Chapter XV (2)

=Clenched it.=--Completed the thing, or _clenched_ the bargain.

=Clockey.=--A watchman, also a travelling clockmaker.

=Cly.=--A pocket, _cly-fakers_, pickpockets.

=Coal.=--Money, _post-the-coal_, pay down the money at once.

=Cock and Hen Club.=--A public-house concert, or _Free-and-Easy_, to which women are admitted, and everybody is supposed to do as they like, to stand upon no ceremony, come when they please, and _brush_ when it suits. But all sorts of _lush_ must be _tipped_ for on delivery. “POOR TRUST” being dead and buried.--“To keep the game alive,” LOGIC said to TOM and JERRY, “you shall now accompany me to what is termed a COCK AND HEN CLUB. Where you may say and do as you like, the _crib_ is situated in an obscure part of the town, but I know it well.” * * * On entering the club-room JERRY was struck with astonishment at the surrounding group. “It is nothing new to me,” replied LOGIC, “but rather a renewed feature of low Life in London. But we will ask the waiter for some little account about the chairman, who appears to me to be an original; and we must also obtain, if possible, a trifling outline of his assistant, the _Lady Patroness_ of this meeting. The chairman in petticoats.”

“They are both _out-and-outers_,” answered the waiter, “and nothing like them on earth to keep such an unruly company together, as ‘_Any-thing_ TOMMY’ and ‘_Half-quartern_ LUCE!’ The chairman TOMMY, has been, by turns, a costard-monger, a coal-whipper, a flying dustman, a boner of _stiff-ones_--that’s a resurrection man, and a “_anything_,” to yarn an honest penny, and a bit of a prig, if it suited him, sooner than have to complain of an empty _Victualling-Office_. He can throw off a flash _chaunt_ in the first style; and patter _slang_, better than most blades on the town:”--

Come all you rolling kiddy boys, that in London does abound,
If you wants to see a bit of life, go to the _Bull in the Pound_;
’Tis there you’ll see Poll, Bet, and Sal, with many other _Flames_,
And “pitch and hustle,” “ring the bull,” and lots of _Fancy_ games.

“As to _Half-quartern_ LUCE,” continued the waiter, “she’s a clever woman, in fact, she was reared a real lady, but now she is scarcely ever sober. I have known her to drink thirty-six half-quarterns of gin in a day; it is from her love of _blue ruin_ she derives her name. LUCE was once a very handsome woman, but she has been reduced, step by step, to the wretched creature she now appears to be, and drinks herself stupid to drown all reflections.”

“I have witnessed a great variety of scenes, since I have been in London,” said JERRY to LOGIC, “but this is equal to any, if it does not _beggar_ the whole of them, in truth, I had not the least idea that such meetings were suffered to take place.”

=Coffee Mill.=--A watchman’s rattle.

=College.=--The Fleet Prison, or King’s Bench, a rough school, but salutary at times, _collegiates_, the prisoners.

=Coper.=--or Horse couper--a cheating horse dealer. See HORSE CHAUNTER.

=Core.=--The heart.--In my heart’s core.--_Horatio._

=Cooped up.=--Confined in the _Poultry Counter_, or elsewhere.

=Chaffer.=--The mouth.

=Chaffing Crib.=--A drinking-room where quizzing or bantering is carried on. _Chaff-cutting_, joking, jesting, playing on words.

=Chalk, A.=--An advantage. _Take a chalk_, the admitting of the advantage. In public-houses it is usual for the _habituès_ to keep the score of a game of cards, dominoes, or coddom, &c., by means of chalk marks thus, | | | | |; therefore when one of the parties gains an advantage, he _takes a chalk_ by rubbing one out.

=Chalk Farm.=--A well-known tavern and tea-garden, near Primrose-hill, _alias_ Cockney-mount, between Hampstead and Highgate. This house is said to have taken its name from the farm being of a chalky soil, or, do they use _double chalk!_ to their customers, who frequent this house either for amusement--or mischief! the “_farm_” is much resorted to by those persons who cannot settle a dispute without the use of powder and shot. Hence _Jemmy Green_ says--“Vell, I’m glad its settled vithout bloodshed--Chalk Farm! pistols! half-past six!--Pooh!!!”

=Chalk Up.=--To have credit at a public-house, where they usually _chalk up_ the amount behind the door, or on a large slate kept for that purpose.

=Copy of Uneasiness.=--A copy of a writ.

=Corinthians.=--Sporting men of rank and fashion:--I am no proud Jack, Like Falstaff, but a _Corinthian_, a lad of mettle.--_Shakespeare._

=Corinthian Kate=--and her friend SUE.--In the original _Life in London_ these ladies were meant as _sketches in water colours_ of the notorious _Mrs. Maples_, alias _Mrs. Bertram_, alias _Mother Bang_; and the no less notorious _Harriett Wilson_, alias _Mrs. Colonel Rochfort_; heroines whose “birth, parentage, and education--life, character, and behaviour,” have been made execrable by that congenial pair of publishers in infamy _Messrs. Stockdale_ and _Duncombe_:--The characters of KATE and SUE are in rather _different keeping_ in the dramatic version, and are at the service of any couple of modest, harmless, though at the same time somewhat adventurous, love-sick, roving young ladies, that may choose to claim them.

=Costermonger.=--See my friend Hone’s Jewel of a Work, for Instruction and Amusement, the Every Day Book, Vol. I.

=Cousin Betty.=--A travelling prostitute, frequenting fairs, races, and country club feasts.--“Ah! could you but see _Bet Bouucer_ of these parts, you might then talk of beauty. Ecod! she has two eyes as black as sloes, and cheeks as broad and red as a pulpit cushion.” _Tony Lumpkin_: SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER.

=Cove, or Covey.=--A knowing fellow, _covess_ feminine of _cove_. _Covess of the Ken_, the mistress of the house.

=Cover me Decently.=--A great coat with men, and a cloak with women.

=Court Card.=--A trump, or out and out good one. A spirited fellow.

=Crack.=--The fashionable theme. The _Go! All the crack!_ First-rate, as a _crack article_, an excellent one; _crack a bottle_, to drink; _crack a crib_, to break into a house; _crack a canister_, to break a man’s head; a _crack-fencer_, one who sells nuts; a _crack hand_, an adept; _in a crack_, in a moment; _crack a kirk_, to break into a church or chapel; _crack_, horses--men--races--regiments, &c., all first class of their kinds; _crack-up_, to praise; to _crack a whid_ or _wheeze_, to make a joke, jokes or witticism; a _crack-whip_, a good coachman.

=Crib.=--A house, or an apartment.

=Cribb’s Crib.=--A slang alliteration for Tom Cribb’s house, the _Union Arms_, corner of Oxendon Street and Panton Street, Haymarket.

=Cross.=--A very general term for getting a living by dishonest means, and symbolized by placing the forefingers thus ╳, and is in direct opposition to being on the ◻, as implying honesty. A _cross-fight_, a sold prize fight. _Cross-men_, thieves and receivers of every degree. _Cross-crib_, a public-house where thieves “most do congregate.”

