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A DICTIONARY 

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THE TURF, THE RING, THE CHASE, THE 

PIT, OF BON-TON, 

*AHD THE 

VARIETIES .OF LIFE, 

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For elucidating Words and Phrases that are necessarily, or purposely, 

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PREFACE. 

WHOLLY unlike any of its precursors, the present laboti- 

ous Dictionary claims for its characteristics a good portion 

of originality, great utility as to several neglected good old 

English sports, much amusement, and recent information, 

obtained vivil voce from some eschewed witlks of life; toge- 

ther with a moral inculcation here and there, that shall tell, 

where the solemn condone would fail. 

Every reader has a right to know his authour's motives for 

publishing at all, to be brought acquainted with his means 

of performance and his eligibility for the task; and the latter 

having likewise his rights to assert, this mutuality begets the 

undisputed custom of preface—the more gumptious the bet-. 

ter. If the writer willeth to add hereto an exposition of his 

views on the subject-matter in hand, or to say aught of the 

manner of executing his task—either by way of extenuation 

or exultingly, he has that right undoubtedly,—let him exer- 

cise it at his peril. Neither Grose, nor his editor Dr. H. 

Clarke, nor the preux Count de Vaux, have filled the bala- 

tronic gap, that is ever widening at the extreme base of the 

ancient castle of Lexicography: a chasm exists that the mo- 

dern artificers have in vain endeavoured to pass, or cover with 

their out-works of counter scarp and covert-way—the fosse 

must be entered ere 'tis passed, but the necessity of previ r 

,ously filling it needs no argument. Captain Grose was much 

'too gross, even for his day, besides which, his work is become 

antiquated, stale, and out of date; the nnint's attempts at 

the end of' his life (2 vols.) were indeed Vaut-rien, as that 

life had been ; and our friend Dr. Clarke's augmentations, 

though evincing him clericus, added to the structure lead, 

rather than beauty, or ‘strength. Nat Bailey should not be 

forgotten: he it even older than Grose, and twice as nasty; 

the Old Bailey was once a dirty place, and so unhealthily 

situate, that folks dropp'd there suddenly and frequently, and 

Nat either gave or received its cognomen—no matter which. 

So much for the occasion and the motive for coming out; 

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iV PREFACE. 

now for an extended view of the melancktoly state of this par- 

ticular walk of literature, until the p*ent auspicious mo- 

ment (May 1823); and chiefly as regards the other walks 

and alleys, the lights and shades of the highways and bye. 

ways of science and art. 

Throughout the whole circje of learning, each pursuit had 

long to boast its appropriate Dictionary, explicatory of terms 

of art, of words and phrases, that seemed necessary or.wev.e. 

rbndered so by long use. Motherby and Jacob, Nicholson 

and Mortimer,' sat down and' exhausted the slang err* - pf 

* What a host of enemies will not this one little word . engender ? How 

will every repetition and inflection of slang raise the ire expand the nos. 

trils, and redden the frothy muns of those who, imagine, becawe they 

may have ascended the montalto of universal erudition, none else shall 

dare mountshe bases of these literacy glkeiers over which they krryl.it. as 

if they had already conquered posterity; and adown which they :threaten. 

to hurl the weaker, more humble, aspirant after fame, to certain inevitable 

destruction ! .But let them be aware : the last family of the gluttons 

will not surrender tamely to the first of ol&word monopolists. Let Israel 

&Israeli of the new words" coinage, take, care of hisuseif : spacing! 

Jemmy still lives, as well as " Ilearsid." Tht n3 

ise.onopoles need be told, that the origin ()f all words introduced since the statute of 86th of Eaw. 

Sd. was no other than Slang, "according to Act of Parliament then 

passed ;" and for living authority we tell them, So thinks the grave antique 

Editor of the Gentleman's (vol. 99, it 520), who further adds, that 

it consisted. at first in 4 the /aborious and recondite, consisting of cant 

terms and slang, in cotempomry auithors." True, good Urban Niohols, ; —very true; and what beyond the recondite and the laborious doest thou 

detect in these pages? Look to the Addenda,' Sylvanus look at it; and 

if thou deign do so—what findest thou there but the reco;dike vacu a the 

empu!gata ecuberantia of" cotemporary authours ?" What lopping, and 

pruning, and clipping alike of the weak tendrils and rampant shoots—be. 

sides weeding and trimming down the noxious undergrowth—is not there 

visible at every step and every turn ? No longer confine your pities, Sylvaults 

et Sylvius, to the pool; froze-out gardeners," just allude to ; 

those Sylvicolse of doubtful mien. 

The title we have adopted for the verbal inventions of such" cotemporary 

authors," viz. SLO4N(1) is thus borne out, not only by a legal enactment, 

but also by the gravest, if not the most learned of cotetraporary crities‘ 

We have further reason for 'being satisfied with the choice thus made, 

and the application thereof.–which although apparently trivial is neverthe. 

less weighty, in a glossarial point of view: 'tis evidently derived from no 

ancient language, nor is it" indebted to a Celtic origin," The Latin hay. 

ing no word that' begins with SI—, (except slave, properly sclavi,) can- , 

not, therefore, aught tr) du with our slang. In this negative we see: 

just cauie hope ope to for ' st i long and lasting.peace with the more recondite. 

of the word peclors (at least)—those who deluge the, republic 'with. up , 

hill authorities and pointless quotations from the Scriptores that', 

threatening endle ss gasp to overwhelm WI by their stupendous ponderosity; 

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PitEFACE. V 

Medicine as of Law, of Chemistry and of Trade, each making 

up his long alphabetical account to the day of publication. 

But, alas ! to little purpose did those dingy pioneers in the 

forest of words work at radix and stemmata, from stem to 

branch, to twig and leaf vainly did they pursue their still 

receding labours, and exhau st by their pertinacity the midnight 

oil L Scarcely were the sheets thrown off at press when the 

Slangwthangers, each in his degree, set to work and inun- 

dated with novelties each separate science, lest the public 

should become as wise as the professors—and these lose their 

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Awl make us rather bear those ills we have 

Than fly to others that we know nought of. , 

Thrice happy are we, however, that Our dependance for victory over 

The simply learned in languages, rests not upon the defensive position 

just now thrown up as kind of outwork to our actual appal. "Happy, 

happy, happy tawttey Moor !" Proof positive is at hand ; i. e. derivate 

proof, and this in equity, must be received as legal proof, according to 

' the laws of the republic of word peckers. The definition of the word 

Is its-origin : better and better still. Slangy are the greaves with which 

the legs of convicts are fettered in our prisons,* having acquired 'that 

'lime from the manner in which they were worn, or borne about, by the 

several occupants. Those irons being in weight from one to four stone 

(from 12 lb. to 50 lb.) each set, required a sling of string [hemp, worsted, 

or silk] to support them off the ground, so that the garnished person 

might move his pins about from post to pillar, from the ward to the 

court, thence to the common room, to the sessions-house, and finally 

the press-yard—whereat they usually fell off his legs—and he too fedi a 

few minutes thereafter—" GOOD BYE, Jack." In performing those evolutions, 

as is well known to many—whom we name not--those greaves, 

irons, fetters, or darbies—call them what we like—[in fact, call them as 

we may, neversomuch, they seldom come, unless we enact some clever 

thing or other to get into their good graces)—each movement occasions 

. a musical clanking or clang, differing from its preceding bar ., as the sling 

or string may support the appendages more or less tightly; and then each 

alternate bar would sound either upon the slack-ened side of the irons or 

at the sling side—going" sling slang ; sling slang." If the occupant for 

the time being, happened, in merry Fin, to hop on one leg—as did often 

happen, the sound would be all sling, sling, sling,' or slang, slang, 

slang, according to the leg hopped-on or hopped-off; and, as the string 

(of hemp, worsted, or silk,t) already had the name of sling applied to it, 

The information may be of service to literary larceners—book pirates, 

that within a few years the same favour was extended to simple culprits 

merely ; but whether the reformation of Newgate extends to all jails 

non-constat. 

t True; as is that part of the legend, respecting rogues of the last 

century, which tells that certain highwaymen 'wore silver fetters'--To 

appearance and in effect they were silver: the richer thieves rubbed over 

their irons the solution of grain tin in aqua regia, which gave these au 

evanescent whiteness.

vi PRzritez. 

occupation. A new race of Physicians discovered and dig. 

closed the fact, that their predecessors had been but novices 

—their patients flats and yokels ; the Lawyers practised new 

guiddities, and reversed the old pleadings ; Chemistry was 

completely capsized (including le bouleversment desfranfais); 

and as for Trade, it slept, and had slept on, but for the 

lawyer's help : he stepped in, however, officiously, and poor 

Trade died within his grasp—at his dice, in B. R. or C. B. 

New Editors then became necessary for this new state of 

things ; and Bartholomew Parr, and T. Edlin Tomlins, D. 

Chenevix ' and 'Squire Dickinson, repaired the rents which 

Time had made, modernised the antiquated cut of their pre- 

decessors habiliments, and introduced the more modern slang 

of their respective avocations.* . 

In the midst of all this redundancy, who took in charge 

to elucidate and bring to the standard the all-important 

affairs of the Turf? What stagyrite settled those of the 

Ring, putting down his thoughts in alphabetic order?— 

N one. The Chase lay scattered through massy tomes, or 

pined in puny manuals to this hour. t The Pit, and its 

mates, remained in utter darkness as to one order of its 

sports, neither Billy, Charley, Rolfe, or Tim, knowing their 

way about, literally; Old Fleming, or Nash, although taking 

the lead as doodle -doo men, neither could or would expound 

or explain. Excepting a small tract or two on cocking—all 

the irons were the slangs, and the slang-wearers' language was of course 

slangous, or partaking much, if not wholly, of the slangs. So much for 

the derivation of the word SLANG: John Nichols bath used it, and so 

hath Jon Bee ; and both must be wrong—or both right "to a T" 

Never did Whitter make out a better Case, in Etymologicots Magnum; 

and, we leave the learned doctor to prove how it happened that the word 

Slang was subsequently applied, or misapplied, by many who could read 

books, but understood little of the ordinary talk of life; neither of that 

language which pertained to the Turf, the Stud, the Chase, or the Ring 

—which they equally termed the Slang of each particular species of sport. 

However settled, we submit, Domine gratia. 

Even these last-named are fast passing away like the baseless fabric 

of a vision ;' and they of the present era will see spring up new mushroom 

Editors, who will stick to the Author' (like the polecat to the coney, 

battening upon its vital fluid) and overlay his matter until he get buried in 

emendata et corrigenda. 

t What signifies alluding to Taplin, but to bestow a line upon an 

arrant offender; the old anonymous Sportsman's Dictionary (in 410.) was 

never compiled up to the mark of excellency of its own date ; and Time 

has heaped his dull oblivious years both upon this and that. 

Harlequin Billy, vulgarly called White, Charley Eastup, Jens Rolfe 

and Timothy Arrowsmith. Y. Fleming hathrelaxed.—See Pit,m Dict.

1P1IttrACZ. 

reifiained open to chance, to whim, and vagary, as the tables 

might turn, or the thought vegetate. For the language of 

Ron-ton, nothing, literally nothing, had been done to reduce 

its language to the standard of excellence, or to fix its beau- 

*es at the point of truth. 

For the lag of our subdivisions, however, much had been 

attenspted, long ago: the "Varieties of Life," were heretofore 

enlivened by the wit, or elucidated by the learning or 

the research of several sapient lexicographers. Nathan 

Bailey led the way in amount as to learning, if not as to 

antiquity; the glossary affixed to the memoirs of Mr. Bamfylde 

Moore Carew coming second, and going lowest.* Soon 

after this, ordinary life and language received some illustration 

from an anonymous hand, entitled " Characterism, or the 

Modern Age Displayed; being an attempt to expose the 

pretended virtues of both sexes," 12mo. E. Owen, ' Part I, 

Ladies:----' Part 2, Gentlemen,' no. date; but apparently 

circa 1750. Next in order, we had G. Parker's "View of 

Society and Manners in High and Low Life: Adventures," 

Ste. and comprising a history of the Stage, no date; about 

1780, 2mo. t 

" Encouraged by the sale of his preceding publication, Mr. 

Parker issued proposals for publishing a somewhat similar 

work, by subscription. It had for title "Life's Painter of 

variegated Colours, by G. P. librarian to the college of wit., 

mirth, and humour." Motto, " The proper study of mankind 

is man," 1789, Ridgway, 8vo4 In this volume the voca- 

bulary was extended to the utmost pitch of the author's 

means, and this might be confined to a mile round Covent 

Garden. -Capt. Grose's gg Literary Olio" and "Provincial Glos- 

sary," S proved him adequate to the task of completing "A 

"A new Dictionary of the Taunting Crew," 1 vol. small 12mo. was 

also low, very low indeed. 

1. In this publication was introduced a vocabulary comporting with 

the title, in part; Parker being moody addicted to low life, the society of 

players and that of the ale-shop. See Finish in Diet. where only we 

found him, and where he received and expected the adulation of the 

finishers; but he had never cut any figure as a player, was not a.man of 

even ordinary education, though a close observer, acute and satirically 

inclined, with some portion of humour. 

Two thousand three hundred copies were taken off of "Life's 

Painter," and Parker is supposed to have realised above two hundred 

pounds by the adventure. 

A work with the same title was afterwards produced by the Rev. 

Samuel Pegge, and another of the clergy gave us a third volume still 

more recently. 

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Viii Pit ET ACE. 

Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1 vol. small 

8vo. thus ciosiug the catalogue of all that had been. pm- 

viously done for elucidating the language of ordinary sport- 

ing Wei the life of fun, frolic, and gig.. 

Grose's book was reprinted verbatim several times ; it had 

been part copied, extracted, and gutted, as often * but each 

time more imperfectly, because at every step further and fur-s 

ther removed from the original. Many articles in the cap-. 

tam's book are finely archwological, and ought never to be 

erased; many more evinced his intimacy with the world, and 

will live though the man be .forgot. Beyond this a long, 

dreary, and extravagant waste of words and phrases, then 

little used, often belied, some worthless or worse, and a few 

kiever heard of but when the captain pronounced them, 0011P 

tributad to swell his book. But the public was content; 

and year after year passed away, adding annually to the 

dijapidation till 1811, when a new and .enlarged edition ap- 

peared with a grotesque title. 

To this' knpression Dr. H. Clarke added " University' 

Wit" to the " Pickpocket Eloquence" of a.profess* in that 

line, who had been suborned for the purpose, and.cannot be 

t named, further than the initial P. comes to: " Buckish Slang," 

andievarious scraps by several assistants, completed the 

It would be gratifying to a writer of candour were he justified in 

makinF one honourable exception; but the pretensions set up for " A 

new Dictionary of all the Cant and Flash languages, used by every class 

of offenders, from a Luny Prigger to a High Tober Gloak," ill warrants 

the performance of such a wish The authour is purported to have been 

dead at the time of publication, although the dedication to W. Addington, 

Esq. of Bow-street, is said in a memoir prefixed to-have been written by 

him', yet signed " ThetEditor 1." This little Dictionary, however, is on 

one account desirable to the present, and all authours who undertake to illustrate 

the language of commop life, especially to *bow wlaose tastes lie in 

exposing that of the dishonest variety of life; than which Ilene is more 

necessary to be known by those who dwell in town, who feel they moot 

always stay in.doors, and have property they would not willingly lose.— 

His argument for the utility of such publications is peat and forcible, 

and would, form our apology, so far, were such course desirabJe; he is 

addressing the chief of Police at Bow-street, and the (magistrate sanctions 

the sentiment by his permission. "The danor of depredation is greatly 

increased by the circumstance of thieves afsociating together, and forming 

by their language a distinct community. Thieves at present, secure 

that their jargon is.unintelligible to others, converse with ease andfaini- 

Rarity in the streets, on plans of plunder, &c. but when the meaning of 

those mysterious terms is gepernaly disseminated, the boaest sulieot will 

be better able to detect and frustrate their designs."

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editorial pains of this flasny work ; and the publisher dishedup 

a title .conformably thereto to grace or to sell his books. 

" Hell-fire Dick's" name, witlisome others, bore a prominent 

feature on the first leaf; Dick Owen, or Vowen, or Vaughan, 

had, however, nought whatever to do with "the writing 

part," not being in the habit of penmanship; and he wit% 

moreover, previously dead and buried. The other names an 

the title were fictitious, or not allowable,—it was, in fact, .0. 

printer's job; nevertheless, the book contained all that other 

books of the same professton contained, and much new and 

interesting matter, and may be pronounced the beat edition 

of Grose, and the farthest-gone thing of the kind ever produced, 

or probably that ever will be produced. 

A reprint,* of Grose's old edition appeared last year, 

with copious extracts from this last-mentioned edition, t 

and the introduction of several inventions of the editor's 

own manufacture4 These latter were necessarily impertinent; 

besides, a man who makes cramp words and invents 

arbitrary names in one place for the purpose of giving explanation& 

in a fresh book, does but increase the evil . by 

creating error and uncertainty. It was but a poor excuse, 

that a certain writer of his own memoirs, (Vaux) noticed at 

page 3, had added thereto a cant Dictionary, filled with the 

like absurdities.§ To complete the enumeration it is proper 

just to notice, that the latter thing-like Dictionary is reprinting 

(nearly verbatim) by piece-meal, as a make-weight, at the 

end of an obscure weekly publication, which has been set up 

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Ws reprint was undertaken in great haste, upon the printer thereof 

iearain that 'nebula's for the present dictionary were in train, (April 28, 

1822;) and it appeared in December, a time too short for the research 

necessary to such a work. How it has failed a comparison will show. 

t Like every other work of the same nature, Clarke's edition of 1811 

contained a few misprints or errors of the press. These have been 

copied, with Simian servility, into the publication of last..year; thus is ' 

error propagated. In ten minutes, ten such blundering mishaps of the 

copyist caught our eye; take for example, 1st. "To BLOT THE SIERIP 

IAD JAR IT)" Edition of 1811; the h in Jerk is dropped out, leaving a 

white space :—the careful editor of 1822 has left it out also ! 2d. "CAR. 

%qua alma," in the edition of 1811, Hans Carve', is misprinted Nam at 

one place—so the new edition of last year. 

Mr. Egan, we have shewn (with small exertion of critical acumen) 

is wholly incapable of undertaking a work requiring grammatical accu 

racy—to say no more here. 

His Memoirs were suppressed by reason of the vice they inculcated, 

and with them Viscount Collard's Cant went likewise to the trunkimakers.

PRZFACE. 

by the black-legs of St. James's, in defence of their illegal 

occupation. It is a 4to., and if we quote the initial, 111—; 

the item is not given with any design of aiding the infernal 

purpose of its supporters: See Play -world, in Addenda. 

Of the manner of executing the following pages, .some-; 

thing need be said in explanation; particularly as regards 

omitting almost entirely to name the authorities cited. With 

numerous examples before our eyes of a contrary and more satisfactory 

course of proceeding,* the present departure from 

that custom might be considered a retrogradation in Lexicography, 

but for the circumstance of this work being calm .- 

lated to throw light upon the authours so quoted, explaining 

their absurdities, elucidating obscurities, obscurities and laying bare 

their secrets, rather than receiving light 

them. A few 

exceptions will be found, however, wherein this rule no-rule 

is departed from, without weakening its validness; for, it 

would be most absurd tt) say to a man who sets out in life, 

or in book-making, upon a wrong plan, "Don't alter," as 

some worldlings might then arrive at a bon-ton Cockney's 

alter—which has (h) for its initial; but, when we turned 

away from wrong -doing, in this respect, we disdained to 

erase, through pride, and to show how a vigorous mind 

goes on to improve ad finam, like the last gleams of an 

expiring taper. And, truly some of our authorities would 

be none, as Dogberry might say, not being drawn from 

books, or other written documents; but being dicta, aptly 

drawn from the mouths of downie coves, phrases over-, 

heard in the market-place, or slang picked up in the coffee- 

panny, around the ring, and at other verbal sources equally 

authentic, where the people do not make parade of their deep 

reading or facile penmanship, the quoting of names would 

redound little to our purpose. What satisfaction could 

be derived from the knowledge that such and such phrases 

fell in the super-finest style from the potatoe-traps of Harry 

The glossaries of Spelman, Ducance, Junius, Dr. Whitter, were 

visible precedents, as were the Dictionaries of the Academie Francoise 

and of Johnson. But those old worthies required support and the suffrage 

of others still more ancient: sad apology for book-making culprits, 

who thus call evidence to character! For the present attempt, on the con-. 

trary, no such support is requisite, no helping a lame dog over a stile; 

whilst our motives rest unimpugned, no impleader of" Not guilty" can be 

put in; nor need we, by naming our acquaintances like those worthies, bla. 

son our learned research ; for this must be felt by the reader at every pas.

PREPA-011. 

Lemoine, or Harry Dims dale, of General or Joe Norton? What * 

though we cited to reappear Bill Soames, or Mister G. Pound, 

or, indeed, to say no more, of Mr. William Perry,* each, in 

his distinct degree, a professor? In another walk of life's: 

varieties, would our readers balance between the preference 

to be given, in this respect, to those par nobiks Bill Gibbons, 

Jack Scroggins, or Jack Carter? or those otiter great ora- 

tors, Jack Atcherlee, Harlequin Billy, or Jack Goodlad? 

C,ome we now to the consideration of those other heads 

of our glossarial labours named in the frontispiece; in the 

course of which we hope to show, these were not undertaken 

impertinently, without previous preparation for the task, nor 

without a view to practical utility, and to the character and 

manners of the times. Having well cleared away the rubbish, 

the elevation proceeds without interruption. 

This person,- as well as &ernes, are !public characters of no little 

moment, on the present occasion, and each deserves a word or two. 

to character.' Having once touted Bill drawing a tattler, without 

splitting;i the fellow in return paid a look of gratitude once a quarter for 

twenty years and, when he had got lagged through the false evidence of 

Vaughan, (die traitor-trap,) who was it obtained a revision of his sentence, 

and consequent pardon, but Jon Bee, Esq.! Bill is however, 

gone again, the herring-pond to scan; done, doubly, for a din gy wipe, 

the hapless man! 

As for Will. Perry, who "left it oft, and went into the service of a 

brewer," with him our ratlins have been closer rooved. Will could 

write too, and indite too qualifications which, backed by his master's 

assurances, recommended him to our consideration, though not to our 

endearments. He confessed all, in black and white (in 1818); we proved 

his veracity in most cases, took his word for the remainder, and, di.. 

missing the last thought of concealing a secret, (an impossibility,) pub. 

fished all. Perry's "London Guide, or Living Picture of London," a 

pocket manual, will receive no puff at these plumed hands—the public 

having decided; it was, moreover, about to become the precursor of 

another work, modified to "Jiving London," undertaken for the publisher 

of a still life," Picture of London." But the speculation having 

blown off, the circumstance casually came out before another publisher, 

in April (menus ominis,) and not long after appeared the "Life in London' 

of Egan, 1820. In this sort was Will Perry, a character suspected of 

having lost something besides a fin, the first cause of that deluge of lowlife 

exposition which, for three years, bath floated Town ; unless, indeed, 

we go back to a higher cause than Perry, even to Soames himself, the 

recital of whose unwon suavities brought Perry under notice in such a 

way as to excite us to take a handmaid's part in his said confessions.-- 

Proud lent a hand to Dr. H. Clarke's edition of Grose before noticed. 

4. The reasons for inaction are assigned in the new Monthly Magazine, 

for June 1817, (" Hints on Police Matters") and London Guide, p. St.

Zii PR/FACE. 

Fitness for an undertaking of this nature is not always to 

be found in the aptitude or similarity of an author's previous 

pursuits. Some pounce upon and perform (a novelty) a 

miracle at once, by a single effort as it were: this is genius; 

but genius is .poetical, and belongs not to a critical glossary 

or explication, particularly of sporting terms. Hard work, 

years of drudgery, and labour upon labour, is his lot who 

undertakes the composition of a dictionary; and, notwith- 

standing his utmost care, he subsequently reviseth his pages 

with a blush for such as seem too positively penned. For 

the Chase, (primeval. sport!) and that refinement on its 

hippiatric adjunct, the Turf, what has been done by Osbal- 

deston, by Taplin, or by the anonymous "Sportsman 

Diet." 4to. Robinsons? Mere names these, aignifying sound, 

with 'barefaced paltry plagiarism, prepense and cifore. 

thought. The Ring, abandoned to worse than Cimmerian 

darkness, for years lay prostrate at the feet of misintelli- 

gence, to call it by no fitter name; misrule ran riot round its 

ranks, whilst mishaps and mistakes (buls) misfortunes and 

misencordia, with several other misses, followed each other 

in mazy wild, until " a . Ring!" could no longer be called 

without a mis-fit and many misdeeds. 

Paternally refrigerant of those misdoings, the projection 

of a fortnightly publication, titled "The Fancy," six months 

stemmed the torrent, like unto so marl" stout Acts of Par- 

liament. Its pages inculcated some enlightened views, and 

boasted of more accurate reports, than hitherto attempted, on 

every topic connected with British sports, particularly those 

of the Ring, until the period of its cessation, (Dec. 1821 ;*) 

- when the projection ofa greatly enlarged publication, monthly, 

entitled the Fancy Gazette and Annals of Sporting,t much 

, more room, and a more substantial vehicle, gave hopes of 

the realization of those philanthropic wishes. In its progress 

.hitherto, instruction as much as amusement has been sought 

Sixteen numbers owe to this pen their contents : We are answerable 

for every line of 392 pages, and the sale of several thousand copies of 

each, expressed the favourable opinion of the public. Hereupon, that 

which was done for the historians Henry by Andrews, and Watson by 

Thomson, Squire Jones (the "Actual Life" man) undertook to'perform 

' for us but he soon declined the plagiary, when several more publications 

with the same title, (numbering 17 and onwards,) were produced by a 

button-maker's apprentice. But "soft is your horn," Sawney. 

4. Conceding to an immaterial alteration, the first is now last and the 

last first.

lon EPA ea. 

for, and a portion of the credit attached thereto, Was obtained' 

rather than profit.* Those characteristics, and unshaken 

honesty in drawing conclusions, attracted monthly to 

that.print an unexampled degree of public patronage; not 

among those of The Sporting World,' merely, (novice*, 

adepts, and amateurs,) but those right Old-English gentile+. 

men, also, men of learning and taste, who see the English; 

character in English sports, and would- sustain the former by 

upholding the latter. To some of those, the terms of art 

appropriate to, each respective sport, were .unknown, or not 

_ properly appreciated, and the mined reading of others 11 44. 

cessarily fell into distraction and confusion, in consequence 

of the Slangwhangery of the Jargonists;t a.state of incer- 

titude, and liableness to error and miscon.ception, it became 

indispensable should be put an end to, in some manner or 

other; and the alphabetic form offering readier means of 

refevence- than the didactic, (which had been awhile pursued,) 

that arrangement was therefore adopted. How the design 

has Wen executed may be worth examination. 

.1flost of the amateurs in one species of sport evince a corm 

tain taste for one other species, at least, some for all; and it is 

_not uncommon to find the same gentleman alternately in the 

, 

*. Very strange, but very true, notwithstanding, on the part of its editor; 

at least : very 'lbw real Sportsmen look after the bustle, except as it 

contributes to their favourite fanci.. 

The office of editor is described under that head in Addenda- lie Is not, 

however, entitled to commendation for every excellent piece that appears 

in his publication; nor, by the same token, ought he to attract censure 

fin every prosing essay, or fudgeful treatise that may creep into his 

publication, any more than the skilful accoucheur is answerable for the 

after-follies of a wet-nurse. "More nonsensical essays have followed 

the. ward "On," said Sam. Johnson, " than any other word in the 

English language." "On Peace, on Marriage, on Dying, &c." and alaoki 

the stuff that follows. 

As to the particular publiceiion spokva of in tbe test, the share its 

literary .accoucheur-dad takes in each number, may be drawn (torn the. 

big-letter . words "FANCY GAZATTS" to the end of each, respectively 

(with one unmarked exception, only, in Nod 8,) including all the Ainturia. 

proper, or " Occurrences, ' together with an essay or two (or three) in. 

this first division, and the critical revision of such of those essayists as 

request that favour; the 9th No. 'being the only one for which those 

offices pervades every page, the 17th, Qn the contrary,, having only ene 

such piece at his hand,.viz. " Memoirs of Thonitou.11 

t The reader will of course turn to those worda. in Woe Dielietstriro 

alai), to Big, Craven stakes, &c. &c. and .4' kr, Boa% Nouvelle, Historian, 

tted Snal‘alicsadgd in the Acidsatcks

liv PRZFACE. 

Cock-Pit, at the Chase, in the Ring, or on the Turf, now4lOting 

his cross-bred canine, now baiting the badger; occasionally, 

he frequents the haunts of Bon-ton and during the sprees of 

Town-life he must see much of those Varieties which alone 

render this life supportable. Would it not be strange, then, 

if the language, the terms of art, and go-by phrases, used 

among one set of sportsmen were not introduced to, and 

grafted upon another set? and thus produce a new series of 

combinations in our language, quite worthy of being marked 

and exemplified at this day, when many an old English 

sport is passing away, to make room for the sleek-headed 

age of decrepitude and toad-eating slavery! On the other 

hand, where secrecy is sought for a cant language, whose 

existence is dangerous, the necessity of disclosure must be 

obvious; even when comparatively innocent in its effects, 

the investigation of its origin and derivation is at least 

curious, if not instructive, for in this we may discern, with 

Monboddo, " the origin of languages." 

Many a critic will see, or fancy he can perceive, In the 

mode of illustration here adopted, some resemblance to that 

of other glossaries: be it so ; but the mighty affair must be 

referred to some likeness of longer standing than the present 

century comes to* Let him be informed, that collections 

were made towards this volume, from the day that Clarke's 

edition of Grose first appeared (18110 and finally, these 

pages have been at press from the 6th November to May, as 

may be gathered from many a temporary passage; therefore 

no modern compiler will please have the arrogance to consider 

himself consulted, as to what passeth in the present select 

. . 

tilkinl kit likenesses, the authour would have put hien, facing the 

frontispiece, for the amusement of his readers, after the example of half 

a dozen other great penmen, [viz. Sir C. Alldits, the opposing Sir Cooper 

Daniel, and his friend Jack Cole; Mr. Evil Prince, Jemmy Asperne, and 

Parson White,] but that one Jones, (a fellow not known to the present 

quillman from Adam,) bath already forestalled the market in this respect, 

and fixed it up in effigie facing a book of blindman's type, writing thereon 

SZAKSPBARE," by way of hoax. Vanity! Vanity!! All is vanity. 

Furthermore, would the student in Balatronic lore learn aught of the 

authour's birth, parentage, and education, his life, character, and all that 

sort -of thing, will be not find it all written out at large in the first Book 

of Fancies, page 128? The reading twenty lines of autabiography, will 

not be time thrown away in drawing together more closely the ties that 

ought to exist between a reader and his authour. Sam Coleridge drew 

upon patience much larger bills than this: !dews ' 

Biegraph.

PRZFACII. XV 

pqmpany. If a man on his trial may be allowed to speak 

thus early, the authour would confess that he imagines 

himself indebted for manner to Mr: Cadet-Gassicourt, 

whose "Neologism; or new modes of thinking, acting, and 

writing," may have served him for outline model. But then 

-the work of Mr. Gassicourt proves that he was neither up 

to the macaronic style here used, nor down to our fustian, 

all his stiffening having the appearance of rich brocade 

hung over a fine poupie. Pegge has been already noticed, 

but not seen by us—and that seems comical: Meantime, 

upstarts Mr. Nares, with his "glossary of common words," 

very similar to this; but him have we sedulously avoided, 

because in the refraction of his reviewer, (Mr. Urban's) quo- 

tationsit he plainly appears to have gone to work. upon our 

plans.—Hear him: 

"To diversify the work, I have not confined it to words, 

but have included phrases and proverbial sayings, with 

allusions to customs and even to persons, when something of 

their history seemed necessary to illustrate my anthours. I 

have made it also, occasionally, a vehicle for critical obser- 

vations." A clearer case could not be made out, either that 

this "one of the clergy" must be a wizard, and so have 

fathomed our brains, or, that the present state of our language 

and customs, lying betwixt "hawk and buzzard," demands 

ample elucidation at this particular conjuncture, when a 

deluge of impertinent novelties must be opposed by a deter- 

mined antique Neology and attachment to the radix. 

Following the example of wiser heads and better pens, 

classic writers are here quoted abundantly; acting as props 

to the cause in band, like stout witnesses on a trial at law, or 

IMMANP.O,MNION=101■11=■■■■■asswomsgmassomixxim■Mmismiosimlawawsaig 111111■ININIIINIWww.■■dommEammapasisomsso 

That writer is himself indebted to a much older authority for his 

meaner, probably; the Etymological Dictionary,' of his countryman 

Message, (I vol. folio) having escaped recollection at the moment that 

bit-of candour in the tett escaped this pen. By the way, Mr. Gassicourt 

is recently dead, so we can say this, or any other scandal, of him, in 

perfect security--personal, legal, or literary. 

Gentleman's Magazine for March, 1828, p. 520, odd. In a 

very early volume of this parent-magazine were given a few pages, by 

way of sample, of a Slang Vocabulary, then termed Cant. If, as we 

suspect, this part of the magazine fell to the share of Dr. Johnson, who 

was then its editor, we have to lament that he did not proceed with the 

design, or to rejoice at the opportunity this circumstance gave him of 

introducing even a small portion to his great work. Sam Johnson's 

opportunities of picking up midnight slang was, probably, as great 

dosing the lib-time of Dick Savage, as that of Jon Bee himself.

xsi PUMICE. 

unpaid auxiliaries bearing the brunt of the battle. Homer and 

Virgil, in the freest andmost sublime translations, Scarron ii 

'Medial story, and Dibdin, with twenty other' vocalists of 

modern times, elucidate obscurities and clear up doubts, as 

charcoal (smutty, agent!) carries down the empyreuma or 

foetid liquids. How hath the little busy BBB 

Improved each shining hour? 

Wath gathered honey all the day 

From every opening flower, 

ABER/MATIONS, a few will be met with, and must be 

explained: v. stands for verb, whilst (a) prefixed to a word 

signifies that that is a noun. These words, with pron. for 

pronounced or pronunciation; viz. videlicet, for namtly; and 

i. e. id est —that is to say, close the list. 

Moreover, when the reader findsi one lard word explained 

by another, lie must turn to that other, either in this book 

or Johnson's; this course was pursued by way of exercise, 

after the example of that great doctor himself. 

saremOsmaiordir 

BOOK BINDISS be assupw: 

Ye need .not inquire for signatUre e: it was ever !an ugly sip), so the .printer 

thought, and he left it. out, with, its twenty -four paot. But (ha matter le right, 

and read* on; so It's no matter, though tile prihter have his Stolle as well as 

the .authour and his reader.

DICTIONARY 

OF 

VARIETIES. 

NM=MEM 

A. 

ABATURES—foilin g ; the sprigs and grass that .a Stag . 

thrusts down in passing out of, or into, cover. 

Abbess—lady Abbess, a bawdy-house-keeper, feminine, of 

the highflyeY Sort. 

Abbot's priory—the King's-bench priion ; 'Abbot's park' being 

restricted to the rules: so called after the actual C. J. 

A, B, C-darian—a Schoolmaster or , Mistress ; or one who 

pretends to uppishness in spelling. "My poney eat plum 

pudd'n out of a barber's bason,' no one in the room can 

spell that—for a guinea, except- myself," says the A. B. 

C-darian whereas he himselfeyer neglects the preterite ate, 

cockneyfies pudding, and expects Johnson should be the 

rule for basin and pony, in which latter his orthography 

is not right. See our' Poney ;"tis a rum one. . 

Abigail—a lady's waiting-woman. She who shows upat a 

bodikin. 

Abrac—learning, generally; He who is up to Abrac, being 

considered little less than a wizard. Arabic, and the 

learning taught in Egypt is understood, as Mathematics; 

Astronomy, &c. ; and yet our strolling gypsies are sup.. 

posed tn have a natural insight of Abrac and:futurity, than 

whom a less book-taught race never existed. Free Masons 

take a taste of Abrac in their 6 lectures ;' but of the 

naphta (froth.) and residuum (sediment) only. 

Abrahatners—a lot, or receptacle full of beggars, half naked, 

ragged, and dirty. Vagrants. 

Abram—naval for being sick; out of condition, naked. 

"Sham Abram you may; ah, every day; 

But you must not sham Abraham Newland? 

She's all Abram,' i. e. quite naked. " What an Abram r 

exclaimed of a zagged fellow. 

B

2 ABR—AGE 

Abram -men—fellows dressed up in rags and kicksliaws, pre- 

tending to have been bedlamites. Also, thieves of pocket- 

books only. 

Absence, leave of'—an order to depart; discharge from an 

employment, suddenly. 

Academy —a brothel or bawdy-house. Floating Academy— 

the hulks, prison-ships. Academy —a prison of the hard. 

labour sort; thus, the House of Correetion is Adkins's aca- 

demy, and the pupils or inmates are Academicians.' 

Accommodation -house. The Reader had better consult 6 Fubbs' 

than we explain the minute difference that exists between 

these and a Dress4iouse' or a Bodikin.' Consult 'Ann' 

also. 

Acteon —a Cuckhold. There sits my acteols, ignorant and 

hornified.' Acteon, the froward son of Phcehus had a pair 

of antlers planted on his brow, for prying into the secrecies 

of Diana. . 

Active Citizen —a Louse. 

Adam--a thief's accomplice. Adam Tiler; a fence, or re- 

ceiver of stolen goods who lends .a hand occasionally— 

when he can do it safely. Adam's Ale —Water. 

Addenda —Additions; (bon ton) as, a dinner being ordered, 

some one orders an addenda of dishes : So have we an 

addenda, proper to be consulted of all. 

Ad libitum —used in music, for to play or sing a; the per- 

former's fancy and powers lead him. Ad libitum,' a bay 

gelding, ran at Aberystwith, 1822. Ad libitum is also high 

flash for freedom of the Will.' Fine fellows with frog- 

buttons, and halfpay-men who affect the high-flights, drink 

ad libitum,' give orders ad libitum, and pay for them—ad 

tibitum. 

A. F.—Across the Flat; a very pretty course for two-year- 

olds, of one mile and a quarter, at Newmarket. "A. F." 

