Chapter D

_Dab_, c. expert exquisite in Roguery; a Rum-dab, c. a very Dextrous fellow at fileing, thieving, Cheating, Sharping, _&c._ _He is a Dab at it_, He is well vers’d in it.

_Dablers_, in Poetry, meer Pretenders.

_Dace_, c. Two-pence, Tip me a _Dace_. c. Lend Two-pence, or pay so much for me.

_Dag_, a Gun.

_Draggle-tail_, a nasty dirty Slut.

_Damask the Claret_, Put a roasted Orange slasht smoking hot in it.

_Damber_, c. a Rascal.

_Damme-boy_, a roaring mad, blusttring fellow, a Scourer of the Streets.

_Dancers_, c. Stairs.

_Dandyprat_, a little puny Fellow.

_Dangle_, to hang.

_Dapper-fellow_, a short, pert, brisk, tidy Fellow.

_Darby_, c. ready Money.

_Darbies_, c. Irons, Shackles or Fetters.

_Darkmans_, c. The night, _The Child of darkness_, c. a Bell-man.

_Darkmans-Budge_, c. a House-creeper, one that slides into a House in the dusk, to let in more Rogues to rob.

_Dash_, a Tavern-Drawer. _A dash of Gentian, Wormwood, or stale Beer_, a slight touch or tincture of each, _to dash or brew_ as Vintners jumble their Wines together, when they sophisticate them. _A dash of Rain_, a sudden, short, impetuous pouring down, to distinguish it from a soft Shower, or a sprinkling of Rain.

_Dastard_, a Coward.

_Dawn_, Day-break or peep of Day, as the Dusk is twilight or shadow of the Evening. _One may see day at a little hole, or discover the Lyon by his Paw._

_Dawbing_, bribing; also ill painting or thick laying on of Colours: Hence _bedawb’d with Gold or Silver-Lace_, when it is laid thick or close on.

_Dead Cargo_, not a quarter or half freighted. _To wait for dead mens shoes_, for what is little worth, or may never come to pass. _To play or work for a dead horse_, for a trifle.

_Dead-men_, empty-Pots or bottles on a Tavern-table.

_Dear Joies_, Irishmen.

_Debauchee_, a Rake-hel.

_Decayed Gentleman or Tradesman_, broken.

_Deckt-out_, tricked up in fine Cloaths.

_Decus_, c. a Crown or five shilling-piece. _The Cull tipt me a score of Decuses_, c. my Camerade lent me five Pounds.

_Deft-Fellow_, a tidy, neat little Man.

_Defunct_, dead and gone.

_Degen_, c. a Sword. _Nimm the Degen_, c. steal the Sword, or whip it from the Gentleman’s Side.

_Deists_, against the Trinity.

_Dells_, c. the twenty sixth order of the canting Tribe; young bucksome Wenches, ripe and prone to Venery, but 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.

_Dequarting_, throwing of the left Foot and Body backwards.

_Dergin_, a very short Man or Woman.

_Desperate Fellow_, fit for any lewd Prank or Villany, _desperate condition_, without any hopes.

_Devil drawer_, a sory Painter.

_Deuseavile_, c. the Country.

_Deuseavile-Stampers_, c. Country-Carriers.

_Dews wins_, c. two Pence.

_Dewitted_, cut in pieces, as that great Statesman _John de Witt_, was in Holland Anno 1672. by the Mob.

_Diamond cut Diamond_, bite the Biter.

_Dibble_, a poaking Stick to set Beans with.

_Die like a Dog_, to be hang’d, the worst Employment a Man can be put to. _Die on a Fish-day, or in his shoes_ the same, _die like a Rat_. To be poysoned.

_Dig the Badger_, dislodge him.

_Dimber_, c. pretty.

_Dimber-cove_, a pretty Fellow.

_Dim-mort_, c. a pretty Wench.

_Dimber-Damber_, c. a Top-man or Prince among the Canting Crew; also the chief Rogue of the Gang, or the compleatest Cheat.

_Dimple_, a small graceful dent in the Chin called in Ignoramus, Loves pretty Dimple.

_Din_, c. what a din you keep! what a noise you make!

_Dine with Duke Humphrey_, to go without a Dinner.

_Ding_, c. to knock down. _Ding the Cull_, c. knock down the Fellow.

_Ding-boy_, c. a Rogue, a Hector, a Bully, Sharper.

_Ding-dong_, helter-skelter.

_Dint_, edge or force _dint of the sword_, edge of the Sword, _dint of argument_, force or power of Argument.

_Dippers_, Ana-baptists.

_Dipt_, engag’d or in debt, Land pawn’d or mortgag’d. _Damnably dipt_, deep in debt, _He has dipt his Terra firma_, he has mortgaged his dirty Acres. _He has dipt his Bill_, he is almost drunk. _The cull has dipt his Tol_, c. the Spark has pawn’d his Sword. _The Dell has dipt her Rigging_, c. the Whore has pawn’d her Cloaths.

_Dirty Acres_, an Estate in Land.

_Dirty Beau_, a slovenly Fellow, yet pretending to Beauishness.

_Dirty puzzle_, a sorry Slattern or Slut.

_Disaffection_, a disorder of any part of the Body. _Disaffected to the State._ Malecontents or factious.

_Disgruntled_, disobliged or distasted.

_Disingenuous, or indirect dealing_, oppos’d to dealing on the Square.

_Disguis’d_, drunkish.

_Dismal ditty_, a Psalm at the Gallows; also a dull Ballad, or silly Song.

_Dive_, c. to pick a Pocket.

_Diver_, c. a Pick-pocket.

_Doash_, c. a cloak.

_Dock_, c. to lie with a Woman. _The Cull Dockt the Dell in the Darkmans_ the Rogue lay with a Wench all night.

_Doctor_, c. a false Die that will run but two or three Chances. _They put the Doctor upon him_, c. they cheated him with false Dice.

_Dog’d_, follow’d close, way-laid. _Agree like Dog and Cat_, of those that are at variance. _Every Dog will have his day_, none so wretched but has his good Planet. _An easy thing to find a Stick to beat a Dog_, or it costs little to trouble those that cannot help themselves. _It is an ill Dog is not worth the whistling after_; or spare to speak spare to speed. _He play’d me a Dog-trick_, he did basely and dirtily by me.

_Dogged_, Sullen, pouting, or in the Dumps.

_Doggrel_, a Term for the meanest and basest Verse; such as Ballads, _Bellmens-songs_, and the like _Meeter_ of _snow hill_.

_Doit_, half a Farthing. Dutch Money, eight to a Penny, _not a doit left_, he has spent all.

_Doll_, a wooden Block to make up Commodes upon, also a Child’s Baby.

_Doltish_, c. Foolish.

_Dolthead_, a Fool.

_Domerars_, c. Rogues, pretending to have had their Tongues cut out, or to be born dumb and deaf, who artificially turning the tip of their Tongues, into their Throat, and with a stick makeing it bleed, weak people think it the stump of their Tongue; one of whom being askt hastily _how long he had been dumb?_ answer’d _but three weeks_, this is the twenty first Order of Canters, the Word also signifing Mad-men.

_Dotard_, An old drowsy Fellow come to Dotage.

_Doudy_, An ugly coarse hard favored Woman. _She is a meer Doudy_ that is, very ugly.

_Dover court_, all Speakers and no Hearers.

_Down hills_, c. Dice that run low.

_Doxies_, c. She-beggers, Trulls, Wenches. Whores, the twenty fifth Rank of _Canters_; being neither, Maids, Wives, nor Widdows, will for good Victuals, or a very small piece of money prostitute their Bodies, protesting they never did so before, and that meer necessity then oblig’d them to it (tho’ common Hackneys). These are very dextrous at picking Pockets (in the action) and so barbarous as often to murder the Children thus got.

_Drab_, a Whore, or Slut, a _Dirty drab_, a very nasty Slut.

_Drag_, a Fox’s Tail.

_Dragg’d_, _through the Horse-pond_ or _Bog-house_. Bailives and Sergeants are served so that presume to arrest any Body within the Verge of the Court-royal, or Precincts of the Inns of Court.

_Dragg’d up_, as the _Rakes_ call it, educated or brought up.

_Dray_, of Squirrels.

_Drawers_, c. Stockings.

_Drawing_, Beating the Bushes after the Fox.

_Draw-Litches_, c. the fourth (old) Order of the Canting Tribe of Rogues.

