCKS
    FUSSOCKS, as A meer Fussocks, a lazy fat wench.
A fat Fussocks, a fat fulsom, strapping Woman.

FUSTILUGGS
    FUSTILUGGS, a fulsom, beastly, nasty Woman.

GAG
    GAG, to put iron pins into the Mouths of the Robbed, to hinder them from crying out.

GAGE
    GAGE, a Pot or Pipe.
Tip me a Gage, give me a Pot or Pipe.

GAME
    GAME, Bubbles drawn in to be cheated; also at a Bawdy house, lewd Women.
Have ye any Game Mother? Have ye any Whores, Mistress bawd.

GAN
    GAN, a Mouth.

GANS
    GANS, the Lips.

GANG
    GANG, an ill Knot or Crew of Thieves, Pick-pockets or Miscreants.

GAOL'ERS-Coach
    GAOL'ERS-Coach, a Hurdle.

GARNISH-Money
    GARNISH-Money, what is customarily spent among the Prisoners at first coming in.

GEE
    GEE, as It won't Gee, it won't hit, or go.

GELT, or Gelt [sic]
    GELT, or Gelt [sic]; Money.

GENTRY-Cove
    GENTRY-Cove, a Gentleman.

GENTRY-Cove-Ken
    GENTRY-Cove-Ken, a Nobleman's or Gentleman's House.

GENTRY-Mort
    GENTRY-Mort, a Gentlewoman.

GEORGE
    GEORGE, a Half-Crown piece.

GIG
    GIG, a Nose; also a Woman's Privities. Snichel the Gig, fillip the Fellow on the Nose.
A young Gig, a wanton Lass.

GIGGER
    GIGGER, a Door, Dub the Gigger, that we may ravage the Ken, i. e. Open the Door with the Pick-lock, that we go in and rob the House.

GIG'GLERS
    GIG'GLERS, wanton Women.

GILL
    GILL, a Quartern (of Brandy, Wine c.) also a homely Woman.

GILL-FLURT
    GILL-FLURT, a proud Minks; also a Slut or light Housewife.

GILT, or Rum dubber
    GILT, or Rum dubber; a Picklock, so called from Gilt, or Key; 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.

GIMCRACK
    GIMCRACK, a spruce Wench.

GINGER-Bread
    GINGER-Bread, Money.

GINGERLY
    GINGERLY, gently, soft, easily.

GINGUMBOBS
    GINGUMBOBS, Toys or Baubles.

GINNY
    GINNY, an Instrument to lift up a Grate, the better to steal what is in the Window.

To GLAVER
    To GLAVER, to fawn and flatter.

GLAZE
    GLAZE, a Window.

GLAZIER
    GLAZIER, one that creeps in at Casements, or unrips Glass-Windows to filch and steal.

GLAZIERS
    GLAZIERS, Eyes.
The Cove has rum Glaziers.

GLIB
    GLIB, smooth, without a Rub.

GLIM
    GLIM, a Dark-Lanthorn used in robbing Houses; also to burn in the Hand as if the Cull was Glimmed, he'll gang to the Nub; i.e. if the Fellow has been burnt in the Hand, he'll be hanged now.

GLIMFENDERS
    GLIMFENDERS, Andirons.
Rum Glimfenders, silver Andirons.

GLIMFLASHY
    GLIMFLASHY, angry, or in a Passion. The Cull is glimflashy, the Fellow is in a Heat.

GLIMJACK
    GLIMJACK, a Link-boy.

GLIMMER
    GLIMMER, Fire.

GLIMMERER
    GLIMMERER, such as with sham Licences, pretend to Losses by Fire c.

GLIMSTICK
    GLIMSTICK, a Candle-stick.
Rum Glimsticks, Silver Candlesticks.
Queer Glimsticks, Brass, Pewter or Iron Candlesticks.

GOADS
    GOADS, those that wheedle in Chapmen for Horse-coursers.

GOAT
    GOAT, a Letcher, or very lascivious Person.

GOATISH
    GOATISH, letcherous, wanton, lustfull.

GOB
    GOB, the Mouth; also a Bit or Morsel; hence Gobbets, now in use for Bits; Gift of the Gob, a wide, open Mouth; also a good Songster, or Singing Master.

GOBBLER
    GOBBLER, a Turkey-Cock.

GOING upon the Dub
    GOING upon the Dub, Breaking a House with Picklocks.

GOLD-Droppers
    GOLD-Droppers, Sweetners, Cheats, Sharpers.

GOLD-Finch
    GOLD-Finch, he that has often a Purse of Gold in his Fob.

GOLD-Finders
    GOLD-Finders, Emptiers of Jakes or Houses of Office.

GOOD Fellow
    GOOD Fellow, a Pot Companion or Friend of the Bottle.

GOOSE, or Goose cap
    GOOSE, or Goose cap; a Fool.
A Taylors Goose roasted, a Red-hot smoothing Iron, to close the seams. Hot and heavy like a Taylors Goose. applied to a passionate Coxcomb.

GOREE
    GOREE, Money but chiefly Gold.

GRAFTED
    GRAFTED, made a Cuckold of.

GRANNAM
    GRANNAM, Corn.

GREEN Bag
    GREEN Bag, a Lawyer.

GREEN-Gown
    GREEN-Gown, a throwing of young Lasses on the Grass, and kissing them.

GREEN Head
    GREEN Head, a very raw Novice,  or unexperienced Fellow.

GRIG
    GRIG, a Farthing; A merry Grig, a merry Fellow.

GRINDERS
    GRINDERS, Teeth.

GROPERS
    GROPERS, blind Men.

GROUND-Sweat
    GROUND-Sweat, a Grave.

To GRUB
    To GRUB, to eat, to dine, c.

GRUB
    GRUB, Victuals.

GRUB street-News
    GRUB street-News, false, forg'd News.

GRUMBLING of the Gizzard
    GRUMBLING of the Gizzard, murmuring, muttering, repining.

GRUNTER
    GRUNTER, a sucking Pig.

GRUNTING-Cheat
    GRUNTING-Cheat, a Pig.

GRUNTING-Peck
    GRUNTING-Peck, Pork.

GULL
    GULL, a Cheat.

GULLED
    GULLED, cheated, rooked, sharped.

GULL-Gropers
    GULL-Gropers, a By-stander that lends Money to the Gamesters.

GUN
    GUN, as He's in the Gun; he's in Liquor.

A GUN
    A GUN, a Lie.

GUNDIGUTS
    GUNDIGUTS, a fat, pursy Fellow.

GUN-Powder
    GUN-Powder, an old Woman.

GUT-foundered
    GUT-foundered, exceeding hungry.

GUTLING
    GUTLING, eating much.

GUTS
    GUTS, a very fat, gross Person.

GUTTER-Lane
    GUTTER-Lane, the Throat.

GUTTING an House
    GUTTING an House, rifling it, clearing it.

GUTTING an Oyster
    GUTTING an Oyster, eating it.

GUZZLE
    GUZZLE, Drink.

GUZZLING
    GUZZLING, drinking much.

GYBE, or JYBE
    GYBE, or JYBE; any Writing or Pass sealed.

GYBING
    GYBING, jeering or jerking

GYPSIES
    GYPSIES, They endeavour to persuade the Ignorant, that they derive their Origin from the Egyptians, a People heretofore very famous for Astronomy, Natural Magick, the art of Divination, c. and therefore are great Pretenders to Fortune-telling.
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.

HABERDASHER of Nouns and Pronouns
    HABERDASHER of Nouns and Pronouns, a Schoolmaster or Usher.

HACK, and Hue
    HACK, and Hue, to cut in pieces.

HACKS, or Hackneys
    HACKS, or Hackneys; Hirelings.

HACKUM
    HACKUM, a fighting Fellow.

HADDUMS
    HADDUMS, The Shark has been at Haddams; He is clapt or poxed.

HALFBORD
    HALFBORD, Six-Pence.

HALF a Hog
    HALF a Hog, Six-Pence.

HALF an Ounce
    HALF an Ounce, Half a Crown.

HALF Seas over
    HALF Seas over, almost drunk.

HAMS
    HAMS, Breeches.

HAMLET
    HAMLET, a High Constable.

HANDY-Blows
    HANDY-Blows, Fisty-cuffs.

HANG it up
    HANG it up, speaking of the Reckoning at a Bowsing-Ken score it up.

HANK
    HANK, He has a Hank upon him; He has an Advantage, or will make him do what he pleases.

HANKTELO
    HANKTELO, a silly Fellow, a meer Codshead.

HANS-en-Kelder
    HANS-en-Kelder, Jack in the Box, Child in the Womb.

HARE
    HARE, as he has swallowd a Hare, he is very drunk.

HARKING
    HARKING, whispering on one side to borrow Money.

HARMAN
    HARMAN, a Constable.

HARMANS
    HARMANS, the Stocks.

HARMANBECK
    HARMANBECK, a Beadle.

HARRIDAN
    HARRIDAN, one that is half a Whore, half a Bawd, also a notorious Shrew, or noisy old Woman.

HARTFORDSHIRE Kindness
    HARTFORDSHIRE Kindness, drinking to the same Man again.

HATCHET Faced
    HATCHET Faced, hard favoured, homely.

HATCHES
    HATCHES, as, Under the Hatches, in Trouble or Prison.

To HAZLE Geld
    To HAZLE Geld, to beat any one with a Hazle Stick or Plant.

HEAD Cully of the Pass, or Passage Bank
    HEAD Cully of the Pass, or Passage Bank; the Top Tilter of that Gang, throughout the whole Army, who demands and receives Contribution from all the Pass-Banks in the Camp.

HEARING-Cheats
    HEARING-Cheats, Ears.

HEARTS-Ease
    HEARTS-Ease, a Twenty Shilling Piece.

HEATHEN Philosopher
    HEATHEN Philosopher, a sorry poor tattered Fellow, whose Breech may be seen through his Pocket-holes.

To HEAVE
    To HEAVE, to rob.

HEAVE a Cough
    HEAVE a Cough, to rob a House.

HEAVER
    HEAVER, the Breast.

HECTOR
    HECTOR, a vapouring, swaggering Coward.

To HEDGE
    To HEDGE, to secure a desperate Bet, Wager or Debt.
By Hedge or by stile, by Hook or by Crook.

HEDGE-Bird
    HEDGE-Bird, a scoundrel or sorry Fellow.

HEDGE-Creeper
    HEDGE-Creeper, a Robber of Hedges.

HEDGE-Priest
    HEDGE-Priest, a sorry hackney Underling, an Vagabond.
See Patrico.

HEDGE-Tavern, or Alehouse
    HEDGE-Tavern, or Alehouse; a jilting, sharping Tavern, or blind Ale-house.

HELL
    HELL, the Place where the Taylors lay up their Cabbage, or Remnants.

HELL-born-babe
    HELL-born-babe, a lewd, graceless,  notorious Youth.

HELL-Cat
    HELL-Cat, a very lewd Woman.

HELL-Driver
    HELL-Driver, a Coachman.

HELL-Hound
    HELL-Hound, a profligate, lewd Fellow.

HEMPEN-Widow
    HEMPEN-Widow, one whose Husband was hanged.

HEN-peckt-Frigot
    HEN-peckt-Frigot, whose Commander and Officers are absolutely swayed by their Wives.

HENPECT-Husband
    HENPECT-Husband, whose Wife wears the Breeches.

HICK
    HICK, any Person from whom a Booty is taken, a silly Country Fellow; a Booby.

HIGH-Flyers
    HIGH-Flyers, impudent, forward, loose, light Women, also bold Adventurers.

HIGHJINKS
    HIGHJINKS, a Play at Dice who Drinks.

HIGH-PADS, Hightway-men or Bully-Ruffians
    HIGH-PADS, Hightway-men or Bully-Ruffians; 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 stand, 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 Hue or Cry, to conceal themselves in some By place, and let it pass by them.

HIGH-Shoon, or Clouted-Shoon
    HIGH-Shoon, or Clouted-Shoon; a Country Clown.

A HIGHTE-TITY
    A HIGHTE-TITY, a Romp or rude Girl.

HIGH Tide
    HIGH Tide, when the Pocket is full of Money.

HOB
    HOB, a plain Country Fellow or Clown.

HOBINAL
    HOBINAL, the same [[as Hob]].

HOBBY
    HOBBY, as Sir Posthumus Hobby, one that draws on his Breeches with a Shoeing-horn; a Fellow that is nice and whimsical in the Set of his Cloaths.

HOB Nail
    HOB Nail, a High-shoon or Country Clown.

HOCUS
    HOCUS, disguised in Liquor; drunk.

HODGE-Podge
    HODGE-Podge, see Hotch-Potch.

HOG
    HOG, a Shilling; You Darkman Budge, will you Fence your Hog at the next Boozing Ken? you House-Creeper, will you spend your Shilling at the next Ale-house.

