Chapter M (1)

_Mab_, a Slattern. _Mab’d up_, Drest carelessly, like a Slattern, of such a one it is said. _Her Cloths fit on her, like a Saddle on a Sow’s Back._ _Queen Mab_, Queen of the Fairies.

_Mackarel_, c. a Bawd.

_Mackarel-back_, a very tall, lank Person.

_Machiavilian_, one wickedly or knavishly Politic.

_Machines_, Vessels full of Carcasses and Bombs, under Shelter or Covert of the _Smokers_, to come close up under Walls, Forts, Fortifications, _&c._ being fixt to Blow up the same. Also Engines or Instruments of divers Arts, and Movements upon the Stage.

_Madam Van_, c. a Whore, _The Cull has been with Madam Van_, c. the Fellow has enjoyed such a one.

_Mad-cap_, a frolicksom Person.

_Made_, c. Stolen. _I Made this Knife at a beat_, c. I Stole it cleaverly.

_Mad Tom_, alias of Bedlam, the Eighteenth Rank of Canters.

_Madge-howlet_, an Owl.

_Maggot_, a whimsical Fellow, full of strange Fancies and Caprichio’s, _Maggotty_, Freakish.

_Maiden-sessions_, when none are Hang’d.

_Mailes_, the Breast-Feathers of a Hawk.

_Main_, great, excellent, choice, rare; also the Sea. _Maingood_, very good. _With Might and Main_, Tooth and Nail.

_Make_, c. a half Penny.

_Make-bait_, a Trouble-House, or Mischief-maker, a stirrer of Strife, and maker of Debate, a Boute feu, or Incendiary.

_Male-contents_, Disaffected to the State, out of Humor with the Government.

_Malkin_ or _Maukin_, a Scare-crow, Drest and Set up to fright the Birds. Also a Scovel (of old Clouts) to cleanse the Oven: Hence _Malkin-trash_, for one in a rueful Dress, enough to Fright one. _There are more Maids than Malkins_, _Mawks_, the same abbreaviated. _Mawkish_, a Wallowish, ill Tast.

_Malmesey-nose_, a jolly, red Nose.

_Man o’ th’ Town_, a Lew’d Spark, or very Debaushe.

_Manning_, a Hawk, making him endure Company.

_Mannikin_, a Dwarf, or diminutive Fellow.

_Mantles_, when Drink is brisk and smiles; also when a Hawk stretcheth one of her Wings after her Leggs, and so the other.

_Margery-prater_, c. a Hen.

_Marinated_, c. Transported into some forreign Plantation; also Fish Soused.

_Marriage-music_, Childrens Cries.

_Marks_, the Footing of an Otter.

_Marrel_, a Bird about the bigness of a Knot, but not good Meat.

_Martern_, a Wild Cat, the second Year, called a Cub, the first. _A Martern Treeth_, Lodgeth; _Tree the Martern_, Dislodge him.

_Masons mawn’d_, c. a Sham sore above the Elbow, to counterfeit a broken Arm, by a Fail from a Scaffold, expos’d by subtil Beggers, to move Compassion, and get Money.

_Masons-Word_, who ever has it, shall never want, there being a Bank at a certain Lodge in _Scotland_ for their Relief. Tis communicated with a strict Oath, and much Ceremony, (too tedious to insert) and if it be sent to any of the Society, he must, (nay will) come immediately, tho’ very Busy, or at great Distance.

_Match_ or _Make_, the Copulation of Woolves.

_Match makers_, a better sort of Procurers of Wives for Men, or Husbands for Women, Maiden-head-jobbers, Virginity Sellers, Brokers, _&c._

_Maul’d_, swingingly Drunk, or soundly Beat.

_Maunders_, c. Beggers.

_Maunding_, c. to Beg, Begging.

_Maundring-broth_, Scolding.

_Mawdlin_, weepingly Drunk, as we say the Tears of the Tankard. _What are you Mawdlin you Rake?_ are ye’ neither Drunk, nor Sober?

_May-games_, Frolicks Plaies, Tricks, Pastimes, _&c._ _Do you make a May-game of me?_ do you Abuse or Expose me?

_Mead_, a pleasant Summer Drink, made of Water and Honey, Boyled, and Bottled fine, in great vogue in _Moscovy_, where ’tis said the best in the World is made.

_Meadites_, a Faction of Quakers, that follow most, and are in the Interest of _Mead_.

_Meal-mouth_, a sly, sheepish Dun, or Sollicitor for Money.

_Measure_, the Distance of Duellers. _To break Measure_, to be out of the Adversaries reach.

_Mechanic_, a Tradesman; also a mean, inconsiderable, contemptible Fellow.

_Meggs_, c. Guineas. _We fork’d the rum Cull’s Meggs to the tune of Fifty_, c. We Pickt the Gentleman’s Pocket of full Fourty Guineas.

_Mellow_, a’most Drunk; also smooth, soft Drink.

_Melt_, c. to spend Money. _Will you Melt a Bord?_ c. Will you spend your Shilling? _The Cull Melted a couple of Decusses upon us_, c. the Gentleman spent ten Shillings upon us.

_Member-mug_, a Chamber-pot.

_Mercury_, Wit; also Quick-silver, and a Courant or News-Letter.

_Mercurial_, Witty; also one Born under ☿, _i. e._ when that Planet is Lord of the Horoscope or Ascendant at Birth.

_Mercury Women_, Wholesale News-sellers, who Retail to the _Hawkers_.

_Metheglin_, a strong Drink, made of new Wort and Honey.

_Mew_, when Deer cast their Horns; also the Place where the Hawk is set down, during the time she raiseth her Feathers.

_Meyny_, the Folks, or Family-Servants. Hence Menial-Servant, yet in use, for a Domestic or Family-Servant.

_Mifty_, apt to take Pet, or be out of Humor.

_Mill-clapper_, a (Woman’s) Tongue. _As Safe as a Thief in a Mill_, a waggish Periphrasis for a Miller, who is a Thief by his Trade.

_Milch-kine_, a Term us’d by Goalers, when their Prisoners will bleed freely to have some Favor, or be at large.

_Mill_, c. to Steal, Rob, or Kill.

_Mill-a-ken_, c. to Rob a House, _Milling the Gig with a Betty_, c. Breaking open the Door with an Iron-Crow. _Milling the Glaze_, c. Breaking open the Window. _Mill them_, c. Kill them.

_Miller_, c. a Killer or Murderer.

_Mill-a-crackmans_, c. to break a Hedge.

_Mill-a-bleating-cheat_, c. to kill a Sheep.

_Mill a-grunter_, c. to Kill a Pig.

_Mil-ken_, c. a House-breaker. _Mill the Gig with a Dub_, c. to open the Door with a Pick-lock or false Key.

_Miller’s-Thumb_, or _Bull-head_, a Fish with a broad Head, and wide Mouth, two Finns near his Eyes, and as many under his Belly, and on his Back; and one below the Vent, his Tayl round, and his Body cover’d with Whitish, Blackish and Brownish Spotts.

_Mince the Matter_, to tell it Sparingly or by Halves.

_Miniature_, Painting in little.

_Minks_, a proud Flirt.

_Mint_, c. Gold; also a late Sanctuary (in _Sowthwark_) for such as broke either out of Necessity, or in Design to bring their Creditors the more easily to a Composition. Hence _Minters_, the Inhabitants.

_Miquelets_, Mountaneers, (in _Spain_) or Spanish Rapparies.

_Miscreant_, a lewd, wicked Fellow.

_Mish_, c. a Shirt or Smock.

_Mish-topper_, c. a Coat or Petticoat.

_Miskin_, a Dunghil or Lay-stall.

_Miss_, a Whore of Quality; also a little Girl.

_Moabites_, Serjeants, Bailiffs and their Crew.

_Mob_, }
_Mobile_, } the Vulgar, or Rabble.
_Mobility_, }

_Mock-song_, that Ridicules another Song, in the same Terms and to the same Tune. _A Mock-Romance_, that ridicules other Romances, as _Don Quixot_. A Mock-Play, that exposes other Playes, as the _Rehearsal_. _A Mock-holy-day._ _To Mock_, or mimick another.