_Drawling in Speech_, or _dreaming of Speech_ when the Words are drawn out at length, and keep as great a distance from one another, as if they were not all of a Company.

_Dreaming Fellow_, a dull, drowsy, heavy Creature. _Drift_, Design, Aim, Intent.

_Drill_, to draw in, and entice by degrees; also boring of Pearl.

_Dripper_, a sort of Clap, or venereal gleating.

_Dripping-weather_, the same with dropping.

_Dromedary_, c. a Thief or Rogue, also a kind of Camel with two bunches on his Back. _You are a purple Dromedary_, c. You are a Bungler or a dull Fellow at thieving.

_Drommerars_, c. see Domerars.

_Droppers_, c. Sweetners.

_Drop a cog_, c. to let fall (with design to draw in and cheat) a Piece of Gold; also the piece it self.

_Drop-in-his-eye_, almost drunk.

_Droop_, to fall away, to pine, to break with Age or Infirmity, _a drooping bird_ that hangs the Wing.

_Drovers_, Horse-leaders in Fairs, or Markets, and Graziers or Drivers of Beasts.

_Drub_, beat with a stick or Cable-end.

_Drudge_, or rather _dredge_, the way of catching Oysters; also a laborious Person.

_Drumbelo_, a dull heavy Fellow. _A meer drumbelo_, a very Slug.

_Drunk with a continuando_, de die in diem.

_Dry blows_, or _dry-basting_ for Rib roasting.

_Dry-bob_, a smart or sharp Repartee.

_Dry-boots_, a sly, close cunning Fellow.

_Dry-drinking_, without a bit of Victuals. _Dry-wine_, a little rough upon, but very grateful to the Palate.

_Dry youth_, sharp, close, witty.

_Dub_, c. a Pick-lock-key.

_Dub, the Giger_, c. open the Door. _We’ll strike it upon the dub_, c. we will rob that Place.

_Dubber_, c. a Picker of Locks.

_Dub’d_, Knighted.

_A Duce_, c. two Pence.

_Duck-leggs_, short-leggs.

_Dudds_, c. Cloaths or Goods. _Rum dudds_, c. fine or rich cloaths or Goods.

_Dudd, Cheats wonne._ c. Cloaths and things stolen. _Abram Cove has wonne (or bit) Rum dudds._ c. the poor Fellow has stolen very costly Cloaths.

_Dudgeon_, Anger, Quarrel, Displeasure.

_Duke of Exeter’s Daughter_, a Rack in the Tower of London, to torture and force Confession; supposed to be introduced by him, sometimes (formerly) now not in use.

_Dullard_, a heavy dull stupid Fellow.

_Dulpickle_, the same.

_Dum-found_, to beat soundly. _I dumfounded the sawcy Rascal_, I bang’d his Back tightly. _In the dumps_, troubled, chagrin, melancholic.

_Dunaker_, c. a Cow-stealer.

_Duncarring_, Buggering.

_Dunner_, a Sollicitor for Debts.

_Dunn’d_, teiz’d, or much importun’d.

_Dunder head_, a dull heavy Creature.

_Dundering Rake_, a thundering Rake, or of the Rank, one develishly lewd.

_Dup_, c. to enter, or open the door, _dup the ken_, c. enter the House, _dup the boozing ken and booz a gage_, c. go into the Ale-house and drink a Pot.

_Durance_, a Prison.

_Durk_, a short Dagger, in use with the _Scots_, as Stilletto is with the _Italians_.

_Dusk_, or Twilight, the shadow of the Evening, as Dawn is Daybreak or peep of Day.

_Dust_, money, _down with your Dust_, deposit your Money, pay your Reckoning. Also in another sence, _dust it away_ drink quick about.

_Dutchified_, in the Dutch Interest, or of that Faction.

_Dutch-Reckoning_, or _Alte-mall_, a verbal or Lump-account without particulars.

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_Eager_, warm, or earnest in Debate; also sharp Liquors, as hard Beer, Wine turned soure, &c. Hence the Compounds, Vinegar, Alegar.

_Eagle_, c. the winning Gamester.

_Earnest_, c. Part or Share. _Tip me my earnest_, c. give me my Snack or Dividend.

_Easy_, facil, supple, pliable, managable. _He is an easy fellow_, very silly or soft, _an easy mort_, c. a forward or coming wench.

_Ebb-water_, c. when there’s but little Money in the Pocket.

_Edge-tools_, as Scythes, Swords, and such as are set or ground, as Razors. Knives, Scissors, Sheers, &c. to distinguish them from flat Tools and Tongs, _&c._ _’tis ill jesting with Edged tools_ or trusting unexpert Men with dangerous things. _Fall back fall edge_ or come what will.

_Effort_, an Endeavour or Proffer, a _Weak Effort_, an Offer in vain.

_Egge one on_, to prick him on, to provoke or stir him up. _He’ll be glad to take Eggs for his money_, or to compound the matter with Loss. _You come in with your five Eggs a penny, and four of ’em addle_, of a Pragmatical Prater, or Busi-body, that wasts many Words to little purpose. _To leave a Nest-egg_, to have alwaies a Reserve to come again. _As sure as Eggs be Eggs._ When nothing is so sure. _As full of Roguery as an Egg is full, of Meat._

_Elbow-grease_, a derisory Term for Sweat. _It will cost nothing but a little Elbow-grease_; in a jeer to one that is lazy, and thinks much of his Labour. _Who is at your Elbow?_ a Caution to a Lyer. _He lives by shaking of the Elbow_; a Gamester.

_Elonge_, to stretch forward the right Arm and Leg, and to keep a close Left-foot.

_Elevated_, pufft up; also raised to Honour, Dignity, _&c._ _Above the common Elevation_, above the common Level.

_Eminence_, a Rising opposed to a flat Ground, _rais’d to an Eminence of pitch of greatness; to make a figure, or be a Man of mark in the World_, i. e. to be conspicuous, as a City set on a Hill cannot be hid. _His Eminence_, the Title given to a Cardinal.

_Empty-fellow_, Silly.

_Empty-skull’d_, Foolish.

_Empty-talk_, silly, idle vain Discourse, more Noise then Sense.

_Ends_, Aim, Design, Drift, and variously used in composition as, _Candle-ends_, _Ends of gold and silver_, Shreds of either. _Cable-ends_, _finger-ends_ for extremity or utmost part of either. _’Tis good to make both Ends meet_, or to cut your Coat according to your Cloth. Every thing has an End, and a Pudding has two.

_English-cane_, an oaken Plant.

_English Manufacture_, Ale, Beer, or Syder.

_Ensnaring Questions_, Interrogatories laid to trap and catch one.

_Entries_, where the Deer have lately passed the thickets.

_Epicurean_, one that indulges himself, nice of Palate, very curious and a critick in eating.

_Equip_, c. to furnish one.

_Equipt_, c. rich; also having new Clothes. _Well equipt_, c. plump in the Pocket, or very full of Money; also very well drest. _The Cull equipt me with a brace of Meggs_, c. the Gentleman furnish’d me with a couple of Guineas.

_Eriffs_, Canary-birds two years old.

_Evasion_, a Shift, sly or indirect Answer.

_Eves-drop_, to be an

_Eves-dropper_, one that skulks, lurks at or lies under his Neighbor’s Window or Door.

_Ewe_ or _the White Ewe_, c. a Top-woman among the Canting Crew, very Beautiful.

_Execution-day_, Washing-day; also that on which the Malefactors Die.

_Exigence_, a special or extraordinary occasion, a pinch.

_Expedient_, a ready shift or trick to deliver one from any difficulty, or danger near at hand.

_Ey_, of Pheasants, the whole Brood of young ones.

_Eye-sore_, an Annoyance, whatever is grievous or offensive, an unwelcome dish or guest. _All that you get you may put in your Eye and see ne’er the worse_, a pleasant Periphrasis or Round of Words, for getting nothing at all. ’Tis good to have an Eye to the main Chance, or look to your Hits. What the Eye ne’er sees the Heart ne’er rues: Or out of Sight, out of Mind.

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_Facer_, c. a Bumper without Lip-room.

_Face_, in Wine, the Colour. _A good Face_, a very fine bright Colour. _To make a Face_, to make a show or feign; also to wryth, contract or distort the Face in Contempt or Derision. _To set a good Face upon a bad Cause, or Matter_, to make the best of it. _A good Face needs no Band_, or no advantage to set it off. _The Broad-fac’d Bird, or the Bird that is all Face under Feathers_, a Periphrasis for an Owl. _Face about to the Right or Left_, turn about. _To Face Danger_, to meet it. _Facing of the Sleeve_, the Turn-up.