HOG-Grubber
    HOG-Grubber, a close-fisted, narrow soul'd sneaking Fellow.

HOLD his Nose to the Grind-stone
    HOLD his Nose to the Grind-stone, to keep him under, or tie him Neck and Heels into the Bargain.

HOLIDAY-Bowler
    HOLIDAY-Bowler, a very bad Bowler. Blind Man's Holiday, when it is Night.

HONEY-Moon
    HONEY-Moon, the first Month of Marriage.

HOOD-wink'd
    HOOD-wink'd, Blind-folded or Bluffed.

To HOOF it, or beat it on the Hoof
    To HOOF it, or beat it on the Hoof; to walk on Foot.

HOOKERS
    HOOKERS, See Anglers.

HOOKT
    HOOKT, over reached, snapt, trikt.

HOP-Merchant
    HOP-Merchant, a Dancing-master.

HORN mad
    HORN mad, stark staring mad because Cuckolded.

It revives the COCKLES of my Heart
    It revives the COCKLES of my Heart, said of agreeable News, or a Cup of Comfort, Wine or Cordial Water.

In HUCKSTER'S Hands
    In HUCKSTER'S Hands, at a desperate Pass, or Condition, or in a fair way to be lost.

HUED
    HUED, severely lash'd or flogg'd. The Cove was Hued in the Naskin, The Rogue was severely lash'd in Bridewell.

A HUFF
    A HUFF, a Bullying Fellow.

HULVER head
    HULVER head, a silly, foolish Fellow.

HUM-Box
    HUM-Box, a Pulpit.

HUM-Cap
    HUM-Cap, old, mellow, and very strong Beer.

HUM-Drums, or Hums
    HUM-Drums, or Hums; a Society of Gentlemen, who meet near the Charter-House, or at the King's Head in St. John's Street.
Less of Mystery, and more of Pleasantry than the Free Masons.

HUMMING Liquor
    HUMMING Liquor, Double Ale, Stout, Pharaoh.

HUMMER
    HUMMER, a great Lye, a Rapper.

HUMMUMS
    HUMMUMS, a Bagnio.

HUMPTEY-Dumptey
    HUMPTEY-Dumptey, Ale boil'd with Brandy.

HUMS
    HUMS, Persons at Church; as, There is a great Number of Hums in the Autem; i. e. There is a great Congregation.

HUNTING
    HUNTING, decoying, or drawing others into Play.

HUSH'D
    HUSH'D, murder'd, c.

HUSH Money
    HUSH Money, Money given to hush up, or conceal a Robbery or Theft, or  to take off an Evidence from appearing against a Criminal, c.

HUSKY-Lour
    HUSKY-Lour, a Jobs, or Guinea.

JACK
    JACK, a Farthing; He wou'd not tip me a Jack, Not a Farthing wou'd he give me.

JACK-ADAMS Parish
    JACK-ADAMS Parish, Clerkenwell.

JACK in a Box
    JACK in a Box, a Sharper, or Cheat.

JACKMEN
    JACKMEN, See Jarkmen

JACK-sprat
    JACK-sprat, a Dwarf, or very little Fellow, a Hop on my-thumb.

JACK at a Pinch
    JACK at a Pinch, a poor Hackney Parson.

JACOBITES
    JACOBITES, Sham or Collar Shirts.

JAGUE
    JAGUE, a Ditch.

JANIZARIES
    JANIZARIES, the Mob, sometimes so called, and Bailiffs, Serjeants-Followers, yeomen, Setters, and any lewd Gang depending upon others.

JARKE
    JARKE, a Seal.

JARKE-MEN
    JARKE-MEN, Those who make Counterfeit Licences and Passes, and are well paid by the other Beggars for their Pains.

JASON's Fleece
    JASON's Fleece, a Citizen cheated of his Gold.

JAYL Birds
    JAYL Birds, Prisoners.

JEM
    JEM, a Gold Ring; Rum-Jem, a Diamond one.

JENNY
    JENNY, an Instrument to lift up a Grate, and whip any thing out of a Shop-window.

JET
    JET, a Lawyer.

Autem JET
    Autem JET, a Parson.

JEW
    JEW, any over-reaching Dealer, or hard sharp Fellow.
He treated me like a Jew; He used me very barbarously.

JEWS
    JEWS, Brokers behind St. Clement's Church in London, so called by (their Brethren) the Taylors.

JIG
    JIG, a Trick; A pleasant Jig, a witty arch Trick.

JILT
    JILT, a tricking Woman.

JILTED
    JILTED, abused by such a one [[i.e. by a JILT]]; also deceived or defeated in one's Expectation, expecially in Amours.

JINGLE-Boxes
    JINGLE-Boxes, Leathern Jacks tipt and hung with Silver Bells, formerly in use among Fuddle-caps.

JINGLERS
    JINGLERS, Horse-Coursers frequenting Country Fairs.

JINGLE Brains
    JINGLE Brains, a Maggot-pated Fellow.

ILL Fortune
    ILL Fortune, a Nine-pence.

IMPOST-TAKER
    IMPOST-TAKER, one that stands by, and lends Money to the Gamester at a very high Interest or Premium.

INCHING-In
    INCHING-In, Encroaching upon.

INLAYED
    INLAYED, Well inlayed, at Ease in his Fortune, or full of Money.

JOBE
    JOBE, a Guinea, Twenty Shillings, or a Piece.
Half a Jobe, Half a Guinea.

JOCK, or Jockum cloy
    JOCK, or Jockum cloy; to copulate with a Woman.

JUCKUM-Gage
    JUCKUM-Gage, a Chamberpot.
Tip me the Jockum-Gage, Give or hand me the Looking-Glass.
Rum Jockum-Gage, a Silver Chamber-Pot.

JORDAIN
    JORDAIN, a great Blow or Staff; also a Chamber-Pot.
I'll tip him a Jordain, if I transnear; I will give him a Blow with my Staff, if I get up to him.

JOSEPH
    JOSEPH, a Cloak or Coat.
A Rum Joseph, a good Cloak or Coat.
A Queer Joseph, a coarse ordinary Cloak or Coat; also an old or tatter'd One.

IRISH-Toyles
    IRISH-Toyles, Rogues c. carrying Pins, Points, Laces, and such like Wares about, and, under pretence of selling them, commit Thefts and Robberies.

IRON-Doublet
    IRON-Doublet, a Prison.

ITCH-Land
    ITCH-Land, Scotland.

JUKRUM
    JUKRUM, a Licence.

JUMBLE-Gut-Lane
    JUMBLE-Gut-Lane, any very bad or rough Road.

JUSTICE
    JUSTICE, I'll do Justice, Child; I will Peach, or rather Impeach, or discover the whole Gang, and so save my own Bacon.

KATE
    KATE, a Pick-lock. 'Tis a Rum kate; She is a clever Pick-lock.

KEEL-Bullies
    KEEL-Bullies, Lightermen that carry coals to and from the Ships, so called in Derision.

KEEPING Cully
    KEEPING Cully, one that maintains a Mistress, and parts with his Money very generously to her.

KEFFAL
    KEFFAL, a Horse.

KELTER
    KELTER, as, Out of Kelter, Out of sorts.

KEN
    KEN, a House.
A bob-Ken, or a Bowman-ken, a good or well furnished House; also a House that harbours Rogues and Thieves.
Biting the Ken, robbing the House, 'tis a bob Ken, Brush upon the Sneak, i.e., 'Tis a good House, go in and tread softly.
We have bit the Ken, The House is robb'd, or the Business is done.

KEN-Miller
    KEN-Miller, a House-breaker, who usually, by getting into an empty  House, finds Means to enter into the Gutters of Houses inhabited, and so in at the Windows, c.

KICK
    KICK, Six-pence: Two, Three, Four, c. and a Kick; Two, Three, Four, c. Shillings and Six-pence.

KICK'D
    KICK'D, gone, fled, departed; as, The Rum Cull kick'd away, i.e. The Rogue made his Escape.

KICKS
    KICKS, Breeches.
Tip us your Kicks, we'll have them as well as your Lour; Pull off your Breeches, for we must have them as well as your Money.

KID
    KID, a Child.

KIDLAYS
    KIDLAYS, 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.

KIDNAPPER
    KIDNAPPER, one that decoys or spirits (as it is commonly called) Children away, and sells them for the Plantations.

KILKENNY
    KILKENNY, an old sorry Frize Coat.

KILL-Devil
    KILL-Devil, Rum.

To KIMBAW
    To KIMBAW, to Trick, Sharp, or Cheat; also to Beat severely, or to Bully.
Let's Kimbaw the Cull, Let's beat that Fellow, and get his Money (by huffing and bullying) from him.

KIN
    KIN, a Thief: He's one of the Kin, let him pike; said of a Brother Rogue whom one of the Gang knows to be a Villain, tho' not one of their own Crew.

KINCHIN
    KINCHIN, a little Child.

KINCHIN-Coves
    KINCHIN-Coves, little Children whose Parents are dead, having been Beggars; as also young Lads running from their Masters, who are first taught Canting, then Thieving.

KINCHIN Cove
    KINCHIN Cove, a little Man.

KINCHIN-Morts
    KINCHIN-Morts, Girls of a Year or two old, whom the Morts (their Mothers) carry at their Backs in Slates (Sheets) and if they have no Children of thir own, they borrow or steal them from others.

KING of the Gypsies
    KING of the Gypsies, the Captain, Chief, or Ringleader of the Gang, the Master of Misrule, otherwise called Uprightman.
Vide Gypsies.

KING's Head Inn, or the Chequer Inn in Newgate-street
    KING's Head Inn, or the Chequer Inn in Newgate-street; the Prison of Newgate.

KING's Pictures
    KING's Pictures, Money.

KIT
    KIT, a Dancing Master.

A KNACK Shop
    A KNACK Shop, a Toy-shop, freighted with pretty Devices to pick Pockets.

KNAVE in Grain
    KNAVE in Grain, one of the First Rate.

KNIGHT of the Blade
    KNIGHT of the Blade, a Hector or Bully.

KNIGHT of the Post
    KNIGHT of the Post, a mercenary common Swearer, a Prostitute to every Cause, an Irish Evidence.

KNIGHT of the Road
    KNIGHT of the Road, the chief Highwayman, best mounted and armed, the stoutest Fellow among them.

KNOB
    KNOB, the Head or Skull.

KNOCK Down
    KNOCK Down, very strong Ale or Beer.

To KNOCK off
    To KNOCK off, to give over Thieving.

KNOT
    KNOT, a Crew of Gang of Villains.

LAC'D Mutton
    LAC'D Mutton, a Woman

LACING
    LACING, beating, drubbing; I'll Lace your Coat, Sirrah! I will beat you soundly!

LADY
    LADY, a very crooked, deformed and ill-shapen Woman.

LADY-birds
    LADY-birds, light, or lewd Women.

LAG
    LAG, Water; also last.

LAG a-dudds
    LAG a-dudds, a Buck of Cloths; as, We'll cloy the Lag of Dudds: Come, let us steal that Buck of Cloths.

To LAMBASTE
    To LAMBASTE, to beat soundly.

LAMB-Pye
    LAMB-Pye, beating or drubbing.

LAMB-Skin Men
    LAMB-Skin Men, the Judges of the several Courts.

LAND-Lopers, or Land-lubbers
    LAND-Lopers, or Land-lubbers; Vagabonds that beg and steal about the Country.

LAND Pyrates
    LAND Pyrates, Highwaymen or any other Robbers.

LAND
    LAND, as, How lies the Land? How stands the Reckoning?
Who has any Land in Appleby? a Question ask'd the Man, at whose Door the Glass stands long.

LANSPRESADO
    LANSPRESADO, He that comes into Company with but Two-pence in his Pocket.

LANTERN-jaw'd
    LANTERN-jaw'd, a very lean, thin-faced Fellow.

A Dark LANTHORN
    A Dark LANTHORN, the Servant or Agent that receives the Bribe (at Court).

LAP
    LAP, Pottage, Butter-milk, or Whey.

LARE-Over
    LARE-Over, said when the true Name of the Things must (in Decency) be concealed.

LATCH
    LATCH, let in.

LAY
    LAY, an Enterprize, or Attempt; To be sick of the Lay, to be tir'd in  waiting for an Opportunity to effect their Purposes.
Also an Hazard or Chance; as, He stands a quuer Lay; he stands an odd Chance, or is in great Danger.

LAY'D Up in Lavender
    LAY'D Up in Lavender, pawn'd or dipt for present Money.

LEATHER-Head
    LEATHER-Head, a Thick-skill'd, heavy-headed Fellow.

LEATHERN Convenience
    LEATHERN Convenience, (by the Quakers) a Coach.

LET's take an Ark and Winns
    LET's take an Ark and Winns, Let's hire a Skuller.