_Moggy_, in Scotch, as _Peg_ in English, for Margaret.

_Moil_, to Drudge or Labour Hard. _To Moil and Toil_, to Slave at it. _A Moiling Fellow_, a Drudge or great Pains-taker.

_Molinet_, a Chocolate Stick, or little Mill.

_Mongrel_, c. a Hanger on among the Cheats, a Spunger. _Of a Mongrel race or Breed_, a Curr or Man of a base, ungenerous Breed.

_Mood_, Humor. _In a merry Mood_, or good Humor; _in an ill Mood_, or out of Humor. _Moody_, Humorous.

_Moon-curser_, c. a Link-boy, or one that under Colour of lighting Men, Robs them or leads them to a gang of Rogues, that will do it for him.

_Moon-men_, c. Gipsies.

_Moon-blind_, a sort of Horses, weak-sighted.

_Moppet_, _a pretty Moppet_, a very pretty little Baby.

_Mopsie_, a Dowdy, or Homely Woman.

_Mop eied_, one that can’t see well, by living too long a Maid.

_Mop’d_, Maz’d.

_Mopus_, c. a half Penny or Farthing. _A meer Mopus grown_, become dispirited, dull and Stupid.

_Morglag_, a Watch-man’s brown Bill; as Glaives, are Bills or Swords.

_Morisco_, a Morris or Morrice-dance, being belike some Remains of a Moorish Custom with us, as the _Juego de Toros_, or Feast of Bulls is, in _Spain_.

_Mort_, or Death, is Blown at the Death of the Deer.

_Morts_, c. Yeomen’s Daughters; also a Wife, Woman, or Wench.

_Moss-Troopers_, so called from the Mosses, wast Lands in _Lancashire_, as the _Bog-Trotters_ in _Ireland_, are from the Boggs there.

_Mother_, a Bawd.

_Mother-midnight_, a Midwife (often a Bawd.)

_Mouchets_, Patches for Ladies Faces.

_Moveables_, c. Rings, Watches, Swords, and such Toies of value. _As we bit all the Cull’s Cole and Moveables_, c. we Won all the Man’s Money, Rings, Watches, _&c._ _Very Moving_, prevailing, powerful, perswading.

_Mountings_, a Soldier’s Arms and Cloths.

_Mouse-trap._ _The Parson’s Mouse-trap_, Marriage. _He watcht me, as a Cat does a Mouse_, i. e. narrowly. _A Man or a Mouse_, a Prince or a Peasant. _A Mouse in the Pot is better than no Flesh_, or something has some Savour. _’Tis pitty to fling Water on a Drown’d Mouse_, or to depress the Miserable. _A sorry Mouse that has but one Hole_, or a poor Creature that has but one Shift.

_Mouth_, a noisy Fellow. _A Mouthing Fellow_, a Bawling or Scolding Person. _He never Speaks, but his Mouth opens._ _Mouth half Cockt_, gaping and staring at every thing they see.

_Mower_, c. a Cow.

_Mow-beater_, c. a Drover.

_Muck_, Money, Wealth; also Dung to manure Land.

_Muckworm_, a covetous Wretch.

_Muckinder_, a Child’s Handkerchief tied by the side.

_Muddled_, half Drunk. _To Muddle on_, tho’ so, yet to Drink on.

_Muff_, c. a Woman’s Secrets. _To the well wearing of your Muff Mort_, c. to the happy Consummation of your Marriage Madam, a Health.

_Muffting-cheat_, c. a Napkin.

_Muggletonians_, the Sect or Disciples of _Lodowick Muggleton_.

_Mulligrubs_ or _Mumps_, a Counterfeit Fit of the Sullens.

_Mum-for-that_, not a Word of the Pudding.

_Mumble_, to Mutter or Speak between the Teeth.

_Mum-chance_, one that sits mute. _He looks like Mum-chance that was Hang’d for saying of nothing._

_Mum-glass_, the Monument, erected at the City-charge, in Memory of the dreadful Fire 1666, which consum’d the greatest Part of it.

_Mumpers_, c. Gentile-Beggers, who will not accept of Victuals, but Money or Cloths.

_Mumpers-Hall_, c. several Ale-houses in and about this City and Suburbs, in Allies, and By-places, much used by them, and resorted to in the Evening, where they will be very Merry, Drunk, and Frolicksom.

_Mun-corn_, half Wheat, half Rye.

_Muns_, c. the Face. _Toute his Mans_, c. note his Phis, or mark his Face well.

_Musick_. _It makes ill Musick_, of any unwelcom or unpleasing News. _Touch that String most which makes best Musick_, or that cannot be Harped upon too often that pleases. _The Musick’s paid_, c. the Watch-word among High-way-men, to let the Company they were to Rob, alone, in return to some Courtsey from some Gentleman among them.

_Must_, new Wine, or Wine on the Lea. _After Beef_, _Mustard_ of a thing preposterous, or out of Place; as we say, _the Cart before the Horse_.

_Mute_, when Hounds or Beagles run long without opening, or making any Cry; also a certain dumb Executioner among the _Turks_.

_Muting_, the Excrements of a Hern or Hawk.

_Mutter_, to Speak inwardly and between the Teeth.

_Mutton-monger_, a Lover of Women; also a Sheep-stealer.

_Mutton-in-long-coats_, Women. _A Leg of Mutton in a Silk-Stocking_, a Woman’s Leg.

_Muzzle_, c. a Beard, (usually) long and nasty.

_Myrmidons_, c. the Constable’s Attendants, or those whom he commands (in the King’s Name) to Aid and assist him; also the Watch-men.

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_Nab_, c. a Hat, Cap, or Head; also a Coxcomb. _I’ll Nab ye_, c. I’ll have your Hat or Cap. _Nim the Nab_, c. to Steal the Hat or Cap. _Nab’d_, c. Apprehended, Taken or Arrested.

_Nab-cheat_, c. a Hat.

_Nab-girder_, c. a Bridle.

_Nanny-house_, a Bawdy-house.

_Nap_, c. by Cheating with the Dice to secure one Chance; also a Clap, or Pox, and a short sleep. _Nap the Wiper_, c. to Steal the Handkerchief. _You have Napt it_, c. you are Clapt Sir. _To be caught Napping_, to be Surpriz’d, or Taken a sleep.

_Napper_, c. a Cheat, or Thief.

_Napper of Napps_, c. a Sheep-stealer.

_Nappy-Ale_, very Strong, Heady.

_Nare-a-face-but-his-own_, Not a Penny in his Pocket.

_Narrow_, when the Biass of the Bowl holds too much. _’Tis all Narrow_, said by the Butchers one to another when their Meat proves not so good as expected. _A Narrow-soul’d Fellow_, poor or Mean-spirited, stingy. _Narrow or near search or Escape, watch him narrowly or nearly. Of a Narrow_ or slender Fortune.

_Nask_, c. or _Naskin_, c. A Prison or Bridewell. _The old Nask_, c. the City Bridewell. _The new Nask_, c. Clerkenwell Bridewell. _Tuttle Nask_, c. the Bridewell in Tuttle-Fields. _He Napt it at the Nask_, c. he was Lasht at Bridewell.

_Natural_, c. a Mistress, a Wench; also a Fool.

_Natural-children_, Bastards.

Mr. _Nawpost_, a foolish Fellow.

_Nay-word_, a common By-word, or Proverb.

_Nazie_, c. Drunken.

_Nazie-cove_, c. a Drunkard.

_Nazy-nabs_, c. Drunken Coxcombs.

_Neb_, the Bill of a Bird, and the slit or point of a Pen. _She holds up her Neb_, she turns up her Snout to be Kist.

_Neck-stamper_, c. the Pot-Boy at a Tavern or Ale-house.

_Neck-verse_, a Favor (formerly) indulged to the Clergy only, but (now) to the Laity also, to mitigate the Rigor of the Letter of the Law, as in Man-slaughter, _&c_. Reading a Verse out of an old Manuscript Latin Psalter, (tho’ the Book now used by the Ordinary is the same Printed in an old English Character) saves the Criminal’s Life. Nay now even the Women (by a late Act of Parliament) have (in a manner) the benefit of their Clergy, tho’ not so much as put to Read; for in such Cases where the Men are allow’d it; the Women are of course sizz’d in the Fist, without running the risque of a Halter by not Reading.

