Chapter C

_Cabal_, a secret Junto of Princes, a seated knot of Statesmen, or of Conspirators against the State in Counter-Cabal.

_Cabbage_, a Taylor, and what they pinch from the Cloaths they make up; also that part of the Deer’s Head where the Horns are Planted.

_Cabob_, a Loin of Mutton Roasted with an Onyon betwixt each joint; a _Turkish_ and _Persian_ Dish but now used in _England_.

_Cacafuego_, a Shite-fire; also a furious fierce Felow.

_Cackle_, c. to discover. _The Cull Cackles_, c. the Rogue tells all.

_Cackling-cheats_, c. Chickens, Cocks or Hens.

_Cackling-farts_, c. Eggs.

_Cadet_, or _Cadee_, a Gentleman that Bears Arms in hopes of a Commission; also a younger Brother.

_Caffan_, c. Cheese.

_Cakehis_, _Cake is Dough_, of a Miscarriage or failure of Business. _The Devil ow’d her a Cake, and has pai’d her a Loaf_, when instead of a small, a very great Disaster or Misfortune has happen’d to a Woman.

_Call_, a Lesson, Blowed on the Horn to comfort the Hounds.

_Caliver_, a small Sea-Gun.

_Calle_, c. a Cloak or Gown.

_Cambridge-Fortune_, a Woman without any Substance.

_Cameleon-Diet_, Air, or a very thin slender Diet.

_Cameronians_, Field-Conventiclers, (in _Scotland_) great outward Zealots, and very squeemish Precisians.

_Camesa_, c. a Shirt or Shift.

_Campaign-coat_, Originally only such as Soldiers wore, but afterwards a Mode in Cities. See _Surtout_.

_Canary-Bird_, a little Arch or Knavish, a very Wag.

_Cane upon Abel_, a good Stick or Cudgel well-favoredly laid on a Man’s Shoulders.

_Canal_, a Channel, Kennel, Pipe, Passage, fine Pond, or small River.

_Cannal_, choice Coals, very Fat or Pitchy that Blaze and Burn pleasantly.

_Canibal_, a cruel rigid Fellow in dealing; also Men-Eaters.

_Cank_, c. Dumb. _The Cull’s Cank_, c. the Rogue’s Dumb.

_Cannikin_, c. the Plague, also (among the _Dutch_) a little Kan with a Spout to pour out the Wine or Beer, making it Froth _As great as Cup and Cann_; or _as great as two Inkle-makers_.

_Cant_, c. to speak, also (Cheshire) to grow Strong and Lusty; also to Kick or throw any thing away.

_Canterbury_, a sort of a short or Hand-gallop; from the Road leading to that famous City (of _Kent_) on which they Ride (for the most part) after that manner.

_Canting_, c. the Cypher or Mysterious Language, of Rogues, Gypsies, Beggers, Thieves, _&c._

_Canting-crew_, c. Beggers, Gypsies; also Dissenters in Conventicles, who affect a disguised Speech, and disguised Modes of Speaking, and distinguish themselves from others by a peculiar Snuffle and Tone, as the Shibboleth of their Party; as Gypsies and Beggers have their peculiar Jargon; and are known no less by their several Tones in Praying, than Beggers are by their whining Note in Begging.

_Cap_, c. to Swear. _I’ll Cap downright_, c. I’ll Swear home. Or (in another Sense) _he may fling up his Cap after it_, when a thing or business is past Hope.

_Capitation-Drugget_, a Cheap, Slight Stuff, called so from the Tax of that Name.

_Capricious_, Whimsical, Fantastic, Freakish.

_Captain-Hackum_, c. a Fighting, Blustring Bully.

_Captain-Queere nabs_, c. a Fellow in poor Cloths, or Shabby.

_Captain-Sharp_, c. a great Cheat; also a Huffing, yet Sneaking, Cowardly Bully; and a noted English Buckaneer.

_Captain-Tom_, a Leader of, and the Mob.

_Captious_, Touchy, Snuffy, apt to take Exception.

_Caravan_, c. a good round sum of Money about a Man, and him that is Cheated of it; also a great Convoy of _Arabian_, _Grecian_, _Persian_, _Turkish_, and other Merchants, Travelling with Camels from Place to Place; also a sort of Wagon.

_Carbuncle-Face_, very Red and full of large Pimples.

