A NEW DICTIONARY. (continued 2)

Goree, c. Money, but chiefly Gold.

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

Gossiping, much Idle Prating, and Tittle Tattle.

Graces, or Ornaments of Speech. With a good Grace, what is Becoming, Agreeable. With an ill Grace, what is Unbecoming or Disagreeable.

Grafted, made a Cuckold of.

Grannam, c. Corn.

Grannam gold, old Hoarded Coin.

Granny, an old Woman, also a Grandmother.

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

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

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

Great Buck, the Sixth Year.

Great Hare, the Third Year and afterwards.

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

Green-bag, a Lawyer.

Green-gown, a throwing of young Lasses on the Grass and Kissing them.

Green-head, a very raw Novice, or unexperienc’d Fellow.

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

Grig, c. a Farthing; also a very small Eel. A merry Grig, a merry Fellow. Not a Grig did he tip me, c. not a Farthing wou’d he give me.

Grilliade, any Broild Meats, Fish or Flesh.

Grimaces, Mops and Mows, or making of Faces.

Grim, Stern, Fierce, Surly.

Grinders, c. Teeth, The Cove has Rum Grinders, c. the Rogue has excellent Teeth.

Gripe or Griper, an old Covetous Wretch; also a Banker, Money Scrivener, or Usurer.

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

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

Gropers, c. blind Men.

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

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

Grownd-Sweat, a Grave.

Growse, Heath-polts.

Growneth, the Noise a Buck makes at Rutting time.

Groyne, corruptly by the Tarrs for Coronna, a Seaport of Galicia in Spain.

Grub Street News, false, Forg’d.

Grum, the same as Grim, Stern or Fierce.

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

Grumbling of the Gizzard, Murmuring, Muttering, Repining, Resenting.

Grunter, c. a Sucking Pig.

Grunting Cheat, c. a Pig.

Grunting Peeck, c. Pork.

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

Gugaws, Toies. Trifles.

Gull, c. a Cheat.

Gull’d, c. Cheated, Rookt, Sharpt.

Gullet, a Derisory Term for the Throat, from Gula.

Gull-gropers, c. a Bystander that Lends Money to the Gamesters.

Gundigutts, a fat pursy Fellow. In the Gun, Drunk. As sure as a gun, or Cock-sure. Out of Gun-shot; aloof from Danger, or out of Harm’s way.

Gun-powder, an old Woman.

Gust or Gusto, a right Relish, Savour, or true Taste of any thing. A Delicious Gusto, Wines, Fruits, or Meats of a curious or pleasant Taste. A Gust of Wind, a short, sudden, furious Blast, as we say a Dash of Rain, for a sudden, short, impetuous Beat of Rain.

Guzzle, Drink.

Guzzling, Drinking much.

Gut-foundred, exceeding Hungry.

Gutling, Eating much. A Gutling Fellow, a great Eater.

Gutter Lane, the Throat.

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

Gutting, { An House, Rifling it, Clearing it.

{ An Oyster, Eating it.

Gutts, a very fat, gross Person.

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

Gyb’d, c. Jerkt or Whipt.

Gybing, jeering.

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

Gyrle, see Roe.

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Habberdasher of Nouns and Pronouns, School-master or Usher.

Hab-nab, at Aventure, Unsight, Unseen, Hit or Miss.

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

Hack and Hue, to Cut in Pieces.

Hacks or Hackneys, hirelings. Hackney-whores, Common Prostitutes. Hackney-Horses, to be let to any Body. Hackney-Scriblers, Poor Hirelings, Mercenary Writers.

Hackum, a Fighting Fellow, see Captain Hackum.

Haddums, The Spark has been at Haddums, He is Clapt, or Poxt.

Hag, an old Witch.

Hagged, Lean Witched, Half-Starved.

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

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

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

Halfbord, c. Six Pence.

Half a Hog, c. Six Pence.

Half Seas over, almost Drunk.

Hamlet, c. a High Constable.

Hamper’d, caught in a Nooze, entangled, or embarassed in an intricate Affair.

Handy, Dextrous.

Handy Blows, Fisty-cuffs.

Handycrafts, the Manual Arts or Mechanic Trades. A great Twohanded Sword, a swinging broad Sword. A great Twohanded Fellow, a huge swinging Fellow. Such a thing fell into his Hand, of one that improve another’s Notion, Speech, or Invention. He will make a Hand of it, he will make a Penny of it, or make it turn to Account. They are Hand and Glove, of Friends or Camerades that are Inseparable, and almost to the same purpose. Clove and Orange. Change Hands, and change Luck, or to Play your Cards in another Hand. The same Hand and Fair Play, when they Play on without changing Hands. Many Hands make light Work. You stand with your Hands in your Pockets, to an Idle Fellow that finds nothing to do.

Hank, He has a Hank upon him, or the Ascendant over him.

Hanker after, to Long or wish much for.

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

Hans-en kelder, Jack in the Box, the Child in the Womb, or a Health to it.

Hard Drink, that is very Stale, or begining so Sower. Hard-drinking, excessive Soking, or toping aboundance. Hard Bargain, a severe one. Hard-favor’d, Ugly, Homely. Hard Frost, a Keen or Sharp one. Hard Case, a severe or deep Misfortune, or ill Treatment. Hard Master or Dealer, a very near one or close.