=Crowdsman.=--A fiddler.

=Cubitt’s Machine.=--The treadmill.

=Cucumbers.=--Tailors, because both are seedy.

=Cut along Coaches.=--The accidents of life.

=Cyprians.=--Women of loose morals. So called from the Island of Cyprus, one of the chief seats of the worship of Venus, hence called Cypria.

=Cruikshank, Isaac Robert.=--Caricaturist, born 1791. Illustrated many books, &c., including Pierce Egan’s, “The FINISH to the Adventures of TOM, JERRY, and LOGIC, in their pursuits through LIFE in and out of London,” 1827. Died March 13, 1856.

=Cruikshank, George.=--Caricaturist, born September 27, 1792. Illustrated Hone’s political squibs, 1817-20; “Peter Schlemil, Mornings at Bow-Street,” and in conjunction with his brother “TOM AND JERRY,” and many other books since, died 1879.

D.

=Dab.=--A bed, also a slight blow, as a _dab_ on the cheek.

=Daffy.=--Gin, Gin, sweet, sweet Gin! Pierce Egan says in his “BOOK OF SPORTS and MIRROR OF LIFE.”--“During the time Tom Belcher was the landlord of the Castle Tavern, Holborn, the DAFFY CLUB was started by Mr. James Soares”--_See_ BARON NAB’EM.--“The above club is a complete antidote to the _Blue Devils_, and has to boast of greater advantages than any other Society in the Metropolis, from its members being always in _Spirits_! Formality does not belong to this Institution; it has no written rules to bind its members; no specified time of meeting; no fines for non-attendance; but the corner-stone is “TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT.”--The only _definition_ I can give to the term “DAFFY” is that the phrase was coined at the _Mint_ of _Fancy_, and has since passed _current_ without being overhauled as _queer_. The _squeamish_ Fair One who takes the DAFFY regularly on the _sly_ merely to cure the _vapours_, politely names it to her friends as “_White Wine_.” The _Swell chaffs_ it as “_Blue Ruin_” to elevate his notions. The _Laundress_ loves dearly a drain of “_Ould Tom_,” from its strength to _comfort_ her inside. The _drag Fiddler_ can _toss off_ a quartern of “_Max_” without making a wry mug. The _Coster Monger_ illumines his ideas with “_a flash of lightning_.” The _hoarse Cyprian_ owes her existence to copious draughts of “_Jacky_.” The _Link Boy_ and _Mud Larks_, in joining their _browns_ together, are for some “_Stark Naked_.” And the _Out and Outers_, from the addition of _bitters_ to it in order to sharpen up a dissipated and damaged _Victualling Office_, cannot take any thing but “_Fuller’s Earth_.” Much it should seem, therefore, depends upon a name; and as a soft sound is at all times pleasing to the _listener_--to have denominated the Sporting Society the “GIN CLUB,” would not only have proved barbarous to the ear, but the vulgarity of the _chaunt_ might have deprived it of many of its elegant friends. It is a subject, however, which must be admitted has a good deal of _Taste_ belonging to it--and as a Sporting Man would be _nothing_ if he was not _flash_, the DAFFY CLUB meet under the above title.”

=Dairies.=--Bosom--a woman’s breasts. Milk-cans!

=Dandy.=--A coxcomb, a fop; an empty-headed, vain person. In 1820, when Geo. III. _mizzled_, and Geo. IV. _reigned_ with _thunder_ and _lightning_ speed. Pierce Egan published the birth, parentage, and education of the Dandy thus: THE DANDY was got by _Vanity_ out of _Affectation_--his dam, _Petit-Maître_ or _Maccaroni_--his grand-dam, _Fribble_--great-grand-dam, _Bronze_--his great-great-great-grand-dam, _Coxcomb_--and his earliest ancestor, _Fop_. His uncle _Impudence_--his three brothers _Trick_, _Humbug_, and _Fudge_! and allied to the extensive family of the _Shuffletons_. Indeed, this _Bandbox_ sort of creature took so much the lead in the walks of fashion, that the BUCK was totally missing; the BLOOD vanished; the TIPPY not to be found, the GO out of date; the DASH not to be met with; and the _Bang-up_ without a leader, at fault, and in the back-ground. It was only the CORINTHIAN that remained triumphant--his excellence was of such a _genuine_ quality that all _imitation_ was left at an immeasurable distance.

=Dandiprat.=--An insignificent or trifling fellow.

=Dandy-cock.=--A little _dandy_ man, one of the Bantam breed.

=Darkey.=--Night, also a man of colour.

=Dead-beat.=--Quite done up, not a leg to stand on. Common phrases in the Sporting World, when a man or a horse is so completely exhausted with over-exertion, or the constitution breaking down, as to give up the object in view, not being able to pursue it any farther.

=Deadly’s Fluid.=--Gin, distilled at Deady and Hanley’s, Hampstead Road.

=Dealer’s in Queer.=--Passers of bad notes.

=Demirep.=--A flighty woman, too free in her manners.

=Devil’s Bones.=--Dice, which are made of bones and lead to ruin.

=Dibdin, Charles.=--Writer of sea songs and operas, born 1745, died July 25, 1814. His _evergreen!_ Ballad Opera, The Waterman; or, The First of August, was first performed at the Haymarket Theatre, 1774, thus cast:--

_Tom Tug_ Mr. Bannister.
_Bundle_ Mr. Wilson.
_Robin_ Mr. Weston.
_Mrs. Bundle_ Mrs. Thompson.
_Wilhelmina_ Mrs. Jewell.

=Dimmock.=--Money. _To flap the dimmock_, to spend the money.

=Dive.=--A visit to the lower regions of Wapping and St. Giles’s.

=Diamond Squad.=--People of quality. _Vide_ Almack’s.

=Dog Billy.=--The--This celebrated Hero of the canine race to the great joy of the rats, lost his _wind_ on Monday, February 23, 1829, in Panton Street, Haymarket. The body-snatchers and _dog-priggers_ are out-done upon this suit, and the remains of Billy, instead of being obscured in _clay_, are preserved in an elegant glass case and gilt frame. The Ex-Champion, Tom Cribb, who _liked_ BILLY when _alive_, still likes him although _told out_. Billy was the property of Charley Aistrop when he last _barked_ out an adieu; although Cribb was his tender nurse up to the time when he gave up the ghost. The rats it is said, are extremely glad to find Billy has left no _successor_ to give them a nip.

MONODY ON THE ABOVE RAT KILLER.

Not a _bark_ was heard--but a mournful whine
Broke in cadence slow from the race canine;
And the prick’d-up ear, and wagging tail,
Were drooping low ’mid the general wail.

* * * * *

Not a _bark_ was heard--but a lively squeak
Was echoed from rat to rat (a whole week),
From Whitechapel Church to Piccadilly,
Of “Long _life_ to grim _Death_--for _boning_ BILLY!”

