Chapter V

_Vagaries_, wild Rambles, extravagant Frolicks.

_Vagrant_, a wandring Rogue, a strolling Vagabond.

_Vain_, Fond.

_Vain-glorious_, or _Ostentatious Man_, one that Pisses more than he Drinks.

_Valet_, a Servant.

_Vamp_, c. to Pawn any thing; also a Sock. _I’ll Vamp and tip you the Gole_, c. I’ll Pawn my Cloths, but I’ll raise the Money for you. _To Vamp_, to new Dress, Licker, Refresh, or Rub up old Hatts, Boots, Shoes, _&c._

_Vampers_, c. Stockings.

_Varlets_, Rogues, Rascals, _&c._ now tho’ formerly Yeomans Servants.

_Vaudois_, Inhabitants of the Vallies in _Piedmont_, Subject to the Duke of _Savoy_, fam’d for their frequent Rencounters with and Defeating of French Parties, intercepting their Provisions, _&c._

_Vault_, an arched Cellar, and House of Office. _She goes to the Vault_, when a Hare (which is very seldom) takes the Ground like a Coney.

_Vaulting-School_, c. a Bawdy-house; also an Academy where Vaulting, and other Manly Exercises are Taught.

_Vauntlay_, Hounds or Beagles set in readiness, expecting the Chace to come by, and then cast off before the rest come in.

_Velvet_, c. a Tongue. _Tip the Velvet_, c. to Tongue a Woman.

_Venary_, or _Venery_, Hunting or Chasing Beasts and Birds of Venery, as, the Hart, the Hind, the Hare, Boar and Wolf, the Pheasant, the Partridge, _&c._

_Venison_, whatsoever Beast of the Forest is for the food of Man.

_Vent_, the fundament of Poultry and Fish; also a Bung-hole in a Vessel.

_Vent the Otter_, see _Otter_.

_Vessels_, several Pipes and Conveyances in the body, of the Blood, Seed, Serum, or Urine, as the Bloud-vessels, Lymphæ-ducts, Spermatick Vessels, Urinary Vessels, _&c._ Also Kitchin-Utensils, as Pots, Pans, _&c._ And of other Offices, as Brewing, Washing Churning Vessels, _&c._

_View_, the Treading of a Buck or Fallow Deer.

_Vinegar_, c. a Cloak.

_Virago_, a masculine Woman, or a great two-handed Female.

_Virtuoso_, an experimental Philosopher, a Trader in new Inventions and Discoveries, a Projecter in Philosophy.

_Unharbour the Hart_, see _Hart_.

_Unitarians_, a numerous Sect holding one God without plurality or distinction of Persons.

_Unkennel the Fox_, Dislodge him.

_Unrig’d_, Stript, Undrest, and Ships that are laid up. _Unrig the Drab_, c. to pull all the Whore’s Cloths off.

_Untwisted_, Undone, Ruin’d.

_Unwasht-bawdry_, Rant, errant fulsom Bawdry.

_Uphils_, high Dice.

_Vouchers_, c. that put off False Money for Sham-coyners; also one that Warrants Gagers or under Officers Accompts, either at the Excize-Office, or else where.

_Uppish_, rampant, crowing, full of Money. _He is very Uppish_, well lined in the Fob; also brisk.

_Upright-men_, c. the second Rank of the Canting Tribes, having sole right to the first night’s Lodging with the _Dells_. _Go Upright_, said by Taylers and Shoemakers, to their Servants, when any Money is given to make them Drink and signifies, bring it all out in Drink, tho’ the Donor intended less and expects Change or some return of Money.

_Upstarts_, new rais’d to Honour.

_Urchin_, a little sorry Fellow; also a Hedgehog.

_Urines_, Netts to catch Hawks.

_Urinal of the Planets_, _Ireland_, with us, because of its frequent and great Rains, as _Heidelberg, and Cologn_ in _Germany_, have the same Name upon the same Account; also a Chamber-pot, or Glass.

_Utopia_, Fairy-Land, a new Atlantis, or Isle of Pines.

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_Waddle_, to go like a Duck.

_Wag_. _Waggish_, Arch, Gamesom, Pleasant.

_Wag-Tail_, a light Woman.

_Wallowish_, a malkish, ill Taste.