LET's buy a Brush, or Let's lope
    LET's buy a Brush, or Let's lope; Let us scour off, and make what Shift we can to secure our selves from being apprehended.

LEVITE
    LEVITE, a Priest or Parson.

To LIB
    To LIB, to tumble or lie together.

LIBBEN
    LIBBEN, a private Dwelling-House.

LIBBEGE
    LIBBEGE, a Bed.

LIBKIN
    LIBKIN, a House to lie in; also a Lodging.

LICKT
    LICKT, as Women's Faces with a Wash.

LIFTER
    LIFTER, a Crutch.

LIG
    LIG, See Lib.

LIGHT Finger'd
    LIGHT Finger'd, Thievish.

LIGHT-Mans
    LIGHT-Mans, the Day or Day-break.

LIGHT-Frigate
    LIGHT-Frigate, a Whore; also a Cruiser.

LILLY White
    LILLY White, a Chimney-Sweeper.

LINE of the old Author
    LINE of the old Author, a Dram of Brandy.

LINNEN Armorers
    LINNEN Armorers, Taylors.

LITTLE Barbary
    LITTLE Barbary, Wapping.

LOAP'D
    LOAP'D, run away; He loap'd up the Dancers; He whipt up the Stairs.

LOB-Cock
    LOB-Cock, a heavy, dull Fellow.

In LOB's Pound
    In LOB's Pound, laid by the Heels, or clap'd up in Jail.

LOBSTER
    LOBSTER, a red Coat Soldier.

LOCK
    LOCK, as, He stood a queer Lock; i.e. He stood an indifferent Chance, c.

LOCK all fast
    LOCK all fast, one that buys and conceals stollen Goods.

The LOCK
    The LOCK, the Warehouse whither the Thieves carry stollen Goods.
Also an Hospital for pocky Folks in Southwark c.

LOCKRAM Jaw'd
    LOCKRAM Jaw'd, thin, lean, sharp-visag'd

LODGE
    LODGE, a Watch.
As Files a Cly of a Lodge, or Scout, Pickt a Pocket of a Watch.
Biting a Loge, or Scout, the same.

LOLPOOP
    LOLPOOP, a lazy, idle Droe.

LONG-Meg
    LONG-Meg, a very tall Woman.

LONG-Shanks
    LONG-Shanks, long-legged.

LOOKING-Glass
    LOOKING-Glass, a Chamber-pot.

A LOON
    A LOON, a Lout.
A false Loon, a  true Scotch Man; or Knave of any Nation. 

LOON-Slate
    LOON-Slate, a Thirteen-pence Half-penny.

LORD
    LORD, a very crooked deformed, or ill-shapen Person.

LOUR
    LOUR, Money.

LOUSE Land
    LOUSE Land, Scotland.

LOUSE Trap
    LOUSE Trap, a Comb.

LOW Pad
    LOW Pad, a Foot-Pad.

LOW Tide
    LOW Tide, when there's no Money in a Man's Pocket.

LUD's Bulwark
    LUD's Bulwark, Ludgate Prison.

LUGGS
    LUGGS, Ears.

LULLABY-Cheat
    LULLABY-Cheat, a Child.

LUMB
    LUMB, too much.

LURCHED
    LURCHED, beaten at any Game.

LURRIES
    LURRIES, Money, Watches, Rings, or other Moveables.

Mackarel
    Mackarel, a Bawd.

MACKAREL-Back
    MACKAREL-Back, a very tall, lank Person.

MADAM Van
    MADAM Van, a Whore; The Cull has been with Madam Van, the Fellow has enjoyed such a one.

MADE
    MADE, stolen.
I made this Knife at a Heat, I stole it cleverly.

MAD Tom
    MAD Tom, alias of Bedlam; otherwise called Abram-men.

MAIDEN-Sessions
    MAIDEN-Sessions, when none are hang'd.

MAKE
    MAKE, a Half-penny.

To MAKE
    To MAKE, to steal; seize; to run away with.

MALKINTRASH
    MALKINTRASH, one in a rueful Dress, enough to fright one.

MALMSEY-Nose
    MALMSEY-Nose, a jolly red Nose.

MAN o'th' Town
    MAN o'th' Town, a lewd Spark, or very Debauchee.

MANUFACTURE
    MANUFACTURE, any Liquor made of the Fruits of English Growth, as Ale, Beer, Cyder, c.

MARGERY Prater
    MARGERY Prater, a Hen.

MARINATED
    MARINATED, transported into some Foreign Plantation.

MARRIAGE Musick
    MARRIAGE Musick, Childrens Cries.

MASONS Mawn'd
    MASONS Mawn'd, a Sham Sore above the Elbow; to counterfeit a broken Arm, by a Fall from a Scaffold.

MAUL'D
    MAUL'D, swinglingly drunk, or soundly beat.

MAUNDERS
    MAUNDERS, Beggars

MAUNDING
    MAUNDING, begging.

MAUNDRING-Broth
    MAUNDRING-Broth, Scolding.

MAWDLIN
    MAWDLIN, weepingly drunk.

MEGGS
    MEGGS, Guineas.
We fork'd the rum Cull's Meggs to the Tune of Fifty;  We pickt the Gentleman's Pocket of full Fifty Guineas.

To MELT
    To MELT, to spend Money.
Will you melt a Borde? Will you spend your Shilling?
The Cull melted a Couple of Decusses upon us; The Gentleman spent Ten Shillings upon us.

MILCH-Kine
    MILCH-Kine, a Term used by Goalers, when their Prisoners will bleed freely to have some Favour, or to be at large.

To MILL
    To MILL, to steal, rob, or kill.
ill the Gig with a Dub, open the Door with a Pick-lock, or false Key.

To MILL a Bleating Cheat
    To MILL a Bleating Cheat, to kill a Sheep.

MILL-Clapper
    MILL-Clapper, a Woman's Tongue.

To MILL a Crackmans
    To MILL a Crackmans, to break a Hedge.

To MILL a Grunter
    To MILL a Grunter, to kill a Pig.

To MILL a Ken
    To MILL a Ken, to rob a House. Milling the Gig with a Betty, Breaking open the Door with an Iron Crow.

MILL-Ken
    MILL-Ken, a House-Breaker.

MILL the Glaze
    MILL the Glaze, break open the Window.

MILL Them
    MILL Them, kill them.

MILLER
    MILLER, a Killer or Murderer.

MINT
    MINT, Gold.

MISH
    MISH, Shirt, Smock, or Sheet.

MISH Topper
    MISH Topper, a Coat or Petticoat.

MISS
    MISS, a Whore of Quality.

MOABITES
    MOABITES, Serjeants, Bailiffs and their Crew.

MOB, or MAB
    MOB, or MAB; a Wench or Harlot.

MONGREL
    MONGREL, a Hanger-on among the Cheats, a Spunger.

MOON-Curser
    MOON-Curser, 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.

MOON-Men
    MOON-Men, Gypsies.

MOPSIE
    MOPSIE, a Dowdy, or homely Woman.

MOP'D
    MOP'D, maz'd.

MOPUS
    MOPUS, a Half-penny or Farthing.

MORGLAG
    MORGLAG, a Watchman's brown Bill; as Glaives, are Bills or Swords.

To MORRIS
    To MORRIS, to hang dangling in the Air, to be executed.

MORTS
    MORTS, Yeomans Daughters; also a Wife, Woman, or Wench.

MOTHER
    MOTHER, a Bawd.

MOTHER Midnight
    MOTHER Midnight, a Midwife (often a Bawd).

MOVEABLES
    MOVEABLES, Rings, Watches, Swords, and such Toys of Value.

MOUSE-Trap
    MOUSE-Trap, as The Parson's Mouse-Trap, Marriage.

MOUTH
    MOUTH, a noisy Fellow.
Mouth half cockt, gaping and staring at every Thing they see.

MOWER
    MOWER, a Cow.

MOW-Heater
    MOW-Heater, a Drover.

MUCK
    MUCK, Money, Wealth.

MUFF
    MUFF, a Woman's Secrets,
To the well wearing of your Muff, Mort; To the happy Consummation of your Marriage, Madam.
A Health.

MUFFLING-Cheat
    MUFFLING-Cheat, a Napkin.

MUM for-that
    MUM for-that, not a Word of the Pudding.

MUM Chance
    MUM Chance, one that fits mute.

MUM Glass
    MUM Glass, the Monument, erected at the City Charge, in Memory of the dreadful Fire 1666, which consumed the greatest part of the City.

MUMPERS
    MUMPERS, genteel Beggars, who will not accept of Victuals, but of Money or Cloaths.
The Male Mumper 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 South Sea Scheme, has been undine, and reduced to the Necessity of imploring good People's Charity.

MUMPERS Hall
    MUMPERS Hall, 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.

MUNNS
    MUNNS, the Face; Toute his Munns, Note his Phiz, or, Mark his Face well. Pay his Munns, i.e. Strike him in the Face, c.

MUSICK
    MUSICK, the Watch-word among High-way-men, to let the Company  they were to rob, alone, in return to some Courtesy from some Gentleman among them.

MUTTON Monger
    MUTTON Monger, a Lover of Women; also a Sheep-stealer.

MUTTON-in-long-coats
    MUTTON-in-long-coats, Women A Leg of Mutton in a Silk Stocking, a Woman's leg.

MUZZLE
    MUZZLE, a beard, (usually) long and nasty.

MYRMIDONS
    MYRMIDONS, the Constable's Attendants, or those whom he commands (in the King's Name) to aid and assist him: Also the Watchmen.

NAB
    NAB, a Hat, Cap, or Head, also a Coxcomb.
Ill nab ye, I'll have your Hat or Cap.
Nim the Nab, steal the Hat or Cap.
Nabbed, apprehended, taken or arrested.

NAB Cheat
    NAB Cheat, a Hat.

NAB-Girder
    NAB-Girder, a Bridle.

NAN
    NAN, a Servant-maid.

NANNY-House
    NANNY-House, a Bawdy-house.

To NAP
    To NAP, by cheating with the Dice to ecure one chance; also a Clap or Pox, and a short sleep, Nap the Wiper, steal the Hankerchief.
You have napt it, You are Clapt.

NAPPER
    NAPPER, a Cheat, or Thief.

NAPPER
    NAPPER, of Naps, a sheep-stealer.

NAPPY-Ale
    NAPPY-Ale, very strong, heady.

NASK, or Naskin
    NASK, or Naskin; a Prison or Bridewell. The new Nask, Clerkenwell Bridewell: Tuttle Nask, the Bridewell in Tuttle-Fields: He napt it at the Nask; he was lasht at Bridewell.

NATURAL
    NATURAL, a Mistress, a Wench.

NAY-Word
    NAY-Word, a By-word, or Proverb.

NAZIE
    NAZIE, Drunken.

NAZIE-Cove
    NAZIE-Cove, a Drunkard.

NAZY-Mort
    NAZY-Mort, a she Drunkard.

NAZY-Nabs
    NAZY-Nabs, Drunken Coxcombs.

NECK-Stamper
    NECK-Stamper, the Pot-Boy at a Tavern or Ale-house.

NEEDLE-Point
    NEEDLE-Point, a Sharper.

NETTLED
    NETTLED, tiezed, provoked, made uneasy.

To NICK it
    To NICK it, to win at Dice, to hit the Mark.

NICKUM
    NICKUM, a Sharper, also a rooking Ale house or Inn-keeper,Vintner, or any Retailer.

NICKUM-Poop
    NICKUM-Poop, a Fool, also a silly, soft, uxorious Fellow.

NICK-Ninny
    NICK-Ninny, an emty Fellow, a meer Gods-head.

NIG
    NIG, the clippings of Money.

NIGGING
    NIGGING, Clipping.

NIGGLER
    NIGGLER, a Clipper.

NIGGLING
    NIGGLING, accompanying with a Woman.

NIGHT-Magistrate
    NIGHT-Magistrate, a Constable.

NIGHT-Walker
    NIGHT-Walker, a Bellman; also a light Woman; a Thief, a Rogue.

NIGIT
    NIGIT, qu. an Ideot, i.e. a Fool.

NIGMENOG
    NIGMENOG, a very silly fellow.

NIKIN
    NIKIN, a Natural, or very soft Creature.

To NIM
    To NIM, to steal.

To NIM
    To NIM, or whip off or away any thing; To Num a Togeman, to steal a Cloack.
To Nim a Cloak, to cut off the Buttons in a Crowd, to whip it off a Man's Shoulders.

NIM Gimmer
    NIM Gimmer, a Doctor, Surgeon, Apothecary, or any one that cures a Clap or a Pox.

NINNY
    NINNY, a canting, whining Beggar; also a Fool.

NIP
    NIP, a Cheat.

To NIP
    To NIP, to pinch or sharp any thing. Nip a Bung, to cut a Purse.