_Facetious_, full of Merry Tales and Jests, pleasantly merry.

_Factitious_, Bodies made by Art, as Glass, Paper, and all Compound or made Metals, as Brass, Steel, Pewter, Latin _&c._

_Fadge_, it won’t fadge or doe.

_Fag_, c. to Beat.

_Fag’d_, c. Beaten.

_Fag the Bloss_, c. bang the Wench.

_Fag the Fen_, c. drub the Whore.

_Faggot the Culls_, c. Bind the Men.

_Faggots_, Men Muster’d for Souldiers, not yet Listed.

_Fair Roe-Buck_, the Fifth Year.

_Fair Speech_, or fine Words. _Fair-spoken_, or Courteous. _A Fair Day_, or Fair Weather. _Fair in the Cradle, and foul in the Saddle_, a pretty Boy, and a hard-favor’d Man. _Soft and Fair goes far_; or not more Haste than good Speed. _Fair and far off_; wide of the Mark. _You have made a Fair Speech_, said in derision of one that spends many Words to little purpose. _A Fair or Market for Beasts._ _A Day after the Fair_, a Day too late, of one that has out-stayed his Markets.

_Fall-a-bord_, fall on and Eat heartily.

_Fallacies_, Cheats, Tricks, Deceipts.

_Falter_, to fail or more particularly a failure, or Trip of the Tongue, entangled with the Palsy, produced also from excess of Drink, or Guilt.

_Famms_, c. Hands.

_Fambles_, c. Hands.

_Famble-cheats_, c. Gold-rings, or Gloves.

_Famgrasp_, c. to agree or make up a Difference. _Famgrasp the Cove_, c. to agree with the Adversary.

_Family of Love_, Lewd Women, Whores; also a Sect.

_Fangs_, Beast-claws as Talons are of a Bird.

_Fanning_, or refreshing of the Trees or Woods with Wind. _Fanning_ or refreshing of a Close Room, opening the Windows. _Fire-fanns_, little Hand-Skreens for the Fire.

_Fantastick_, Whimsical, Freakish, or Capricious. _A Fantastick Dress_, very particular, remarkable.

_Fardel_, a Bundle.

_Fardy_, for Ferdinando.

_Fare_, Hire; also a litter of Piggs.

_Farting-crackers_, c. Breeches.

_Fast-friends_, sure or trusty.

_Fastner_, c. a Warrant.

_Fastnesses_, Boggs.

_Fat_, the last landed, inned or stow’d of any sort of Merchandize whatever, so called by the several Gangs of Water-side-Porters, _&c._

_Fat Cull_, c. a rich Fellow. _All the Fat is in the Fire_, of a miscarriage or shrewd Turn. _Change of Pasture makes Fat Calves_, of him that thrives upon mending his Commons.

_Faulkner_, c. see Tumbler, first Part.

_Faytors_, c. the Second (old) Rank of the Canting Crew.

_Feat_, strange, odd.

_Feats of Activity_, exercise, or Agility of Body in Tumbling, turning through a Hoop, Running, Leaping, Vaulting, Wrestling, Pitching of the Bar, Quoiting, _&c._ or Slights of Hand, Tricks, Legerdemain, _&c._

_Feats of Chivalry_, Exploits of War, Riding the great Horse, Tilting, Tournaments, Running at the Ring, _&c._

_Feather-bed-lane_, any bad Road, but particularly that betwixt _Dunchurch_ and _Daintrie_. _He has a Feather in his Cap_, a Periphrasis for a Fool. _Play with a Feather_, of things that are gamesom and full of Play, as Kittens and Kids. _To Feather his Nest_, to enrich himself by indirect means, or at the Expence of others. _Fine Feathers make fine Birds_, Gay Cloaths make fine Folks.

_Feble_, the narrowest Part of the Sword-blade nearest the Point.

_Feinting, or Falsifying_, to deceive the Adversary, by pretending to thrust in one Place, and really doing it in another.

_Fence_, c. to Spend or Lay out. _Fence his Hog_, c. to Spend his Shilling. _A Fence_, c. a Receiver and Securer of Stolen-goods.

_Fencing Cully_, c. a Broker, or Receiver of Stolen-goods.

_Fencing-ken_, c. the Magazine, or Ware-house, where Stolen-goods are secured.

_Ferme_, c. a Hole.

_Fermerly Beggers_, c. all those that have not the Sham-sores or _Cleymes_.

_Ferret_, c. a Tradesman that sells Goods to young Unthrifts, upon Trust at excessive Rates.

_Ferreted_, c. Cheated; also driven out of Holes and lurking Places, and hunted as Conies, by a little, Fierce, red-eyed Beast. Hence _Ferret eyed_, or Eyes as red as a Ferret.

_Fetch_, a Trick or Wheedle. _A meer Fetch_, that is far fetched, or brought in by Head and Shoulders.

_Fetids_, Vegetables, or Animals, rank and strong-scented; as Garlick, Assa fœtida, _&c._ Pole-cats, Foxes, Goats, _&c._

_Fewmets_, Deers Excrements.

_Fib_, c. to beat; also a little Lie.

_Fib the Cove’s quarons in the Rum-pad, for the Lour in his Bung_, c. Beat the Man in the High-way lustily for the Money in his Purse.

_Fickle_, mutable, or changeable, of many Minds in a short time.

_Fiddle_, c. a Writ to Arrest.

_Fiddle-faddle_, meer silly Stuff, or Nonsense; Idle, Vain Discourse.

_Fidlers-pay_, Thanks and Wine.

_Filch_, c. to Steal.

_Filchers_, c. Thieves, Robbers. _A good Filch_, c. a Staff, of Ash or Hazel, with a Hole through, and a Spike at the bottom, to pluck Cloathes from a Hedge or any thing out of a Casement.

_Filching-cove_, c. a Man-thief.

_Filching-mort_, c. a Woman-thief.

_File_, c. to Rob, or Cheat. _The File_, c. a Pick-pocket.

_Fine-mouth’d_, nice, dainty.

_Finical_, spruce, neat.

_Finify_, to trick up or dress sprucely.

_Fire-drakes_, Men with a Phenix for their Badge, in Livery, and Pay from the _Insurance-Office_, to extinguish Fires, covering their Heads with an Iron-pot, or Head-piece; also a Fiery Meteor, being a great unequal Exhalation inflamed between a Hot and a Cold Cloud.

_Fire-ship_, a Pockey Whore.

_Fire-side_, a Health to the Wife and Children.

_Firkin of foul Stuff_, a very Homely coarse corpulent Woman.

_Fishing Bill_, in Chancery, to make what Discoveries may be. _Who Cries Stinking Fish?_ or who dispraises his own Ware? _Good Fish when it is Caught_, of what is not got so soon as reckoned upon. _All is Fish that comes to Net_, of him that flies boldly at all Game. _I have other Fish to Fry_, I am otherwise taken up, engag’d, or have other Business on my Hands.

_Fixen_, a froward, peevish Child; also a She-Fox.

_Fizzle_, a little or low-sounding Fart.

_Flabby_, flimsy, not sound, firm or solid.

_Flagg_, c. a Groat; also a coarse rough Stone us’d in Paving. _To Flagg_, to fall off, droop, decline, or fail; also to suspend or let fall a Suit or Prosecution. _The Flag of Defiance is out_, (among the Tarrs) the Fellow’s Face is very Red, and he is Drunk.

_Flam_, a Trick, or Sham-story.

_Flanderkin_, a very large Fat Man or Horse; also Natives of that Country.

_Flanders-fortunes_, of small Substance.

_Flanders-pieces_, Pictures that look fair at a distance, but coarser near at Hand.

_Flapdragon_, a Clap or Pox.

_Flare_, to Shine or glare like a Comet or Beacon.

_Flash_, c. a Periwig. _Rum Flash_, c. a long, full, high-priz’d Wig. _Queer Flash_, c. a sorry weather-beaten Wig, not worth Stealing, fit only to put on a Pole or dress a Scare-Crow. _Flash-ken_, c. a House where Thieves use, and are connived at.

_Flasque_, a Bottle (or it’s resemblance) of Sand, bound about with Iron, into which the melted Metal is by Coyners and others poured; also a Pottle or five Pints and half, that quantity, formerly of _Florence_, now of any Wine; A Box for Gun-powder; a Carriage for Ordinance; an Arch-line somewhat distant from the corner of the Chief, and swelling by degrees toward the middle of the Escutcheon.