—(t1,1rfish), for having 6 come across a flat,' who has laid his , 

bets the wrong way. 

After -claps are generally abjured: Let us have no after- 

claps, i. e. surcharges- or mistakes. 

Against the grain—contrary to one's feeling; as 'tis when 

instead- of winning. Ive lose by our labour. 

Age—That in which We live is reckoned the wisest, di. ough 

croakers say not the happiest, the preceding age being 

deemed' ever the best. The present is the age of gas, Of 

steam, and turtle; the last that of liberty, loyalty, and 45.

AIR—AME 3 

The age of Elizabeth, is considered her 'golden days,' 

. though freedom lay in fetters till Cromwell's time. Aged 

men are esteemed but codgers and fogeys, though aged 

horses (full six and a day) are then at their prime, but aged 

women are never forty. All-age - stakes, or plates,—are 

those for which start any horse, mare, or gelding, including 

3-year olds ; with onus' rising by grades from these, capri- 

ciously, but with allowances, and sometimes extras, accord- 

ino. to circumstances. 

Air and Exercise—the pillory, revolving; or being flogged at 

the cart's tail. 

A-la-mode—without further explanation beef,' is to be un- 

derstood; clods and stickings, stewed to rags and seasoned 

high. 'TM used in throwing off against a person's dress, 

talk, &c. 'Some 'folks are all a-la-mode to-day ;' showy, 

frenchified. 

All-agog—women are so affected when they expect marriage, 

a trip to the fair, or the playhouse; Derived from the gog- 

gk of their eyes on such-like occasions.—All aground— - 

is that man's affairs who has not a bob to bless himself with. 

Alderman—a fat turkey, roasted and hung in chains—of 

sausages. 

Aldgate Pump—a draft upon this hydraulic, when promised, 

is negative payment. 

All my eye—See Betty. 

Allowances—(turf) mares and geldings running against horse' 

- are allowed weight (usually 3lbs. each) ; also, if coming of 

untried parents, 3lbs, each and either. Fillies always carry 

" less than colts 2, 3 or 4, and sometimes 5lbs., but this is 

- not called by any-name. Allowance—Bub and Grub, with 

a —, clean shirt, and a guinea, twice a-week, is good. 

allowance. See Monkey's allowance. 

All-set.—Desperate fellows, ready to start upon any kind of 

robbery, or other mischief.- 

AU sorts, or All Nations—spirits compounded of all the drip- 

persin a cellar, and the pew ter save-all on a gin-shop counter. 

Amateur—applied to frequenters and backers of pugilistic . 

contests most of whom span' a bit, if they be not profi- 

dents. See Ring. Musical amateurs also exist. 

Ambidexter—having the use of both hands alike; said also of 

a lawyer who takes fees from both plaintiff and defendant. 

Amen Curler—a parish-clerk, or assistant at any chapel or 

conventicle. 

B 2

4 ' AMU—APP 

- 

A. M..—Ancaster Mile, at Newmarket, is 1778 yards long. 

In another sense: "at 10 o'clock A. M." is antemeridian, 

—forenoon. 

Amuse (v.)—Co-thieves, who keep in talk or otherwiseamuse 

persons to be done. Snuff thrown in the eyes, will amuse 

the person practised upon, while he is robbed by the drawers. 

Anglers.—Thieves who with a hook at the ead of a moped& 

drag to them the ends of cloth which may lie exposed ; and 

so pull out entire pieces. , 

Anticks—those who practise distortions and tricks, to attract 

notice and extract brownies. 

Apple-cart--To upset any one's apple-cart, is to toss or knock; 

- him down, or otherwise harm him. 

April-fool—one sent upon a, bootless errand, or to obtain a 

nullity on the first of April. 

Aqua pumpagine—water, cold; pump-water. 

Arguefy the topic—a phrase used. of boxing-matches formerly, - 

by Captain Tophaxn.. v . . 

Argument. —He attains .the best of any *van argument, who 

has the best pair of lungs ; whence we are inclined, to fail 

in with that pronunciation of the word which calls it Hard 

gumment.' The next best to him, is he who can offer tQ lay 

very heavy sums that are qpite .unooclerable. 

Ark—a boat or wherry. Ark-man—watftnnan; awl ark-ruifs, 

ruffians who assist game watermen in robbery.? Ark pirate, 

the same. ' Ark and winus .1loat and sculls, or oars. 

Hang an tct keep behind, having the backside 

in view. See .gum: Backside, 

Article—a woman, comeeitable, is an article. The articles,' 

an agreement;, also, a brace of pistols.' My articks'-r-my 

breeches. 

Ass—familiarly called Jacl,c,and treated accordingly ; he is.the 

. emblem . .of patient stupidity, and the maw who enacts.him- 

self like Jack, is an Ass, and should be told of his Asinine 

conduct. The ass's mode of sitting iis his most graceful 

attitude ; hence, the name of the sitting part it masi, with 

the trivial introduction of. an (r). 'ZS all my a. in a 

band-boxs," when asinine stories are batched up. 

Attic—the, upper story of a house as well as of a person's 

head. Attica was the place in ,Orieece where people , wese; 

most up to wit andiearning—heads,well filled: Cockder1/4 - 

shire, with all its faults,. is the present Ahtica of the world. 

—Paris a second rater---Lutetia avaunt. .

T—B A G 5 

Awtem—(from:the Latin Auditio) a church, and a clergyman is 

Awiembatoley. Autem cacclers ; Methodists, and dissenting 

chapels generally, are Autem caccle-tubs : the Autem sneak, 

is robbing in churches and chapels. Autem-jet; a parson, 

any haw. Autem quaver tub,' a Quaker's meeting-house. 

Autem Mott, or mort, a she-beggar pretending to religious 

fervour; and a w—e with the same aspect. Autem divers,' 

pick-pockets, who attend places of religion. Autein 

gogglers ; conjurors, witehro, and fortune-tellers, of either 

sex. —See All-agog. 

Aunt—a bawd or old procuress, or hanger-on upon wh--s ; 

sometimes called Mammy or Mother ' My Aunt's,' 

an accommodation-house, where half-modest women resort, 

as to a relative or aunt's.' 

B. 

Babes ofgrace—sanctified-looking persons, not so. Rogues 

in the, stocks, are Babes in the wood,' and so are persons 

in the pillory. Almost out of vogue. 

Back,gammoner, or Back-doors man or gentieman—a fellow 

whose propensities lie out of the natural order of things in 

England. . 

Backside, of a house which has a front-side; 'es. ainopen space, 

illustrated by Lord Erskine in the House of Commons, 

"There WW1 MI old woman who lived at Dundee 

And out of her backside there grew a plum tree." 

His lordship meant to pkas upon her sitting-place. 

Bacon, to save one's,'—to escape danget, of hanging, of 

.tije lag, or loss of blunt. Bacon face–i-fat chops, full and 

brawney. 

Badge Coves—Paupers who wear the livery of their parish. 

' Madge Coves,' infamy itself—men:who enact the parts of 

women: not to be confounded with/the first in false elision. 

Badger (v.)-;--to bully, to confound, iptrplex, or teaze. 

Bad manners.—An exclamation accusatory of the person addressed. 

' Bad manners! cried I,,of tobliteness don't crack !' 

Aidg.---To give the Bag to any one; to leave him suddenly. - 

_Bagatelle—play upon a .board An which are nine holes, num- 

bered,into which as many balls are to be knocked or shoved: 

it came up In .1804, &OA the new ,Fretch,game, and 

the word signifies-- trifle, or (thing of small importance. 

.AlOggbp-- fa saucy minx, ia Slut r Vr—e. /Leavy baggage— 

_women 4u4 eNMIesi. , I ,

6 B A G.BAn. 

Bags, Old Bags.—Ld. E—n had the first name bestowed 

on him by his Royal Master, while his daddy and mammy 

yet lived at the Crown and Sceptre; old was added by Will. 

Hone, and since then the lord has used green bags for hold-. 

ing his incipient counter-plots, which he lays before the 

house, sealed up. 

A Baker's dozen ; 14, that number of rolls being given as 12. 

Balsam—money. Here's Saturday night come and no bal- 

sam in the rookery! Here, pop my ticker at my uncle's." 

Ballum-rankum—a hop or dance of prostitutes naked. 

Barn—a jocular imposition. 

Bandogs—bailiff and follower. Iron utensils, still used in 

country fire-places, where wood only is burnt. 

Bang—to beat, to excel. Banging ; great, big. 

Bang-up—quite in fashion, at the top of the mode. All-right. 

Bank—some thirty or forty- different associations in Town, 

and about nine time as many in the provinces, form those 

extensive pawn-shops called Banks. Very convenient and 

very dangerous, they resemble much those other Batiks in 

the Hells of St. James's, which consist- of congregated 

black-legs, who club together their numerous trifles and 

play against all comers. Strangers stand but apoor chance 

at play with such numbers, some of whom do not confine 

their hands to shuffling tricks, but rob outright. - 

Bankrupt cart—an one-horse chaise, of a Sunday. 

Baptised—is the spirit, which has been diluted with water. 

Baptist—a pickpocket caught and ducked. 

Barber—.' That's the barber;' a thing well done. And 

barber's knock' (at a door) double :—the first hard, the se- 

cond soft, as if done by accident. Both, however, are be- 

coming as obsolete as the barbers themselves. "That 

no news, gemmen ; I heard it from my barber, yesterday." 

Vide speech of Sir W. Curtis in H. C. 

Barkers.—Fellows placed at the door of Mock Auctions to 

invite soft people to get shaved; also bidders and pretended 

buyers planted within to entrap the unwary—of both gen- 

ders. Barkers also invite vehemently passengers to .buy 

household goods in Moorfields,.and dresses in Cranbourn- 

alley. 

Barking creek—persons troubled with a short cough are said 

- to have been there, or to Barkshire. 

-Barking irons.--Pistols, in allusion to the report on explosion. 

Barnacles.—Spectacles of a common kind. An ituftrument

BAS--BEA. 7 

for controlling unruly horses; and which usually spoils 

them. 

Basket.—At Cock-fights, when a man bets beyond what he can 

pay down, he observes he will go into the basket, or owe so 

. much. Children nnborn, are said to be in the basket : a 

joker says, 44 I have no children myself, but my wife has 

four, besides one in the basket, and two in the grave." 

"The old trade of basket-making" alludes to the same kind 

of thing. See Addenda. 

Baste—to beat, without a chance of opposition; originally 

performed with a stick called baston in old French. 

Bastille--Coldbath-fields Prison received this name, 1796, 

by reason of the close seclusion of its inmates ; a discipline 

resembling that of the original Bastille recently destroyed 

near Paris. 

Battle-royal—(Cockpit, several cocks put in the pit together. 

Men (Irish mostly) enact the same kind of Pell-mell trick ) 

at times : 'Tis ever 

e 

a scandalous proceeding; and often attended 

with loss of life. 

Baubee—a halfpenny. *ptch-bala. 

Bawdy-house glass.--* ' measure, half-sized, as at the Vine 

in Holborn, and er such sleek and .slum shops. 'Tis a 

good mode of eping their customers' upper-works in 

order, and making the most of a bad .thing. 

Bays—iay-le aves, laurels placed on the heads of poets anciently, 

and now practised on play-wrights in France; when 

successful, the author is called for and crowned with the 

bays before the audience. O'Keefe ' *ore the bays. 

Beak—the sitting Magistrate, or indeed one who walks .or rides 

. abroad, is frequently recognized by his former customers, 

as "the beak that quodded me last winter; I hopes he may 

"just break his b- -yneck before he gets home again- 

" that's all the harm as I vishes him." Beck, is a Beadle.- 

Beak's-man--a Police officer. The clerks and others about 

the Police-offices receive the same appellation. 

Bear-leader (Bon-ton)---a travelling tutor; generally one of the 

clergy, leading young sprigs of fashion the tour of Europe. 

Bears, in the City—are persons who would depress, triad upon, 

or keep down, the price of Public Stock. See Bull. 

Beast-trap--A loose stone in the pavement, which in wet 

weather soils the hose of our beaux. Beau-nasty, is he 

who affects the beau, but is dirty withal. 

B. C.—The Beacon Course, and the longest at Newmarket (or

a . BEE-;.-BEL 

elsewhere), being 4 miles 1 furlong and 138 yards. King's 

plates are run for over B. C.; near the termination is a de- 

scent. B. M.—Bunbury Mile, at Newmarket ; it wants 

12 yards of a measured mile, viz. 1748 yards. 

Beef—discovery of persons, an alarm or pursuit. In her 

beef,' in a woman's secrets. 

Beer--a common name for Ale or Porter; the first is made 

from pale malt, the naphtha raised by the vinous fermen- 

tation being all taken off, produceth a clear .supernatant 

liquor (ale). See also Chemistry, and Intire (in addenda) 

Porter, fit beverage of Britons, acts as manslaughter upon 

a Frenchman, murder on an Italian, and is like a massacre 

among the Greeks. "Nottingham ale, London porter, and 

tberloliire beer—who shall sing their praises r Among the 

ancient Britons 'tis Cooroo dha ;---the northern appelled 

it bere ; in Ireland, when good, 'tis the creature.' 

.Beery—from beer, and a little too maucli -being taken. 

Beeves—app;ied generally to herds of Deer, of any kind or 

sex. A bevy of Roes' would be a dozen; but those of the 

whole park are spoken of as ' beeves.' 

Aigi.to---at 6 all fours,' is to steal sometimes, or rather cheat, 

which at cards is considered no iin. ' I beg pardon,' is in 

the mouths of frequent offenders, ready to plaster up a 

fissure made in your clothes by their umbrellas and sticks; 

.A180,as salve for the heel of your shoe and the skin of your 

beftk.which those beggars alive have trod down with their 

hoofs. To ask for one's " Vote:and interest," what is'it but 

begging ? in order that the beggar may sell his constituents 

to the best advantage. "At this stage of the fight .5 ta.2 

, wnna abegging." i. e. was pressed with earnestness. Go 

. you beggar:' a man who has been denuded of his 

is in a state of beggary, and could not do better. 

See venison. 

Beggars' bullets—stones, thrown by a mob, who then gat fired 

upon, as matter of course. 

Iteiligerent..----A fighting party, or crawd at a boxing-match, 

is thus termed, after the same epithet as applied to the 

warfare of nations. Belly-gerent is a pun applied to persons 

with large paunches, of which the late Mr. Mitchell, the 

banker, was one for certain, and the Duke of Norfolk con- 

sidered himself another: whey auch fat-ones fall away in 

size, they may be coneklesed As having made peace with * 

guts:, .

■ ■ ■ 

BEL—BEN . 9 

Bellows—the lungs; whence 4 Bellows away,' or Bellows him 

well,' is an injunction upon the person spoken to, not to 

spare his opponent. Puffing up of the cheeks, or hard 

. breathing, or blowing out the tobacco-smoke forcibly, are all 

indications of the same wish (upon the sly) on the part of 

the performer. Each sentence of a slang discourse has 

been considered a bellows'—i. e. as a puff of wind from 

that machine. Blackwood says, "but hear a few bellows 

forwards of this inconsistent Stot." Yet is old Ebony no authority, 

though a Slang-Whanger. 

Belly-cheat—an apron tied on rumly ; a pad, resembling 

' increase and multip!lyst 

Belly-go-firster—a blow, bang in the bread-basket, at or 

fore the commencement of a battle. Street-robbers hit 

their victims in the wind, as 4first notice of their intentions, 

which they effect 'ere the party recovers the action of the 

diaphragm. 

Belly-timber—substantial fbod of any 'sort. To fight for a 

bellyful; without stakes, wager, or payment. A woman 

with child has a belly full. 

Bender—isi .sixpence ; 'a 'tizzy' is the game, and takes its 

name from,the form the usual shape, of the old coin, which 

were bent, twice, adve rsely, presenting the appearance at 

the edge of the letter (s,) slightly. See Bob. 

Rene, pron. Beeny ; good—in argument or substance; as 

Bene boose ;' good beer. Bene, Bene ;' what you have 

said is right, or good. ' Bete feaker,' a maker of bad 

screens, or wholesale dealer. Bene, is applied to every 

action; as beneshiply,' worshipfully; g bene-fiz; good faced, 

beige max, beneton, behezorr, dee. Benar, is the comparative 

—better. Bon, the superlative. 

Ben—to ' stand ben,' to pay the reckoning or treat two dr 

more; he must be bene or good for so much. 

4 Benefit, take the,'—of the insolvent debtor's act is meant: 

and when thus too briefly spoken of, bodes no good. 'Tis 

flippancy itself. 

Benevolence (bon-ton).---ostentation and fear united, with hopes 

of retaliation in kind hereafter. 

Benison—is derived from the French Benin to bless, bennissa 

—bless him (or her), and came over with the first Norman. 

' The Beggar's Benison' is a jocose toast or sentiment:— 

*g May our or purses never fail The Devil's 

Benison; is shocking. to Mate .: 'tie darangtory, 

5

10 B E T—B I L 

Bets—Wagers, on any event. They are never laid to be lost; 

for if made on the wrong side, they may be laughed off by 

queerums ; if this will not, do, they can be quarrelled off 

easily, or the decision declared unfair—a cross, &c. If 

thn Cove has too much bother and won't stand it, the wager 

must be fought off. There is no law for illegal bets—as 

fighting, trotting, poney matches, &c.. 

'Better late than never'—Retort : Better never than come in 

rags'—or, in poverty, i. e. without cash. 

Betty, or Bess—a crooked nail to open locks. Several sizes 

are carried by cracksmen tbey are bent first and hardened 

afterwards. All Betty,' or all Dickey' same as '.all up;' 

pt recovery, must die. 

Betty Martin. —One would at first sight imagine this to be a 

..Aoman; but upon inquiry she turns out to have been a Man, 

and a saint of the Romish calendar, to whom a prayer was 

offered up of so silly and unmeaning a kind, that now-a-day, 

(and long before) any gammon or palavering talk, full of 

emptiness, is designated as no other than equal ; to 

"All my eye, Betty Martin." 

This however is but a corruption, by anglicising the first 

words of the prayer alluded to—which runs gg mild,. 

beate Martine ;' a species of transmutation very easily ac- 

t counted for by reason of the carelessness of the vulgar 

linguists who take no heed of their cacology, We have got 

even different versions of the same very free translation: as 

All my eye and Betty,' the conjunctive (and) being- per- 

fectly gratuitous; unless the speaker meant to say that 

Miss Martin, or Betty, was all excellence in his eye, i. e. 

in his estimation. In Scotland they render it" All 1 mon 

6e, &c." 

Bever, from Buvez, Buvoir —to drink; an afternoon g drinking,' 

or rest from mechanical labour. 

Bevy, formerly Bevis or Bevice.—When Quails appear in 

numbers, it is then termed a Bevy, among Sportsmen. 

Biddy —a duck or other fowl, trussed up. A public-house 

servant, tidy-vated off, is g as neat 's a biddy;' so is a good, 

stroke at bagatelle, when the balls pop in the right holes. 

Bilk —to take money without performing the required service 

for which 'tis given : —female. Also, to run off after per- 

formance, without pay :—male. 

Billingsgate —language of the coarse kind; though that place 

has lost its character in this respect,--a loss we deplore.

, 

B I N—B L 'A 11 

1 A Billingsgate w---e; might be an expression nearer 

truth. 

Bingo—a dram of any sort. Bingo-boy,' Bingo-mott; dram 

drinkers of the two sexes. "B with an I, I with an N, N 

with a G, Gwith an 0, and his name was little Bingo." 

Bird and Baby—Eagle and Child public-house. 

Bishop a Horse—to burn or carve the hollow mark in a horse's 

teeth to make him appear young, after age has filled it up. 

Bitch—a woman ill-behaved is 6 a bitch about the house;'' a 

hot bitch,' she who has been drawing the fire-plug, with or 

without a call of Tinney, 0!' To bitch a business, to spoil 

it, by aukwardness, fear, or want of strength. 

Bite (v.)—to cheat or take in, by roguish tricks, lies, and 

false protestations. Selling an unsound horse, or one that 

has been bishopped, figged, and pegged, is a Yorkshire bite. 

Bitt—money. Queer bitt, bad rum bit, good or passable 

money. 

Blab—to let out a secret. "Don't blab ;" let not a hint escape. 

' A blab,' one who is likely to split, or, to open like an oyster 

'before the fire.' 

Black art—that of opening a lock. Blacksmith's daughter,' 

a key. 

Black and White for it;' written proof or evidence. 'None 

can say black is the white of my eye'—cannot prove a — 

- blot in my character. 

Black coat—a clergyman, generally, shabbily clothed; but 

used also of other professions so togged. 

Black Jack—the Recorder for the time being. 

Black mummer—an unshaved person, whether he carry a 

- smutty poll or not. 

Black-strap—Port wine, fastened upon the inferior sorts, so- 

phisticated in Jersey, &c. Black l egs—See Leg. Black joke 

—See Monosyllable. 

Black shark—naval, and long-shore, for an Attorney. 

Blanket Hornpipe (the)—is danced at the commencement of 

every Honey-moon. 

Blarney—The attempted suavities of the low Irish are thus 

termed. Palaver and Carney may be consulted. 

"They talk how they live, but 'tis blarney and stuff, 

For a man when he's hungry can eat fast enough." 

Blasted fellow or bitch--one whose character is nullus, and 

may be blasted' with impunity.

12 BLE—BLO 

Illeaters—sheep ; persons to be cheated, or shorn of their bustle 

by means of Blarney. Bleating-cull, a sheep-stealer. 

Bleed (v.)—to part with money easily. 

Blind---a feint or excuse. One who stands before another while 

he robs a third person, is the blinci on that occasion. 

Blood (a.)—a man of high family connexion, or affecting to be 

so and a little.spree-ish. George Hanger was the beau-ideal 

fBloodism , true; Augustus Barry but his second, Captain 

Xelly a third rater. 

Blood-money—forty pounds per capital conviction, paid to the 

persons taking the convict. Law repealed, word going out 

of use. Blood for blood'—Tradesmen exchanging one 

commodity for another. 

Bloodhounds—those who for statutable rewards (now abrogated,) 

or to extort money, accuse wrongfully innocent 

persons. .Several stood exposed in 1817, viz. Johnson, 

Vaughan, Brock, Pelham, Power,—tried, convicted, and, 

pardoned A bloody shame. See Talbot. 

Blott, at backgammon—is an estopper put upon any move of 

the 'adversary, which prevents his coming -out. To blott 

the scrip,' :or bail to the sessions; and if the security will 

jark it rum' (swear to any sum,) both parties may buy a 

brush with a long handle. 

Blow—He who has stolen certain goods has hit the blow.' 

Blow the Groundsel,' is when the pair lie on the floor 

ay/bile. To ' blow the gaff,' or ' gaff the blow,' is to speak 

of, or let out the fact. 

Blower (the}:--the Dolphin—a public-house. 

Blowens, Blowings-7-Whores ; so called with some allusion to 

Flame,' a sweetheart honourable. Bloss, or Blossom abbreviated, 

is the same thing. 

' Blow my dickey' —Dickey is a smock-frock; and to blow or 

expose the circumstance of the speaker having worn such 

a thing, would be degrading. 

Inow-out—a good dinner will blow-out a man's tripes like 

any thing ; so will a heavy supper. Either, or any other 

gormandising' meal, is also a famous tuck -our—of the 

hollow, sometimes. "You may get a famous blow-out it 

the Slambang-shops for ten-pence." 

Blow-up—gunpowder as well as steam effect ruintion in this 

manner too frequently ; hilt much oftener, a 'disclosure of 

secrets and exposure of moral blemishes is a windy blow,

BLU ,---BOB 13 

op, happening in high as well as low4ife. Alto, to give 

one a scolding in loud and forcible term: Moll blew up 

the court of Conscience, finely.' The disclosure of secret 

machinations, is a blow-up of the plot. ' A blow-up' may 

be performed by any number, as 2, 3, 4 persons; and then, 

when it has proceeded some length of time, it devolves into 

a row. See Yapp. Blown upon,' is any spinster who has 

been long exposed to hymeneal offerings ; 'tis derived from 

the shambles, where the warm air 

, or the flies, commit inceet 

upon the flaps and 'fleshy parts of nice joints and tit-bits. 

Blubber-leaded.—thick meaty nob. So blubber-mouthed' 

and '.blubber guts.' To blubber, to cry. A fat-deep-chested 

woman is said to 6 sport the blubber,' when she makes an 

exhibition of her bosom. 

Blue Devils (the)—Horrification. Imaginary flittings over the 

brain of unphilosophical persons who cannot stand to their 

. misfortunes heroically. Pigeons (plucked) and rogues de- 

tected, become down upon their luck' and dream awake, 

the first of poverty and rags, the other of the round-about.' 

These are Blue Devils. 

Blue-pigeon—lead. See Pigeon. 

Blue-ruin— gin ; and so is blue tape. 

Bluffer—See Buffer. 

Blunt—Money of any denomination is blunt; and.the twin 

is extended by most men to every description of property, 

a person of large estate, or in good trade, being *Aid to 

possess plenty of blunt.' Blunty ail over' has the same 

meaning. So blunt,' and out of blunt,' are understood 

as: indicating- the present state of a ,man's pocket (conti- 

nen& pro contenu). Un-blunted, implies that recent supplies 

have been all expended, or lost. Pronounced Mont' at 

times. Blunt Magazine—the Bank of England, or indeed 

any banking house. 

Bob—A bald attempt at substituting one sound for another : 

.‘ So help me bob, is an oath to deceive the hearer, doubly ; 

for a bob is but a shilling, and not a fit thing to swear by. Tip 

us a bob:' hand over a shilling. A bob a nob:' a shilling 

a head; the price of admission to a place of entertainment 

is thus emphaticised. A bob and a bender' is eighteen- 

pence. "I axes three bobs and a bende for that 'ere sly 

o' berries," is real Spitalfields for 3s. 6d. .a peck for the 

commodity named. Much silver, as a dozen, or half score 

shillings-worth, has been spoken of as "that pale eon!.

14 110B---BON 

fort of the poor-man's pocket.' A bob-stick is the same. 

A bob-tail woman,' is a lewd one. 

Bobbish—smart, spruce also tolerable health. 

Bodiers—(Ring) blows upon the belly and ribs,induding breast. 

Bodikin—a contraction of Bawdy-ken. 

Body-snatchers—Undertakers' men. 

Bog-trotter—an Irishman just arrived ; pronounced ' bakg- 

throtter' by his countrymen of the Long Town. Also, bog- 

lander, for ever. 

Bogy, or Bogle—a supposed ghost, a spirit misshapen. 

Bolt—(Turf,) a horse which runs out of the course is said to 

have bolted, or bd.' So a person running away, or leav- 

ing without leave-taken, has in like manner bolted. See 

Brush-off. Bolt,' as a word of command, must come from 

a superior. Bolt—to start off quickly, fly like an arrow, 

which was formerly called a bolt. " I am Bolt in Tun," 

says one who alludes to the tavern in Fleet-street. "Bolt 

you begot-8, bolt," a command issued to the small fry 

of society. Rabbits are said to bolt when driven forth of 

their holes by the ferrets. 

Bone (v.)—to seize, to steal quickly. Boned; apprehended, 

arrested. The Bones, dice. Bone-setter—a hard trotting- 

horse. 

Boniface—a landlord of a Public-house, or Coffee-house. 

Derived from ' Bon phiz,' i. e. Fat mazzard, and according 

to some Bonny' handsome, and phiz, face, or frontispiece. 

Bon-ton—highflier Cyprians, and those who run after them ; 

from Bon—good, easy—and ton, or tone, the degree of 

tact and tension to be employed by modish peoplt fre- 

quently called the ton,' only. Persons taking up good 

portions of their hours in seeking pleasure, are of the lion- 

ton, as stage-actors and frequenters of play-houses, visi- 

tors at watering-places, officers, &c. &c. See Haut-ton. 

In Paris they are both called Le bon genre.. The appella- 

tion is much oftener applied than assumed. High life, par- 

ticularly of whoredom: he who does not keep a girl, or part 

of one, cannot be of the Bon-ton ; when be ceases, let him 

cut, Bon ton---is included in haut-ton, and is French for 

that part of society who live at their ease ; as to income and 

pursuits, whose manners are tonish, and who, like other 

divisions of society, employ term of their own, which 

rather sparingly they engraft on the best King's English. - 

Mascul. et Fem. Terms which denote the ton: ' The go, the 

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B 0 —13 0 T 15 

- 

. mode, or pink of the mode; bang-up, the prime of life or 

' 

. all prime ; the thing, the dash, and a dasher; quite the 

Varment–r.a four-in-hand, a whip, a very jarvy ; a swell, 

a diamond of the first water.' None can expect to attain 

perfection in all these, unless he could obtain the same 

assistance that Faustus had, viz. Leviathan ; and then he 

could not begrudge to meet the same MD i 

Book-- 6 Brought to book,' made to account for a thing. Pell 

book and candle-light,' the publication of Popes' Bulls 

(Bulle) or proclamations was done by taper-light.and tingling 

of a bell : the proclauration was considered the book. 

6 Booked ;* ring Mostly, for any event being already settled 

beforehand, as so certain that 'tis already set down in the 

book of history. ' The Books'—Cards. 

Boosey— drunk with boose or bouse. 

Booty, at play—when one's partner, at Billiards, for example, 

loses the game purposely, he is said to play booty,' or to 

sell his partner.' 

Bore, (bon-ton)—" 'Tis a curst bore to be asked for cash, those 

tradesmen are such damned boring fellows ;"—" 'tis equally 

a bore when one meets none but ugly women." The Theatres 

in hot weather are almost a bore; the pores opening 

well then, exude the aqueous secretions of the inner 

surfaces. A silly long-speech fellow; is a bore. 'Tis a 

bore when vulgar persons add" wine" when naming Sherry 

or Madeira. 

Boring-in, (Ring)—when one man hammers away at another, 

pressing forward a-la-Scroggins. 

Boronians—pron. Boro-onions—the people of Southwark ; 

used most during elections of M. P.'s. 

' Botanical excursion, gone upon'.the Botany-bay lag. 

Botany-bay—Ake Rotunda of the Bank; the Jobbers and 

Brokers there being for the most part those who have been 

absolvedirom the house opposite. 

Bother—confounding talk, addressed sharply from one to 

another. Or both may open and bellows away, when 'tis 

' a pretty piece of bothertition.' The word came from Ireland 

and is naturalized. Bothered, is evidently derived from 

Both-eared'—talked to by two persons at once, or by one 

who can talk as much as two. Botherum quid: 

Patriots say they'll mend the nation, 

Pigeons will make pretty pies, 

Lawyers deal in botheration, 

A gun's too big for shootin flies.

ii BOT—BRI 

lidtieta ■-,Spunk oilastingnees under fatigue; as *horse go- 

, ing a long and penible journey, Or ta. manfight most pertinaeeously 

Maintetined---show bottom.. Bottomless. Pit, is 

quite mother guess-thing.... geelfoitosyllable. - 

.Bosacs---to call for liquor, or toss up, or play for money, 

without having wherewithal to pay. Impudence does it. 

Bowled out—discovered, knavery, design exposed. 

To box,' to fight; he who 

Box (v.)--Boxer and Boxing. ' 

fights is a boxer, and the pair arelhen iozing. Very inele- 

gant when used in the seeend person ; for he boxes' he 

fights is substituted. 'Tis. A boxing bout' When two 

commoners meet, but a battle' or a fight! is adopted for 

a manly contest between men of scientific attainment. Also, 

a little country-house. A man is boxed' when he is put 

in prison. Boxiana. See Addenda. - 

Box-harry—To go without victuals. Confined truants, at 

school, without fire, fought or boxed an old figure nieknamed 

' Hug,' which hung up in their prison—to keep heat. 

Boa-lobby loungers—the ante-room at the Theatres is frequented 

by persons On the Town of both sexes, who meet 

there to make appointments, lounging about. 

Brads—money, of the smaller kind;, used carpenteriarly. 

Plenty of brads,' would imply enough for the purpose, as 

building a house and pawning the carcass. 

Brass-face—an impudent person of either sex, whether with 

a red face or not. 

Bread---The means of living is a man's bread : 'in bread' in 

work, out of bread,' no employment. One in trouble is 

said to be "in bad bread ;" e. g. double-ironed in Newgate, 

a man may be safely considered in shocking bad bread. 

Those who act contrary tO their true interests, do not know' 

on which side their bread is buttered ; but when slices are 

placed face to face the butter is in the middle, and ' bread 

and butter fashion' that couple must lie, who inhabit a bed 

large enough for one only. ' Breadbasket,' the stomach ;- 

and a blow upon it discommodes the 'diaphragm and the 

respiration, and sometimes the life of the receiver. 

A Breathing—running at half-speed. (Turf and ring.) Used 

in training horse or man. 

Breeched—having moneyin the pocket. A woman who holds 

the mastery over herhnsband, wears the breeches.' 

Breeze—a short brisk scolding bout of one or More voices. 

Brilliant—bright,sparkling. Ravin gbeenappli.ed to certain ale,

BRI—BRO 17 

sold by one Fulham in Chandos-street, near St. Mardn's- 

lane, the name was assumed by a few choke-spirits meeting 

there to drink said ale: their sittings were pepmanent. The 

Brilliants' had the complete use of their:tongues ; and 

when, in 1796, the Gagging-bills,' so called, .became law, 

clogging liberty of speech , and the right of assembling, the 

orators of experience, as well as those requiring juverille 

trials, joined the brilliants,' and talked pompously of trifles. 

The subjects of debate sprung up on the spur of the occa- 

sion, or, if notice of motion were given froin.niglig to night, it 

was but to attain higher burlesque upon.A4lie other houses! 

in the adjoining parish. On these eengrafted much 

good and elegant flower of..: e speakers usu-ally 

ran away with the argument for t ) urpose, and success- 

fully ridiculed a law that would stop men's mouths, and 

its authors (Pitt and Grenville) got laughed out of conceit 

with themselves. At the introduction members paid 9d. 

each, the price of a brilliant' pot of ale; and in 1797 two 

thousand names had been inscribed; thesdmission was in- 

creased to half-a-crown when we travelled, and 10,000 

members might have been introduced altogether, when it 

ceased. See Eccentrics. 

Brimstone—female only; one who fires away at the first spark, 

throwing forth fine flashes of oratory and scintillea of wit : 

faggot, bitch, or w—e ' are the usual adjunctive& Brim 

and Brimmer—are but abbreviations of the same. 

Bring—to obtain, to fetch, or steal. Dogs are said to 'bring 

well,' when they run into a shop, and bring off to their 

owners, goods, which the rogue had previously pointed 

out to his too faithful companion. See Thing.—Thieves 

are said to bring' such things as they may have stolen. 

Brisket, or Breast cut—a hit on the breast or collar-bone, 

which is showy, but harmless, though it may cause a floorer. 

Broads—Cards. See Books. 

Broad-ar—' the King's Broad arrow,' H. M. mark on naval 

stores, which none are to imitate. 

Brogues—primitive shoes of ill-tanned hide, used in Ireland 

and Scotland; whence the cadenza of enunciation is figu- 

ratively called the brogue' of this or that country. 

Broom----See ' Brush.' " She carries the broom up" at the 

mast-head, [is Long Shore] signifies to be sold or hired: 

and is applied to females as well as . ships, which are.like- 

wise spoken of in the feminine..

18 B R 0—B U F 

Brown ben—a firelock. Brown George, a loaf made of wheat 

meal, entire. 

Brownies—Copper coin, halfpence and pence. , 

Brown study, in a—thoughtful mood "a penny for your 

thought, Sir." A. 'Tie as much as 'tis worth ; merely 

a brown study.' 

Brush—the tail of a fox; and as he turns it up in running off, 

so sportsmen say, he shows his brush,' when one leaves 

a company. Brush, is applied to men going at speed. 

Thus To buy a brush—with a long handle,' to run away 

—and that quickly. ' Brush along, brush or—words of 

command, signifying.' fly like dust." Broom it,' is the 

same thing, but most fairly applicable to old haggard women, 

because witches rode on brooms through the air formerly. 

.Bub—beer. Humming-bub ; strong beer or ale. Bubbery, 

that species of double-tongueing which effects its purpose 

by clamour more than sense; one of the proceeds of bibbing 

too much good beer. Also, a wordy noise in the streets. 

Thieves kick up a bubbery' among themselves to cover 

their acts. 

Bubble-and-squeak—a vulgar but savory kind of OMM:1071 ga- 

therum dinner of fried scraps, the scrapings of the cupboard. 

A bubble, a cheat that lasts but a short time. To bar the 

bubble'—to restrict the decision of a bet to the rules of com- 

mon sense. A buck, buck'd-off—one dressed off sprucely ; 

derived, probably, from the buckskin-breeches worn almost 

universally half a century since. Bucks and Bloods are 

nearly synonimous. 

Buck—male of fallow deer; when full grown he is a Roe-buck; 

' Bucket, 

the latter being most mischievous. 

to kick the'—to die. One Bolsover having hung 

himself to a beam while standing on the bottom of a pail, or 

bucket, kicked this vessel away in order to pry into futurity, 

and it was all UP with him from that moment: Finis. 

Budge—to stir; as" Come, come, Marm, budge out of my 

bait—[Budge-row, probably)—Past eleven o'clock." 

Buffers—formerly, men who carried contraband goods for 

sale fastened about their persons, and were obliged, in 

getting them out, to undress partly and show their skin or 

buff. They could not well be honest, and with great pro- 

priety became thieves, of that kind who runfor it, or 

i. e. run until the clothes fly off—or nearly so. In btir 

stripped to the waist, for a fight, or for work—as whipping

BUG-BUR 19 

coals. ' An alehouse-keeper is 'a buffer;' and he is a Queer 

buffer,' provided he chalks double, or is a sharper. Quere 

whether Bluffer is not used quite as often? 

Bug-ae-boo—a silly, imposing, talkative, would-be gentleman, 

desirous of showing himself off; a hired constable who gives 

himself airs—is a Bug-'a-boo. One who at the ale-house pretends 

to know but every thing, is also a bug--a-boo.' Compounded 

in the same manner as Crom-a-boo (D. Leinster's 

motto I'll-burn for it') and Orange-boo-ven (the n being 

mute); as these mean to exalt Crom and the Orange 

(family), so do our bugs attempt their own exaltation. 