Hare, the second Year. A great Hare, the third Year, Leveret the first Year. To hold with the Hare and run with the Hound, or to keep fair with both Parties at once. Hare-lipp’d, Notcht or turn’d up in the middle. Hare-sleep, with Eies a’most open. Hared, Hurried. Hare Seateth or Formeth, the proper term for the Place where she Setts or Lies. A Hare Beateth or Tappeth, makes a noise at Rutting time. He has swallow’d a Hare, he is very Drunk.

Harking, Whispering on one side to borrow Money.

Harman, c. a Constable.

Harmans, c. the Stocks.

Harman-beck, c. a Beadle.

Harp-upon, a business to insist on it.

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

Hart, the Sixth Year, A Stag, the fifth Year. A Staggard, the fourth. A Brock, the third. A Knobber, the second. Hind Calf, or Calf, the First.

Hart Harboureth, Lodgeth.

Hart Royal, having been Hunted by a King or Queen. Unharbour the Hart, Dislodge him. A Hart Belleth, maketh a Noise at Rutting time. A Hart goeth to Rut, the Term for Copulation.

Hartfordshire-kindness, Drinking to the same Man again.

Hartbold or prety Hearty, of good Courage, or pert Spirit.

Hasty, very Hot on a sudden. The most Haste the worst speed, or Haste makes Waste, of him that loses a Business by hurrying of it. You are none of the Hastings, of him that loses an Opportunity or a Business for want of Dispatch.

Hatchet-fac’d, Hard-favor’d, Homely. Under the Hatches, in Trouble, or Prison.

Haut-bois, Oaks, Beaches, Ashes, Poplars, &c. Also well known and pleasant Martial Music.

Havock, Waste, Spoil. They made sad Havock, they Destroy’d all before ’em.

Hawk, c. a Sharper.

Hawkers, Retail News-Sellers.

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

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

Hazy Weather, when it is Thick, Misty, Foggy.

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

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

Headstrong, Stubborn, Ungovernable. A Scald Head is soon Broke.

Head Bully of the Pass or Passage Bank, c. the Top Tilter of that Gang, throughout the whole Army, who Demands and receives Contribution from all the Pass Banks in the Camp.

Hearing Cheats, c. Ears.

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

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

Heave, c. to Rob.

Heave a Bough, c. to Rob a House.

Heaver, c. a Breast.

Heavy, is either gross in Quantity or slow in Motion, because ordinarily the one is not without the other, and therefore we say, heavy Bodies move slowly. A heavy Fellow, a dull Blockish Slug.

Hector, a Vaporing Swaggering Coward.

Hedge, to secure a desperate Bet, Wager or Debt. By Hedge or by Style, by Hook or by Crook.

Hedge-bird, a Scoundrel or sorry Fellow.

Hedge-creeper, c. a Robber of Hedges.

Hedge-grapes, very Crabbed, wholly unfit to make Wine.

Hedge-priest, a sorry Hackney, Underling, Illiterate, Vagabond, see Patrico.

Hedge-Tavern, or Ale house, a Jilting, Sharping Tavern, or Blind Ale house. It hangs in the Hedge, of a Law-suit or any thing else Depending, Undetermined. As common as the Hedge, or High-way, said of a Prostitute or Strumpet.

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

Hell-born-babe, a Lewd, Graceless, Notorious Youth.

Hell-cat, a very Lewd Rakehelly Fellow.

Hell-driver, a Coach-man.

Hell-hound, a Profligate, Lewd Fellow.

Helter-skelter, Pell-mell.

Hempen-widdow, one whose Husband was Hang’d.

Hem, to call after one with an inarticulate Noise.

Hemuse, see Roe.

Hen-hearted, Cowardly, Fearful.

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

Henpeckt Husband, whose Wife wears the Breeches.

Herd of Dear or Hares, a Company.

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

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

Hide-bound-muse, Stiff, hard of Delivery, Sir J. Suckling call’d Ben. Johnson’s so.

Higglede-piggledy, all together, as Hoggs and Piggs lie Nose in Arse.

High Flyers, Impudent, Forward, Loose, Light Women; also bold Adventurers.

High shoon, or Clouted-shoon, a Country Clown.

High Pad, c. a Highway Robber well Mounted and Armed.

Highjinks, a Play at Dice who Drinks.

Hightetity, a Ramp or Rude Girl.

High Tide, c. when the Pocket is full of Money.

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

Hinde, the third Year; Hearse or Brockets Sister, the second Year; Calf the first Year.

Hip, upon the Hip, at an Advantage in Wrestling or Business.

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

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

Hobinal, the same.

Hobbist, a Disciple, and fond Admirer of Thomas Hobbs, the fam’d Philosopher of Malmsbury. Sir Posthumus Hobby, one that Draws on his Breeches with a Shoeing-horn; also a Fellow that is Nice and Whimsical in the set of his Cloaths.

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

Hobsons-choice, that or None.

Hocus-pocus, a Juggler that shews Tricks by Slight of Hand.

