Chapter III: Part 3

COVENT, or CONVENT GARDEN, vulgarly called COMMON
GARDEN. Anciently, the garden belonging to a
dissolved monastery; now famous for being the chief
market in London for fruit, flowers, and herbs. The
theatres are situated near it. In its environs are
many brothels, and not long ago, the lodgings of the
second order of ladies of easy virtue were either there, or
in the purlieus of Drury Lane.

COVENT GARDEN ABBESS. A bawd.

COVENT GARDEN AGUE. The venereal disease. He broke
his shins against Covent Garden rails; he caught the
venereal disorder.

COVENT GARDEN NUN. A prostitute.

COVENTRY. To send one to Coventry; a punishment inflicted
by officers of the army on such of their brethren
as are testy, or have been guilty of improper behaviour,
not worthy the cognizance of a court martial. The person
sent to Coventry is considered as absent; no one must
speak to or answer any question he asks, except relative
to duty, under penalty of being also sent to the same place.
On a proper submission, the penitent is recalled, and
welcomed by the mess, as just returned from a journey to
Coventry.

COVEY. A collection of whores. What a fine covey here
is, if the Devil would but throw his net!

TO COUCH A HOGSHEAD. To lie down to sleep. CANT.

COUNTERFEIT CRANK. A general cheat, assuming all sorts
of characters; one counterfeiting the falling sickness.

COUNTRY HARRY. A waggoner. CANT.

COUNTRY PUT. An ignorant country fellow.

COUNTY WORK. Said of any work that advances slowly.

COURT CARD. A gay fluttering coxcomb.

COURT HOLY WATER, COURT PROMISES. Fair speeches and promises,
without performance.

COURT OF ASSISTANTS. A court often applied to by young
women who marry old men.

COW. To sleep like a cow, with a **** at one's a-se; said
of a married man; married men being supposed to sleep
with their backs towards their wives, according to the
following proclamation:

All you that in your beds do lie,
Turn to your wives, and occupy:
And when that you have done your best,
Turn a-se to a-se, and take your rest.

COW JUICE. Milk.

COW'S BABY. A calf.

COW'S COURANT. Gallop and sh---e.

COW-HANDED. Awkward.

COW-HEARTED. Fearful.

COW ITCH. The product of a sort of bean, which excites an
insufferable itching, used chiefly for playing tricks.

COW'S SPOUSE. A bull.

COW'S THUMB. Done to a cow's thumb; done exactly.

COXCOMB. Anciently, a fool. Fools, in great families,
wore a cap with bells, on the top of which was a piece of
red cloth, in the shape of a cock's comb. At present,
coxcomb signifies a fop, or vain self-conceited fellow.

CRAB. To catch a crab; to fall backwards by missing one's
stroke in rowing.

CRAB LANTHORN. A peevish fellow.

CRAB LOUSE. A species of louse peculiar to the human body;
the male is denominated a cock, the female a hen.

CRAB SHELLS. Shoes. IRISH.

CRABS. A losing throw to the main at hazard.

CRABBED. Sour, ill-tempered, difficult.

CRACK. A whore.

TO CRACK. To boast or brag; also to break. I cracked his
napper; I broke his head.

THE CRACK, or ALL THE CRACK. The fashionable theme,
the go. The Crack Lay, of late is used, in the cant
language, to signify the art and mystery of house-breaking.

CRACKER. Crust, sea biscuit, or ammunition loaf; also the
backside. Farting crackers; breeches.

CRACKISH. Whorish.

CRACKING TOOLS. Implements of house-breaking, such as
a crow, a center bit, false keys, &c.

CRACKMANS. Hedges. The cull thought to have loped by
breaking through the crackmans, but we fetched him back
by a nope on the costard, which stopped his jaw; the man
thought to have escaped by breaking through the hedge,
but we brought him back by a great blow on the head,
which laid him speechless.

CRACKSMAN. A house-breaker. The kiddy is a clever
cracksman; the young fellow is a very expert house-breaker.

CRAG. The neck.

CRAMP RINGS. Bolts, shackles, or fetters. CANT.

CRAMP WORDS. Sentence of death passed on a criminal by
a judge. He has just undergone the cramp word; sentence
has just been passed on him. CANT.

CRANK. Gin and water; also, brisk, pert.

CRANK. The falling sickness. CANT.

TO CRASH. To kill. Crash that cull; kill that fellow. CANT.

CRASHING CHEATS. Teeth.

CRAW THUMPERS. Roman catholics, so called from their
beating their breasts in the confession of their sins. See
BRISKET BEATER, and BREAST FLEET.

CREAM-POT LOVE. Such as young fellows pretend to
dairymaids, to get cream and other good things from them.

TO CREEME. To slip or slide any thing into the hands of
another. CANT.

CREEPERS. Gentlemen's companions, lice.

CREW. A knot or gang; also a boat or ship's company. The
canting crew are thus divided into twenty-three orders,
which see under the different words:

MEN.

1 Rufflers
2 Upright Men
3 Hookers or Anglers
4 Rogues
5 Wild Rogues
6 Priggers of Prancers
7 Palliardes
8 Fraters
9 Jarkmen, or Patricoes
10 Fresh Water Mariners, or Whip Jackets
11 Drummerers
12 Drunken Tinkers
13 Swadders, or Pedlars
14 Abrams.

WOMEN.

1 Demanders for Glimmer or Fire
2 Bawdy Baskets
3 Morts
4 Autem Morts
5 Walking Morts
6 Doxies
7 Delles
8 Kinching Morts
9 Kinching Coes

CRIB. A house. To crack a crib: to break open a house.

TO CRIB. To purloin, or appropriate to one's own use,
part of any thing intrusted to one's care.

TO FIGHT A CRIB. To make a sham fight. BEAR GARDEN
TERM.

CRIBBAGE-FACED. Marked with the small pox, the pits
bearing a kind of resemblance to the holes in a
cribbage-board.

CRIBBEYS, or CRIBBY ISLANDS. Blind alleys, courts, or
bye-ways; perhaps from the houses built there being cribbed
out of the common way or passage; and islands, from
the similarity of sound to the Caribbee Islands.

CRIM. CON. MONEY. Damages directed by a jury to be
paid by a convicted adulterer to the injured husband, for
criminal conversation with his wife.

CRIMP. A broker or factor, as a coal crimp, who disposes
of the cargoes of the Newcastle coal ships; also persons
employed to trapan or kidnap recruits for the East Indian
and African companies. To crimp, or play crimp; to
play foul or booty: also a cruel manner of cutting up fish
alive, practised by the London fishmongers, in order to
make it eat firm; cod, and other crimped fish, being a
favourite dish among voluptuaries and epicures.