_Negro_ } { Flat.
_Hawk_ } _Nos’d_, { Hook’d.
_Roman_ } { Rais’d in the middle like _Kingston Bridge_.

_Needle-point_, c. a Sharper.

_Neither-Vert_, all sorts of Under-wood.

_Neighborly_, Friendly, Kind, Loving, Obliging. _You Live a great way off good Neighbors_, to him, that is the Trumpet of his own Praises.

_Nestlings_, Canary-Birds, brought up by Hand. _What a Nestling you keep_, how restless and uneasy you are. _Nest of Rabbets._

_Nettled_, Teiz’d, provoked, made uneasy. _He has pist upon a Nettle_, he is very uneasy, or much out of Humor. _In Dock, out Nettle_, upon the change of Places, when one is no sooner out, but another is in his Place.

_Nice_, squeemish, precise. _More nice than wise_, _a Sir Courtly Nice_, a silly empty, gay, foolish Fellow.

_Nickum_, c. a. Sharper; also a Rooking Ale-house or Innkeeper, Vintner, or any Retailer. _Nick it_, to win at Dice, to hit the Mark, to Drink the pin to or button. _Old Nick_, the Devil. _Nick and Froth built the Pye at Aldgate_, sharping in the Reckonings and cheating in the Measure built that (once) Noted House.

_Nickum-poop_, a Fool, also a silly soft, Uxorious Fellow.

_Nick-ninny_, an empty Fellow, a meer Cod’s Head.

_Nig_, c. the Clippings of Money.

_Nigler_, c. a Clipper.

_Nigging_, c. Clipping.

_Nigling_, c. accompanying with a Woman.

_Night-Magistrate_, a Constable.

_Night-men_, Gold-finders, Tom-turd-men.

_Night-rale_, a Woman’s combing Cloth, to dress her Head in.

_Night-walker_, c. a Bell-man; also a Light Woman, a Thief, a Rogue.

_Nigit_, a Fool.

_Nigmenog_, a very silly Fellow.

_Nikin_, a Natural, or very soft creature; also Isaac.

_Nim_, c. to Steal, or whip off or away any thing. _Nim a Togeman_, c. to Steal a Cloak. _Nim a Cloak_, c. to cut off the Buttons in a Crowd, or whip it off a Man’s Shoulders.

_Nim-gimmer_, c. a Doctor, Surgeon, Apothecary or any one that cures a Clap or the Pox.

_Ninny_, c. a Canting whining Begger; also a Fool.

_Ninny-hammer_, a silly Senseless Fellow.

_Nip_, c. a Cheat; also to Pinch or Sharp any thing. _Nip a-bung_, c. to cut a Purse. _To Nip_, to Press between the Fingers and Thumb without the Nails, or with any broad Instrument like a pair of Tongs as to squeeze between Edged Instruments or Pincers. _Nipping Frost or Wind_, Sharp or Cutting. _To Nip in the Bud_, of an early Blast or Blite of Fruit; also to crush any thing at the beginning.

_Nipperkin_, c. half a Pint of Wine, and but half a Quartern of Brandy, Strongwaters, _&c._

_Nipps_, c. the Shears with which Money was wont to be Clipt.

_Nit_, wine that is brisk, and pour’d quick into a Glass; also a young Louse. _Nitts will be Lice._

_Nizy_, c. a Fool, or Coxcomb.

_Nob_, c. a Head.

_Nocky_, c. a silly, dull Fellow.

_Noddle_, a Head.

_Noddy_, c. a Fool. _Knave-Noddy_, a Game on the Cards.

_Nokes_, a Ninny or Fool; also a noted Droll but lately Dead.

_Nol_, Oliver. _Old Nol_, the late Usurper _Cromwel_.

_Noggin_, (of Brandy) a Quarter of a Pint.

_A Noble_, Six and eight-pence. _He has brought a Noble to Nine Pence_, of one that has reduced his Fortune.

_Noise_, used either of Harmonious or confused Sounds, _Noise of Thunder_, _or of a Mill_, _Noise of the Hounds_, _a Noise of Fiddles, of Trumpets and Drums, a Noise of Swords, or clashing_; _make a Noise Tom_, Hot Pudding-Pies.

_Non-con_, one that don’t conform to the Church of _England_.

_Nonjurors_, Clergymen and others (Officers in the Army, Navy, _&c._) That refus’d to take the Oaths to King _WILLIAM_ and Queen _MARY_, and were turn’d out of their Livings and Employments.

_Nooz’d_, or _caught in a Nooze_, married; also Hanged.

_Nose-gent_, c. a Nun. _As plain as the Nose in your Face_, of a fair mark that cannot be hid. _He has a good Nose_, of a Smell-Feast. _He holds up his Nose_, of one that is Haughty, and carries his Head high. _He is led by the Nose_, of one that is easily imposed upon. _You make a Bridge of his Nose_, when you pass your next Neighbor in Drinking, or one is preferr’d over another’s Head. _Follow your Nose_, said in a jeer to those that know not the way, and are bid to Smell it out, as we say to Smell a Post.

_Nub_, c. the Neck.

_Nubbing_, c. Hanging.

_Nubbing-cheat_, c. the Gallows.

_Nubbing-Cove_, c. the Hangman.

_Nubbing-ken_, c. the Sessions-house.

_Nug_, a Word of Love, as, _my Dear Nug_, my Dear Love.

_Nugging-Dress_, an odd or particular way, out of the Fashion.

_Numms_, c. a Sham, or Collar, Shirt, to hide the other when Dirty.

_Num-skul_, a Foolish Person.

_Nut-crackers_, c. a Pillory. _The Cull lookt through the Nut-crackers_, the Rogue stood in the Pillory.

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_Oaf_, a Wise-acre, a Ninny or Fool, _Oafish_ Silly.

_Oak_, _an Oak_, c. a rich Man, of good Substance and Credit.

_Oats._ _One that has sown his wild Oats_, or having run out of all, begins to take up and be more Staied.

_Oberon._ _King Oberon or little Oberon_, King of the Fairies.

_Office._ _His Office_, any Man’s ordinary Haunt, or Plying-place, be it Tavern, Ale-house, Gaming-house or Bowling-green. _A cast of your Office_, or a Touch of your Employment. _Be good in your Office_, a Caveat to those that are apt to forget themselves in it.

_Ogles_, c. Eyes, _Rum Ogles_, c. fine, bright, clear, piercing Eyes.

_Ogling_, c. casting a sheep’s Eye at Handsom Women. _The Gentry mort has rum Ogles_, c. that Lady has charming black Eyes.

_Old-Coney_, after the first Year.

_Old-dog-at-it_, good or expert.

_Old-dog-at-common-prayer_, a Poor Hackney that cou’d Read, but not Preach well.

_Old Harry_, a Composition used by Vintners, when they bedevil their Wines.

_Old-Mr-Gory_, c. a piece of Gold.

_Old Nick_, the Devil.

_Old Mob_, a noted Hawker.

_Old-Toast_, a brisk old Fellow. _A pleasant Old Cuff_, a frolicksom old Fellow.

_Oliver’s Skull_, a Chamber-pot.

_Olli-Compolli_, c. the by-name of one of the principal Rogues of the Canting Crew.

_One in Ten_, a Parson.

_One of my Cosens_, a Wench.

_Open-Arse_, a Medlar; also a Lewd Woman.

_Open House_, or Open Doors, free for all Comers or Goers.

_Open-handed, in Spending_, oppos’d to close-fisted. _Open in Speech_, to reserv’d. _Open-Sea_, when there is a free Trade, oppos’d to a _Sea shut_ up in War, by Pirates, Privateers or Embargo’s of Ships.

_Opiniator_, an Assuming positive Fellow, an obstinate self-conceited Coxcomb.