_Flat_, dead Drink; also dull Poetry or Discourse.

_Flavour_, Scent of Fruits; as Peaches, Quinces, _&c._ Or of Wines, as Rhenish, Canary, _&c._

_Flaunting_, tearing-fine. _To Flaunt it_, to Spark it, or Gallant it.

_Flaw_, a water-flaw and a crack in Chrystals, as well as a speck in Gemms and Stones.

_Flaw’d_, c. Drunk.

_Flay_, to flea or skinn. _He’ll flay a Flint_, of a meer _Scrat_ or _Miser_.

_Flear_, to grinn. _A Flearing Fool_, a grinning silly Fellow.

_Fleece_, to Rob, Plunder or Strip; also Wooll, the true Golden-Fleece of _England_, a clear Spring, or Flowing Fountain of Wealth.

_Fleet_, swift of Wing or Foot, in flight or Course, used not only of Birds upon the Wing, but of winged Arrows, resembling them in Flight.

_Flegmatic_, dull, heavy. _A Flegmatic Fellow_, a drowsy insipid Tool, an ill Companion.

_Flesh-broker_, a Match-maker; also a Bawd; between whom but little difference, for they both (usually) take Money.

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

_Flicker_, c. a Drinking Glass. _Flicker snapt_, c. the Glass is broken. _Nim the Flicker_, c. Steal the Glass. _Rum Flicker_, c. a large Glass or Rummer. _Queer Flicker_, c. a Green or ordinary Glass. _To Flicker_, to grin or flout. _Flickering_, grinning or laughing in a Man’s Face.

_Flicking_, c. to cut, cutting.

_Flick me some Panam and Cash_, c. cut me some Bread and Cheese.

_Flick the Peeter_, c. cut off the Cloak-bag or Port-manteau.

_Flip_, Sea Drink, of small Beer, (chiefly) and Brandy, sweetned and Spiced upon occasion: _A Kan of Sir. Clously_, is among the Tarrs, a Kan of choice Flip, with a Lemon squeez’d in, and the Pill hung round.

_Flippant_, pert and full of Prattle.

_Flimsy_, flabby, not firm, sound or solid.

_Flocks and Herds_, Flocks are of lesser Cattel, Herds are of Black Cattel, a Flock of Sheep or Goats, and sometimes of Birds, as Pidgeons; and in Imitation of the Gregarious Creatures, Men, that are sociable, are said to follow and flock after one another as Sheep, or to flock together to see Shows and Spectacles.

_Flog_, c. to Whip _Flog’d_, c. severely Lasht.

_Flogging-cove_, c. the Beadle, or Whipper in Bridewell, or any such Place.

_Flogging-stake_, c. a Whipping-post.

_Flogg’d at the Tumbler_, c. Whipt ac the Cart’s Arse.

_Flogging_, c. a Naked Woman’s whipping (with Rods) an Old (usually) and (sometimes) a Young Lecher. _As the Prancer drew the Queer-Cove, at the cropping of the Rotan, the Rum Pads of the Rum vile, and was Flogg’d by the Rum Cove_, c. the Rogue was dragg’d at the Cart’s tail through the chief Streets of _London_, and was soundly Whipt by the Hangman.

_Florence_, a Wench that is touz’d and ruffled.

_Florentine_, a made Dish of Minced Meats, Currans, Spice, Eggs, _&c._ Bak’d.

_Flounce_, to toss, _to fling and flounce_, to fling and toss.

_Flout_, a jeer, to flout or jeer.

_Flummery_, a cleansing Dish made of Oatmeal boyl’d in Water to a kind of Jelly or Consistence and strained.

_Flush in the Pocket_, c. full of Money. _The Cull_ is flush in the _Fob_, the Spark’s Pocket is well Lined with Money. _Flushing in the Face_, a frequent redning, occasion’d by a sudden Question, surprize, and also from a distemper’d Liver.

_Flustered_, Drunk.

_Flute_, c. the Recorder of _London_, or of any other Town.

_Flutter_, or Flie low, anciently to _Flitter_, hence a Flitter-mouse or Bat; as much as to say, a Flying Mouse, as an Owl is a Flying-Cat.

_Flyers_, c. Shoes.

_Flying-Camps_, Beggers plying in Bodies at Funerals.

_Fob_, c. a cheat, trick; also a little Pocket.

_Fob off_, slyly to cheat or deceive.

_Fogus_, c. Tobacco. _Tip me gage of Fogus_, c. give me a Pipe of Tobacco.

_Foiling_, the Footing of Deer on the Grass, scarce seen.

_Folks_, the Servants, or ordinary People, as Country-folks, Harvest-Folks, Work-folks, _&c._ _The Folks Bread or Pudding_, for the coarsest Bread or Pudding.

_Fool’s Coat_, or _Colours_, a Motley of incongruous Colours too near a Kin to match, as Red and Yellow, which is the Fool’s Coat with us, as Blew and Green is with the French. _A Fool’s-Coat_, a Tulip so called, striped with Red and Yellow.

_Fools-Cap_, a sort of Paper so called.

_Footman’s Mawnd_, c. an artificial Sore made with unslack’d Lime, Soap and the Rust of old Iron; on the Back of a Begger’s hand, as if hurt by the bite or kick of a Horse.

_Foot-pad_, c. see _Low-pad_, for _one Foot in the Grave_, a Pariphrasis an old Man. _He has the length of his Foot._

_Fop_, _Foppish_, one that is singular or affected in Dress, Gestures, _&c._

_Foplin_, the same, only younger.

_Forebode_, to presage, betoken or fore-show.

_Foreboding-signs_, tokens, Presages of ill Luck; as _spilling of the Salt_, _a Hare’s crossing the Way_; _Croaking of Ravens_; _Screaking of Screach-Owls_. Or of ill Weather, either natural Signs or artificial; as, Aches, Corns, Cry of a Peacock, Water-galls, Weather-Glasses, _&c._

_Forecast_, contrivance or laying a design; Precaution, or the Wisdom of Prevention, which is beyond the Wisdom of Remedy. _To Forecast_, to contrive, or digest Matters for Execution.

_Foreman of the Jury_, he that engrosses all the Talk to himself.

_Forestall_, to antedate or anticipate.

_Fork_, c. a Pick-pocket. _Let’s fork him_, c. let us Pick that Man’s Pocket, the newest and most dextrous way: It is, to thrust the Fingers, strait, stiff, open, and very quick into the Pocket, and so closing them, hook what can be held between them.

_Fork is often Rakes Heir_, or after a scraping Father comes a scattering Son.

_Forlorn-hope_, c. losing Gamesters; also in another Sense, a Party of Soldiers, _&c._ put upon the most desperate Service.

_Fort_, the broad Part of the Sword-blade nearest to the Hilt.

_Fortune_, a rich Maid, or wealthy Widdow, an Heiress.

_Fortune-hunters_, Pursuers of such to obtain them in Marriage. _A Creature of Fortune_, one that Lives by his Wits. _A Soldier of Fortune_, the Heir of his own Right-hand as the Spaniards call him. _A Gamester of Fortune_, one that Lives by shaking his Elbow. _He has made his Fortune_, he has got a good Estate.

_Fortune-Tellers_, c. the Judges of Life and Death, so called by the Canting Crew: Also _Astrologers_, _Physiognomists_, _Chiromancers_, &c.

_Founder’d_, { _Horse_, _Lame_.
{ _Ship at sea_, that sprung a Leak and Sunk down-right.

_Foundling_, a Child dropt in the Streets for the Parish (the most able) to keep.

_Foul Jade_, an ordinary coarse Woman.

_Foul Wine_, when it stinks; also when unfine, or Lees flying in the Glass.

_Fox_, the second Year; also a sharp cunning Fellow. _Fox’d_, Drunk. _He has caught a Fox_, he is very Drunk. _An old Fox_, after the second Year; also a subtil old Fellow; also an old broad Sword. _A Fox-blade_, a Sword-blade with a Fox (or some thing like it) Grav’d on it, esteem’d good Metal.

_Foxkennelleth_, Lodgeth.

_Foy_, a farewell or taking leave, usually a Parting-glass. _To Pay his Foy_, to make his Friends Merry, before he leaves them.

_Foyl-cloy_, c. a Pick-pocket, a Thief, a Rogue.

_Foyst_, c. a Cheat, a Rogue; also a close strong Stink, without Noise or Report.