CRINKUM CRANKUM. A woman's commodity. See SPECTATOR.

CRINKUMS. The foul or venereal disease.

CRIPPLE. Sixpence; that piece being commonly much bent
and distorted.

CRISPIN. A shoemaker: from a romance, wherein a prince
of that name is said to have exercised the art and mystery
of a shoemaker, thence called the gentle craft: or rather
from the saints Crispinus and Crispianus, who according
to the legend, were brethren born at Rome, from whence
they travelled to Soissons in France, about the year 303,
to propagate the Christian religion; but, because they
would not be chargeable to others for their maintenance,
they exercised the trade of shoemakers: the governor of
the town discovering them to be Christians, ordered them
to be beheaded, about the year 303; from which time they
have been the tutelar saints of the shoemakers.

CRISPIN'S HOLIDAY. Every Monday throughout the year,
but most particularly the 25th of October, being the
anniversary of Crispinus and Crispianus.

CRISPIN'S LANCE. An awl.

CROAKER. One who is always foretelling some accident
or misfortune: an allusion to the croaking of a raven,
supposed ominous.

CROAKUMSHIRE. Northumberland, from the particular
croaking the pronunciation of the people of that
county, especially about Newcastle and Morpeth, where
they are said to be born with a burr in their throats, which
prevents their pronouncing the letter r.

CROAKERS. Forestallers, called also Kidders and Tranters.

CROCODILE'S TEARS. The tears of a hypocrite. Crocodiles
are fabulously reported to shed tears over their prey before
they devour it.

CROCUS, or CROCUS METALLORUM. A nick name for a
surgeon of the army and navy.

CROKER. A groat, or four pence.

CRONE. An old ewe whose teeth are worn out; figuratively,
a toothless old beldam.

CRONY. An intimate companion, a comrade; also a confederate
in a robbery.

CROOK. Sixpence.

CROOK BACK. Sixpence; for the reason of this name, see
CRIPPLE.

CROOK YOUR ELBOW. To crook one's elbow, and wish it
may never come straight, if the fact then affirmed is not
true--according to the casuists of Bow-street and St.
Giles's, adds great weight and efficacy to an oath.

CROOK SHANKS. A nickname for a man with bandy legs.
He buys his boots in Crooked Lane, and his stockings
in Bandy-legged Walk; his legs grew in the night, therefore
could not see to grow straight; jeering sayings of men
with crooked legs.

CROP. A nick name for a presbyterian: from their cropping
their hair, which they trimmed close to a bowl-dish,
placed as a guide on their heads; whence they were likewise
called roundheads. See ROUNDHEADS.

CROP. To be knocked down for a crop; to be condemned
to be hanged. Cropped, hanged.

CROPPING DRUMS. Drummers of the foot guards, or Chelsea
hospital, who find out weddings, and beat a point of
war to serenade the new married couple, and thereby
obtain money.

CROPPEN. The tail. The croppen of the rotan; the tail
of the cart. Croppen ken: the necessary-house. CANT.

CROPSICK. Sickness in the stomach, arising from drunkenness.

CROSS. To come home by weeping cross; to repent at the
conclusion.

CROSS DISHONEST. A cross cove; any person who lives by
stealing or in a dishonest manner.

CROSS BITE. One who combines with a sharper to draw in
a friend; also, to counteract or disappoint. CANT.--This
is peculiarly used to signify entrapping a man so as to obtain
CRIM. COM. money, in which the wife, real or supposed,
conspires with the husband.

CROSS BUTTOCK. A particular lock or fall in the Broughtonian
art, which, as Mr. Fielding observes, conveyed more
pleasant sensations to the spectators than the patient.

CROSS PATCH. A peevish boy or girl, or rather an unsocial
ill-tempered man or woman.

TO CROW. To brag, boast, or triumph. To crow over any
one; to keep him in subjection: an image drawn from a
cock, who crows over a vanquished enemy. To pluck a
crow; to reprove any one for a fault committed, to settle a
dispute. To strut like a crow in a gutter; to walk proudly,
or with an air of consequence.

CROWD. A fiddle: probably from CROOTH, the Welch name
for that instrument.

CROWDERO. A fiddler.

CROWDY. Oatmeal and water, or milk; a mess much eaten
in the north.

CROW FAIR. A visitation of the clergy. See REVIEW OF
THE BLACK CUIRASSIERS.

CROWN OFFICE. The head. I fired into her keel upwards;
my eyes and limbs Jack, the crown office was full; I s--k-d
a woman with her a-e upwards, she was so drunk, that her
head lay on the ground.

CRUISERS. Beggars, or highway spies, who traverse the
road, to give intelligence of a booty; also rogues ready to
snap up any booty that may offer, like privateers or pirates
on a cruise.

CRUMMY. Fat, fleshy. A fine crummy dame; a fat woman.
He has picked up his crumbs finely of late; he has
grown very fat, or rich, of late.

CRUMP. One who helps solicitors to affidavit men, or false
witnesses.--'I wish you had, Mrs. Crump;' a Gloucestershire
saying, in answer to a wish for any thing; implying,
you must not expect any assistance from the speaker. It
is said to have originated from the following incident:
One Mrs. Crump, the wife of a substantial farmer, dining
with the old Lady Coventry, who was extremely deaf, said
to one of the footmen, waiting at table, 'I wish I had a
draught of small beer,' her modesty not permitting her to
desire so fine a gentleman to bring it: the fellow, conscious
that his mistress could not hear either the request or
answer, replied, without moving, 'I wish you had, Mrs.
Crump.' These wishes being again repeated by both parties,
Mrs. Crump got up from the table to fetch it herself;
and being asked by my lady where she was going, related
what had passed. The story being told abroad, the expression
became proverbial.

CRUMP-BACKED. Hump-backed.

CRUSTY BEAU. One that uses paint and cosmetics, to obtain
a fine complexion.

CRUSTY FELLOW. A surly fellow.

CUB. An unlicked cub; an unformed, ill-educated young
man, a young nobleman or gentleman on his travels: an
allusion to the story of the bear, said to bring its cub into
form by licking. Also, a new gamester.

CUCKOLD. The husband of an incontinent wife: cuckolds,
however, are Christians, as we learn by the following story:
An old woman hearing a man call his dog Cuckold, reproved
him sharply, saying, 'Sirrah, are not you ashamed
to call a dog by a Christian's name?' To cuckold the
parson; to bed with one's wife before she has been churched.