Bul—a blunder; generally ascribed to Irishmen ; and one of 

them reports in The Weekly Dispatch of the 26th of May, 

1822, the notable fact that "the winner of the Derby Stakes, 

Moses, was got by Seymour out of Whalebone ;" but both 

being Stallions, we cannot conceive (being male) -how this 

could be possible. 

Bull—a crown, and 2s. 6d. is 'half-bull. See Ounce. A 

crown was formerly 'a bull's-eye, but the eye is dropped 

out of late years. To bullock—to bully, hector, or maltreat 

others. Pron: bbioc, in Lancashire, where 'tis prat.. 

tised among. the Vulgar. He who knows which way 

the Bull ran, is up to snuff' and may be considered as 

' one who knows what o'clock 'tis,' and' on which side his 

bread is buttered.' ' The Bull in youble'--the Bull in the 

pound, public-house, Spafields. 

Bull-beef—he is such who, puffed up by some office or by 

riches, gets meaty about the eyes and overlooks old iriends : 

usually adopted by Parish-clerks, Beadles, Public-house 

men, and fellows of low origin. Bull-Calf--a clumsy 

chap in his teens. 

Bulk, on the Stock Exchange—Those who would enhance, 

raise, toss, or keep up the price of Stock. 

Bum, a Bum-bailiff—anydieriff's officers' follower; derived 

from his following behind the officer, or after his bunt. 

Bummed—arrested by a bum-bailiff, or sheriff's officer. 

Bung the Eye—to drink till the ogles are affected. 

Burning-shame--practised upon Bodikins, by the Authorities, 

who station a man with a lighted' candle day and night, . 

with the supposed intention of placing it in a socket of a 

queer kind, as soon as convenient. 

And when she dies they'll sity here lies, a bearnt-eid conflagration, 

Which like a fledge candle biased, and died of annotation.

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Buena &di; (Balipton)---a light (tent wine, 'sipped by Eke fait' 

the most part. 

Burster—a Penny Loaf, or such as are given to prisoners ;- 

ironically applied when corn wis high. Burster and Bees.. 

wax—Carpenters' fare: a little loaf and slice of cheese. 

Busk-ooves—gypsies; from their lodging under hedges, &c. 

Bustle—is blunt or money, but.collective. If a man is worth a 

thousand pounds, 'tis Hunt; if as much money be collected 

in various sums, bustle. Should a fellow steal a shopkeeper's 

till, 'tis all busde whilst the same sum in one 

note woUld be blunt. Libri i it‘lidieet Denarii;comprisetbustle. 

So, (+ Pounds, shillings; pence 

and farthings I've at my fingers' end, 

And, how to buy, and how to 2 sell, borrow, or to lend.* 

' Those who have bustle marride In chums 

He that has none nuntitsatap it, by 

Vide MENDOZA'S Aphorisms. 

' Buy buy, buy'—the butchers' invitation to customers, of 

a Saturday. And " Buy, to sell, to Change, to mend," is 

the cry. of an umbrella dealer. . 

C. 

Gibbage.-§pieees purloinea from their employers by Ta3lors 

and Sempsttesses ; the act is' cabbaging.' 

Tailors cabbage half your cloth, 

,Shins of beef are very tough, 

Fluirostero is. just like froth, . 

Mrs. Clarke . is sp to etstr. - 

On the election of a Bailiff at Kidderminster, the inhabitants 

emiemble in the principal streets to throw oabbage-tstalks at 

. each ot4er-4 very immoral proceeding. 

Cacafuego—a pretender and braggart 5 allzsmoke and fames. 

Caccle—with reference to alien, to blab .and let out a secret. 

.Cacotogy—Undulations in the vernacular tongue of the cacao-- 

gist, with slight knots in the throat, like the oaccle of an 

old hen, and derived from the Greek &hos. 

Caddee—pronounoed cadjee (from cadet, a younger-son), one 

who performs the minor parts in a joint robbery 'is but 

a caddee in the business.' Any inferior actor in a *rig% 

Fellows who canvas customers for stage-coaches, are cad. 

dees ; mostly thieves too. Kedger, to kedge,rprobably, is 

from the same stock. "A cod' is a ipassenger taikienitp on 

the road; his paymentthe Jimmy sacks: Se 4.1horkler.' 

Cag, tigs---Sulkin.e,m, out of humour: . cove wino. Gaiwies 

the cagr.apeekkstotildote; ..such wan asseetimee will. like

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his .Datty not Waste strong liquots for *given period. Cagmas, 

is ordinary meat; dead by at visitation; or Scraps, 

trimmings, &c. He who carries the Oaf should eat cag-tnag. 

Cake—a silly ; cakes being made, like him, of very soft 

dough and not over well baked. The anima/ may have received 

his surname from Caicos, the evil manner of enunciation 

cakes fall into, and given the tidal° his simile: 

Calf's headp—a tallow-faced fellow andineaty. Calf's head 

is bestAhot; was the apology for one of those who made no 

bones of ditling with his topper on. 

Camstry-bird—a 'Jail-bird. The bird is flown;' got out of 

his jail or hiding-place. - 

Canister—the head, with a sly allusion to its emptiness. 

Canterbury-tale—a long endless& story—twaddle. 

Capers—to cut callers, to lark and run up and down, practised 

by young thieves in the streets, when people get hus- 

, fled by' the urchins and their doxies.. See Cut. 

Capsize— (naval ,.bat adopted ashore;) to overturn any person 

or.thing, any plan or: resolution. 

Careened, Careening—anaval termforphysic-taking.SeeDock. 

Caribbee islands—See Crib, Cribby. 

Carney—Love-tales; also, supplicatory intercession, whereby 

the auditor is made to believe he has several virtuous attributes 

that he never before dreamt of possessing; some of 

these are correlative, as, much riches and great generosity 

being combined, means ' bestow your charity without 

waiting' to be asked for it outright/ Iris a word of Irish 

-extraction, and first cousin to blarney.' "The brewer 

who carneys with, or fawns to, a magistrate, will do any 

dirty. works Vide London Guide." 

"Deb! hit.. Barney, 

None of your Carney, 

For tharried be sure we Won't be." 

Cartsigalimbodyi—a.eorruption oficarnat, by Tom Rees: 4 what 

shalt ye do with your carnigali-body on Monday ?' Bring 

your carnigai-body.down to my triponionsonTUesday night.' 

Carriers—Pigeons trained to fly with messages. 

Carrots—red-haired persons are so surnamed. See Flamer, 

Ginger. 

carry..- (Stud) To carry well,' a horse should have his 

neck well set, large in his shouldel bent, if small-headed, 

If ndt.stSaight, but not too long : the tail is concerned in 

tbie animit's carrying weU. To carry high or iow ; the

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head being too 'much elevated, or somewhat depreased. 

The former arises from weak fore-quarters ; the latter from 

large head and neck too long. 

'Castles in the air'—imaginary exaltation in life. 

"Always since her journey there 

Building castles in the air:' 

Castor, a hat---Castor is the old name for the beaver, from 

whose felt most hats are covered. 

'Cat, pussey'—a pert coxcomical little lass, with a round 

face, and nose curled up.' But an old Cat,' is she who 

snarls and spits at those around her; and if she takes snuff 

without carrying a snotter, she is a nasty old Cat.' To 

let the Cat out of the bag,' is said by a certain kind of 

ladies when a secret is disclosed ; but 'tis quite the contrary 

when one feeds her pussey-cat.' Then it is the 

secrets are put in the sack. 

Cat and Dog life —the. marriage-state, stormy. A cat' is 

the. name of the whipping instrument; it is composed of 

nine pieces of cord or thong ; and hence a cat is said to 

have nine lives, there being so many ways of parting with 

pussey—lst, Giving her away--2d, Carrying her afar off 

—3d, Throwing out at window-4th, Drowning in a river 

—in all which cases she comes home safe-5th, Submersion 

in a tub-6th, Shooting-7th, Starvation-8th, Burning—and 

9th, and effectually—hanging. 

Cat's Paw, A'—is one who is pressed forward to perform 

disagreeable or dangerous offices for another. 'Cat's sleep,' 

is counterfeit sleep; and' whipping the Cat' is said of persons 

who have no business on hand, or trade. To grin 

like a Cheshire Cat,' a thin subject, should show all her 

ivory fangs, keeping them close together. Cat-a-maran 

dicks,' those practical jokes that annoy other persons or 

their property. 

Cat-call---a whistle of bone, with a pea inclosed; used at 

theatres when a piece is damned, and when not, at times. 

To turn ' Cat in pan '—to split, open disclose. 

Catch -weights —and.) Any weights, the first jockies to be met 

with—no going to scale. 

Cat -lap—Milk originally, but extended to tea-slops. 

Caterwauling—Cats' cqncert on the pantiles ; and applied to 

men, who go out nightly in search of adventures. 

CaulOower—any one who wears powder on his head. A 

coster-monger from Common Garden, also, had that title

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without powder (which shall be better than thief or 

all to nothing), by reason of his pertinaceous cry, during 

the season, for thirty years. 

Cawch—Cawchery; an irregular mixture of food. See Stew 

(Irish), Squad-pie, Colcannon. A left-handed meaning, 

not straightforward : hence Cowch hand' for the left. 

Certificate, Jack Ketch's ; given under his hand'—a sound 

flogging. 

Chair. ' Call a chair'—appoint a president—at a tavern 

party, when discussion ensues. 

Challenge—(Chase;) at the finding of game, the good hounds 

open or challenge, curs babble. So in ring affairs, some 

chaps are ever challenging, never accepted: Tom Shelton 

has been four years at this bawl. "Ha, fine Lemmonn, 

he shaliinge al de voorld," says old Jack Gardolio, the 

orange-man, and his pupils. 

Chancery—(Ring.) A man whose head is under his antago- 

nist's left arm while the right is punishing out his day-lights, 

is in a Chancery suit,' from which .Lord Eldon could not 

relieve him, though old Thurlow might. 

Changes, in a battle—are those turns which give the odds 

now to one side, now to the other. 

Chap—any body; laid of one below the speaker in his esti- 

mation. 

Chapel—an assembly of journeymen printers, debating on 

the economy of their trade: Call a Chapel;' come together. 

Charity, (Bon-ton)—the cloak of sin, which even gamblers put 

on; like Artemi's priest, they must rob ere they can bestow. 

Charley —a watchman. A Charley-man no sooner gets on 

his coat and rattle, than he becomes choleric, accusatory, 

and venal.' 

Chase (the)—generally speaking, all hunting or following of 

animals with dogs compriseth the chase.' Coursing is the 

first artificial exception, and formerly they divided the re- 

maining species of hunting into Venary, Chase, and War- 

ren : in the first are found all red deer of antler, hare, boar 

and wolf; in the second buck and doe, fox and martin. So 

divided, inasmuch as the first seek for food - at night, and 

go into coverts by day, the habitude of the second being 

quite contrary. A chase,' a good portion of open land 

with cover for game. See Forest. In France all field-sports 

are g la chasse,' and they describe the kind, as ' la chasse 

au fusil,' for shooting, and so on ; but the French are not

24 CHA—CHE 

sportsmen—in any sense whatever; they shoot the chase 

before the dogs(!) &c. &c. In law, landholders selling their 

lands mostly reserve ' free chase' or right to hunt over them. 

Ye sportsmen come forth, quit your slumber and -sloth 

And join in the musical chafe ; 

Let fops of the Town our diversions cry down, 

- Yet their sports to ours must give place. 

Chatter-box—either masculine or feminine. A talkative per. 

son, whose tongue runs fourteen to the dozen. ' A chatterer' 

in ring-affairs—a blow on the teeth. 

Chats —1. e. Chattels, abbreviated—Lice ; being the live 

stock in trade of beggars. Encamped gypsies lose their 

acquisitions of the sordid insect, and replace these by colonies 

of ants in their hair. 

Chaunt—a song and singing,. The best conducted chaunt in 

London is at the White Hart, Bishopsgate-street ; a good 

one is 4 the Eccentrics' in May's-buildings ; glee-singing 

by the Harmonics at the Rain, and also at the Globe, in 

Titchfield-street are prime chaunts. 

" The men struck up a chaunt, and the beer went round galore, 

Till the publican sent word, he wou'dn't trust no more." 

Chant—to chant, to praise off, inordinately. Chanting a 

horse, is to get one or more independent persons apparently, 

to give him a good name, swear to his perfections and make 

a bidding—by way of teazer. 

Cheapen—to ask the price of a horse, a dog, or other goods 

—declare them too dear, and offer little, though probably 

more than the cheapener possesses. 

Cheek—in the plural, is the sitting part, but when any one becomes 

a greedy guts and sups up all, he takes it all to his 

own cheek.' 

Cheerer—a glass of grog, Or of punch. 

"Cheese-parings and candle-ends."—Windham's description 

of the perquisites of offices of state. See Chise. 

Chemistry—Man was inspired with the art divine for the promotion 

of science and the amelioration of his lot; but the 

evil-disposed have perverted its tendencies, and ceculus 

tndicus, quackery and gunpowder, loudly proclaim the fact. 

Copperas in gin; wine sweetened with lead; puff paste raised 

by potassium; snuff and hellebore—lie in ambuscade for 

, us after running the gauntlet of the preceding crew and a 

hundred of their companions. See Entire (addenda) Porter,

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Chevy—a bawling of one, or many. In ffeld-sports, a-ohevy 

is the blast of a horn, the notes whereof are intelligible of 

their import to the sportsman. 

Cheveaux—pron. Shivaugh by Jack Burdett, who often holds 

one at Bill Wendy's, or up at the Popper: Dinner, wine, 

song, and uproar, constitute a cheveaux. 

Chie f muck of the crib—literally, principal lump of dirt; but, 

freely, meant to designate a head director in small affairs, 

and cannot possibly mean the Governor of the Bank of 

England, the Lord President of the Council, &e. since 

every one knows that crib implies a single place, as a tap. 

room, a drinking-booth, coffee-shop, &c. Yet some there 

are who perversely extend the term to the first cen.tleman 

of England, and call that the crib where he presides when 

Parliament is opened or shut—and he" &c. 

Chigger—a still, ' Working the chigger or jigger;' a private 

still. ' Ask my jigger-driver, ye pig; is the retort upon 

any impertinent question. Gig ger, is also a door. 

Chiltern hundreds, to accept the' — to vacate favourable 

seat at the alehouse. 

Chink—Money. The chink rolls in at Shoulder-of-Mutton 

Jack's on Saturday nights.' 

"I am happy to think 

I have got so much AWL"' 

Chip (brother)'—one of the same trade, Originally 'confined 

to carpenters, who are all chips.' 

A Chirruper,'--from cheer-up, an additional glass. _Mir- 

' rup—said of birds; . and a man that sits and quaffs and 

talks gaily, and a good deal, is said to chirrup—probably 

from the "Cheer ups" he has taken. 

Chise—a knife, saw, or file. Chise-it—is also a verb inactive, 

and means give over,' whether that be the talk, or some 

action, as robbery, Chise is a knife, sometimes called a 

chiser, from chisel, a carpenter's sharp instrument: all mean 

to cut, to divide, or separate; to cut the string, thread, or 

' concatenation of a discourse, and to cut or sever the de- 

sign from the execution thereof, is to chise it. Chiver, 

(pron. shiver ana shliver or shlivey) is derived from the 

same, but a little corrupted. When a certain Trojan chief 

visited Venus on Ida's mount, he would, of course, return 

to town' of a morning, like a modern cockney; and 'tis 

fair to presume he said to the lady, I must get up, dear 

Veiny, and-chise it;' but she, regretting his absence, and

50 CHI—CHO 

repeating his last words, and-chise, an-chise s . wheurcire 

art thou, Anchises ?" Whence the name of him who begat 

Rineas on such occasion. 

Chitterlings —properly the small guts of a pig, and by resent- 

:. blance the frill of a tulip's shirt. . . 

Choice Spirit' —a high fellow, who enters into the merits of 

ethe bottle and glass, is always frisky, and drops his Wuxi; 

freely. 

Chop upon a Hare' —to come unexpectedly upon and kill 

her without a run. Fox-hounds .‘ Chop a hare' at times 

'Tis spoiling sport. A chop, is long-shore for a letter, a 

'newspaper, and an act of parliament. 

qhopper (ring)—a blow, that descends straight down tie Na- 

tures, the knuckles making fine work thereon. Not a de- 

sirable strategic; originating with Dan Mendoza; now little 

used. 

Chorus—' Come, gunmen, bear a hand in the chorus,' says 

a chaunter, and the assembled gobs ,open like alligators.' 

Choruses are of various sorts, and differ in different-coun- 

tries, [we will not, however, travel]; and they bear some 

affinity to the subject. . 4' D.own, down, down derry- down" 

belongs to plain John Trot narrative ditties. Madrigals 

sport their Lira, Lira, la,' and Roundelays repeat the last 

lines and sometimes entire stanzas. Hunting songs and 

such-like cheerings of numbers, terminate with And a 

hu'nting we will go, we'll go, we'll go,' "ra.ntivy, my boys; 

. lets away,' ' Tally ho,' and Hark forward !' Thieves' 

chorusses drop plaintively in the gamut, and the words slide 

off the tongue flashily ; they are long.--!' Fol lot de.ra, 

Fol lol de ray; fol de riddle, diddle ,diddle i-do :" ido is a 

very common termination, and itidicates a do or diddle,' 

which is generally a riddle diddle ray.' Soldiers use ' Row 

dow dow ;" their trade lying in rows and a dow or down. 

Politicians Bow wow wow, as if they would worry each 

other like dogs, as they are. Butchers, and Other full- 

feeders, emit the last syllable of each verse hard and 

loud to hammer, the sense in' to the thick skulls of their 

hearers. Our national songs (Dibdin's) conclude with 

the repetition of the last.stanza of each verse, or a line or 

two, which is itself a repetition that is brought in', to 

make up the sense. He also shook over again the best 

meaning phrases in media, with repetitions at the end of 

4ach stanza, when the verse consisted of several. The

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-.Irish chorus is fantastic; wd the reader who would know 

how, must see sind sing 1 Tip.' tcotch chorusses contain 

the reason (gendally petaphysical) why the song was made 

at all : e. g. 

There's nae luck about the lunges, there's nee luck at a'; 

There's nae luck about the hopse, when my good-man's awa." 

Chuckleohead---Heavy supper-eaters, nappers after dinner, 

turtle, fish, and venisoA mangers,- who thus supply new 

blood too fast and deormine it towards the head, nor e'er 

. petspire but by overaction of the lacteals--bedomt mealy 

about the nob, throw out carbuncles, large lumps of fat 

impede the brain,' and the tongue chuckles like an old lien 

in the poultry-yard. In such an effort, the whole meld 

of the head seems to join joyfully, wagging in unison with 

the clapper—hence the teem. 

Chum—A companion or partner in lodgings, chiefly used 

among imprisoned debtors. 

Circunavendibus—going to a point by a roundabout way-16- 

wbether that be an argumentative point, or one upon the 

highway. 

Clack--Woman's talk, incessant, from its resemblance to the 

clack of a grist-mill : 

"The Miller be laid down on his back, 

Whilst his mill want clicketty clask." 

Clank—silver vessels, spoons, candlesticks. 

Clapper—the tongue. Stop your clapper'—i. e. Silence! 

Clapper-claw. Domestic prattle in St. Giles's, in which 

'a woman or two join to tell a third (usually the husband) 

a little bit of his own. The performance is carried On in 

the manner of a fugue in music, on party holding on 

, while the other capers through the gamut, the husband 

'now and then adding a running-bass; whereupon the 

treble weeps, and the counter-voice gets up an octave or 

two higher, 'shakes a Catalina in A in alto, and falls into i 

swoon, or goes off—for some gin. Higher folks than they 

'entertain family discussions occisionally. 

had not Vulcan seen'em, 

'Tis two torane but their' dispute 

had ended in a scratching bout. 

Juno, at length, was over-awed, 

Or Jove had been well clapper-clawed." 

Claret---(ring,) not fit to drink. A softened term for the 

.stream of blood' in a slaughter-house. . 

p 2

. GIs Ai-61C ti 

Ytagy-a eitiiiiney-at eep , fivoin the eblour of his Use:- A 

dear road fev the etargy; in a owed. 

'Cleaned old ) quite'–lost every fitrthing4--at gambling, is 

commonly understood. Wiped out as clean as a whistle,' 

means the same thing* 

hit, with a small reipott, as made by a back-himder 

on the cheek. "Hereupon Coo-sway took Ma'aca.a)thck ih 

the 'Pinker) which grassed her cleanly." Clicher,' a shoe- 

maker's cutter-out. 

Cue/ea—is used for fetes 6 iX actsis ittits as 'to line,' is, for 

that of dogs. Both terms are applied to all bipedes 

Occasionally. 

Citirk itt the Worlis—he who takes the load in minor affairs— 

as an ale-house dinner, or wrestling-match. 

Clincher—a lie by refraction or lie for lie. Two easpenters, 

Ned and Dick, being at Wilk dispute as to which was most 

eminent in this department of oratory, left to the decision 

of a third person the all-interesting faet.. Says Ned, " 

drove a nail into the Moos last August, without the use 

of a ladder." "I know you did," replied Dick, Afar on 

tke first . of September„ after-seppetr‘time, I saeod-bsbiud 

Ma'am Luna and clenched your nal. 

Close-rubbed—When.play ia going en) the beet t.two out 

of three to be the winner, he who wina.thetiro.firdt games, 

has close-rubbed his opponent. Mostly appliedto Amyl*, 

tossingrap, and niim-paofk. See Newmarket. 

Clover, to live in'—to eat and drink joyously; Clover be- 

ing the food most desired by oattleo 

Clout—a clumsy blow, as if gown with a.damp olot4, which 

is a clout. 

Clabs---One of the four suite, the coat-cards whereof wear 

dark habiliments, itc. Any black-muzaied man might 

sit for the knave of globe' to advantage of. the pack. 

Club-Law--is where stieks settle disputes the itingumenJum 

Bacculinsm, in which a ground-ash is more efficacioun than 

an act of parliament. ' A club,' of penpie, an association, 

thus we may have ' a 4/Sick-Club,' ltot one of the members 

whereof are indisposed, a 'Singing-Club,' quite roupy, 

and other incongruities. Besides the Mpg of Clubs' 

belonging to tile pack alluded to, -there is now assembled 

a. Club of Kings at Verona not one of whom knows 

but hellimy path 'before the robber is over. See Pre* and 

Easy.

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attass\—tike Tieing of birds from the stubble, &e. 

C4e.elps—the puma or pocket, and by an easy transition, 

the shining inhabitants thereof: no dye;' no money k— 

empty dyes out of cash, unblunted. 

Co—to act in Co,' or company ; to be leagued togetherr 

C,oack-toiseds,large silver coin. Rind-wheel; a crown; 

fore*wheel,' half-a-crown. 

Cock, vase a thorough-bred fowl, that never iskits away. 

Ueuce any hardy, eve,rgreeia, indomptable fellow acquires 

tiaandiunct (cook), in some shape or other, As a 'hearty 

cock," cock of the walk; he may be °oak-a-hoop; at 

times, or strut like a cock in a gutter;' and be a good 

old cock' for all that; and.cock his eye or his glass, or his 

Am :awry, or indeed any motion to-show ibis coals/mess. 

Ile may be fond of caching too, but not of cockatrice 

13he livasiand lies awl oriel, atone, 

An Ws eggs sitelisy 

/Oat AS sir *ay "law, 

Ighgc the I old C9c4' pocks at 04 moan!" 

womati Cannot be a 40e4 in any fie4se, Efven t14ongli she 

-may ' cock hr eye' ever so prfttily. Avelour between red 

And yellow is cocke ; a feeling of eAultation, has been 

exprosse4 by 4. Cock-a-mircary-kee, &mine 1' ' Chief cock 

of die .ipalk'-p-kte who boasts or blusters over alien, or 

takes thelitesi,in fairish-affairs, &c. 

Oa/up—See Cock. Quer., 6 is he a coda?' 6 the 

answer, 1. e. not a giune one. The tale about the cock crow. 

lug and the horse neighing, is not worthy of credit—not 

pointed or semblable. Within 6 Cockneyshire' andCock- 

aigne ' lies all that district which is within the sound of Bow-. 

bellsACheapeide), arid every native is a Cockney—certain; 

and the appellatioa has been extended to Westminster- 

born and Boroughonian people. All three together ace 

denominated Cocktieyskirs; and 'the wit of Cock- 

aigne," its school of poetry, and school of rhetoric,' have 

been spoken of by Blackwood in eanterising terms-- 

with a political bias. When applied scornfully, 'tis con- 

sidered a reproach ; but when boasted of, the speaker has 

good reason tot be proud of being a particle in the popu- 

lation of the first of cities. In Manners, no two nations 

can differ more than the high and the low classes of Cock- 

neyshire : the vulgar high, ignorant, sordid, and proud, all 

they perform ia by imitation; their feeling of whines is

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unbearable, and the recent access of titles-among the Cits 

, (proper) in removing them farther from themselves, disconnect 

them from their neighbours, whilst those with whom 

they sojourn in the Western part of ' the shire' will not amal- 

gamate, and they subside in sediment, or ascend as naphta 

does—showy, frothy, and puerile. The low are full of 

prejudices, the lowest invariably dishonest: in the centre 

the bulk) the shopkeeper is manifest, the merchant pre- 

dominates , intelligence abounds though learning is scanty. 

Cock and 4Bull—story;' a tale of great length ; vapid and 

trifling, with endless repetitions and drawling. 

Cockney Nang—of several classes follow : 1st. the Dandy- 

swell of the Bon-ton. " As to the fight, I have been cursedly 

disappointed, not to say disgusted, at the entire set of pro- 

ceedings: my person has experienced extreme inconve- 

nience from the weather and the pressure of the populace ; 

my stomach has been much deranged at the horrid exhibi- 

tion, and I have been -clandestinely deprived of my pro- 

perty by some adept at irregular appropriation." 2nd. On 

Change. "How is things .I ponders! Tallows is but I 

knows veil enough." "Yes , they 'te down ; but' Rum's 

rig." A. "Aye and Sugar's' fell—that's rum." 3rd-. 'Chill 

it'—says the Cockney, when he would have -his beer 

warmed. Air it,' say another set, as a hint for placing 

the. pot near the fire-place. His wife orders the servant 

to dint the room,' and his neighbour writes up'eating. 

- house,' as if the house ate the customers. The termina- 

- tion ess, is used to mark the ,feminine gender, in imitation . 

of French, but very seldom done rightly--always vulgarly. 

- Even lady Mayoress" is an amplitude, beirable because 

of her antiquity; but Tayloress' for the wife of cross-legs 

is intolerable; though not less damnable thanCarpentress, 

Bakeress, or Bellows to mend-ess. Yet are we 'compelled 

to stand Actress' for a female actor, and ' Jewess' for 

a She-Jew. Dr. Carey's suggestion, that the ancients 

drank Cocagna wine, must be set down to the score of that 

learned gentleman's ingenuity. The low-bred Cockneys, 

however rich, bring out the r after w final, particularly of 

the monosyllables law, jaw, draw : e. g. g You Jim, jaw-r 

him yell, draw-r him if you can, and I'll take -the law-r 

of him.' See Cry. The same - class, however, if familiar 

with the varieties of Life,' drop the final r in bawler, ben-. 

der, and most dissyllables; even their own father is

▪ 

enunciated 

.sawer. A 

II I' 

. ney moor. 

COD—COL 55 

as ould fathey,' although he says a saw is a 

:place near Bolton, Lancashire, is called Cock- 

*Codger— usually addressed with the prefix old,' to one or 

other of those Evergreens who imagine the first syllable 

-- of their cognomen will never fail them. See Coger_ 

Coffee-shops—Coffee-houses of the second, third, and fourth 

rate : long the nightly resort of thieves and fences and 

their wenches, who were accommodated' in other respects; 

they were. regulated by law in 1821, and no longer keep 

open all night: 600 were then going in the metropolis. See 

Scrub's Coffee-house: Coffee-shop' is another of many 

.. appellations bestowed on the Cloacinean receptacle. 

Cog —a tooth, die and dice. To Cog the die'—is to conceal 

or detain it—See Dice. Also, to cdax, manage, or wheedle, 

andwliatever 

. , 

is obtained, is Cog too. Cogue—a glass of 

' kin, or 'ruin with sugar in it. Incog. abb. of incognito, a 

man who has an assumed name, or is dressed uncommonly. 

Incognita is feminine. Cogeydrunk. 

Cog ers—a Society instituted in 1766, by some of the people of 

the Inner Temple, who imagined their free thoughts or profound 

cogitations worthy of attention, and charged half-a- 

. crown for the entr6e. Complete inanition as a society 

mark their nightly meetings—unless during elections. of 

members of.the hon. H. C. &c. &c. Meet in Bride-lane. 

Colt—a horse, four years old and tinder, whether perfect or 

emasculate. Colts shotild not be crossed too early : it 

renders them hollow-backed ; and, when so put into a 

drag, they become roach-backed. Both species of miscon 7 

formation is the harbinger of predisposed ill-health—the 

1st, of diseased kidneys ; the 2nd, of distorted chest, and 

obstructed viscera. ' A colt' is he who enters upon a new 

avocation, as apprentice, or juryman for the first time. 

A colt's tooth in her head'—is said of a woman in years 

who retsina the lechery of youth. Men show their colt's 

teeth, too, at times, and imagine they have a .notion to 

taste a fancy bit, which as often turns out mere vanity 

and vexation of spirit.' 

Colcannen— stewed v.egetables, a fine Irish dish, made in 

.England also. She is as soft as a dish of colcannen,' 

said of a crummy-lass or fat landlady. 

Cole—money. 

allege--The Fleet Prison. (New) College of Physicians- 

.:

56 COL—COR 

a society of choice spirits; not quite extinct, who met in 

Newgate-street some years, and ridiculed the old college 

by talking dog Latin. 

Colour (stud)--the coat or hair of horses, and the manner in 

which they way be described, is their . ' colour' in common 

parlance; and we say (in order) he is either white, creamcolour, 

light grey, chesmat, bay, bright bay, blood bay, 

brown, iron grey, dark brown, or black. Famous hinges 

and their feats seem to be connected, in our recollections, 

with their colours respectively : a chesnut racer always 

reminds us of Eclipse, and that colour sometimes comes out 

in his progeny of the third and fourth generation. 

to Come it—to comply with a request, as lending money. 

' She's a coming'—she is with child. 

Come it strong, To'—is to pitch lies heavily upon a person 

or a circumstance, sometimes done civilly, at others adversely., 

"flow well he comes it!' How, well he lies! 

' Come it strong as mustard,' to brag of his property ; e. 

g. My poney 's the best in all England, and as for my 

pointer—never was the like—I'll bet a thousand to ENV 

upon either.' 

Commoner—M. P.'s are commoners, sO are the Common-. 

councilmen of London, &c.—common enough occasionally. 

In the ring, Commoners' are ordinary boxers; bye-comi. 

moners those who mistakingly presume they know how to 

fight, and try it on, when they can get a customer ;—' bye' 

front ' bye-men,' non-regular men. 

Common Garden—Covent Garden marketplace, or theatre. 

Company (to see)—said of a highflyer lass. 

Constable, to out-run the—to live beyond' one's income or 

allowance. A youth being sent up to town ' to follow the 

law,' he so far out-run the constable,' that at lenth the 

law followed him. 

Convenient (My')—a woman open to the speaker; if a land- 

lady, her's is a very convenient house to call at.' 

Conveyancers—pickpockets; and a mill, is Term-time to them. 

Cooped—detained in lock-up-house, or prison. Cooped-up.' 

Copers—fellows who cheat at horse-fairs. To cope with' is 

common parlance, for to contend, contest equal-banded. 

Cope !' an exclamation used as a hint—to be aware of, 

disused. 

Copy of uneasiness--a copy of writ in any court, 

Corwader -seed—coined money.

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meet cork is said to be drawn, when he has received 

a bloody nose.. Draw his cork.' 

Cprintkiaa-r-is man highly togged was so towed, by 'reason 

_ of the supereminence of that order of architecture. In process 

of time (1761), the term was applied to superlative 

articles of dress, when we read The luxury of his Corinthian 

coat was retrenched to the simplicity of the quaker's 

own cassock.' Pid. Taylor's Life of Taylor of Hoxton. 

We would confine the word to nobility and gentry of education, 

who join heartily in the sports of the turf or the ring, 

the latterly particularly; but welt-dressed prigs assume the 

envied name, or seedy sordid knaves, who have no souls 

for those things.—(See Gentleman, Swell, Tulip.) 

Corutn, or .Coorutn.—Coram, or sessions, technically wrong 

written ' quorum': Justice of the quorum. The Judtes at 

Westminster-hall sit in coram rege.' K. B. 

rostord—the head, a sheep's head ; and these being cried 

_ about the streets, formerly begat the term costard-inonger 

(pron. costermonger) as applied to itinerant venders of any 

other eatables. Whatever. 

Cottorn—he is the Ordinary of Newgate, and praying by the 

suffering malefactors, they are said (by a little stret* to 

" leave the world with their ears stuffed full of Cotton.' 

Cove—Any body whatever, masculine; thus we may have a 

rich cove, a gentry cove,' or a poor one, a tall cove Or a 

short one; the cove's a lawyer,' or he's a writing cove 

that takes down the trials, and that ere' (reporter) means to 

show the speaker's low opinion of the person spoken of, 

lie is,. however, understood to be one who frequents the 

haunts Oflow-bred people, or of' seeing rife in its varieties.' 

Coven—Feminine of the preceding, only by indulging the 

latter kind of habit she becomes sooner contaminated and 

fails faster than the male cove. 

Covent Garden lacfies—Those who frequent the upper boxes 

orinfest the' saloon, and show off wider the Piazza, were so 

denominated, and a descriptive list of them published an - 

nually, by one Harris. Glanville, living under the Piazzas, 

publiihed " The Fashionable Cypriad" two years, with She 

same view. 

Coventry.—He is sent thither (ideally), against Whom a party 

turn their backs : " Gone off by the Coventry coach." 

Cover,(fiektIsports)—a, thicket of more or less exteet, in which 

be we pursued shelters iiseW. The agisuil is COvirt, 

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58 

0 .011—cow 

. 

(anciently cOesvert,) when secluded; but when he comes 

forth he is said to break cover.' 

ge then haste, haste away, Nis the ealivening view hallo, 

See Replard breaks cover and Mies; 

The hounds true to. scent, his track quickly :olio', , 

And loud tally-hoes rend the skies." 

Sportsmen ring to cover,' are approaching the place- of 

concealment in order, to rouse the fox, &a. (anciently it 

was covert). 

4‘ 4 Halloo 

isle covert,' old Anthony cries, 

And no sooner spoke than he Reynard espies." 

Again, 

The fox for shelter vainly flies; 

Add caverns in the corerts strong, 

His cunning vainly tries." 

A horse is said to cover a mare when he effects procreation. 

To cover,' in wagering, is to put down as much 

money as the opponent. Put d6wn and 1'11 cover,' i. e. 

produce the like sum for a wager. 

Count-.--was a term applied to men of wealth who joined heartily 

in general company. We have known count Fig, count 

Calico, and count Carter. All however are extinct, the 

last-mentioned count having been absorbed in ' Molly.' 

Count Ugly is.given to anylueer-mugged one who -presset') 

forwatd much, and was first fastened With truth upon 

Heidegger of the Pantheon, by Pope and Swift. 

Counter-hit (ring)—when bPth hit from the -same side, as a 

left-hafider for a right. See Return blow. 

Countrytnen..--eone are so but what come from lrelimd i is) 

the -opinion of some; all others are. .dirty English,' or 

' lousy Scotch.' 

Couple—collars for greyhounds, or hounds, which attact 

two together. 

Coursing—either hare, fox, or deer; the follewiag in -sight 

with greyhounds, the first-mentioned in particular; mostly 

practised to ascertain the comparative fleetness of the 

breeds of the canine, and when for stakes, they meet in a 

paddock, or enclosed mile. - 

opprobrium addressed to a fat woman ; but if she be 

dirty, also, she is an old sow.' Cow is the name given - 

to a revolving chimney-pot," and made of tin. Cow's baby 

4 calf, and so is any lubherly kind of a fellow. 

Cow (v.)---to cow, to bend down the spirit and camp of 

any one, whence coward." When Cribb obtained att 

. .

CRA.--CRO. 

advantage, his friends' loud plaudits eased Moliueux. 

Pancratia, 369. 

Crabs !'-exclaimed after a losing throw to the main at 

hazard. 

A Crack—House-breaking. Cracksman, a housebreaker or 

*burglar. Also, To crack,' to brag: To crack a whid,' 

to give a prisoner a character—good. Crapped—hung.. 

- Crap—money, and the whole of it that could be obtained. 

Crash—is derived from the chase; the din of men hounds, 

dogs,. &c. when the-fox breaks cover being a crash. 

"-See there—how the murtherer flies+ 

. How well out of cover the hounds.; 

Ye gods! what a crash tends the skies!. 

The scent—how it burns o'er the ground." 

Craven Stakes—small sums (as 10 guineas) subscribed to be 

- raced for by horses of every.age, 2 or 3-year-olds and up 

wards. weight for age. The first meeting at Newmarket, 

in April, is called the ' Craven Meeting.' Derived probably 

from an earl of thatname,.who instituted such. They were 

then 5-guinea stakes (1771). A complete Craven Meeting,. 

was said jocosely by someone, of alot of such All aged' 

running up and down, as at Smithfiela. Craven Bid: 

Speaking of the Craven Stakes. at Epsom, (1822) the 

Sporting Editor of the Weekly Dispatch (Ma..y 26,) says 

eo C ft 0--CI Y 

.Crose, or pethaps across---the inte4moon btiag so *old in 

the rotunda of the Bank, means the parties crossing shall 

cheat a third person of one shilling and tlareopence the 

half or division of an eighth of a pound sterling, which i they 

between them subtract from the third person upon every 

£100 stock transferred. 

Cross-men--those who rob persons are so called; o,nd to live 

upon the cross' is to. exist by dishonest means. A musscove' 

is applied to a -swindler of every degree. 'The cross-theatery 

and robbery ; thus, when prize-boxers agree beforehand 

which shall win, 'tis a cross, in, order to cheat 

third persons out of their wagers. 6 Cross-jarvy with a 

cross-rattler'—a ,eo-thief driving his hackney-coach. 