_Card-Wool_, to cleanse and prepare it for Spinning: Also a Game; _a sure Card_, a trusty Tool, or Confiding Man; a _cooling Card_, cold comfort, no hope; a _Leading Card_, an Example or Precedent.

_Cargo_, c. a good round Sum of Money about a Man; also the Lading of a Ship.

_Carouse_, to Drink hard, or Quaff heartily.

_Carpet-road_, Level and very good.

_Carriers_, Pigeons that will with safety, and almost incredible Swiftness convey Letters from one Place to another, much used at _Smyrna_ and _Aleppo_; also Milk-womens Hirelings, or Servants, that carry the Pail Morning and Evening.

_Carrots_, Red hair’d People, from the Colour of the well known Root of that Name, whence came

_Carrot-pated_, used in derision.

_Carted-Whore_, Whipt publickly, and packt out of Town. _The Cart before the Horse_, of a thing preposterous, and out of Place.

_Cash_, c. Cheese.

_Case_, c. a House, Shop, or Ware-house; also a Bawdy-house. _Toute the Case_, c. to view, mark, or eye the House or Shop. _There’s a peerey, ’tis snitcht_, c. there are a great many People, there’s no good to be done. _’Tis all Bob, and then to dub the gigg_, c. now the coast is clear, there’s good Booty, let’s fall on, and Rob the House. A _Case fro_, c. a Whore that Plies in a Bawdy-house.

_Caster_, c. a Cloak.

_Cast_, to Bowl. _A bad cast_, an ill laid Bowl, or at great distance from the Jack. _He is Cast for Felon and Dose_, c. found guilty of Felony and Burglary.

_Cat_, a common Whore or Prostitute.

_Catch-fart_, a Foot-Boy.

_Catching-harvest_, when the Weather is Showery and Unsettled.

_Catch-pole_, a Serjeant, or Bayliff that Arrests People.

_Cat-in-pan_, turn’d, of one that has chang’d Sides or Parties. _Who shall hang the Bell about the Cat’s Neck_, said of a desperate Undertaking.

_Catchup_, a high _East-India_ Sauce.

_Caterwauling_, Men and Women desirous of Copulation, a Term borrowed from Cats.

_Cathedral_, old-fashioned, out of Date, Ancient; also a chief Church in a Bishop’s See.

_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; also small Ropes to keep the Shrouds, taut or tight, and the Mast from Rolling.

_Catting_, drawing a Fellow through a Pond with a Cat.

_Catstick_, used by Boies at Trap-ball.

_Cattle_, Whores. _Sad Cattle_, Impudent Lewd Women.

_Catmatch_, c. when a Rook is Engag’d amongst bad Bowlers.

_Cavalcade_, a publick Show on Horseback.

_Cavaulting School_, c. a Bawdy-house.

_Caudge-paw’d_, Left Handed.

_Caveating_, or _Disengaging_, flipping the Adversary’s Sword, when ’tis going to bind or secure one’s own.

_Caw-handed_, awkward not dextrous, ready or nimble.

_Changeable-ribbon_, or _Silks_, of diverse Colours, resembling those of Doves-necks, or of the _Opal_ Stone.

_Chafe_, _in a great Chafe_, a great heat or pet. _To Chafe_, to fret or fume. _Chafing_, fretting or fuming, _Chafing and fretting_, being the same with fretting and fuming, hence a

_Chafing dish_, that carries Fire.

_Chaft_, c. well beaten or bang’d; also much rub’d or bath’d.

_Chagrin_, moody, out of humour, pensive, melancholy, much troubled.

_Chalk_, used in Powder by the Perfumers to mix with their _Grounds_; and also scented Hair-Powders, being cheap and weighing heavy; found to Burn and destroy Wiggs and all Hair in general.

_Chanticlere_, a Cock.

_Chape_, the Tip at the End of a Fox’s Tail; also the Cap at the End of the Scabbard of a Sword.

_Character_, a distinguishing Sign or Mark of Distinction, the same among Great Men or Ministers, that a Badge is among Low and little People. As _a Man of Character_, of Mark or Note, as Privy-Chancellors, Judges, Foreign Ministers, Ministers of State, _&c._

_Chare-women_, Under-drudges, or Taskers, assistants to Servantmaids.

_Char_, a Task or Work. _A good Char well Char’d_, a Work well over.

_Chates_, c. the Gallows.

_Chat_, Talk, Prate.

_Chatter_, to Talk fast or jabber.