CUCUMBERS. Taylors, who are jocularly said to subsist,
during the summer, chiefly on cucumbers.

CUFF. An old cuff; an old man. To cuff Jonas; said of one
who is knock-kneed, or who beats his sides to keep himself
warm in frosty weather; called also Beating the
booby.

CUFFIN. A man.

CULL. A man, honest or otherwise. A bob cull; a good-natured,
quiet fellow. CANT.

CULLABILITY. A disposition liable to be cheated, an
unsuspecting nature, open to imposition.

CULLY. A fog or fool: also, a dupe to women: from the
Italian word coglione, a blockhead.

CULP. A kick or blow: from the words mea culpa, being
that part of the popish liturgy at which the people beat their
breasts; or, as the vulgar term is, thump their craws.

CUNDUM. The dried gut of a sheep, worn by men in the
act of coition, to prevent venereal infection; said to have
been invented by one colonel Cundum. These machines
were long prepared and sold by a matron of the name of
Philips, at the Green Canister, in Half-moon-street, in the
Strand. That good lady having acquired a fortune, retired
from business; but learning that the town was not well
served by her successors, she, out of a patriotic zeal for the
public welfare, returned to her occupation; of which she
gave notice by divers hand-bills, in circulation in the year
1776. Also a false scabbard over a sword, and the oil-skin
case for holding the colours of a regiment.

CUNNINGHAM. A punning appellation for a simple fellow.

CUNNING MAN. A cheat, who pretends by his skill in
astrology to assist persons in recovering stolen goods: and
also to tell them their fortunes, and when, how often,
and to whom they shall be married; likewise answers all
lawful questions, both by sea and land. This profession
is frequently occupied by ladies.

CUNNING SHAVER. A sharp fellow, one that trims close,
i.e. cheats ingeniously.

CUNNY-THUMBED. To double one's fist with the thumb inwards,
like a woman.

C**T. The chonnos of the Greek, and the cunnus of the Latin
dictionaries; a nasty name for a nasty thing: un con Miege.

CUP OF THE CREATURE. A cup of good liquor.

CUP-SHOT. Drunk.

CUPBOARD LOVE. Pretended love to the cook, or any other
person, for the sake of a meal. My guts cry cupboard;
i.e. I am hungry

CUPID, BLIND CUPID. A jeering name for an ugly blind
man: Cupid, the god of love, being frequently painted
blind. See BLIND CUPID.

CUR. A cut or curtailed dog. According to the forest laws,
a man who had no right to the privilege of the chase, was
obliged to cut or law his dog: among other modes of
disabling him from disturbing the game, one was by depriving
him of his tail: a dog so cut was called a cut or
curtailed dog, and by contraction a cur. A cur is figuratively
used to signify a surly fellow.

CURBING LAW. The act of hooking goods out of windows:
the curber is the thief, the curb the hook. CANT.

CURE A-SE. A dyachilon plaister, applied to the parts galled
by riding.

CURLE. Clippings of money, which curls up in the operation. CANT.

CURMUDGEON. A covetous old fellow, derived, according
to some, from the French term coeur mechant.

CURRY. To curry favour; to obtain the favour of a person
be coaxing or servility. To curry any one's hide; to beat
him.

CURSE OF SCOTLAND. The nine of diamonds; diamonds, it
is said, imply royalty, being ornaments to the imperial
crown; and every ninth king of Scotland has been observed
for many ages, to be a tyrant and a curse to that country.
Others say it is from its similarity to the arms of Argyle;
the Duke of Argyle having been very instrumental in
bringing about the union, which, by some Scotch patriots,
has been considered as detrimental to their country.

CURSE OF GOD. A cockade.

CURSITORS. Broken petty-fogging attornies, or Newgate
solicitors. CANT.

CURTAILS. Thieves who cut off pieces of stuff hanging out
of shop windows, the tails of women's gowns, &c.; also,
thieves wearing short jackets.

CURTAIN LECTURE. A woman who scolds her husband
when in bed, is said to read him a curtain lecture.

CURTEZAN. A prostitute.

CUSHION. He has deserved the cushion; a saying of one
whose wife is brought to bed of a boy: implying, that
having done his business effectually, he may now indulge or
repose himself.

CUSHION THUMPER, or DUSTER. A parson; many of whom in the fury of their eloquence, heartily belabour their cushions.

CUSTARD CAP. The cap worn by the sword-bearer of the
city of London, made hollow at the top like a custard.

CUSTOM-HOUSE GOODS. The stock in trade of a prostitute,
because fairly entered.

CUT. Drunk. A little cut over the head; slightly
intoxicated. To cut; to leave a person or company. To cut
up well; to die rich.

TO CUT. (Cambridge.) To renounce acquaintance with any
one is to CUT him. There are several species of the CUT.
Such as the cut direct, the cut indirect, the cut sublime,
the cut infernal, &c. The cut direct, is to start across the
street, at the approach of the obnoxious person in order to
avoid him. The cut indirect, is to look another way, and
pass without appearing to observe him. The cut sublime,
is to admire the top of King's College Chapel, or the beauty
of the passing clouds, till he is out of sight. The cut
infernal, is to analyze the arrangement of your shoe-strings,
for the same purpose.

TO CUT BENE. To speak gently. To cut bene whiddes;
to give good words. To cut queer whiddes; to give foul
language. To cut a bosh, or a flash; to make a figure.
CANT.

TO CUTTY-EYE. To look out of the corners of one's eyes,
to leer, to look askance. The cull cutty-eyed at us; the
fellow looked suspicious at us.

DAB. An adept; a dab at any feat or exercise. Dab,
quoth Dawkins, when he hit his wife on the a-se with a
pound of butter.

DACE. Two pence. Tip me a dace; lend me two pence.
CANT.

DADDLES. Hands. Tip us your daddle; give me your hand.
CANT.

DADDY. Father. Old daddy; a familiar address to an old
man. To beat daddy mammy; the first rudiments of
drum beating, being the elements of the roll.

DAGGERS. They are at daggers drawing; i.e. at enmity,
ready to fight.

DAIRY. A woman's breasts, particularly one that gives
suck. She sported her dairy; she pulled out her breast.

DAISY CUTTER. A jockey term for a horse that does not
lift up his legs sufficiently, or goes too near the ground,
and is therefore apt to stumble.

DAISY KICKERS. Ostlers at great inns.

DAM. A small Indian coin, mentioned in the Gentoo code
of laws: hence etymologists may, if they please, derive
the common expression, I do not care a dam, i.e. I do
not care half a farthing for it.

DAMBER. A rascal. See DIMBER.