=Done the thing Right.=--Managed matters properly, taken care of one’s-self and one’s friend.

=Dollop.=--A handful. A lump of anything.

=Dominoes.=--The teeth.

=Down.=--Understanding. To be _down_. To understand, to be _fly_.

=Doxies.=--Loose women--prostitutes.

=Dragging-Time.=--The evening of a fair-day, when the wenches are pulled about.

=Draggle-Tail.=--A slut, a dunghill quean.

=Drinking Freely.=--Not paying for it.

=Drop.=--The gallows, which always proves to be the “_last drop_,” or “_a drop too much_.”

=Duce.=--Twopence.

=Dummy.=--A cant phrase for a stupid fellow; a man who has not a word to say for himself. The family of the _dummies_ is a very numerous one.

=Dust.=--Money. Down with the _dust_, to spend money.

=Dust-Hole.=--The nose, otherwise _Snuff-receiver_!

=Dustman.=--Sleep, or drowsiness.

=Dustypoll.=--A nickname for a miller.

E.

=Earth Stoppers.=--Horses’ feet. _Earth Stopping_, stopping up the holes of foxes previously to hunting them.

=Egg-Hot.=--Beer, eggs, spirits, sugar, and spice made hot.

=Everlasting Shoes.=--The feet.

=Everlasting Staircase.=--The treadmill.

=Eye Water.=--Gin.

F.

=Face.=--Impudence; _To face it out_. To persist in an assertion which is not true. To maintain without changing colour, or hanging down the head. _Brazen-faced_, without shame.--God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.--_Shakespeare._

=Fadge.=--To suit or fit together--“How will this fadge?” also a street term for a farthing.

=Family People.=--Rogues and thieves of every degree: All of the same _family_ or _Kidney_!--There is nothing but roguery to be found in villianous man.--_Shakespeare._

=Fancy.=--Boxing, bull baiting, cock fighting, and sporting in general.

=Fancy Piece.=--A sporting phrase for a bit of nice _game_ kept in a _preserve_ in the suburbs. A sort of _Bird of Paradise_.

=Fast trotters.=--Rum prads, good horses.

=Felt.=--A hat.--“What manner of man? is his head worth a hat.”

=Fib.=--To beat or strike with the fist. _Fibbed_, held with one hand, and hit with the other.

=Fiddle.=--A rattle, _Charleys’ fiddle_, a Watchman’s rattle.

=Fiddler’s Fare.=--Meat, drink and money.

=Fig.=--To _fig_ a horse is to place a bit of ginger under his tail to make him frisky. _Fig_, dress. In _Full Fig_, full dress.--“All in the best.”

=Fig leaf.=--An apron, an allusion to our Mother Eve.

=File.=--An odd fellow, a queer dog, a bit of a rogue.

=Finish.=--The “_Finish_” was a notorious night-house kept by Jack Rowbottom, in James-street, Covent Garden. Here the swells who were _bundled_ out of Offley’s, about four o’clock in the morning _bundled_ into the FINISH, where drinking and other _innocent_ pastimes were kept up till eight, nine, or ten o’clock. Jack Rowbottom was quite a study in character. Soon after 1832, he got into “diffs,” and his residence was divided between the King’s Bench and the Fleet Prison. In the latter poor Dr. Maginn expired in his arms, after being faithfully nursed and attended by Jack during a long illness.

=Fish--Fishing=:--Some fish for compliments, and get what they want. Some fish in dirty waters and get what they do not want: but remain _as mute as a fish_ on the subject.

=Fives.=--‘Bunch of _Fives_,’ the fist--_Fives Court_ (The) was a large room in the neighbourhood of St. Martin’s-lane, where the prize fighters of the day took their Benefits and made open challenges.

=Flame.=--A sweetheart. _An old flame_, a discarded one.

=Flash.=--Cant language, also to sport or show off. A fellow who affects any particular habit, as swearing, dressing in a particular manner, taking a fashionable snuff, &c., &c., merely to be noticed, is said to do it out of _flash_. _Flashman_, a despicable wretch and the paramour of a prostitute.

=Flash of Lightning.=--A glass of gin, “gone in the twinkling of an eye.”

=Flat Catcher.=--A man, woman, or any article intended to take in the public.

=Flat= _cum_ =Sharp:= _par nobile fratrum_.--There is not a word in cant or flash vocabulary, nor, in the English language, taken in its right sense and meaning, that conveys so much, and is so generally applicable, as the simple monosyllable FLAT. There are _flats_ of every rank, grade, and station in society, in every part of the known world--and possibly in the unexplored portion also. There are _flats_ alike in office and out; in the senate house and in the cottage--from the councillor of state to the omega of legislators, parochial vestrymen! Oh, most comprehensive patronymic! SHARP is also a good term; but only a cipher, in numerical strength of application, when compared with _flat_. Flat is an independent, honest, and respectable word. Sharp is diametrically opposite; it owes its very birth to _flat_, and cannot live without it. _Flat_ is the parent; progenitor, and preserver of _sharp_, the very root and sap of its existence. Without flats sharps would become extinct. The fact of _sharp_ having sprung from _flat_ is so apparent, that there is not a _sharp_ to be found that has not a _flat_ about him; there consanguinity, therefore, is undoubted.

Such is human nature, that three parts of the vast universe is peopled with _flats_; while the circumscribed and degenerated race of _sharps_ do not occupy more than a quarter or one fourth of the space. Another proof may be adduced of the independence of the _flats_, and that is that they can live, flourish, and prosper much better without the company of _sharps_ than with it. Not so with the _sharps_. They cannot herd and feed together without first getting the means from the substance and resources of the _flats_. We think we have satisfactorily proved to every dispassionate, disinterested individual, that _sharps_ are entirely dependent upon their fathers and forefathers, the _flats!_ and there can be very little doubt but that they are both ungrateful and undutiful to the parents who have, as we have shown, given them being, succour, the means of existence.

If a _sharp_ happens to reside in the neighbourhood of a _flat_, he will always be found setting his wits to work to relieve him of his property and earnings, even though the _sharp_ have plenty, and the flat but little. Such is the undutiful _penchant_ of the _sharp_ for the goods and chattels of his progenitor the flat!