_Chattering fellow_, a noisy prating Man.

_Chatts_, c. Lice. _Squeeze the Chatts_, c. to Crack or Kill those Vermin.

_Cheap_, Contemptible. _How Cheap you make your self_, how Contemptible you render your self or undervalue your self.

_Chear_, _good_ or _bad_, high or ordinary fare. _How Chear you?_ How fare you? _Chear up_, be of good courage, hence _chearful_, or _chearly_, for one in Heart, or that keeps up his Spirits, _prety chearly_, indifferent hearty or lightsom.

_Cheats_, Sharpers, which see; also Wristbands or sham Sleeves worn (in good Husbandry) for true, or whole ones.

_Chicken_, a feeble, little creature, of mean Spirit; whence _a Chicken-hearted Fellow_, or _Hen-hearted Fellow_, a Dastard.

_Childish_, Foolish.

_Childing-women_, Breeding.

_China-Ale_, From the well known _East-Indian_ Drug of that Name, of which they ought to put some, but they seldom do any into it, making it sweet only and adding a little Spice.

_Chink_, c. Money, because it chinks in the Pocket.

_Chip_, a Child.

_Chip of the old Block_, a Son that is his Father’s likeness; more particularly the Son of a Cooper, or one brought up to the same Trade.

_Chirping-merry_, very pleasant over a Glass of good Liquor.

_Chit_, a Dandyprat, or Dergen.

_Chittiface_, a little puiny Child.

_Chitchat_, idle Prate, or empty Talk.

_Chive_, c. a Knife.

_Chop_, to change, or barter.

_Chopping-boy_, a bouncing Boy. _To chop up Prayers_, to huddle them up, or slubber them over in posthast. _A Chop by chance_, a rare Contingence, an extraordinary or uncommon Event, out of course.

_Chopps_, (of a Man) his Face (of Mutton) a Bone or Cut.

_Chounter_, to talk pertly, and (sometimes) angrily.

_Chouse_, to cheat or trick.

_Chop-houses_, where Both boyl’d and roast Mutton (in chopps) are alwayes ready.

_Chub_, c. _he is a young chub, or a meer chub_, c. very ignorant or inexperienc’d in gaming, not at all acquainted with Sharping. _A good Chub_, said by the Butchers; when they have met with a silly raw Customer and they have Bit him.

_Chuck-farthing_, a Parish-Clerk (in the Satyr against Hypocrites) also a Play among Boies.

_Chum_, a Chamber-fellow, or constant Companion.

_Church-yard-cough_, that will terminate in Death.

_Churl_, an Ill-natur’d Fellow; a selfish, sordid Clown. _To put a Churl upon a Gentleman_, to Drink Ale or any Mault-Liquor immediately after Wine.

_Ciento_, an old Game at Cards.

_Citt_, for Citizen.

_Civil List_, all the Officers and Servants in the King’s Family.

_Clack_, a Woman’s Tongue.

_Clammed_, Starved, or Famished.

_Clan_, Family, Tribe, Faction, Party in _Scotland_ chiefly, but now anywhere else.

_Clank_, c. a Silver-tankard.

_Clanker_, a swinging Lie.

_Clank-napper_, c. a Silver-tankard Stealer. See _Bubber_.

_Rum-clank_, c. a large Silver-tankard. _Tip me a rum Clank a Booz_, c. give me a double Tankard of Drink.

_Clap_, a Venereal Taint.

_Clapperclaw’d_, beat soundly, or paid off in earnest.

_Clapperdogeon_, c. a Begger-born and Bred.

_Clark_, or _Clerk_, Scholar or Book-learned.

_Clerk-ship_, or _Clergy_, Scholarship or Book-learning, though of late the one be more restrained to a Clergyman, and the other appropriate to a Clergyman’s Skill or Qualifications; because it may be heretofore, none but the Clergy were learned, or so much as taught to Read. Hence the _Benefit of Clergy_, (or Reading) _&c._ _legit ut Clericus_, in the Law, for him that cou’d Read his Neck-verse, like a Clerk or Scholar, when so few perhaps were Scholars or Clerks, that every one that could but only Read, passed for no less: We say still, the greatest Clarks (or Scholars) are not the Wisest Men: And the Scots much to the same Effect. An Ounce of Mother-Wit is worth a Pound of Clergy, or Book-learning.

_Claw’d off_, lustily lasht, also swingingly Poxt.