DAMME BOY. A roaring, mad, blustering fellow, a scourer
of the streets, or kicker up of a breeze.

DAMNED SOUL. A clerk in a counting house, whose sole
business it is to clear or swear off merchandise at the
custom-house; and who, it is said, guards against the crime
of perjury, by taking a previous oath, never to swear truly
on those occasions.

DAMPER. A luncheon, or snap before dinner: so called
from its damping, or allaying, the appetite; eating and
drinking, being, as the proverb wisely observes, apt to take
away the appetite.

DANCE UPON NOTHING. To be hanged.

DANCERS. Stairs.

DANDY. That's the dandy; i.e. the ton, the clever thing;
an expression of similar import to "That's the barber."
See BARBER.

DANDY GREY RUSSET. A dirty brown. His coat's dandy
grey russet, the colour of the Devil's nutting bag.

DANDY PRAT. An insignificant or trifling fellow.

To DANGLE. To follow a woman without asking the question.
Also, to be hanged: I shall see you dangle in the
sheriff's picture frame; I shall see you hanging on the
gallows.

DANGLER. One who follows women in general, without
any particular attachment

DAPPER FELLOW. A smart, well-made, little man.

DARBIES. Fetters. CANT.

DARBY. Ready money. CANT.

DARK CULLY. A married man that keeps a mistress, whom
he visits only at night, for fear of discovery.

DARKEE. A dark lanthorn used by housebreakers. Stow
the darkee, and bolt, the cove of the crib is fly; hide the
dark lanthorn, and run away, the master of the house
knows that we are here.

DARKMANS. The night. CANT.

DARKMAN'S BUDGE. One that slides into a house in the
dark of the evening, and hides himself, in order to let some
of the gang in at night to rob it.

DART. A straight-armed blow in boxing.

DASH. A tavern drawer. To cut a dash: to make a figure.

DAVID JONES. The devil, the spirit of the sea: called
Necken in the north countries, such as Norway, Denmark,
and Sweden.

DAVID JONES'S LOCKER. The sea.

DAVID'S SOW. As drunk as David's sow; a common
saying, which took its rise from the following circumstance:
One David Lloyd, a Welchman, who kept an alehouse at
Hereford, had a living sow with six legs, which was greatly
resorted to by the curious; he had also a wife much
addicted to drunkenness, for which he used sometimes
to give her due correction. One day David's wife having
taken a cup too much, and being fearful of the
consequences, turned out the sow, and lay down to sleep herself
sober in the stye. A company coming in to see the sow,
David ushered them into the stye, exclaiming, there is a
sow for you! did any of you ever see such another? all
the while supposing the sow had really been there; to
which some of the company, seeing the state the woman
was in, replied, it was the drunkenest sow they had ever
beheld; whence the woman was ever after called David's
sow.

DAVY. I'll take my davy of it; vulgar abbreviation of affidavit.

TO DAWB. To bribe. The cull was scragged because he
could not dawb; the rogue was hanged because he could
not bribe. All bedawbed with lace; all over lace.

DAY LIGHTS. Eyes. To darken his day lights, or sow up
his sees; to close up a man's eyes in boxing.

DEAD CARGO. A term used by thieves, when they are
disappointed in the value of their booty.

DEAD HORSE. To work for the dead horse; to work for
wages already paid.

DEAD-LOUSE. Vulgar pronunciation of the Dedalus ship of
war.

DEAD MEN. A cant word among journeymen bakers, for
loaves falsely charged to their masters' customers; also
empty bottles.

DEADLY NEVERGREEN, that bears fruit all the year round.
The gallows, or three-legged mare. See THREE-LEGGED
MARE.

DEAR JOYS. Irishmen: from their frequently making use
of that expression.

DEATH HUNTER. An undertaker, one who furnishes the
necessary articles for funerals. See CARRION HUNTER.

DEATH'S HEAD UPON A MOP-STICK. A poor miserable,
emaciated fellow; one quite an otomy. See OTOMY.--He
looked as pleasant as the pains of death.

DEEP-ONE. A thorough-paced rogue, a sly designing
fellow: in opposition to a shallow or foolish one.

DEFT FELLOW. A neat little man.

DEGEN, or DAGEN. A sword. Nim the degen; steal the
sword. Dagen is Dutch for a sword. CANT.

DELLS. Young buxom wenches, ripe and prone to venery,
but who have not lost their virginity, which the UPRIGHT
MAN claims by virtue of his prerogative; after which they
become free for any of the fraternity. Also a common
strumpet. CANT.

DEMURE. As demure as an old whore at a christening.

DEMY-REP. An abbreviation of demy-reputation; a woman
of doubtful character.

DERBY. To come down with the derbies; to pay the money.

DERRICK. The name of the finisher of the law, or hangman
about the year 1608.--'For he rides his circuit with
the Devil, and Derrick must be his host, and Tiburne
the inne at which he will lighte.' Vide Bellman of
London, in art. PRIGGIN LAW.--'At the gallows,
where I leave them, as to the haven at which they must
all cast anchor, if Derrick's cables do but hold.' Ibid.

DEVIL. A printer's errand-boy. Also a small thread in
the king's ropes and cables, whereby they may be
distinguished from all others. The Devil himself; a small
streak of blue thread in the king's sails. The Devil may
dance in his pocket; i.e. he has no money: the cross on
our ancient coins being jocularly supposed to prevent him
from visiting that place, for fear, as it is said, of breaking
his shins against it. To hold a candle to the Devil; to
be civil to any one out of fear: in allusion to the story of
the old woman, who set a wax taper before the image of
St. Michael, and another before the Devil, whom that
saint is commonly represented as trampling under his feet:
being reproved for paying such honour to Satan, she answered,
as it was uncertain which place she should go
to, heaven or hell, she chose to secure a friend in both
places. That will be when the Devil is blind, and he has
not got sore eyes yet; said of any thing unlikely to happen.
It rains whilst the sun shines, the Devil is beating
his wife with a shoulder of mutton: this phenomenon is
also said to denote that cuckolds are going to heaven; on
being informed of this, a loving wife cried out with great
vehemence, 'Run, husband, run!'

The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be;
The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he.

a proverb signifying that we are apt to forget promises
made in time of distress. To pull the Devil by the tail,
to be reduced to one's shifts. The Devil go with you and
sixpence, and then you will have both money and company.

DEVIL. The gizzard of a turkey or fowl, scored, peppered,
salted and broiled: it derives its appellation from being hot
in the mouth.

DEVIL'S BOOKS. Cards.

DEVIL CATCHER, or DEVIL DRIVER. A parson. See
SNUB DEVIL.