In this good city, not inappropriately denominated the world’s metropolis, _flats_ and _sharps_ are plentiful, and may be found located together in every street and alley. Although the _flats_ have the advantage numerically, such are the ingenuity and plausible tactics of the _sharps_, that they compel the _flats_ to work to support them. The _sharps_, though industrious at scheming, always profess, as their creed, a profound and rooted contempt for manual labour. Sharps are not found among gravel-diggers or stone-breakers; we may go further--seldom amongst artisans or mechanics of any description. No, they are men whose exalted minds soar far above the ordinary pursuits even of middle life. The army boasts of them in abundance. The navy may be said to be composed of _flats_, with scarcely one exception. The attachment of the _sharps_ to the red-coat service of their country is clearly demonstrated by the fact of the _élite_ of their class conferring military titles on themselves, without troubling the formal publicity of the _Gazette_! We may safely venture to assert, that there is not an army of any nation that can boast of the number of staff-officers that adorn the lists of our royal corps of London _malleteers_, otherwise gentlemen sharps. They resemble our disbanded militia, only the staff preserved. It is said and sung that “One half the world does not know how the other half lives--or dies.” How true is that oft-used aphorism? What quiet, respectable, church-going citizen would believe that, early as he rises to give his best care to the legitimate commerce of his enterprise, there are many traders in the illegitimate mercantile world who are wide awake, and in full pursuit of their customers long before his drowsy eyes are open to the brightly-shining sun; long before the aforesaid shining sun has superseded the gas-light radiance shed over the populous city of London:--

From East-end to West-end.
From worst end to best end?

=Flats.=--Persons easily taken in, good customers.

=Flesh and Blood.=--Port wine and brandy mixed.

=Flimsy.=--A bank note, according to Cobbett a very _flimsy_ thing.

=Floored.=--Knocked down.

=Flowers of Society.=--The ornaments of high life, the upper classes.

=Flue Fakers.=--Chimney sweepers.

=Fly.=--Knowing, wide awake.

=Fogle.=--A handkerchief.

=Fork out.=--To give money.

=Four Eyes.=--The man and the spectacles.

=Free-and-Easy.=--A singing-club, held at public-houses.

=Freshwater Bay.=--The _harbour_ of the _Fleet_-Prison.

=Frisk.=--Mischief, to dance and skip about.

=Fullams.=--Loaded dice. There were high _fullams_, and low _fullams_, to denote loaded on the high or low number.

=Full Cry.=--When all the hounds have caught the scent, and give tongue, Tom and Jerry, when in town, had other _game_ in view.

=Fuller’s Earth.=--Another of the thousand endearing names for the universal favourite GIN! GIN!! GIN!!!

=Funk.=--To smoke, to alarm.

G.

=Gab.=--Small talk, patter, flash. _Gift of the Gab_, talent in conversation.

=Gaffing.=--Low gambling.

=Game of the Spell.=--The play of life.

=Gammoners.=--Cheats.

=Gammoning the Draper.=--When a man is without a shirt, and is buttoned up close to his neck, with merely a handkerchief round it, to make an appearance of cleanliness, it is termed “_gammoning the draper_!”

=Gammoning a Main.=--Pretending to be hurt, or crippled.

=Garnish.=--Entrance money, to be spent in drink, demanded of all newcomers in Debtor’s Prisons.

=Gay Tyke Boys.=--Dog fanciers.

=Gig.=--Fun. _Bit of gig_, a bit of fun.

=Gin Spinners.=--Distillers, also publicans.

=Glim.=--A lanthorn, a hazy eye, &c.

=Goldfinches.=--Sovereigns.--“Fine singing birds.”

=Go it.=--Keep it up: keep moving.

=Gomersal, Edward Alexander=, Actor: represented with wonderful success Napoleon, in the Astley’s dramatic version of the Battle of Waterloo, died at Leeds, October 19th, 1862, aged 74.

=Grand-twig.=--Handsome set out.

=Grand Strut--The.=--Rotten Row, Hyde Park.

=Gravel Digger.=--A sharp toe’d dancer.

=Greeks.=--Black legs, sharpers, &c. Also a term for low Irish People.

=Green.=--Raw, not understanding.

=Greyhound, A.=--Should have according to all sporting Kiddies:--

A head like a snake, a neck like a drake,
A back like a beam, a belly like a bream:
A foot like a cat, a tail like a rat.

=Grimaldi, Joseph.= _Vulgo_, Joey Grimaldi, the renowned clown, 1779-1837.

=Grog.=--Rum and water cold without. Admiral Vernon was called “_Old Grog_” by his sailors, because he was accustomed to walk the deck in rough weather in a “grogram cloak,” as he was the first to serve water in the rum on board ship, the mixture went by the name of _Grog_. TOM, JERRY and BOB LOGIC found out its _use_ and _abuse_ not only in the _Back Slums_ in the _Holy Land_, but at Mr. Mace’s _Crib_ in the East.

=Grub.=--It is scarcely necessary to explain the meaning of _grub_; it is a subject in the _mouth_ of everybody, and therefore interesting to the _taste_. Indeed, this sort of _cant_ is quite current throughout all ranks of society, and is well understood.--_Grub and Bub_, victuals and drink of any kind.

=Grub-street.=--This phrase, respecting the _residence_ of AUTHORS, is nearly obsolete; and, in point of fact, is altogether erroneous. If it might not be deemed trespassing rather too _feelingly_ upon so delicate a subject, in consulting the best authorities, both living and dead, it will be found that _hungry_ AUTHORS, in the best of times, have had very little to do with _grub-street_! the _smell_ of the joint being more within their province than the actual possession of the substance.

=Guinea Pig.=--A fellow who receives a _guinea_ for puffing off an unsound horse.

H.

=Habeas Corpus.=--Body and breeches.

=Haberdasher.=--Is the whistler, otherwise the spirit-merchant--and _tape_ the commodity he deals in. It is a contrabrand article dispensed in Debtor’s Goals. White is _Max_, and red is _Cognac_.--“You see” says the _Haberdasher_, “smuggling does a lot of _good_, it does me _good_, and it does you _good_, and do’nt you see it _does_ the Government!”

=Hack.=--A coach. _See_ JARVEY.

=Half and Half Coves.=--Neither one thing nor the other.

=Hammer School.=--Boxing School.

=Harp.=--The Harp tavern in Russell Street, Drury Lane, is well known--if the phrase is not offensive to the profession, as a House of Call for Actors. Here you have an opportunity of viewing, and interviewing players in and out of an engagement, stage-struck youths, anxious to become actors; and other perfect enthusiasts, together with _mummers_, and _spongers_ without end, ever ready to get _Lush_ out of you, or make you a member of the _City of Lushington_! _see_ Buffaloism.

Then off he went, quite full of glee,
Strutting towards the HARP,
In hopes some manager to see;
Mixing with _Flat_ and _Sharp_!
Pierce Egan’s--_The Show Folks_.

=Hartland, Frederick=, Pantomimist, died August 17th, 1852, aged 70.

=Hear any thing knock.=--Take the office, to be put up to any thing that is going forward.

=Heavy Plodders.=--Stock brokers.

=Heavy Wet.=--Porter.

=Hedge.=--_To_ “_hedge off_,” or “_its a prime hedge for me_,” are phrases repeatedly made use of in the Sporting World, when an individual wishes to save himself from any serious consequences.

=Heel Tap.=--“Bumpers all round,” and no _heel-taps_! “that is,” said BOB LOGIC, “your glasses are to be drained to the bottom.”