_Clear_, c. very Drunk. _The Cull is clear, let’s Bite him._ c. The Fellow is Damn’d Drunk, let’s Sharp him.

_Cleave_, has two contrary Senses under one Sound; for _to cleave_, (Verb Neuter) is to cling close or stick fast, and _to cleave_, (verb Active) is to part or divide; as to cleave asunder, when _Cleft_ and _Cloven_.

_Clench_, a pun or quible; also to nick a Business by timing it.

_Cleymes_, c. Sores without Pain raised on Beggers Bodies by their own Artifice and cunning, (to move charity) by bruising Crows-foot, Speerwort, and Salt together, and clapping them on the 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 Arsnick, which makes it look angrily or ill favoredly, as if it were a real Sore.

_Click_, c. to Snatch. _I have Clickt the Nab from the Cull_, c. I whipt the Hat from the Man’s Head. _Click the rum Topping_, c. Snatch that Woman’s fine Commode.

_Clicker_, the Shoemaker’s Journey-man, or Servant, that Cutts out all the Work, and stands at or walks before the Door, and saies, what d’ye’ lack Sir, what d’ye buy Madam.

_Clicket_, Copulation of Foxes, and sometimes, used waggishly for that of Men and Women.

_Clinker_, c. a crafty Fellow.

_Clinkers_, c. the Irons Felons wear in Goals.

_Clip_, to hug or embrace. _To clip and cling_, of a close hug or fast embrace. _To Clip the Coin_, to diminish or Impair it. _To clip the King’s English_, not to Speak Plain, when one’s Drunk.

_Clod-hopper_, c. a Plough-man.

_Clodpate_, a heavy, dull Fellow.

_Close_, reserv’d, silent, not talkative, or open.

_Close-confident_, a trusty Bosom-friend.

_Close-fisted_, covetous, stingy, pinching.

_Clotts_, or thick dropps of Bloud clottered or in clots.

_Cloud_, c. Tobacco. _Will ye raise a Cloud_, c. shall we Smoke a Pipe?

_Clouds_, or _Cloudy-Sky_, in opposition to clear open Sky; as _Clouds in Gemms and Stones_, to clear ones; and _Clouded Fate_, to a clear pleasant one. _Under a Cloud_, in disgrace, under misfortunes or disasters; _Speaks in the Clouds_, of one that flies or soars in Talking above the common reach or capacity.

_Cloudy_, dark complexion’d.

_Clout_, c. a Handkerchief.

_Cloy_, c. to Steal. _Cloy the Clout_, c. to Steal the Handkerchief. _Cloy the Lour_, c. to Steal the Money; also, in another Sense, _to Cloy_, is to Nauseate or Satiate.

_Cloyers_, c. Thieves, Robbers, Rogues.

_Cloying_, c. Stealing, Thieving, Robbing; also Fulsom or Satiating.

_Clowes_, c. Rogues.

_Clown_, a Country-Fellow, also one very Ill-bred or unmannerly, Being.

_Clownish_, rustical, unpolish’d, uncouth.

_Club_, each Man’s particular Shot, also a Society of Men agreeing to meet according to a Scheme of Orders under a slight Penalty to promote Trade and Friendship.

_Cluck_, the noise made by Hens, when they set upon their Eggs to Hatch and are disturb’d, or come off to Eat, and also when they wou’d have Eggs put under them for that purpose.

_Clump_, a Heap or Lump.

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

_Clutch the Fist_, or close the Hand, whence _Clutches_. I’ll keep out of your Clutches or Claws; _the Clutches of the Parish_, the Constable or Beadle.

_Clutchfisted_, the same as Closefisted.

_Clutter_, Stir. _What a Clutter you keep?_ What a stir you make?

_Cly_, c. Money. _To Cly the Jerk_, c. to be Whipt. _Let’s strike his Cly_, c. let’s get his Money from him; also a Pocket, _Filed a cly_, c. Pickt a Pocket.

_Coach-wheel_, { _Fore_ { _Half a Crown._
{ _Hind_ { _A Crown or Five Shilling-Piece._

_Coals to Newcastle_ when the Drawer carries away any Wine in the Pot or Bottle. _To blow the Coals_, to raise differences between Parties. _He’ll carry no Coals_, not be Pissed upon, or Imposed upon, nor bear a Trick, or take an Affront, or tamely pass by any ill Treatment. _Let him that has need blow the Coals_, Let him Labour that wants.