DEVIL'S DAUGHTER. It is said of one who has a termagant
for his wife, that he has married the Devil's daughter, and
lives with the old folks.

DEVIL'S DAUGHTER'S PORTION:

Deal, Dover, and Harwich,
The Devil gave with his daughter in marriage;
And, by a codicil to his will,
He added Helvoet and the Brill;

a saying occasioned by the shameful impositions practised
by the inhabitants of those places, on sailors and travellers.

DEVIL DRAWER. A miserable painter.

DEVIL'S DUNG. Assafoetida.

DEVIL'S GUTS. A surveyor's chain: so called by farmers,
who do not like their land should be measured by their
landlords.

DEVILISH. Very: an epithet which in the English vulgar
language is made to agree with every quality or thing;
as, devilish bad, devilish good; devilish sick, devilish well;
devilish sweet, devilish sour; devilish hot, devilish cold,
&c. &c.

DEUSEA VILLE. The country. Cant.

DEUSEA VILLE STAMPERS. Country carriers. Cant.

DEW BEATERS. Feet. Cant.

DEWS WINS, or DEUX WINS. Two-pence. Cant.

DEWITTED. Torn to pieces by a mob, as that great statesman
John de Wit was in Holland, anno 1672.

DIAL PLATE. The face. To alter his dial plate; to
disfigure his face.

DICE. The names of false dice:
A bale of bard cinque deuces
A bale of flat cinque deuces
A bale of flat sice aces
A bale of bard cater traes
A bale of flat cater traes
A bale of fulhams
A bale of light graniers
A bale of langrets contrary to the ventage
A bale of gordes, with as many highmen as lowmen,
for passage
A bale of demies
A bale of long dice for even and odd
A bale of bristles
A bale of direct contraries.

DICK. That happened in the reign of queen Dick, i. e.
never: said of any absurd old story. I am as queer as
Dick's hatband; that is, out of spirits, or don't know what
ails me.

DICKY. A woman's under-petticoat. It's all Dicky with
him; i.e. it's all over with him.

DICKED IN THE NOB. Silly. Crazed.

DICKEY. A sham shirt.

DICKEY. An ass. Roll your dickey; drive your ass. Also
a seat for servants to sit behind a carriage, when their
master drives.

TO DIDDLE. To cheat. To defraud. The cull diddled
me out of my dearee; the fellow robbed me of my sweetheart.
See Jeremy Diddler In Raising The Wind.

DIDDEYS. A woman's breasts or bubbies.

DIDDLE. Gin.

DIGGERS. Spurs. Cant.

DILBERRIES. Small pieces of excrement adhering to the
hairs near the fundament.

DILBERRY MAKER. The fundament.

DILDO. [From the Italian DILETTO, q. d. a woman's delight;
or from our word DALLY, q. d. a thing to play withal.]
Penis-succedaneus, called in Lombardy Passo Tempo. Bailey.

DILIGENT. Double diligent, like the Devil's apothecary;
said of one affectedly diligent.

DILLY. (An abbreviation of the word DILIGENCE.) A public
voiture or stage, commonly a post chaise, carrying
three persons; the name is taken from the public stage
vehicles in France and Flanders. The dillies first began
to run in England about the year 1779.

DIMBER. Pretty. A dimber cove; a pretty fellow. Dimber
mort; a pretty wench. CANT.

DIMBER DAMBER. A top man, or prince, among the canting
crew: also the chief rogue of the gang, or the completest
cheat. CANT.

DING. To knock down. To ding it in one's ears; to
reproach or tell one something one is not desirous of hearing.
Also to throw away or hide: thus a highwayman who
throws away or hides any thing with which he robbed, to
prevent being known or detected, is, in the canting lingo,
styled a Dinger.

DING BOY. A rogue, a hector, a bully, or sharper. CANT.

DING DONG. Helter skelter, in a hasty disorderly manner.

DINGEY CHRISTIAN. A mulatto; or any one who has, as the
West-Indian term is, a lick of the tar-brush, that is, some
negro blood in him.

DINING ROOM POST. A mode of stealing in houses that
let lodgings, by rogues pretending to be postmen, who
send up sham letters to the lodgers, and, whilst waiting
in the entry for the postage, go into the first room they see
open, and rob it.

DIP. To dip for a wig. Formerly, in Middle Row, Holborn,
wigs of different sorts were, it is said, put into a
close-stool box, into which, for three-pence, any one
might dip, or thrust in his hand, and take out the first
wig he laid hold of; if he was dissatisfied with his prize,
he might, on paying three halfpence, return it and dip
again.

THE DIP. A cook's shop, under Furnival's Inn, where many
attornies clerks, and other inferior limbs of the law, take
out the wrinkles from their bellies. DIP is also a punning
name for a tallow-chandler.

DIPPERS. Anabaptists.

DIPT. Pawned or mortgaged.

DIRTY PUZZLE. A nasty slut.

DISGUISED. Drunk.

DISGRUNTLED. Offended, disobliged.

DISHED UP. He is completely dished up; he is totally ruined.
To throw a thing in one's dish; to reproach or twit one with
any particular matter.

DISHCLOUT. A dirty, greasy woman. He has made a napkin
of his dishclout; a saying of one who has married his
cook maid. To pin a dishclout to a man's tail; a punishment
often threatened by the female servants in a kitchen,
to a man who pries too minutely into the secrets of that
place.

DISMAL DITTY. The psalm sung by the felons at the gallows,
just before they are turned off.

DISPATCHES. A mittimus, or justice of the peace's warrant,
for the commitment of a rogue.

DITTO. A suit of ditto; coat, waistcoat, and breeches, all
of one colour.

DISPATCHERS. Loaded or false dice.

DISTRACTED DIVISION. Husband and wife fighting.

DIVE. To dive; to pick a pocket. To dive for a dinner;
to go down into a cellar to dinner. A dive, is a thief who
stands ready to receive goods thrown out to him by a little
boy put in at a window. Cant.

DIVER. A pickpocket; also one who lives in a cellar.

DIVIDE. To divide the house with one's wife; to give her
the outside, and to keep all the inside to one's self, i.e. to
turn her into the street.

DO. To do any one; to rob and cheat him. I have done
him; I have robbed him. Also to overcome in a boxing
match: witness those laconic lines written on the field of
battle, by Humphreys to his patron.--'Sir, I have done
the Jew.'

TO DO OVER. Carries the same meaning, but is not so briefly
expressed: the former having received the polish of the
present times.

DOASH. A cloak. Cant.