=Hell.=--A gambling house, from the _infernal_ practices carried on in such places. In 1823 Lord Byron wrote--“What number of Hells there may be now in this life, I know not. Before I was of age, I knew them pretty accurately, both “Gold” and “Silver.” I was once nearly called out by an acquaintance, because, when he asked me where I thought that his soul would be found hereafter, I answered, ‘In Silver Hell.’”--

Don Juan, our young diplomatic sinner,
Pursued his path, and drove past some hotels,
St. James’s Palace, and St. James’s Hells.

=Hells upon Earth.=--Is a name given to the _Swell Gambling-houses_, at the West-end of the town; most of them situated in the vicinity of St. James’ Street. Some of the principal of these have been _queered outright_, by the vigilance and exertions of the _beaks_, whose orders to the _traps_ upon the subject were so imperative, that taking _tip to stash_ the matter, was quite out of the question; and some of the most distinguished _Spirits_ that haunted these infernal abodes, were actually put under the discipline of _Cubitt’s Machine_ to purify. But though the amateur of the _broads_ may as he perambulates the suburbs of the Palace, see reason in many instances, to mourn for the desolation of his ZION, there are still enough of these places to make “a HELL upon earth” for thousands. All of these now remaining, are however eclipsed by the _piscatory Hell_, called _Fishmongers’ Hall_! so named, from CROCKFORD, the keeper of it, having formerly been a Fishmonger, many persons remember CROCKFORD, a poor, very poor _Sprat Seller_, yet he must now be living at the rate of nearly £4000, annum.--“_Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis._” at this establishment money is sported like _dirt_, which may account for so many of the visitors being _cleaned out_. It is a question whether any other Fishmonger’s shop, can boast of so numerous an assembly of _flat fish and gudgeons_.

IMPROMPTU.

On hearing that Mr. Ude, the celebrated cook, was engaged by Mr. Crockford, at a salary of £1,200 per annum.

With this UDE for a cook--who all cooks doth excell--
There’ll be nothing on _earth_ like a dinner in “HELL!”

=Hen and Chickens.=--All my pretty _chickens_ and their _dam_, St. James’.--The _Missus_ and the _blooming kids_, St. Giles’.

=Highflier.=--A tip-topper, a first rater.

=Hop Merchant.=--A dancing master.

=Holy Land.=--The back slums of St. Giles’.

=Holy Water.=--Gin.

=Horse Chaunter.=--A man being brought up at one of the police courts, the magistrate asked, “What is your trade?”--“_A horse chaunter_, yer vurship.”--“A what! a horse chaunter? Why what’s that?”--“Vy, yer vurship, ain’t you _up_ to that ere trade?”--“Come, explain yourself,” said the magistrate.--“Vell, yer vurship, I goes round among the livery stables--they all on’em knows me--and ven I sees a gen’man bargaining for an ’orse, I just steps up like a stranger, and ses I, “Vell, that’s a rare ’un, I’ll be bound,” ses I; ‘he’s got the beautifullest ’ead and neck as ever I seed,’ ses I; ‘only look at ’is open nostrils--he’s got vind like a no-go-motive, I’ll be bound; he’ll travel a hundred miles a day, and never vunce think on’t; them’s the kind of legs vat never fails.’ Vell, this tickles the gen’man, and he ses to ’imself, ‘that ’ere ’onest countryman’s a rale judge of a ’orse;’ so please you, yer vurship, he buys ’im and trots off. Vell, then I goes up to the man vat keeps the stable, and axes ’im, ‘Vell, vat are you going to stand for that ’ere _chaunt_?’ and he gives me a suvrin. Vell, that’s vat I call ’orse _chaunting_, yer vurship; there’s rale little ’arm in it; there’s a good many sorts on us; some _chaunts_ canals, some _chaunts_ railroads, some _chaunts_ j’int stock companies, and ther’s a werry many other _chaunts_ in this ’ere vorld as is too numerous to mention and some on ’em as even me nor ye vurship is’nt fly too.”

=Hot House.=--A brothel:--“Now she professes a hot-house, which I think, is a very ill-house too.”

=Hot Waters.=--Spirits.

=Humming Ale.=--Strong liquor that froths well. A corruption of _spuming_. French, _espuma_, froth. Latin, _spuma_.

=Hummums.=--The well-known hotel in Covent Garden. So called from an Eastern word, signifying _baths_. ROCKLEY and _the_ CO. is the _Boss of the Show_, and TAWNY PORT the order of the day. _Bob Soutar--ultra--crepidam?_ and _Joe Cave (at) actor? May_ for your dresses, and _White_ for spangles. Chaffcutting from 12 till 5 daily.

=Hyde Park.=--London, W., was the ancient manor of Hyde, belonging to the Abbey of Westminster, became Crown property at the dissolution 1539. It was sold by parliament in 1652, but was resumed by the King at the restoration in 1661. The Serpentine was formed 1730-33. “My dear JERRY,” said TOM, “HYDE PARK is in my opinion, one of the most delightful scenes in the world. Indeed it is a fine picture of the English people. It is in this Park, JERRY, that the PRINCE may be seen dressed as plain as the most humble individual in the kingdom; the _Tradesman_ more stylish in his apparel than his LORDSHIP; and the _Shopman_ with as fine clothes on his person as a DUKE. The COUNTESS not half so much ‘bedizened’ over as her own _Waiting-Maid_; the _Apprentice-Boy_ as sprucely _set-off_ as a young sprig of NOBILITY; while the _Milliner’s Lass_ in finery excels the DUCHESS. But the air of independence which each person seems to breathe renders the _tout ensemble_ captivating.”

“Observe those prime _bits of blood_,” from the choicest studs in the kingdom, prancing about as proud as peacocks, and almost unmanageable to their dashing riders. The _Goldfinches_ of the day trying to excel each other in point of coachmanship, turning their vehicles rapidly--almost to the eighteenth part of an inch, each priding himself in having obtained the character for displaying the most elegant “_set-out_.” The MAN OF TON _staring_ some modest female, that attracts his attention, completely out of countenance; while the _Lady of Rank_, equally _delicate_ in her ideas of propriety, uses her _glass_ upon the same object till her carriage removes her out of sight. The DEBAUCHEE, endeavouring to renovate or brace himself up with the fine air of the Park, _ogling_ all the girls that cross his path. The SWELL DANDY could not exist if he did not show himself in the Park on a Sunday. The GAMBLER on the _look-out_ to see if any new pigeon appears in the circle, in order to plan future operations that may turn out to his advantage. The _peep o’-day_ WOMAN _of Quality_, who, night after night, disposes of all her hours of rest in card-parties and routs, is here to be seen riding down the circle to _chit-chat_ and nod to her friends, in order to get rid of her yawnings, and to appear something like being _awake_ at dinner-time. The PEER, relaxing from his parliamentary duties, and the Members of the Lower House here take a ride among the various parties in the circle, to hear their conduct and measures descanted upon, and likewise to “pick-up” a little information respecting the buz on public affairs. The scheming _Procuress_ sporting some new-caught lady-birds in a splendid carriage, in order to excite attention and to distribute her _cards_ with more effect. The wealthy CIT, whose _plum_ has rendered him _sweet_ amongst his grand next-door neighbours at the West-end of the town, here shows himself with all the confidence derived from a splendid fortune. The extravagant _Fancy-Lady_, making use of the thousand little arts that she is mistress of, trying to take the _shine_ out of all the other females in the circle, merely to show the _taste_ and liberality of her _keeper_. The _flashy Tradesman_, who laughs at the vulgar prejudices of old sayings and propriety about “Keeping your shop and it will keep you,” here pushes along in his _natty_ gig and prime trotter, and appears upon as “good terms” with himself as the richest banker in London, laughing in his sleeve at the idea, that, if anything goes wrong from his stylish-pursuits, a temporary absence from his friends, united with the aid of _white-washing_, will soon make him “all right again.”