_Cob_, a Dollar (in _Ireland_.)

_Cobble_, to mend or patch.

_Cobbled_, bunglingly done.

_Cobble-colter_, c. a Turkey. _A rum Cobble-colter_, c. a fat large Cock-Turkey.

_Cobweb-cheat_, easily found out.

_Cobweb-pretence_, slight, trivial, weak.

_Cock-a-hoop_, upon the high Ropes Rampant, Transported.

_Cockish_, wanton uppish, forward.

_Cockale_, pleasant Drink, said to be provocative.

_Cock-baw’d_, a Man that follows that base Employment.

_Cocker_, one skill’d in, or much delighted with the sport of Cock-fighting.

_Cockney_, Born within the Sound of Bow-bell; (in _London_) also one ignorant in Country Matters.

_Cock-oyster_, the Male.

_Cock pimp_, a Supposed Husband to a Bawd.

_Cock-robbin_, a soft easy Fellow.

_Cock-sure_, very Sure.

_Cod_, a good sum of Money; also a Fool. _A meer Cod_, a silly, shallow Fellow. _A rum Cod_, c. a good round sum of Money. _A jolly or lusty Cod_, c. the same. _An honest Cod_, a trusty Friend.

_Codders_, gatherers of Peascods.

_Cod’s Head_, a Fool.

_Codsounds_, the Pith or Marrow in the Cod’s Back, esteem’d as choice Peck.

_Cofe_, c. as Cove.

_Cog_, to cheat at Dice, _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, as _Cog a Dinner_, to wheedle a Spark out of a Dinner.

_Cogue_, of Brandy, a small Cup or Dram.

_Coker_, c. a Lye, _rum Coker_, c. a whisking Lye.

_Cokes_, the Fool in the Play, or Bartholomew-Fair, and hence (perhaps) Coxcomb.

_Cold_, shy, or averse to Act.

_Cold-Tea_, Brandy. _A couple of cold words_, a Curtain-Lecture. _Cold-Iron_, Derisory Periphrasis for a Sword. _In cold Blood_, when the heat of War, or Passion are over. _The Matter will keep cold_, it will stay a while, and not be the worse for keeping.

_Cole_, c. Money.

_Coliander-seed_, c. Money.

_Collation_, a Treat or Entertainment.

_College_, c. Newgate; also the Royal Exchange.

_Collegiates_, c. those Prisoners and Shop-keepers.

_Collogue_, wheedle.

_Colquarron_, c. a Man’s Neck.

_Colt_, c. an Inn-keeper that lends a Horse to a Highway-man, or to Gentlemen Beggers; also a Lad newly bound Prentice.

_Coltish_, said when an old Fellow is frolicksom or wanton; or he has a Colt’s Tooth.

_Colt bowl_, laid short of the Jack by a

_Colt bowler_, a raw or unexperienc’d Person.

_Colt-veal_, very red.

_Come_, c. to Lend. _Has he come it?_ c. has he lent it you?

_Comical_, very pleasant, or diverting.

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

_Commission_, c. a Shirt.

_Commode_, a Woman’s Head-dress, easily put on, and as soon taken off.

_Common garden-gout_, or rather Covent-garden, the Pox.

_Common Women_, Whores, Plyers in the Streets and at Bawdy-Houses.

_Complement_, the Ship’s or Regiment’s compleat Number or Company.

_Comfortable Importance_, a Wife.

_Conceited_, a Self-lover, and Admirer, Wise in his own Opinion.

_Coney-sitteth_.

_Confect_, c. Counterfeit.

_Conger_, a Set or Knot of Topping Book-sellers of _London_, who agree among themselves, that whoever of them Buys a good Copy, the rest are to take off such a particular number, as (it may be) Fifty, in Quires, on easy Terms. Also they that joyn together to Buy either a Considerable, or Dangerous Copy. And a great over-grown Sea-Eel.

_Conjurers_, _Astrologers_, _Physiognomists_, _Chiromancers_, and the whole Tribe of Fortune-tellers, by the common People (Ignorantly) so called.

_Consent_, Leave, Approbation, Agreement. _Affected by Consent_, as one Sore Eye infects the other, (unseen) because they are both strung with one Optic Nerve: As in two Strings set to an Unison, upon the Touch of One, the other will Sound.

_Consult of Physicians_, Two, or more.