_Orator to a Mountebank_, the Doctor’s Decoy who in conjunction with Jack Pudding, amuses, diverts and draws in the Patients.

_Otter_, an Amphibious Creature, betwixt a Beast and a Fish, a great destroyer of Fish, affording much sport in Hunting. _Otter watcheth_, Lodgeth. _Vent the Otter_, Dislodge him. _An Otter whineth_, makes a noise at Rutting time. _Hunteth for his Kind_, the Term for their Copulation.

_Over-vert_, all manner of High Woods.

_Over-sight_, has two contrary Significations under one Sound, for an Oversight is either the Care or Charge of, or Inspection into any Affair, or else an Oversight Imports a Slip or Error committed in it, for want of due Care and Circumspection. _Over-shoes over Boots_, or to go Through-stitch. _Overdo_, double Diligence.

_Oven_, _The Mother had never lookt for her Daughter in the Oven, if she had not been there her self before, or, she muses as she uses_.

_Out-at-heels_, or _Elbows_, in a declining Condition, going down the Wind.

_Out-run the Constable_, to Spend more than is Got, or Run out of an Estate, to run Riot.

_Outside_, that is the Outside, or utmost Rate.

_Owlers_, those who privately in the Night carry Wool to the Sea-Coasts, near _Rumney-Marsh_ in _Kent_, and some Creeks in _Sussex_, &c. and Ship it off for _France_ against Law.

_Oyl of Barley_, strong Drink.

_Ox-house_. _He must go through the Ox-house to Bed_, of an old Fellow that Marries a young Woman. _The black Ox has not trod upon his Foot_, of one that has not been Pinch’d with Want, or been Hard put to it.

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_Pack_, a Fardel or Bundle. _Pack of Knaves_, _the worst of all the Pack_, or a Knave in Grain. _Pack of Juries_, _Packing of Cards_, _Pick a Pack_, _Pack up your Nawls and be gone_, Packing of Parties and Elections. _A common Pack-horse_, a Hackney or common Drudge, one made a Slave of.

_Pad_, c. the High Way, and a Robber thereon; also a Bundle. _Rum Pad_, c. a daring or stout Highway-man. _Paddington-Fair_, c. an Execution of Malefactors at _Tyburn_; also a real Fair at the Village of that Name, near that Place. _Goes upon the Pad_, or a _Padding_, c. Robbs upon the Highway. _A Pad_, an easy Pacing Horse. _Padds_, worn by the Women to save their Sides from being Cut or Mark’d with the Strings of their Petty-coats.

_Pageant_, a thing Drest up and set out to make a Show. _A Piece of Pageantry_, a thing that makes a Figure in a Show or Play, as Play-house Kings and Generals Strut and Stalk upon the Stage.

_Pain_, _not in Pain_, not in Care or Concern.

_Painter_, the Rope that lies in the Ship’s Long-boat, or Barge, alwaies ready to Fasten her, or Hale her on Shoar. _I’ll Cut your Painter for ye_, I’ll prevent ye doing me any Mischief; the Tar-Cant, when they Quarrel one with another. _What pleases the Painter_, when any Representation in the Productions of his or any Art is unaccountable, and so is to be resolv’d purely into the good Pleasure of the Artist.

_Pale of the Church_, in or out of the Church’s Enclosure.

_Pall’d_, Flat, Dispirited, or Dead Drink.

_Pallet_, a little Bed; also the Receiver of the Painter’s Colours mingled, as the Shells are of his several Colours unmingled; also one half of the Pale in Heraldry.

_Palm_, the Attire of a Buck.

_Paltry Fellow_, a sorry, base, mean, contemptible Varlet.

_Palliards_, c. the Seventh Rank of the Canting Crew, whose Fathers were Born Beggers, and who themselves follow the same Trade, with Sham Sores, making a hideous Noise, Pretending grievous Pain, do extort Charity.

_Pam_, the Knave of Clubbs.

_Pamper’d_, { _Priest_ } High-Fead.
{ _Horse_ }

_Panam_, c. Bread.

_Pantas_, a Disease in Hawks.

_Panter_, c. a Hart.

_Pantry_, Buttery.

_Pantler_, Butler.

_Paper-Buildings_, slight, Wooden, or old.

_Paper-Skul_, foolish, soft, silly.

_Paper-Wars_, Letter-combats.

_Papers_, Writings, or Deeds.

_Paplar_, c. Milk-pottage.

_Par_, Gold and Silver at a like Proportion.

_Parasite_, a Trencher-Friend, a meer Wheedle.

_Parell_, Whites of Eggs, Bay-Salt, Milk and Conduit-Water beat together, and poured into a Vessel of Wine to Cure its Fretting, in order to Fine it, and make it Drink up.

_Parie_, to put By a Thrust or Blow.

_Parings_, c. the Clippings of Money.

_Parlous_, or _Perillous Man_, a notable, shrew’d Fellow.

_Parsimonious_, Near, Niggardly, Pinching, Stingy.

_Pass_, a Way, Lane, River, Leave; also condition. _What a Sad Pass things are come to?_ In what an ill State they are. _That Shamm wont Pass_, that Trick won’t take. _Do the Waters Pass well?_ much in use at the Wells, do they Move as they ought. _To Passe upon one_, to top upon him, or impose upon him; also a Term at Billiards, when the Ball goes through the Court or Porch, it is said to pass.

_Passage_, a Camp-Game, with three Dice, Doublets, making up Ten or more, to _Pass_ or Win, any other Chances lose.

_Pass-bank_, the Stock or Fund thereto belonging; also the playing Place Cut out in the Ground almost Cock-pit waies.

_Pat_, apposite, or to the purpose.

_Patering_, the Maundring or pert Replies of Servants. _Patering of Prayers_, Muttering of them, from the thick Repeating of so many Paters or Pater-nosters. _No Penny, no Pater-nosters_ no Pay, no Prayers.

_Patrico_, c. or _Pater-cove_, c. the Fifeteenth Rank of the Canting Tribe, stroling Priests that Marry under a Hedge without Gospel or Common-prayer Book, the Couple standing on each side a Dead Beast, are bid to Live together till Death them do’s Part, so shaking Hands, the Wedding is ended; also any Minister, or Parson.

_Pateepan_, a little Pye, or small Pasty.

_Patrole_, the Rounds.

_Paume_, when a Die or Piece of Money is hid in the Hand, to secure the Game, or Wager. _He Paumes it_, he Cheats, or Plaies Foul.

_Paw_, a Hand.

_Pawn._ _To Pawn any Body_, to steal away and leave him or them to Pay the Reckoning.

_Pay through the Nose_, Excessively, or with Extortion.

_Peak_, c. any kind of Lace.

_Pearls_, the little Knobs on the Bur (which see) of a Stag.

_Peck_, c. Meat.

_Peckidge_, c. Meat. _Rum Peck_, c. good Eating. _The Gentry Cove tipt us rum Peck and rum Gutlers, till we were all Bowsy, and snapt all the Flickers_, the Gentleman gave us so much good Victuals, and Canary, that we were all Damn’d Drunk, and broke all the drinking Glasses.

_Peculiars_, Plants, Animals and Fossiles, proper and particular to some one Country, and rarely if ever found in others, as English Scurvy-grass, Sarsa, Sassafras and Guajacum, all West _Indian_ Druggs; and so for Animals, English Maistiffs, Irish Greyhounds, Barnacles, and _Soland_ Geese peculiar to _Scotland_, as Puffins, to the Isle of _Man_; also Parishes exempt from other Ordinaries, and peculiarly belonging to the See of _Canterbury_.

_Peculiar_, c. a Mistress; also particular, private, proper.

_Pedant_, a meer Scholar, a School-master, a Man of one kind of Learning or Business, out of which he is good for nothing.

_Pedantry_, a Learning and Skill of one Colour.

_Ped_, a Basket.

_Pedlars_, Scotch Merchants; also English Retailers of Goods, that stroll from Town to Town.

_Pedlars-French_, a sort of Gibrish or made Language, easy to be Learnt and Understood, used by Gypsies, &c. Also the Beggers _Cant_.

_Peeking Fellow_, a meer Sneaks, one that peeps in every Hole and Corner; also a thin, weasel-faced Fellow.