Hodge, a. Country Clown, also Roger.

Hodmenduds, Snails in their Shells.

Hodge podge, see Hotch-potch.

Hog, c. a Shilling; also see Wild Boar. You Darkman Budge, will you Fence your Hog at the next Boozing-ken c. do ye hear you House Creeper, will you Spend your Shilling at the next Ale-house. A meer Hog or Hoggish Fellow, a greedy, covetous, morose Churl. A Hog-grubber, a close-fisted, narrow-soul’d sneaking Fellow. He has brought his Hoggs to a fair Market, or he has Spun a fair Thread. Great Cry and little Wooll, as the Man said, when he Shear’d his Hoggs, Labour in Vain which the Latines express by Goats-wooll, as the English by the shearing of Hoggs. Hogg steer, see Wild Boar.

Hogen-mogen, a Dutch Man; also High and Mighty, the Sovereign States of Holland.

Hogo, for Haut Goust, a strong Scent; also a high Taste or Relish in Sauce.

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

Hollow hearted, False, Base, Perfidious, Treacherous.

Holyday-bowler, a very bad Bowler, Holyday Cloths, the Best. Blind Men’s Holyday, when it is Night.

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

Homine, Indian Corn. To beat Homine, to pound that in a Mortar.

Honey-moon, the first Month of Marriage.

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

Hood wink’d, Blindfolded or Bluffed.

Hoof it, or Beat it on the Hoof, to walk on Foot.

Hookt, over-reached, Snapt, Trickt. Off the Hooks, in an ill Mood, or out of Humor, By Hook or by Crook, by Fair Means or Foul.

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

Hopper-arst, when the Breech sticks out.

Horn-mad, stark staring Mad because Cuckolded.

Horse-play, any rude Boisterous sort of Sport. You must not look a Given Horse in the Mouth, or what is freer than Gift? One Man may better Steal a Horse than another look on. The Master’s Eye makes the Horse Fat. An ill Horse that can’t carry his own Provender. Set the Saddle on the Right Horse, lay the Blame where the Fault is. The Cart before the Horse. A short Horse is soon Curried, a little Business is soon Dispatched. The Gray Mare is the better Horse, said of one, whose Wife wears the Breeches. Fallen away from a Horse-load to a Cart-load, spoken Ironically of one considerably improved in Flesh on a sudden.

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

Hot, exceeding Passionate. Hot Work, much Mischief done, or a great Slaughter.

Hot-cockles, a Play among Children. It revives the Cockles of my Heart, said, of agreeable News, or a Cup of Comfort, Wine or Cordial Water.

Hot Pot, Ale and Brandy boyled together.

Hot Spur, a fiery furious passionate Fellow; also early or forward Peas.

Hotch potch, an Oglio or Medly of several Meats in one Dish.

House of Call, the usual lodging Place of Journey-men Tailers.

House Tailers, Upholsterers.

How, to a Deer.

Howleth, the Noise a Wolf maketh at Rutting time.

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

Huckster, a sharp Fellow. Hucksters, the Retailers of the Market, who Sell in the Market at second Hand. In Huckster’s Hands, at a desperate Pass, or Condition, or in a fair way to be Lost.

Hue, c. to Lash; also the Complexion or Colour. Hued, c. Lasht or Flogg’d. The Cove was Hued in the Naskin, c. the Rogue was severe-Lasht in Bridewell. Hue and Cry, the Country rais’d after a Thief.

Huff, a Bullying Fellow. Captain Huff, any noted Bully, or Huffing Blade. To Huff and Ding, to Bounce and Swagger.

Hugger-mugger, Closely or by Stealth, Under board: To Eat so, that is, to Eat by one’s self.

Hulver-head, a silly foolish Fellow.

Hum-cap, old, mellow and very strong Beer.

Hum and haw, to Hesitate in Speech; also to delay, or difficultly to be brought to Consent.

Hummer, a loud Lie, a Rapper.

Hum, or Humming Liquor, Double Ale, Stout, Pharoah.

Hummums, a Bagnio.

Humorist, a Whimsical Fantastical Fellow.

Hump-backt, Crook-backt. Hump-shoulder’d, or Crook-shoulder’d.

Humptey-dumptey, Ale boild with Brandy.

Hunch, to justle, or thrust.

Hunks, a covetous Creature, a miserable Wretch.

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

Hunteth for his Kind, see Otter.

Hurly-burly, Rout, Riot, Bustle, Confusion.

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

Hurridun, see Harridan.

Hush, very still, quiet. All was Hush, a great or profound Silence. Husht up, concealed, or clapt up without Noise.

Husky-lour, c. a Guinea, or Job.

Hussy, an abbreviation of Housewife, and sometimes a Term of Reproch, as, how now Hussy, or she is a Light Hussy, or Housewife.

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

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

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Jabber, to Talk thick and fast, as great Praters do, or to Chatter like a Magpye.

Jack, c. a Farthing, a small Bowl (the mark) to throw at, an Instrument to draw on Boots, hence Jack-boots; also a Leathern Vessel to Drink out of, and an Engine to set the Spit a going. Jack in an Office, of one that behaves himself Imperiously in it. Every Jack will have a Gill, or the Coursest He, will have as Coarse a She. He wou’dn’t tip me Jack, c. not a Farthing wou’d he give me.