Cross-built—aukwardness, shown in the gait. A cross-bnik 

covey' is one whose hips and heels work by inversion, as 

regards his shoulders and knees, like the joints of a 

pendulum. 

Crosslilyattock (ring, &c.)—when one man can get his hip-bone 

hard against his antagonist, equally low down, twisting 

him with head and limbs of his balance, any how, the 

latter receives a heavy fall or throw on his head—'tis 

settler for him. 

Croupier—an attendant on Rouge et Noir parties, who draws 

t6 him the winnings, pays the losses, and ofikerwise *mists 

the dealer—he is confidential clerk to the bank, at any 

given 

Crow (v.)—w exult ovec another; to threaten, is, to crow. 

Cowards crow most, and unseasonably—so do coward 

Chickens. Crows are those about gambling-bouses, who 

. crow up the honour of others, or the fairness of the play, 

and will attest the truth of any lie. See Rook 

Crummy—plump, fat, soft in facto; principally applied to 

females, wko,may be Arms full of joy for Johnny, Cia' Derived 

from crumbs ,' the fragments of soft bread.. 

Crump—a hump, or hunipdbacked man is cramp, as need 

in our old translation of" the Arabian Nights.' Crumpets 

were Thisiishapeu tea.loaves to crumple (ir.)—to wrinkle up 

needles*, as paper. 

. This is the Cow Jail,: the trampisil boat, 

T2 towed the hbte all shelves and shore," Sze. 

4 Cry,gigifeat) and -little W'ool'-.- at Sheepashearings. the event 

of taking the last fleece is erowsed, with tittee,',4oc three 

times threkr aeeordisig *orate tarfte .uf -doe eibeesere*. wheel

CUBCUR 61k 

again wilt be guided- in great maasuro by the quantity of 

weal shorn; not so, however, the pompous, inflated grower, 

whowoukl mate his neighbours to underetand and feel his 

aceession of power (riches) and indueeth very much shout- 

ing or crying att. ' A crying site—transgressions well 

known, that demand amendment. Cries of London; not 

always.eomprebended by soot ebsetvant persons 'Weep!' 

cries the chimaey-evreeper ; ' Loo weeps the milkman. 

' Green Heestins,' are pease and Sithes thee grind,' ex- 

presses a wish to amehd the sempstresses' forceps. See 

6 Trial)iffifiy. 

CatAiga rg Punishment by the Cubit;' the treactinill, Cubit be- 

ing the inventor's name. See Round-about. 

eneumbers.taylors ; becesse both are assciroot and cove. 

Cue.; properly Queue, a tail---is the strait stick played with 

at Billiards and Bagatelle. When puppyism reigned in 

the land, the best men wore their hair en queue behind, 

sun toupee in frerkt, and curls of two or three tier on each 

-. aide. 'The eue,' is also (among players), the tail or last 

words eucling eath speech, and is the signal for the prolo- 

cub:rr to begin his say. 

Cull—the meaning has quite changed sides within a few 

years. Fernerty a cull was a prostitute's favourite ; 

now, however, 'tis a customer of any sort who pays for 

6 flarars secret, sitreet, and precious.' Pell Ellis carried a 

. great basket-reticuie, she said, the better to catch culls. 

Cully is bat a variation,. Minerva says of Hercules, that 

he 'her-cull-is,' whence his name. 

Cunningberry, also Cunningham--a half-witted fellow. 

Cups. In his cups'--when he has taken one or two more 

than usual. A Cup is also a small earthen vessel with 

which each person was furnished at the fagoting/3 of the 

olden folk, after a . hunt, &v. and this be* repeatedly 

filled by the servitor ambulant, was heid up with a cheer or 

chevy, whence the terms 'good eheer," cheerful; 

"Then remember, wherever yaw goblet is found, 

When a cup to-the smile ordear woman goes mead, 

Oh remember the simile that adorns her at home." 

Cur--a car is a coward, whither man or dog. "When they 

were on the ground, The Sprig of Myrtle again had re- 

course to his currish tricks, by biting" Stockman's shoulder." 

Curls—human teeth obtained by the e'body-snatchers. 

two-wheel.chaise, with a pole Or driving two

62 CVS:--CYP 

horses side by side; derived from I Courir,' to rah, or 

from Coracling,' when the horses do.not step out together. 

Customer—one cheapening a horse is a pretty customer,' if 

he offer much lees than the animal costs. In the ring, a 

man who is ready to fight any proper.person is in want of 

a customer.' 

Cut.'—Drunk, also, the old name of an engraving. To cut, 

to quit and go away—from' cutting the cable. Naval.. 

(See knife. Mite.) 

Cut bene'—to talk smoothly. 

Cut (v.)--to sever connection with an undesirable acquaintance,. 

- neighbour, or old. friend. Many degrees of cutting occur 

to the mind : if slightly known as a fellow-traveller, the 

cutter insists he never was at the place, nor sailed in the 

vessel mentioned ; and finally derives his own name. 'Phi* 

is the cut obtuse. To look an old friend in the face, andaffeet 

not to recollect him ; this is the cut direct. To look any 

where but at him ; is the cut modest or cut indirect. Toler* 

get names with a good grace; as, instead of Tom, Dick, Or- 

. Harry, to address an old friend with—" Sir," or Mister— 

What's your name?" This is the cut courteois. To dart up 

an alley, dash aeross the street, slip into a shop, or .do any 

tiling to avoid the trouble of nodding to soar one; is the 

cut ciroumbendibus. (See Rump.-71Cmfe.it .) 

Cut Capers—' Re cut capers for joy,' i. e. danced about.. 

' The Bristol-man set-to- with a caper.' Dancing-masters. 

live by cutting capers-; whence the Epitaph. on one, at, 

Drynylls, in, Brecknockshire 

Man's life 's a vapour, 

And full of woes; . 

Ife cuts a caper, 

And down he goes, 

'Cute; sharp; knowing—Acute abbreviated.. 

'Gad ! I was so cute, when the players com'd dpwn,. 

I ax'd How d'ye do e of the show-folk." 

Cutting-out—in Cocking. 'Us usual for one of a brood to betaken 

from the rest and sacrificed to a stronger fowl—or 

cut out,' in order to ascertain the bottom of his:brothers. 

Cyprians—high, flash for whores, derived from Cyprus, ale 

residence of Calypso,. the first going,' as to era and qua-. 

lifications.

DAB—DAN 63 

D. 

Dab--a bed ; and sixpence. is the price for a dorse. It is not 

every ' roosting-ken' where they will let, people lie tt, bed 

all day, nor enter after twelve o'clock in the Darkey. 

1?abster —'4 The Pink of Bow is a dabster at skittles, and so 

la'nt Joe Mew ;' but the latter would not put up with a dab 

in the chops from the former. 

Dace—two -pence; Deux, pron. slummily. Dace- head---a 

silly,, mouthing fellow, having leathern lips and his teeth 

in his throat, like the fish so named. 

Daddle, the hand ; right—' Tip us your daddle ;' shake bands 

to confirm a bargain, or make up a quarrel; or previously 

to fighting, as if saying,' no deadly animosity exists.' 

Dairies—woman's breasts. 

Damn a horse if I do'—originally it was (no doubt) damn 

me for a horse. 

Dandy —an invention of 1816, and applied to persons whose 

extravagant dress called forth the sneers of the vulgar ; 

they were mostly young men who had this designation, 

and they were charged with 'wearing stays—a mistake 

easily fallen into, their wide web-belts having that appearance. 

Men of fashion all became dandy soon after; 

having imported- a _good deal of French manlier in their 

gait, lispings, wrinkled foreheads, killibt king's English, 

wearing immense plaited pantaloons, the ooat cut away, 

small waistcoat, with cravat and chitterlings immense : 

Hat small ; hair frizzled and protruding. If one fell down, 

- he could not rise again without assistance. Yet they assumed 

to be a little au militaire, and some wore mustachios. Lord 

Petersham was at the head of this sect of mannerists.' 

Dandyzette —feminine of the preceding: her characteristics 

were, a large poked bonnet, short petticoats much flounced, 

and paint. When she walked she kept the step with her 

- Dandy, as if they had been drilled together in Birdcagewalk. 

Dansly-ism—pertaining to Dandy.. See Jack o! 

Dandy. 

Dandymania—the . rage or desire to become &indeed. In 

the- reign 4)f Mary. I.. square-toed shoes ,were in fashion, 

and the Dandies of that day wore them so prodigiously 

broad, that a royal proclamation was issued, ordering 

That no man should wear his shoes above six inches squaw 

at the toes..

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D. N—D E 

Dandy Horse—Velocipede, or instrument for journeying far. 

and fast: two wheels, one behind the .other, supporting a 

bar of wood; the traveller gets across and propels biros& 

forward, by striking his feet against the ground. Hundreds 

of such might be seen in a day ; the rage ceased in about 

three years, and the word is becoming obsolete. 

Dvbies—Irons, fetters ; not so much used on culprits re- 

cently, being restricted in the Newgate regulations to 

- malefactors, or convicted felons. Formerly, the free in- 

torcourse which existed between the outside and the inside 

of the jug just named, begat a practice of silvering over 

the darbies of big rogues : now disused. 

"Come catde up your derbies." 

4 The Darby-roW—discharged felons, who have long worn 

the darbies, fancying they are still fettered, acquire a roll 

in their gait—not easily overcome. 

Darletnans—a dark lanthorn. Darkey, night. Bene darkey, 

good night. 

Davy's Locker—the other world; in death's keeping— 

" And if to old Davy I go, my dear Poll, 

You never may hear of me more." DUIDIN. 

The word may not, however, be originally naval. When 

David Garrick died, his brother George went soon after, 

and was said to be Gone to Davy' . 

Day-lights—the eyes; whilst night-lights are lanthorns. 

"The hero (Achilles) in his tent they found, 

His day-lights fixed upon the cold, cold ground." 

Deadly lively—is one who is half stupid, but pretending to 

his wonted activity and nou,s. 

Dead-weight—Merchants and tradesmen talk of their partners - 

in trade who do not Push along keep moving,' as ; dead 

weight' upon the concern. In turf affairs dead weight' 

is that addition which a light-weight jockey wears about 

him, to bring him to a certain ponderosity : 'Tis very in- 

convenient sometimes to the jockey. 

.Deady's, a drop of' Gin,—so called after the rectifier's 

name in reality, without slangery. Deady is dead, now; 

and this worte most be transferred to our addenda in the 

next edition. 

Dealer, a genera—a species offence very °ammo* in the 

City, whici wrung up with dip neeessities of the war, and 

are continued by the influence of the Insolvent Aot: they

DEE--DEV 65 

bey, at twartee-cest, goods of multifarioue kindo---no matter 

how obtained. 'A dealer and chapman' is one who 

is bus jest within the meaning Of the bankrupt laws; and 

Deafer in 'Jasmine stores' placed over the shop (?).--0 in 

letters four inches high"—but so slender as to be scarcely 

_kgib4e, are riagues by the first intention,' according to 

ant of wilainatt. A dealer at a Rouge et Noir table; he 

who shuffles the cards, and deals destruction upon the 

Vsaug-coleur men. 

Deer---the genus cervi generally; differing in habitudes on 

the same lands, they ' become more distinct in various 

Iccnntriest, forming the highest species a field-sports every 

where. We have the hart anl hind, buck and doe, (indi- 

vino*, and lately imported the rein-deer of Lapland aid 

Cervi Wapiti of the Missouri. Our native deer are those 

Qf antler and the pole—the red and the fallow; the foram' 

come out nearly white, and obtain colour the third or fourth 

tram ; red deer (all red) an indigenous of Devon ; others, 

the face only, brown sides and black stripe down the back. 

Lierby (the)—Sweepstakes so called, after the late Earl Derby, 

instituted,1780, are for 3-year-olds, 56 guineas each, held 

annually at Epsom, in May. They.run a mile awl three- 

quarters, carrying—colts 8 st. 7 tb., fillies 8 st. 2 lb. 53 

44u:sea were u0scribed for these stakes in 182% The 

second horse in receives £100. 

Derby -weight4--are those just mentioned. Gentlemen running 

matches of 3-year-olds often agree upon Derby weights, 

or, from some trivial circumstances of less age or height, 

demand to threw off a pound or two of the Derby.' 

Degrees—a jail-bird is said to have taken his degrees who has 

inhabited one of those academies' called starts : He is 

entered and matriculated by a whipping bout; three months 

quod makes him an under -gradv,ate ; six months a batche- 

lor of arts; twelve months more is the gradu doctoris to- 

wards his final promotion. 

Densirep----fenainine of Buck, Swell, and Corinthian, vihicit see. 

Dennas---a small walking-stick. 

Derry -down triangle--a name bestowed upon Castlereagh, 

the Irish member for Londonderry, for his services dining 

the insurrections of 1796-8, when the Paddies' backs 

were tickled at the halberts, under the auspices of said Irish 

secretary. 

Devil—Be is brought in to aid in every case, thus- 4 Ai

66 DIA—DIC 

sure-as you are there, and I am here, and God's iathealien 

and the diva's in Ireland.' Devilish is used as a superlative 

by many men, who are devilish foolish when they Say, 

they are either devilish queer or devilish cold, devilish glad 

or devilish sad-..the devil being neither of these.. 

.Diamond.brighe---said in allusion to a. man's faculties, when 

they are ' diamond-bright.' Spoken also of Woman's eyes, 

sparkling. -Bright as a ruby ;'. has the same origin in 

things precious, with similar allusion to the state of health 

in a horse, a man, &c. 'Tis 

Diamond cut diamond' when two sharpers meet. - 

Dib=chick--a choice or favorite .cock-chicken, a pet of the 

walk, and applied to her fancy-man by Chlmis. - 

D. I..Ditch-in course at Newmarket ; from the Ditch towards 

the town it is 2 miles 97 yards; is a plain, and good 

* for four-jear-dds. The D. M. wants. 42 yards of a mile in 

length. - - ' 

Diabolus Regiie--ithe King's Attorney-general ; so appelled by 

the great "little Waddington," radically speaking, in et- 

- ram Banco Regis. The Radical used diavolus, which would 

- -be the same thing—hispanically speaking; and the Time. 

rian critic was out, hypercritically out, when he attempted 

to alter the nominative into Regius. 

Dice, Dies-I–square pieces of ivory, the six- sides whereof are 

marked with spots, ascending to that number from one. 

They are made, as the name imports; of a true die, or 

- square; but the material (ivory) being harder and heavier, 

as it may be cut nearer to the centre of the tooth ; one 

side of each die will ever be disposed to lie undermost-- 

- and this is its bias or tendency. To find out this bias, the 

proficient Leg spends a day or two in throwing them in 

every varied manner; now rolling them out of the box 

gently, now -rudely, new amongst the men (in back. 

gammon) then .against the sides. ' Loaded :Dice' is the 

most flagrant of the robberies carried on in 4 the Hells of 

the metropolis t' a hole being drilled near a corner, lead is 

. cast into the cavity, and an ivory serewicovers the imposture. 

In playing, the leg gets one finger into the box, 

placing it upon one or more of the dies, whereby he can 

insure a heavy throw nine times out of ten. 

Dickey—when made of flannel, 'tis an undermost garment. 

feminine. Dickey.----half a quarter of a shirt, covering the 

breast only (all frill) forming one of the necessaries through.

67 

otit the French army [old regime] and of twO or three regiments 

in the British. - It resembles a ladies'" Habit-shirt," 

to, which the gentlemanly reader will please to turii. Waggoners' 

frocks, when short, are but Dickeys. "Ti. all 

Dickey' -with a man, when he is upset in trade, or likely 

to swing fOr it." Dickey Gossip, Dick Suet; and since 

'twas alt dickey with him, extended to any gossippirik person, 

who therein makes a fool of himself. As tight as 

Dick's hat-band he certainly dre w the band tight, did 

Dick Smith. He was a Dorchester Coachman forty-five 

years ago and had an habitual hoarseness ; "A hem ! said 

Dick Smith," when he wanted a diani and pointed to the 

bottle. - 

Dickey-box—the seat at the. back of a stage-coach, outside. 

DiCky Diaper—a linen-draper. In -Trance, they acquire the 

title of jeune Calicot.' 

Didd/e—to cheat by sneaking means. To coax or cajole 

, a person out of small sums, parasitically. Diddler—he 

who diddleth. Vide Jeremy-Diddler : "Here is a letter 

.. 'arrived, you haven't such a thing as tenpenee aboutyou, 

- have you?". 

steal by a single effort. To- ding a castor;' to 

,snatch off. a twat and run with it: if he throws it away, 

the thief considers he has then dinged it; and the word 

would haply—itfied; in both cases. Going upon the \ding. 

Ding the tot,' run away with the whole—as the pot 

from the ire, mutton and all.. 

Dining-room--he mouth. Dining-room chairs;' the teeth. 

Dirty-butter*---it handsome lass with a thousand or two is 

no dirty butter. a: Adopted out of the Irish ; and by them 

pron. Dirirty buttra. 

Dished-up--Dinners never undergo this ceremony until they 

are done; a horseman is dished whenever he is thrown out 

in the chace ; and when gamblers have done with a pigeon, 

he is dished also. 

Disk'd—done for. A culinary idea. . 

"Mrs. Lobsky begged her company to take whate'er they wiih'd; 

Says Will, don't wait for plates, if you do, you'll all be dish'd." 

Distance (turf)—two hundred and forty yards' is cedistance, 

and horses which are thus far from the winning-post in 

one heat are not allowed to start again; such are set dowa 

as 6 distanced.' Double-distanced' is the same thing, su- 

perlatively---feyther off; out of sight,' expresses it as 

weli.

6$ I V—D O -6 

Dive Vtd. Divers (n. s.)—an old term for pitting of 

pooketi4 into wixich the hands of the thieves or divers are 

said to dive 

"Ye scamps, ye pads, and dives., aad all slpen the lay, 

4 In Tothilletilelds Iv sheep-walks, like lambs who skip aad play? 

Do.—' . A do' is a cheat in trading, as selling a lame horse for 

s sound one. ' A allewsda,'itiswbnanyoftbeprty 

may he nippcTed ad split upon. Do is derived from the 

chase tern3 : when a head of deer is takea, they say De 

hin2; e. cu.4 his throat and chop off his 'head then he is 

done? 

et HA! deadovare dead ! whip off 

And take especial care; 

Dismount with speed and cut his throat, 

Lest -they his haunches tear: 

Res dons .11 ma a liuptiag wts ga; Sts., 

Do.him, Joey : i.e. let fly and kill him. 

illook.-4se is 4 in lade with a vengeance, ib has otteasion for 

the bhm pill and. a spitting-dish; someimes, however, 

"kings 'ass itot carried so fir: tvaval men trots whom we 

have the weed, know that a ship may be hem down .and 

careened (cleansed out), and have her bottom Seispvd, with- 

out foing into dock. Bait-dock-4 waiting-room, where 

culprits anaionsly look to the moment -when {like (ky- 

sates) they shall change their itatt to that cif convict*. 

Derived probably from to dock to cut off, eis these are— 

free society. Docked,is said of a horrie wihichhae recently 

lost its tail. 66 My colt, risiag three-ran old, was so 

dock'd and craned and nick'd and trimmed, that I scarcely 

knew him wan, bet he inte'w me." 

Doctor, The—the last thrtvw at play—whether of dice or nine- 

pins. 'Tis also that heterogeneous mixture with which 

- publicans doctor their beer, spirits and wine.' 

Doodilordeo man—a cock-fighter or breeder. 

all race my Jack, or bait a ball, 

Or pit my doodle-doo ; 

Can flash a quid with any 

And Hy the pigeon blue." 

Dodge—to follow at a distance, within 

Dv—That man is a dog who behaves like one. Thus lusty 

dogs eat dirty pudding.' Habit is second nature; and the 

man who is scandalously. inclined, talks like a scoundrel of 

scandalous people. ' Dog can't eat dog ;' but dog always 

bow-wows about dogs.

Doo--now 69 

Dog's toose-I-OrAtalf a pint of beer cold as ft dog's nose is, 

with a glass of brandy mixt, and still it will be no warmer. 

This is a dose for a coachman, guard, or any other ont-allnight 

man, who would preserve his trachea and glottis 

hots the operation of the cold air. 

.Dollep--dze whole sum of money. 

Dossinobox-h-The met& and teeth. - 

Don-at play; he who excels and is kicky. Also, a high- 

. born person, or seemingly so. 

Done, he is'.—said of a Hart when his throat is cut. So is 

a man done, when his career is stopped. 'Done brown,' 

a culinary idea, adopted by gamblers who can play no 

more, faut d'argent. 

.Downeiteit. Ken—a little house, and donee . z, give (gift) compose 

this necessary ncmten. See Jacob. 

Done, sleep—See Dab, Listener. Some men are sent to 

done by the most trivial blow an the right s. 

upon the jugular or carotid artery. 

Dose—a man is supposed to have Got his dose' when he -has 

been well thrashed. Thence probably comes a douse in 

the -chops,' and "douse, ovilust his jacket wen: . 

Dover Waggoner, (the)--64 Put this reckoning up to him told :. 

lord.' A pun : the waggoner's name being Owen, pronounced 

Owing, 'tis left unpaid. 

Double (10'—pronounced in French, whence the 'tens 

comes, though 'tis good English also; the imitation of 

some high hit of blood by a second or third-rate blood, in 

dress, manner, gait, and conversation. This was -carried 

so far after the short campaign, that when the .principals 

returned with the loss of au arm or an eye, their doubles also 

slung in arm or patched an eye : lord Anglesey's doubles 

imeanie sympathetically stiff in a leg apiece. Mort .profbssed 

gamblers pick out some nobleman of their own 

height whom to personate, or double. Piercy Roberts is 

le- double of H. M. Geo. IV., and Bob Roberts 4formerly 

doubled I.d. Percy. 

Down and Up--are used synonymously by some careless ?maple, 

who disregard etymologies ; as mere downq coves, 

witolotow how to pickpockets, or gamble cleverly, or how a 

man can ' get of the capital' (i. e. avoid hanging) or being 

lagged, bottled, oreven stagged-, hut who are not up to the 

art of writing or that of pricking in the garter, nor can expound 

the law of felony or of tuson. Indeed, the .one way

79 DOW-t--DRE 

be considered as most appropriate to the lower affairs of life 

--whence down; the other to arts, science, philosophy, and 

school learning. Thus a Bishop may be up to the classics, 

but he is not down to foraging like a soldier. A Cobbler 

is down upon the most prizeable sorts of leather ;*but he is 

not up to the best mode of tanning it. "I was up to his 

slang, and down upon his tibi," means, a knowledge of the 

kids' talk, and of his loco-motions, or what he would be 

after, what was to be the effect thereof. - 

Down upon his luck'—a man who is in the mumps by rea= 

sop of his losses, is said to be down upon his. luck; when 

his liberty or life is placed at stake by his misfortunes, he 

is then down upon himself.' A woman who cries bitterly 

is equally down, Or -g in a gallows-taking fit.' Downey 

coves,' men who are knowing upon ordinary matters; e. g. 

We inquired of Jack Acherley, Jack Watkins, and others, 

the most downey coves of-the dog-fighting and bull-hanking 

system, which way the rum-titum was gone," &c. . 6 No 

down' among thieves—none know of our doings. 

Drag. —any wheeled vehicle drawn by a horse; but a cart is 

the radix of drag; any thing inferior, drawn by cat'someet 

cattle is a thing indeed. Drag's-man, a carman. 

' Drain, of gin'—the third person in a quartern of gin, when 

the glass is too large for,' three outs.' 

Draw:—. 4 To draw a wipe,' a tattler, or reader, is to pull 

either -article from the pocket of a person. ' I drawed *he 

cove,' I robbed the person alluded to. Come, say, 

we're go'en on the draw'—going out to rob. To draw one 

in -Conversation, is to extract his secrets from him. Draw 

the badger' [Pit], is performed -thus : an oblong badger- 

- box being provided, which has its smaller ewl with a door 

to it, the dog is permitted to run in and seize the badger 

(in spite of his teeth), which he draws forth by running 

backward, or his owner (player) pulls the dog out, per 

queue. This being repeated as often as may be, until the 

dog refuses the badger, constitues 'the game. See, also, 

Badger-baiting.' To draw a bet—is far each to receive 

back his stake. A draw in backgammon or draughts, is 

that final state of the game when neither party can win., A 

:huntsman with his terriers and hounds is also found upon 

the draw,' occasionally, but thou this is of a covert.' 

Dreams—visits paid by the stomach to the brain, by deputa- 

. tion of fume and consequent impregnation of folly : those

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impressions being related shows the fool, or being acted 

upon evinceth the dupe; he is 4 a dreamer wide awake' 

who takes his impressions from the 'stomach and may be 

. said to foilow beef, or to be led by culinesity. 

...Dress-house—ladies who rely much upon appearances when 

they silow in the lobbies, repair to dress-houses for loans- of 

.habits suited to the seasons. They are expected to return 

—‘ body and goods'. before morning.' 

Drink--beer, or perhaps ale in some districts, is to be understood 

as meant. Strong drink,' spirits. '.He's gone 'a 

drinking'—means liquor.' Drunk, positively ;' too much 

for a man's reasoning powers. Drunk as Chloe ;' she 

must have been an uproarious lass. Drunk as Davy's 

sow;' a heavy swinish departure of the faculties.. A thousand 

other grades of drunkenness might be quoted, but we 

cite only one more : as drunk as a fiddler's bitch,' would 

imply, that the patient has the buz of music in-his ears and 

will not sit quietly, but danceth about. "Dear me! you 

are drunk, Mardin," said his wife; "what have you been 

about ?"—" My dear," replied the old file, " l've been 

drinking." 

Drinking time—four o'clock, usually, with mechanics and 

other labourers. 

Drop (the)—Jack Ketch's shop of work. The finishing nature 

of the thing anil the kttown accuracy of its machinery, 

begets many sublime ideas and the oath or asseveration 

Drop me if do' is considered much more binding upon 

certain persons than swearing by the prophets, or perdi - 

tion because it comes nearer their business and bosoms 

who ' use it; a thing ever before their eyes, 1. e. every 

six weeks or so, and towards which all their movements 

tend, as regularly as herrings seek the sun. 

Drops—glasses of spirits; gin generally. To drop the blunt, 

to pay freely. In the ring—a blow by which a man is sent 

down on the spot where he stands, like being shot. 

Drove of Oxen, -drove of Sheep—so there are "roves of peo- 

ple; 4 There -were such droves at. Camiserwell fair,' means 

that the people pushed along in large numbers. Turnpike 

tolls are collected upon sheep by the drove, upon oxen by 

the *core. At Highgate, toll is taken only of Sundays, 

but if a bull be. among the drove, it pays separately : Ri- 

chards the gategouse-keeper, long employed his female 

waiter upon this duty, which she exercised with due dis-

IS DRO—DUM 

colonisation, nor over thought amiss--.4we have' !least* for - 

believing. 

Dr:wort—a iron ample I to cendeet tattle and sheep in " 

Smithfield, ire.; re_ ted by statute and numbered, those 

drovers (four or Ore hundred in number), are supposed 

to be habitually cruel. They are the subjeet of many 

apathetic appeal to the How by soft-hearted members. 

'Dub your mummer'---shut your mouth. 

itsobs.---money, of the copper -kind. Down with your 

*ebbs,' at cards of small play, or stakes for a subscription 

dinner of steaks or cawchery. -' Dub up,' to pay at once. 

6 Dub at a napping gigger.' A Turnpike man. 

Vac& and Drakes'—to make, of his property, a man is-supposed 

to kick it and flap it about any how. Lame dudes' 

at the Stock Exchange, are those who make bargains to sell 

stock, which they have not, or to buy, without blunt sufficient; 

the bargains being made for days at a distance- 

-When they ' waddie out.' 

Meek (My)—said by an uxorious man to his loving wife. 

.Due/—two testy chaps firing at each other, until they are 

tired, or one drops, and thus brought about: one takes um- 

; *rage, practises a-bit, sends a letter in a curst stew, gives 

no time for reflection or ---, loses no opportunity, takes 

ikianlith, aim] and-hits his man. "When I saw Mr. fe)taart's 

- arm rising very steadily up, I felt anxiously for the fate of 

- Sir Alexander:" -Vide, Evidence of the deceased's.- second 

Douglas). The murderous practice has declined 

much ; sensible people new-a-day generally havelrecourse 

tothose arras alone which God sends--Puelism. 0-amblers 

are all geed shots, (nrugt be learnt se -defensio) land fg?ne- 

rally hring down annually a pigeon or two—apieee-i. e. 

—bald-coots. 

sflufers—vendorsof goods, assmningivationselraraoters, who 

atop strangers in the streets with well-formeOlies of lidia 

goods, of smuggled bargains, and friends arrived flvom 

- -abroad. Buffers' was long time their title. 

.Dele—ssfrrowfut moan, as that made by the Dee; thus an 

°assembly of these birds, is called a Dule of Doves.' 

fius (v.)—to haunt debtors for money. 

pecket-book. Dtemby—a dumb fellow; three 

brothers, Jew pedlars, travel the town 2 and lave ealled the 

three Dunibies.

RBO—EVE 73 

E. 

Ebony—Black-wood or any other At Edinburgh at 

present ; up at Attica as soon as he reads' these few lines 

. hopping;' at hammer-and-tongs as soon as he arrives ; at 

supper in twenty-four hours after—along with Polonius : 

Hic jacet Ebonius. The — wood may be obtained by 

, stirring a bog-house with a broomstick (secundam artem) 

and one end will thus become Ebony—this is the sh- ,-n 

end of the stick."' If he (Leigh Hunt) dares to go to 

Rome, we shall send over Hog to assassinate him."—Vide 

Blackwood's Mag. No. 71, p. 780: N. B. Mr. L. H. was 

then at Pisa, or Florence, and would probably go to Rome. 

.Ear-wigged— due who is addressed in whispers is ear-wigged 

by the speaker, who is invariably a fellow of small parts, 

not to say a rascal, who is scandalising some one, falsely. 

Eccentrics—an assembly of high fellows, similar to and springing 

out of the Brilliants' (which see). Held at Tom 

Rees's in May's-buildings, St. Martin's-lane, cinta 1800. 

Edge. ' .idge-off—To . 

lay wagers contrarywise ; in general, 

'tis done to advantage, by taking more odds than are given ; 

and betting is then rendered a safe game, no matter which 

side wins. 

Elbows, out at'—(Bon-ton)—one who has mortgaged evem 

thing—including his honour. 

To Enter, a horse—to inscribe his name for a certain stakes 

or, plate. To enter a hound—his first essay at the chase. 

0.—a circular table, the radius of which is divided into 

compartments marked alternately E and 0, and people 

stake their money on either. On a pivot in the middle 

moves a rotatory clock-like hand, 4ncl which-ever letter 

its point stands at, those players win equal to their stakes; 

the others are losers to the Bank. There are also two 

barred letters E and 0, to either of which should the hand 

point, whatever may be staked on the letter is swept into 

the Bank. This game was first set up about 1760, by one 

C—, at Tunbridge Wells assembly-rooms ; two and 

a-half per cent. was then paid to the table, and was found 

a profitable speculation. 

Evergreen—an aged bue.kish sprig, who pertinaciously resists 

the attacks, of old Time in the winter of his days,, and is 

considered—by 'a fine allusion to the Vegetables "that 

never ihed their leaves—' an Evergreen.'

74 EXA—FAN 

Exaltation of Larks—is said by bird-fanciers of serval larks 

when they ascend, in alto, until out of sight, but not out of 

bgativg. TiA the finest word, so applied, as is to be found 

in ail Wiguage from the tune Babel was deserted to the 

daty a the pllblication of this Malatrouic Lexicon. In poe- 

tie Language larks are spoken of at songstresses, though 

the male only sings. 

.Fxtras, (turf)-,--a few pounds weight au put on some horses, 

by reason of their having won before, as 3 lbs. for each 

plate, or fifty pounds. Sometimes more, if both parents 

have been winners always for age and height in Dive and 

. Wake plates, but not now much used. See Allowaiaces. 

Xxquisite (an)—.another name for Dandy, but of more refined 

ur femini;ae manners. The Cironide says, "It is a fact 

tlan 0,0 Exquisite fainted away on Friday, Dec. 20th, in 

Bond- street, and was assisted into a shop, where he re- 

' mined some time before he recovered. Medical aid 

beiwg sent for, it was ascertained that his valet had laced 

. his stays too tight." Such were Dandy-prats,' circa 1750. 

Eye-water—Brandy-..mistakenly used of gin also-4 Wet the 

other eye,' take another glass; probably the word should 

he whet, from to whet, to sharpen, or brigisten up the eyes-- 

which drams effect awhile. All my-eye'—wan abridged 

expression. See Betty Martin. 

P. 

Facer (ring)-4 straight blow impart0 on the face. 

Factotum—mistakenly us,ed for 'lac,: by the Humgumptious. 

Rightly it means—one acting for another in all things. 

Faddee (Billingsgate),--stale all, the film of the eye t be- 

ing dull and lopse, they say 4 peu fads:lee'. for MO, faded. 

Fair-weather Friends (bon-ton)—those who quit a man in 

adversity, real or supposed. - 

Fall—a fall of woodcocks, is said of many being discovered 

together. In ring aft:Airs, a fall is a throw upon the ground 

which one boxer gives another at in-fighting. See Throw. 

So in wrestling for the fall.' 

Famms:---the hands. 4 His farms are too -cold to frisk.' 

Fanner—a long-slash whip, with which to fan off curs. 

Fare:diddles—lies of the amusing kin4. 

Fqntail-boys—dust-men. Fantaliers—hlloos with lone-tail 

'Coats, which nay have been made for much ts;d!er men, and 

which fly up in the faces of others passing by. -

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Farrier. (atud)—an ignorant blockhead without education, a 

worker in iron- (fer, ferrum), properly ferrier. The worstwritten 

treatise on this subject now extant is that by one 

Clater ; which, for excessive ignorance of diseases, and 

utter stultification as to mixing of medicines, never was 

surpassed: Let it be burnt by Jack Ketch. 

Fawney—a ring; and the fawney rig' is pretending to find 

one of gold, and disposing of it to a by-stander, as such-though 

'tis but brass. 

Fastener—a warrant, or writ. 

Feather—to ride a feather' (turf)--very light jockies ; boys 

under six stone are said to ride a feather,' ' feather 

weight' being the lightest that is to be had. Feathers, 

Clothes are so called, mostly applied to the women, loosely. 

"If I warn't going to church, nurse, I'd. take and pull off 

even, precious feather from Ma'am Bonish's back." Feathired 

his nest; got together some property. When a waterman 

hantlles his sculls well, he is said to feather them: 

"He feathered his oars with such skill and dexterity, 

Winning each heart and delighting each eye." 

To Feague a horse—formerly a live eel was used, ginger being 

then dear. See Fig. 

Feeder–.-a Spoon (of silver). Feeder priggers frequent 

coffee-houses. 

Felo-de;se—Latin for self-murderer—often misused. 

Feint .(ring)—a blow aimed at the head (say) but not sent 

home, while the other hand alights on the mark. 

Fence—the partition-mark of lands, as hedges, rail, boarding, 

&c. In the chase, to leap over these is to fence; the horse 

is a fencer,' and a good one, if six feet be cleared; but 

when the hedge or mound is broad at top, and the passage 

is effected by leaping up and off--'tis then a cast. 

The Farmer, not "by his fierce landlord awed; 

But courteous now he levels every fence, 

Joins in the common cry, and hOoos loud, 

Ch.arsed with the rattlifig thuntfri of the Acid." 

Fence--a receiver of stolen goods, stolen Bank-no . tes, &c. ; 

giving about 15i. in the pound for the latter, or less for 

kbrger sums, and.small payments for other property ; unless 

they be the seal fogle. These pests are detectable 

easily; for tke most part Jews; they carry this property 

into distant provinces, and frequently to Holland : common 

to both gendim ; and the house is sonictim.es 430 de- 

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76 PER—FIG 

signated in whieh the fence dwells. "Long Tom is of 

to the fence (or gone a fencing) so let's have in a pint o' 

nun, landlord.' Fence it; damme, Jack, let us fence it." 

A. ' I tell you, the fence von't open before two of us at 

one time.' 

Perret (v.)—to haunt one for money. Pawnbrokers and 

Tallymen are ferrets, also. 

A Fetch, a heave, and a lifter, would be synonimous, if 

they stood without context. Finesse being used to obtain 

any man's secrets, is a fetch; if much labour is employed, 

resembling a heaving at the capstan, a heave; but a 

single effort, by which the person operated upon is brought 

to think highly of sell, is a lifter. 

Fib (v.) — to batter the head of an antagonist, (ring.) To 

fib,' to lie. 

Fibbing -gloak— a boxer professed, who misapplies his talents. 

Fiddle-/addle —marks the conduct of those suitors, who have 

not yet made up their minds to the wedding pitch. 

Fiefdom—Field-lane, Holborn, anciently Fay-lane, so a field- 

lane duck is half a sheep's head, baked. 

Fig,figged—ginger, little lumps whereof are thrust into the 

rectum of horses to give them a short-lived vigour ; they 

are then said to be fig ged, and carry better while the 

-stimulus lasts ; but horses of any original breeding after- 

wards flag in their disposition, as if resentful of the beastly 

indignity shewn them. Fellows there are who traverse 

Smithfield of Friday evenings seeking for old figs. 

'Fight in silver;' (cocking) i. e. in silver-spurs. Fighting 

captain,' fighting-grenadier,' denote quarrelsome perso- 

nages, clearly enough. Your fighting -dogs are known 

by their aspect; but that man is a cur who won't fight 

upon proper occasions. 'Man-fights,' may be either 

Pugilistic, Milling, Hammering, or mere boxing, all which 

the inquisitive reader will please to consult; as also 

Duelling.' 

Fighting—' in-fighting' is where the men come .close to- 

gether; perhaps lay hold, struggle, try for the chancery 

suit, and ultimately fall. It is frequently the termina- 

tiou of off-fighting's,' which consists in placing a blow, 

parrying it, and. returning with the like hand; or counter 

hitting, then recovering the guard, or position, and de- 

fending the vital parts as at first. Out-fighting a man,' 

is mostly applicable to Millers, but may extend to all 

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F I L—F I R 77 

classes of boxers: when a man repeats his blows more 

fast and heavy than his opponent, the latter is 'out-fought: 

- Lacon, that gumptious fellow, says, An Irishman fights 

. before he reasons; a Scotchman reasons before he fights.; 

an Englishman is not particular as to the order of prece- 

dence, but will do either, to accommodate his customers!' 