_Peeper_, c. a Looking-glass. _Track the Dancers, and pike with the Peepers_, c. whip up the Stairs, and trip off with the Looking-glass.

_Peepers_, c. Eyes.

_Peepy_, c. _Peeping_, c. Drowsy, Sleepy. _As the Cull Peeps let’s Mill him_, c. when the Man is a Sleep, let’s Kill him.

_Peery_, c. fearful, shy, sly. _The Cull’s Peery_, c. the Rogue’s afraid to venture.

_Peeter_, c. a Portmantle or Cloak-bag. _Bite the Peeter_, c. to whip off the Cloak-bag. _Biter of Peeters_, c. one that makes a Trade of whipping Boxes and Trunks from behind a Coach or out of a Waggon, or off a Horse’s Back.

_Pea-goose_, a silly Creature.

_Peg at Cocks_, to throw at them at Shrovetide.

_Gon to Pegtrantums_, Dead.

_Pel-mel_, helter-skelter.

_Pelt_, a Heat or Chafe. _What a Pelt you are in?_ what a Chafe your in? Also the Dead Body of any Fowl the Hawk has killd.

_Pelts_, Beast Skinns.

_Pelting-village_, Blind, Obscure.

_Penelope’s Web_, to do and undo.

_Pennance-bord_, c. a Pillory.

_Pennites_, that Faction of Quakers that follow most and are in the Interest of _William Pen_, the chief Proprietor and Governor of _Pensylvania_, a Country lying betwixt Forty and Forty five Degrees of Latitude, in _America_, much improv’d, and like to florish.

_Penny-worth._ _I’ll fetch my Pennyworth out of him_, or make him earn what he cost me.

_Penny-white_, said of her, to whom Fortune has been kinder than Nature. _Penny-wise and Pound-foolish_, Sparing in a little and Lavish in a great Deal, _save at the Spiggot and let it out at the Bung-hole_. _A Penny-worth for one’s Penny_, for what is worth one’s Money. _To get a Penny_, to endeaver to Live; _to turn and winde the Penny_, to make to most of one’s Money, or Lay it out at the best Advantage, _Pennyless_, poor, sharp, bare of Money.

_Penurious_, pinching, hard, parsimonious, little.

_Pentice Nab_, a very broad-brm’d Hat.

_Pepper’d off_, Damnably Clapt; or Poxt. _Pepper-proof_, not Clapt or Poxt.

_Pericranium_, the Head or Skull.

_Perking_, the late D. of M. also any pert forward silly Fellow. _To Perk up_, to hold up the Head after Drooping.

_Periwinkle_, a Perruque or Periwig; also the same as _Pinpatches_.

_Pestilent-fine_, Tearing-fine.

_Pet_, a Fret. _To be in a Pet_, or out of Humor.

_Peter Lug_, _Who is Peter Lug?_ Who let’s the Glass stand at his Door?

_Petrify_, to turn to Stone.

_Petrification_, Concretions, either such as are hardned into Stone, by exposing them to Air, as Coral; or by casting them into Cold, petrifying Waters, as Wood.

_Pettycoat-Pensioner_, a Gallant, or one Maintain’d for secret Service.

_Phanatics_, Dissenters from the Church of _England_.

_Pharoah_, very strong Mault-Drink.

_Phenix-men_, the same as _Fire-drakes_.

_Philadelphians_, a new Sect of Enthusiasts pretenders to Brotherly Love, _&c._

_Philistines_, Serjeants Bailiffs and their Crew; also Drunkards. _I fell among the Philistines_, I chopt upon a knot of Drunken Fellows.

_Phis_, for Physiognomy, Face or Aspect.

_Picking_, little Stealing, Pilfering, petty Larceny.

_Pickthank_, a Talebearer, or an Insinuator by any means to curry Favor.

_Pickaroon_, a very small Privateer; also a shabby poor Fellow.

_Pickled_, very Arch or Waggish. _In Pickle_, Poxt. _Rodds in Pickle, or revenge in Lavender._

_Pig_, c. Sixpence. _The Cull tipt me a Pig_, c. the Man gave me Sixpence.

_Pig of the Sounder_, see Wild Boar.

_Pigsnie_, a word of Love.

_Pig-widgeon_, a silly Fellow.

_Pike_, c. to run away, flee, quit, or leave the Place; also to Die. _As he Pikes_, c. he walks or goes. _Pike on the been_, c. run away as fast as you can. _Piked off_, c. run away, fled, broke; also Dead. To _pass the Pikes_, to be out of Danger.

_Pillau_, a Hen and Rice Boil’d, a Turkish Dish, but now in use in _England_, _France_ and _Holland_.

_Pillory_, a Baker, also a Punishment mostly heretofore for Beggers, now for Perjury, Forgery and suborned Persons.

_Pimp_, the same as Cock-bawd.

_Pimp-whisking_, a Top Trader that way; also a little mean-spirited, narrow-soul’d Fellow.

_Pimlico_, a noted Cake-house formerly, but now converted into a Bowlinggreen, of good report at _Hogsden_ near _London_.

_Pin_, a small Vessel containing Four Gallons and a half, or the Eighth part of a Barrel. _To Pin himself upon you_, or to Hang on. _To Pin ones Faith on another’s Sleeve_, or take all upon Trust, for Gospel that he saies. _Not a Pin to chuse_, when there is little or no difference. _Upon a merry Pin_, or in a pleasant Mood. _Nick the Pin_, to Drink fairly.

_Pimginnit_, a large, red, angry Pimple.

_Pinch_, to Steal, or Slily convey any thing away. _To Pinch_, to Cut the Measures of Ale, Beer, _&c._ _To Pinch on the Parson’s side_, or Sharp him of his Tythes.

_At Pinch_, upon a Push or Exigence.

_Pinch-gut-hall_, a noted House at _Milend_, so Nick-nam’d by the _Tarrs_, who were half Starved in an _East-India_ Voiage, by their then Commander, who Built (at his return) that famous Fabrick, and (as they say) with what he Pinch’d out of their Bellies.

_Pinch-gut-money_, allow’d by the King to the Seamen, that Serve on Bord the Navy Royal, when their Provision falls Short; also in long Voyages when they are forced to Drink Water instead of Beer.

_Pinpatches_, a small Shel-fish very like a Snail, but less, Caught on the Ouzes at low Tide, in Rivers near the Sea, and Sold cheap.

_Picquant_, a sharp Reflection; also a poynant Sawce.

_Pink’t_, Prickt with a Sword in a Rencounter or Duel. _He Pink’d his Doublet_, he Run him Through.

_Piquet_, a game at Cards.

_Pit_, c. the hole under the Gallows into which those that Pay not the Fee, _viz._ 6_s_ 8_d_, are cast and Buried.

_Pit-a pat_, or _Pintle de Pantledy_, sadly Scared, grievously put to it.

_Pitcher-bawd_, the poor Hack that runs of Errands to fetch Wenches or Liquor. _Little Pitchers have large Ears_, Children may over-hear, and discover Secrets. _The Pitcher do’s not go so often to the Well, but it comes home Broke at last_, of him that after many lucky Adventures or narrow Escapes, miscarries in the End.

_Pithy jest_, or Sentence, that couches a great deal in a little room.

_Pittance_, a small Largess or petty Gratuity.

_Placaert_, a Dutch Proclamation, or Order of the States.

_Plad_, Scotch striped Stuff.

_Plaint_ for _Complaint_, _he made his Plaint to me_, or made his Complaint to me. Hence _Plaintiff_ and _Defendant_ at Law, for Complainant and Defendant.

_Planks_, thrown out to save those that can Swim in a Wreck; also Flooring.

_Plant_, c. to lay, place, or hide. _Plant your Whids and Stow them_, c. be wary what you say or let slip.

_Plaister of hot Gutts_, one warm Belly clapt to another.

_Plate-fleet comes in_, when Money comes to Hand.

_Platter-fac’d-jade_, a very broad, ord’nary faced Woman.

_Plausible_, smooth, specious, Taking.