Jack-adams, a Fool.

Jack-a dandy, a little impertinent insignificant Fellow.

Jack Kitch, c. the Hangman of that Name, but now all his Successors.

Jack in a Box, c. a Sharper, or Cheat.

Jackanapes, a Term of Reproach, a little sorry Whipper-snapper; also a well known waggish Beast. As full of Tricks as a Jackanapes.

Jack-sprat, a Dwarf, or very little Fellow, a Hop-on-my-thumb.

Jack at a Pinch, a poor Hackney Parson.

Jack-hawk, the Male.

Jacobites, Zealous Sticklers for the late King James, and his Interest; also sham or Collar Shirts, and Hereticks Anno 530, following one Jacobus Syrus, who held but one Will, Nature and Operation in Christ, Circumcision of both Sexes, &c.

Jade, a Terme of Reproch given to Women, as Idle Jade, Lazy Jade, Silly Jade, &c. As dull Jade, tried Jade, to a heavy or over-ridden Horse.

Jakes, a House of Office.

Jague, c. a Ditch.

Janizaries, formerly, only the Grand Signior’s Foot Guard, chosen out of Tributary Christians, taken early from their Parents, and perverted to Mahumetanism, ever accounted their best Soldiers; but now any Prince’s or great Man’s Guards; also the Mob sometimes so called, and Bailives, Serjeants, Followers, Yeomen, Setters, and any lewd Gang depending upon others.

Jarke, c. a Seal.

Jarke-men, c. the Fourteenth Order of the Canting Tribe; also those who make Counterfeit Licences and Passes, and are well paid by the other Beggers for their Pains.

Jarrs, Quarrels, Disputes, Contentions.

Jason’s Fleece, c. a Citizen cheated of his Gold.

Jayl-birds, Prisoners.

Ice-houses, Repositories to keep Ice and Snow under Ground all Summer, as there are Conservatories to House Orange-Trees, Limes, and Myrtles in the Winter. Break Ice in one place and it will Crack in more, or find out one slippery Trick, and suspect another. When the Ice is once broke, or when the Way is open others will Follow. Ice or Icicles, little pendulous pieces of Ice under the Eaves.

Idioms, Proprieties of any Speech or Language, Phrases or particular Expressions, peculiar to each Language.

Idio-syncrasies, peculiar Constitutions, or Affections, incident only in particular to some Temperaments, as several Sympathies and Antipathies, as different and unaccountable as the Variety of Gifts and Talents in Men.

Jenny, c. an Instrument to lift up a Grate, and whip any thing out of a Shop-window.

Jesses, short Strapps of Leather fastned to the Hawk’s Leggs.

Jetting along, or out, a Man Dancing in his Gate, or Going; also a House starting out farther than the rest in the Row.

Jew, any over-reaching Dealer, or hard, sharp Fellow. He treated me like a Jew, he used me very barbrously.

Jews, Brokers behind St. Clement’s Church in London, so called by (their Brethren) the Tailers.

Ignoramus, Novice, or raw Fellow in any Profession; also, we are Ignorant, written by the Grand Jury upon Bills, when the Evidence is not Home, and the Party (thereupon) Discharg’d.

Jig, a Trick; also a well known Dance. A Pleasant Jig, a witty, arch Trick.

Jigget, (of Mutton) the Leg cut off with part of the Loin.

Jilt, a Tricking Whore.

Jilted, abused by such a one; also deceived or defeated in one’s Expectation, especially in Amours.

Jingling, the Noise of Carriers Horses Bells, or Ringing of Money that chinks in the Pocket.

Jingle-boxes, c. Leathern Jacks tipt and hung with Silver Bells formerly in use among Fuddle caps.

Jinglers, c. Horse-Coursers frequenting Country Fairs.

Jingle-brains, a Maggot-pated Fellow.

Jiniper-Lecture, a round scolding Bout.

Ill fortune, c. a Nine-pence.

Ill-mann’d, a Hawk not well broke, taught or train’d.

Impost-taker, c. one that stands by and Lends Money to the Gamester at a very high Interest or Premium.

Implement, Tool, a Property or Fool, easily engag’d in any (tho’ difficult or Dangerous) Enterprize.

Importunate, Dunning, pressing.

Importunity of Friends, the stale Excuse for coming out in Print, when Friends know nothing of the Matter.

Inadvertency, any slip or false step, for want of Thinking and Reflection.

Inching-in, Encroaching upon. One of his Inches, of his Size or Stature. Won by Inches, dearly or by little and little. Give you an Inch and you’ll take an Ell, of one that presumes much on little Encouragement.

Incog, for Incognito, a Man of Character or Quality concealed or in disguise.

Incongruous, or an Incongruity; Treating any Person not according to his Character, or appearing in any Country, without conforming to the Habits and Customs of the Place, as teaching a General the Art of War, talking with an Ambassador without his Language, or the help of an Interpreter, moving the Hat to Turks, that never stirr their Turbants, or calling for a Chair with such Nations, as sit alwaies crosse-legg’d upon Carpets.