_Content_, a thick Liquor, made up in Rolls in imitation of Chocolate, Sold in some Coffee-Houses.

_Contre-temps_, making a Pass or Thrust without any advantage, or to no purpose.

_Convenient_, c. a Mistress; also a Whore.

_Conveniency_, c. a Wife; also a Mistress.

_Conundrums_, Whimms, Maggots, and such like.

_Cony_, a silly Fellow, _a meer Cony_, very silly indeed.

_Cook-ruffin_, c. the Devil of a Cook, or a very bad one.

_Cool-crape_, a slight Chequer’d Stuff made in imitation of Scotch Plad.

_Cooler_, a Woman.

_Cool-Lady_, a Wench that sells Brandy (in Camps).

_Cool nantz_, Brandy.

_Cool Tankard_, Wine and Water, with a Lemon, Sugar and Nutmeg.

_Copper-nos’d_, extremely Red.

_Coquet_, a flippant, pert Gossip.

_Corky-brain’d_ Fellow, silly, foolish.

_Corinthian_, a very impudent, harden’d, brazen-fac’d Fellow.

_Cornish-hug_, a hard gripe, or squeeze.

_Corn-jobber_, an Enhancer of the Price, by early buying, monopolizing, and sharp tricks. _A great Harvest of a little Corn_, a great adoe in a little Matter. _He measures my Corn by his own Bushel_, _he muses as he uses_, he thinks me Bad because he is so himself.

_Cornuted_, made a Cuckold of.

_Corny-fac’d_, a very Red or Blue pimpled Phiz.

_Cosset_, a Fondling Child.

_Cosset-Colt or Lamb_, brought up by Hand, made Tame, and used to follow any Body about the House.

_Costard_, the Head, _I’ll give ye a knock on the Costard_, I’ll hit ye a blow on the Pate.

_Coster-monger_, a Wholesale Dealer in Apples, Pears, _&c._

_Cot_ for _Cotquean_, a Man that meddles with Womens matters.

_Cotton_, _they don’t cotton_, they don’t agree well.

_Cote_, a sorry, slight Country-House or Hovel, now a _Cottage_. Hence the Compounds yet in use, of _Dove-cote_, _Sheep-cote_, &c.

_Couchee_, going to Bed _I was at Court at the Couchee_, I attended the King at his going to Bed.

_Couch a Hogs-head_, c. to go to Bed.

_Cove_, c. a Man, a Fellow, also a Rogue. _The Cove was bit_, c. the Rogue was out-sharp’d or out-witted. _The Cove has bit the Cole_, c. The Rogue has Stolen the Money. _The Cove’s a rum Diver_, c. that Fellow is a cleaver Pick-pocket.

_Covey of Whores_, a well fill’d Bawdy-house; also of _Partridges_, a Nest or Brood.

_Counterfeit-cranks_, c. the Twentieth Rank or Order of the Canting Tribe.

_Counterfeit_, a Cheat Or Impostor. _A Counterfeiter of Hands_, a Forger. _A Counterfeiter of Persons_, a Sham. _Counterfeit Gemms or Jewels_, Bristol-stones. Counterfeits, for the most part exceed the Truth. Thus a Flatterer pleases more than a Friend; a Braggadochio-coward thunders more than a Hero; a Mountebank promises more than a Doctor, and a Hypocrite over-acts a Religious Man, as a Counterfeit Gem is often fairer than a True one.

_Country-put_, a silly Country-Fellow.

_Couped up_, Imprison’d, Environ’d, Surrounded Pent up.

_Court-promises_, fair Speeches, or empty Promises without performances. Much the same with Court-holy-water. _Court-card_, a gay fluttering Fellow. _Court-tricks_, State-Policy.

_Course_, or rather

_Coarse_, homely, ord’nary, oppos’d to fine; as _Coarse treatment_, rough or rude Dealing; _Coarse fare_, homely Food; _a Coarse Dish_, a mean one; _Coarse or Hard-Favor’d_, oppos’d to Fair or Handsom. _Of Course_ of Custom; _out of Course_, extraordinary, or out of the way; _a Horse-Course_ a Race, also the place where the Race is Run. _A Water-course_, a Drain. _Course of Law_, the proceedings, at Law, _The Law must have its Course_, or run freely. _I’ll take a Course with you_, I’ll hamper ye, or stick close on your Skirts. _A Course of Physick_, an Order or set Constitution of Physick, for a continuance or course of time. _Course of the Sun_, _Yearly or Daily_, a Yearly or Daily Revolution, _Course of the Moon_, the Circle of a Month.