Fillalu, an Irish botheration of many. 

Filly—the-horses under five years old. When fillies run 

against colts they are allowed 5 pounds, as in the Derby, 

though the Yorkshire, 'quite unpolitely,' allow only 21b. 

as the Doncaster, (St. Leger), at York 31b. generally. In 

matches they make especial bargains. Filly-stakes,' 

those wherein no colts do join. A pretty filly', is turfish 

for a young lass. Fillies, running fillies, and entered 

fillies,' express the condition of town-girls —usually such as 

attend at races and parts adjacent. 

Fin—the arm. Wooden fin ; naval, bu st naturalised ashore... 

You little fin;' low Cockney for fiend-like, devilish 

temper. 

- Fine-draw —to get at a secret by finesse. 

Finish—(The) nearly obsolete; but connected with many an 

early recollection. ' Carpenter's coffee-house' in Covent- 

garden, opposite Russell-street, is that building; which 

- being opened soon after midnight, for the reception of 

market-gardeners, admitted. also [not likewise] of other 

folks, who might have been keeping it up —at Vauxhall, at 

the Go, or else-where. Whence the expression for going 

the rounds of several public places:' the jump, the go, and 

the finish, finished me last night.' Carpenter, whose por- 

trait even now overlooks the bar, was a lecher ; his handy 

bar-maid, Mrs. Gibson, a travelled dame, suck-seed-did 

Carpenter; her daughter Bob Way wedded, but, 

Bobby Way, he vent avay 

To Southern Africa-y; 

And, at the present day, 

9Tis kept by Georgey Way. 

For about the half century just sketched, Theodore Savage 

(an octagenarian) was the presiding genius of the little 

ale-room, and often boasted to how many he had shewn 

the road home,' by dint of the potent extract of malt and 

hops.--.cum max. et multis aliis. The Savage was a scholar 

and chemist. 

Fire-ship—a woman diseased. A frigate on fire; the same.

78 

Fireplug; ordinary people would imagine this to be the 

F.,. stuck up against many houses, to tell how many 

feet distant water-plugs may be found, in case of file 

but, by the double, means the otherwise affected young 

fellows who may have laid out their money kdig in the 

flesh-market. 

Fishing—as a sport. Every method practitied in freshwater 

rivers is so termed; even to dipping out a trout 

decoy. Anciently, herring-catching was pursued as a 

sport; a whale on the coast entangled among rocks or 

'flats is a fine treat, occasionally. 

Fisgig--sig, or fun, made at or concerning another's pkiz, 

or face. Rix ma itez ' in French; a part for the whole. 

Whizgig,' as given for name to the duke of Grafton's filly 

by Rubens out of Penelope, must have been an etymological 

mistake of Mr. Robion's. Ste Wiviz. 

Fiszogwaor Physiog ; the face. Used by people who have 

heard of Lavater's great work on physiognomy. 

Fist—the hand, when the fingers are closed, or nearly so. 

Mutton-fists, are those which have too much muscle for 

the quantity of bone. Here's a fine hand 1" exclaimed 

a loo-player 4 yes,' rejoined his left hand player, 

like a shoulder of mutton.' Jove's fats must have been 

most powerful : 

He grasped tae ab you *mid aft apple; 

And from his mutton fist when huri'd, 

For three long days and nights I t*irl'd. 

In the ring, they are to be made up with the thumb outside, 

covering the first knuckle of the fore-finger, and a little 

more of the middle one: . he wlio covers his thumb mast 

pot hit—even a woolpack; he it then'coney-thumbed.' 

Neither does a pugilist quite close hit fist Until the btbw 

is let go; millers and bammerrnen slobber-away as they 

Ike. Fist is wholly masculine: *hen a female makes up 

a fist, she is no longer a Woman, and must be floored like 

a man. - 

Fit—meant to be the pretetite of to figkt. 'Ben's ottitifitther 

fit him last night.' And see Misfit. 

Five over five—said of pigeon-teed people, who treed with 

He keeps Ms/bee tt-going'— 

toes tamed inward. Fives. ' 

he robs constantly; and it applies to picking of pockets 

chiefly. Bunch of fives,' the hand. See also .Daittclie 

and Irons (thieving.)

FIV—FLA . 79 

Fives-court'---a large fout-walled tom, against one side of 

which a ball being hit up with the palm or fingers, and 

the aditerse party reitetately returning the same, consti- 

tutes the game of Fives. The word was once supposed 

to be derived from the five fingere rplayed with, or upon 

which the reckoning was kept The game is fifteen at 

single Oily, or threefives; either platy failing to get twice 

five at the least, paid extra; if one five only, then double. 

At the Ffvesecourt,' in St. Martin's-street, pugilists hold 

their sparring exhibitions; a few boxers in like inaisner 

exhibit at the Tennis-court, Windmill-meet. 

Habbergedieeti-staggered, whether. physically or mentally. 

His colleagues were flabbergasted when they heard of 

Cattlereagh's sudden death : as the' Slang-whangers and 

Jargonic writers will be when they consult this work. 

In ring-affitirs, a man may be flabbergasted by a flush hit 

between the eyes, whether with the gimes' or witliout them. 

Flume-the hymeneal torch burns with a lambent flame; 

hence, a sweetheart is spoken of thus is my 

- My flame is a long time coming.' Common to 

both genders. 

inttmes-r-red-haired pe.- t receive this appellation ; but 'tis 

mostly confined to : les, e. g. Looking up to the 

vomen's yard von day, vho should I fling my precious 

ogles upon but Flathes—the at lived at the Blue Posts, 

ye know, vhen Jemmy Soft vas tied rip.' 

Ftans.a lie. Flint-flam; franfiitasy, unsubstantial. 

Fiernsel (warm)---grog, punch, or gin-twist, with a dash oE 

beer in. 

ei My wont tit tits the kno4ving 

When sea-ertibk gang the stroll : 

Unless she did how could we thrive, 

And in warns flannel roll." 

Flesh—the litguage we here explicate is 'flash lingo,' to be 

up to which is the earliest desire of all flashy coves who 

may not yet hefty thereto. The acquisition offiesh puts 

many a man fly to what is going on, adversely or other- 

wise. Flash in a blow-up is mainly conducive towards 

victory. 'Tis GaZ2K : Logi: is a fool to it; French all my 

eye. Again, the language of persons whose trausaptions 

demand concealment, yet require that they should mix 

with those from whom it should be concealed, is flash. 

Men who ritt,y be unknowing of flask ternts or phrases,

80 FLA—FLE 

are said not to be flash, or jla—now corrupted to fly, 

which see. They were invariably thieves and gamblers 

who used flash formerly ; but other kinds of persons, 

now-a-day, who may be rippishly inclined, adopt similar 

terms and phrases, to evince their uppishness in the affairs 

of life ; especially those of the less honest part of the 

community, who, in this particular, run the risque of being 

foiled at their own game by means of this dictionary of 

modem j/ash. Those gentlemen also consider all terms of 

art and of science as/ash; declare themselves 'not fly to 

law,' nor flash to physical phrases ;' of course, those 

words 

. 

and sayings which are appropriate, to the turf, the 

ring, and field-sports, are equally considered as /ash-by 

them, and the word has been applied (too generally we 

allow,) to all this species of quid pro quo lingo. See also 

Jargon, Slang. Flash—a liqueur, made with expressed 

juice of fruit, and an inspis sated juice, preserved with 

spirits and spices ; 'tis drank warm, and made still more 

pleasant by the addition of brandy. Much is taken off near 

the drop on hanging mornings. He flash'd the blunt,'' 

made a show of money to dazzle the spectators. Flash of 

lightning ; a glass of gin. So said, aptly, by reason of the 

flashy manner of its flying off—like lightnirrg. 

" -.But 'ere they homeward piled it, 

A flash of lightning was sarv'd round 

To every one as lik'd 

Flash-man.—Derived from his language, and this again has 

its appellation ('tis suggested) from the first flash men 

being highwaymen—that then greatly abounded (circa 

1770.) He is the favourite, or protector, of a prostitute, 

whose flash-man he is; and she is called, inversely, his 

flash-woman; but, in the lower degrees of misery, they 

have it flash ma'am, or marm. 

Flat—one who pays money when he can avoid it, is reckoned 

a flat by most people ; if he gets done out of any, we also 

consider him a fiat, and recommend him to take vinegar 

that is sharp, to whet up his wits. He may avoidmuch 

evil by studying these pages. 

Flea-bite—said of trivial pain or danger, as losing a tooth 

is but [as] a flea-bite.' I minded not the storm, it was 

but a mere flea-bite.' Yet, very differently thought an 

elegant lady-author [aye, there's the rub]: speaking of 

the town of Atb. in Flanders, she says', 

S.

FLE—FOA 81 

" " Whoe'er comes here mast hope for Mk ease i ' 

By 'day the landlord bites, by might the fleas." 

Elesh-market—any walk, or run for females who carry the 

broom up, is the flesh-market—so and so, as of the Piazzas, 

Cheapside, Strand, Am. 

Flight-not used by us for running away: bolted, miz- 

zled, made himself scarce, bought a brush,' or, indeed,, 

any thing but right Johnsonian. Pigeon-fanciers say a 

flight of pigeons, for many flying together, or the flight 

itself: 'While breakfast is .getting ready,. I shall go out 

on, the top and give my doves. a flight :'—overheard in 

Sikalfields. See Thule. 

Pints—tailors ; and, dungs are the same, bat work at less 

wages Or by the garment. 

Flip—beer, hot, with brandy and sugar. 'Egg flip,' the 

same with this addition. 

Flog (v.)—to excel, to beat at person without resistance : 

can't fight [scientifically] but I won't be flogged.*— 

4 Veil, so help me Deborah, if that there does not fog all 

as ever I know'd.' 'A, flogging culr—arx old. lecher, not 

often heard of. 

'Poorer, (ring)—is a knock-down blow. But a man may be 

floored by I6sing all his blunt,, or having the house burnt 

about his ears 'Floored him clean,' a knock down at 

full length. See ' to _Drop.' 

Fly—is. a corruption of Fla (for flash), and is but one fin.- 

ther step towards that complete abasement in language. 

which is always sought after,, and is sometimes partially 

attained. Already we have itfioi,. from the mouth of the 

new Yorkshire bruiser: To be fly to every thing that is: 

said, any man, however uppish, must pretend to a great 

deal more nous than any one ever did or will possess. 

Fly-by-night—run-aways who leave empty houses, Look 

at 

.Flying-horse, (in wrestling)—a manoeuvre taught by old. 

Parkins,. for throwing the opponent QVAr one's head., 

eummery—deceptious talk.. See Cabbage. 

,Flush—in money. Also a 'flush straight hit., whiK 

catcheth the adversary aiae cotnes on,.in boxing. 

-.Focd—a young horse whether male or female, ancl- is toed. 

to the _period of lactation or sucking. In-foal, a mare. 

enceint?; or big with young :. but a. cow.in ..calf,' ' a sheep, 

in-Lamb: is said of actualibmeder&of these species„ 

I 5

82 FOG—FOR 

Fog—smoke Fogo, the nine with a stench, from Fsego, 

Spanish. See Cacafuego. 

Fogram—an old fusty fellow, still itching after the thing. 

The fogramites—a supposed club of iliabetiles. 

Fogle—a handkerchief, generally understood to be made of 

silk. Common cotton goods, and sometimes the undoubted 

fogle, are derided as wipes. ' Drawing a fogle—picking 

a pocket. Pogle-hunters—fellows whose highest flight 

ascends to no nobler objects than pocket-handkerchiefs. 

Q. Where's Teddy ?' A. ' He's out a /vie-hunting.' 

Sometimes 'tis said ' drawing/ogles,' and 'fogle-drawing.' 

Foil—the dung (particularly) which the objects of the chase 

leave behind them, but applied also to every other token, 

(See Abatures,) and collectively termed foiling. 

"Yon crowding flocks, that at a distance graze, 

Have haply foiled the turf. 

Somervile must here have used the word in its more general 

sense ; for he is singing of.the hare's wiles, she having 

just. passed through a flock of sheep. 

Fool—that man is a fool who believes every thing that is 

said, without examination. He is equally so if dull of 

comprehension—opaque of mind; those are fools negative; 

the following shall be fool positive. If he chatters 

senselessly he is a fool; if he minds not rebuke, but persists, 

he is a fool and a half good weight.' He who' 

meddles with others' affairs is a ' Tom fool.' 

" Prithee, Ton Fool, why wilt thou meddling be y 

in other's business that concerns not thee ?" 

'Tom fooleries ;' ridiculous efforts at distinction; and are 

either domestic, as citizen Clio Rick man's uniform dress : 

—trade foolery, as Aspernes sign, bible, constitution, 

and crown,' i. e. two wooden books and a bauble; or 

state-foolery, as bowing and scraping in certain houses at 

Westminster.---Mummery. 

Foot—' To yet one's foot in it,' to make a blunder on the 

wrong side; to get into a scrape by speaking. 

Foot's horse, Mr. to travel by'—us to walk. 

Foraging—stealing articles of life, as fowls, apples, gardenstuff, 

hay, turnip-tops, &c. 

Foreign parts, gone to—transportation generally. 

Forest--a large demaitt, with franchises, having its verdetors, 

regardors, foresters, 8tc. It would be chaie' but

TO R-J-F RE 83 

for these circumstances; but if a eitase be planted greatly 

it ahangeth so much of its nature, though acquiring no 

new privileges, awl 'tis *pinned 'forest e beasts of venety 

are proper occupants of the forest ; as those of the chase 

would leave the planted part as the change inight be ef- 

fected. Legally, there free chase' in a forest. See Park. 

.forcer-meat builsa rape; or any other contpulsory measure; 

as, going to prison ) or going abroad, as the act directs ;' 

also an order of affiliation, With a forced-meat marriage— 

going without gin, for want of the bustle—is forced-meat. 

Forks—the middle and fore-finger, being both of a length, 

are those with which pickpockets fork. out the contents of 

- pockets, &c. 

Form—a hare's seal, where she reposeth. 

Fourteen-penn'orth of it—he who has sentence of fourteen 

years tranSportation passed upon hint. 

Fortification—a Welch definition concluded it must be twice 

twenty-fication —flea being Cymrw for defiance; thus, 

, Flewellyn gives mine ancient ' A flea for you, master 

Pistol,' 

four-yin-hand—driving,. stage-coieh.fashion, without a postillion. 

cFour-inuhand chtb,' .sxt association of high fellows, 

elegant, unsophisticated, and truly British; about twelve 

in number, all prime," mostly best blood, 'colour no 

. 

object.' 

"With 'Imam bit, bridoon so trim,.three chesnuts aid a grey, 

Well coupled: up my leaders then, ye hip! we bowl away. 

Some push along with. fonr-inbhltnd,.whild others drive at random,. 

In whisky, buggy, gig, or dogcart, curricle, or tandem. 

Paine of life to go it, where's a place like L9ndon ? 

rour-in-hartd to-day, the nest we.may be.undone." 

fotvling---intrappin&,shootipg from the perch, as well as on. 

the wing ; stalking,, netting, snaring, &c. verz common; 

formerly,. now called poachipg: not allowed,. 

Frammagened—hanged ; or otherwise disposed of:. 

free and Easy—an occasional. or stated meeting of jolly: 

fellows, who sing and recite in turn, (having a chairman 

and a deputy-chair,) call for what they like, awl, go as, 

freely as they come. Twenty-seven years ago,, the cards. 

of invitation to that at the Pied Horse, in Moorfields, had 

the notable B. Fighting. allowed.' See. Brilliants,. 

Eccenitries, Rum-ones. Freeman's Quay-J.-Drink gratis... 

,Frencli kave:—going off without natice..

84 FRE—GAB 

Fresh—abbreviation of refreshed—overmuch—drunk, hilariously 

so. 

Frisk—to frisk a man, or the premises, is to examine all 

over for the object sought after. A bum-bailiff is said to 

frisk a house, who enters the front door without ceremony, 

and pushes up-stairs to the chamber of the required 

defendant, and from bed to bed—commonly termed 'from 

post to pillar.' Persons are usually rubbed down in the 

streets preparatory to robbery ; this is to frisk. 

Froglanders—Dutchmen. 

Frontispiece—' the face is the frontispiece to a man's mind.' 

The title of a book should be its frontispiece ; but the 

picture which faceth it has that name, improperly ; from 

the French, probably, 4 espece de front.' Itgarth placed 

one to his book, and titled it Front-is-p—ss., it represented 

a genius bestriding the world, which it enlivened 

with a shower—saline. 

F. R. S.--not a Fellow of the Royal Society,' as the learned 

might imagine, but a fellow remarkably stupid.' A. Hogg. 

Pry—small fry : children, boys in the streets. 

Fubbs, Mrs.—any lady who's home is an accommodation' 

to persons whose desire of seclusion is temporaryond no 

bodikin. ' Mrs. Fubbs's front parlour [vide Tom Rees,] is 

not to be mistaken for any part of any building. A lady 

who possesses some degree of on-bon-point it necessary to 

constitute a Mrs. Fubbs. Mrs. B—t, of Silver-street, is 

the beau ideal of the Fubbs' family. 

"With manners debonnaire, and a leering eye, 

Pronounce her one or the Fubbs's (amity. 

Fuddle—Drink. Out upon the fuddle;' said by the *ife of 

a drinking cobler. 

Fudge—ridiculous talk is all fudge: used by Mr: Burchell 

in the Yicar of Wakefield. 

Funk—she must be in a dreadful funk whose husband recog- 

nizes her at the theatre in company with a suspected rival; 

so is the tradesman, when he first dishonours a bill : 'tis 

nothing afterwards,. noting. 

Furmett—aldernaen‘ See Beaks and Harvianbeck. 

Gab—slack-jaw ; and ' 

G. 

the gift of gab,' a readiness of reply,_ 

and power of persuasion. Ulysses is reportea to hate 

had great experience, good sense, and a ready wit.

GAD—GAM 85 

Gad—a huntsman's whip,—long thong, handle crooked. 

Gaff, (v.)—to toss up for liquor, &c. A fair is a gaff; as 

well as all the transactions enacted there. 

Gag—a grand imposition upon the public; as a mountebank's 

professions, his cures, and his lottery-bags are so many 

broad gags. A showman cries Walk m, ladies and gentlemen, 

they're all alive,' but the spectators soon perceive 

'tis all stuff, reproach lir. Merryman, and he, in exeuse, 

swears he said they were' and not are alive.' He thus 

gags the public. 

Gala—a rout, or assembly of the haut ton. ' Madam Fig's 

gala,' the same of vulgar citizens. 

Galavant—a nest of whores ; when a man goes into such a 

living flesh-market he is said to be 'gone to galavant: 

Galavanting tricks,' romping, ogling, &c. with an ulti-. 

mate meaning that way. 

"Says Mrs. Lobsky, I'm sure you ar'n't, 

You brute, you 're going to gaiavant." 

Galimaufry—revelry, an odd mixture of scraps, and derivred 

from Gallimatia. See Amelia, b. vii. ch..4. 

Golly, (v.)—to frighten or alarm by hideous means ; proba- 

bly derived from the Gauls —Gaullois, or Normans. 

Oambadoes—loose, boot-like cases, for covering the legs of 

old horsemen, and suspended at the saddle. Geoffry- 

Gambado Esq. was the name assumed by H. Bunbury, in 

his ironicill treatise on horsemanship. 

ante—any play ; and its termination or the number to be 

won is, in like manner, the game. All those animals pro- 

vided for by the game-laws, 9 Henry HI. &c. are game, 

'Game coachmen,' (hackney) game watermes; those 

who would assist at carrying off stolen property, or help. 

themselves, solus. Game women, prostitutes of the- 

highftyer sort. Game publicans,---those who deal in 

stolen goods, or wink at the misdeeds of their customers. 

He is said to 4 die game' who shews"no contrition, 

Garmocks—running up and down, as in a fair, rolling among 

the hay, or flaunting at Vauxhall ; these are gammocks 

truly. ' The boot was placed on the other leg,' however, 

upon a similar occasion, when the proprietor (who it seems, 

was as they say,. the proper-rioter). would stand no gam-. 

"'was. For 

"Then they got up to dance, about fifteen or more, 

Simile (meld Walt Wad ue, wile some fell on the doe;;,

86 GAM---GET 

Till daylight put an end to Mrs..140asky's rout, 

And those that vou'dn't go, viq, Val, he kickt 'em 

With hi v tol de roll &c. 

Gammonm—deceitfuI talk, between fun and falsehood'; while 

pitching his gammon,' a silly fellow oft-times thinks him- 

self clever, when no one else can do so. To pitch gam- 

mon' well, a man should, at least, have a good delivery, or 

gift of the gab,' some small share of sense—high or low 

—both commixed form pungent wit. Gammon, in back- 

gammon-playing—the loser of two games following is. 

said to be gammoned. 

Gentility—affectation to something above the pretender's. 

actual state; it begets a desire to behave genteelly, and to 

contract great expenses, and attain the dish up.' The 

word is in the, mouth of all society—except the highest; 

genteel dress, and a genteel set-out, genteel company, and 

gentility of strut, do not compose the gentleman. Beggars. 

ape gentility, and carmen talk of geateel behaviour, when, 

they imitate waggoners. 

cc To go to sarve a gemtman so,. 

Who to his treat had waled ye,. 

And in his ken to breed a row, 

Why, if 'tis vnteet, b-- me." 

Gentleman,--gamblers denominate themielves gent. if not 

Esq. even when detected, aid hod up ;, but the bills of. 

indictment dub them labourers ,every man ; yea,JabOurers. 

at the tread-mill. . Tailors are the most blameable 

tradesfolk : 'as they who transform blackguards into. 

. gentlemen. Gentleman—be only is one,. and a real gentle-. 

man; who spends his money. upon those who bestow the 

distinction upon him;. otherwise he must be so undeniably 

such an one, that none think of questioning the issue ;.. 

none can be considered a true English gentleman by us, 

who has not, stored his mind with English lore, spells, 

every word rightly, and is capable of forming a: sane off. 

l hand judgment upon every subject that may come upon. 

the carpet. See Swell, Tulip,, Corinthian.. 

,get—to get a watch' is: to steal it, , ' What did you get,' is:. 

used when one has. been to the fences with stolen prom 

pony ; he always reports a lie, which can never be dis- 

covered, unless he himself opens. Get, (turf)T--a horse's, 

get is his progeny. The get of Whalebone, of Rubens,'.% 

4rc., is the sou or dituglitez- of. Whalebonckor oE Embens..

GEW—GIN 87 

I Ah, that foal is of a good get, and . 'twill turn out a 

goer.' 

Gew-gaws— showy articles, a watchuchdin, seals, rings, 

brooches, &c: 

Giant—any thing Of subject that is great, mighty, or terri- 

. ble : a giant in literature,' is the Quarterly Review; Can- 

ning is a giant in politics ; and our Levant merchants talk 

of the 'giant typhon'—a dreadful tornado, common in the 

Mediterranean sea.. 

Gibberish—applied to the - first efforts at language of little 

children. In advanced life it devolves into Slum,' which 

see. 

Gibes—taunts thrown out against another. Gib, or gibe, 

does, a horse that shrinks from the collar, and is restive: 

Gig—frolic and fun revolve themselves ititd gig. " Full of 

his gig;" ripe with laughter ' and with inikichief, probably. 

Thieves frequently have* a little gig with each other and 

their girls in the street, and then rob in sport—usually 

practised near their homes. 

Gillyiewer—none can be a #illeeuter, whe does not wear a 

canary or belcher fogle round his twist : if he put up 

many more colours, he becomes a ttlip. 

Gilt—cheeks, (derived from fish) and a Gil is he who pokes 

in his nose unasked ; as if authoritatively. Gil Gill, was 

a beadle of Farringdon-within. 

C4imblet-eye—Cock-eyed, squihting, 

"Gimblet eye sausage nose, 

Hips awry, ban 

dy toes." 

"Much god may it do yon—as the old woman said to. 

her pig, whet she found he had swallowed a gimblet"— 

said to one who has got a bad bargain after much pains, 

as, a klandered horse. 

Gin–'a very vulgar expression, indeed; consult Old Tom, 

Max, and Juniper, three own brothers. Gin-buds—Tu-, 

- mours, With pus, on the face, thrown out by the heat of gin, 

mostly acting .upon the prima vire. Gin.spinner, a dis- 

tiller or rectifier, or vendor. . 

Gin-twist—hot water and gin, with sugar and lemon-juice, 

or orange ditto. 

Ginger—another name for red-haired persons,. and 6 ginger 

whiskers' is an appellation for such men as use yellow 

soap, or 'otherwise discolour their whiskers: 'tis a regi- 

mental mark with some commanders.. Amon grooms.

88 GIV—GOB 

And horse-dealers, they obtain the description chesnut? 

Gingery—(stud) hot, distempered; applied to horses, 

whether they have been fig ged or not. So, at a flashhouse, 

how gingery is Cow-cross Billy to-day; b—y 

eend, if he han't had a quarrel vith all on us: I suppose 

he'll fight, and I vish he may nap. 

Give and take—plates, turf-weight according to inches; the 

standard being 9 stone for 14 hands but carrying 14oz.. 

extra for every . eighth of an inch above, and allowing the 

same for every eighth less : thus 12 hands would carry 

5 stone, 15 hands 11 stone. 

Glaze—windows; and, to . mill the glaze, the miller may 

adopt a stick or Otherwise, as seems most convenient. 

Glim—or candle abbreviated from Glimmer: "They douced 

the gums, andfris ked the Cove of all his bustle. Glintstkk—a 

candlestick. 

Glim-jendors—hand-cuffs, or wrist manacles. ' 

quartern of gin is a go of Max' for mixing at the 

parlour of the Queen's head, in Duke's court, Bow-street; 

whence that house formerly had the surname of tit# go 

All the go'--the fashiou. in dress. "Put up the pins;. ,- 

'tis my go and tip," says one; another exclaims—" Here's/ 

a h-1 of a-go, Saal, I've lost my vhite bitch, the best 

von as ever pinn'd a bull : vot a go this is, surelye ;, 

as for, she had herself full of pups." Little go e a 

private lottery, not depenaing upon state-lottery or insur 

rances; both are illegal. The E. 0. table is also a, 

' little go.' 

Go along Bob—Bob Bussicks was a notorious sheep-drover 

in St. John-street, and the word of command When flock 

follows flock in quick succession moving,' was naturally. 

enough extended to all who might engage in the snit 

occupation .. 'Come' along Bob,' had the same origin. 

Bob died of old age some thirty years ago, but his tom[131stone 

(if his mortality had, such a thing,) would not con-. 

tam n the foregoing surname, which was. applied\to the shape 

of his legs, that were of thisforra ()or some thicker part of 

his body; derived from the compound bi and sex or section,. 

or bi-section which his lower members described. in walking, 

or else' the double (bi) sex which Robert was supposed 

to enjoy. Either Hybrid or Hermaphroditical, Bob's choler 

could not be excited by all the girls in Cow-cross. 

Gob--the mouth. Gob full. of. daret ;' bleeding . at, OPmouth.. 

See Gab. .

G 89 

Go-by—in coursing, a or bearing the hare is reckoned 

equivalent to two turns. On the road when one 

vehicle passes another, the latter has the go-by. The 

cut-away - Jarvy received an intimation of the intended 

go-by with glee, and reined up a moment.' Any thing 

super-excellent, gives all others the go-by. E. g. Our 

friend Ted Blower calls ' the Annals of Sporting'—the 

Sporting ' go-by.' So—" , the go-by he gave to his houses 

and lands, said of one who lived too fast for his income. 

Gods—the gallery of a theatre contains nothing but gods, 

when bmpty they are sylphs of darkness who inhabit those 

woods (timbers). Jem Bowden called Drury a wilderness.' 

Goddesses there are none (as Dogberry would 

say); this sex being left out in all addresses oral or 

written: they are supposed to have the power of damning 

—plays, which constitutes their Godhead ; no one believes 

it, however, the Pit' in darkness does the cked, the gods 

of the gallery only growl assent." 0, ye gods and little. 

fishes!' Likewise Wooden gods draughts: two stupids 

bending over, and studying the moves, seem like devotees 

—at prayer. 

Good woman—one who spares her tongue, gives her husband's 

ears a holiday, or, more pointedly, a silent woman. 

"A silent woman," sir, you said! 

Pray, was she drawn without a head? 

Yes, sir, she was: you never read on 

- A silent woman with a head on. 

Hence it was, -that an oil-man in High-street, St. Giles's, 

was induced to place over his door a' well-painted signboard 

of "a good woman,"—one without a head. In this 

shop, Capt. Grose would lounge of a morning, and he it 

was that suggested this piece of waggery, The Capt. 

lodged not far off with Mammy Hooper, who was also 

his publisheress, the sempstress of his antiquities, his 

laundress, bed-makeresS, et-ceteris. 

Goggle-eyes—staring - on no fixed object, as o'ercome by the 

other senses—feeling particularly: Juno jealous, is thus 

represented: 

The goddess with the goggle eyes 

RANI them about, and thus replies. 

Go it—proceed with the affair; whether that be of street 

robbery, or of jawbation. Go it,' is the precursor of 

'Do him,' and 'finish the Cove." Does she go it?' said 

of a doubtful whore.

90 G 0 N---(1. it A 

Gong-44 mixed-metal-vessel-looking piece of music, beat 

upon with a six-pound shot tied up in a clout, its vibrations 

grate upon the ear like something mixed up of a dying 

pies groans, and a distant crack'd bell. Used at the 

oriental raTee-shows of Covent-garden and Drury-lane. 

Goose—single women thus designate dying-swains, who make 

love sillily. 'Tis applied also to the formless iron with 

which taylors smooth down their seams. 

Right fat de riddle dl, 

A yard of pudding's not an ell, 

Not forgetting didderum di t 

A tailor's goose can net fly. 

We eat goose at Michaelmas in commemoration of the 

defeat of the Spanish armada (1588;) Queen Elizabeth 

receiving the news thereof whilst she was breakfasting 

upon goose. At Alphinton (Devon) the day and eve is 

devoted to,goose-eating, and many thousand gastronomics 

gormandize greedily, on the foolish bird, which is too big 

for one of them, .and too little for two.' 

Gooseberry, to play-up ; children romping about the house, 

or the parentrating them over. Coseberry -eyes—grey ones. 

A Gorge---a tuck-out, or bellyful, up as high as the throat 

or gorge—French. 

"And I said, if a gorge is to be found in this world, 

A man that is hungry might hope for it here." . 

Gorse—is a thick, briery, rank-grass spot, a few acres in 

extent, for the most part made ptrpotely to serve as a 

cover for fines: 

Go-outi-'or going-out; to rob in the sheets, is understwod. 

"J doiet go out, now," said by a reformed tope,. or by 

ote who would hare:Ms belieVed of him, "Come I say 

who's a going-out? Atttem is over," i. e. the chfurch thing 

abaft to. emit its contents, 'tis time to go and rob the 

audience. 

Grab, (v.)--To snatch; from grabble, probibly, to take into 

custody. 

Gab-coup- -modem practice of gambling, adopted - by the' 

losers, thus the person cheated, or done, takes his oppor- 

tnnity, makes a dash at the depository of money, or such 

as may be down for the play, and gravbs as much as pos- 

sible, pockets the proteeds, awl fights his way out of the 

house. The many-headed grab-coup is performed by 

several persons fighting their way into a hell, flooring the 

inmates, and seizing the bank, or collection of money.

GRA—GRU 91 

"He seized a rake, be laid about, 

And put to flight the rebel rout. 

He hit once more; again, again; 

Glass and deeantere flew amain ; 

What now they lost was no men's gain. 

Candelabras, fine chandeliers 

That lights sustain in tapering tiers, 

All went to wreck: one broke head 

The banker dropped—he lay for dead." 

Set Annals of Sparkle', 424. 

&Wits ad Parna,ssum—the tread-wheel, when trod by a 

pupil of school attainments—he is then ' scawing,' 'tis 

supposed. 

Grassed neatly'—(ring) is a prettier expression than 

when the act is performed on Nature's natural garb!' 

Gratitude—hath been defined "the memory of the heart." 

It is found in every body's mouth, but should no where be 

expected in the great world; and when it is paid, so seldom 

does this happen that people apprehend the old trick is 

then playing off, (;f getting further into debt. 

Grease—a bonus given to promote the cause of any one, as 

Grease to a cart-Wheel. Deer of grease—those which 

are fat; they are conscious of the fact, and run co -wardly. 

Greek—Irishmen call themselves Greeks— none else folloW 

the same track to the east; throughout this land, many 

unruly districts are termed Grecian. Ws all greek to 

me,' says one who cannot *ell comprehend what is said. 

g Gricks—as merry as;' Crickets, probably ; those little in- 

mates of the fire-place evincing much sprightliness. 

Grig—or grick ; a farthing. 

Gryin—a grinning booby, who bath lost a tooth or two at 

top, and the same at bottom. John Dennis, the literary 

Mohock, had the name christened upon him by Pope. 

Grog—spirits and cold water,_ in the proportion of 2 to 1, 

introduced at sea by admiral Vernon, v,tio wore a grogram 

cloak, whence the name. 

Groper—a blind man. Gtoperess, a wonian blind. 

Gropus—the coat-pocket—from the manner of groping for 

its lesser contents. 

Grub—meat of any sort. Going to grub,' about to take a 

meal. ' A crubbery,' a cook's-shop.'(hubby,' dirty- 

-faced, as if the slobberer had just dined. Bub and grub, 

a dab, and two bull a week:' meat, drink, and lodging, 

*Mt lea. wages. 'In grub;' in work, and the means of 

buying victuals.

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' Grub -street' —is applied to badly printed, or ill-composed 

writings, as the Weekly Papers, Dispatch and Advertiser; 

and to Maittaire's new editions of the Classics: "that 

place was formerly noted for its authors, printers, and 

scurvy journals.' 

Guineas—when laid on Turf-events, are to be paid in pounds, 

from May 1822. 

Guinea-trade, (the)—is practised by persons who having 

resided a certain season at the university, and got M. D. 

tacked to their names, obtain guinea fees from the sick 

and valetudinary, for advice about the tendency of their 

disorders; and the exhibition of chemicals—without knowing 

aught of chemistry, or of the cause and progress of 

disease. Aut Oxon aut Cantab. See Quackery. , 

Gutter-lane—the throat. 

Gumption —general uppishness to things, and being down to 

most ordinary transactions in life, is gumption ; and he 

who thus knows what the world would be at, is gumptious. 

See Humgumption. 

Guy, a —an ugly mug, or queerly-togged old-one, like the 

effigies of Guy Fawkes on the fifth of November. 

Guts —' Greedy -guts,' who will eat all the world up. Gutscraper 

—a fiddler. Grumble-guts—discontent; or 

"My great guts and my small, 

They cry out one and all, 

Hark away all together, my brave boys," 

H.. 

_Habit -shirt—a sham plea put in (on) to save appearances. 

Worn by the ladies; but gentlemen should look well to't,' 

as Hamlet says, or it will be all Dickey. 

Had—taken up; in the Compter or jail. See Tapp'd. 

Had-up—police examination. 

Hail, to—to greet or welcome any one; thus Somerville 

"Hail, gentle Dawn ! mild bkishing goddess hail." 

Hail him—call him. Hail the boat—to can to the persons 

in the vesse). To hail, to accost, to excite atteution. 

" Hail, Macbeth, who shall be thane of Cawdor." 

'Hail fellows well met,' all alike or upon a footing. 

Halter—a horse's night-cap ; many will get a present of such 

if they alter not their conduct.

- Harp 

HAL.---HAR 93 

Halfpence--a tailor's wages for less than a whole day. ' Come 

come,' says the flint to his employer, when a dung enters 

the shop,—' Come hand over the halfpence, I smell dung 

in your shop : hand over; I'm off.' 

Hammer.(ring) —when a man hits very hard, chiefly with a 

favourite 'and, his blows are said to fall like those of a 

sledge-hammer.' Such boxers are hammering fighters, that 

do not defend their own vitals, cannot make sure of a blow, 

and are termed hammerers and hammermen. They are not 

Pugilists, which see, also Millers. 

Hammering boxers—are great country loobies ) who possess 

no one quality for the exercise but strength, the conscious- 

ness whereof gives them pluck. These hammer away for 

- an hour or two, hearken not to the call of time,' and 

turn a deaf ear to enough,' always act most unfairly in 

other respects, and sometimes commit murder l—fer which 

they deserve the halter. 

Handicap stakes —certain horses being named beforehand, 

with their weights—for age and height, for inches, and for 

performances ; on the day of running those who accept (or 

subscribe) meet, one of them makes a memorandum orthe 

terms on which they shall run and this is put into a cap 

with the sums subscribed. 'These sums (or istakes) are 

usually small—say ten to twenty 7five guineas, with fre- 

, quently a larger sum . added :—except at Newmarket, 

where they usually reach to 1001. When the parties have 

read the articles, they signify assent or dissent by drawing 

, a hand from their pocket, if with money they run, if with- 

out, they decline. 

Hang-dog—a fellow whose ilooks betray the gallows. Such 

, an one once accused is half-hung already. 

Hangman's wages —thirteen -pence halfpenny, being the sum 

anciently paid to the jury convicting, viz, one penny each 

for eleven, and twopence-halfpenny. to the foreman,, who 

then found the rope. Totally different now-a-day. 

Harman —a constable ; Harman -beck, a beadle. Harmans, 

the stocks. 

—the arms of Ireland, placed on the reverse of their 

copper coin, whereby halfpence get that denomination. 

Harping —on a certain topic, is that sort of recurrence which 

marks insane persons and fools, and usually turns on the 

cause of their ills. Wiseacres do the same occasionally, 

e. g. Mr. Vansittart is ever harping upon the income of 

p.

Mays, , 

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94 HAR—HEA 

the state : Mr. Abernethy always harps upon the stomach 

and the blue pill remedy: 

Harridan (old) a worn-out strumpet. 

Hart-royal—one that has been hunted by a monarch, - and 

got away. He is not a hart unless six years old. 

Hard4-baked—a dog when constipated is hard-baked. 

Hatchet".-he who lies roundly, throws the hatchet.' 