NIPPS
    NIPPS, the Shears with which Money was wont to be clipt.

NIZY
    NIZY, a Fool or Coxcomb.

NOB
    NOB, a Head.

NOCKY
    NOCKY, a silly, dull Fellow.

NODDLE
    NODDLE, the Head.

NODDY
    NODDY, a Fool.
Knave Noddy, a Game on the Cards.

NOOZED
    NOOZED, or caught in a Nooze, married; also hanged.

NOPE
    NOPE, a Blow, a Knock on the Pate; as We hit him a Nope on the Costard.

NOSE-Gent
    NOSE-Gent, a Recluse or Nun.

NUB
    NUB, the Neck; also Coition.

NUBBING
    NUBBING, hanging.
To be nubbed, to be hanged.

NUBBING-Cheat
    NUBBING-Cheat, the Gallows.

NUBBING-Cove
    NUBBING-Cove, the Hangman.

NUBBING-Ken
    NUBBING-Ken, the Sessions House.

NUG
    NUG, a Word of Love, as my Dear Nug, my Dear Love.

NUMMS
    NUMMS, a sham, or Collar-shirt, to hide the other when dirty.

NUT-crackers
    NUT-crackers, a Pillory,
The Cull lookt thro' the Nut-crackers, i.e. The Rogue stood in the Pillory.

OAK
    OAK, a rich Man, of good Substance and Credit.

OGLES
    OGLES, Eyes Rum Ogles, fine, bright clear, piercing Eyes.

OLD-Dog at it
    OLD-Dog at it, good or expert.

OLD-Dog at Common-Prayer
    OLD-Dog at Common-Prayer, a poor Hackney Parson that can read but not preach well.

OLD-Harry
    OLD-Harry, a Composition used by Vintners when they bedevil their Wines.

OLD-Mr-Gory
    OLD-Mr-Gory, a Piece of Gold.

OLD Roger
    OLD Roger, the Devil.

OLD Toast
    OLD Toast, a brisk old Fellow.

OLIVERS Skull
    OLIVERS Skull, a Chamber Pot.

ONE in Ten
    ONE in Ten, a Parson.

ONE of my Cousins
    ONE of my Cousins, a Wench.

OS Chives
    OS Chives, Bone handled Knives.

OUT-At-Heels, or elbows
    OUT-At-Heels, or elbows; in a declining Condition going down the Wind.

OYL of Barley
    OYL of Barley, strong Drink.

OX House
    OX House, He must go thro' the Ox-house to Bed, said of an old Fellow that marries a young Woman.

PAD
    PAD, the Highway; also a Robber thereon.

PADDINGTON-Fair
    PADDINGTON-Fair, an Execution of Malefactors at Tyburn.

Ill cut your PAINTER for ye
    Ill cut your PAINTER for ye, I'll prevent your doing me any Mischief: the Tar Cant when they quarrel onw with another.

PALLIARDS
    PALLIARDS, those whose Fathers were Clapperdogeons, 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 Palliard, lies bagging in the Fields, with Cleymes or artificial Sores, which he makes by Spere-wort or Arsnick, which draws them into Blisters.

PANAM
    PANAM, Bread.

PANTER
    PANTER, a Heart.

PANTLER
    PANTLER, a Butler.

PAPLER
    PAPLER, Milk-Pottage.

PARINGS
    PARINGS, the Clippings of Money.

PATRI-COVES, or Pater Cove
    PATRI-COVES, or Pater Cove; 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.

PAUME
    PAUME, See Palm [[not present]].

PAW
    PAW, a Hand.

PAWN
    PAWN, the same as Palm, which see. [[not present]]

PEAK
    PEAK, any kind of Lace.

PECULIAR
    PECULIAR, a Mistress; also particular, private, proper.

PED
    PED, a Basket.

PEEPERS
    PEEPERS, a Looking-glass.
Track the Dancers and Pike with the Peepers; Whip up the Stairs, and trip off with the Looking-glass.

PEEPERS
    PEEPERS, Eyes.

PEERY
    PEERY, fearful, shy, fly.
The Cull's Peery; The Rogue's afraid to venture. There's a Peery, 'tis snitch, there are a great many People, there'sno good to be done.

PEETER
    PEETER, a Portmanteau, or Cloak-bag. Bite the Peelter, to whip off the Cloak-bag.

PEG-Trantums
    PEG-Trantums, as Gone to Peg-Trantums, dead.

PELTING Village
    PELTING Village, blind, obscure.

PENNANCE Board
    PENNANCE Board, a Pillory.

PENTHOUSE Nub
    PENTHOUSE Nub, a very broad brimmed hat.

PEPPERED off
    PEPPERED off, soundly clapt or Poxt.

PERIWINKLE
    PERIWINKLE, a Peruke, or Perriwig.

PETER Lay
    PETER Lay, Rogues who follow petty Thefts; such as cutting Portmanteau's, c. from behind Coaches, breaking Shop Glasses, c.

PETER Lug
    PETER Lug, Who is Peter Lug? who let's the Glass stand at his Door.

PETTICOAT Pensioner
    PETTICOAT Pensioner, a Gallant maintained for secret Service.

PHARAOH
    PHARAOH, very strong Malt Drink.

PHENIX Men
    PHENIX Men, See Firedrakes.

PHILISTINES
    PHILISTINES, Serjeants, Bailiffs and their Crew.
Also Drunkards.
I fell among the Philistines, I chopt upon a Knot of drunken Fellows.

PICKING
    PICKING, little Stealing, Pilfering Petty Larceny.

PICKAROON
    PICKAROON, a very shabby poor Fellow.

PICKLED
    PICKLED, very arch or waggish.
In Pickle, Poxt.
Rods in Pickle, or Revenge in Lavender.

PIG
    PIG, Six-pence.
The Cull tipt me a Pig, The Man gave me Six pence.

PIG-Widgeon
    PIG-Widgeon, a silly Fellow.

To PIKE
    To PIKE, to run away, flee, quit or leave the Place; also to die, Pike on the Been, run away as fast as you can. Pik'd off, run away, fled, broke; also dead.
To pass the Pikes, to be out of Danger.
There's a Cull knos us; if we dont pike, he'll bone us, that Fellow sees is' if we don't scour off, he'll apprehend us.
Then we'll pike, 'tis all Bowman; we'll be gone, all is well, the Coast is clear.

PIMP-Whiskin
    PIMP-Whiskin, a top Trader in pimping.

To PINCH
    To PINCH, to steal or convey slily any Thing away.
To pinch on the Parsons side; to sharp him of his Tithes. At a Pinch, upon a Push or Exigence.

PINK'D
    PINK'D, pricked with a Sword in a re-encounter or Duel.
He pinked his Dubblet, he run him through.

PIT
    PIT, the Hole under the Gallows, into which those that pay not the Fee, (viz. 6s. 8d.) are cast and buried.

PIT a Pat, or Pintle de Pantledy
    PIT a Pat, or Pintle de Pantledy; sadly scared, greviously frighted.

PLANT
    PLANT, to lay, place or hide. Plant your Whids and stow them, Be wary what you say or let slip.

PLAISTER of hot Guts
    PLAISTER of hot Guts, one warm Belly clapt to another.

PLATE Fleet coes in
    PLATE Fleet coes in, when the Money comes to Hand.

PALTTER-Faces Jade
    PALTTER-Faces Jade, a very broad ordinary faced Woman.

PLAY it off
    PLAY it off, to play Booty; also to throw away, at Gaming, so much and no more.
He plays it off, he cheats.

PLUCK the Ribbon
    PLUCK the Ribbon, Ring the Bell at the Tavern.

PLUMP in the Pocket
    PLUMP in the Pocket, flush of Money.

PLYER
    PLYER, a Crutch; also a Trader.

POKER
    POKER, a Sword.

POLT on the Pate
    POLT on the Pate, a good Rap there.

POPS
    POPS, Pistols, To pop, to fire a Pistol, c.

PORKER
    PORKER, a Sword.

POST
    POST, as From Pillar to Post, from Constable to Constable.

POT-Valiant
    POT-Valiant, Drunk.

POULAIN
    POULAIN, a Bubo.

POWDERING-Tub
    POWDERING-Tub, the pocky Hospital at Kingsland near London.

POISONED
    POISONED, big with Child.

POISON Pate
    POISON Pate, red Haired.

PRANCER
    PRANCER, a Horse.

PRANCER's Nab
    PRANCER's Nab, a Horse's Head, used in a sham Seal to such a Pass.

PRATTS
    PRATTS, the Thighs or Buttocks; also a Tinder-box or Touch-box.

PRATING-Cheat
    PRATING-Cheat, a Tongue.

PRATE-Roast
    PRATE-Roast, a Talking Boy.

PREY
    PREY, Money.

PRICKEAR'D Fellow
    PRICKEAR'D Fellow, a Crop whose Ears are longer than his Hair.

PRICK Louse
    PRICK Louse, a Taylor.

PRIEST Linked
    PRIEST Linked, married.

PRIG
    PRIG, a Thief, a Cheat: also a nice, beauish, silly Fellow, is called a meer Prig.

PRIGGERS
    PRIGGERS, Thieves.

PRIGGING
    PRIGGING, lying with a Woman.

PRIGSTAR
    PRIGSTAR, a Rival in Love.

PRIGGISH
    PRIGGISH, Thievish.

PRIG Napper
    PRIG Napper, a Horse-stealer; also a Thief Taker.

PRIGGERS of the Cacklers
    PRIGGERS of the Cacklers, Poultry-stealers.

PRIGGERS of Prancers
    PRIGGERS of Prancers, Horse-stealers, who carry a Bridle in their Pockets, and a small pad Saddle in their Breeches.

PRINCE Prig
    PRINCE Prig, a King of the Gypsies; also Top-Thief, or Receiver General.

PRINCOCK
    PRINCOCK, a pert, forward Fellow.

PRINKING
    PRINKING, nicely dressing.
Prinked up, set up on the Cupboards head, in their best Clothes, or in State.
Stiff-starched.

Mistress PRINCUM-Prancium
    Mistress PRINCUM-Prancium, such a stiff, overnice precise Madam.

PROG
    PROG, Meat.
Rum Prog., nice eating. The Cull tipt us rum Prog; the Gentleman, so serve a Turn; a Cat's Foot.

To PUMMEL
    To PUMMEL, to beat, I pummelled his Sides for him., I beat him soundly.

To PUMP
    To PUMP, to wheedle-Secrets out of any one.

PUNCH-Houses
    PUNCH-Houses, bawdy-houses.

PUNK
    PUNK, a little Whore.

PUPIL Mongers
    PUPIL Mongers, Tutors at the Universities.

PURE
    PURE, a Mistress.

PUREST-Pure
    PUREST-Pure, a Top-Mistress or fine Woman.

PURL-Royal
    PURL-Royal, Canary with a Dash of Wormwood.

PUSHING-School
    PUSHING-School, a Fencing-School; also a Bawdy house.

PUT
    PUT, A Country Put, a silly, shallow pated, Fellow.
Put so it, beset.

QUACKING-Cheat
    QUACKING-Cheat, a Duck.

QUAIL Pipe
    QUAIL Pipe, a Woman's Tongue.

QUAKING Cheat
    QUAKING Cheat, a Calf or Sheep.

QUARREL Picker
    QUARREL Picker, a Glazier.

QUARRON
    QUARRON, a Body.

QUEAN
    QUEAN, a Whore or Slut.
A dirty Quean, a Puzzle or Slut.

QUEERE, or Quire
    QUEERE, or Quire; base, roguish, naught.
How queerely the Cull Trouts? How roguishly the Fellow loocks.

QUEERE-Birds
    QUEERE-Birds, such as having got loose, return to their old Trade of roguing and thieving.

QUEERE Bluffer
    QUEERE Bluffer, a sneaking sharping, Cut-throat Ale-house Man or Inn-keeper.

QUEERE-Bung
    QUEERE-Bung, an empty Purse.

QUEERE-Clout
    QUEERE-Clout, a sorry old Handkerchief, not worth nimming.

QUEERE-Cole
    QUEERE-Cole, clipt, counterfeit Money.

QUEERE Cole-maker
    QUEERE Cole-maker, a false Coiner.

QUEERE Cole-fencer
    QUEERE Cole-fencer, a Receiver and Putter off of false Money.

QUEERE-Cove
    QUEERE-Cove, a Rogue.

QUEERE-Cussin
    QUEERE-Cussin, a Justice of Peace; also a churl.

QUEERE-Cull
    QUEERE-Cull, a Fop or Fool, a Cods-head; also a shabby poor Fellow.

QUEERE Degen
    QUEERE Degen, an Iron, Steel or Brass hilted Sword.

QUEERE-Diver
    QUEERE-Diver, a bungling Pick-pocket.