DOBIN RIG. Stealing ribbands from haberdashers early in
the morning or late at night; generally practised by women
in the disguise of maid servants.

TO DOCK. To lie with a woman. The cull docked the dell
all the darkmans; the fellow laid with the wench all night.
Docked smack smooth; one who has suffered an amputation
of his penis from a venereal complaint. He must
go into dock; a sea phrase, signifying that the person spoken
of must undergo a salivation. Docking is also a punishment
inflicted by sailors on the prostitutes who have
infected them with the venereal disease; it consists in cutting
off all their clothes, petticoats, shift and all, close to
their stays, and then turning them into the street.

DOCTOR. Milk and water, with a little rum, and some nutmeg;
also the name of a composition used by distillers,
to make spirits appear stronger than they really are, or,
in their phrase, better proof.

DOCTORS. Loaded dice, that will run but two or three
chances. They put the doctors upon him; they cheated
him with loaded dice.

DODSEY. A woman: perhaps a corruption of Doxey. CANT.

DOG BUFFERS. Dog stealers, who kill those dogs not
advertised for, sell their skins, and feed the remaining dogs
with their flesh.

DOG IN A DOUBLET. A daring, resolute fellow. In
Germany and Flanders the boldest dogs used to hunt the boar,
having a kind of buff doublet buttoned on their bodies,
Rubens has represented several so equipped, so has Sneyders.

DOG. An old dog at it; expert or accustomed to any thing.
Dog in a manger; one who would prevent another from
enjoying what he himself does not want: an allusion to
the well-known fable. The dogs have not dined; a
common saying to any one whose shirt hangs out behind. To
dog, or dodge; to follow at a distance. To blush like a
blue dog, i.e. not at all. To walk the black dog on any
one; a punishment inflicted in the night on a fresh prisoner,
by his comrades, in case of his refusal to pay the usual
footing or garnish.

DOG LATIN. Barbarous Latin, such as was formerly used
by the lawyers in their pleadings.

DOG'S PORTION. A lick and a smell. He comes in for only
a dog's portion; a saying of one who is a distant admirer
or dangler after women. See DANGLER.

DOG'S RIG. To copulate till you are tired, and then turn
tail to it.

DOG'S SOUP. Rain water.

DOG VANE. A cockade. SEA TERM.

DOGGED. Surly.

DOGGESS, DOG'S WIFE or LADY, PUPPY'S MAMMA.
Jocular ways of calling a woman a bitch.

DOLL. Bartholomew doll; a tawdry, over-drest woman,
like one of the children's dolls at Bartholomew fair. To
mill doll; to beat hemp at Bridewell, or any other house
of correction.

DOLLY. A Yorkshire dolly; a contrivance for washing, by
means of a kind of wheel fixed in a tub, which being turned
about, agitates and cleanses the linen put into it, with
soap and water.

DOMINE DO LITTLE. An impotent old fellow.

DOMINEER. To reprove or command in an insolent or
haughty manner. Don't think as how you shall domineer
here.

DOMMERER. A beggar pretending that his tongue has been
cutout by the Algerines, or cruel and blood-thirsty Turks,
or else that he yas born deaf and dumb. Cant.

DONE, or DONE OVER. Robbed: also, convicted or hanged.
Cant.--See DO.

DONE UP. Ruined by gaming and extravagances. Modern
Term.

DONKEY, DONKEY DICK. A he, or jack ass: called donkey,
perhaps, from the Spanish or don-like gravity of
that animal, intitled also the king of Spain's trumpeter.

DOODLE. A silly fellow, or noodle: see NOODLE. Also a
child's penis. Doodle doo, or Cock a doodle doo; a
childish appellation for a cock, in imitation of its note
when crowing.

DOODLE SACK. A bagpipe. Dutch.--Also the private parts
of a woman.

DOPEY. A beggar's trull.

DOT AND GO ONE. To waddle: generally applied to persons
who have one leg shorter than the other, and who, as the
sea phrase is, go upon an uneven keel. Also a jeering
appellation for an inferior writing-master, or teacher of
arithmetic.

DOUBLE. To tip any one the double; to run away in his or
her debt.

DOUBLE JUGG. A man's backside. Cotton's Virgil.

DOVE-TAIL. A species of regular answer, which fits into
the subject, like the contrivance whence it takes its name:
Ex. Who owns this? The dovetail is, Not you by your
asking.

DOUGLAS. Roby Douglas, with one eye and a stinking
breath; the breech. Sea wit.

DOWDY. A coarse, vulgar-looking woman.

DOWN HILLS. Dice that run low.

DOWN. Aware of a thing. Knowing it. There is NO DOWN.
A cant phrase used by house-breakers to signify that the
persons belonging to any house are not on their guard,
or that they are fast asleep, and have not heard any noise
to alarm them.

TO DOWSE. To take down: as, Dowse the pendant. Dowse
your dog vane; take the cockade out of your hat. Dowse
the glim; put out the candle.

DOWSE ON THE CHOPS. A blow in the face.

DOWSER. Vulgar pronunciation of DOUCEUR.

DOXIES. She beggars, wenches, whores.

DRAB. A nasty, sluttish whore.

DRAG. To go on the drag; to follow a cart or waggon, in
order to rob it. CANT.

DRAG LAY. Waiting in the streets to rob carts or waggons.

DRAGGLETAIL or DAGGLETAIL. One whose garments are
bespattered with dag or dew: generally applied to the
female sex, to signify a slattern.

DRAGOONING IT. A man who occupies two branches of
one profession, is said to dragoon it; because, like the
soldier of that denomination, he serves in a double capacity.
Such is a physician who furnishes the medicines, and
compounds his own prescriptions.

DRAIN. Gin: so called from the diuretic qualities imputed
to that liquor.

DRAM. A glass or small measure of any spirituous liquors,
which, being originally sold by apothecaries, were estimated
by drams, ounces, &c. Dog's dram; to spit in
his mouth, and clap his back.

DRAM-A-TICK. A dram served upon credit.

DRAPER. An ale draper; an alehouse keeper.

DRAUGHT, or BILL, ON THE PUMP AT ALDGATE. A bad
or false bill of exchange. See ALDGATE.

DRAW LATCHES. Robbers of houses whose doors are
only fastened with latches. CANT.

TO DRAW. To take any thing from a pocket. To draw a
swell of a clout. To pick a gentleman's pocket of a
handkerchief. To draw the long bow; to tell lies.

DRAWERS. Stockings. CANT.

DRAWING THE KING'S PICTURE. Coining. CANT.

TO DRESS. To beat. I'll dress his hide neatly; I'll beat him
soundly.