It is equally interesting and attractive, from the numerous characters of both sexes, _ogling_ each other, as they frequently come in contact. The _Tailor_ confined to his shop-board all the week, enjoys the double advantage of gaining a little fresh air in the Park, as well as admiring some of his own performances on the backs of many of the dashing crowd; and the _Milliner_, also upon the same errand, not only to improve her health, but to retain in her eye the newest fashion sported in this hemisphere of the GREAT. The pleasure, too, of being known and recognized by your friends and acquaintances. The numerous bows and friendly How d’ye do’s? With that admired sort of LIFE IN LONDON, all jostling against each other in the Park with the utmost _sang-froid_. The NOBLEMAN and the _Yokel_--the DIVINE and the “_Family-man_”--the PLAYER and the _Poet_--the IMPURE and the _Modest-girl_--the GRAVE and the _Gay_--the FLASH COVE and the _Man of Sentiment_--the FLAT and the _Sharp_--the DANDY and the _Gentleman_--the out-and-out SWELL and the _Groom_--the real SPORTSMAN and the _Black-Leg_--the HEAVY TODDLERS and the _Operators_--the dashing BUM TRAP and the _Shy Cove_--the MARCHIONESS and her _Cook_--the DUKE and the “_Dealer in Queer_,”--the LADY and her _Scullion_--the PINK OF THE TON and his “_Rainbow_”--the _Whitechapel_ KNIGHT OF THE CLEAVER and his fat _Rib_--the BARBER’S CLERK and the _Costard-Monger_--the SLAVEY and her _Master_--the SURGEON and _Resurrection Man_--the ardent LOVER to catch the smiling eye of his _Mistress_--the young BLOOD in search of adventures and to make assignations.

It ought, however, not to be forgotten, that every thing which is lovely, interesting, honourable, virtuous, generous, feeling, witty, elegant, and humane, which tends so much to give the English females a proud superiority over those of most other nations, is here to be met with in a transcendant degree; and it should also be remembered, that every thing which is designing, crafty, plausible, imposing, insinuating, and deluding, is likewise to be run against in these gay paths of pleasure. The passions are all _afloat_, but GAIETY of disposition overtops the whole.

I.

=Index.=--Reference.

=I’ll Chance It.=--A common expression among sporting men, when the object in view is doubtful of accomplishment. _It is a good Flat that is never done._

=I’s Yorkshire Coves.=--Doncaster horse dealers.

=Isle of Bishop.=--A phrase among the Collegians at Oxford for getting _jolly_ over port wine, roasted oranges and lemons.

=Ivories.=--The teeth: _wash_, or _sluice_ your _Ivories_; drink.

J.

=Jackson’s Rooms=--were in Bond Street.--Mr. John Jackson, otherwise Gentleman Jackson? The proprietor was for a long time the connecting link between the patrons and practitioners of the Prize Ring. His persevering and honourable character enabled him to realize a handsome competence. He died at his residence 4, Grosvenor-street, Eaton-square, Oct. 7, 1845, aged 76.

=Jarvey.=--A Hackney-coach--“Better known perhaps by the name of a _Hack_: handy enough in wet weather or in a hurry.”

=Jemmy.=--A head. _Bleeding Jemmy._--A sheep’s head, otherwise a _Field-lane duck_, otherwise _The one eyed joint_, otherwise _Claretted James_, otherwise _Sanguinary Jacobus_, otherwise a _Pastoral Countenance_, otherwise a _Mountain Pecker_, otherwise a _Peaceful Profile_. That man is to be pitied, who has not luxuriated on the delicasies of one of these, hot from the pan in their native element, at Mrs. Holmes’, the Two Brewers--the Sheep’s Head Tavern, Little St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials. Where the particular guest is never offended with a dirty table cloth, that appendage to mastication being invariably dispensed with; always taking care that they are accompanied with their proper and only sauce--a little of Hodges’s best, or Deady’s true cordial. Poor Colley Skylark, the Apollo of the pugilistic corps, has neglected many lordly banquets, for the felicity of feeding on them, and gouging out the rich eye in company with many of the gifted and learned of the age, viz.--The Keen pride of the British stage--the Comic Sheepface of Covent Garden--The talented author of the CIGAR who acted as _Clarke_ to the meeting: in their nocturnal vigils, and rich chaunts, will long be remembered there. Let us hope that Mr. Nash, the great architect, in his projected inroads through the Seven Dials, will spare this sacred haunt, so dear to the sons of good-feeding and fellowship. If he has ever had the happiness of regaling there, on a red hot _bleeding jemmy!_ this remonstrance will not be needed.

=Jemmy Green.=--Every one must know this gentleman; he is a veritable being, and in being;--but as he is here said to live in _Tooley Street, in the City_, a place of no existence, no libel will lie. The lively _Bunch of Greens_, therefore, that at one time so pestered the Author with threatening and other letters, are informed their suspicions are quite correct, and that they were most certainly the officious empty fools of which this character is the representative.

=Jerry Sneak.=--A henpecked husband. From the poor sniveling Cockney cur in Foote’s farce of the “Mayor of Garrett.”

=Johnny Raw.=--A countryman.

=Juniper.=--Gin.

=Junk.=--Salt beef.

K.

=Kean.=--“_Hear_ KEAN _speak_.” Edmund Kean, the celebrated tragedian, 1787-1833.

=Kean’s Head--The.=--Was a well-known theatrical tavern in Russell Court, Drury Lane. It had previously been called the O.P. and P.S. but re-christened in _honour!_ to the celebrated tragedian--then in the zenith of his fame, the late Edmund Kean:--

Then off again, no fear or dread,
To the once famed O.P.
In better taste--chang’d to KEAN’S HEAD--
And noted for a _spree_!
Pierce Egan’s _The Show Folks_.