Indecorum, any violation of the Measures of Congruity, in Story, Painting, or Poetry, as introducing Persons together that are not Contemporaries, and of the same Age, or representing them with Habits, Arms or Inventions, unknown to their Times, as the Romans with Gunns or Drumms, which wou’d be no less Preposterous and Absurd than Painting the Noblemen of Venice on Horseback, or describing the West Indians before the Arrival of the Spaniards, with the Shipping, Horses, and Arms of the Europeans.

Indulto, his Catholic Majesty’s Permission to the Merchants to unlade the Galeons, after his Demands are adjusted.

In his Ale or Beer, Drunk, tho’ it be by having too much of that in him.

Iniskilling-men, fam’d for their Prowess, in the late Irish Wars; also the Royal Regiment (of Citizens) in derision so called, soon raised, and as soon laid down.

Inke, the Neck from the Head to the Body of any Bird the Hawk doth prey upon.

Inkle, Tape. As great at two Inkle-makers, or as great as Cup and Cann.

Inlayed, well inlayed, at ease in his Fortune, or full of Money.

Inmates, Supernumeraries, who have no House or Being of their own, and yet are no Members of the House or Family they Live in, from whom they differ in the same Nature, as the Excrescences of Trees do from the Fruits either Genuin or Grafted; as Misletoe of the Oak, Galls, &c. differ from the Mast or Acorns.

Insipids, Block-heads; also things that are castless.

Interlopers, Hangers on, retainers to, or dependers upon other folks; also Medlers and Busy-bodies, intruders into other Men’s Professions, and those that intercept the Trade of a Company, being not legally authorized.

Intrigues, Finesses, Tricks of War, or State, as Court-tricks, Law-quirks, tho’ in War they are rather called Stratagems.

Intriguing, Plotting, Tricking, Designing, full of Tricks and Subtilties.

Inveterate, either Enemies that are implacable and of long continuance, or Diseases that are confirmed, deep-rooted and riveted.

Joan, a homely Joan, a Coarse Ord’nary Woman, Joan in the Dark is as good as my Lady, or when the Candles are out all Cats are Gray.

Job, c. a Guinea, Twenty shillings, or a Piece. Half a Job, c. half 3 Guinea, Ten shillings, half a Piece, or an Angel.

Jobbers, see Badgers, Matchmakers, Salesmen, Stock-jobbers.

Jobbernoll, c. a very silly Fellow.

Jock or Jockumcloy, c. to copulate with a Woman.

Jockum-gage, c. a Chamberpot. Tip me the Jockumgage, c. give me or hand me the Member-mug. Rum Jockum-gage, c. a Silver-chamberpot.

Jockeys, rank Horse-Coursers, Race Riders; also Hucksters or Sellers of Horses, very slippery Fellows to deal with.

Jolter-head, a vast large Head; also Heavy and Dull. To Jolt or Shake, jolting or shaking of a Coach.

Jordain, c. a great Blow or Staff; also a Chamberpot. I’ll tip him a Jordain if I transnear, c. I will give a Blow with my Staff if I get up to him.

Joseph, c. a Cloak or Coat. A Rum Joseph, c. a good Cloak or Coat. A Queer Joseph, c. a coarse ord’nary Cloak or Coat; also an old or Tatter’d one.

Irish Toyles, c. the Twelfth Order of Canters; also Rogues carrying Pinns, Points, Laces, and such like Wares about, and under pretence of Selling them, commit Thefts and Robberies.

Iron-doublet, a Prison.

Itch-land, Wales.

Jugglers, Nimble and expert Fellows at Tricks, and Slights of Hand, to distinguish them from Tumblers, that perform Bodily Feats, or Feats of Activity, by playing of Tricks with the whole Body.

Jukrum, c. a License.

Jumble gut lane, any very bad or rough Road. To Jumble, to shake much or often.

Justice, I’ll do Justice Child, c. I will Peach or rather Impeach or Discover the whole Gang, and so save my own Bacon; also in another Sense, I’ll do you Justice Sir, I will Pledge you.

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Kate, c. a Pick-lock. ’Tis a Rum Kate, c. that is a Cleaver Pick-lock.

Keel-bullies, Lighter-men that carry Coals to and from the Ships, so called in Derision.

Keel-hale, to draw by a Rope tied to the Neck and fastned to a Tackle (with a jerk) quite under the Keel or bottom of the Ship.

Keffal, a Horse.

Kelter, out of Kelter, out of sorts.

Ken, c. a House. A bob Ken, or a Bowman-ken, c. a good or well Furnished House, full of Booty, worth Robbing; also a House that Harbours Rogues and Thievs. Biting the Ken, c. Robbing the House.

Ken-miller, c. a House-breaker. Friend John, or sweet Tom, ’tis a bob Ken, Brush upon the Sneak, c. ’tis a good House, go in if you will but Tread softly, and mind your Business. Now we have Bit, c. the House is Robb’d, or the Business is done. There’s a Cull knows us, if we don’t pike he’ll Bone us, c. that Fellow sees us, if we don’t scour off, he will Apprehend us. Ding him, c. Knock him Down. Then we’ll pike, tis all Bowman, c. we will be gone, all is well, the Coast is clear.