_Wap_, c. to Lie with a Man. _If she won’t wap for a Winne, let her trine for a Make_, c. If she won’t Lie with a Man for a Penny, let her Hang for a Half-penny. _Mort wap-apace_ c. a Woman of Experience, or very expert at the Sport.

_Wapper-eyed_, that has Sore or running Eyes.

_Warm_, welllined or flush in the Pocket.

_Warming-pan_, an old fashion’d large Watch. _A Scotch Warming-pan_, a She-bed-fellow.

_Warren_, c. he that is Security for Goods taken up, on Credit, by Extravagant young Gentlemen; also a Boarding-school and a Bawdy-house.

_Wash_, After-wort; also Paint for Faces.

_Waspish_, peevish.

_Water-Pad_, c. one that Robbs Ships in the Thames.

_Wattles_, Ears; also Sheep-folds.

_Weak_, Silly, half witted.

_Welsh-Camp_, a Field betwixt Lambs-Conduit and Grays Inn-lane, where the Mob got together in great numbers, doing great mischief.

_Welsh-fiddle_, the Itch.

_Westminster-Wedding_, a Whore and a Rogue Married together.

_Wet-Quaker_, a Drunkard of that Sect.

_Wheadle_, c. a Sharper. _To cut a Wheadle_, c. to Decoy, by Fawning and Insinuation.

_Wheel-band in the Nick_, regular Drinking over the left Thumb.

_When we enter’d the Ken, we loapt up the Dancers, and Fagotted all there_, c. when we got into the House, we whipt up Stairs and Bound all the People there.

_Wheatgear_, a Bird smaller than a Dottrel, choice _Peck_.

_Whether-go-ye_, a Wife.

_Whet_, a Draught or Sup to encourage the Appetite.

_Whet-stones-park_, a Lane betwixt Holborn and Lincolns-Inn-fields, fam’d for a Nest of Wenches, now de-park’d.

_Whids_, c. Words.

_Whiddle_, c. to tell, or discover. He Whiddles, c. he Peaches. _He Whiddles the whole Scrap_, c. he discovers all he knows. _The Cull has Whiddled, because we wou’dn’t tip him a Snack_, c. the Dog has discover’d, because we didn’t give him a share. _They Whiddle beef, and we must Brush_, c. they cry out Thieves, we are Pursued, and must Fly.

_Whiddler_, c. a Peacher (or rather Impeacher) of his Gang.

_Whiggs_, the Republicans or Common-wealths-men, under the Name of Patriots, and Lovers of Property; originally the Field-conventiclers in the West of _Scotland_.

_Whiggish_, Factious, Seditious, Restless, Uneasy.

_Whig-land_, Scotland.

_Whip-shire_, Yorkshire.

_Whipster_, a sharp, or subtil Fellow.

_Whip off_, c. to Steal, to Drink cleaverly, to Snatch, and to run away. _Whipt through the Lungs_, run through the Body with a Sword. _Whipt in at the Glaze_, c. got in at the Window.

_Whim_, a Maggot.

_Whimsical_, Maggotish.

_Whimper_, a low, or small Cry. _What a Whimpering you keep?_

_Whindle_, a low or feigned Crying.

_Whineth_, see _Otter_. _To Whine_, to cry squeekingly, as at Conventicles.

_Whinyard_, a Sword.

_Whipper-snapper_, a very small but sprightly Boy.

_Whip-Jacks_, c. the tenth Order of the Canting Crew; Counterfeit Mariners Begging with false Passes, pretending Shipwrecks, great Losses at Sea, _&c._ narrow escapes; telling dismal Stories, having learnt _Tar-terms_ on purpose, but are meer Cheats.

_Whirlegigs_, Testicles.

_Whisk_, a little inconsiderable, impertinent Fellow.

_Whisker_, a great Lie.

_Whiskins_, c. shallow, brown Bowls to Drink out of.

_Whistle_, a derisory Term for the Throat. _Wet your Whistle_, to Liquor your Throat.

_Whit_, c. Newgate. _As five Rum-padders, are Rub’d in the Dark man’s out of the Whit, and are pik’d in to the Deuseaville_, c. five Highway-men in the Night broke Newgate, and are gone into the Countrey.

_White-liver’d_, Cowardly; also Pale Visag’d.

_White-wool_, c. Silver.

_White-chappel-portion_, two torn Smocks, and what Nature gave.

_Whow-ball_, a Milk-maid.