DRIBBLE. A method of pouring out, as it were, the dice
from the box, gently, by which an old practitioner is
enabled to cog one of them with his fore-finger.

DRIPPER. A gleet.

DROMEDARY. A heavy, bungling thief or rogue. A purple
dromedary; a bungler in the art and mystery of thieving.
CANT.

DROMMERARS. See DOMMERER.

DROP. The new drop; a contrivance for executing felons at
Newgate, by means of a platform, which drops from
under them: this is also called the last drop. See LEAF.
See MORNING DROP.

DROP A COG. To let fall, with design, a piece of gold or
silver, in order to draw in and cheat the person who sees
it picked up; the piece so dropped is called a dropt cog.

DROP IN THE EYE. Almost drunk.

DROPPING MEMBER. A man's yard with a gonorrhoea.

DROP COVES. Persons who practice the fraud of dropping
a ring or other article, and picking it up before the
person intended to be defrauded, they pretend that the
thing is very valuable to induce their gull to lend them
money, or to purchase the article. See FAWNY RIG,
and MONEY DROPPERS.

TO DROP DOWN. To be dispirited. This expression is
used by thieves to signify that their companion did not
die game, as the kiddy dropped down when he went to
be twisted; the young fellow was very low spirited when
he walked out to be hanged.

TO DRUB. To beat any one with a stick, or rope's end:
perhaps a contraction of DRY RUB. It is also used to signify
a good beating with any instrument.

DRUMMER. A jockey term for a horse that throws about
his fore legs irregularly: the idea is taken from a kettle
drummer, who in beating makes many flourishes with
his drumsticks.

DRUNK. Drunk as a wheel-barrow. Drunk as David's
sow. See DAVID'S SOW.

DRURY LANE AGUE. The venereal disorder.

DRURY LANE VESTAL. A woman of the town, or prostitute;
Drury-lane and its environs were formerly the residence
of many of those ladies.

DRY BOB. A smart repartee: also copulation without
emission; in law Latin, siccus robertulus.

DRY BOOTS. A sly humorous fellow.

DUB. A picklock, or master-key. CANT.

DUB LAY. Robbing houses by picking the locks.

DUB THE JIGGER. Open the door. CANT.

DUB O' TH' HICK. A lick on the head.

DUBBER. A picker of locks. CANT.

DUCE. Two-pence.

DUCK. A lame duck; an Exchange-alley phrase for a
stock-jobber, who either cannot or will not pay his losses,
or, differences, in which case he is said to WADDLE OUT OF
THE ALLEY, as he cannot appear there again till his debts
are settled and paid; should he attempt it, he would be
hustled out by the fraternity.

DUCKS AND DRAKES. To make ducks and drakes: a
school-boy's amusement, practised with pieces of tile,
oyster-shells, or flattish stones, which being skimmed
along the surface of a pond, or still river, rebound many
times. To make ducks and drakes of one's money; to
throw it idly away.

DUCK F-CK-R. The man who has the care of the poultry
on board a ship of war.

DUCK LEGS. Short legs.

DUDDERS, or WHISPERING DUDDERS. Cheats who travel
the country, pretending to sell smuggled goods: they
accost their intended dupes in a whisper. The goods
they have for sale are old shop-keepers, or damaged;
purchased by them of large manufactories. See DUFFER.

DUDDERING RAKE. A thundering rake, a buck of the
first head, one extremely lewd.

DUDGEON. Anger.

DUDS. Clothes.

DUFFERS. Cheats who ply in different parts of the town,
particularly about Water-lane, opposite St. Clement's
church, in the Strand, and pretend to deal in smuggled
goods, stopping all country people, or such as they think
they can impose on; which they frequently do, by selling
them Spital-fields goods at double their current price.

DUGS. A woman's breasts,

DUKE, or RUM DUKE. A queer unaccountable fellow.

DUKE OF LIMBS. A tall, awkward, ill-made fellow.

DUKE HUMPHREY. To dine with Duke Humphrey; to
fast. In old St. Paul's church was an aisle called Duke
Humphrey's walk (from a tomb vulgarly called his, but
in reality belonging to John of Gaunt), and persons who
walked there, while others were at dinner, were said to
dine with Duke Humphrey.

DULL SWIFT. A stupid, sluggish fellow, one long going on
an errand.

DUMB ARM. A lame arm.

DUMB-FOUNDED. Silenced, also soundly beaten.

DUMB GLUTTON. A woman's privities.

DUMB WATCH. A venereal bubo in the groin.

DUMMEE. A pocket book. A dummee hunter. A pick-pocket,
who lurks about to steal pocket books out of
gentlemen's pockets. Frisk the dummee of the screens; take
all the bank notes out of the pocket book, ding the dummee,
and bolt, they sing out beef. Throw away the pocket
book, and run off, as they call out "stop thief."

DUMPLIN. A short thick man or woman. Norfolk dumplin;
a jeering appellation of a Norfolk man, dumplins being
a favourite kind of food in that county.

DUMPS. Down in the dumps; low-spirited, melancholy:
jocularly said to be derived from Dumpos, a king of Egypt,
who died of melancholy. Dumps are also small pieces of
lead, cast by schoolboys in the shape of money.

DUN. An importunate creditor. Dunny, in the provincial
dialect of several counties, signifies DEAF; to dun, then,
perhaps may mean to deafen with importunate demands:
some derive it from the word DONNEZ, which signifies GIVE.
But the true original meaning of the word, owes its birth
to one Joe Dun, a famous bailiff of the town of Lincoln, so
extremely active, and so dexterous in his business, that it
became a proverb, when a man refused to pay, Why do not
you DUN him? that is, Why do not you set Dun to attest
him? Hence it became a cant word, and is now as old as
since the days of Henry VII. Dun was also the general
name for the hangman, before that of Jack Ketch.

And presently a halter got,
Made of the best strong hempen teer,
And ere a cat could lick her ear,
Had tied it up with as much art,
As DUN himself could do for's heart.

Cotton's Virgil Trav. book iv.

DUNAKER. A stealer of cows and calves.

DUNEGAN. A privy. A water closet.

DUNGHILL. A coward: a cockpit phrase, all but gamecocks
being styled dunghills. To die dunghill; to repent, or shew
any signs of contrition at the gallows. Moving dunghill;
a dirty, filthy man or woman. Dung, an abbreviation of
dunghill, also means a journeyman taylor who submits to
the law for regulating journeymen taylors' wages, therefore
deemed by the flints a coward. See FLINTS.

DUNNOCK. A cow. CUNT.

TO DUP. To open a door: a contraction of DO OPE or OPEN.
See DUB.