QUEERE-Doxy
    QUEERE-Doxy, a jilting Jade, a sorry shabby Wench.

QUEERE-Drawers
    QUEERE-Drawers, Yarn, or coarse Worsted, ordinary or old Stockings.

QUEERE-Duke
    QUEERE-Duke, a poor decayed Gentleman, also a lean, thin, half-starved Fellow.

QUEERE-Fun
    QUEERE-Fun, a bungling Cheat or Trick; also Game or Merriment.

QUEERE-Ken
    QUEERE-Ken, an ill House, a Prison or a place of Correction.

QUEERE-Kicks
    QUEERE-Kicks, course ordinary or old tattered Breeches.

QUEERE-Mort
    QUEERE-Mort, a dirty Drab, a jilting Wench, a pocky Jade.

QUEERE Nab
    QUEERE Nab, a Felt, Carolina Cloth or ordinary Hat.

QUEERE-Peepers
    QUEERE-Peepers, old-fashioned, ordinary or common Looking glasses.

QUEERE-Prancer
    QUEERE-Prancer, a foundered Jade, an ordinary low prized Horse: also a cowardly or faint hearted Horse-stealer.

QUEERE-Topping
    QUEERE-Topping, sorry Head-dresses.

To QUIBBLE
    To QUIBBLE, to trifle or pun.

Sir QUIBBLE-Queere
    Sir QUIBBLE-Queere, a trifling, silly shatter-brained Fellow; a meer Wittol or Punter, likewise a Whiffler.

QUIDDS
    QUIDDS, Cash, or ready Money. Can you tip me any Quidds? Can you lend me any Money.

QUOD
    QUOD, Newgate; also a Prison, tho' generally for Debt.
The Poor Dabs in the Quod. the poor Rogue is in Limbo.

QUOTA
    QUOTA, Snack, Share, Part, Proportion or Dividend.

RABBET-Suckers
    RABBET-Suckers, young Unthrifts taking Goods on Tick of Pawnbrokers or Tallymen, at excessive Rates.

RABBITS
    RABBITS, wooden Cans to drink out of, once used on the Roads, now almost laid by.

RAG
    RAG, a Farthing.
Not a Rag left; I have lost or spent all my Money.

RAGAMUFFIN
    RAGAMUFFIN, a Taterdemallion.

RAG-Water
    RAG-Water, a common sort of strong Water.

RAKE, Rake-hell, Rake shame
    RAKE, Rake-hell, Rake shame; a lewd Spark or Debauchee.

RALPH Spooner
    RALPH Spooner, a Fool.

RANGING
    RANGING, intriguing, and enjoying many Women.

RANK Rider
    RANK Rider, a Highwayman; also a Jockey.

RANTIPOLE
    RANTIPOLE, a rude wild Boy or Girl.

RAP
    RAP, to swop or exchange a Horse or Goods; also a Polt on the Pate.

RAPPER
    RAPPER, a swinging great Lye.

RAREE-SHOW-Men
    RAREE-SHOW-Men, poor Savoyards strolling up and down with portable Boxes of Puppet-shows at their Backs; Pedlars of Puppets.

RAT
    RAT, a drunken Man or Woman taken up by the Watch, and carried by the Constable to the Compter.
To smell a Rat, To suspect a Trick.

RATTLER
    RATTLER, a Coach.

RATTLING Cove
    RATTLING Cove, a Coach-man.

RATTLING-Mumpers
    RATTLING-Mumpers, such as run after, or ply Coaches c.

To RATTLE
    To RATTLE, to move off, or be gone.
We'll take Rattle, We must not tarry, but whip away.

READY Rhino
    READY Rhino, Money in Possession.

RECRUITS
    RECRUITS, Money (expected.)
Have yuo rais'd the Recruits? Is the Money come in?

RED-Fustian
    RED-Fustian, Claret, or red Port-Wine.

RED-Letter-Man
    RED-Letter-Man, a Roman Catholick.

RED-Rag
    RED-Rag, a Tongue.

REMEMBER Parson Malham
    REMEMBER Parson Malham, q. d. Pray Sir drink about.
A Norfolk Phrase.

RHINO
    RHINO, ready Money.

RIBBIN
    RIBBIN, Money.
The Ribbin Runs shick; his Breeches are well lined with Money.
The Ribbin runs thin, He has but little Cash about him.

RICH-Face
    RICH-Face, a red-Face.

RIDG-Cully
    RIDG-Cully, a Gold-smith.

RIFF-Raff
    RIFF-Raff, the Rabble or Scum of the People, Tagrag and Longtail.

RIG
    RIG, Game, Diversion, Ridicule. See Fun.

RIGGING
    RIGGING, Cloaths.
I'll unrig the Bloss; I will strip the Wench.

Rum RIGGING
    Rum RIGGING, fine Cloaths.
The Cull has Rum Rigging, let's ding him, mill him, and pike; The Man has very good Cloaths, let us knock him down, kill him, and scour off. 

RING
    RING, Money extorted by Rogues on the Highway, or by Gentlemen Beggars.

ROAST-Meat-Cloaths
    ROAST-Meat-Cloaths, Holiday-Cloaths.
To rule the Roast, To be master or Paramount.
Roasted, Arrested: I'll Roast the Dab, I will arrest the Rascal: To Roast, signifies also to rally; to teize, to hunt, or banter.

ROBERDS-Men
    ROBERDS-Men, mighty Thieves, like Robin Hood.

ROCHESTER-Portion
    ROCHESTER-Portion, two torn Smocks, and what Nature gave.

ROGER
    ROGER, a Portmanteau, a Goose; also a Man's Yard.
Likewise a Thief-taker.

ROGUE
    ROGUE, a name which includes all the other Denominations.

ROMBOYL'D
    ROMBOYL'D, sought after with a Warrant.

ROMBOYLES
    ROMBOYLES, Watch and Ward.

ROMER
    ROMER, a drinking Glass; also wider.

ROOK
    ROOK, a Cheat a Knave.
To Rook, To cheat or play the Knave.

ROSY-Gills
    ROSY-Gills, sanguine or fresh colour'd

ROTAN
    ROTAN, a Coach, or Waggon, any thing that runs upon Wheels; but prinicipally a Cart.

ROT-Gut
    ROT-Gut, very small or thin Beer.

ROVERS
    ROVERS, Pyrates, Wanderers, Vagabonds.

ROUGH
    ROUGH, as, To lie Rough, to lie in one's Cloaths all Night.

ROYSTERS
    ROYSTERS, rude roaring Rogues.

To RUB
    To RUB, to run away.
A Rub, an Impediment, Obstacle, Hinderance, Stop, Hardship, or Difficulty.
Rub on, to live indifferently.
Rub through the World, to live tolerably well in it.

He RUBS us to the Whit
    He RUBS us to the Whit, He sends us to Newgate.

RUFF
    RUFF, an old-fashioned double Band; from whence the Pillory is called, The Wooden Ruff.

RUFFIN
    RUFFIN, the Devil; as The Ruffin nab the Cuffin Quire, and let the Harman beck trine with his Kinchins about his Col quarron; i.e. Let the Devil take the Justice, and let the Constable hang with his Children about his Neck.

RUFFLERS
    RUFFLERS, 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  steal, break open Houses, or even commit Murder.

RUFFMANS
    RUFFMANS, the Woods or Bushes.

RUFF-Peck
    RUFF-Peck, Bacon.

RUG
    RUG, It's all a Rug, The Game is secured.

RUM
    RUM, gallant, fine, rich, best or excellent.

RUM-Beck
    RUM-Beck, any Justice of the Peace.

RUM-Bite
    RUM-Bite, a clever Cheat, a neat Trick.

RUM-Bleating-Cheat
    RUM-Bleating-Cheat, a very fat Weather. [[See Bleating-Cheat]]

RUM-Blower
    RUM-Blower, a veru handsom Mistress, kept by a particular Man.

RUM-Bluffer
    RUM-Bluffer, a jolly Host, Inn-keeper,
or Victualler.

RUMBO
    RUMBO, a Prison or Goal.

RUM-Bob
    RUM-Bob, a young Apprentice; also a sharp, sly Trick.
Likewise a pretty short Wig.

RUM Boile
    RUM Boile, a Ward or Watch.

RUM-Booze
    RUM-Booze, Wine; also very good or string Drink.

RUM-Boozing-Welts
    RUM-Boozing-Welts, Bunches of Grapes.

RUM-Bubber
    RUM-Bubber, a dexterous Fellow at stealing Silver Tankards from Publick Houses.

RUM-Bughar
    RUM-Bughar, a very pretty and valuable Dog.

RUM-Bung
    RUM-Bung, a full Purse.

RUMLY
    RUMLY, bravely, cleverly, delicately, c.

RUM-Chub
    RUM-Chub, which is, (among the Butchers) an ignorant Market-man or Woman, that is bit by them.

RUM-Clank
    RUM-Clank, a large Silver Tankard. Tip me a Rum-Clank of Bowse; i.e. Give me a Double-tankard of Drink.

RUM-Clout
    RUM-Clout, a Silk, fine Cambrick, or Holland Handkerchief.

RUM-Cod
    RUM-Cod, a good Purse of Gold, or round Sum of Money.

RUM-Cole
    RUM-Cole, new Money, or Medals curiously coin'd.

RUM-Cove
    RUM-Cove, a great Rogue.

RUM-Cull
    RUM-Cull, a rich Fool, that can be easily bit, or cheated by any body; also one that is very generous and kind to a Mistress.

RUM Degen
    RUM Degen, a Silver-hilted or inlaid Sword.

RUM-Dell
    RUM-Dell, the same as, Rum-Doxy.

RUM-Diver
    RUM-Diver, a compleat or clever Pick-pocket, The same with Files or Bung-nippers.
Which see.

RUM-Doxy
    RUM-Doxy, a beautiful Woman, or light Lady.

RUM-Drawers
    RUM-Drawers, Silk Stokings, or very fine worsted Hose.

RUM-Dropper
    RUM-Dropper, a Vintner.

RUM-Dabber
    RUM-Dabber, an experienc'd or  expert Picker of Locks.
The same with GILT, which see.

RUM-Duke
    RUM-Duke, a jolly handsome Man, Rum-Dukes, the boldest or stoutest Fellows (lately) amongst the Alsatians, Minters, Sawyards, c. sent for to remove and guard the Goods of such Bankrupts as intended to take Sanctuary in those Places.

RUM-Dutchess
    RUM-Dutchess, a jolly handsome Woman.

RUM-File
    RUM-File, the same as Rum-diver.

RUMFORD-Lyon
    RUMFORD-Lyon, a Calf.

RUM-Fun
    RUM-Fun, a clever Cheat or sharp trick.

RUM-Gelt
    RUM-Gelt, the same as Rum-Cole.

RUM-Glimmer
    RUM-Glimmer, the King or Chief of the Linkboys.

RUM-Gutlers
    RUM-Gutlers, Canary-Wine; also fine Eating.

RUM-Hopper
    RUM-Hopper, a Drawer.
Rum-hopper, tip us presently a Boozing-cheat of Rum gutlers; Drawer, fill us presently a Bottle of the best Canary.

RUM-Kicks
    RUM-Kicks, Silver or Gold Brokade Breeches, or very rich with Gold or Silver Galloon.

RUM-Mawnd
    RUM-Mawnd, one that counterfeits himself a Fool.

RUM-Mort
    RUM-Mort, a Queen, or great Lady.

RUM-Nab
    RUM-Nab, a Beaver, or very good Hat.

RUM-Nantz
    RUM-Nantz, true French Brandy.

RUM-Ned
    RUM-Ned, a very silly Fellow.

RUM-Pad
    RUM-Pad, the Highway.

RUM-Padders
    RUM-Padders, the better Sort of Highwaymen, well mounted and armed. See High Pad.

RUM-Peepers
    RUM-Peepers, a Silver Looking-glass.

RUMP and Kidney Men
    RUMP and Kidney Men, Fidlers that play at Feasts, Fairs, Weddings c. and live chiefly on the Remnants of Victuals.

RUM-Prancer
    RUM-Prancer, a very beautiful Horse.

RUM-Quidds
    RUM-Quidds, a great Booty, or large Snack.

RUM-Ruff-Peck
    RUM-Ruff-Peck, Westphalia-Ham.

RUM-Squeeze
    RUM-Squeeze, much Wine or good Liquor given among the Fidlers.

RUM-Snitch
    RUM-Snitch, a good Fillip on the Nose.

RUM-Tol
    RUM-Tol, the same as Rum-degen, being the newest Cant Word of the two.

RUM-Tilter
    RUM-Tilter, the same as Rum-tol, or Rum-degen.

RUM-Topping
    RUM-Topping, a rich Head-dress.