_Play it off_, to play Booty; also to throw away, at Gaming, so much and no more. _He Plaies it off_, he Cheats.

_Pliant_, supple, flexible, ductile, manageable, Wax to every Thumb.

_Plodder_, a Porer in Records, Writings or Books, a dull Drudge, or hard Student. _A Plodding Lawyer_, a Laborious Lawyer. _A Plodding Horse_, a good Drudge or Pack-horse.

_Pluck the Ribond_, or _Pluck Sir O——n_, ring the Bell at the Tavern.

_Plump-in-the-pocket_, flush of Money.

_Plyer_, c. a Crutch.

_Poching_, a sly destroying of Game, with Dogs, Netts, Snares &c. Contrary to the Laws; also an Egg Boyld in Water out of the Shell.

_Poke_, a Bag, Sack, or Pocket. _To buy a Pig in a Poke_, or unsight or unseen. _To carry your Passions in your Pocket_, or smother your Passions.

_Poker_, one that conveys Coals (at _Newcastle_) in Sacks, on Horseback; also a pointed Porr to raise the Fire, and a Sword.

_Polt on the Pate_, a good Rap there.

_Poltron_, a Coward.

_Ponyard_, a short Dagger or Stilletto.

_Porker_, c. a Sword.

_Porters_, Hirelings to carry Burthens, Beasts of Burthen, or else Menial Servants set to Guard the Gates in a great Man’s House, of whom Dr. _Donne_ said pleasantly, that he was ever next the Door, yet the seldomest Abroad of any of the Family.

_Portable_, Pocketable.

_Portage_, Carriage of any thing, whether by Land or Water.

_Posse Mobilitatis_, the whole Rabble in a Body.

_Post_, Employment, Office, Station; also an advanced, or advantagious piece of Ground: A Pillar in the Way or Street. _From Pillar to Post_, from Constable to Constable.

_Pot-hooks_, Scrawls or bad Writing.

_Pot-valiant_, Drunk.

_Pot and Spit_, Boyl’d and Roast. _A little Pot is soon Hot_, or a little Fellow soon made angry. _The Pot calls the Kettle black A——_, when one accuses another of what he is as Deep in himself.

_Poulain_, a Bubo.

_Powder-monkey_, Boys planted at the Guns a Bord the Ship, to fetch Gun-powder _&c._ in the Engagement.

_Powdring-Tub_, the pocky Hospital at _Kingsland_ near _London_.

_Poyson’d_, Big with Child.

_Poyson-pate_, red Hair’d.

_Prancer_, c. a Horse.

_Prancers-nab_, c. a Horse’s Head used in a Sham-Seal to such a Pass.

_Prancers-poll_, c. the same as before; also the Sign of the Nag’s Head. _Mount the Prancer_, c. get on the Horse’s Back.

_Pranks_, Tricks.

_Pratts_, c. Buttocks; also a Tinder-box or Touch-box.

_Prating-cheat_, c. a Tongue.

_Prateroast_, a Talking Boy.

_Precarious_, what is Disputable and uncertain, as being purely at the Pleasure and Courtesy of another.

_Precaution_, Forecast, or the Wisdom of Prevention, which is beyond that of Remedy.

_Precipitate_, Rash, Headstrong, Unadvised, Inconsiderate, hurrying in Business.

_Precisians_, Strait-laced, Squeemish, Foolishly Scrupulous.

_Preservatives_, Antidotes to keep off, or prevent Diseases.

_Priest-craft_, the Art of awing the People, managing their Consciences, and diving into their Purses.

_Pretext_, Show, Colour, Pretence, or Excuse.

_Prey_, c. Money.

_Prick_, the first Head of a Fallow Deer; also a Skewer.

_Pricker_, a Huntsman on Horse Back.

_Pricketh_, the Footing of a Hare on the hard Highway, when it can be perceived.

_Prickear’d Fellow_, a Crop, whose Ears are longer than his Hair.

_Prick louse_, a Taylor.

_Pricks_, decayed Wine, tending to Sower. _The Prick and Praise of our Town_, that bears the Bell from all the Rest, in all Exercises, as Wrestling, Running, Leaping, Vaulting, Pitching of the Barr, _&c._

_Priest-link’d_, Married.

_Priest-ridden_, wholly influenc’d and absolutely govern’d by that Tribe.

_Prig_, c. a Thief, a Cheat; also a Nice beauish, silly Fellow, is called _a meer Prig_.

_Priggs_, c. the Ninth Rank of Canting Rogues, Thieves.

_Priggers_, c. Thieves.

_Prigging_, c. Riding; also Lying with a Woman.

_Prigstar_, c. a Rival in Love.

_Priggish_, c. Thievish.

_Prig-napper_, c. a Horse-Stealer; also a Thief-taker.

_Priggers of the Cacklers._ c. Poultry-Stealers.

_Priggers of Prancers_, c. the Sixth Order of the Canting Crew, Horse-Stealers, who carry a Bridle in their Pockets, a small Pad Saddle in their Breeches.

_Primero_, an old German Game at Cards.

_Prim_, a silly empty starcht Fellow.

_Princock_, a pert, forward Fellow.

_Princes-metal_, a mixt Metal, betwixt Brass and Copper, and of a mixt Colour between both, not so Pale as the one, nor so Red as the other, the late Invention of Prince _Rupert_.

_Prince Prig_, c. a King of the Gypsies; also a Top-Thief, or Receiver General.

_Prinking_, nicely Dressing. _Prinkt up_, set up on the Cupboards-head in their best Cloaths, or in State. Stiff-starched. _Mistress Princum-Prancum_, such a one.

_Print_, the Treading of a Fox. _To set in Print_, with Mouth skrew’d up and Neck Stretcht out.

_Prisme_, a Triangular Crystal-Glass or Fools Paradise, that by refraction reflects imaginary Blew, Red, and Yellow Colours upon all Objects seen through it; also any Saw-dust.

_Prittle-Prattle_, idle impertinent Chat.

_Proclamations_, _his Head is full of Proclamations_, much taken up to little Purpose.

_Prog_, c. Meat. _Rum Prog_, c. nice Eating _The Cull tipt us Rum Prog_, c. the Gentleman Treated us very High.

_Projectors_, Busybodies in new inventions and Discoveries, Virtuoso’s of Fortune, or Traders in unsuccesful if not impracticable Whimms, who are alwaies Digging where there is no more to be found.

_Proling_, Hunting or Searching about in quest of a Wench, or any Game.

_Property_, a meer Tool, or Implement, to serve a Turn, a Cat’s foot; also a natural Quality or Talent, and the highest right a Man can have to any thing, _Liberty and Property_, two Inestimable Jewells. To change the Property, or give it another turn, with a new Dress, or the Disguise of a Wig and a false Beard.

_Proud Bitch_, desirous of Copulation.

_Prying_ Fellow, that is very curious to enquire into other Men’s Secrets and Affairs.

_Provender_, c. he from whom any Money is taken on the Highway.

_Puke_, to Spue.

_Pug_, _Pugnasty_, _a meer Pug_, a nasty Slut, a sorry Jade, of a Woman; also a Monkey.

_Puling_, Sickly.

_Pummel_, the Hilt, Handle, or round Knob of a Sword, or Saddle; also to Beat. I _Pummel’d his Sides for him_, I Beat him soundly.

_Pump_, to wheedle Secrets out of any one; Bailives, Serjeants, Pick-pockets, _&c._ _Pumpt dry_, not a Word left to say.

_Pun_, to Play with Words and Sounds.

_Punch_, Brandy and Water, with Limes or Lemon-juice; also a thick short Man. _Punch Nag_, a short, thick, fat, squat, strong Horse.

_Punch houses_, Bawdy-houses.

_Punchable_, old passable Money, _Anno_ 1695.

_Punk_, a little Whore.

_Puny_ Child, weak little _Puny Stomack_. _Puny Judge_, the Junior or Youngest.

_Pure_, c. a Mistress.

_Purest-pure_, c. a Top-Mistress, or Fine Woman.

_Pupil-mongers_, Tutors at the Universities, that have many Pupils, and make a Penny of them.