Keaping Cully, one that Maintains a Mistress, and parts with his Money very generously to her.

Kicks, c. Breeches. A high Kick, the top of the Fashion; also singularity therein. Tip us your Kicks, we’ll have them as well as your Loure, c. pull off your Breeches, for we must have them as well as your Money.

Kid, c. a Child; also the first Year of a Roe, and a young Goat.

Kidnapper, c. one that Decoys or Spirits (as it is commonly called) Children away, and Sells them for the Plantations.

Kidder, c. see Crocker.

Kidlay, c. one who meeting a Prentice with a Bundle or Parcel of Goods, wheedles him by fair Words, and whipping Sixpence into his Hand, to step on a short and sham Errand for him, in the mean time Runs away with the Goods.

Kidney, (Beans) French. Of that Kidney, of such a Stamp. Of a strange Kidney, of an odd or unaccountable Humor.

Kilkenny, c. an old sorry Frize-Coat.

Kill-Devil, Rum. Kill two Birds with one Stone, Dispatch two Businesses at one Stroak.

Kimbaw, c. to Trick, Sharp, or Cheat; also to Beat severely or to Bully. Lets Kimbaw the Cull, c. Let’s Beat that Fellow, and get his Money (by Huffing and Bullying) from him.

Kinchin, c. a little Child.

Kinchin-coes, c. the Sixteenth Rank of the Canting Tribe, being little Children whose Parents are Dead, having been Beggers; as also young Ladds running from their Masters, who are first taught Canting, then thieving.

Kinchin-cove, c. a little Man.

King’s Head Inn, or the Chequer Inn in Newgate-street, c. the Prison or Newgate.

King’s Pictures, c. Money.

King of all Beasts of Venery, a Hare.

King of the Gypsies, the Captain, Chief, or Ring-leader of the Gang, the Master of Misrule.

Kindly, Fruit, or Season, towardly. Kindness will creep where it cannot go.

Kinchin-morts, c. the Twenty seventh and last Order of the Canting Crew, being Girls of a Year or two old, whom the Morts (their Mothers) carry at their Backs in Slates (Sheets) and if they have no Children of their own, they borrow or Steal them from others.

Kissing the Maid, an Engine in Scotland, and at Halifax in England, in which the Head of the Malefactor is Laid to be Cut off, and which this way is done to a Hair, said to be invented by Earl Morton who had the ill Fate to Handsel it. Kissing goes by Favour, I suppose another sort is meant by this Proverb than the foremention’d.

Knack, or Slight in any Art, the Craft or Mystery in any Trade, a petty Artifice, or Trick like those upon the Cards. Knacks or Toies, a Knack-shop, or Toy-shop, freight with pretty Devices to pick Pockets.

Knave in Grain, one of the First Rate. Knaves and Fools are the Composition of the whole World.

Knight Errant, the Knight or Hero in Romances, that alwaies is to Beat the Giant, and Rescue the destressed Damsel.

Knight-Errantry, Romantick and Fabulous Exploits, out of the common Road, and above the ordinary Size, such as the wild Adventures of wandering Knights.

Knight of the Blade, c. a Hector or Bully.

Knight of the Post, c. a Mercenary common Swearer, a Prostitute to every Cause, an Irish Evidence.

Knight of the Road, c. the chief High-wayman best Mounted and Armed, the Stoutest Fellow among them.

Knobber, see Hart.

Knock in the Cradle, a Fool.

Knock-down, very strong Ale or Beer.

Knock off, to give over Trading; also to Abandon or Quit one’s Post or Pretensions.

Knowledge is no Burden. Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.

Knot, a choice Bird, something less than a Ruff.

Knotting, making Fringe.

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Labourinvain, lost Labour, such as washing of Blackamoors, shearing of Hoggs, hedging in the Cuckoe, &c.

Lac’d { Coffee, Sugar’d.

{ Mutton, a Woman.

Lacing, Beating, Drubbing. I’ll Lace your Coat Sirrah, I will Beat you soundly.

Ladder, see Badger, first Part.

Lady, a very crooked, deformed and ill shapen Woman.

Lady-birds, Light or Lewd Women; also a little Red Insect, variegated with black Spots.

Lag, c. Water; also Last.

Lag-a dudds, c. a Buck of Cloths. As we cloy the Lag of Dudds, c. come let us Steal that Buck of Cloths. To Lagg behind, or come after with Salt and Spoons. Lagg of the Flock, the Hindmost.

Lambaste, to Beat soundly.

Lamb-pye, Beating or Drubbing.

Lamb-skin men, c. the Judges of the several Courts.

Lambs-wool, roasted Apples and Ale.

Lame Excuse, a sorry Shift or Evasion.

Land-lopers or Land-lubbers, Fresh-water Sea-men so called by the true Tarrs; also Vagabonds that Beg and Steal about the Country.

Land-pirates, c. Highwaymen or any other Robbers.

Land-lord and Land-lady, Host and Hostess; also Possessors of Land or Houses, and Letters out of either to farm or for Lodgings. How lies the Land? How stands the Reckoning? Who has any Lands in Appleby? a Question askt the Man at whose Door the Glass stands Long.