_Fraters_, c. the eighth Order of Canters, such as Beg with a Sham-patents or Briefs for Spitals, Prisons, Fires, _&c._

_Fray_, an Encounter, or Disorder. _Better come at the latter end of a Feast, than the beginning of a Fray._ _To Fray_, to scare or frighten; also to break or crack in wearing. Hence frail, brittle or soon broke; and when Deer rub and push their Heads against Trees to get the pells of their new Horns off.

_Freak_, a Whim or Maggot.

_Freakish_, Fantastic, Whimsical, Capricious.

_Freameth_, see Wild Boar.

_Free-booters_, Lawless Robbers, and Plunderers; also Soldiers serving for that Privilege without Pay, and Inroaders.

_Freeholder_, he whose Wife goes with him to the Ale-house; also he that has to the Value of Fourty Shillings (or more) a Year in Land.

_Freeze_, a thin, small, hard _Cyder_ much us’d by Vintners and Coopers in parting their Wines, to lower the Price of them, and to advance their Gain.

_French Gout_, the Pox. _A blow with a French Faggot Stick_, when the Nose is fallen by the Pox.

_Frenchified_, in the French Interest or Mode; also Clapt or Poxt.

_Fresh-man_, a Novice, in the University.

_Fresh-water-seamen_, that have never been on the Salt, or made any Voyage, meer Land-Men.

_Fret_, to fume or chafe; also Wine in fermenting is said to be upon the _Fret_.

_Fricassee_, any Fried Meats, but chiefly of Rabbets.

_Friggat, well rigg’d_, a Woman well Drest and Gentile.

_Frigid_, a weak disabled Husband, cold, impotent.

_Frippery_, old Clothes.

_Froe_, c. for _Urowe_, (_Dutch_) a Wife, Mistress, or Whore. _Brush to your Froe_, (or _Bloss_,) _and wheedle for Crap_, c. whip to your Mistress and speak her fair to give, or lend you some Money.

_Frog-landers_, Dutchmen.

_Frolicks_, lewd or merry Pranks, pleasant Rambles, and mad Vagaries.

_Frummagem’d_, c. choaked.

_Frump_, a dry Bob, or Jest.

_Fuants_, Excrements of all Vermin.

_Fubbs_, a loving, fond Word used to prety little Children and Women; also the Name of a Yacht.

_Fuddle_, Drink. _This is Rum fuddle_, c. this is excellent Tipple.

_Fuddle-cap_, a Drunkard.

_Fulsom_, is a Nauseous sort of Excess; as _fulsom fat_, loathsom fat, or fat to loathing. _Fulsom flattery_, nauseous or gross Flattery laid on too thick; as Embroidery too thick Laid on is dawbing with Gold or Silver-lace.

_Fumbler_, an unperforming Husband, one that is insufficient, a weak Brother.

_Fumblers-Hall_, the Place where such are to be put for their Nonperformance.

_Fun_, c. a Cheat, or slippery Trick; also an Arse. _What do you fun me?_ Do you think to Sharp or Trick me? _I’ll Kick your fun_, c. I’ll Kick your Arse. _He put the Fun upon the Cull_, c. he sharp’d the Fellow. _I Funn’d him_, c. I was too hard for him, I out-witted or rook’d him.

_Fund_, or _Fond_, a Bank, or Stock or Exchequer of Money, or Moneys worth; also a Bottom or Foundation.

_A Staunch Fund_, a good Security.

_Funk_, c. Tobacco Smoak; also a strong Smell or Stink. _What a Funk here is!_ What a thick Smoak of Tobacco is here! _Here’s a damn’d Funk_, here’s a great Stink.

_Furbish-up_, to Scrub-up, to Scowre, or Refresh old Armour, _&c._ _He is mightily Furbish’d up on a suddain_, when a Man not accustom’d to wear fine Cloaths, gets a good Suit on his Back.

_Fur-men_, c. Aldermen.

_Fussocks_, _a meer Fussocks_, a Lazy Fat-Ars’d Wench. _A Fat Fussocks_, a Fulsom, Fat, Strapping Woman.

_Fustian-verse_, Verse in Words of lofty Sound, and humble Sense.

_Fustiluggs_, a Fulsom, Beastly, Nasty Woman.

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_Gad up and down_, to Fidle and Fisk, to run a Gossiping.

_Gadding-Gossips_, way-going Women, Fidging and Fisking every where. A Gad of Steel.

_Gag_, c. to put Iron-pinns into the Mouths of the Robbed, to hinder them Crying out.

_Gage_, c. a Pot or Pipe. _Tip me a Gage_, c. give me a Pot or Pipe or Hand hither, the Pot or Pipe.

_Gallant_, a very fine Man; also a Man of Metal, or a brave Fellow; also one that Courts or keeps, or is Kept by a Mistress. _Gallant a Fan_, to break it with Design, or Purpose to have the Opportunity and Favour to Present a better.

_Gambals_, Christmas Gamballs, merry Frolicks or Pranks.

_Game_, c. Bubbles drawn in to be cheated, also at a Bawdy-house, Lewd Women. _Have ye any Game Mother?_ Have ye any Whores Mistress Bawd, and in another Sense. _What you game me?_ c. do you jeer me, or pretend to expose me, to make a May-game of me.

_Gamesome_, Wanton, Frolicksom, Playful.

_Gan_, c. a Mouth.

_Ganns_, c. the Lipps.

_Gang_, an ill Knot or Crew of Thieves, Pick-pockets or Miscreants; also a Society of Porters under a Regulation, and to go.

_Gape-feed_, whatever the gazing Crowd idly stares and gapes after; as Puppet-shows, Rope-dancers, Monsters, and Mountebanks, any thing to feed the Eye.

_Garish_, gaudy, tawdry, bedawbed with Lace, or all bedeck’t with mismatcht, or staring Colours.

_Garnish-money_, what is customarily spent among the Prisoners at first coming in.

_Gaume_, see _Paume_.

_Gaunt_, lank, thin, hollow.

_Gears_, Rigging or Accoutrements. _Head-gear_, the Linnen or dress of the Head. _In his Gears_, ready Rigg’d or Drest. _Out of his Gears_, out of Kelter, or out of sorts.

_Gee._ _It wont Gee_, it won’t Hit, or go.

_Gelt_, c. Money. _There is no Gelt to be got_, c. Trading is very Dead.

_Gentian-wine_, Drank for a Whet before Dinner.

_Gentry-cove_, c. a Gentleman.

_Gentry-cove-ken_, c. a Nobleman’s or Gentleman’s House.

_Gentry-mort_, c. a Gentlewoman.

_George_, c. a half Crown piece. _He tipt me Forty Georges for my Earnest_; c. he paid me Five Pounds for my Share or Snack.

_Gibbrish_, the Canting Tongue, or Jargon.

_Gig_, c. a Nose; also a Woman’s Privities. _Snichel the Gig_, c. Fillip the Fellow on the Nose. _A young Gig_, a wanton Lass.

_Gigger_, c. a Door. _Dub the Gigger_, c. open the Door with the Pick-lock that we may go in and Rob the House.

_Giglers_, c. wanton Women. _Gigling_, Laughing loud and long.

_Gill_, a Quartern (of Brandy, Wine, _&c._) also a homely Woman. _Every Jack must have his Gill. There’s not so Ord’nary a Gill, but there’s at Sorry a Jack. Gill-ale_, Physic-ale.

_Gillflurt_, a proud, Minks.

_Gilt_, c. a Pick-lock; also a Slut or light Housewife.

_Gimcrack_, a spruce Wench; also a Bauble or Toy.

_Ginger-bread_, Money.

_Gingerly_, gently, softly, easily.

_Gin_, a snare or nooze, to catch Birds, as a spring is to catch Hares.

_Gingumbobs_, Toies or Baubles.

_Ginny_, c. an Instrument to lift up a Grate, the better to Steal what is in the Window.

_Gipp_, to cure or cleanse Herrings in order to Pickling.

_Girds_, Taunts, Quips, Gibes or Jeers. _Bitter Girds_, Biting sharp Reflections. _Under his Girdle_, within his Power, or at his Beck. _If you are angry, you may turn the Buckle of your Girdle be hind you_, to one Angry for a small Matter, and whose Anger is as little valued.

_Give Nature a Fillip_, to Debauch a little now and then with Women, or Wine.

_Glade_, _Shade_.

_Glance of an Eye_, a Cast of the Eye; _at the first Glance_, at a Brush or at the first Cast.