Havidge, vel Havage—an assemblage or family of dishonest 

or doubtful characters. Thus, William Habberfield, Esq. 

and family, composed a pretty havidge in Willow-walk : 

this alias slender Billy was hung at Newgate, and. got 

lauded by Blackwood for not splitting upon his pal in the 

flimsey-screen trade : it was his own daughter. 

Haut-ton----the highest orders of society, who see life; they 

are so denominated by the bon-ton and bon-genre, and are 

all of high breeding and large fortune. Money alone does 

not confer the haat-titre, nor giving a ball in a fine house;nor 

commanding a play, nor driving four-in-hand, but 

these together may constitute hadt-ton with very little 

trouble. 

Hawks—gamblers, who are particularly destructive of their 

victims ; pouncing upon them mercilessly, or following 

them from afar—as Pellet did Mr. S— from Brighton 

to London and back. 

Head (turf)---' won by a head,' or half-a-head,' or indeed, 

a neck, is by so much that one horse comes in before 

another. ' Gave away his head,' (ring)—said of a boxer, 

' who to place a favourite body-bldw, exposes his head as 

the sacrifiCe : e. g. Dutch Sam and gcroggins ; Nosworthy 

felt for the head of Sam as Turner did for Scroggins's. 

Heaps of people'—Cockney, for a crowd, or great numbers. 

'Struck all of a heap,'—flabbergasted; astonished, or con- 

founded. 

Heat—a race or run for a prize. One heat a-day while the 

horse is training, is . good to bring him in order for run- 

ning. The heat' is the &Ili of a series, with short inter- 

vals, the horse which comes in being declared the winner 

of the beat. Heats—are repetitions of the same, and are 

called the first, second, and third, as the case may be. 

The best in three heats,' is mostly gone into disuse ; at 

Newmarket entirely. When run, one horse must win two 

heats to carry of the prize. Dead heat,' is when two 

winners come in nose to nose. .

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Heave on—push along. ' A heave an endeavour to induce 

another to believe or to do something. A dead heave 

a more flagrant attempt. Heaver ; the breast. 

Heavy-...heavy wet, or brown—porter. 

Hebrews.-Jews are so called from the language spoken, and 

they aie treated as a distinct nation, though 'tis evident a 

Jew may be an Irishman or an Englishman. You may as 

well talk Hebrew,' said of jargon ; because the Hebrew 

(so called) spoken by the Jews is of the German dialectic ; 

the character of which also differs from that of the sacred, 

as both do from the Rabbinical. 

Heels—in cocking; artificial spurs, made of steel or of silver, 

fastened on to the natural, and cocks are then said to be 

'heeled.' 

Hell—the receptacle of tailors' clippings and cabbagings. 

Hell's delights—much mental pain. I had hell's delights 

all the vhile .I vas in quod, a-thinking about my old mother; 

as for I know'd sh'd be in a taking about my 

liberty.' Kick* up hell's delights,' a scolding, a quarrel, 

or domestic battle ; capsizing the crockery and upsetting 

the 'ticks. Hell-pains--- 

"The pains of hell shall be a delight, 

To the kick kn the ay...-. Pll give her." 

Hell—' Gambling-houses are thus politely denominated, 

by reason of the colotxre lore anoil in the regiones infernales 

being the same, (viz. red an& black, or rouge et noird 

—barring the cinders.' V* Foncy Gazette, p. 424. 

The keepers ares of the lowest dregs of society, but 

attaching to themselves some of better original character 

and education, to attract, entrap, and ruin the 

unwary, which they effeCt daily. Many combine together 

in cash, (see sank. Zeg. Duel.) and this association 

acquire and spend and share large sums of money, and 

fee the police. They will fight too, with fists as well 

as pistols ; talk of their honour, and appear serious. 

Mostly situated in St. James's parish, and many close to 

the palace-gates, they seem to upbraid the first authority 

in the land, with numerms cases 9f murder, shooting, felo 

de se, lunacy, melancholy, poOerty, and starvation. Robbery 

is common-:-not merely by loaded dice, but forcibly 

taking from the person, and then a gentle jet down the 

- stairs. Go to -hell vid ye, is the cutting reply 

to moralists who would open upon the mischiefs attend-

96 H E L-.-H I N 

ant -upon robbery, or the danger of cutting throatt; and 

indeed, our opinion is, that a good sort of person might 

as well take a journey to that distant region, as expend 

his time in talking to fellows whose hearts are case-hardened 

in sin, for whose bodies the gallows groan*, and the 

floggard-cart now waits'in the portal. I'll go to hell if I 

do,' is not binding, because the parties using it do not 

believe in a future state of rewards and punishments,. 

' Hellish hot,' and hellish cold,' ate convertible terms, and 

well understood, however apparently dissonant. A hell 

of a row,' la a hellish breeze, a hell-fire large bunch of , 

onions,' (1. e. watch-seals) are used. 

' Hell fire Dick'— Owen, the Cambridge coachman. 

Help himself—a turnpike-man who pockets the toll helps 

himself; but he, or any one, in prison, cannot help it or 

himself either. Many a hackneyman has helped himself to 

more than the coachmaster gets. 

t Hemp (the) is growing for the villain;' he is deserving a 

halter and will get his deserts. Hemp en habeas—a halter. 

He'll get over it by a hempen habeas: Henapen widow ;' 

one whose husband has lost his life in a horse's nightcap. 

Hen—a woman, who hath produced. 

"In Black-boy alley I've a ken, 

A tyke and fighting cock; 

A saucy tip-slang moon-eyed hes, 

Who is oft mill-doll at block." 

Herring-pond--the sea, the Atlantic ; and he who is gone 

across it is said to be lagged, or gone a Botanizing. Fair 

Helen, when lamenting her connection with Paris. tells 

Hector, 

"1 wish to God we'd both been drowned, 

When first we cross'd the herring -pond," 

High-toby—gloak, a highway-robber, well mounted. 

High-flyers--women of the town, in keeping, who job a 

coach, or keep a couple of saddle-horses at least. 

High-lows—shoes which reach to the ancles : they have a 

thievish aspect, always worn at Haggerstone, but are 

esteemed on Tothil-down also—four miles off. 

High tide —plenty of the possibles ; whilst low-water' im- 

plies empty dies. 

Hittites —boxers and ring-goers assembled. 

int—one of those many indications upon the sly given by 

one party to another, that are to be found in this Vol. as

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"Beef, beef I"..to a thief. Says - Paddy to Dugg. in, "Some 

body has stolen my shanavist, and by the Powers you have 

got it on; there's a hint for you." 

Hobbady-hoy—Vviit a man and a boy,' said of a youth 

—15 to 20, See Hop; &c. 

Hobby-horse—a man's fancy for certain pursuits, is called 

Ins hobby horse. Dressing and dancing are queer hobby- 

horses, both abasing the mind. See Dandy. 

Heb-nob—Hobber-nob. Two persons pledging each other 

in a glass, nob to nob, are said to be hob-nobbing. Hob 

or ob, observe my nob, that is obvious. IP 

"With a hob-nob, and a merry go-round, 

We'll pull in ere reason fail; 

For the stoutest man in the Iriagdom found, 

Must knock under to humming ale. 

Hobson's choice—that or nothing. He is reported to have 

been a most abrupt shopkeeper. 

Hocus, or hocus-pocus—conjuration or witchcraft, in common 

acceptation; but practised (adversely) upon those who 

undergo great exertions for large stakes, as horsejockies, 

boxers, &c. A deleterious drug mixed with wine, &c. 

which enfeebles the person acted upon. Horses, too, are 

hocussed, at times : Dawson was hanged for - hocussing 

Sailor, because it died. 

Hog'— a shilling. Half-a-hog—sixpence. 

Hogo—a stink; from haut-gout, French, corrupted by the 

Cockneys ; a stinking fog is fop. 

Holla.balloo—continuous noise, of tongues. Cease your 

holkt-balloo,' said by a mother to her children. "A pretty 

holla-baloo in Type-court:" a falling out of the Irish and 

the farriers there. Derived from 'Halloo' or Hail-o' and 

&la' ignorant lingo, or corrupted language. Quere, 

All-of 

Hollow---fowls, served up at table, whether ducks, geese, 

partridges, &c. are described as ' plenty of the hollow.' 

Holt--.a species of covert for otters, composed of osiers, reeds, 

or bulrushes, in clumps—thus Somervile : 

"through reedy pools 

Rustling they work their way; no hold escapes 

Their curious search." 

Hotner4wat: playing the nine chags, he who has got 7 or 8 

. .a them' is 'said, to be at .home, when the adverse party 

ja. tar, behind ;. whose‘ score is then termed the comb,'

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which it snob resembles. IaShe initialer, eralkigeplayers 

are said to play the nest deal I et home; *hen 

they may reasonably reckon open winiiing---thouth nothing 

of the kind can be safely reckoned upon as certain. 4 Gotte 

home' is said of any one sent to a debtor's prison, but generally 

of him who's talons may have long tended 

that way—some of which are never happy or easy 

when from home. I am going home said by some such 

swindler when about to take the benefit of the insolvent 

debtor's act, .under cimunstances of a dark-coloured 

nature. "Home is home be it never so boniely'---is a 

good phrase used by persons after a fatiguing march, or 

who may hav e been entertained by the stiff affected 

grandeur of 'pompons friends. ' Gone home; dead. 

Jiomme comme-il-faut.'t _man as he ought to be: he must 

have 32 teeth, thick curly hair, aad calves 6 inches diameter 

each; around both uncles placed across should measure 

the same. In easy circumstances, of the esnaton. 

Moneyfall—a piece of good fortune, quit immiapecteda 

present, a legacy, a sinecure. 

Honour—ids no where to be found, pure: those who have 

it most upon the tongue possessing least at heart; fervent 

and ready protestations are small security. Puppies, 

dandies- 4 declare 'pon honour' to and on other 

trifling occasions---how bagel With Patianders, 'I giveyou 

my honour; is a pawn that is seldom redeemed. The 

saying, There is honour among thieves, but none, among 

gamblers,' is very veil antithetically spoken, but not truein 

fact: none are more disjoiated than are those gangs, 

inter se, and upon this chord should our police regulations: 

ever thrum. 

Rood—two faces tinder a' ; to act two wigs at once, acting 

fairly to opposite parties: an election squib has it.thus : 

- May the man be and never grow fat, 

Who carries two faces under one hat. 

-Hook and snivvy—practistd by soldiers in querters, vhen 

they obtain grub for nix, by connivance with the travey, or 

her mistress—or, indeed, the pot-boys, and other waiters. 

A man who orders in a steak er joint for one, and makes 

it serve for two., is at kook and:nifty. So, -two travellers 

in Essex, dining of a goose, one of theiti iltrked the ear? 

case intoethe apron of a beggaress *lw plied itt the win- 

' dorr with ler brats: 'We have finished; the.goinse-, waiter,

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and you.: must charge it,' said one; 'Vey well,' replied 

Thomas, ' but I am sorry you skould eat the boles, for 

there is a.buttock . of beef coming in: 

Hookey, Hookey Walker—and wit4 a hook,' usually aceompealed 

by a significant upliftment of the hand and cre.oking 

of the fore-finger, implying that what is said is ale, 

or is to be taken contrary-wise. One tells- a long-yarnstory 

that asks for the disbelief of his auditory; whereupon 

.another cries out Hookey Walker!' having previously 

*hewn the sign above described, or another more elaborate.still, 

which may be looked upon as a counter-sip, 

viz, spread the fingers of both hands wide open apply one 

thumb to the tip of the nose, and the other to the ' point of 

the little finger of the first land--this signifies a clincher. 

History: John Walker was an out-door clerk at Longman, 

Clementi, and Co.'s in Cheapside, where a-great number of 

persons were employed, and old Jack,' who had a crooked 

or kook nose, occupied also the post 9f spy upon their 

aberrations (which were manifold). Of course, it was for 

the interests of the surveillants, to throw discredit upon 

all Jack's reports to the nobs of the firm, and numbers 

, could attest that those .reports were fabrications, however 

true; Jack was constantly out-voted, his evidence overlaid, 

and of course disbelieved, when his occupation ceased, 

but not so the fame of 4 Hookey Walker.' 

Hoot-Balloot—or Balloo. Irish for decrying an action, as 

murder (in Irish ;') the hoot may be made tesrific, according 

to the energrand lungs of the boater. He inflates 

his lungs to the utmost, then presses out the wind with 

all his might, as if he would rend the epiglottis : the teeth 

being nearly closed, the wind rattles all round the cavity 

a the ere it escapes. He that has not heard the 

Irish hoot, has apleasure to come : the hods-man who has 

not acquired the hoot in perfection, May be safely set 

down as a fellow of unfinished education. Bailout—to 

bawLout, is nearly the same thing commixed with words, 

laments, or execrations—an Irisk wodding, a funeral, and 

the of a new paddy, -it aacautplulied by the 

. See . - 

Epp mercAa t- —a dancing-master. See Capers. 

.f/op—ixecartra-dapce of ordinary peravas and promiscuous 

agapany is a hop a4d a peony-shoe ftom the price " 

formerly paid for admiss ion. Hop and Hey,' the hor 

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and-a-hey' manner most thorough-breds of the Cockneys 

walk, as if hung upon wires ; it lasts some of them to the 

second grand climacteric, unless they hop into their graves 

'ere then 

, upon which occasions the relatives hop after 

them to the cemetery, and hop into their fortunes. By 

corruption the last cited phrase is become 4 Hobbadyhoy' 

—an evident abasement. 

Rorney —a nose; one that resounds in expectoration. 

Horse's night-cap--a halter, in which many die, as many 

more,will, unless they alter their conduct. 

iloorah—an exclamation or shout of many, and used in 

'warfare, as in popular expressions of approbation. See 

Whirr. 

Hotel—ironically used of a mean lodging-house, and ex- 

tended to prisons—with the keepers' names prefixed. 

.11ots—provincial for coverings to cocks' heels. 

-Hounds—there are several breeds for various pursuits—as 

' the grey -hound, or long-dog, for coursing; stag-hounds, 

'tall," strong, and quick of scent, ravenous of the blood of 

their victim ; fox-hounds, faster of foot, many-coloured, 

shorter of body and limb, they are less tractable than the 

last, requiring strict discipline ; and if they once chop a 

hare, or stray lawlessly, may ever after be doubted. 

Talbot was the old ndme of the stag-hound; he should be 

20 inches high at least, be liver-colour and white (as 

snow;) much of the former about the head, across the 

back or ribs, a sheet of white—nose fine and ductile. 

Crossed by the mastiff and mountain shepherd dog, deep -. 

.flewed, comes out the blood -hound, colour fallow; once 

lain on the trail of man, he is ever after a dangerous cus- 

tomer to meet with by that kind of man—as poachers, rag- 

amuffins, blacks, &c. Harriers are small hounds, stand- 

ing sixteen or eighteen inches high, with fine nose, and 

bunting low; the hare is their only chase. 

Rouse--' The house; The—par excellence, the House of Com- 

mons—or H. C.; the other house,' is so termed for 

; shortness,- ' the lords'- house' being understood. The 

play6ts, those diverting vagabonds, think of nothing less 

than parliament when ' the house' is mentioned :-with themt 

it means.' Covent-garden or Drury-lane, or indeed any 

.ottei theatre, ' A full-house,' and half. a-hcluse,' indi- 

cate The state of the receipts or number of the audience.

HUM—HUN 1,01. 

Huntg—a whispered lie, and he is a humbug who has recourse 

to the meanness; he wished to be a bugaboo, orlaost 

exalted fool. A knowing sort of htimbug is Huragump- 

lions. See Gumption. 

gumble-cum-dumble----jokers use this phrase; when they 

should say your obedient humble servant,' they adopt 

your humble-cum-dumble ,' such men -wind up a pala- 

vering letter with-' I'm sir, yr. hum. ser.'—which may be 

true enough : they are too proud to use plainly a common- 

place civil expression. One would expect better manners 

from people of learning; but neither Minerva, or her guegs, 

can prevent the insolence of others' familiarities: 

Madam, says Pboabus, I'm your humble 

Ad most obedient 014ffe Amble 

By Vulcan's horns I vow and swear, 

I little thought to find you here. 

Num-box—a pulpit. Bums; the congregation departing. 

Humbug—' to hum,' to whisper, and bug-a-boo' abbreviated, 

'a precious humbug.' E. g. Safety coaches were found to 

he a humbug when they upset; a great humbug' is the fo- 

. reign loan trade in the city : and ' a state humbug' is the. 

sinking-fund. Humbug—he who holds along and senseless 

harangue is a humbug ; or he who in public company has 

something of imaginary importance to communicate, in 

vociferated whispers, is humbugging his neighbour. A 

. jack in office is a humbug, and so is doctor Eady when 

he is chalking the walls of the metrovolis, as well as when 

he is not. A sleep or awake, Huntingdon was a serious 

humbug. 

Humbugging—' Who is to stand humbugging here all day ?' 

That ordinary persons should humbug the public ought to 

surprise no one; but when greater minds and abler pens. 

than ordinary —[teachers] stoop to the meanness, what 

heart-alive does not lament it, even to the core? In his 

number of Aug. 31,1822, the editor of the Literary Gazette 

humbugged his readers with the falsehood that he was 

about to stari, off on a shooting excursion, and would not 

publish during the month of September; but, whatever 

truth might be in the first intimation, [we believe none] 

none attended the latter. He had long before talked of 

having in his office, a ton or more of rejected manuscript's 

—poetry ;' whereas his office is but a little box, without a 

stair,. on the spot where Walter Stapyldon lost his life,

101 HUM---JAC 

(1$1249) de admeasurement whereof is only fby estimate) 

ft. boat 7str, 4 ft. deep, which the shipping reader is 

*awe will y measure a ton, including the editor, his 

publisher, news-boy, fittings-up, and stock in trade. Yet 

does he iterate the same notion, FebruaryI, ltri3, by an- 

nouneing his intention of publishing these bon-existent 

manuscripts in a forthcoming paper, to be entitled "The 

Refuge for the Destitute," which never will appear. 

Iluntmums—two taverns in Covent-garden (the old and the 

new with superior accommodations ; so called probably 

from the hum of many . voices, chastened to a &ex, and 

even this almost mum. Hum,' (imperative) whisper, 

and be mum' or quite silent; of the same family as slum. 

Hunt-races--meetings instituted by the members of certain 

hunts, who subscribe for plates--:or add sums to stakes 

for farmers' horses and run their own actual hunter% 

Hunters' stakes—small sums, 3gs. 5gs. or 7gs. respectively. 

Hunter-weights —1 I stone at the least, but augmented 

according to circumstances, as to previous performances,. 

consangumity, or breed. 

Hust/ing—forcible robbery, by two or more &hives seising 

their victim round the body, or at the collar. 

J. 

lack-O'-Dandy---' Jack, (a common name for any body) of 

Dandy' manners; foolish, proud, and choleric as a turkey 

or dindon (the (n) being mute) whence by easy transition 

to dandy. 

"Handy, smut, Jae* 4' .Datidy, 

Lov'd plum-cake and sugar-candy; 

He bought some at a grocer's shop, 

And wen *ad went off with a hop.hop, hop. 

Vide frontispiece to the lifb of Giles Ginger-bread, wherein 

Jack is -depicted hopping like a modern dandy. 

jack-an-apes—Jack with the tricks of apes. 

Jack and Jill—the male snipe is called a Jack, and, of 

course, the hen is his j3W--hence the phrase for pairing 

'every jack has got his A pike is a jack when a male. 

Jack the Jew, or few-Jack----an Israelite who acquires the 

niekery of Jack, is either a thief or a receiver of stolen 

goods—of the lowest order: No Jew parent would &Ink 

r naming his child after the Baptist or the Exempla&

JIL-3011 I OA. 

Jill-a /Ape& mabid ; Und Jack is the man. A rill, of 

max'—a quartern of gin. A Jilt-7-a she-deceiver, 

eillegi4intates—couuterfeit sovereigns; and ,, foneries 

of the gold coin—sovereigns aud balf-sovereign, the 

latter being then ' young illegitimate.? 

In-cog —a man drunk is incog. See Cog. 

Infant—not a child, but ironically applied to a very big 

person. I know the beautiful savage you mean, he's an 

infant.' Tom Rees. 

in-foal—See Stinted. In-pup—any bitch breeding. In-cub 

—a she-fox breeding. 

In it—coucerued in or making part of a gang, or lot. 

Inguns.--:Cockne, for onions: Beef-steaks an' inguns for 

dinner,'—in common garden. 

Inhkweavers i as thick as'—.persons who are unaccountably 

friendly, are said to be as great, or as thick, or as 

kind, as inkle-weavers; sex no matter: 

te . 

"She now puts on her best behaviours, 

And now they're es kind as inkle-weavers." 

Inatings---at play ; as racquet, fives, cricket, or nine-pins ; 

whichever party begins has the innings and the advantage. 

Cricket has but two innings, in the others the number of 

innings are indefinite, 

Jobbernoul—the head) and a thick one, too. 

At Troy-a.- 

" Axylus then, an honest soul, 

Got a great knock o' jobbernaul. 

John Bull—the people of England, typified by a fat bull or 

oz. The name is assumed by any impudent-and-ignorant 

'knave, who behaves astonishing rude, and then excuses 

his crimes under the plea that he is plain John Bull.' 

John's chief characteristic is—great gullibility, which 

leaves him an easy prey to .impostors, quacks, and parasites. 

Hearken to one of these—an American traveller : 

England is truly the queen of isles, the empire and citadel , 

of Neptune, and, at the same time, the Peru of Europe, 

the kingdom of Bacchus, the school of Epicurus, the academy 

of Venus, the country of Mars, the residence of 

Minerva, the bulwark of Holland, the castigator of France, 

the purgatory of the friends of tyranny, and, in a word, 

the paradise of liberty. Her fair sex' are very handsome ; 

valour is natural to the males. Their talents are as great 

F 5

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as those of tin *otiostpeeple, psihaps Watt*. 'The 

idiom has moreenergy; &o. &c. Finough I enough !int 

*dans Improperly assume die name, "then they presume 

lo apes& *he voice of theec uatry. 

lrg What then? **bait there's lib, there is hope .: 

Though Jobs Mal torn hi. back 

Oa the Wood peck 

Yon nor salt sas Pt BO flee the Pepe." ,34114Poinna, 

Jollification—being jolly, merry-maiing. The first dice 

, vowels change plisoes strangely in some mouths, when the 

(c) is ;doubled, and the meaning too. 

4Towtneynsetz-parsons--those who work by the jots and had 

recently a house of call, at the King's Read, near St 

Paul's, now removed. 

Jordan —an irinal , whether of pewter or earthen--ware. 

Irish wedding —a necessary emptying of a hophouse, de- 

--- rived from the similarity dffogo at such coelebratiosts: . One 

with a black eye is said to have been" at an Irish wedding, 

where they give black eyes for brideofavours: 

te. irony; e. g. Bill Noon you are one of the 

best in all England, for nollidje antiAr laming.' Neon. 

Nay, nay, my ,Coney, now you)re ironing rae-60 flown 

tie back. Blackwood was ironing when, speaking of 

Egan's boxing Teperts,he said, the historian of the prizering 

excels in langutr, and his learning is conepieuotis.; 

many fools took in this, and much more, as meant straight 

forward; whereas that writer 'excels only in meagre threadbare 

language, and his want of common learnsng its con. 

spicuous in every page:' Blackwood meant this: Irony 

confessed, or modesty prepense, is exemplified ander Aloft 

tlesty ; see at Aso Jargonic. 

irons—' in irons,' vviiihrteeives :en. Heavy ironed,' to denote 

the degree of guilt. Thieving irons,' the hands of 

pagues'; and the forefinger ,dhould be as long as the middla 

one. With this purpose in view, they pull their forefingers 

444 and 'hourly, and let the nail grow long. 

indilander --a Scot4onm. 

Iteirs—a hint, wink, or lay 'notice. Tt was I gave the item 

that the traps were a .coming? 

initges —there are afew more than the twelve ivlionrdie king 

.notninates ; =my men appointing themselves: Did yon 

think you were a .catching of flats No, no; I can tell yez 

. -.447a too good a judge.' 44 You a judsel Wb.y you -look

I. 

143 at-AL E 

pp! Iiipe ***es customer by half." He'll a gt9odj44gA 

of horseflesh, is Joe Robson.' , 

illidoborrim* oluxfy .or ao..w!eidy Go it, my j4rabo; 

said to an ugly wallupping chap. Watermen to bacly- 

.coaches, market-porters and others, who wear heavy 

patched-up habiliments are addressed wit,lt My Jumbo. 

Derived distinctly from Mr. Park, who relates (Travels is 

Afrisa,) that a .molding wife of a certain nation Of blacks) 

corrented by a being huddled .up and clumsily 44- 

-Pisewit applying a tremendous birch to her bare H. 

took for name Mumbo Jumbo,' but is slirew4ly suspected 

- (by 4/0.01 being the 1*ue-peeked husband himself. 

.4'w44-siocips — appearing much like pawnbrokers; where 

various Incongruous articles arcealibitad, and marked invariably 

at high prices. 

Awspiri -tite Black .Jsck tavera. Portugal-street, was the 

into be 'rejecting swinslow whereof Ned Shuter 

:from a backny evooach, aud at sits return jumped 

a ranerd again.; upon which eacasion tbe.Jarwy mistook et, 

for the, devil, for he ha4 iii theineautime opened the coach 

and found it empty. 

ilsoipor—the general mono of gin. 

arnMer400defah—aceidental .ezerematiiing, or adventitious 

aceession of gastrodorsed 'compounds, digested and 

hastily excused. 

ifedger.he is a beggar 4be does not ask for alms outright, 

- bet performs .some trivial office, and expects a fee, or 

-testi himself in the way of being offered one. 'To live 

upon the kedge,' is said of those who pester soft-hearied 

!people with petitions -containing exaggerated statements 

of distress. 4 'Kedgefe coffee-house e the daily resort of 

every kind of beggars. . 4 Kedge?* hotel,' the same Rightly. 

- See Dab, Caddee. 

Sleeping, in—maintenance of a prostitute, who is foolishly 

supposed to be solely attached to her keeper; but men 

!frequently receive the like support from high-flyer women. 

'Sam Hayward was a most notable example of this, lately; 

but the Tv interfered. Homer, speaking of Venus, thus 

*sings : 

" Though her concerns I scarp to peep le, 

Nit Mars has hod her long iip) ikediping."

1. Di IE'1-4C ET 

Keel piriq it lupL Life 4 11134 eand nictch boozing, night after 

night, is the way to do it.- - 

Kennel—the - residence of hounds, called 'dog kennel,' tinsportsmaOke 

.: - " '1 ' 

or First; let the 'ken/m:11m the hintsman's care, 

Upon some fittle 'eminence erect, 

And fronting to the ,raddy dawn-vi.P 

ken is an ab,hreviatIoin, and 'Tneavis lesser than kerntel, and 

- its brevity is'. clescriptikre OF a place of mere . 'refuge.. 

' Roosting-ken,' a lOdgink-house. A bawdy .ken,' 

nounced.bodikin;) - a house Of 614a/no, whether that be a 

regular bawdy-house, or merely .a house Of accommodation. 

Keknedy----4 stick of substance, a, poker. "Run trp,.'boys-, 

-Sherrabulalr! Here's mad Myke, -Stith a Kennedy cowing.' 

See Dennis, Rabbit Pole.. 

Kicksees-L-shoes, also highlows:'Why, . you Jack Hurley, 

whatlhave you got there? A. Thin kicksees ii.o ,te sure, 

- that..1 .may.bolt the better when I gets hold of anrthing.' 

Jerry'Avershaw, when he came within sight of the .gal- 

-lows; threw Off his kicksees among the crowd,' July 1195. 

Kicks—breeches. 

:- 

'Kick, boloc and bite'—Lancashire brutality,. which they call 

fi hting, but ' we won't have it at any price !' They kick g 

at any vital part; boloc, or ramp like a bullock ; and when 

dciwn, the brute Uppermost bites off the ear, the thumb, or 

„Rose of the brute below. ;Purr and Coloc, we apprehend 

to be synonymous. See Purr. ' Tummy s a Dickeys a 

'Harry's, where's tom bin ? Bolton ?"41.. Eagh, marry 

I'se bin o'er and toughen., l'se got a piece o'n, in ma 

pocket,'—producing the bloody thumb of his adversary. 

Ketch (Jack)—the familiar of John applies to any one, of 

whose trade, character, or occupation, the speaker thinks 

. lightly—or as not quite so respectable as his owe. This 

gentleman is sometimes spoken of as, an esquire, being 

very intimate (too much so) with the sheriffs, many of whom 

, are knights, or may become so if they choose. We have 

heard him addressed as mister' and (oddly enough) with 

' my dear, 0 my dear dear John,' John, in order that the 

supplicant might ingratiate himself with Mr. K. who was 

at the time paying his respects with much assiduity to the 

addresser's bare back. ' Sentence of death' -rattles upon 

the tympan of his listeners, like 'roast-beef with the gravy 

in;' ' the pillory' is to him an hour of exultation, and he 

.

it tumal 114 tea 

%Mho-41k ovor1Ire: haat of hd4,zn; of scustomers 

with a smack and gusto not to be - exeelled. 'Cutting 

down the bodies' acts like :aleosmeticv but: he; looke - upon 

sentence of transpOrtation .as-a 'tradesman .looks 'upon a 

bad debt .; Gallows Itetbh-(calch). ye,' is aiwish , not 

always intended: to be realitekti ad 4Ivrewd1y inspect 

give rise to the:atipellatioff. 'Jack has Wen' spoken' of' 

truly as 'theft/Wier of.the law.' The present officer's anteeessor..had 

lore eyes, Which although inconvenient to 

him, added to .hi el gravity,. and seemed to tell.how much 

interest he took in the business rike ) however, became a 

monopolist of trades, 'tried an action thereon with his 

master's miter,* (Rex) . and -WW1 cdst in damages -three 

months quod: his successor, Jernmy Botting, a native of 

Brighton, now lives there- re: tired; 'limping his right leg— 

e paralytic. The present- Mrs: K. also does a little: haying 

found a watch in a Cloacinean receptacle, early in the 

year 22, she argufied the matter in Worship-street, and 

put in a plea of non; cisiumpsit. 'Precept and Example 

In August, the son of Burrows; the hangman of Chester 

and the We circuits, was comrnitted.to Chester Castle, 

for stealing cloaks; on the following day his father executed 

the convict Lewiti Owen, at Caernarvon, for the atrocious 

hiFhway-robbery near. Llanrwst.' - 

Kid, Kiddy, and Kidling—implies youth; but an old ever- 

= green chap may be dressed kiddily, i. e. knowingly, with 

Ins' hat on one side, shirt-collar up on high, coat 'cut away 

in the skirts, or outside breast-packets, a yellow, bird's- 

eye-blue,! 'or Belcher fogle, circling his squeeze, and a 

chitterling shirt of .great magnitude protruding on the 

sight, and wagging as its wearer walks. These compounded 

compose the kiddy-; and if father and son come it in the 

. same style, the latter is a kidling. People who imagine 

that all kids are thieves—carry the joke toolar. 

Killed of—those of a large party who may have taken ?twin- 

turn suf to send them away from the table. Borrowed 

from a phrase used of our brave defenders by Mr. Wind-4 

ham, minister-at-war; he meant.' nff front the books.' 

Kindled —hares, and rabbits, going with young. . 

King's English —as written. To clip King's English,' to 

lisp, or cut it short; to ' murder it,' is quite as bad. 

King's plate---King's hundred. His majesty's plate.'—A 

hundred pounds were given by Charles II. to be run for

IN N 

at Newnwitet, the best of 'brae Wm** 11014*.iiii 

lenrying twelve stone. He *Amway& extended the boinus 

110eevetisl other OMNI, elti the number now amoonts to 

Antentrihree in Great Bsitein, and *Wm in Ireland. The 

stewards give a certificate of the re, sad the meet of 

the horse pays by an order on the treasury: there Me 

Wen take their toil off, and the balance as then about 

ninety-five pounds. Heats am disused, horses of all ages . 

now run for 'the kites hundred; and weights as low as- 

8 at. 41b. are earned; at Edinburgh less. 

Ofitssilying---4ssid of a truant husband, who mates away to 

the Jew's-harp-fields, or those of Ratshy-green, to 'y his 

kite' or Kate. In Iceland, flying the kite' is employed to 

,deieribe 6 raising the wind ;' hut many hie thought 4X- 

. haw, gets aingalpheil an the snid -oisannel of at 

orge; and even Plunkett/II-explain* when he informed 

the chancellor (RedesdalerYthat g ill England the wind 

raised the kite, but in Ireland the 'site raised the wind: 

mop it—is a figure for kg to cut,' which see. Knife it,' se- 

perate,divide, discontinue it, or go away. 

Arnighthood--about ninety pounds worth of vanity, vhich 

any person of:tolerable address mayebtain any eonit-day; 

and two neighbour-quacks received the Amour in 1 821— 

surreptitiously ; but never haring been gummed as such, 

are thus benighted (With the ebon wand of darkness' tan- 

tibia. Consult Quad/tr./A—Sir Ch..AHdiss and Sir Cooper 

)aigels. P. Pinder, deocribing a royal visit, (1790) says. 

a Then did majesty, se tperate, 

Ask Mr. Whitbread if he'd be kisight ? 

To which the brewer bowing made reply, 

No indeed, Sire, not 1, L" 

All sheriff* Ong up with petitions are so asked, hut not 

all possess the_sense of swhat is befitting _their stations., like 

old Sam Whitbread. 

tinoalt-out-i-Aan illegal *action. See Rig. 

4611010-.. an abbreviation of knowledge; a man's ham is his 

judgmeot, and the means of coming 40 a safe zenclusion 

on a given question. Know-roe-all, generally :preceded br 

.‘ Mister;' said of.onemho pretends to book-learning,. and 

shows it cif. Be calls for the newspaper, and occasionally 

looks aboasChirn.critically &magi' the crevice betwitt 

'tit and hisIat, for wham :he may find itripping in grammar. 

Igeggrapbs, acc. if a Soot, turns Altezonnetsatiou .Aposi

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tindhydes, voitibeaket and the 'flae load ofdlletstliabd. If 

-an Irishman, he insists that the Clint Tartars- live in the 

'Crimea; -argues that Intim Pink, Isdia the, and India 

pickle, are synonimous ; .sad swears -that Me Englith 

best spoken in the heisted. 

1.aelsryssa Christiaw-iine, muck gaged tef by the till“earos 

being drank in lie .41erived from monkish impiety. 

Lade of the valve ;of either Itiad, who congregate 

. en certain *pots. 

idsagged —when fellows'isze tsaasported theye,ralagged. 

Latin for- —a -dram. 

Iteno-00-the time allowed to a &AV ideer to pt 94wa7'4s 

*prised `._ 'ye him low I i e. about eve minutes. But law, 

as a man, allows him no &awe at ail of getting 

-awa from its r...lotehea. In ring affairs, tharoio 

'but fisticuffs ; he who Wks about recoverieg . stakes OT 

writers by caption4s a needle. 

Layre—Jthe lodging-place of deer or otber ituadrepeds of 

awe.; also Of beasts travelling the road to market or 

Lail" by Someryile : 

Spelt ' Lair 

Mete. fronAis `kir, springLinstit thespeeldel 

Thirsting for blood, And eager to destroy. 

Unharboured now the royal stag forsakes 

His wonted /air; he shakes his dappled sides, 

And tosses :high his beauty itend---.. 

Lead Towels —pistols: nearly gone out of use, 

the practice of highway-robbery., except in 

'George Barnwell; where it 'says, 

Make Nonity surrenderibis dibs, 

Rub his pate with a‘pair of lead towels, 

ør stick a knife into his ribs, 

-ra warrant he'll then show mato bomb. 

Row ti.idditypti. 

along wit3s 

tbe von cif 

4Le'ary--11y, or-up to a thing or manoeuvre. 

Legs 1. e b4aklegs Tho monosyllable is, loweyori, :soot 

elegant, as it leaves something to be 'guessed at. They 

are well dressed, sometimes well educated, sharpers at 

tramblint.:honses or race-coot:8es, &c. ; but legs appear in 

. Trivate parties tfrequently, assuming mu& the surface of 

Igentilityv -Animal courage tiles ,posseia, sine .pair hsitigg

■,. 

11$ L. 

folightitieht id the year. 1822, .apd they possoss sidilto0i 

every cope having missed manslaughter. Oh; my kg 

is a hint to a dim/barged convict; and gave name proba- 

, lily to _the If S. 

Leger (St.) Stakes—are a payment lof 25 g4iiieas each, .by 

the owners of 3-year olds, (horses and mares) to be run 

for over a. course of aboul 2 miles more or less; the 

winner takes or sweeps off all—whe nce sweepstakes.' 

Colts carry est. Ribs; ffllies est. They were begun at 

Doncaster in 1776, before which time the fashion of 

running 3 .yrtolds.was limited; the application of names 

to the several stakes, as Derby, Craven, and St. Leger, 

. begin soon itter then.ligeie k; }Pinch for light weights. 

In 1822, 73 horses were named, and 23 'started. 

Let-loose—that part of the ring at a bull-bait, where the-dogs 

are slipped, or let loose. s Tile let-loose,' or let-out, 

of prison, occurs at three months, six months, &c. after 

the conclusion of each session respectively, about noon: 

the man who would ,see life in its varieties and at Newgate 

in .particular, would. do well to watch ;he movements . 

of the discharged persons for an hour or two 

.Levanter—one who does not pay his losses upon . turf-bets 

but flies off, is a Levanter, and by comparison, pan i passu 

on simibtr bets. Derived doubtlessly from the Levant 

wind in the Mediterranean, which coming on suddenly,, 

detaches single ships from their squadron, and drives 

them the lord knows whither. 

A Lewis Cornaro—any old water-drinker, or suspected. 

Lexicon—bon-ton for a dictionary, even of the most ordinary 

kind, as Entick's; or reach me Sam Janson's_ Lexicon, 

vol. toe.' 

Liberal Education —bon-ton; Latin and Greek, with an 

opportunity of bringing those to some account—but neglected. 

In the mouths of tradesmen and manufacturers, 

reading, writing, and arithmetic, equal to a National 

Schoolian,1 and subscription to the village library, during 

his apprenticeship. 