RUM-Ville
    RUM-Ville, London

Wiper
    Wiper, the same as Rum-Clout

To RUN-Riot
    To RUN-Riot, to turn Spark, and run out of all.

RUNNING Stationers
    RUNNING Stationers, Hawkers, or those that cry News and Books about the Streets.

RUNNER
    RUNNER, the same as Budge.

RUSTYGUTS
    RUSTYGUTS, an old blunt Fellow.

SACK
    SACK, a Pocket.
To Dive into his Sack; To pick his Pocket.

SACK
    SACK, also signifies to be drunk; As, He bought the Sack; i.e. He got drunk.

SALESMAN'S Dog
    SALESMAN'S Dog, the same as Barker.

SALAMON
    SALAMON, the Beggar's Sacrament or Oath.

SCAB
    SCAB, a sorry Wench, or scoundrel Fellow.

SCANDALOUS
    SCANDALOUS, a sorry Perriwig.

SCANDAL-Proof
    SCANDAL-Proof, a thorough-pac'd Alsatian, or Minter; one harden'd, or past Shame.

SCEW
    SCEW, See Skew.

SCHOOL of Venus
    SCHOOL of Venus, a Bawdy-house.

SCONCE
    SCONCE, To build a large sconce; To run deep upon Tick or Trust.

SCOTCH Fiddle
    SCOTCH Fiddle, the Itch.

SCOTCH-Mist
    SCOTCH-Mist, a sober, soaking Rain.

SCOUNDREL
    SCOUNDREL, a Hedge bird or sorry Scab.

To SCOURE
    To SCOURE, to wear.
To Scoure the Cramp-rings; To wear Bolts.
Also to run away.
See Scowre.

To SCOWRE
    To SCOWRE, to run away or scamper.

SCOWRERS
    SCOWRERS, Drunkards beating the Watch, breaking Windows, clearing the Streets, c.

SCRAN
    SCRAN, a Reckoning at a Boozing-ken, c.

SCRAP
    SCRAP, s Design, a purpos'd Villainy, a vile Intention; also a perpetrated Roguery: He whiddles the whole Scrap: He discovers all he knows.

SCRIP
    SCRIP, a Shred or Scrap of Paper. As, The Cully did freely blot the Scrip, and tipt me 40 Hogs; One enter'd into Bond with me for 40 Shillings.

SCRUB
    SCRUB, a Ragamuffin.

SCRUBADO
    SCRUBADO, the Itch.

To SCREW
    To SCREW, to copulate with a Woman.

A SCREW
    A SCREW, a Strumper, a common Prostitute.

SCUM
    SCUM, the Riff-raff, or Tagrag and Longtail.

SEALER
    SEALER, one that gives Bonds and Judgement for Goods and Money.

SECRET
    SECRET, as, Let into the Secret; When one is drawn in at Horse-racing, Cock-fighting, Bowling, and other such Sports or Games, and bit.

SEEDY
    SEEDY, poor, Money-less, exhausted.

SERAGLIO
    SERAGLIO, a Bawdy-house; so called from the Great Turk's Palace.

SERAGLIETTO
    SERAGLIETTO, a lousy, vile, sorry Bawdy-house, a meer Dog-hole.

SET
    SET, as Dead Set, a Term used by Thief-catchers when they have a Certainty of seizing zome of their Clients, in order to bring them to Justice.

SETTERS, or Setting-dogs
    SETTERS, or Setting-dogs; they that draw in Bubbles, for old Gamesters to rook; also a Serjeant's Yeoman, or Bailiff's Follower, or Second. Also an Excise Officer.

To SETTLE
    To SETTLE, to stun, or knock down; as, We settled the Cull by a Stoter on his Nob; i.e. We took him such a Blow on the Head, as quite stunn'd him.

SHABBY
    SHABBY, in poor sorry Rigging.

SHABBEROON
    SHABBEROON, a Ragamuffin.

SHAB'D-Off
    SHAB'D-Off, sneak'd, or fled away.

SHAG-Bag
    SHAG-Bag, a poor shabby Fellow.

SHAM
    SHAM, a Cheat, or Trick. To Cut a Sham; To play a Rogue's Trick.

SHAMBLE-Legg'd
    SHAMBLE-Legg'd, one that goes wide, and shuffles his Feet about. Shake your Shambles; Haste, be gone.

SHAPPEAU, or Shappo
    SHAPPEAU, or Shappo; for Chappeau, F. a Hat.

SHARPER
    SHARPER, a Cheat, one that lives by his Wits.

SHARPERS-Tools
    SHARPERS-Tools, false Dice.

SHAVER
    SHAVER, A cunning Shaver; A subtle, smart Fellow.
He shaves close; He gripes, squeezes, or extorts very severely.

SHAVINGS
    SHAVINGS, the Chippings of Money.

SHE-Napper
    SHE-Napper, a Woman Thief-catcher; also a Hen-bawd, or Procuress; a Debaucher of young Virgins; a Maiden head-jobber.

SHOP
    SHOP, a Prison.

SHOP-Lift
    SHOP-Lift, one that Steals under pretence of cheap'ning.

SHOPT
    SHOPT, imprison'd.

SHOT
    SHOT, as, To pay one's Shot; To pay one's Club or Proportion.

SHOT 'twixt Wind and Water
    SHOT 'twixt Wind and Water, Clapt or Pox'd.

SHOULDER-Clapper
    SHOULDER-Clapper, a Serjeant or Bailiff.

SHOULDER-Sham
    SHOULDER-Sham, a Partner to a File.

SHRED
    SHRED, a Taylor.

SHUFFLER, or Shuffling-Fellow
    SHUFFLER, or Shuffling-Fellow; a slippery, shifting Fellow.

SHURK
    SHURK, a Shark or Sharper.

SICE
    SICE, Six-pence.

To SILENT a Man
    To SILENT a Man, to knock him down, so as to stun him: To lay him down for dead.
See the Cull is Silent, is also us'd by desperate Villains, for cutting the Throat, or shooting the unhappy Person who falls in their way.

SILK Snatchers
    SILK Snatchers, a Set of Varlets, who snatch Hoods, Scarves, Handkerchiefs, or any Thing they can come at.

SIMKIN
    SIMKIN, a Fool.

SIMON
    SIMON, Six-pence.

SINGLE-Ten
    SINGLE-Ten, a very foolish, silly Fellow.

SIR JOHN
    SIR JOHN, the Country-Vicar or Parson.

SIR TIMOTHY
    SIR TIMOTHY, one that treats every Body, and pays the Reckonings every where.

SKEW
    SKEW, a Beggar's wooden Dish.

SKIN-Flint
    SKIN-Flint, a griping, sharping, close-fisted Fellow.

SKINKER
    SKINKER, that fills the Glass or Cup. Who Skinks?
Who pours out the Liquor.

SKIP-Jacks
    SKIP-Jacks, Yougsters that ride Horses for Sale.

SKIPPER
    SKIPPER, a Barn.

SKRIP
    SKRIP, Paper.

SLAM
    SLAM, a Trick; also also a Game intirely lost, without getting one on that Side.

SLAT
    SLAT, a Sheet.

SLATE
    SLATE, a half Crown; also the same as Slot.

SLEEPING-House
    SLEEPING-House, without Shop, Warehouse or Cellar, only for a private Family.

SLOUCH
    SLOUCH, See Zlouch.

SLUBBER-Degullion
    SLUBBER-Degullion, a slovenly, dirty, nasty Fellow.

SLUR
    SLUR, a Cheat at Dice; also a slight Scandal or Affront.

SLY-Boots
    SLY-Boots, a seeming silly, but subtle Fellow.

SMACKING-Cove
    SMACKING-Cove, a Coachman.

To SMASH
    To SMASH, to quell, to beat or abuse violently; to kill.

SMASH
    SMASH, to smite, to kick down Stairs.
The Chubs tout the Blosses, they smash them, and make them brush; The Sharpers catch their Mistress at the Tavern, making merry without them, kick them down Stairs, and force them to rub off.

SMEAR
    SMEAR, a Painter, or Plaisterer, c.

SMELLER
    SMELLER, a Nose.

SMELLING-Cheat
    SMELLING-Cheat, a Nose-gay; also an Orchard or Garden.

SMELTS
    SMELTS, Half-Guineas.

SMITER
    SMITER, an Arm.

To SMOKE
    To SMOKE, to suspect or smell a Design. It is smok'd It is made Publick, all have Notice.

SMOKER
    SMOKER, a Tobacconist.

SMOKY
    SMOKY, Jealous, as, He is a smoky Cull; He is a suspicious Fellow.

SMUG
    SMUG, a Blacksmith.

SMUGGLING-KEN
    SMUGGLING-KEN, a Bawdy-house.

SMUTTY
    SMUTTY, Bawdy.

SNACK
    SNACK, Share or Part.
To go snacks. To go halves, or Share and Share alike.

To SNABBLE
    To SNABBLE, to rifle, to strip, or plunder.
To Snabble a Poll, to run away with a Peruke or Head-dress.

To SNAFFLE
    To SNAFFLE, to steal, to rob, to purloin.
A snaffler of Prancers; a Horse-Stealer.
Snuffle, is also a Highwayman that has got a Booty.

SNAPT
    SNAPT, taken, caught.

SNEAK
    SNEAK, He goes upon the Sneak at Darkmans, He privately gets into Houses or Shops at Night and Steals undiscovered.

A SNEAKING Budge
    A SNEAKING Budge, one that robs alone, and deals chiefly in petty Larcenies.

To SNIC
    To SNIC, to cut.

To SNILCH
    To SNILCH, to eye or see any Body. The Cull snilches; the Man eyes or sees you.

SNIP
    SNIP, a Cheat; T snip, to cheat.

SNITCH, or Snitchel
    SNITCH, or Snitchel; a Filip on the Nose.

SNITE
    SNITE, to wipe, or flap.
Snite his Snitch; wipe his Nose, or give him a good Flap on the Face.

SNOUT
    SNOUT, a Hogshead.

SNOW-Broth
    SNOW-Broth, Snow-water.

SNUDGE
    SNUDGE, one that lurks under a Bed, to watch an Opportunity to rob the House.

SNUG
    SNUG, All's snug; All's quiet, used by Villains, when every thing is silent and they hear no body stir to oppose their intended Rogueries.

SOCK
    SOCK, a Pocket.
Not a Rag in my Sock; I han't a Farthing in my Pocket. Also beat; I'll Sock ye; I'll drub ye tightly.

SOCKET Money
    SOCKET Money, demanded and spent upon Marriage.

SOLDIERS-Bottle
    SOLDIERS-Bottle, a large one.

SOLOMON, or Soloman
    SOLOMON, or Soloman; the Mass.

SON of Apollo
    SON of Apollo, a Scholar.

SON of Mars
    SON of Mars, a Soldier.

SON of Venus
    SON of Venus, a Lover of Women.

SON of Mercury
    SON of Mercury, a Wit.
Also a Thief.

SON of Prattlement
    SON of Prattlement, a Lawyer.

SOUL-Driver
    SOUL-Driver, a Parson.

A SOUL
    A SOUL, one that loves Brandy.

SOULDIER's Mawnd
    SOULDIER's Mawnd, a counterfeit Sore or Wound in the left Arm.

SOUSE
    SOUSE, Not a Souse; not a Penny. From Sous, French Money.

To SOUDSE
    To SOUDSE, to fall upon, to beat cruelly; also to plunder or kill.

SOUTH-SEA
    SOUTH-SEA, a strong distill'd Liquor, so called by the Inhabitants and Clients of Newgate, c.

SOUTH-SEA Mountain
    SOUTH-SEA Mountain, Geneva.

SOW's Baby
    SOW's Baby, a Pig.

SOWSE Crown
    SOWSE Crown, a Fool.

SOW-Child
    SOW-Child, a Female Child.

To SOWR
    To SOWR, to beat violently, c. As, Sowr the Cull; i. e. knock him down: Beat him without Mercy, c.

SPANGLES
    SPANGLES, Ends of Gold or Silver.

SPANISH-Gout
    SPANISH-Gout, the Pox.

SPANISH-Money
    SPANISH-Money, fair Words and Compliments.

SPANKS
    SPANKS, Money, Gold or Silver.

To SPEAK with
    To SPEAK with, to steal.

SPECKT-Wiper
    SPECKT-Wiper, a coloured Handkerchief.

To SPIRIT-Away
    To SPIRIT-Away, the same asKidnap.

SPIRITUAL-Flesh Broker
    SPIRITUAL-Flesh Broker, a Parson.

SPLIT-Fig
    SPLIT-Fig, a Grocer.

SPLITTER-of-Causes
    SPLITTER-of-Causes, a Lawyer.

To SPRING a Partridge
    To SPRING a Partridge, to draw a Person in to be bit.
To spring Partridges; to raise a Crowd in order to rob or pick Pockets.