Lank, Gaunt, Thin, Hollow, Lean, Meager, Slender, Weak. Lank Ears of Corn, very thin Ears.

Lanspresado, c. he that comes into Company with but Two pence in his Pocket.

Lantern-jaw’d, a very lean, thin faced Fellow. A Dark-Lanthorn, the Servant or Agent that Receives the Bribe (at Court.)

Lap, c. Pottage, Butter-milk, or Whey. ’Tis rum Lap, c. this is excellent Soupe.

Larbord, on the left side or Hand.

Lare-over, said when the true Name of the thing must (in decency) be concealed.

Largess, a Pittance properly given to Reapers and Harvest Folks, now used for any petty Donative, or small Gratuity.

Latitudinarian, a Church-man at large, one that is no Slave to Rubrick, Canons, Liturgy, or Oath of Canonical Obedience, and in fine looks towards Lambeth, and rowes to Geneva.

Layd-up-in Lavender, when any Cloaths or other Moveables are pawn’d or dipt for present Money; also Rodds in Pickle, of Revenge in reserve, till an opportunity offers to show it.

Lawn, a naked Space in the middle of a Park or Forrest, left Untilled, and without Wood, contrary to a Hay, which see in it’s proper Place; also very thin Linnen, formerly much Worn.

Layr, the Impression where any Deer hath Harboured or reposed.

Leachers, Lascivious or Lustful Men.

Leaden Pate, a dull, heavy, stupid Fellow.

Leaders, the first Players, Generals of Armies, and Men of most sway in great Councils or Assemblies; also the Fore-horses in Coaches and Teams. Who Leads? Who begins or Plays first.

Leash, Three; also the String wherewith a Grey-hound is Led.

Leather-head, a Thick-skull’d, Heavy-headed Fellow.

Leather-mouth’d Fish, Carp, Roach, &c. having their Teeth in their Throats.

Leathern Convenience (by the Quakers) a Coach.

Leaves, of a Tree, of a Book, of Doors, or Window-shutters, and of folding Tables; I must turn over a new Leaf with you, or take another Course with you.

Legerdemain, Jugglers Tricks; also Sharping.

Lesses, Boars Excrements.

Let’s take an Ark and Winns, c. let us hire a Skuller.

Let’s buy a Brush or Let’s Lope, c. let us scour off, and make what shift we can to secure our selves from being apprehended. Let him Laugh that Wins: Let the World say what they will, if I find all well at Home. Let every Man meddle with his own.

Leveret, the first Year, see Hare.

Levite, a Priest or Parson; also those of the Tribe of Levi, whose Inheritance the Priest-hood (craft and all) was.

Levy, the Prince’s, or any great Man’s time of Rising.

Leystall, a Dunghil.

Lib, c. to Tumble or Lye together.

Libben, c. a private dwelling House.

Libbege, c. a Bed.

Libkin, c. a House to Lye in; also a Lodging.

Libertines, Pleasant and profuse Livers, that Live-apace, but wildly, without Order, Rule, or Discipline, lighting the Candle (of Life) at both Ends. A short Life and a Merry one. Life is sweet. Life is half Spent, before we know what it is.

Lickt, Pictures new Varnished, Houses new Whitened, or Womens Faces with a Wash.

Lifter, c. a Crutch.

Light Finger’d, Thievish.

Light-mans, c. the Day or Day-break.

Light Friggat, a Whore; also a Cruiser.

Light Woman, or Light Huswife, Lewd, Whorish.

Light-timber’d Fellow, limber or slender Limb’d; also weak.

Lilly-white, c. a Chimney-sweeper.

Linnen-armorers, c. Tailers.

Line of the old Author, a Dram of Brandy.

Litter, any thing clatter’d up, out of Place or Order, What a litter here is? What a toss and tumble? Also a Litter of Cubbs, young Foxes; of Whelps, Puppies, young Doggs.

Little Barbary, Wapping.

Little Fellow or Action, Contemptible, Base, Sneaking, Ungentleman-like.

Loblolly, any ill-cookt Mess.

Lob-cock, a heavy, dull Fellow. In Lob’s Pound, Laid by the Heels, or clap’d up in Jail.

Lobster, a Red Coat Soldier.

Lock all fast, c. one that Buys and Conceals Stolen Goods. The Lock, c. the Magazine or Ware-house whither, the Thieves carry Stolen Goods to be secur’d; also an Hospital for Pockey Folks in Kent-street.

Lockram-jaw’d, Thin, Lean, Sharp-visag’d.

Loge, c. a Watch. I suppose from the French Horloge, a Clock or Watch. Filed a Cly of a Loge, or Scout, c. Pickt a Pocket of a Watch. Biting a Loge, or Scout, c. the same.

Loggerhead, a heavy, dull Fellow. To go to Loggerheads, to go to Fisticuffs.

Lolpoop, a Lazy, Idle Drone. To Loll, to Lean on the Elbows; also to put out the Tongue in derision.

Long-headed, Wise, of great reach and foresight.

Long-meg, a very tall Woman.