The tavern was much frequented by all persons directly and indirectly connected with the theatrical profession. And was at one time kept by Tom Hudson, a jolly _bon vivant_, and famous comic song writer and singer, of whom Pierce Egan, wrote--“his facility in producing songs is astonishing--he also sings them with a peculiar _naiveté_, and tells his ‘story’ to his company better than most men, who are not regular performers. In his line, he is a second Charles Dibdin, senr.--The above tavern,” continues Pierce Egan--“afforded considerable amusement to its visitors, as a few wags, fond of a bit of fun, frequented the coffee-room every evening, and, in concert together, represented themselves as managers from the country, in want of performers, and waiting in turn to engage young men for different ‘_lines of business_,’ to complete their companies. This had the desired effect; and numerous ludicrous scenes was the result, which defy anything like communication, and enthusiastic, stage-struck, inexperienced youths afforded these _pretended_ managers sport and roars of laughter, night after night. The plan generally adopted was, that one of the party kept on the look out to pick up a simple youth--having a soul above buttons!--and having got one in tow, he was formally introduced to the assumed proprietor of a country theatre. The latter person, with a face of gravity, then inquired whether he wished to engage for the _light_ or _heavy_ business of the stage, or if singing was his forte; or, perhaps, he could undertake the general line, and assist in melo-dramas, spectacles, &c., &c. The manager then, with a polite request, wished to have a ‘taste’ of the young man’s quality, before he finally settled his engagement, and fixed his salary. And several young aspiring heroes, anxious to obtain an engagement, have been prevailed upon to mount the table, and to give selections from Romeo, Hamlet, and Octavian, &c., amidst the shouts of _pretended_ applause from country actors, wags of all sorts, and men of the world, who nightly resorted to this tavern, to pick up anecdotes, and spend a pleasant hour. When the managers! thought they had had enough of this burlesque, ‘the _exit_--the _exit_,’ would be whispered one to another, and while the hero on the table was spouting out some impassioned speech from Shakespeare, his back would be readily assailed with the contents of their jugs; and upon the unfortunate wight hastily looking round for the authors of such an assault, his front, from another part of the company, would be attacked in the same manner. Redress was out of the question, and the more passion and rage exhibited by the youth, produced the more laughter; when he was informed it was the way to teach him how to make his ‘_exit_’ in a rage! and that no person would deny him the title of being a _wet_ actor. It was Tom Hudson who altered the sign of the tavern to the Kean’s Head: a remarkable likeness of the great tragedian was hung over the fireplace, and he was wont to visit Tom and take a drink after the fatigue of the night’s performance. The mere rumour of this attracted many to the house. A capital harmonic meeting took place late at night--or rather early in the morning, which was supported by a mixture of professionals from the theatres, and amateurs of talent and celebrity. Vain endeavours were seldom entered upon at Tom Hudson’s; a pretender was soon coughed down. Amongst the leaders of the vocal department who contributed to the musical attractions were Morton Box; Jem Savern; Little Harris; Joe Wells, so popular afterwards in connection with the Coal Hole; Mr. John Hart, late of the Cider Cellars; Tom Prynn, Belasco, and others of great vocal talent and celebrity. _Apropos_ of Edmund Kean, the late Mr. Leman Rede, author and dramatist, in his ‘Sketch of the Life of John Reeve,’ relates the following anecdote--‘Kean’s name was the ‘open sesame’ to all night houses near the theatres; and ere John Reeve came upon the stage, he was apt to indulge much in the ‘little hours.’ He and his friends, lads of his own age, could not have got admission, but he knew the secret, and acted accordingly. After giving a mystic knock, he applied his mouth to the keyhole, and with an exactitude of imitation that defied detection, exclaimed--‘’Tis I----Kean--Edmund Kean!’ In an instant the door was opened; in glided Reeve, saying, with an easy assurance, ‘Ned’s just gone round the corner--back in a moment.’”

=Keep the Line.=--To behave in a becoming manner: not to forget one’s self.

=Keep it Up.=--To prolong the debauch, or game. A term made popular by frequent reiteration.

=Keep up the Ball.=--Be jolly. _Keep the ball rolling_, is also used in the same sense.

=Kick.=--A sixpence. _Quite the Kick_, quite a dandy.

=Kick the Bucket.=--To die.

=Kick over the Traces.=--To become unmanagable.

=Kicksies.=--Small clothes, from the appetency of their contents, to the exercise of kicking, and from being _the kick_--the fashion.--Take my advice, never resist the law, if a man claims your coat and vestcoat, let him have ’em, or you’ll lose your _kicksies_ in trying the argument. And if a man kicks you rub the place, but don’t go to law, that’s my advice.

=Kid.=--A knowing boy or man, in a _low_ or _flash_ point of view--a thief.

=Kiddy.=--A thief of the lower order, who, when he is well breeched by a course of successful depredations, dresses in the extreme of vulgar gentility, and effects a knowingness in his air and conversation, which renders him in reality an object of ridicule:--

Poor Tom was once a _Kiddy_ upon town,
A thorough _varmint_ and a _real_ swell.
Byron’s _Don Juan_.

=Kiddy.=--Tasty. _Kiddy Artist_, a tasty workman.

=Kidney.=--Men of the same thoughts and kind--kindred spirits, &c. _Men of another Kidney._--The opposites.

=Kinchin Cove.=--A paltry thief who robs children--even of their bread and butter; or, a caged-bird of its lump sugar!

=King of Bath.=--Beau Nash, master of the ceremonies at that city for some fifteen years (1674-1761).

=Kite Flying.=--_To fly a Kite_ is to “raise the wind,” or obtain money on bills, whether good or bad. The phrase means as a _Kite_ flutters in the air by reason of its lightness, and is a mere toy, so these bills fly about, but are light and worthless.

=Knacker.=--One who sings Psalms over a dead horse.

=Knight of the Cleaver.=--A butcher.

=Knight of the Pestle and Mortar.=--An apothecary.

=Knight of the Post.=--A man in the pillory, or that has been tied to a whipping-post.

=Knight of the Rainbow.=--A cant phrase for a footman in livery, in allusion to the various colours of his clothes--also said of a master tailor. _See_ RAINBOW.

=Knights of the Road.=--Highwaymen.--_Dick Turpins!!_

=Knights of the Whip.=--Long stage coachmen.

=Knowing.=--Skilful, well-informed, sharp, shrewd, artful, or cunning.

=Knowing one.=--_Vide_ BOB LOGIC.

=Knowledge Box.=--The head.

L.

=Lace.=--To beat. _I’ll lace your jacket for you_--I will beat you.

=Laced Mutton.=--See _Shakespeare’s_: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, _Act_ i., _Scene_ 1.

=Lady Birds.=--Cyprians, female peripatetics. Light or lewd women.

The merchant’s daughter died soon after,
Tears she shed, but spoke no words,
So all young men a warning take,
And don’t go with the naughty _Lady Birds_.

=Lady in Mourning.=--A negress, a black woman.

=Lag.=--A returned transport. _Bill has been out of the country for some time past studying botany!_--That is he has been to Botany Bay as a transport, but now returned.

=Laid on the Shelf.=--For further particulars consult any unmarried woman under the age of ----!!!---- If I know more of any man alive than that which maiden modesty doth warrant, let all my sins lack mercy.--_Shakespeare._

=Lamp.=--The human eye! _The cove has a queer Lamp_, the man has a blind or squinting eye.