DURHAM MAN. Knocker kneed, he grinds mustard with
his knees: Durham is famous for its mustard.

DUST. Money. Down with your dust; deposit the money.
To raise or kick up a dust; to make a disturbance or riot:
see BREEZE. Dust it away; drink about.

DUSTMAN. A dead man: your father is a dustman.

DUTCH COMFORT. Thank God it is no worse.

DUTCH CONCERT. Where every one plays or signs a
different tune.

DUTCH FEAST. Where the entertainer gets drunk before
his guest.

DUTCH RECKONING, or ALLE-MAL. A verbal or lump
account, without particulars, as brought at spungiug or
bawdy houses.

DUTCHESS. A woman enjoyed with her pattens on, or by a
man-in boots, is said to be made a dutchess.

DIE HARD, or GAME. To die hard, is to shew no signs of
fear or contrition at the gallows; not to whiddle or squeak.
This advice is frequently given to felons going to suffer the
law, by their old comrades, anxious for the honour of the
gang.

EARNEST. A deposit in part of payment, to bind a bargain.

EARTH BATH. A Grave.

EASY. Make the cull easy or quiet; gag or kill him. As
easy as pissing the bed.

EASY VIRTUE. A lady of easy virtue: an impure or prostitute.

EAT. To eat like a beggar man, and wag his under jaw; a
jocular reproach to a proud man. To eat one's words; to
retract what one has said.

TO EDGE. To excite, stimulate, or provoke; or as it is
vulgarly called, to egg a man on. Fall back, fall edge; i.e.
let what will happen. Some derive to egg on, from the
Latin word, AGE, AGE.

EIGHT EYES. I will knock out two of your eight eyes; a
common Billingsgate threat from one fish nymph to
another: every woman, according to the naturalists of that
society, having eight eyes; viz. two seeing eyes, two
bub-eyes, a bell-eye, two pope's eyes, and a ***-eye. He has
fallen down and trod upon his eye; said of one who has a
black eye.

ELBOW GREASE. Labour. Elbow grease will make an oak
table shine.

ELBOW ROOM. Sufficient space to act in. Out at elbows;
said of an estate that is mortgaged.

ELBOW SHAKER. A gamester, one who rattles Saint Hugh's
bones, i.e. the dice.

ELLENBOROUGH LODGE. The King's Bench Prison. Lord
Ellenborough's teeth; the chevaux de frize round the top
of the wall of that prison.

ELF. A fairy or hobgoblin, a little man or woman.

EMPEROR. Drunk as an emperor, i.e. ten times as drunk as
a lord.

ENGLISH BURGUNDY. Porter.

ENSIGN BEARER. A drunken man, who looks red in the
face, or hoists his colours in his drink.

EQUIPT. Rich; also, having new clothes. Well equipt;
full of money, or well dressed. The cull equipped me
with a brace of meggs; the gentleman furnished me with.
a couple of guineas.

ESSEX LION. A calf; Essex being famous for calves, and
chiefly supplying the London markets.

ESSEX STILE. A ditch; a great part of Essex is low marshy
ground, in which there are more ditches than Stiles.

ETERNITY Box. A coffin.

EVES. Hen roosts.

EVE'S CUSTOM-HOUSE, where Adam made his first entry.
The monosyllable.

EVES DROPPER. One that lurks about to rob hen-roosts;
also a listener at doors and windows, to hear private
conversation.

EVIL. A halter. Cant, Also a wife.

EWE. A white ewe; a beautiful woman. An old ewe, drest
lamb fashion; an old woman, drest like a young girl.

EXECUTION DAY. Washing day.

EXPENDED. Killed: alluding to the gunner's accounts,
wherein the articles consumed are charged under the title
of expended. Sea phrase.

EYE. It's all my eye and Betty Martin. It's all nonsense, all
mere stuff.

EYE-SORE. A disagreeable object. It will be an eye-sore as
long as she lives, said by a limn whose wife was cut for a
fistula in ano.

FACE-MAKING. Begetting children. To face it out; to
persist in a falsity. No face but his own: a saying of one
who has no money in his pocket or no court cards in his
hand.

FACER. A bumper, a glass filled so full as to leave no room
for the lip. Also a violent blow on the face.

FADGE. It won't fadge; it won't do. A farthing.

TO FAG. To beat. Fag the bloss; beat the wench; Cant.
A fag also means a boy of an inferior form or class, who
acts as a servant to one of a superior, who is said to fag him,
he is my fag; whence, perhaps, fagged out, for jaded or tired.
To stand a good fag; not to be soon tired.

FAGGER. A little boy put in at a window to rob the house.

FAGGOT. A man hired at a muster to appear as a soldier.
To faggot in the canting sense, means to bind: an allusion
to the faggots made up by the woodmen, which are
all bound. Faggot the culls; bind the men.

FAITHFUL. One of the faithful; a taylor who gives long
credit. His faith has made him unwhole; i.e. trusting
too much, broke him.

FAIR. A set of subterraneous rooms in the Fleet Prison.

FAKEMENT. A counterfeit signature. A forgery. Tell
the macers to mind their fakements; desire the swindlers
to be careful not to forge another person's signature.

FALLALLS. Ornaments, chiefly women's, such as ribands,
necklaces, &c.

FALLEN AWAY FROM A HORSE LOAD TO A CART LOAD.
A saying on one grown fat.

FAMILY MAN. A thief or receiver of stolen goods.

FAM LAY. Going into a goldsmith's shop, under pretence
of buying a wedding ring, and palming one or two, by
daubing the hand with some viscous matter.

FAMS, or FAMBLES. Hands. Famble cheats; rings or
gloves. CANT.

TO FAMGRASP. To shake bands: figuratively, to agree
or make up a difference. Famgrasp the cove; shake hands
with the fellow. CANT.

FAMILY OF LOVE. Lewd women; also, a religious sect.

FANCY MAN. A man kept by a lady for secret services.

TO FAN. To beat any one. I fanned him sweetly; I beat
him heartily.

FANTASTICALLY DRESSED, with more rags than ribands.

FART. He has let a brewer's fart, grains and all; said of
one who has bewrayed his breeches.

Piss and fart.
Sound at heart.
Mingere cum bumbis,
Res saluberrima est lumbis.

I dare not trust my a-se with a fart: said by a person troubled
with a looseness.

FART CATCHER. A valet or footman from his walking
behind his master or mistress.

FARTING CRACKERS. Breeches.

FARTLEBERRIES. Excrement hanging about the anus.

FASTNER. A warrant.

FASTNESSES. Bogs.