_Glanders_, filthy yellow Snot at (Horses) Noses, caught from Cold.

_Glare_, a Glister; also the weak Light of a Comet, Candle, or Glow-worm. _To Glare_, or blaze like a Comet, or Candle. Hence Glore, _as Pottage Glore_, or Shine with Fat.

_Glaive_, a Bill or Sword.

_Glaver_, to Fawn and Flatter. _A Glavering Fellow_, a False Flattering Fellow.

_Glaze_, c. the Window.

_Glazier_, c. one that creeps in at Casements, or unrips Glass-windows to Filch and Steal.

_Glaziers_, c. Eyes. _The Cove has Rum Glaziers_, c. that Rogue has excellent Eyes, or an Eye like a Cat.

_Glee_, Mirth, Pastime.

_Gleam_, a weak or waterish Light; hence a Glimmering or Twinkling of a Star.

_Glib_, Smooth, without a Rub. _Glib tongued_ Voluble, ready or Nimble tongued.

_Glim_, c. a Dark-Lanthorn used in Robbing Houses; also to burn in the Hand. _As the Cull was Glimm’d, he gangs to the Nubb_, c. if the Fellow has been Burnt in the Hand, he’ll be Hang’d now.

_Glimfenders_, c. Andirons. _Rum Glimfenders_, Silver Andirons.

_Glimflashy_, c. angry or in a Passion. _The Cull is Glimflashy_, c. the Fellow is in a Heat.

_Glimmer_, c. Fire.

_Glimjack_, c. a Link-boy.

_Glimmerer_, c. the Twenty second Rank of the Canting Tribe, begging with Sham Licences, pretending to Losses by Fire, _&c._

_Glimstick_, c. a Candlestick. _Rum Glimsticks_, c. Silver Candlesticks. _Queer Glimsticks_, c. Brass, Pewter or Iron Candlesticks.

_Glow_, either to Shine or be Warm, as _Glow-worm_ from the first, and _glowing of the Cheeks_, or _glowing of Fire_, with relation to the last.

_Goads_, c. those that Wheedle in Chaomen for Horse-coursers.

_Goalers-Coach_, a Hurdle.

_Goat_, a Lecher, or very Lascivious Person.

_Goatish_, Lecherous, Wanton, Lustful.

_Gob_, c. the Mouth; also a Bit or Morsel; hence _Gobbets_, now more in use for little Bits; as _a Chop of Meat_ is a good Cut. _Gift of the Gob_, a wide, open Mouth; also a good Songster, or Singing-master.

_God’s Penny_, Earnest Money, to bind a Bargain.

_Gold-droppers_, Sweetners, Cheats, Sharpers.

_Going upon the Dub_, c. Breaking a House with Picklocks.

_Gold-finch_, c. he that has alwaies a Purse or Cod of Gold in his Fob.

_Gold-finders_, Emptiers of Jakes or Houses of Office.

_Good Fellow_, a Pot-companion or Friend of the Bottle.

_Goose_, or _Goose-cap_, a Fool. _Find fault with a Fat Goose_, or without a Cause. _Go Shoe the Goose._ _Fie upon Pride when Geese go Bare-legg’d._ _He’ll be a Man among the Geese when the Gander is gon_, or a Man before his Mother. _A Tayler’s Goose Roasted_, a Red-hot smoothing Iron, to Close the Seams. _Hot and heavy like a Tayler’s Goose_, may be applied to a Passionate Coxcomb.

_Goree_, c. Money, but chiefly Gold.

_Gossips_, the Godfathers and Godmothers at Christnings; also those that are noted for

_Gossiping_, much Idle Prating, and Tittle Tattle.

_Graces_, or Ornaments of Speech. _With a good Grace_, what is Becoming, Agreeable. _With an ill Grace_, what is Unbecoming or Disagreeable.

_Grafted_, made a Cuckold of.

_Grannam_, c. Corn.

_Grannam gold_, old Hoarded Coin.

_Granny_, an old Woman, also a Grandmother.

_Grapple_, to close in Fisticuffs or Fighting, Oppos’d to Combating at Arms-end; also a fastning of Ships together in an Engagement with Grappling Irons, a kind of Anchors (or resembling them) with four Flooks and no Stock.

_Grasp_, to Catch and Hold fast, or press with the close Fist.

_Grating_, harsh Sounds, disagreeable, shocking and Offensive to the Ear.

_Great Buck_, the Sixth Year.

_Great Hare_, the Third Year and afterwards.

_Gratings_, the chequer’d Work clapt on the Deck of a Ship to let in the Light and Air.

_Green-bag_, a Lawyer.

_Green-gown_, a throwing of young Lasses on the Grass and Kissing them.

_Green-head_, a very raw Novice, or unexperienc’d Fellow.

_Greshamite_, a Virtuoso, or Member of the Royal Society.

_Grig_, c. a Farthing; also a very small Eel. _A merry Grig_, a merry Fellow. _Not a Grig did he tip me_, c. not a Farthing wou’d he give me.

_Grilliade_, any Broild Meats, Fish or Flesh.

_Grimaces_, Mops and Mows, or making of Faces.

_Grim_, Stern, Fierce, Surly.

_Grinders_, c. Teeth, _The Cove has Rum Grinders_, c. the Rogue has excellent Teeth.

_Gripe_ or _Griper_, an old Covetous Wretch; also a Banker, Money Scrivener, or Usurer.

_Griping_, is an Epithet commonly affixed either to the Exactions of Oppressive Governors, or to the Extortions of Usurers; Griping Usurers, and griping Usury being as ordinary in English as _Usura vorax_ in Latin.

_Griskins_, Steaks off the Rump of Beef, also Pork-bones with some tho’ not much Flesh on them, accounted very sweet Meat Broyled.

_Gropers_, c. blind Men.

_Grotesque_, a wild sort of Painting mostly us’d for Banquetting or Summer-houses.

_Grounds_, Unscented Hair Powder, made of Starch, or Rice. See Alabaster.

_Grownd-Sweat_, a Grave.

_Growse_, Heath-polts.

_Growneth_, the Noise a Buck makes at Rutting time.

_Groyne_, corruptly by the Tarrs for _Coronna_, a Seaport of _Galicia_ in _Spain_.

_Grub Street News_, false, Forg’d.

_Grum_, the same as _Grim_, Stern or Fierce.

_Grumbletonians_, Malecontents, out of Humour with the Government, for want of a Place, or having lost one.

_Grumbling of the Gizzard_, Murmuring, Muttering, Repining, Resenting.

_Grunter_, c. a Sucking Pig.

_Grunting Cheat_, c. a Pig.

_Grunting Peeck_, c. Pork.

_Guard_, of old Safe-guard, now shortned into Guard, either for State, as Princes have their Guards, or for security so Prisoners have theirs; also the Shell of a Sword, and the best Posture of Defence.

_Gugaws_, Toies. Trifles.

_Gull_, c. a Cheat.

_Gull’d_, c. Cheated, Rookt, Sharpt.

_Gullet_, a Derisory Term for the Throat, from _Gula_.

_Gull-gropers_, c. a Bystander that Lends Money to the Gamesters.

_Gundigutts_, a fat pursy Fellow. _In the Gun_, Drunk. _As sure as a gun, or Cock-sure._ _Out of Gun-shot_; aloof from Danger, or out of Harm’s way.

_Gun-powder_, an old Woman.

_Gust_ or _Gusto_, a right Relish, Savour, or true Taste of any thing. _A Delicious Gusto_, Wines, Fruits, or Meats of a curious or pleasant Taste. _A Gust of Wind_, a short, sudden, furious Blast, as we say _a Dash of Rain_, for a sudden, short, impetuous Beat of Rain.

_Guzzle_, Drink.

_Guzzling_, Drinking much.

_Gut-foundred_, exceeding Hungry.

_Gutling_, Eating much. _A Gutling Fellow_, a great Eater.

_Gutter Lane_, the Throat.

_Gutters_, the little streak in a Deer’s Beam.

_Gutting_, { _An House_, Rifling it, Clearing it.
{ _An Oyster_, Eating it.

_Gutts_, a very fat, gross Person.

_Gybe_, c. any Writing or Pass Sealed; also Jerk or Jeer.

_Gyb’d_, c. Jerkt or Whipt.

_Gybing_, jeering.