=Lark.=--A frolic, joke, spree. _Cut your larks_, leave off larking.

=Lawful Blanket.=--A wife.--’Till I have no wife, I’ll have nothing else.

=Lay.=--A scheme or trick. _Shabby genteel lay_, a scheme of beggars to excite compassion by dressing as decayed tradesmen.

=Leading strings.=--The restraint of friends.

=Leery.=--To look sharp and knowing--from the rolling of the eye.

=Leg Bail.=--Running away.--Your legs did better service than your hands.

=Legs.=--Men who live by cheating. _Blacklegs_, gamblers, &c.

=Levanters.=--Persons who run away to avoid paying their debts of honour.

=Lifter.=--A thief.--Is he so young a man, and so old a lifter?--_Shakespeare._

=Lighthouse.=--The watch-house.

=Lily.=--A black.--To paint the lily is wasteful--and very silly.

=Lilywhite.=--A chimney sweeper or negro.

=Limbo.=--Prison.--As far from help as _limbo_ is from bliss.--_Shakespeare._

=Line.=--An awkward thing to get into. _To give any one Line enough_, to let him go his lengths. _To keep the Line_, to be correct.

=Lion’s Share.=--The larger part; all or nearly all. In “Æsop’s Fables,” several beasts joined the lion in a hunt, but when the spoil was divided, the lion claimed one quarter in right of his prerogative, one for his superior courage, one for his dam and cubs--“as for the other fourth, let who will dispute it with me.” Awed by his frown, the other beasts silently withdrew.

=Listener.=--The ear.--Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice.

=Little Shilling.=--Love money:--Just another little shilling _ducky_!

=Lob’s Pound.=--A prison, the stocks, or any other place of confinement.

=Lothario.=--A gay libertine, a seducer of female modesty, a debauchee. The character is from “The Fair Penitent,” by Nicholas Rowe, 1673-1718.

Is this that haughty gallant, gay Lothario? _Act_ v., _Sc._ 1.

=Low Water Mark.=--Without cash. “A most damnable condition.”

=Lug.=--The ear from its being very often _lugged_.

=Lump.=--The workhouse.

=Lush.=--Beer and other intoxicating drinks, so called from Lushington the brewer. _Lush-crib_, a public-house.

=Lushy.=--Drunk. Introduced by Leigh Hunt and Keats, and others of the Cockney School into the service of poetry--“Trees _lush_ with bliss,” _i.e._, Trees drunk with love, possibly of the succulent sort.

=Lushington.=--Intoxication--“the best of life is but intoxication,” so said BYRON over his gin and water: “there is more truth in it than folks may generally imagine.” To join _Captain Lushington_, to get drunk--“See how snugley Captain Lushington’s getting aboard of Logic,” said Jerry to Corinthian Tom on the night of their visit to “_All Max, in the East_.”

M.

=Mab.=--A cabriolet, from the projector, Mr. Maberly.

=Mace.=--To cheat, impose, rob.

=Mace Cove.=--A swindler, a sharper, a cheat. A gentleman from the Spice Islands, _i.e._, a fellow living on his wits. _On the mace_, to live by swindling.

=Mag.=--A halfpenny.

=Malty Coves.=--Porter patrons, heavy wet encouragers, beer drinkers--and _thinkers_!

=Maulagaram.=--An awkward knock.

=Max.=--Gin.--Oh! for a glass of _Max_. Byron’s _Don Juan_, Canto xi., Stanza 16. His Lordship added by way of a foot-note in explanation of the word MAX! The advance of science and of language has rendered it unnecessary to translate the above good and true English, spoken in its original purity by the select mobility and their patrons.

=Master of the Mint.=--A punning term for a gardener.

=Master of the Rolls.=--A baker. Jack Martin, the renowned pugilist, who was a baker by trade, was well known to the _Fancy_ as _The Master of the Rolls_.

=Masquerade.=--Masquerades were in fashion in the time of Edward III., 1340, and in the reign of Charles, 1660. The Bishops preached against them, and made such representations as occasioned their suppression, 9 Geo. I., 1724. They were revived, and carried to shameful excess in violation of the laws, and tickets of admission to a masquerade at Ranelagh were on some occasions subscribed for at twenty-five guineas each. Now, if the reader wishes to take the mask off this scene, let him go and take a glass of champagne with Charles Wright of the Haymarket, and he will fully initiate him into all its merry mysteries, he is at liberty to make use of the Author’s name in his enquiries.

=Mazzard.=--Head. _Rap on the Mazzard_, a thump on the head.

=Men are but Children of a Larger Growth.=--From _Dryden’s_, “All for Love,” _Act_ iv., _Sc._ 1.

=Mendicity Society.=--Red Lion-square, London, was established in 1818, for the suppression of public begging, and other impositions.

=Mill.=--A fight. _Millers_, pugilists. _Mill the Glaze_, break a window.

=Misfortunes.=--If “_misfortunes_” as the saying has it, “attend the righteous,” the wicked as a matter of course cannot expect to go _unpunished_: although a man might have the “Old One’s _luck_ and his own too!” “If,” said LOGIC to JERRY--after the latter hero had been complaining to him on getting up rather late one morning after a night’s _spree_, that he thought his _constitution_ had got a little _scratch_ since he had left HAWTHORN HALL,--“people who are fond of a _lark_; enjoy a _row_; love a _bit of fun_; take a peep at a _fair_; join in a _hop_; go to a _mill_; play at _rouge et noir_; parade the _lobby_; stroll through the _back slums_; visit the _cock and dog pits_; spend a few _interesting_ moments at _gaffing_; _blow a cloud_ at a free and easy; meet with _Mr. Lushington_; drop in on the sly at a _case_; _floor_ the _charleys_, and, after all, nothing be the _matter_, why then it is a prime circumstance in the career of a man indeed. But it is five hundred to one, that ALL the above _events_ do not _come off right_, with the most experienced and skilful sportsman: that is to say, my dear friend, if you do not get _punished_ in your person, yet you may be most preciously _physicked_ in your _cly_; and, if you have even the good fortune to keep your _peepers_ from being measured for a _suit of mourning_; your _canister_ from being _cracked_; and your face from being _spoiled_ among the low _coveys_ of _St. Kitts_; you are, perhaps, even in more real danger among the refined heroes of the creation, from paying too much “_attention_” to their _ladies_ which has often occasioned more than one JOHN BULL sort of _ill-natured unaccommodating_ husband to give such very _polite_ gallants a dose of _leaden_ powder, that has _cooled_ their courage, or, at least, _checked_ their importunities. In society where _politeness_ of that sort is measured out to the extreme nicety of splitting a hair as at the _West End_ assemblies, it will at all times, be well to remember that _Misfortunes_ are in _morals_, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so Adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition. Therefore it is much better to endeavour to forget one’s _Misfortunes_, than to speak of them, and ever to bear in mind that:--

“Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.”

=Mizzle.=--To disappear, to leave the company.