To SPUNGE
    To SPUNGE, to drink at others Cost.

SPUNGING-House
    SPUNGING-House, a By-prison.

A SPUNGING Fellow
    A SPUNGING Fellow, one that lives upon the rest, and pays nothing.

SQUAB
    SQUAB, a very fat, truss Person; a new-hatch'd Chick; also a Couch.

SQUAWL
    SQUAWL, a Voice; as, The Cove has a bien Squawl; The Fellow has a good Voice.

To SQUEEK
    To SQUEEK, to discover, or impeach; also to cry out.
They squeek Beef upon us; They cry out Highway-men or Thieves after us.
The Cull squeeks; The Rogue peaches.

SQUEEKER
    SQUEEKER, a Barboy; also a Bastard, or any other Child.
Stifle the Squueker; Murder the Child, and throw it into a House of Office.

SQUEEZING of Wax
    SQUEEZING of Wax, being bound for any Body; also sealing of Writings.

SQUINTE-Fuego
    SQUINTE-Fuego, one that squints very much.

SQUIRE of Alsatia
    SQUIRE of Alsatia, a Man of Fortune, drawn in, cheated, and ruin'd by a Pack of poor, lowsy, spunging Fellows, that lived (formerly) in White-Fryars. The Squire, a Sir Timothy Treat-all; also a Sap-Pate.
A fat Squire; A rich Fool.

SQUIRISH
    SQUIRISH, foolish; also one that  pretends to pay all Reckonings, and is not strong enough in the Pocket.

STAG
    STAG, a Term (inverting Qualities) used for an Enemy, a Pursuer; as, I spy a Stag, used by that notorious young Robber Shepherd, lately executed, when he first saw the Turnkey of Newgate, who pursu'd and took him after his first Escape from the Condemn'd Hold.

STALE Jest
    STALE Jest, old, dull.

STALE Maid
    STALE Maid, at her last Prayers.

STALLION
    STALLION, a Whore-Master; so called from a Stone-horse kept to cover Mares.

STALL-Whimper
    STALL-Whimper, a Bastard.

STALLING
    STALLING, making or ordaining.

STALLNG-Ken
    STALLNG-Ken, a Broker's Shop, or any House that receives stollen Goods.

To STAM-Flesh
    To STAM-Flesh, to Cant; as, The Cully Stamfleshes rumly; He cants very well.

STAMMEL, or Strammel
    STAMMEL, or Strammel; a brawny, lusty, strapping Wench.

STAMPS
    STAMPS, Legs.

STAMPERS
    STAMPERS, Shoes; also Carriers.

STARTER
    STARTER, a Question; also a Flincher. I am no Starter; I shan't flinch, or cry to go home.

STICK Flams
    STICK Flams, a Pair of Gloves.

STINGO
    STINGO, humming, strong Liquor.

STITCH-Back
    STITCH-Back, very strong Ale.

STOCK-Drawers
    STOCK-Drawers, Stockings.

STONE-Dead
    STONE-Dead, quite dead.

STONE Doublet
    STONE Doublet, a Prison.

STOP
    STOP, as, I have stopt his Blubber; I have stopt his Mouth.

STOP-Hole Abbey
    STOP-Hole Abbey, the Nick-name of the chief Rendezvous of the Canting Crew of Gypsies, Cheats, Thieves, c.

STOTER
    STOTER, a great Blow.
Stoter him, or, Tip him a Stoter; Settle him; give him a swinging Blow.

STOW
    STOW, i.e. You have said enough. Stow you, bene Cove; Hold your Peace, good Fellow.
Stow your Whids and plant them; for the Cove of the Ken can cant them; Take care what you say; for the Man of the House understands you.

STRAPPING
    STRAPPING, lying with a Wench.

STRAPPING-Lass
    STRAPPING-Lass, a swinging two-handed Woman.

STRETCHING
    STRETCHING, hanging.
He will stretch for it; He will be hang'd.

To STRETCH
    To STRETCH, to tell a Lye; as, He stretcht hard; He told a whicking Lye.

STRIKE
    STRIKE, to beg or rob; also to borrow Money.
Strike all the Cheats; Rob all that you meet.
Strike the Cull;  Beg of that Gentleman.
Strike the Cloy; Get the Fellow's Money from him.
He has struck the Quidds; He has got the Money from him.
He strikes every Body; He borrows Money every where; he runs in every one's Debt.

To STRIP
    To STRIP, to rob or gut a House, to unrig any Body; or to bite them of their Money.

To STRIP the Ken
    To STRIP the Ken, To gut the House.

To STRIP the Table
    To STRIP the Table, To win all the Money on the Place.
We have stript the Cull; We have got all the Fool's Money.
The Cove's stript; The Rogue has not a Jack left to help himself.

STROMMEL
    STROMMEL, Strap, or Hair, as, She hath good Store of Strommel on her Nob.

STROWLERS
    STROWLERS, Vagabonds, Itinerants, Men of no settled Abode, of a precarious Life, Wanderers of Fortune, such as Gypsies, Beggars, Pedlars, Hawkers, Mountebanks, Fidlers, Country-Players, Rope-dancers, Jugglers, Tumblers, Shewers of Tricks, and Raree-show-men.

STROWLING-Morts
    STROWLING-Morts, 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 Ruffler is with them.

STRUM
    STRUM, a Ferriwig.
Rum-strum; A long Wig.
Also a handsome Wench, or Strumpet.

STUBBLE-It
    STUBBLE-It, Hold your Tongue.

STULING-Ken
    STULING-Ken, the same as Stalling Ken.
Which see.

SUCK
    SUCK, Wine or strong Drink.
This is rum Suck; It is excellent Tipple. We'll go and Suck our Faces; but if they toute us, we'll take Rattle, and brush; Let's go to drink and be merry; but if we be smelt by the People of the House, we must scowre off.
He loves to Suck his Face; He delights in Drinking.

SUCKY
    SUCKY, drunkish, maudling, half-Seas over.

SUIT and Cloak
    SUIT and Cloak, good Store of Brandy or any agreeable Liquor.

SUN-Burnt
    SUN-Burnt, clapt.

SUNNY-Bank
    SUNNY-Bank, a good, rousing Winter-Fire.

SUPERNACULUM
    SUPERNACULUM, not so much as a Drop left to be poured upon the Thumb nail, so cleverly was the Liquor tipt off.

SU-POUCH
    SU-POUCH, an Hostess or Landlady.

SUTLER
    SUTLER, he that pockets up Gloves, Knives, Handkerchiefs, Snuff and Tobacco-boxes,  and other lesser Moveables.

SWADDLERS
    SWADDLERS, Rogues, who, not content to rob and plunder, beat and barbarously abuse, andoften murder the Passengers.
Hence, To seaddle; To beat lustily with a Cane, c.

SWAG
    SWAG, a Shop.
Rum Swag; Full of rich Goods.

To SWAGGER
    To SWAGGER, to vapour or bounce.

SWEET
    SWEET, easy to be taken in; Also expert, dexterous, clever: As, Sweet's your Hand; said of one who has the Knack of stealing by Sleight of Hand.

SWEETNERS
    SWEETNERS, Guinea-droppers, Cheats, Sharpers.
To Sweeten; To decoy, draw in, and bute.
To be sweet upon; To coax, wheedle,entice or allure.

SWIG
    SWIG, a draught of Liquor; To swig it off; To drink it all up.

SWIG-Men
    SWIG-Men, carrying small Haberdashery-Wares about, pretending to sell them, to colour their Roguery. Fellows crying Old Shoes, Boots, or brooms; and thos pretending to buy Old Suits, Hats or Cloaks, are also called Swig-Men, and oftentimes, if an Opportunity offers, make all Fish that comes to Net.

SWINDGING-Clap, Swindging Fellow, Swindging Lye
    SWINDGING-Clap, Swindging Fellow, Swindging Lye; a very great one.

To SWINDE one off
    To SWINDE one off, to beat him soundly.

TACKLE
    TACKLE, a Mistress; also good Cloaths.
The Cull has tipt his Tackle Rum-rigging, or has tipt his Bloss Rum Tackle; The keeping Coxcomb has given his Mistress very fine Cloaths.

TAKE the Culls in
    TAKE the Culls in, Seize the Men in order to rob them.

TALE-Tellers
    TALE-Tellers, a sort of Servants in use with the great Men in Ireland, to lull them asleep with Stories of a Cock and a Bull, c.

TALESMAN
    TALESMAN, as, I tell you my Tale, and my Talesman, or Author.

TALL-Boy
    TALL-Boy, a Pottle or two Quart Pot.

TALLY-Men
    TALLY-Men, Brokers that let out Cloaths to wear per Week, Month or Year.
See Rabbit-Suckers.

TAP
    TAP, a Blow; a small Tap, c.

TAPE, Red or White
    TAPE, Red or White, Geneva, Aniseed, Clove water, so called by Canters and Villains, and the Renters  of the Trap, c. in Newgate, ans other Prisons.

TAPLASH
    TAPLASH, wretched, sorry Drink, or Hogwash.

TART Dames
    TART Dames, sharp, quick, pert.

TARTAR
    TARTAR, a notorious Rogue or Sharper, who sticks not to rob his Brother Rogue.
Hence To catch a Tartar, 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.

TATTER-De-mallion
    TATTER-De-mallion, a tattered Beggar, sometimes half naked, with Design to move Charity, having better Cloaths at Home.
in Tatters; in Rags. Tattered and Torn; rent and torn.

TATTLE, or Tattler
    TATTLE, or Tattler; an Alarum, or striking Watch; or indeed any other Watch.

TATS
    TATS, false Dice.

TAUDRY
    TAUDRY, 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. Audery (in Isle of Ely 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 All Taudry; as much as to say, All St. Audery.

TAYLE
    TAYLE, a Sword.

TAYLE Drawers
    TAYLE Drawers, Sword-Stealers. The same as Wiper-Drawers.
He drew the Cull's Tayle Rumly; He whipt away the Gentleman's Sword cleverly.

TEAGUE-Land
    TEAGUE-Land, Ireland.

TEAGUE-Landers
    TEAGUE-Landers, Irishmen.

TEARS of the Tankard
    TEARS of the Tankard, Drops of the good Liquor that fall beside.

TEMPLE Pickling
    TEMPLE Pickling, the Pumping of Bailiffs, Bums, Setters, Pick-Pockets, c.

TENDER-Parnel
    TENDER-Parnel, a very nicely educated Creature, apt to catch cold on the least Puff of Wind.

TERCEL Gentle
    TERCEL Gentle, a Knight or Gentleman of a good Estate; also any rich Man.

TERRA-Firma
    TERRA-Firma, an Estate in Land; Has the Cull got any Terra Firma?
Has the Fool got any Land.

THE Dragon upon St. George
    THE Dragon upon St. George, the Woman uppermost.

THIEF-Takers
    THIEF-Takers, who make a Trade of helping People (for a Gratuity) to  their lost Goods and sometimes, for Interest, or Envy, snapping the Rogues themselves, being usually in Fee with them, and acquainted with their Haunts.

THOROUGH-Cough
    THOROUGH-Cough, farting and coughing at the same time.

THOROUGH Passage
    THOROUGH Passage, in at one Ear and out at t'other.

THOROUGH Stitch
    THOROUGH Stitch, over Shoes, over Boots.

THREE Legged Stool, or Three legged Mare
    THREE Legged Stool, or Three legged Mare; Tyburn.

THREE Threads
    THREE Threads, half common Ale, and half Stout or double Beer.

THREPPS
    THREPPS, Three-pence.

THROTTLE
    THROTTLE, Throat or Gullet; He siezed is Throttle: i.e. He took him by the Throat.

THRUMS
    THRUMS, Three Pence.
Tip me Thrums; Lend me Three Pence.

THUMMIKINS
    THUMMIKINS, a Punishment (in Scotland) 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.

THWACK
    THWACK, to beat with a Stick or Cudgel.

TIB
    TIB, a young Lass.

TIB of the Buttery
    TIB of the Buttery, a Goose.

TICK
    TICK, as, to run on Tick; To go on the Score, or Trust.

TICKLE-Pitcher
    TICKLE-Pitcher, a Tosspot, or Pot-companion. A lewd Man or Woman.

TICKRUM
    TICKRUM, a Licence.

TIFFING
    TIFFING, lying with a Wench, also Drinking.

TILTER
    TILTER, a Sword.
To Tilt, to fight with a Rapier.
Run a Tilt; a swift Pursuit.

TINT for Tant
    TINT for Tant, Hit for Hit, Dash for Dash.

TIP
    TIP, to give or lend: Tip your Lour or Cole or I'll mill ye; Give me your Money, or I'll kill ye.
Tip the COle to Adam Tiler; Give your Pick-pocket Money presently to your running Comrade.
Tip the Mish; Give me the Shirt.
Tip me a Hog; Lend me a Shilling. Tip it all off; Drink it all off at a Draught.
Don't spoil his Tip; Don't baulk his Draught.
A Tub of good Tip; (for Tipple) a Cask of strong Drink. To tip off, also signifies to die.