Liberal Princip/es—freedom from controul, human or divine; 

with proselytism by the press. 'Liberty-hall—to drink as 

you list. , 

Lick (a)—a hit, not returned; and a licking, a beating not 

resisted. Hence, I can't fight, but I von't be licked: 

' He got a sound licking. ;' he was beat like a child—no 

chance. I knows I shall be veil licked when I gets home.' 

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Lick-spittle —one who fawns or 'meld another's favour in a 

dastardly manner, and would, if desired, lick his spittle 

like a dog. See Toad -eater. 

Life—to live joyously, is life." Seeing life,' is said of the 

boarding-school miss, when she is first introduced to a 

ball-room. Going up to town, to see ,a bit of life,' is a 

common expression with those who come up to visit the 

theatres piazzas, and.shows. Life in its varieties,' high 

and lowlif e, but chiefly, a softened expression for the latter. 

High.life,' is properly—living among the great and titled 

ones. A bit of high life,' would be a visit to Almack's 

or the masquerade, and taking a stroll into—a hell. 

' Low life—Billingsgate is not so bad as it, though St. Qiles's 

below stairs might do. White-cross street, of a S4tnrday 

night, is low, and so is Pettieoat-lane *of . a Sunday 

morning, and Kent-street all day. Life and fun,' may 

be seen at fairs, but the term is mostly applicable to street 

busbies& Thus Dibdin's Jolly, Dick the lamplighter:' 

But father Is not the likes of I 

For seeing life and fun,' . 

For I strange tricks and fancies spy, 

Folks seldom show the sun. . . 

Few people generalise their ideas so far as to visit every 

variety of life. The writer of these sheets has seen A LL, 

except being presented at court, and feeling the delights 

of a prison. No two pursuits can differ more than 4 Life' 

in the several classes of society : with the hout -ton, routs, 

cards, and up-all-night, constitute life whereas the 

cobbler's wife. considers no higher enjoyment of life exists, 

. than taking a drop of heavy-wet on a St. Monday with her 

dear Mr. Lapstone, while he plays at skiales and blows 

a cloud. He who is acquainted with the various cheats 

.about town, is said to " Where do you live?" 

asks an old acquaintance. Ans. "I do not live now ; I 

have left life and vegetate in the country." 

' Light, to strike a' —to open an account, of the minor sort, 

generally applied to ale-house scores. . 'Tis an invention 

of the working prirstp,rs in their chapei. 

Light weight —In affairs connected with the ring, persons of 

11 stone and under are light weigOs t and if of nine or less, 

they receive the appellation of little-ones. A jockey of 

9 at. is uo consideted a light weight:' boys of 6 gm 4 lb. 

being sometimes required, seldom less. 

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Linsbo —say plass to which one's particulars naay -cos- 

fined ; so this explicatory volume may be considered the 

author's ' Limbo of Oddities.' Cast into Lo'—sent 

to a prison. 

A prism is a home of case, 

A place where none can tbrivk, 

A touchstoge true to try a friends 

A grave for one alive. 

Sometimes a place of right, 

Sometimes a place of wow, 

Sometimes a place of rogues awl thieves, 

With honest men anon. Arlfmkt4U- 

LPIP-11. Wing. A man is in a line when he ie node A. 

fool or butt of another ; wheu of the entire company, he 

is in a string.' To be in the lipe was *wee time meaPt 

a dealer la forged bank-notes, but became obsnlete by the 

reeissue of gold: those passers were also termed ofiasliors 

(improperly), who retailed but a few, singly. Oas line 

of life —to live dishonestly; a w who does AM Mb, 

is not yet got into the line or manner of doing it—she is 

only in the way of -10. , 

Lingo.. - ' Damn his live; said of a parson, et admonishing 

justice.Vhat pretty lingo Tom Owen does patter 

sure lye; in the ring. 

g And in/ timbers, what Hugo he'd coil iind belay I 

Twasall jest as one as high Dock. Gibes& 

Listener —the ear. 'Gas now planted his favourite hit under 

the left listener of his aatagonist, which sent him to dorse: 

Vide Fancy Gazette.. 

Literary pursuits—subscription to a library and access to 

talking comptiny; the production of a serap or two occa. 

tie:many in a favourite paper, busy intercourse (monthly) 

with a magazine, and the announcement of a volume once 

in ten years. Of such quacks and their admirers we find 

there are two classes, those who have erudition without 

genius, and those who have velebility without research ;' 

we shall obtain second-hand sense from the me, and 

original nonsense from the other. 

Little Chancery —a court of trequeldsi or of conseieibee. 

Littk -ease—the name of a certain eity.prisen. 

Lob shopkeeper's tilt Lob's-powid--a prison, dark and - 

drear. 

Lobcter —a soldier.. By inversion a lobster is also tailed a 

wither. when boiled, as as a red-hewing. 

Losier.s pocket-book it is Jewish—Dutch.

LON---LUR 116 

Lessighore Lessorro—are 4 Bleck Sharks,' which see. 

Long-town—London is so spoken of by the Irish. 

2Loos—nothing: to fight for love, or play for it, is nought— 

no such thing in existence among the legs; hence the 

term. 

Low—any _fnnexpected sally from one of a party acting like 

gentlefe&s, is denounced : and he is low company,' 

who of a St. Monday, or during a Sunday ramble, should 

come out with sexual stuff—or infamous dirty allusions— 

Yet is not such conduct confined to dustmen and mere 

donaeken dabblers, but pervades all highflyer society. 

Laid-two species of Laid, differing tote tale in their habi- 

tudes are now before our vif imagination : the one may 

be spoken to, the other oniy spoken of; the one is visible, 

the other kind only felt, or are heard of occasionally, 

without being seen. The first kind may amount to about 

at doses (a hakerls dozen) at any one time; uf the second, 

las many hundreds or thousands go out at a time ; that 

4 town-bred,' this kind 4 confined to the oountrii: Yet are 

the fewer the best off in respect to gallows affairs, as these 

never 4 go to the drop,' but aommait the more numerous - 

kind of Luds to the finishing care of John Ketch, the 

- Gaper. The most populous take individually the name 

of Ned; among the pars pawn.* they had among them 

only one Nerd (viz. Edward Ellenbro' doe.) and he no one 

dared call Ned, except Will Hone, and even he called 

Lad' for the most part: " My Lud ! my Lud ! ! it is 

I that am to be tried, and not you!! !" The ' three Luds 

in the Minories; so much written of by the Slang-whangers 

at one time never did exist: but the three Lords' may 

be found there —once a sporting-house, 

Lumber (live)—men and WOMI341 over-loading a cart--no 

matter the age or condition. Lumbered—taken-up on 

suspicion, supposed in irons. 

Lumber-troop--a society of jolly-ones, citizens of the mid- 

dle rank, assuming military idistinctions, as 

colonel, captain, &c. with insignia, forms, and cannon. 

Lumpy—heavy. " Here they are, lumping penn'orths; of 

fruit at the stalls. 

"1, Lumpy famed, Mendoza HA, 

I'm up to all and quite the kick." 

Lurcher—a thief-dog, trained by poachers, being t out of 

lb.e worst of .two or three species; e. g.—a was. ; astd ball.

116 L U 

dog, then the fiercest of the produce upon a lawless stag.' 

hound; -let the gestation and litter be in the woods or 

glens, far from home. Also, the greyhound and tanned. 

terrier cross. Law lurcher—a 

Lush--drink of any sort—beer principally. Thus we have 

Tom Cribb's lush-crib." Lush-out;' a drinking bout. , 

6 Lushington,' or 'dealing with Lushington; taking too 

much drink. 

M. 

Afa' 'am—abbreviated from Madam, a term of respect used 

in addressing ladies of respectability ; but among fish-fags 

and prostitutes, 'tis taken ironically, considered as an 

insult, and resented accordingly. Marna, is but a further 

corruption of the first. 

Macaroni stakes—those ridden by gentlemen, not jockies. 

Mace—the broad-pointed instrument used for playing the 

We game at billiards. The mace-cove is he who will 

cheat, take in or swindle, as often as may be. 

Mad-cap—a frisky wild lass, full of fun. 

Mag, rnagging—monotonous endless talk; Stow magging,' 

cease talking. Mag—a halfpenny. 

Maiden-plate—a racing prize, for which untried horses and 

mares alone are allowed to start; or, if any do start surrep- 

titiously and win the race, the prize is withheld. These 

plates are generally fifties. 

Main (a)—with dice-players, is the averages of the number 

to be thrown. 

Then Ajax grasps his clumsy list, 

Aud gives the box a devilish twist, 

Out pop the dice; cried Nestor—seven 

'8 the main, a nick, by Jove: eleven. 

Another throw then Ajax tries : 

Now eight's the main, sly Nestor Cries; 

Resolv'd this jobbernoul to cozen, 

Roars out, another nick! a dozen. 

Main—in cock-fighting; he who wins the advantage on a 

series of battles, wins the main. 

g Malieting —a horse.' Two horse-dealers appear, the one as 

a buyer, the other assists the seller in making sale of his 

horse; they try hint, and dispose of the animal to a fourth 

person, pocketing the proceeds, and sometimes fight which 

shall have it; when honest men come to know who the 

rogues are.' This last is a ntalletting bout, which differs 

a little from Hammering. Vide Old Fancy,' p. 98.

MAL—MAW 117 

iifdt--the chief Ingredient of beer, has been used figura- 

tively for the beer itself. "A shovel of malt," is a pot of 

porter; and is a good expression of Torn Rees's, as it 

reminds the person addressed not to forget the main 

- article. ' Malty ;' drunk, with beerfor drunkish any how, 

stupidly so. 

Mannikin—i. e. a-kin to man; men's manners in a boy 

renders him a mannikin, as written, or to ' man-a-kin.' 

"Mannikin, cannikin, good meat and drink, 

And true from the head to the shoe-tie." 

Marh—(ring). The pit of the stomach is termed the mark,' 

and Broughton's mark.' It was Bill Warr's favourite 

hit ; also, had been Dick ,Huniphries's. 

Marriage Act—of 1822; the laughing-stock of all sound 

moralists, the harbinger of unlegal attachments, and the 

quarterly annoyance of the religiously disposed, when it 

was read instead of .a sermon. On one such occasion, a 

pious Devonian addressed his dumpling-head congrega- 

tion thus : 

et I shall preach.so .sermon this morning, as you will see : 

But shall read what will tire both you and me." 

Martingale—at play, to double stakes constantly, until luck 

taking one turn only, repays the adventurer all. 

Massacree—unlettered pronunciation for massacre. 

Match—persons nearly of a size are said to 'make a good 

match, (ring). Horses' Match consists in colour and size. 

A two-horses' race, is a match, when specially agreed 

upon. The agreement for a man-fight, is making a 

match.' Young folks are said to make a match of it,' 

when they marry ; they do the same when they do not 

wed frequently, but bring gyblets together, sans ceretnonie. 

Match-makers—old men and women there are, who having 

tasted wedlock-joys themselves, and their appetites, fail- 

ing, they prepare tit-bits for their young friends—male 

*and female. 'Tis a droll occupation; and fails often of 

entire success. Jew-King opened a match-making office 

in Old Bond-street, about 1797. 

Maunders—beggars using much lament. 

Maw-tatititp=Ompounded of maw, another name for the 

a - stoni.ach,. and to wallup, or eat up without discrimination, 

anyipreparationt however incongruous, having the appear..

112 MAW—IIIER 

ance of victuals, but usually understood 10 be of the km 

solid kind, e. g. 

Then here me nice sheeps' heads to suit each dainty maw, 

Vs very true, says Will, but then, there's too much jaw. 

Hawley, matvlies—the hands; from to mawl, to beat. Pronounced 

by thorough-bred cockneys Maw'r ks,' and 

written by some fancy jargonioewriters- 6 morkys: We 

have the right ntawley of Jem Wines met Wartou's kft 

mawley, and smash'd it. 

Max—gin, originally of the beat sort, abbreviated from 

Maxitne ; but now, any kind of the juniper' is Max, Old 

Tom, the Creature, Eye-water, or Jackey.; all meaning 

Blue-ruin.' 

Maze—a labyrinth properly—as 'maze-pond, Bort)," the 

maze at Hampton-court, and that at Marlborough; mtged,' 

mad ; a labyrinth of ideas or notions, is a state of madness, 

and the word, though local, is good. 

Mazzard—the face, or perhaps the whole head. 'Tis Irish, 

and mostly confined to Dublin. ' Toss up the coppers 

now Thady," head or harp?' ' Harp r cried Paddy, ' and 

down came three Mt& mazzards. Chop his mazzard,' 

a cut in the face. "There sits my dirty spalpleen, musha 

gra! with a pipe stuck in his nate marzzard, see." 

Mealy-mostuted—backwazdneso of speech; one who talks 

as if he held a spoonful of flour 'twist his (lining-Tem 

chairs. 

Ifig-4 I am without a meg,' i. e. o money.not a halfpenny 

in placket. Megging—obtaining the meg', thus : 

two or more fellows, pretending to be utter strangers, 

conspire to cheat a third by laying was, rm or otherwise 

do him out of his bustle: provincial of Yorkshire. Mien 

employed on horse-flesh, it acquires the term Molletting. 

Meking~a sound drubbing, all one way. A. seeker is he 

who punisheth, and the thing adminietesed is a nailing- 

& corruption et ma/letting. 

Man of Cash—gamblers in luck: 

"Pm wpte an your knowhig rip, - 

Ye biddies queer.and Mash; . 

Fm company tar scaaapsaad prig*, 

Sometimes for men of cash!" H. Mon. 

tiferiism-ithigh flesh! far the evtseise of a thing, asesi nega. 

tively in .genetal; aa, 'Sir, yen do net Anton iatO the 

merits of--1-the wine, the joke, &ie.

E W-41 1 X 

iNfao6-416 setA of a hare ; her resert : 

Now gently put her off; sae how &ea 

To hoe own *ow oho then! Sosizavistr. 

ifiel-i-Jewish pronunciation for with; the Cockneys corn. 

it vid 

Miles's boy-4 Who told you ? I thought no one knew.' 

Ans. '1 had it from Milets boy: h one of the suburbs 

of London, lived a tax-gatherer named Miles; who kept 

a boy, or-man, walking about to discover people who 

might be taking flight without payment This Janus-like 

mode of proceeding, however, is continued, and so is the 

saying, notwithstanding the boy must be long since dead 

of old age. 

Mill-doll—a prison that part of it which it appropriated to 

working, hemp-beat ing, treading the wheel, &c. 

Millers (ring)—secortd-rate boxers, whose arms run round 

in rapid succession, not always falling very hard, or with 

determinate object; and they seldom win against equal 

. strength in a scientific opponent—but by accident. Gat 

was a miller the Hudsons were nothing else—but Josh. 

improves. Shelton it a reformed miller: Scroggins, an 

incorrigible one. 

Ilfinikin—dinnall, little, "what a minikin mouth she has 1' 

"His store contained every thing, .from a minikin pin to a 

sheet-anchor." 

Mischief—in her eye;" which must be black, sparkling, and 

with a Hite leer, for its owner to be so spoken of. Randal's 

fists now shivered as he squared at Martin,. clearly 

meaning mischief." F. G. 

ifisfits-:.-elothes which do not suit the wearer's shape. 

Hence 6 'tis a misfit,' when a story, or some endeavour 

fails of its effect, then 'it von't fit. 

Misforiewnate--properly miss-fortunate, used of women who 

may hare missed their way in walking along the undulating 

paths of life ; which are laid with -the pebbles of vice, 

laving one border composed of the briars of misrule, 

thistles of grief, and nettles of mishap, the other border) 

being slightly fringed with the flowering myrtle and gaudy 

moss-rose, that sweeten the breeze that cools OUT anguish, 

and seduce the malaria of our repose. 

1Ia Obliftr--; -to intermarry—naturally or legally. 

14o.ift1 it tip--Ata.agree secretly how the parties shall make 

up a tale, or colour a transaction in order to cheat or de-

120 MIZ—MOO 

ceive another party, as iu gale of a justice-Itearing, of *a 

law-suit, or a cross iu a boxing-match for money. 

lifizzk—when any number. of the light-fingered tribe con- 

' gregate in the streets, they disperse incontinently different 

., ways at the sight of a trap or two; they are then said to 

mizzfr. 

Mock-auctions—one of .the baleful products of a generally 

bad trade ; every species of cheat is practised at them : 

some are held more ostensibly genuine, but are nevertheless 

rank impostures. See Barkers. 

Modesty—like other negative virtues, 'tis most insisted upon 

by those who have least of it. Wh—s swear by their 

modesty, and often declare 'tis hurt by expression of free 

thoughts, whence some have concluded the modesty they 

speak of is a substance, resembling probably an old hair 

trunk. Take an example of Scotch modesty from Black- 

wood's Scotch Mag.: "A loftier and a wiser people (than 

the Scotch) are not to be found now upon the earth, nor 

do the records of any such survive." Petrarch thought 

otherwise : he placed them the lowest save none:" Of all 

the barbarous nations, none is more cowardly and igno- 

rant than the English, excepting only the rascally Scotch." 

Molls—are the female companions of low thieves, at bed, 

board, and business. 

Monkey's allowance—more kicks than half-pence. 

Monosyllable— (the); feminine only, and described by Nat 

Bailey as pudenda rnuliebris. Of all the thousand mono- 

syllables in our language, this one only is designated by 

the definite article—the monosyllable .; therefore .do some 

men call it the article,' 'my article,' and her article,' 

. as the case may be. Certes, 'tis neither yes nor w), (those 

uprights and downrights of civil life).--but it lies some- 

thing between the two when first used—never after. 

Monstrous.—excessive positive. A bon-ton reply reuders it 

a .superlative : ' a very pretty girl is chat .miss —," oh ! 

my dear sir ; onstrous pretty little creature inde-e-d." 

Monster-ous large would do better; but dandy cares not: 

he has it monstrous hot in the house, and devilish cold 

out :",I was monstrously affected,' he concludes; yes, 

afected, monster-like. . 

g MOO n h t7" Wan der eiN or fly-by-night' persons, who 

pheatt clAoydg tpy.i, away by, night ; when 'tis 

PO to i4ec4ia,.* gP9fts ; .

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Moonshine gilded—sham bills of exchange : 6 no effects.' 

'Mother C'f!try's chickens'—to fare alike and pay the same. 

Mother of Masons'—a toast—not among their secrets in 

lodge, whatever it be at home. 

Mot—a young woman, desirable for a sweetheart. Dimber 

Mot—a pretty lass. Mort or Mott—a woman, wrapped- 

up. Mort is death ; and the term should imply that the 

speaker would love her till death. Again, a pall is called 

a mort cloth, in some parts of the country; and an Egyp- 

tian traveller (Dr. Richardson, the wit) speaking of the 

women of Cairo, when riding on asses and muffled up, 

(as is the custom) compares them to a coffin mounted 

erect, covered with a mort-cloth.' 

Morrice-dancing—it differs from the contra-dance, reel, and. 

waltz, Sec. inasmuch as men only perform the morrice- 

dance, having bells attached to the arms, knees, &c. 

66 Morrice off"—an order to depart, meanOg dance off.' 

At such a time, 

While to wild melody fantastic dreams 

Dance their gay morrice in the midmost air. 

Mouth (a)—a silly fellow, one easily duped. 'I've a mouth 

at the Mint, as brings me out plenty o' gold blanks. See ! 

here be two and thirty ! !' 

Move (a)—a removal of public-house-keepers. 'A precious 

move,'—or motion, to do something disadvantageous, as 

'tis to lose a fire-side seat in winter. Land-rails, &c. are 

said to be moved,' when the sportsman disturbs them. 

Moulder—a lumbering boxer, one who fights as if he were 

moulding clay. Go along, moulder,' i. e. fight on. 

Muck—dirt ; and money is derided as muck, when in posses- 

sion of a miserly fellow, who is then a muckworm. Some- 

times mucks; in Devon ' mucks-a-drowd is dust, or pilm ; 

in Yorkshire, ' muck-orts' are the leavings of a dinner, or 

ill-favoure4 scraps, and by easy transition—dirty female 

persons are the same. Muck, is used differently on the 

Malabar coast and islands: madmen running about the 

streets there, reckless of life, are denounced as running a 

muck,' and get hunted down like beasts of prey. Dryden 

evidently knew the country whence the word is derived, 

-when, speaking of some Blackwood of his time, he says, 

"Frontless and satire-proof he scours the streets, 

And runs an Indian muck at all he meets."

122 MUD—MUN 

Mud—a stupid twaddling fellow. And his name is mud!' 

ejaculated upon the conclusion of a silly oration, or of a 

leader in the Courier. 

Mud-larks—fellows who scratch about in gutters for horse- 

nails, and other fragments of scrap-iron; also women who 

go into the Thames, at low-water, to pick from the mud bits 

of coal, which are spilled from the barges along-shore. . 

Muffin-faced—one who has large protruding muscles on his 

phiz, which is pale withal, is a muffin-faced son of a 

;' mostly cooks, idle gourmands, 4c. who delight in 

fat, soups and slip-slops, evolve mutton-faced. 

Mufflers—gloves with wool stuffed upon the knuckles, for 

boxers to sparr withal, and not hurt each other too much: 

claret comes sometimes. 

Mug—a man's face. When applied to a woman it seems to 

imply that she has a masculine visage, or is ugly—God 

forgive us for so speaking of the female face divine! 

Please send a crate-full of ugly-mugs,' vide an order to 

the potteries for jugs or mugs which exhibit on their lips, 

or in their entire form, the greatest distortions of the hu- 

man face. These were recently much in vogue, and were 

intended, no doubt, to alarm the drunkard when he should 

have descended so far into his cups as to see blue devils 

in the air. 

Mulligatawney—soup, made of unborn calves' meat (vulgo 

slips) and still-born fake, in imitation of the Chinese 

chow, chow,' or stewed puppy-dogs. 

Mulligrubs—sickness, intestinal or nervous, or of tardy cir- 

culation. Hector suggested that if he went not to the 

battle, the Trojan dames would 

"Cry,' Bless us! what is come to Hector, 

He used to maul the Grecian scrubs: 

Pray, has he got the mulligrubs 1" 

Muns—the mouth; but sometimes (improperly) extended to 

the whole.face ; though this may, probably, be allowed 

when the portal of sustenance extends far over the counte- 

nance. Derived from mange, (in die. of manger, French) the 

difficulty is soon solved; and is better than mug, because 

this latter is a more comprehensive name for the whole 

set of features. Vide Bath Cries on a Good Friday : 

"One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns, 

If you have no daughters give them to your sons: 

If you have no sons, stuff them in your own myna."

-"■1111.1111■ 

M U T—N A N 123 

Whereas the man who has not capacious muns might stick 

those buns in patches upon his mug, and so become muf- 

_ fin-faced. 

Mutton—a woman. Also, 'laced mutton.' ' Mutton-mon- 

ger,' a follower of females: 

Muzzler (ring)—a blow, slanting upwards, placed on the 

upper lip or tip of the nose; the latter is most effectually 

conducive towards victory of any blow whatever,—'tis a 

puzzler too. 

My in if band-box'—it is so indeed, when a lame, 

story and a lying one is stiffened up with pompous no- 

things. ' M'ars in her band-box' is another version of the 

same : 'tis said that Jupiter baying dispatched Mercury to 

seek after Venus and Mars who absented themselves from 

Olympus, the messenger-thief found them and re- 

turned the foregoing account of his mission. 

My lord—any one with a hump on his back: Bad nurses 

cause these humps; let the lords curse them all their lives. 

. Presiding judges are addressed as Me-lud. 

Myrtle—men used formerly to walk about with bits of myrtle 

stuck . between their teeth, knowingly. Jerry Avershaw 

had a bit in his mouth as he took his last sad airing at 

Kennington-common. The address 'Ah, my myrtle, is 

rather gone out of use since that black affair; Jerry having 

thereupon dangled at Wimbledon several moons after- 

wards. Ned Brown, the younger, a costermonger, is the 

present sprig of myrtle.' Ned is a tulip too. Jail Ketch 

(circa 1790) wore a sprig of myrtle in his business hours. 

N. 

Nabs—a cox-comical fellow is spoken of as his nabs' ' My- 

self and his nabs here, grub at Dolly's to-day.' Queer 

Nabs—shabby genteel. 

Nakb'd—the arrest of any one who has been long sought 

after, whence perhaps nippered' for criminals. 

Nail—a cheat, who rolls into debt without intending to pay, 

is a nail; and he who lays sharping wagers, or tosses up 

unfairly, is a dead nail. The man is nailed who is laid 

hands upon. 

Namby-Pamby—verse, ill-composed, unmeaning. 

Nantz—' right Nantz,' brandy. Cool Nantz,' the same. 

' Nancy, 

ask my'—a very vulgar recommendation, seeing 

that it is a mute. 

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124 NAP--NEW 

Nap, Nap it—to get the worst of a fontast-rr.f at fistpufiW is 

understood. To nap toco for yam,' to get. woe beating 

than is given. . 

Nashed—rgone, Or run away. 

Patives—silly people, generally ; the untravelled populatJon 

of any town, wrapt up in incipient simplicity are natives. 

Native cavalry —the unbroke horses of conntryme,n, when 

they resort to races, fairs, fights, 8tc, 

Natty—neat, tidy, spruce, going to a fair, or hop-9--of either 

sex. 

Near-side—of a horse or other cattle, the kilAsicle, by which 

horsemen mount. Postillions ride on the, near horse. in 

England—the Russians drive on the off-horse. The left 

kidney being nearer the heart than the right one, is called 

the near,' the melt interposing between it and the ribs. 

Neck and crop—' turn him out neck wad crop,' is to push one 

forth all of a heap,, down some steps or stairs being under- 

stood, so that the patient may pitch upon. his neck (or 

head.) to wash the Neck,'—to swallow liquids. 

Neddy—sometimes ass-neger,' other names for jackass— 

the living emblem of patience and long suffering. 

Newcome, Johnny—any man recently arrived. 

Newgate —a house of entertainment for rogues of every de- 

scription, detained for trial at the Old Bailey, London and 

Middlesex sessions,—or for ultimate transportation. The 

- Dublin, 

name has itself been transported to, and naturalised in, 

as also in Manchester, where the sessions-bouie 

is modernized into New Bailey. The old building so ap- 

pelied, stood across the entrance to Newgate-street ; and 

probably had its name from the circumstance of its having 

beeu the newest of all the gates that then chokefl up the 

accesses to the metropolis. See 'Start.' Newgate seize 

me if I do, there now!' is an asseveration of the most bind- 

ing nature, when both patties may be following the same 

course of life. As black as Newgate,' is said of a street 

lady's lowering countenance, or of her muslin-dress, when 

either is changed from the natural serene. 'Newete drop,' 

see Drop.' Debtors' door o' Newgate,' is still used in 

the London cries of last dying speeches ; but it no longer 

exists—that stain upon our laws, of confining within the 

same walls, felons and unavoidable misfortunates, being 

taken away, by incarceratino. offenders of the latter descrip. 

tion in the At home,' of Aitecrosi-street. See How.

NEW—NIM 125 

g Newittte-gteps,' fieurative for a low or thievish origin. 

Before 1780, these steps, ascending to the chief door, were 

large. and much frequented by rogues and w—s con- 

nected with the inmates of that place : some might be said 

to have received their education there, if not their birth: 

such a thing has happened :— 

" At Newgate-steps Jack Chance was found, 

They brought him up near St. Giles's pound; 

He soon was taught to swear and fight, 

And every thing but read or write; 

He cbuld a purse or goad watch bring, 

And swhggering Jack was just the thine 

Newinorket—a plate for racing and coursing, having The 

net turf of any extant. Newmarket; best two in 

three,' as a phrase is .errolleous ; races are not decided 

there by the best in three, as prevails elsewhere. See 

' Close rub, King's Plate, Round Betting, Turf? 

Nibble (v.)—stealing or cheating- for trifles is nibbling. only 

isibbk d half-a‘bull for nly regulars.' 'There, now I feel 

you nibbling ;' said by thieves when they are teaching each 

ether to pick pockets. 

Nick—hold Nick; the evil being, who interposes finally in the 

nick of time between a resolve and its performance. 'Tis 

a softened expression for d--1; always masculine. Thus, 

tt nicked horse carries his tail devilish handsome after he 

has had a nick or gash hi the leaders, and the cure is complete; 

a mare should not be nicked; it would appear so ! 

Nick-names are derived from old Nick. Nickeries are the 

same applied to actions and things, or quid pro quo. So 

many names have been bestowed upon the great enemy of 

mankind, that we are much disposed to believe Nick was 

added to all the rest to denote the fiend upon whom all 

nickery had been exhausted, and therefore he 'the nick of 

all nicknames.' The story of St. Nicholas having flogged 

him, and thus, under his own hand, conferred his familiar 

Nick upon old Nick—we 'reject as apocryphal. ' You are 

arrived' in the nick of time,' is addressed to one who comes 

I in the critical minute.' To nick,' is a verb, derived from 

the noun, and means 'to cheat'—of money, of chattels, 

or of life, 

(v.)—to pick out; g nim a wipe or reader.' 

Arinroci--4417 aportsman fond of hunting.

126 NIN—NOB 

"From the shades could Mvsrod, that hunter of old, 

Be permitted to view our domain; 

Our horses, our hounds, and huntsmen so bold, 

He'd wish to pass life O'er again ' 

So he would. " 

Nincum Noodle—see Noodle. Nincum is a contraction of no 

income, i. e. not enough, or poverty. Nincutn-poop, a term 

of derision, applied by a young lass to her lover, who 

presses not his suit with vigour enough. 

Nine winks—a few minutes' of sleep in the day, assuming to 

be for the space of time which would be occupied in wink- 

ing the eye nine times. After he is roused, the doser prepares 

to take ' nine corns more' of tobacco, and nine 

whiffs' at his pipe. 4-Nine 'tailors make a man; and .four 

journeymen with an apprentice make half a man.' Sam 

Foote dining with the Court of Assistants at Merchant- 

Taylors' Hall, took leave of them at a late hour, with 

' Gentlemen, I wish you both .a good night.' There were 

just eighteen. 

Ninny-hammer—one who speaks without suffioient strength 

of intellect : niona, small, weak. 

Nippered—caught, taken up. What d'ye think? My eyes, 

if Bill Soames warn't nippered only font :AO little better 

than a wipe;' he was thereupon transported, 1823. Nip- 

pered, or Kneppered—is derived from kneppetis, the knees, 

which are hampered or hetnpered, when the.rogue is either 

tied a-horseback, or has got on the greaves. . Diomede 

being wounded, called to his coachman,--- 

ce --Hark ye, sit:rah, 

Come here, and lug meout this arrow;' 

And then the bully on his bare 

Kneppera knelt down and roar'd a prayer." 

Not only the Greeks but the Trojans used it in the same 

sense , 

"I go to bid our grandarnes all, 

And old maids on their kneppers fall ! 

The prayers they mumble will, no doubt, 

Help us to thrash the Greeks this bout. " 

Nix—nothing. Nix deberr; no my friend. Borrowed of 

the Russians who lay in the Medway, 1810. Nix my dot,' 

—nothing at all. 

Nob—the head, A head man, or chief person, is also 

nob." The nobs' house at Westminster, the H. C. and 

,

NOB—NOT 127 

Lords house. The nobs' nob;' George IV.—none better. 

Used also in ring-affairs : Josh. paid his respects pretty 

plentifully to the Yokel's nob,' vide Fancy Gazette. His 

nob was pinked all over,' i. e. marked in sundry places. 

It differs from swell, inasmuch as the latter makes a show 

of his finery ; whereas the nob relying upon intrinsic worth, 

or bona-fide property, or intellectual ability, is clad in 

plainness. 

Nobody—is in every body's house.' When any article be 

missing, nobody can tell where 'tis ; and when the housemaid 

proves enceinte, 'nobody did it,' until she has consulted 

how to work the oracle.' 

Nolens Volens—by force, against the will of the persons 

practised upon. _ 

Nonconformist—a discontented person, who will think and 

- act differently from all others. 

Ncmplush—non plus; no more, no farther, not to be exceeded : 

used liberally—' I was struck all of a nonplush.' 

Noodle=---a fool, who may have been suckled too long; or a 

seven months' child, who has been catlapped all his lifetime. 

A secretary-of-state who may be a noodle, does 

things by halves, or else acts with a vigour beyond the 

law; a tradesman-noodle never soars beyond his counter, 

nor rides farther, than Rotten-row or Mile-end. Very few 

The house of noodles,' the upper 

females are noodles. ' 

nob's house at Palace-yard, Westminster. 

Nose--the verb signifies to pry into and worm out the secrets 

(generally dishonest) of another; he who performs this dis- 

graceful office assuming to be co-rogue with the person 

nosed. In France, these are employed by the Police, sent 

into prisons as if committed there, and afterwards appear 

as evidence against the felons :—those noses are termed 

6 chien-snouton,' dog-sheep, i. e. wolf in sheep's-clothing. 

When Coleridge and his friend Lamb retired from politics, 

they frequently engaged in literary disputes, like radicals ; 

and when he apostatized he found among the Tory archives 

of espionage, an account of a conversation held by the 

twain respecting Spinosa, the philosopher; but which their 

nose construed into spy-nosey, and he imagining himself to 

be meant, wrote to his employers that he was blown upon,, 

and wished for his recall ; vide Biog. Lit. by S. T. C--e. 

Nothing—to speak of;' scarcely worth notice. Nothing is 

as good as it; any thing [whatever] is .better Pray

128 NOV—ODD 

George, what is Robert about there?' A..' Nothily i Sir.' 

Q. ' And what are you doing?' A. Helping Robert, Sir.' 

Novice—one not initiated in the affairs of town; a new or 

untried boxer, is a novice : all inexperienced persons are 

novices, until ;hey peruse this Volume. 

Nous—uppishness ; to be up,' is to be nous; but this latter 

is chiefly confined to the gambling-houses—hells. 

No. 9—Fleet4market; the _Fleet prison. "You'll find him 

always at home, at No. 9." 

Nutty—sweet, amatory; bestowed by bucks upon buxom 

landladies, and spruce bar-maids. 

.Nymetting —[West-country] See Crinkuns-crankunt, of 

which it is the participle. Mary Tracey is the woman on 

the black ram in the Spectator : Euatace Budgell did 

wroug, geographically, in leading posterity to believe 

those Nymet-towns lay any where but in Devonshire. 

Mary, probably, was Budgell's own ancestor, though we 

cannot trace the fact. 

0. 

Oak stakcs—sarne as the Derby, (which see,) except that 

these are for fillies only, carrying 8 st. 4 lbs. and were 

begun in 1779. 

Obstacle (the)—it stands in St. George's Fields, and commemorates 

the 'No. 45' men, and is written obelisk.' Old 

Calvert, when he began the rot-gut trade, grinded his malt 

by horse-power, and being in the habit of riding out one of 

these rotatory animals, when the pair of 'ern' arrived at 

this monument to liberty, My horse,' said the brewer, 

' vent round and round the obstacle till he vas tired, and 

me too.' 

Odds--e-those chances in wagering which give the advantage 

to either side, are the odds in favour of that side : two 

playing at billiards the odds are against him who drinks 

most liqueurs; a tall man and ,3trong has the advantage 

(and the odds) of a small weak one: in either ease, some 

degree of skill would reduce the odds. It is worthy of 

remark, that in man-fights, and all decisions left to the 

honour of low-bred fellows—' the odds-men' do not win 

so often as they lose; and that those who may be Own- 

- residents—connected with the chafers, are invariably 

estimated at from 20 to 33 per cent, too high. .Witeu

0 P F--ris0 I L 129 

turf-wagers are laid upon faces approaching (for stakes) 

odds lie against any given horse winning, in the ratio of 

the number of horses to start against the number laid 

upon; so that 30 horses being entered to run, 'tis 30 to 1 

against any given one winning; unless as generally happened, 

some part of the lot come from a bad or equivocal 

stock, and then the odds may rise up to 20 to 1, 10 to 1, 

or even 5 to 1 upon the favourite, as it frequently does 

before starting. See Round Betting. 

Off—run away. ' I'm I am going;' also '0 double 1,' 

or offish,' or 'off the ramparts ; Etil signify that the speaker 

is about to take leave of absence; the latter, that he will do 

s6 at all hazards. So we have turned off,'—hung; and 

a turned-off mistress,'-- a discarded strumpet. 'It's all 

of betwixt us,' i. e. the wager or the argument is null. 

Now they are off,' said of horse-racing, on those courses 

where the jockeys are cheatingly permitted to make three_, 

four, five, or more false starts. See Start. I'm off with 

. my sweet set-to,' said by a frblicksome Ma'am, when she 

sallies forth seeking whom she may devour. Off she 

goes,' announces the beginning of a contra-dance, during 

the delightful days of Bartholomew-tide: a certain dance 

of six figures was thus entitled late in the last century. 

6 Off-and-on,' with intervals. Be off,'—a command not to 

be mistaken nor resisted; terse, and includes an understood 

threat if you do not. 

Office (the)—Intelligence, or information of any 'kind being 

conveyed to one, is to give him the office." It was I gave 

the coves the office that the traps were a searching for us.' 

To perform a service for another, is to do the office for him. 

Ogies—the eyes. ' Queer ogled ;' squinting. Ruin °glen,' 

(query, ogled-one ?') bright, piercing eyes. 

Oh my leg !"-thrown off before one recently liberated from 

goal, as a rebuff for his misfortunes. The wearers of 

grbaves afterwards obtain a certain loll in their gait, as if 

they missed the ballast of their fetters ; so do bur seamen - 

ashore -feel in vain tor the Mel of the vessel, and acquire 

the roll of the sea, in the same manner as ploughmen and 

gardeners imagine their shoes still clogged with earth. 

Oils (stud)—a commixture of two destructive spirits and one 

oil, used by ignorant farriers upon several discordant occa- 

sions, always highly . destructive, and never required in 

any case. 'The Oils, or Iles, ought to be expunged. 

G5

130 OLD--pOPE 

Old lady—a.common address to those out of condition.. The ; 

old lady of Threadneedle-street,'--the bank of England.. 

Old Tom—he is of the feminine gender in most other nations 

than this : 'tis a cask or barrel, containing strong-gin, and 

thence by a natural transition from the thing containing to 

that contained—the liquor itself. 

Old woman—a term of reproach to men who think and.laet- 

. sillily—as old women do. Most fellows talk of their wives, 

as my old woman' at home, though younger probably 

than the speaker. 