_Whur_, the rising or fluttering of Partridge or Pheasant.

_Wicket_, c. a Casement, also a little Door. _As toute through the Wicket, and see where a Cully pikes with his Gentry-mort, whose Munns are the Rummest I ever touted before_ c. look through the Casement and see where the Man walks with a Gentlewoman, whose Face is the fairest I have ever seen.

_Wicher-Cully_, c. a Silver-smith.

_Wide_, when the Biass of the Bowl holds not enough.

_Widows-Weeds_, Mourning Cloths. _A Grass-Widow_, one that pretends to have been Married, but never was, yet has Children.

_Whores-kitling_, a Bastard.

_Whore-son_, a Bastard.

_Wild-boar_, the fourth Year, at which Age or a little before he leaveth the _Sounder_, and is called a _Singler_, or _Sanglier_, _Hogsteer_, the third Year; _Hog_, the second Year; _Pig of the Sounder_, the first Year. _A Boar coucheth_, Lodgeth; _Rear the Boar_, Dislodge him. _A Boar freemeth_, maketh a noise at rutting Time.

_Wild-Rogues_, c. the fifth Order of Canters, such as are train’d up from Children to _Nim_ Buttons off Coats, to creep in at Cellar and Shop-Windows, and to slip in at Doors behind People, also that have been whipt, Burnt in the fist and often in Prison for Roguery.

_Wiles_, Engins to take Deer; also Tricks Intrigues.

_Wily_, cunning crafty, intriguing.

_Willing-Tit_, a little Horse that Travels chearfully.

_Willow_, c. Poor, and of no Reputation.

_Wind-fall_, a great Fortune fallen unexpectedly by the Death of a Friend, or Wood fell by high Winds, _&c._

_Wind-mills in the Head_, empty Projects. _He’ll go as near the Wind as another_, live as thrifty and wary as any one.

_Win_, c. a Penny. _To Win_, c. to Steal. _Won_, c. Stolen. _The Cull has won a couple of Rum glimsticks_, c. the Rogue has Stole a pair of Silver-Candlesticks.

_Windy-fellow_, without Sense or Reason.

_Wink_, c. a Signal or Intimation. _He tipt the Wink_, c. he gave the Sign or Signal.

_Wipe_, c. a Blow; also a Reflection. _He tipt him a rum Wipe_, c. he gave him a swinging Blow. _I gave him a Wipe_, I spoke something that cut him, or gaul’d him. _He Wipt his Nose_, c. he gull’d him.

_Wiper_, c. a Handkerchief. _Nim the Wiper_ c. to Steal the Handkerchief.

_Wiper-drawer_, c. a Handkerchief Stealer. _He drew a broad, narrow, cam, or Speckt Wiper_, c. he Pickt-pockets of a broad, or narrow, Ghenting, Cambrick, or Colour’d Handkerchief.

_Wire-draw_, c. a Fetch or Trick to wheedle in _Bubbles_; also to screw, over-reach, or deal hard with. _Wire-drawn_, c. so serv’d, or treated.

_Wise Man of Gotham_, a Fool.

_Witcher_, c. Silver.

_Witcher-bubber_, c. a Silver-bowl. _The Cull is pik’d with the Witcher-bubber_, c. the Rogue is marched off with the Silver-Bowl.

_Witcher-tilter_, c. a Silver-hilted Sword. _He has bit_, or _drawn the Witcher-tilter_, c. he has Stole the Silver-hilted Sword.

_Within the Sword_, from the Sword to the Right Hand.

_Without the Sword_, all the Man’s-Body above the Sword.

The _Witt_, c. Newgate.

_Woman of the Town_, a Lewd, common Prostitute.

_Womble te-cropt_, see _Crop-sick_.

_Wooden-ruff_, c. a Pillory, the Stocks at the other end. _Hudibras_. _He wore the Wooden-ruff_, c. he stood in the Pillory.

_Wood-pecker_, c. a Bystander that bets; also a bird of that Name. _In a Wood_, at a loss.

_Wooly-crown_, a Fool. _Your Wits are a Wool-gathering_, _are in a Wild goose-chace_.

_Word-pecker_, one that play’s with Words.

_Worm’d out of_, Rookt, Cheated, Trickt.

_Wreath_, the Tail of a Boar; also a Torce between the Mantle and the Crest.