TIPLER
    TIPLER, a Fuddle-cap, or Toss pot.

TIPSY
    TIPSY, almost drunk.

TIT
    TIT, a Horse; also a young prim Lass.

TIT-Bit
    TIT-Bit, a fine Snack, or choice Morsel.

TITTLE-Tattle
    TITTLE-Tattle, idle, impertinent Talk.

To TITTER
    To TITTER, to laugh at a Feather.

TITTER-Totter
    TITTER-Totter, one ready to reel, at every Jog, or Blast of Wind.

TOGE
    TOGE, a Coat.

TOGEMANS
    TOGEMANS, a Gown, or Cloak.
I have bit the Togemans; I have stole the Cloak.
Tis a Rum Togemans lets nim it; 'Tis a good Camblet-Cloak; lets whip it off.

TOKENS
    TOKENS, the Plague; also Presents from one to another; also a Farthing. Not a Token left; Not a Farthing remaining. Tom Fools token; Money.

TOL.
    TOL., Toledo, a Sword.
Bite the Tol; Steal the Sword.
A Rum Tol; A silver hilted Sword.
A Queere Tol; A Brass or Steel-hilted or ordinary Sword.

TOM-Boy
    TOM-Boy, a Tom Rig, or Romp.

TOM of Bedlam
    TOM of Bedlam, the same as ABRAM-MEN.html">Abram-Man. Which See.

TOM-Cony
    TOM-Cony, a very silly Felow.

TOM-Thumb
    TOM-Thumb, a Dwarf or diminutive Fellow.

TOM-Long
    TOM-Long, tedious; as Come by Tom Long the Carrier; of what is very long a coming.

TONGUE-Pad
    TONGUE-Pad, a smooth, glib-tongued, insinuating Fellow.

TONY
    TONY, a silly Fellow or Ninny.
A meer Tony; a meer Simpleton.

TOOL
    TOOL, an Implement fit for any Turn, the Creature of any Cause or Faction; a meer Property, or Cat's Foot.

To TOP
    To TOP, to cheat or trick any one; also to insult.
What, do you top upon me?
Do you stick a little Wax to the Dice to keep them together, to get the Chance you would have?
He thought to have topt upon me; He designed to have put upon, sharped, bullied, or affronted me.

TOP Diver
    TOP Diver, a Lover of Women.

To TOPE
    To TOPE, to drink.
An old Toper; a staunch Drunkard.
To tope it about, or Dust it about; To drink briskly about.

TOP-Heavy
    TOP-Heavy, Drunk.

TOPPING-Fellow
    TOPPING-Fellow, who has reach'd the Pitch and greatest Eminence in any Art; the Master, and the Cock of his Profession.

TOPPING-Cheat
    TOPPING-Cheat, the Gallows.

TOPPING-Cove
    TOPPING-Cove, the Hangman.

TORCH-Cul
    TORCH-Cul, Bum sodder.

TORIES
    TORIES, Irish Thieves or Rapparees.

To TOST, or Toast
    To TOST, or Toast; to name or begin a new Health.
Who tosts now? Who Christens the Health?
An old Tost; A pert, pleasant, old Fellow.

TOTTY-Headed
    TOTTY-Headed, giddy-headed, hare-brained.

To TOUR, To TOUT
    To TOUR, To TOUT; to look out sharp, to be upon one's Guard.
Who touts? Who looks out sharp?
Tout the Culls; Eye those Folks which way they take.
Do you tout and bulk, and I'll file; If you'll eye and jostlehim, I will pick his Pockets.

TOUTING-Ken
    TOUTING-Ken, a Tavern or Ale-house Bar.

TOWER Hill Play
    TOWER Hill Play, a Slap on the Face and a Kick on the Breech.

TOWN-Bull
    TOWN-Bull, one that rides all the Women he meets.

TOWER
    TOWER, a Cant Word, used to denote bad, or clipped Money: as, They have been round the Tower with it; te he Piece of Money has been clipt.

TRACK
    TRACK, to go.
Track up the Dancers; Whip up the Stairs.

TRANSNEAR
    TRANSNEAR, to come up with any Body.

TRANSLATORS
    TRANSLATORS, Sellers of old Shoes and Boots, between Shoemakers and Cobblers; also that turn or translate out of one Language into another.

TRANSMOGRIFY
    TRANSMOGRIFY, or rather Transmigrafy, to alter or new vamp.

TRANTER
    TRANTER, See Crocker.

TRAPAN
    TRAPAN, he that draws in or wheedles a Cull, and Bites him.
Trapann'd; sharp'd, ensnar'd.

TRAPES
    TRAPES, a dangling Slattern.

TRES-WINS
    TRES-WINS, Three Pence.

TRIGRY-Mate
    TRIGRY-Mate, an idle She-companion.

TRIP
    TRIP, a Prison.
He is in Trib, for Tribulation; He is laid by the Heels, or in a great deal of Trouble.

TRIM
    TRIM, Dress.
In a sad Trim; dirty, undress'd.
A Trim Lad; A spruce, neat, well trick'd Man.

TRIMMING
    TRIMMING, cheating People of their Money.

To TRINE
    To TRINE, to hang; also Tyburn.

TRINING
    TRINING, hanging.

TRINKETS
    TRINKETS, Toys and Trifles.

TRINGUM-TRANGUM
    TRINGUM-TRANGUM, a Whim or Maggot.

TRIPE
    TRIPE, the Belly or Guts.

TRIP
    TRIP, a short Voyage or Journey; also an Error of the Tongue, or Pen; a Stumble, a false Step, a Miscarriage. Also a Bastard.

TROT
    TROT, as, An old Trot, a sorry, base, old Woman.
A Dog Trot; A pretty Pace.

TROTTERS
    TROTTERS, Feet, usually Sheeps. Shake your Trotters; Troop off, be gone.

To TROLLAbout
    To TROLLAbout, to saunter, loiter, or wander about.

TROLLOP
    TROLLOP, a A great Trollop, a lusty coarse Romp.

TROOPER
    TROOPER, a half Crown.

TROUNCED
    TROUNCED, troubled, cast in Law punished.

TRUG
    TRUG, a dirty Puzzle, an ordinary sorry Woman.

TRULL
    TRULL, a Whore, also a Tinker's travelling Wife or Wench.

TRUMPERY
    TRUMPERY, old Ware, old Stuff.

TRUNDLERS
    TRUNDLERS, Pease.

TRUNK
    TRUNK, a NoseHow fares your old Trunk? Does your Nose stand fast?

TRUSTY-Trojan, or Trusty Trout
    TRUSTY-Trojan, or Trusty Trout; a sure Friend or Confidant.

TUCK'D
    TUCK'D, hang'd.

TUMBLER
    TUMBLER, a Cart.
To shove the Tumbler; 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.

TURK
    TURK, any cruel hard-hearted Man.

TURKEY Merchants
    TURKEY Merchants, Drivers of Turkeys.

TURKISH-Shore
    TURKISH-Shore, Lambeth, Southwark and Rotherhith Side of the Water.

TURKISH-Treatment
    TURKISH-Treatment, very sharp or ill dealing in Business.

TURN-Coat
    TURN-Coat, he that quits one and embraces another Party.

TURNIP Pate
    TURNIP Pate, white or Fair-hair'd.

TWEAK
    TWEAK, as In a Tweak; in a heavy Taking, much vexed or very angry.

TWELVER
    TWELVER, a Shilling.

To TWIG
    To TWIG, to disingage, to sunder, to snap, to break off; as, To twig the Darbies; To knock off the Irons.

TWIST
    TWIST, half Tea, half Coffee: Likewise Brandy and Eggs mixed.
Hot-Pot. Also to Eat; as, To twist lustily; To feed like a Farmer.

To TWIST
    To TWIST, to eat heartily.

TWISTED
    TWISTED, executed, hanged.

To TWIT
    To TWIT, to hit in the Teeth.

To TWITTER
    To TWITTER, to laugh much with little Noise; also to tremble.

VAGARIES
    VAGARIES, wild Rambles, extravagant Frolicks.

VAGRANT
    VAGRANT, a wandering Rogue, a strolling Vagabond.

VAIN-Glorious
    VAIN-Glorious, or Ostentatious Man, one that boasts without Reason, or, as the Canters say, pisses more than he drinks.

VALET
    VALET, a Servant.

To VAMP
    To VAMP, to parn anything. [[pawn?]] I'll  Vamp, and tip you the Cole; I'll pawn my Cloaths, but I'll raise the Money for you.
To Vamp; To new dress, liquer, refresh or rub up old Hats, Boots, Shoes c. Also a Sock.

VAMPERS
    VAMPERS, Stockings.

VAN
    VAN, as Madam Van.
See Madam.

VARLETS
    VARLETS, now Rogues, Rascals, c. tho' formerly Yeomens Servants.

To VAULT
    To VAULT, as, To Vault, to commit Acts of Debauchery.

VAULTING-School
    VAULTING-School, a Bawdy-house.

VELVET
    VELVET, a Tongue.
Tip the Velvet; To tongue a Woman.

VINEGAR
    VINEGAR, a Cloak; also the Fellow that makes a Ring, and keeps Order amongst Wrestlers, Dudgel-Players, c.

VIRAGO
    VIRAGO, a masculine Woman, or a great two-handed Female.

UNRIG'D
    UNRIG'D, stripp'd, undress'd.
Unrig the Drab; pull all the Whore's Cloaths off.

UNTWISTED
    UNTWISTED, undone, ruin'd.

UNWASH'D Bawdry
    UNWASH'D Bawdry, rank, fulsom Bawdry.

UPHILS
    UPHILS, high Dice.

VOUCHERS
    VOUCHERS, that put off false Money for sham Coiners.
Also one that warrants Gagers or under Officers Accompts, either at the Excise Office; or elsewhere.

UPPISH
    UPPISH, rampant, crowing, full of Money.
He is very Uppish; He is well-lined in the Fob; also brisk.

UPRIGHT-MEN
    UPRIGHT-MEN, As, an Upright-man, 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 Dells, who afterwards are used in common among the whole Fraternity.
He carries a short Truncheon in his Hand, which he calls his Filchman, 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, Abram-Men, 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.
Go Upright, said by Taylors and and Shoemakers, to their Servants, when any Money is given to make them drink, and signifies, Bring it all out in Drink, tho' the Donor intended less, and expects Change, or some Return of Money.

UPSTARTS
    UPSTARTS, new raised to Honour.

URCHIN
    URCHIN, a little sorry Fellow; also a Hedge-hog.

URINAL of the Planets
    URINAL of the Planets, Ireland, with us, because of its frequent and great Rains; as Heidelberg, and Cologn in Germany, have the same Name upon the same Account; also a Chamber-pot, or Glass.

XANTIPPE
    XANTIPPE, a Scold; the Name of Socrates'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.

To YAM
    To YAM, to eat heartily, to stuff lustily.

YARMOUTH-Capon
    YARMOUTH-Capon, a red Herring.

YARMOUTH-Coach
    YARMOUTH-Coach, a sorry slow Cart to ride on, drawn by one Horse.

YARMOUTH-Pye
    YARMOUTH-Pye, made of Herrings, highly spic'd, and presented by the City of Norwich annually to the King, on pain of forfeiting their Charter.

YARUM
    YARUM, Milk, or Food made of Milk.

YEA-and-Nay-Men
    YEA-and-Nay-Men, a Phrase originally applied to Quakers; but now used for any simple Fellows.

YELLOW
    YELLOW, at first used by the Canters  only, but now in common Speech, for being jealous.

YELLOW-Boy
    YELLOW-Boy, a Guinea, or Piece of Gold of any Coin.

To YELP
    To YELP, (from the Yelping of a Dog) to cry, to bawl, to complain.

YELPER
    YELPER, a Town-Cryer; also, one subject to complain, or make pitiful Lamentation for trifling Incidents.

YEST
    YEST, a Diminutive of Yesterday; a Day ago.

YOAK'D
    YOAK'D, married.

YORKSHIRE-Tike
    YORKSHIRE-Tike, a Yorkshire Manner of Man.

ZAD
    ZAD, crooked, like the letter Z; as, A meer Zad, used of any bandy-legg'd, crouch-back'd or deformed Person.

ZANY
    ZANY, a Mountebank's Merry-Andrew, or Jester, to distinguish him from a Lord's Fool.

ZLOUCH, or Slouch
    ZLOUCH, or Slouch; a slovenly ungenteel Man.

ZNEES
    ZNEES, Frost, or Frozen; Zneesy weather; Frosty Weather.

ZNUZ
    ZNUZ, the same as Znees.