_Gypsies_, a Counterfeit Brood of wandering Rogues and Wenches, herding together, and Living promiscuously, or in common, under Hedges and in Barns, Disguising themselves with Blacking their Faces and Bodies, and wearing an Antick Dress, as well as Devising a particular _Cant_, Strolling up and down, and under colour of Fortune-telling, Palmestry, Physiognomy, and Cure of Diseases; impose allwaies upon the unthinking Vulgar, and often Steal from them, whatever is not too Hot for their Fingers, or too Heavy to carry off. _A Cunning Gypsy_, a sharp, sly Baggage, a Witty Wench. _As Tann’d as a Gypsy_, of a Gypsy-hue or colour.

_Gyrle_, see Roe.

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_Habberdasher of Nouns and Pronouns_, School-master or Usher.

_Hab-nab_, at Aventure, Unsight, Unseen, Hit or Miss.

_Hack_, the Place where the Hawk’s meat is laid.

_Hack and Hue_, to Cut in Pieces.

_Hacks_ or _Hackneys_, hirelings. _Hackney-whores_, Common Prostitutes. _Hackney-Horses_, to be let to any Body. _Hackney-Scriblers_, Poor Hirelings, Mercenary Writers.

_Hackum_, a Fighting Fellow, see _Captain Hackum_.

_Haddums_, _The Spark has been at Haddums_, He is Clapt, or Poxt.

_Hag_, an old Witch.

_Hagged_, Lean Witched, Half-Starved.

_Hagboat_, a huge Vessel for Bulk and Length, Built chiefly to fetch great Masts, _&._

_Hagbut_, a Hand-gun Three quarters of a Yard long.

_Haggle_, to run from Shop to Shop, to stand hard to save a Penny. _A Hagler_, one that Buys of the Country-Folks and Sells in the Market, and goes from Door to Door.

_Halfbord_, c. Six Pence.

_Half a Hog_, c. Six Pence.

_Half Seas over_, almost Drunk.

_Hamlet_, c. a High Constable.

_Hamper’d_, caught in a Nooze, entangled, or embarassed in an intricate Affair.

_Handy_, Dextrous.

_Handy Blows_, Fisty-cuffs.

_Handycrafts_, the Manual Arts or Mechanic Trades. _A great Twohanded Sword_, a swinging broad Sword. _A great Twohanded Fellow_, a huge swinging Fellow. _Such a thing fell into his Hand_, of one that improve another’s Notion, Speech, or Invention. _He will make a Hand of it_, he will make a Penny of it, or make it turn to Account. _They are Hand and Glove_, of Friends or Camerades that are Inseparable, and almost to the same purpose. _Clove and Orange._ _Change Hands, and change Luck_, or to Play your Cards in another Hand. _The same Hand and Fair Play_, when they Play on without changing Hands. _Many Hands make light Work._ _You stand with your Hands in your Pockets_, to an Idle Fellow that finds nothing to do.

_Hank_, _He has a Hank upon him_, or the Ascendant over him.

_Hanker after_, to Long or wish much for.

_Hanktelo_, a silly Fellow, a meer Cods-head.

_Hans-en kelder_, Jack in the Box, the Child in the Womb, or a Health to it.

_Hard Drink_, that is very Stale, or begining so Sower. _Hard-drinking_, excessive Soking, or toping aboundance. _Hard Bargain_, a severe one. _Hard-favor’d_, Ugly, Homely. _Hard Frost_, a Keen or Sharp one. _Hard Case_, a severe or deep Misfortune, or ill Treatment. _Hard Master_ or _Dealer_, a very near one or close.

_Hare_, the second Year. _A great Hare_, the third Year, _Leveret_ the first Year. _To hold with the Hare and run with the Hound_, or to keep fair with both Parties at once. _Hare-lipp’d_, Notcht or turn’d up in the middle. _Hare-sleep_, with Eies a’most open. _Hared_, Hurried. _Hare Seateth_ or _Formeth_, the proper term for the Place where she Setts or Lies. _A Hare Beateth or Tappeth_, makes a noise at Rutting time. _He has swallow’d a Hare_, he is very Drunk.

_Harking_, Whispering on one side to borrow Money.

_Harman_, c. a Constable.

_Harmans_, c. the Stocks.

_Harman-beck_, c. a Beadle.

_Harp-upon_, a business to insist on it.

_Harridan_, c. one that is half Whore, half Bawd.

_Hart_, the Sixth Year, _A Stag_, the fifth Year. _A Staggard_, the fourth. _A Brock_, the third. _A Knobber_, the second. _Hind Calf_, or Calf, the First.

_Hart Harboureth_, Lodgeth.

_Hart Royal_, having been Hunted by a King or Queen. _Unharbour the Hart_, Dislodge him. _A Hart Belleth_, maketh a Noise at Rutting time. _A Hart goeth to Rut_, the Term for Copulation.

_Hartfordshire-kindness_, Drinking to the same Man again.

_Hartbold or prety Hearty_, of good Courage, or pert Spirit.

_Hasty_, very Hot on a sudden. _The most Haste the worst speed_, or _Haste makes Waste_, of him that loses a Business by hurrying of it. _You are none of the Hastings_, of him that loses an Opportunity or a Business for want of Dispatch.

_Hatchet-fac’d_, Hard-favor’d, Homely. _Under the Hatches_, in Trouble, or Prison.

_Haut-bois_, Oaks, Beaches, Ashes, Poplars, _&c._ Also well known and pleasant Martial Music.

_Havock_, Waste, Spoil. _They made sad Havock_, they Destroy’d all before ’em.

_Hawk_, c. a Sharper.

_Hawkers_, Retail News-Sellers.

_Hawking_, going about Town and Country with Scotch-Cloth, _&c._ or News-Papers; also Spitting difficultly.

_Hay_, a separate Enclosure of Wood Land, within a Forrest or Park, Fenced with a Rail or Hedge, or both. _To Dance the Hay._ _To make Hay while the Sun Shines_, or make good use of one’s Time.

_Hazy Weather_, when it is Thick, Misty, Foggy.

_Hazle-geld_, to Beat any one with a Hazle-Stick or Plant.

_Heady_, strong Liquors that immediately fly up into the Noddle, and so quickly make Drunk.

_Headstrong_, Stubborn, Ungovernable. _A Scald Head is soon Broke._

_Head Bully of the Pass or Passage Bank_, c. 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_, c. Ears.

_Hearts-ease_, c. a Twenty shilling piece; also an ordinary sort of Strong Water; and an Herb called by some the Trinity, by others, Three Faces in a Hood, Live in Idleness, Call me to you, or Pansies, an excellent Antivenerean _&c._

_Heathen Philosopher_, a sorry poor tatter’d Fellow, whose Breech may be seen through his Pocket-holes.

_Heave_, c. to Rob.

_Heave a Bough_, c. to Rob a House.

_Heaver_, c. a Breast.

_Heavy_, is either gross in Quantity or slow in Motion, because ordinarily the one is not without the other, and therefore we say, _heavy Bodies move slowly_. _A heavy Fellow_, a dull Blockish Slug.

_Hector_, a Vaporing Swaggering Coward.

_Hedge_, to secure a desperate Bet, Wager or Debt. _By Hedge or by Style_, by Hook or by Crook.

_Hedge-bird_, a Scoundrel or sorry Fellow.

_Hedge-creeper_, c. a Robber of Hedges.

_Hedge-grapes_, very Crabbed, wholly unfit to make Wine.

_Hedge-priest_, a sorry Hackney, Underling, Illiterate, Vagabond, see _Patrico_.

_Hedge-Tavern_, or _Ale house_, a Jilting, Sharping Tavern, or Blind _Ale house_. _It hangs in the Hedge_, of a Law-suit or any thing else Depending, Undetermined. _As common as the Hedge, or High-way_, said of a Prostitute or Strumpet.

_Hell_, the Place where the Taylers lay up their Cabbage, or Remnants, which are sometimes very Large.

_Hell-born-babe_, a Lewd, Graceless, Notorious Youth.

_Hell-cat_, a very Lewd Rakehelly Fellow.

_Hell-driver_, a Coach-man.

_Hell-hound_, a Profligate, Lewd Fellow.

_Helter-skelter_, Pell-mell.

_Hempen-widdow_, one whose Husband was Hang’d.

_Hem_, to call after one with an inarticulate Noise.

_Hemuse_, see Roe.

_Hen-hearted_, Cowardly, Fearful.

_Hen-peckt Friggat_, whose Commander and Officers are absolutely sway’d by their Wives.

_Henpeckt Husband_, whose Wife wears the Breeches.

_Herd of Dear or Hares_, a Company.