Long-shanks, Long-legged.

Long-winded Pay-master, one that very slowly, heavily, or late Paies.

Looby, a lazy dull Fellow.

Looking-glass, a Chamber-pot.

Loon-slatt, c. a Thirteen Pence half Penny. A Loon, see Lout. A False Loon, a true Scotch Man, or Knave of any Nation.

Lord, a very crooked, deformed, or ill-shapen Person.

Lore, Learning or Skill in any Thing.

Louse-land, Scotland. A Scotch Louse-trap, a Comb.

Lout, an heavy, idle Fellow. To Lout, to Low like a Cow, or Bellow like a Bull.

Loure, c. Money.

Low Tide, when there’s no Money in a Man’s Pocket.

Low-pad, c. a Foot-Pad.

Lubber, Lubberly, a heavy, dull Fellow.

Lud’s-bulwark, c. Ludgate Prison.

Luggage, Lumber.

Luggs, Ears: Hence to Lug by the Ears. Ye can he make a Silk-Purse of a Sowe’s Luggs, a Scotch Proverb. To Lug out, to draw a Sword.

Lullaby-cheat, c. a Child.

Lumber, Rubbish, Trash, Trumpery.

Lumpish, heavy dull, drowsy.

Lurched, Beaten at any Game. Left in the Lurch, Pawn’d for the Reckoning, or left at Stake to Smart for any Plot.

Lure, c. an idle Pamphlet; also a Bait. Throw out a Lure, to lay Bait.

Lurries, c. Money, Watches, Rings, or other Moveables.

Lyome, the String wherewith a Hound is Led.

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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, } the Vulgar, or Rabble.

Mobile, }

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 } Nos’d, { Flat.

Hawk } { 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. 6s 8d, 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.

Rovers, Pirates, Wanderers, Vagabonds. To Shoot at Rovers, at Random. To Rove about, to wander idly up and down.

Rough, Unpolisht, Unmannerly, Uncouth. To lie Rough, in one’s Clothes all Night.

Round-dealing, Plain, Honest Dealing.

Round-summ, a Lusty-Summ.

Round-heads, the Parliamentarian Party in the great Rebellion, that begun 1641.

Rout, (of Wolves) a Company.

Rouse, (the Buck) Dislodge him.

Rawland-for-an-Oliver, to give as good as he brought.

Roysters, c. rude, Roaring Rogues.

Rub, c. to Run away. A Rub, an Impediment, Obstacle, Hinderance, Stop, or Difficulty. Rub on, to Live indifferently. Rub’d off, c. Broke, and run away. Rub through the World, to Live Tollerably well in it.

Rubbers, Two (and sometimes Three) Games to make up; also a Rencounter with drawn Sword, and Reflections made upon any one.

Rub-rub, us’d on Greens when the Bowl Flees too fast, to have it forbear, if Words wou’d do it.

Rub-up, or refresh the Memory.

Rub-up, or Scower Armour, &c.

Rubs us to the Whit, c. sends us to Newgate.

Ruby-face, very red.

Ruck, a Bumble, or Heap.

Rud, a small Fish with a forked Tail, between which and the Roach, there is much about the same difference, as between the Herring and the Pilchard.

Ruff, an old-fashioned double Band; also a noted Bird, and a Fish, Pope, like a small Pearch, and when the Hawk hits the Prey, and yet not Trusses it.

Ruffin, c. the Devil; also a Justice of Peace, and also an Assasin.

Rufflers, c. the first Rank of Canters; also notorious Rogues. To Ruffle, to disorder any thing.

Ruff-mans, c. the Woods or Bushes.

Ruff-peck, c. Bacon. As the Ruffin nab the Cuffin queere, and let the Harmanbeck Trime with his Kinchins about his Colquarron, c. let the Devil take Justice, and let the Constable Hang with his Children about his Neck.

Ruffter-hood, a plain and easy Leather-hood worn by a Hawk, when first drawn.

Rug. It’s all Rug, c. the Game is secured.

Rum, c. gallant, Fine, Rich, best or excellent; also a West-Indian Drink stronger than Brandy, drawn from Dreggs of Sugar for the most part, yet sometimes from Fruits, and Rows of Fish; best when old, much us’d in Punch.

Rumly, c. bravely, cleaverly, delicately, &c.

Rum-booze, c. Wine; also very good or strong Drink.

Rum-boozing-Welts, c. bunches of Grapes.

Rum-beck, c. any Justice of the Peace.

Rum-bob, c. a young Prentice; also a sharp, sly Trick, and a pretty short Wig.

Rum-bite, c. a cleaver Cheat, a neat Trick.

Rum-bleating cheat, c. a very fat Weather.

Rum-blower, c. a very Handsom Mistress, kept by a particular Man.

Rum-bluffer, c. a jolly Host, Inn-keeper, or Victualler.

Rum-bughar, c. a very Pretty and Valuable Dog.

Rum-bung, c. a full Purse.

Rum-bubber, c. a cleaver or dextrous Fellow at Stealing Silver-Tankards (formerly) from Publick Houses.

Rum-cod, c. a good Purse of Gold, or round Summ of Money.