_Court-holy-water_, Court Promises.

_Cow-hearted_, fearful or Hen-hearted.

_Cows-thumb_, when a thing is done exactly, nicely, or to a Hair.

_Cows-baby_, a Calf.

_Coxcomb_, a Fool; _a silly Coxcomb_, a very foolish Fellow.

_Crabbed_, sower, churls.

_Crab-lice_, { Cock, Male. } Vermin breeding in Moist and Hairy Parts
{ Hen, Female. } of the Body.

_Crack_, c. a Whore.

_Cracker_, c. an Arse; also Crust.

_Crackish_, c. Whorish.

_Cracking_, Boasting, Vaporing. _Crackt credit_, Lost, Gone. Broken. _Crackt-title_, Unsound _Crackt-brains_, lost Wits.

_Crackmans_, c. Hedges.

_Cramped_, a weight with a string tied to one’s Toe, when a Sleep, much used by School-boies, one to another; also obstructed or hampered in any Business whatever.

_Crag_, a Neck; also a Rock.

_Cramp-rings_, c. Bolts or Shackles.

_Cramp-words_, difficult or uncommon.

_Crank_, brisk, pert.

_Cranksided-ship_, that does not bear Sail well.

_Cranked-shells_ or _Stones_, wrinkled or wreathed.

_Crap_, c. Money. _Nim the Crap_, c. to Steal the Money. _Wheedle for Crap_, c. to coakse Money out of any Body.

_Crash_, c. to Kill.

_Crash the Cull_, c. Kill the Fellow.

_Crashing-cheats_, c. Teeth.

_Craz’d_, Mad.

_Crazy_, infirm or distemper’d.

_Creatures_, Men raised by others, and their _Tools_ ever after.

_Creeme_, to slip or slide any thing into another’s Hand.

_Crew_, the Coxon and Rowers in the Barge, or Pinnace, are called the _Boats-crew_, in distinction from the Complement of Men on Board the Ship, who are term’d the _Ships-company_, not _Crew_; also an ill Knot or Gang, as a _Crew of Rogues_.

_Crimp_, one that undertakes for, or agrees to unlade a whole Ship of Coals. _To play Crimp_, to lay or bet on one side, and (by foul play) to let t’other win, having a share of it. _Run a Crimp_, to run a Race or Horse-match fouly or knavishly. _He Crimps it_, he plays booty. _A Crimping Fellow_, a sneaking Cur.

_Crinkums_, the French Pox.

_Crispin_, a Shoe-maker, from the St. of that Name, their Patron.

_Crispin’s Holy-day_, ev’ry Munday in the Year, but more particularly the Twenty fifth of _October_, whereon the whole Fraternity fail not to lay they Hearts in Soak.

_Crochets_ in the crown, whimsies, Maggots.

_Crockers_, Forestallers, Regraters, see _Badgers_.

_Croker_, c. a Groat or Four-pence. _The Cull tipt me a Croker_, c. the Fellow gave me a Groat.

_Crony_, a Camerade or intimate Friend; _an old Crony_, one of long standing; used also for a tough old Hen.

_Crop_, one with very short Hair; also a Horse whose Ears are Cut.

_Crop-ear’d-Fellow_, whose Hair is so short it won’t hide his Ears.

_Croppin-ken_, c. a Privy, or Bog-house.

_Crop-sick_, Stomack-sick.

_Crossbite_, c. to draw in a Friend, yet snack with the Sharper.

_Crosspatch_, a peevish froward Person.

_Crotiles_, Hares Excrements.

_Crow-over_, to insult or domineer. _To pluck a Crow with one_, to have a bout with him. _Strut like a Crow in a Gutter_, said in jeer of the Stalking of a proud Fellow. _The Crow thinks her own Bird the Fairest_, applied to those that dote on their foul issues. _As good Land as any the Crow Flies over_, with regard it may be, to the Crow’s being a long Liver; as _no Carrion will kill a Crow_, to his being so hardy a Bird.

_Crowder_, a Fidler.

_Crown_, the top of the Head or Hat; Imperial or Regal Crown. _Where the Earth is raised_ it is said, to be Crown’d with Hills, in Poetry. _The End Crowns all_, said both of the Event of Actions, and Finishing of Works. _In the Crown-Office_, Drunk; also _to Crown_, to pour on the Head.