_Puritans_, _Puritanical_, those of the precise Cut, strait-laced Precisians, _whining_ (as Osborn saies) _for a Sanctity God never yet trusted out of Heaven_.

_Purl_, Worm-wood infus’d in Ale.

_Purl-Royal_, Canary with a dash of Wormwood.

_Pursenets_, c. Goods taken upon Trust by young Unthrifts at treble the Value; also a little Purse.

_Purse-proud_, haughty because Rich.

_Pursy_, Fuggy, Fat.

_Pushers_, Canary-birds new Flown that cannot Feed themselves.

_Pushing School_, a Fencing School; also Bawdy-house. _At a Push_, at a pinch or strait. _At Push of Pike_, at Defiance. _Push-pinn_, Childrens Play. _To Push on one’s Fortune_, to advance, or run it up.

_Put._ _A Country-Put_, a silly, shallow-pated Fellow. _Put to it_, Beset.

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_Quacking-cheat_, c. a Duck.

_Quack_, an Empirick, or meer pretender to Physic.

_Quaffing_, _Quaff off_, carousing, to carouse.

_Quag_, _Quagmire_, marshy moorish Ground.

_Quailing of the Stomack_, beginning to be qualmish or uneasy.

_Quail-pipe_, a Woman’s Tongue; also a Device to take the Birds of that Name, which are fine food, the French esteem’d the best; tho’ both those and the English are of a Currish Nature, and will beat themselves against the Cage, sides and top, being with difficulty brought to Feed: Wheat is usually given them, but Hempseed is a great deal better.

_Quaint_, curious, neat; also strange.

_Quaking cheat_, c. a Calf or a Sheep.

_Qualified_, Accomplisht, Statesman, Soldier, Scholar.

_Qualifications_, Accomplishments that render any of them Compleat; also Conditions.

_Qually-Wines_, Turbulent and Foul.

_Qualm_, a Stomack-Fit; also Calmness, and the Cry of Ravens.

_Qualmish_, Crop-sick, queasy Stomackt.

_Quarrel-picker_, a Glazier; also a contentious Fellow, a Trouble Company.

_Quarron_, c. a Body.

_Quarte_, Nails of the Sword-Hand quite up.

_Quarting upon the streight Line_, keeping the Head and Shoulders very much back from the Adversary’s Sword, when one thrusts with his own.

_Quash_, to Suppress, Annul, or Overthrow. _To Quash the indictment._

_Quean_, a Whore, or Slut. _A dirty Quean_, a very Puzzel or Slut.

_Queasy_ Stomacht, Crop-sick, Qualmish.

_Queen Elizabeth’s Pocket-pistol_, a Brass-Cannon of a prodigious Length at _Dover-Castle_.

_Queere_, c. base, Roguish, naught. _How Queerely the Cull Touts?_ c. how roguishly the Fellow looks.

_Queere Birds_, c. such as having got loose, return to their old Trade of Roguing and Thieving.

_Queere-bluffer_, c. a sneaking, sharping, Cut-throat Ale-house or Inn-keeper.

_Queere-bung_, c. an empty Purse.

_Queere-clout_, c. a sorry, coarse ord’nary or old Handkerchief, not worth _Nimming_.

_Queere cole_, c. Clipt, Counterfeit, or Brass Money.

_Queere cole-maker_, c. a false-Coyner.

_Queere cole-fencer_, c. a Receiver and putter off false Money.

_Queere-cove_, c. a Rogue.

_Queere-cuffin_, c. a Justice of Peace; also a Churl.

_Queere-cull_, c. a Fop, or Fool, a Codshead; also a shabby poor Fellow.

_Queere-degen_, c. an Iron, Steel, or Brass-hilted Sword.

_Queere-diver_, c. a bungling Pick-pocket.

_Queere-doxy_, c. a jilting Jade, a sorry shabby Wench.

_Queere-drawers_, c. Yarn, coarse Worsted, ord’nary or old Stockings.

_Queere duke_, c. a poor decayed Gentleman; also a lean, thin, half Starved Fellow.

_Queere fun_, c. a bungling Cheat or Trick.

_Queere-ken_, c. an ill House, or a Prison.

_Queere-mort_, c. a dirty Drab, a jilting Wench, a Pockey Jade.

_Queere-nab_, c. a Felt, Carolina, Cloth, or ord’nary Hat, not worth whipping off a Man’s Head.

_Queere-kicks_, c. coarse, ord’nary or old Breeches.

_Queere-peepers_, c. old-fashion’d, ord’nary, black-fram’d, or common Looking-glasses.

_Queere-prancer_, c. a Founder’d Jade, an ord’nary low-priz’d Horse.

_Queere-topping_, c. sorry Commodes or Head-dresses.

_Quibble_, to Trifle, or Pun. _Sir Quibble Queere_, a trifling silly shatter-brain’d Fellow.

_Quidds_, c. Money. _Tip the Quidds_, c. can ye spend your Sixpence.

_Quietists_, a Numerous and considerable Sect amongst the Papists, being against Oral and wholly for Mental Prayer, Whiggs, Popish Precisians, or Puritans.

_Quipps_, Girds, Taunts, Jeers, _&c._

_Quirks_ in Law, Law-tricks or Subtilties.

_Quirks and Quillets_, Tricks and Devices.

_Quod_, c. Newgate; also any Prison, tho’ for Debt. _The Dab’s in the Quod_, c. the poor Rogue is in Limbo.

_Quota_, c. Snack, Share, Part, Proportion or Dividend. _Tip me my Quota_, c. give me my Part of the Winnings, Booty, Plunder, _&c._

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_Rabbet-suckers_, c. young Unthrifts taking up Goods upon Tick at excessive rates.

_Rabbet_, the first Year.

_Rabbits_, Wooden Kanns to Drink out of, once used on the Roads, now, almost laid by.

_Rabble_, the Mob.

_Racket_, a Noise or Bustle; also Tennis-play. _What a Racket those Ramps keep?_ What a busel these rude Children make?

_Racking of Wines_, Drawing them off their Lees into fresh Vessels.

_Rack-rent_, strain’d to the utmost Value. The Knights of _Cales_, Gentlemen of _Wales_, and Lairds of the _North Country_, a Yeoman of _Kent_, at Rack-rent, will buy ’em all Three. _To lye at Rack and Manger_, to live hard.

_Rag_, c. a Farthing. _Not a Rag left_, c. I have Lost or Spent, all my Money.

_Ragou_, a Relishing Bit, with a high Sawce.

_Ragamuffin_, a Tatterdemallion.

_Rag-water_, a common sort of Strong-waters.

_Rake_, _Rake Hell_, _Rake-shame_, a Lewd Spark of Deboshee, one that has not yet Sowed his Wild Oats, _Rakish_, tending to, or leaning towards that Extravagant way, of Life. _Rake_, when the Hawk flies out too far from the Fowls; also so much of the Ships Hull as overhangs both Ends of the Keel; and to Trot a Horse gently.

_Ralph-Spooner_, a Fool.

_Raillery_, Drolling. _To Railly_, or Droll. _A Railleur_, or Droll.

_Rally_, to Unite or embody broken Troops.

_Rammish_, Rank.

_Ramp_, a Tomrig, or rude Girl. _To Ramp_, to Play rude Horse-Play.

_Rampant_, uppish, overbold, over-pert, over-lusty. _A Lyon Rampant_, i. e. rearing up his Forefeet.

_Rangle_, when Gravel is given to a Hawk, to bring her to a Stomack.

_Ranging_, c. intriguing, and enjoying many Women.

_Rank_, rammish, strong-scented, as all the Petids, either Vegetables or Animals, as Garlick, Assafœtida, Polecats, Foxes, Goats, _&c._ And whatever is Stale, Corrupt, or Tainted, and Stinks with long or careless Keeping. _A Rank Lie_, a lewd or flat Lie. _A Rank Knaive_, an errant base Knave. _A Rank Whore_, an errant Whore.

_Rank-rider_, c. a Highway-man; also a Jockey.

_Rank-wink’d_, Hawk, that is a slow Fligher.

_Rant_, to Talk Big, High, or Boast much.