_Hick_, c. any Person of whom any Prey can be made, or Booty taken from; also a silly Country Fellow.

_Hide-bound-horse_, whose Skin sticks very close, and tite like a Pudding Bag, usually when very Fat.

_Hide-bound-muse_, Stiff, hard of Delivery, Sir _J. Suckling_ call’d _Ben. Johnson’s_ so.

_Higglede-piggledy_, all together, as Hoggs and Piggs lie Nose in Arse.

_High Flyers_, Impudent, Forward, Loose, Light Women; also bold Adventurers.

_High shoon_, or _Clouted-shoon_, a Country Clown.

_High Pad_, c. a Highway Robber well Mounted and Armed.

_Highjinks_, a Play at Dice who Drinks.

_Hightetity_, a Ramp or Rude Girl.

_High Tide_, c. when the Pocket is full of Money.

_Hind_, the Plough-boy or Ploughman’s Servant at Plough and Cart.

_Hinde_, the third Year; _Hearse or Brockets Sister_, the second Year; Calf the first Year.

_Hip_, _upon the Hip_, at an Advantage in Wrestling or Business.

_Hissing_, the Note of the Snake and the Goose, the Quenching of Metals in the Forge; also upon any dislike at the Play-house, and sometimes tho’ seldom in the Courts of Judicature, upon any foul Proceedings. The like is done also in other larger Assemblies.

_Hob_, a plain Country Fellow; or Clown, also the Back of a Chimney.

_Hobinal_, the same.

_Hobbist_, a Disciple, and fond Admirer of _Thomas Hobbs_, the fam’d Philosopher of _Malmsbury_. Sir _Posthumus Hobby_, one that Draws on his Breeches with a Shoeing-horn; also a Fellow that is Nice and Whimsical in the set of his Cloaths.

_Hob-nail_, a Horse Shoe-nail; also a High-shoon or Country Clown.

_Hobsons-choice_, that or None.

_Hocus-pocus_, a Juggler that shews Tricks by Slight of Hand.

_Hodge_, a. Country Clown, also Roger.

_Hodmenduds_, Snails in their Shells.

_Hodge podge_, see Hotch-potch.

_Hog_, c. a Shilling; also see _Wild Boar_. _You Darkman Budge, will you Fence your Hog at the next Boozing-ken_ c. do ye hear you House Creeper, will you Spend your Shilling at the next Ale-house. _A meer Hog or Hoggish Fellow_, a greedy, covetous, morose Churl. _A Hog-grubber_, a close-fisted, narrow-soul’d sneaking Fellow. _He has brought his Hoggs to a fair Market, or he has Spun a fair Thread. Great Cry and little Wooll, as the Man said, when he Shear’d his Hoggs_, Labour in Vain which the Latines express by _Goats-wooll_, as the English by the shearing of Hoggs. _Hogg steer_, see _Wild Boar_.

_Hogen-mogen_, a Dutch Man; also High and Mighty, the Sovereign States of _Holland_.

_Hogo_, for _Haut Goust_, a strong Scent; also a high Taste or Relish in Sauce.

_Hold his Nose to the Grind-stone_, to Keep him Under or Tie him Neck and Heels in a Bargain.

_Hollow hearted_, False, Base, Perfidious, Treacherous.

_Holyday-bowler_, a very bad Bowler, _Holyday Cloths_, the Best. _Blind Men’s Holyday_, when it is Night.

_Hop-merchant_, a Dancing-master. _To Hop_, denotes the Progressive Motion of Reptiles on the Ground, whence Grashopper, and Answers to the Fluttring or low Flight of Insects in the Air; or Else the Transits or Leaps of a Bird from one Perch to another in a Cage, or the Skips of a Squirrel from Tree to Tree and Bough to Bough in the Wood.

_Homine_, Indian Corn. _To beat Homine_, to pound that in a Mortar.

_Honey-moon_, the first Month of Marriage.

_Hood_, the ancient Cover for Men’s Heads, (before the Age of Bonnets and Hatts) being of Cloath Button’d under the Chin, not unlike a Monk’s Cowl. _Two Faces under one Hood_, a Double Dealer.

_Hood wink’d_, Blindfolded or Bluffed.

_Hoof it, or Beat it on the Hoof_, to walk on Foot.

_Hookt_, over-reached, Snapt, Trickt. _Off the Hooks_, in an ill Mood, or out of Humor, _By Hook or by Crook_, by Fair Means or Foul.

_Hookers_, c. the third Rank of Canters; also Sharpers.

_Hopper-arst_, when the Breech sticks out.

_Horn-mad_, stark staring Mad because Cuckolded.

_Horse-play_, any rude Boisterous sort of Sport. _You must not look a Given Horse in the Mouth_, or _what is freer than Gift?_ _One Man may better Steal a Horse than another look on. The Master’s Eye makes the Horse Fat. An ill Horse that can’t carry his own Provender. Set the Saddle on the Right Horse_, lay the Blame where the Fault is. _The Cart before the Horse._ _A short Horse is soon Curried_, a little Business is soon Dispatched. _The Gray Mare is the better Horse_, said of one, whose Wife wears the Breeches. _Fallen away from a Horse-load to a Cart-load_, spoken Ironically of one considerably improved in Flesh on a sudden.

_Host_, an Inn-keeper or Victualler; also an Army. _Hostess_, a Land-lady. _To reckon without your Host: Or count your Chickens before they are Hatcht._

_Hot_, exceeding Passionate. _Hot Work_, much Mischief done, or a great Slaughter.

_Hot-cockles_, a Play among Children. _It revives the Cockles of my Heart_, said, of agreeable News, or a Cup of Comfort, Wine or Cordial Water.

_Hot Pot_, Ale and Brandy boyled together.

_Hot Spur_, a fiery furious passionate Fellow; also early or forward Peas.

_Hotch potch_, an Oglio or Medly of several Meats in one Dish.

_House of Call_, the usual lodging Place of Journey-men Tailers.

_House Tailers_, Upholsterers.

_How_, to a Deer.

_Howleth_, the Noise a Wolf maketh at Rutting time.

_Hubbub_, a Noise in the Streets made by the Rabble.

_Huckster_, a sharp Fellow. _Hucksters_, the Retailers of the Market, who Sell in the Market at second Hand. _In Huckster’s Hands_, at a desperate Pass, or Condition, or in a fair way to be Lost.

_Hue_, c. to Lash; also the Complexion or Colour. _Hued_, c. Lasht or Flogg’d. _The Cove was Hued in the Naskin_, c. the Rogue was severe-Lasht in Bridewell. _Hue and Cry_, the Country rais’d after a Thief.

_Huff_, a Bullying Fellow. _Captain Huff_, any noted Bully, or Huffing Blade. _To Huff and Ding_, to Bounce and Swagger.

_Hugger-mugger_, Closely or by Stealth, Under board: _To Eat so_, that is, to Eat by one’s self.

_Hulver-head_, a silly foolish Fellow.

_Hum-cap_, old, mellow and very strong Beer.

_Hum and haw_, to Hesitate in Speech; also to delay, or difficultly to be brought to Consent.

_Hummer_, a loud Lie, a Rapper.

_Hum_, or _Humming Liquor_, Double Ale, Stout, Pharoah.

_Hummums_, a Bagnio.

_Humorist_, a Whimsical Fantastical Fellow.

_Hump-backt_, Crook-backt. _Hump-shoulder’d_, or Crook-shoulder’d.

_Humptey-dumptey_, Ale boild with Brandy.

_Hunch_, to justle, or thrust.

_Hunks_, a covetous Creature, a miserable Wretch.

_Hunting_, c. decoying, or drawing others into Play.

_Hunteth for his Kind_, see Otter.

_Hurly-burly_, Rout, Riot, Bustle, Confusion.

_Hurrican_, a violent Storm or Tempest; also a disorder or confusion in Business.

_Hurridun_, see Harridan.

_Hush_, very still, quiet. _All was Hush_, a great or profound Silence. _Husht up_, concealed, or clapt up without Noise.

_Husky-lour_, c. a Guinea, or Job.

_Hussy_, an abbreviation of Housewife, and sometimes a Term of Reproch, as, _how now Hussy_, or _she is a Light Hussy_, or Housewife.

_Hut_, from; a Term much us’d by Carters, _&c._ Also, a little House or slight Abode for Soldiers, Peasants, _&c._

_Huzza_, Originally the Cry of the _Huzzars_, or Hungarian Horsemen; but now the Shouts and Acclamations, of any Soldiers, or of the Mob.