_Cruisers_, c. Beggers; also nimble Friggats Coasting to and fro for Prizes, and to carry Orders, _&c._

_Crump_, c. one that helps Sollicitors to _Affidavit-men_, and _Swearers_, and _Bail_, who for a small Sum will be Bound or Swear for any Body; on that occasion, putting on good Cloaths to make a good appearance, that Bail may be accepted.

_Crump-back’d_, Crooked or Huncht-backt.

_Crumplings_, wrinkled Codlings, usually the least, but sweetest.

_Crusty-beau_, one that lies with a Cover over his Face all Night, and uses Washes, Paint, _&c._

_Cub_, or _young Cub_, c. a new Gamester drawn in to be rookt; also a young Bear, a Fox, and a Martern the first Year.

_Cucumbers_, Taylers.

_Cucumber-time_, Taylers Holiday, when they have leave to Play, and Cucumbers are in season.

_Cudgelliers_, a Mob rudely arm’d; also Cudgel-Players.

_Cuffin_, c. a Man.

_Cuffin-quire_, c. see Quire-cuffin.

_Culp_, a kick, or blow, also a bit of any thing.

_Culp of the Gutts_, (Suffolk) a hearty kick at the Belly.

_Cull_, _Cully_, c. a Man, a Fop, a Rogue, a Fool or silly Creature that is easily drawn in and Cheated by Whores or Rogues. _Cully napps us_, c. the Person Robb’d, apprehends us. _A Bob-cull_, c. a sweet-humour’d Man to a Whore, and who is very Complaisant. _A Curst-cull_, c. an ill-natur’d Fellow, a Churl to a Woman.

_Culm_, the small or dust of Sea-coal.

_Cunning-shaver_, a sharp Fellow.

_Cup-shot_, Drunk.

_Cup of Comfort_, as

_Cup of the Creature_, Strong-liquor. _A Cup too low_, when any of the Company are mute or pensive. _To carry one’s Cup even between two Parties_, to be equal and indifferent, between them. _Many things fall out between the Cup and the Lip_, or many things intervene between the forming and accomplishing a Design.

_Cur_, a Dog of a mungrel Breed, good for nothing.

_Curle_, c. Clippings of Money.

_Currish-fellow_, snapping, snarling.

_Curmudgeon_, an old Covetous Fellow, a Miser.

_Currant-coyn_, good and Lawful Money. _Currant Custom_, a received custom, the

_Current_, Stream; also humor or bent of the People.

_Cursitors_, c. Vagabonds; the first (old) Rank of Canters.

_Curst_, _a curst Cur_, a sower, surly, snarling, fierce Dog; a Curst Cow has short Horns.

_Curtals_, c. the Eleventh Rank of the Canting Crew.

_Curtail’d_, cut off, shorten’d.

_Curtezan_, a gentile fine Miss or Quality Whore.

_Curtain-Lecture_, Womens impertinent Scolding at their Husbands.

_Cushion_, _beside the Cushion_, beside the Mark.

_Cut_, Drunk. _Deep Cut_, very Drunk. _Cut in the Leg or Back_, very drunk. _To Cut_, c. to Speak. _To Cut bene_, c. to Speak gently, civilly or kindly; _to Cut bene_ (or _bennar_) _Whidds_, c. to give good Words. _To Cut quire whidds_, c. to give ill Language. _A Cut_ or _Chop_ of Meat. _Cut and come again_, of Meat that cries come Eat me. _A cutting wind_, very sharp. _Of the precize Cut or Stamp_, a demure starcht Fellow. _No Present to be made of Knives, because they Cut kindness. Ready Cut and Dried, or turned for the purpose._ _Not Cut out for it_, nor turned for it. _To Cut another out of any business_, to out-doe him far away, or excell, or circumvent. _I’ll cut you out business_, I’ll find you Work enough. A Book with Cuts or Figures; Brass or Wooden Cutts or Prints from Copper-plates, or Wood. _A Cut throat House or Town_, where sharp and Large Reckonings are imposed, as at _Gravesend_, _Deal_, _Dover_, _Portsmouth_, _Plimouth_, _Harwich_, _Helvoetsluyce_, the _Briel_, and indeed all _Sea-ports_, nay and _Common-wealths_ too, according to the observation of a late Learned Traveller in his ingenious Letters publish’d in _Holland_.