_Ranters_, Extravagants, Unthritts, Lewd Sparks; also of the Family of Love.

_Rantipole_, a rude wild Boy or Girl.

_Rap_, to Swop or Exchange a Horse or Goods; also a Polt on the Pate, and a hard Knocking at a Door.

_Rapparies_, Wild Irish Robbers, and Out-laws.

_Rapper_, a swinging great Lie.

_Raree-show-men_, poor _Savoyards_ strolling up and down with portable Boxes of Puppet-shews at their Backs; in short, Pedlars of Puppets.

_Rascal_, a base, vile Fellow, a Rogue.

_Rascal-Deer_, lean, poor, _an-lying Deer_.

_Rat_, a Drunken Man or Woman taken up by the _Watch_, and carried by the Constable to the Counter. _To smell a Rat_, to suspect a Trick.

_Rattler_, c. a Coach.

_Rattling-cove_, c. a Coach-man.

_Rattling Mumpers_, c. such Beggers as Ply Coaches. _To Rattle_, c. to move off, or be gone. _We’ll take Rattle_, c. we must not tarry, but whip away.

_Rattling_, the Noise of Coaches and Carts; as also of Armour, or of Hail, or Thunder.

_Rattle-pate_, a Hot, Maggot-pated Fellow. _I Rattled him_, I Rated him roundly, and told him his own.

_Rattleth_, the Noise a Goat maketh at Rutting time.

_Ravilliac_, any Assasin.

_Raw-head and Bloody-bones_, a Bull-begger or Scare-child.

_Rayn-deer_, a Beast like a _Hart_, but has his Head fuller of Antlers.

_Ready_, c. _Ready and Rhino_, c. Money in Possession.

_Rebel-rout_, the Rabble, running Riot.

_Reaking_, smoking or piping hot as Pies out of the Oven, Iron out of the Forge, or Blood from a warm Wound. Hence perhaps the _Reak_, or _Reaking_, i. e. Smoak of the Clouds. _I’ll Reak my Spite on him_, I’ll be Revenged on him.

_Rear the Boar_, Dislodge him.

_Rebus’s_, Words or Sentences that are the same backwards as forwards.

_Recheat_, a Lesson blown on the Horn.

_Recorder_, a musical instrument; also a Law-Officer or Magistrate in Cities and Corporations, their Mouth, or Spokesman.

_Recreant_, a Poltron, or Coward, one that eats his Words, or unsaies what he said.

_Recruits_, c. Money (Expected.) _Have you rais’d the Recruits_, c. is the Money come in?

_Red-fustian_, Clarret or red Port-Wine.

_Red letter-man_, a Roman-catholic.

_Red-rag_, a Tongue. _Your Red rag will never lie still_, your Tongue will ne’re be quiet.

_Red shank_, c. a Duck.

_Refugies_, French and Vaudois Protestants, forced to quit their own and fly into others’ Countries to have the Excercise of their Religion.

_Refreshed_, either as the Air is with Winds, when it Blows a Fresh Gale; or artificially with the motion of Fanns, or opening the Windows to Fann a close Room; or as Wines are with Snow and Ice; or by casting a new Gloss, on what is worn out, Withered, or Decayed, in Bodies Artificial, as Embroidery by Burnishing, or of Pictures by Varnishing, _&c._

_Rellif_, Copulation of Hares.

_Remember Parson Malham_, (Norfolk) Pray Drink about Sir.

_Regraters_, Fore-stallers in Markets.

_Repartee_, a sudden smart Reply.

_Republican_, a Common-wealths-man.

_Reserve_, a Store or Hoard to have recourse to, upon a Push or particular Exigence; a Nest-Egg.

_Respost_, having given a Thrust, to Receive one from the Adversary, before he has recover’d his Body.

_Resty_, Head-strong, Wayward, Unruly, Masterless.

_Retailers_, Parcel-traders or Dealers, petty Merchants, Hucksters, Chandlers, Pedlars, _&c._ _In Retail_, in Parcel or small Sum, oppos’d to what goes in Tale or Sum at Large.

_Retainers_, a Great Man’s Followers or Servants, attending him (heretofore) in Blew Coats and Badges, which were the Ancient Liveries, tho’ little more remains of it at present, save what is left among the Water-men. Hence the Word _Retinue_, or Train of Attendance.

_Revers’d_, c. a Man set (by Bullies) on his Head, and his Money turn’d out of his Breeches.

_Reward_, what is given the Hounds, or Beagles by the Hands of the Hunts-man or others, after they have finished their Chase, by the Death of what they pursu’d.

_Rhino_, c. ready Money.

_Rhinocerical_, c. full of Money. _The Cull is Rhinocerical_, c. the Fop is full of Money.

_Rib_, or _Ribroasting_, a Dry-basting.

_Ribbin_, c. Money. _The Ribbin runs thick_, c. his Breeches are well lined with Money. _The Ribbin runs thin_, c. he has but little Cash about him.

_Richess_, (of Marterns) a Company.

_Rich-face_, a Red-face.

_Ridg-cully_, c. a Goldsmith.

_Riff-raff_, the Rabble or Scum of the People, Tagrag and Long-tail.

_Ridge_, or _row of Hills_, extended in a Line.

_Ridicule_, to Railly or turn any thing to a Jest. _To turn it all to Ridicule_, to make a Mock of it.

_Rigging_, c. Cloaths.

_I’ll Unrig the Bloss_, c. I will Strip the Wench.

_Rum Rigging_, c. fine Cloaths. _The Cull has Rum Rigging, let’s Ding him, and Mill him, and Pike_, c. the Man has very good Cloths, let us Knock him Down, Rob him, and Scour off.

_Rill_, a Rivulet, or small River.

_Ring_, c. Money extorted by Rogues on the High-way, or by Gentlemen Beggers. _A Ring_, a Concourse of People for Wrestling, Cudgel-playing, _&c._ _A Ring of Hills_, a round Circle of Hills.

_Ring-walks_, the Dew-rounds made by Huntsmen, when they go drawing in their Springs at Hart-Hunting.

_Ripe_, ready, come to maturity. _Matters are not Ripe_, not ready, or come to Perfection.

_Riveted_, or _Rooted_ Customs, or Habits; inveterate or confirmed Diseases.

_Roam_, to wander far and wide from Home.

_Roberds-men_, c. the third (old) Rank of the Canting Crew, mighty Thieves, like _Robin-hood_.

_Rochester-portion_, two torn Smocks, and what Nature gave.

_Roe._ _A Fair Roe-buck_, the fifth Year; _a Roe-buck of the first Head_, the fourth Year; _a Hemuse_, the third Year; _a Gyrle_, the second Year; _a Kid_, the first Year; _a Roe Beddeth_, Lodgeth; _a Roe Belloweth_, maketh a Noise at Rutting time.

_Roger_, c. a Portmantle, a Goose; also a Man’s Yard.

_Rogues_, c. the fourth Order of Canters. _A Rogue in Grain_, a very great Rogue. _A Great-he-rogue_, a sturdy swinging Rogue.

_Romance_, a feigned pleasant History. _To Romance_, to lie pleasantly, to Stretch in Discourse.

_Romboyles_, c. Watch and Ward.

_Romboyl’d_, c. sought after with a Warrant.

_Romer_, a drinking Glass; also wider.

_Rook_, c. a Cheat, a Knave. _To Rook_, c. to Cheat or play the Knave.

_Rope._ _Upon the High-ropes_, Cock-a-hoop. _Give him Rope enough and he’ll Hang himself_, he’ll Decoy himself within his own Destiny.

_Rosy-gills_, c. Sanguine or fresh-colour’d.

_Rost-meat-cloths_, Holiday-cloths. _You cannot fare well, but you must cry Rost-meat_, you can’t meet with good Chear, but you must tell Tales. _To give one Rost-meat, and Beat him with the Spit_, to do one a Curtesy, and Twit or Upbraid him with it. _To rule the Rost_, to be Master, or Paramount. _Roasted_, Arrested. _I’ll Roast the Dab_, I will Arrest the Rascal.

_Rot-gut_, very small or thin Beer.