Oliver—the moon; when up, he is 4 in town.' 0 

Omniutn—the whole; applied to the funds. See Scrip. 

Omnium gatherutn—a mixture of all sorts : mixed com- 

pany ; all the varieties of life at one view. 

One-two (ring)--when both hands are applied to the =tato- 

nist quickly, he is said to have 'napt one—two'-- three, 

sometimes; a saying created at Bristol and brought up to 

London. . 

One day'—is said of a circumstance the precise chronology 

- of which signifies little. Old May, be died one day,'—no 

matter when to a nicety. 

Onions—seals. My eye, what a bunch of onions is there! 

Joey, my kid, let's make a grab.' 'Amateurs who wear 

onions to their tattlers should come to fights with a stiff 

stick a-piece.' Fancy Gazette. They were formerly wcirn 

fastened to a ribband, and tied about the wrist; and a si- 

milar oust= prevailed with miniatures, for in The Mewer, 

No. 8, Jan. 21, 1663-4, we find advertised as lost," a gold 

enamelled bracelet, with a small blue picture case at the 

end of it," 

0. P. and P, S.—in theatricals,. prompter's side--and op- 

posite prompter's side; directions as to the entry and exit 

of the players. Thence, those initials were transferred by 

Joe Finch to certain dinneTs, and. at length to his public- 

house in Russell-court. The O. P. note—a riot of any 

weeks duration at the theatres against N. R. or new 

prices (1809.) 

Opaque—an intelligent improvement upon Fiat; as regards 

the state of the speaker s understanding. Egg-shells are 

opaque. 

Opos (to)—upon any one; a volley of abuse. See Bellows. 

When hounds quest for the chase, they open upon finding 

it; and if the voice be recognised as coming from a good

ORA—PAD 131 

hound, the hunters cheer on and deelare his name aloud, 

and he replies deeper and deeper still"— 

So Somervile: 

'Twat; BelIman that apeted, so sure the fox dies. 

But when an unaccredited babbler opens without coming 

upon scent, he gets flogged for his impertinence ; 

' the vain babbler shun, 

Ever loquacious, ever in the wrong. 

His foolish offspring shall offend thy ears 

With false alarms, and loud impertinence.' 

Oracle—(working the). Men who understand how to overreach 

others, or to manage money concerns marvelously, 

are said to "work the oracle well." The same is said of 

the insolvent, who cheats his creditors ; as well as he who 

practises round betting, or edges off his bets, advantageously. 

Over the water'—in the king's-bench prison. 

' Poll 

could not cross the water.' Holman, 

Ounce—so much silver is understood, or five shillings—same 

as bull; "I'll bet Ye an ounce of it." 

Out of town—out of cash : locked up for debt. 

Out-and-outer—he who engages in any matter, and sticks to 

it like a trump, is an out-and-outer. Ned Turner was 

long time nothing but an out-and-outer:' (ring). 

P. 

Path (the)—assembled hounds, are the pack, par excellence. 

—Each straggling hound 

Strains o'er the lawn to reach the distant pack; 

'Tis triumph all and joy. 

Similarly we say a pack of cards, and a pack of scoundrels;, 

whence the verb ft; pack a jury, and pack of! i.. e. " fly, 

like hounds." The latter well-marked phrase, however, 

has been sadly corrupted in the mouths of the vulgar, who: 

" pike-it, ' instead. 

So, I off to sea: 

And, says I to sweet-heart Poll, 

If ever I comes back, 

We'll laugh, and sing tol de To] lol 

If not--remember Jack. 

Pad (the)—highway-robbery, forcibly. 'Foot-pads—dam-- 

mounted highwaymen. Pads—are also street-robbers-,

_ 132 P D-g4 A lt 

Paddock-4 small park, without ita clumps, plantations, 

water, or vistas—a large plain field, about a mile long, 

and as wide as the house and homestead, Also, an in- 

closure for coursing-matches. 

.Paddy—the familiar of Patrick; common to all Ireland is 

Paddy Bull. ' A Paddy-row,' more jackets off than blolvs 

struck, where sticks supply the place of fists. A Pat- 

lander—any Irishman. 

Pal—a companion on a tour, or in any small expedition, as 

robbery, fornication, &c.; either masc. or fem. but mostly 

the former. Derived from Palfrey—a lady's curvetting 

horse; and she being timid, would be attended by a run- 

ning servitor, or palfrey-man, who by abbreviation became 

her pal, if he and the horse were not the pals. 

Palaver—soothing talk, generally of the high-flown kind, 

by a trrelled swindler, or a gin-bibber, half seas over, 

who means to show off. Of Sunday mornings numerous 

palavers are held at every corner of St. Giles's, in Kent- 

street, and Petticoat-lane rookeries, usually at the ends 

of courts where the parties ordinarily go to roost. When- 

ever it happens that two palavering parties wish to be 

cock of the walk, they come to blows, which produce a, 

Paddy-row. 

Pam—at loo, the knave of clubs takes the ace of trumps. 

Pandemonium—learned gamblers use this word for a gaming- 

house, instead of "hell ;" whither the reader is desired - 

to go, in search of farther intelligence. 

Panny—a small house, or low apartment; a dwelling-shed, 

or gipsey building without stairs. 

Panum—bread. "Mat de dem div, me Middery?" asks the 

gipsey child. Ans. Nonarem panum; I. e. What did 

they give you mammy?' Ans. 'nothing butbread.' 

Parenthesis (a)—it is this thing, itself ; and whpn a man's 

nose, or any prominent part of him, may get irrevocably 

between the thing—he is in a bad way : some few novices , 

have died of it. 

Park—an inclosed space, having- game; an immense field 

with plantations: individual exclusive property, and the 

third in degree after forest (1) and chase (2), warren 

being the fourth and last of free-chase' divisions. The 

Park is also the rules or privileged circuit round the 

king's-bench or fleet. The park is well stocked,' when 

many prisoners have obtained the rules.

PAR.--.PAY 133 

Parlour—may be a room as well as some other thing. Mrs. 

Fubbs's front parlour is no part of any building, yet have 

we got sky-parlour,' for the attic . garret.' 

"My lodging is in Leather-lane, 

In apar/our the, next to the sky ; 

It admits both the wind and the rain, 

But the rain and the wind I defy." 

she who is said to let out her parlour and lie backward,' 

cannot be supposed to repose with her face downwards. 

Parry---(ring) to prevent blows, descending on the body, 

whereupon the receiver should return with the same had 

See Stop, Guard, Counter-hit: 

- Patrician order—the nobility. 

Passion—bon-ton--a taste for any given pursuit. Our-Fred. 

has a great passion for grey horses;' another has ' a pas- 

sion for skating,' and a third, a passion for full frills, 

,pudding cravats, and plaited pantallions; whilst Maria 

drives slowly along Rotan-row, that she may indulge her 

passion for quizzing the men-calves in the Mall." 

Patter—small-talk and flashy. Derived from the French 

patois, or vulgar long-shore dialect; it comes to us, navally, 

per sea, our tars using it for persuasive language. Thus 

our incomparable Dihdin the elder: 

" Go patter to lubbers and swabs do you see 

About danger and fear and the like—" 

Beggars are said to patter well,' when they deliver a 

good moving tale. So hawkers of small wares use it; 

a good patterer; and no palterer,' showing the degree 

of qualification a man may possess in praising off his 

goods. Tom Kinnersley was the very beat book-patterer 

in all England but Jemmy Speers, now is the best von 

for pattering off his brushes. Tom Tag and ' Bob Sanders 

are rival patterers in rostra; the Bathotic chaos of book- 

learning. The Patter is also Trial at the Old Bailey : 

speaking of a discharged culprit, the song-smith says, 

4 He 'stood the patter, 

But that's no matter, 

A man may be dried who has been in the water 

lie a pardon receiv'd from a gracious king, 

And swaggering Jack was just the thing. 

Pay-away—(ring) ; when one man gets disabled, by a stun- 

ning blow or otherwise, the other sarves him out, fast and 

quick, by paying away at his jolly-nob, ribs, and bread- 

basket..

134 PEC—PIE 

Peck and boose—meat and drink. See Boosey. 

A saucy rolling blade am I, 

My name is Donkey-Dick, 

Through London streets my wares I cry, 

Up peck and boose to pick. 

- 

Peckham (going to)—dinner. All holiday at Peckham'— 

no appetite. ' No Peckham for Ben, he's been to Clapham, 

e. is indisposed, in a certain way. Peckish— 

hungry. 

To Peg a horse—to drive a bit of wood between-the hoof 

and shoe on one foot, to superinduce lameness when he 

is already lame of the corresponding leg: punisha ble barbarity. 

Pen, ink, and paper—a piece of chalk and of board, on 

which to keep a milk-score, or the nine chalks of low - 

gamblers. 

Peristaltic persuaders—Dr. Kitchener's relief halls for gourmands, 

much in request every 10th November, and at 

every cabinet dinner—where they swallow "cheese parings. 

and candle-ends"—the nasty rogues. Abernethey's 'blue 

pill,' or "It. Pil. Hydrargyri Gr. iij de diem in diem. 

J. A. Chirurg." 

Person—young women are designated as young persons 

wanting situations.' Bill Noon addressed the more dandified 

part of his customers (male) with how is your 

small person to-day?' See Carnigal body,' of Rees. 

Peter—a box or portmanteau. Petermen—those who follow 

coaches and waggons to cut off" packages. 

Philistines—sheriffs officers and their followers ; revenueofficers; 

the press-gang, and police-officers. 

Physicking—winning a man's blunt at cards, or other wagers, 

is giving him a physicking.' The physicking system' 

was put in force at the Doncaster St. Leger, 1822; and in 

the + battles between Josh. Hudson and the Caulker, as 

well as at Lashbroke and Parrish's ditto. ' 

Piazzas, to walk the'—is the first indication of a girl's turning 

loose upon the wide world: a-while 'tis all sunshine but 

briars and .brambles soon spring up. See Flesh-market.' 

To Pick in wrestling—provincial of the North, to throw a 

man. 

Piece—a soldier calls his musket his piece, and so he calls 

his trull ; but high-flyers - are so termed--behind their ' 

backs. Agamemnon, in the council of war, said,, speaking 

of Chryseir:

-,_ 

PIG–PIN 13E 

Won!' this dear loving wench PS Part, 

The only comfort of 'my heart; 

But since I must resign for Greece, 

I shall expect as g a piece. 

Fig---a man charged with being one is supposed to have 

dirty piggish habits : some selfish fellows of fortune bear 

about the title all their lives. Pig's whisper ;' is brief- 

ness itself, 'tis a grunt. What would you have of a pig but 

a grunt? To buy a pig in a poke,' or bag; a blind bar- 

gain, without taking a sight of the thing bought. Cold 

pig;' goods returned upon tradesmen's hands instead 

of money, is an unsavoury thing, and so is cold pig. A 

learned pig,' is he who repeats often and with display, 

the same Latin distich, or employs metaphysical argu- 

ments. A man who talks mathematically and knows no 

more of science than an unshaved pig,' is in a poor way ; 

the remark is offensive; but if he be so piggish as not to 

know this beforehand, he deserves no other treatment. 

To stuff a fat pig in the tail,' to give unnecessarily, 

Thus Peter Pindar (John, Wolcot) 

"And then for why, the folk do rail; 

To stuff en old fat pig i" th' 

Old gripus of Long-Lest." 

Pigeon—see Flight. Pigeon-fancier,' a breeder—as Lord 

Torrington. Some, however,faney the killing of pigeons, 

as the Ashton club in Oxfordshire, and the Midglyam, 

Surrey, pigeonites. To pigeon the news,' is to send 

information by the carrier-pigeon: So fellows who ran or 

rode with news surreptitiously obtained, received the name 

of pigeons, from their occupation.Pigeon ' and 6 blue 

pigeon,' is another name for lead. To fly the pigeon; to 

steal lead. A pigeon' may also be a man, and is gene- 

rally a young one, who parts with his blunt freely at 

gambling, and is rooked; older persons also stay and get 

plucked sometimes, until they have not a feather to fly 

with ; this is the case with the greatest captain of the 

age,' as well as with the royal commander-in-chief,' i e. 

the Messrs. Marshals. Such men, after the plucking, 

become bald-coots. 

Pimple—the head of man or woman: Such a tumour-like 

nomen shows how low the speaker's opinion is of the thing 

...spoken of. See Canister, Nob. 

Pink,---one above the common run of mankind in his manful 

s

;410- 

136 

exertions, is ce pink. . 64 Such 'a pink ati Skittles is Jem Bunn, 

he is the pink of all Bow r 1. e. the best player at skittles 

in the town of Bow. My bitch beat the best among 

them to-night; she is the pink of the pit so far.' Now, 

be a pink for once,' said to a combatant to keep up his 

spirits.. ' 1 felt myself suddenly" pinked all over, like the 

man in the almanack ; no blow of finishing importance to 

be sure, but all conducing toward victory vide Jack 

Furby's account of his battle with Belcher. Meddle 

with my affairs and Ill pink your 'eye out It a cornmeal- 

-place rebuff'. In this round the baker's eye shewed 

The wearing of pinks in the mouth or coat button-hole 

was formerly much practised : if one man pulled Out 

another's pink from coat or mouth, a fight was the consequence. 

Pin-drop—the negative is understood : let not a pin drop,' 

while a song is 'going on, or some favourite speaker is 

trying to make himself understood. 

Pins—the legs. ' Get up on your ring, and speak out.' 

Pip—an Irishman, in his extacies, interlards his expressions 

with a number of drolleries carrying something of 

their meaning in the sound, and many drawn from the 

Celtic, though seeming like Toni fooleries to the low 

English: 

" With a hey, pip, and a drimendoo, whack.' 

Small brains in the bat where my head ehaned to be, 

And sure to my coat I had only one back." camas.. 

Bing whack! dily-doolly, sing pip. Moneys. 

Piss-quick—gin and water; hot acts the quickest. 

---Agen--AWekhman's pun upon a prize-fight reporter's reports. 

Vide [Old] Fancy, No. 15,.p.368. Cowards, terror.. 

struck persons, and .departing subjec ts, contract the fundus 

of their bladders, when so affected, by way of 6 Vale, Vale, 

benedicite,' and so deluge their inexpressibles: the sphincter 

does not always relax upon such occasions, but the contrary. 

Patroclus adviseth Achilles, thus : 

1144at's leave this mighty man of pleasure, 

-.TO kiss his doves at his leisure: 

When Hector comes, we'll then be mist; 

When Hector comes, hell he be-p—t." 

The Pit—means the area in which dogs are pitted against 

each other, and is extended to the whole building gene- 

- - .rally, as, the Duck-lane pit, the Tufton-street, and (to

P 1 T.P E 137 

Aoreplete the enumeration) the Harper.street pit—Jem 

,;41tolfe s pit, in Tottenhtun-court-road—Harlequan Billy's 

and Jack Goodlad's, both in West-street, city—or Jack 

Nailham's, is the Mint. Tim Smith's pit nigh the latter 

place is neatly extinguished, 1822 : the Pad,dingtop pit, 

not now frequented. Sometimes the company assembled 

are called ' the pit:' e. g. " bet the pit all round at my 

dog stays the fralleation of a qsartern of an hour ;" in imi- 

tation of the language of the playhouse—" the pit with one 

voice damn'd the whole performance." Not only dog- 

fights, but beam and badgers are baited at those plates, and 

these latter are also drawn; together with other animal 

sports occasionally, ai baiting the monkey, killing rats, 

&c. Cockpit is nearly the same. See Cock 

Pitch, and tossup'-.-a game played with -Money, thus : a 

jack being placed at a distance, often at-fifteen yards, the 

parties pitch their coin at it, and he whose money is 

nearest takes up all the pieces, shakes and throws them 

up, when as many as come heads uppermost fall to his 

share; the next person near the jack does the same, and 

so on until the blunt is all divided. To 6 piteh the bar,' 

is throwing a heavy iron to great distaaces; so pitching 

the ring,' or horse-shoes, is heavy play, very becoming in 

blacksmiths. ' Pitch him to the devil,' though never per- 

haps executed to the lull extent, is sufficiently indicative 

of the speiiker's wish, a4nd might cost a man his life before 

he _could get half-wwy to the pretence just( named. Pitch 

it into him,' strike him bodily without notice. See Belly:- 

govirster. Pitching his gammon,' telling fibs with strong 

assumption of veraciousness. 

Placed—turf; the horses that come in, so that the judge 

'can assign to them the order in 'which they appear. Not 

placed,' is of course the contrary, See Distance. 

Plate—turf; a piece of ,plate, or the amount in money- 

501. being called silver, 801. or 1001. 'gold,' to be run for 

on conditinns specified ; and they are either 'king's plate,' 

maiden-plate, or the plate given by certain persons; as 

ladies plate,' members' plate,' 

Plated-butter—that which has a good article outside; in the 

middle, lard and scrapings. 

Play—gamblin'g of any sort, but chiefly understood of 

hazard, rouge-et-noir, and la roulette. 

Pkwure—What is it? One believes it to lie in bustle, noise,

138 PLFc--POP 

and strife,—a bull-bait, a boxing-match, or worse than 

either, a stormy debate in the hon. H. C.; another seeks 

solitude and the muses, converses with antiquity, and 

reclines on the tranquil couch of bienseance. A third 

seeks the hind, or follows the fox; his neighbour takes 

pleasure in watching the minnow-bite, and tugging at the 

pike; whilst his wife murders private character, cuts up 

rural happiness, and consigns disbelievers to the fames. 

Those are inveterate habits, and last some of them to the 

grave; other pleasures there are which cure themselves, and 

run off (like syphilis) leaving the patient dilapidated: the 

gamester becomes poor in pocket as in soul, the debau- 

. chee weak in the loins, the drinkard nauseates wine or 

goes mad. 

Plebs—a tonish designation of the lower orders ; coming 

from 'plebeians' among the Romans. 

"I mount on my box, my elbows I square; 

I handle my reins, the plebe they all stare." 

Plumb—in the city, proper—a hundred thousand legitimates. 

.Poaching --bunting or shooting other men's game; formerly 

called fowling, snaring, stalking, and practised at will. 

Pogey-aqua'—lont-shore for—make the grog strong. Pro- 

bably derived from Poco aqua, Spanish for little of the 

water. 

Poney—a little horse, (stud) and also wagers of twenty-five 

guineas, (turf) the one being derived from the other. Poene 

is a Latin word for pain, or painfulness, and all the little 

wild horses being mal-formed, so as to give one an idea 

that they walk in pain, (or Pane) thence comes poney. 

Dr. Johnson knew no more of a poney or of a horse, than 

a horse knew of him. ' Post the poney'—put down money. 

Pontic—accounts which are not intended to be paid, -are 

' upon tick,' abbreviated—short in the sound, long in the 

term, lasting some to extreme old age, and beyond, even., 

post nuotens. 

Poor-creatures-4- potatoes. Cockney mark of despication 

for the very best of all edible roots: high-treason against 

the prince of esculents. 

Popp'd— put into pawn: pop my tog for a bull to drink 

upon.' Popp'd out of the way,' of the bailiffs. g _Popp'd 

off,' ran away. Some persons are easily offended at trifles; 

they are then said to be popp'd,' or to take tiff. To pop,' 

to fire a shot. A Popper—a gun—pistols are thepopper#t 

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Porter—beer, so called by reason of this class of workmen 

carrying off large quantities of. their favourite beverage. 

Made of brown or high-dried malt and coarse hops ; the 

yeast on the surface is beat in with new birch-brooms, and 

the beer subsequently fined down.' See Beer, Chemistry 

Intire, (in Addenda.) 

Possibles---money. 'Tis wholly impossible to live without; 

every thing is possible with him who has it. 

Post—(turf.) Wrong side of the post,' meaning—of the 

winning-post, having betted upon the losing side. ' Pout 

the poney,' or post-down the cole,' put down the money. 

Post-obits—bonds given by spendthrift heirs, and expectants 

positively, at, ruinous rates; to be paid post-mortem of 

some old dad or nunky, with chances of survivorship. 

Pot—' gone to pot,' dead. Put in the pot,' is said Ofa man 

who is let into a certain loss—of a wager, of his liberty, 

or life. I shaill put on the pot at the July meeting,' sig- 

nifies that the speaker will bet very high, (at races) or up 

to thousands. Pot 8-o's,' the name of a race-horse mean- 

ing 80,0001. or guineas. Lord Abingdon once declared 

I will put on the pot to-day,' and he did sprith a-ven- 

geanae--his groom, Jack Oakly, put him in the pot. - 

.Potatol-trap.—the, mouth. Shut.your potatoe-trap. She's 

got the use of her potatoe-trip, --a scold. A wide mouth 

has been- described as a beautiful.potatoe-trap.' 

' Pots and pans—to make,' of his property ; a man must 

knock it about and spend all freely—then beg. 

Poverty-basket—a wicker cradle: , allusion untrue. A Malthusian 

doctrine. 

Pound it—to lay pounds in a wager, or, to increaseloneb from 

shillings to*pounds ; to post the blunt, to im-pound it. 

Prads—are riding -horses of any description, ponies included, 

but a doubt exists as to considering the jackass. as a prad; 

because the word is evidently derived from prado, Espag- 

, nol for a gravelled walk, (the inside of a fortification,) 

whence comes the. verb to walk;. and as no Neddy can 

walk, or do any thing else in style, he is no prad 

Premium—a gift, profit, or advance upon the cost price of a 

thing, as a house.of trade—a loan to the government, &c. 

'Tis understood, though not expressed, usually in the 

latter case 'How is .omnium ?' A. '_Doing at 1i,' ke, 

1/. 10s. premium per cent. 

.Price—a IL-We-I–the amount for which he way be brought

140 PRI—PUP 

to lug dislsonnurithly. Not at any priet,'----an .absoluie 

negation put upon an inadmissible proposition.. 'I won't 

We in your story at any price.' .4 He shall not make -one 

of our party---no, not at any price.' So radical Hunt, 6 I I 

will net dine in a malt-khease in November, at arty price.' 

Prickers, yeomen—whippers-in of the royal hunt; so called - 

because they catilied rods with a prick or nail at the end, 

in *order to prick up lazy or lagging hounds, befbre Whips 

came into fashion. Formerly a tricker's-plate (M.) was 

run for 4nosally, Moot; nowconyerted into a 

aweepstakes, called the . Witekjieid,' from .the lodge so - 

named, and soyal kennel there. 6 Prickiwg a hire—rueming 

her down by her track on the snow. About four or 

five miles chase will bring the pricker upon puss. 

Prig—its present morning is a thief/ . 

in a more confined 

sense pickpockets -ase prigs; so also those who.woirkt rob 

shop-windows, coaches, and the like, may be considered 

U priggishly inclined. Thus we have the burden df a 

song, And.* prigging we will go.' Pornietly, however, a 

fernicabmwas called .6 a prig,' -being a mere corruption of 

auothermord, differing:from it only in the last letter. 

Prinse—chef, well togg'd, any thing performed capitally. 

' He's all prime,' or a prime -oate- for that. 'That's ft 

prime . - 

Prodigious 1-4ion-1sta ; but wa. prodigious elsewhere. See 

Monstrous. 

Produce—the pow Many givien horse or mare is its produce 

whether colts or fillies; but, in a wider 4ense of the word, 

would imply any of that get, however alt Thus, Hapha- - 

sard'speeduce won forty-one primes in the season 1/121-.. 

Produce stakes; are those engagements which are entered 

into as soon as the mares may be in :Ad, to run the pros. 

dace when yearlings, àr two or three year-olds, as the 

agreement may. be---but very injediciouslp made. Post 

produce, is the same, but agreed upon. soon after covering, 

and three mares are mentioned, but one product only is 

brought to the post. 

Property—goods, a man's wife, his horse, &c. are claimed 

,‘ as 'my property.' ' To make a property of a man,' is to 

extract money from him. 

Bublicslouse lawyers—those who frequent such to pick up. 

business, or to set friends by the ears. 

Pat trine-4-4 in the last round Jemmy had received a bit

P U G—P U 141. 

on the left ogle, which now puled it up: A puf of the 

breath ie the eloquent reply of many, (particularly Weleh- 

- men) to a laboured . attempt at imposi epos them lin- 

To puff off,' is to. praise ino atoty. Inv article 

intended for sale, or the character of any one : this greater 

the cheatery the more puffing it requires; a good fire stands 

in no need of the bellows.. Sir Henry Halford insisted 

upon the patient's continuing the arsenical preparation 

until his face became puffed,'--.-at a consultation :of M. D's 

Pugilism—the art -aixl practice of manual defence. Derived 

from pugiks the fists, and pugnanduni fighting. Straight 

hitting from the shoulder; to parry and counter-hit; to 

throw the adversary when in, to get out from his clutches, 

or drop from his grasp out of a chancery-suit—are charac- 

teristics.of the Bristol, or native school of pugilism. 

Pulled—had up for crime before the magistrate. 

Pully-liawley—abbreviated from 'pull-away, haul-away;— 

apparently the action and cheering at finishing a first-rate 

cable. In ring affairs, two novices getting hold of each 

other, pully-hawley for the throw. 

Pullet—in common life, a femaleobarn-door fowl, which has 

not yet produced eggs. Young women are so denominated, 

occasionally; and sometimes we have 'virgin-pullet, who 

though often trod has never laid.' 

Pulling the long bow- –lying ; derived from the surprising 

. feats told of the Irish archers (see Addenda) formerly. 

Those sharp-shooters made nothing of killing at five miles 

off, or so, a mile or two being (literally) no object upon 

such occasions. 

Punch—brandy and rum, equal quantities, added to as much 

hot-water, sweetened with loaf-sugar; the juice of lemons 

and limes should be previously mixed in, and some of the 

sugar rubbed on the outside of the lemons. Derived from 

punish, as it does the heads of all sapsculls. 

" The chiefs 

"Can punish every'sneaking knave, . 

-And with good poisie reward the brave." 

Puns—the lowest species of wit; in which, however, many , 

of the greatest wits have indulged. Jonathan Swift was 

the most incorrigible punster since James I.; but before 

the mighty Sam Johnson, pun dared not show his nose. 

Throughout Cockaigne they are punsters to a man, or in- 

-deed, to At woman. Of one of these, it was lately said, As

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142 PUN—QUA 

long as he can clinch a word, or raise a laugh, he does 

not care how old, or how bad., his pun is: he will call any 

one singing in a garret an attic warbler.' He calls a 

friend an unit-Aarian, because be has but one hair on his 

head. He addresses a shoemaker, 0 sovereign of the 

willing sole.' If you are a Templar, he hopes you may 

turn your gas into Coke. He is indefatigable in chasing 

down his pun. He reads only to find out resemblances, 

and listens only to bring in his pun. His brain 

is full of ' eggs of bon-mots and specks of repartees.' If 

a person is in a dilemma, and asks what steps should be 

taken, he recommends the library steps. If he is asked 

W ring the bell, be, with great solemnity, puts a ring on 

the finger of some pretty girl. If one objects to him that 

his coat is too short, he replies it will be long enough 

before he gets another.' A gentleman offered his friend a 

pinch of snuff out of his box, which he said he much recrdecl, 

having been in his family a hundred years : his 

'end thanking him, replied, ' I am not in the habit of 

taking snuff, but as a curiosity must have a pinch out of 

your cenery box' 

To Punt—to put down money for the play at rouge et noir, 

or la roulette—games that by their names show their 

origin. See Grab-coup, Martingale, Rook. 

Purr (ring)-;-the rushing-in, Lancashire fashion, with the 

head against opponent's guts: inefficacious. See Bush. 

Puss—a cat; also applied to a hare. Ma'am Puss, a pert 

lass, bar-maid at a tavern ; or one suspected of loose prac- 

tices, with a saucy tongue, is a Ma'am Puss. 

Put in the Ao/e—among thieves, he who is left out in sharing 

the booty—or regulars—is said to be put in the hole.' 

Put-up—is when a thief is instructed where he may rob, 

safely and to advantage—'tis then a put-up robbery,'.. 

generally a crack. So, when one rogue sphts upon ano- 

ther, this is also a put-up.' 

Putty—a name for a painter. Poor Putty I' Grimaldi. 

Pye—nobbing with the ferule upon boys, and with the thim- 

ble upon the heads of girls. Pye, in a printing-office, is 

not fit to eat: type tumbled all of a heap. 

Q. 

Quacks—humbugs. 

Quackery—the bane of British welfare ; pretence far beyond

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the reality, (or at total variance with it) that exists in every 

ramification of society, and (worse than all) is believed of 

nearly all. Political quackery —' taxation no oppression, 

and the six acts a blessing'. Moral quacks—the bible associations, 

and vice-suppressionists. Religious quacks— 

the theosophists of the three-legged stool. Lastly, Medical 

quacks—These are, 1st. All who puff themselves off in print, 

or super-induce others to perform the like dirty work for 

them. 2nd. All who prescribe one grand specific in various 

and opposite cases. 3rd. All who have taken up the profession 

needily, without previous education. 4th. All who 

decry others' practice without shewing reasons at every 

step. Reece is the most allowable of the fourth class, but 

he belongs to the second also, as is proved by his Col. 

chicurn Autumnale ; his — and other Nostrumo -copoejas. 

'Tis strange! but true, thatEady follows closely said M.D.; 

only hearken to the barber of Dean-street : There are not 

a few at this time making a great noise in the world—who 

are speculative monsters in human shape.' _ Good; and 

when the doctor finds himself foiled—with a pox to him ! 

he applies to a surgeon regular for farther advice. (Let 

Nesbit speak out.] He quotes Horace and cites Greek to 

prove his (second-hand) learning—the impostor ! Yet is 

he more bearable than that other plural barber, Daniels, 

(cum aliis Monro, Cooper, and Co.—one of whom is a 

black man, another a hairy man,) who got himself knighted 

surreptitiously. Next Halford and arsenic, Abernethy and 

Pil. hydrargyri, Cash, Calomel, Currey,' always in a 

hurry, to what class besides the second do these belong? 

Sir Astley and his many friends' are consigned by the 

- same token to the first. 

Quarry—in hawking, a bird pursued by a hawk is his 

quarry. 

Quean—a flaunting woman of loose morals, if not of practiceso 

" Here's to the maid of bashful fifteen, 

Likewise to the widow of fitty, 

Here's to the wild and extravagant quean, 

And also to her who is thrifty." 

Queer—not right, not good. Queer in his attic,' mad. 'A 

queer story," Queer money,' counterfeit. Veil, I queered 

the beak,'----told the magistrate a falsified tale. 

Queer -bail—same as Jew -bail. Fallacious security for a 

debt ; deeeptious, queer in court as in pocket: perjury

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does it. See Stag-bail. A Queer-looking chap—one who 

squints, has the features awry, or indeed the limbs. So 

the poet tells, 

How Sands, in sense and person queer, 

Juisp'd from a pauiot to a peer, 

No mortal yet knows .why- 

Queer'ens—the gallows or drop. Queer-rums—literally bad 

good,' or rubbihg smooth and rough; confounding talk. 

' Queer-street, to live in,'—to be badly off as to income. 

Quest (to)—dogs seeking up and down for scent. 

Quid— a guinea. Quid-nunc — a political quack of the 

alehouse. 

"Ye quid.nuncs so queer, who through politics trudge it, 

And pin all your faith on the minister's budget." 

Quid pro quo—one thing for another. 

Quiz (to)—to notice sarcastically, to grin at one, is to quiz 

him; he is then quizzed by the quiz. Quoz —a quiz upon 

the public, when it was formerly chalked all about town. 

Quod—imprisonment. 'Gone to quod,' [quoad hoc] imprisoned. 

Quota—vulgo kotey,' share or dividend of a reckoning, or 

of booty, plunder, &c. 

Quotations —from Shakespeare and others, are fashionable 

among the semi-learned, half-taught witlings, and demibrained 

writers, of the present day ; especially those of 

the fancy, ring, and spree-going recreations, but seldom 

in point, without explanation. See Spout "Billy. 

R. 

Rabbit-pole—the point d' appui of an Irishman's 'valour, 

when he is opposed to Dennis and Kennedy here,Judy, 

bring out the rabbit-pole; I'll soon make dem smell mutton 

from lamb.' 

Racket- —to stand the,' when one of a set stands forward to 

bear all the blame. 

Radical—politically speaking, one who would erase the 

present constitution root and-broth ; most bitter against 

_ the whigs, because their object is to amend, and not destroy 

; thus characterized :—Cobbett for matter, Hunt .for 

manner, Wooller for volubility, Leigh Hunt for quantity, 

Cartwright for simplicity, Bentham for pertinacity, and 

Phillips for Bonapartery. Professed radicals have no

14:5 

fixed principles, nor any notions in common, but levelling 

ones, and to these they adhere not in private. He is a 

radical (radix)- who is turbulent in company, and kicks up 

a rumpus in the club-room ; in this respect ' Vot a riddekal 

is that there Jim Jinnivay, surelye I' 

Rag--the tongue is a red rag. 'To rag' a person, is to scold 

him or her plainly; but to bala-rag him , (vulgo, bully-rag) 

is to use such balatronic words and phrases as render this 

book necessary. ' Jack Carter, being in that state when 

he neither can or will hold his tongue, let loose his 

bully-rag at Oliver.' 4 , Rag, tag, and bobtail;' a crew of 

worthless rips. Ragamuffin, one who may carry flesh but 

not clothes. Rag-fair, any frippery of left-off clothes, 

and Rosemary-lane in particular. The rag, is paper-money 

—from the materials (rags) used in paper-making. 

Rake—the instrument with which the groom at a hell draws 

the money of the losers towards himself., See Grab -coup. 

Ramp (to) —to steal forcibly from the person. Ramping— 

participle of to ramp, is thus performed : a person in the 

. company, who has money in his pocket that it is desirable 

to come at, but who sits too close, and is buttoned up too 

tight, to admit of their attempts, is induced to join in a 

bit of lark, by others being shoved against him ; else, 

pipes or other missiles are shied, at each other with the 

same' intention; sometimes they all get up and dance 

about, when the object is attained by' shoving and pulling 

about the victim until he is unbuttoned and robbed. Pro- 

bably the word is a corruption of' romping,' and singing 

rum-ti-iddy-ti-ido.' Ramping -mad —uproariously drunk. 

Ram—one who butts the old ewes and wedder-lambs of the 

village; for which reason, widows, copyh old e rs of the Nymet 

towns, did penance on the back of a ram, black. 

Rantum &antum —a mutual blow-up with bard names. 

"Jove and his queen have had their quantum 

Of jaw, and such like rantune scatattem." 

Rascal—rascally crew all fallow deer and stags emasculate, 

are rascals;. and are shunned by perfect deer of antler, 

unless while these are shed, and being renovated. lierm 

applied to mankind also, as opera-singers, sopranos, &c. 

Raising the wind—spendthrifts are frequently at a loss for 

funds,—they then borrow upon the security of their own 

stiff, upon bonds, post-obits, "reversions, goods, arc. &c. 

these are so many ways of raising the wind.' The most 

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Mortifying, and generally detain; ressort, is selling the ; 

prad from under one. See Kite-flying. 

Rate (to)—to scold, to chide and beat, as the huntsman does 

his hounds, when they lag, are thrown out ., or otherwise 

offend. 

Ratiocination—(uaong the learned.) Ex. gr. Is the news 

true, doctor?' A. 'Why, according to the best of my 

knowledge and; belief, agreeably to all I ever have heard, 

seen, or read of, and as far as I am a judge, I don'tknow.' 

Ratting—an usage of parliament: when the minister for the 

time being is likely to be -out-Voted and ousted, -place - 

hunting members stroll into the lobby, as if piped -, and, 

when they return, forget their bow and their previous 

places, and turn upon the right, as if by accident; or walk 

up-stairs, and there lie, in petto, until the division is 

called for. 

Rattler—a coach. Rattling eove, the coachman. 

Raw—JohnnyRaw ; one who is unused to the ways of town, 

or a fool ab initio. 

R. C.—Round course, and the scrota in length at Newmarket, 

so called lyy.infra-distiectiolt, ince niost courses 

are round or ovolo-wise ; it measures three miles and three 

quarters, good. R. M.---rowley'mile is one yard longer 

than its denomination. 

Reader-.-a potket-book The ready—cash in harid:- - 

_Recheat (chase)—.a blast upon the horn to call or -keep the 

hunters together. There are eight sorts (at least) each 

indicating the business in hand. See Tantaron. 

Referees—persons to whom is referred any dispute to be 

settled, amid-ably, to prevent law-suits ; there are always 

two—one on each side: when the subject is referred by 

both sides to one person only—he is then the umpire between 

the persons referring. This is the legal sense, and 

common sense, of the two words; but both are.shamefully 

perverted in ring-afairs, owing to the utter stultification 

of the reporters on those affair's. See the glowing blunders 

of the Dispatch for Nov. 17, 1822, /3. 8,, col. 2, lines 3346. 

nature overmuch'--boozy, reeling drunk. 

' Refreshed 

Regulars-43r quota.. Thieves generally divide their illicotten 

pelf, mutually, a few shillings being doled out to Jack, 

Tom, Dick, and Harry. 4 1 shall expect my regulars,' or 

. share in the booty, is said by one thief to another who is 

going out upon the scamp. Nothing can be more irregum

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lirly distributed thin these reguisos, some among them 

being regularly ' put in the hole.' 

Rent—to collect the, is to obtain mosey upon the highway. 

Rent collectors,' are itobbers of money only. Thus, we 

have collected the rent,' cannot be misunderstood for goods, 

however valuable. See Blunt. 

Reporters—some three or four hundred persons, boys and 

men, who are employed, 1st. In collectinF scraps Cff intel- 

ligence for the newspapers, as to fires, accidents, and coro- 

ners' inquests. 2nd. Another set procure the initial ex.. 

aminations of culprits at the police-offices, (who are some- 

times the clerks in those offices,) also, of trotting-matches 

aquatic excursions, &c. 3rd. Gentlemen of learning, with 

habits of industry, take short notes of debates in parlia- 

ment, of law proceedings, and judgments in civil law. 

These invariably write better stuff than is spoken : the 

former exaggerate invariably, in order to make their arti- 

cles read well. See Two-pence a line. 

Republic of letters—the post-office. 

Rfsurrection-men —those ivhc raise the dead—bodies of our 

church-yards. 

Return -blow (ring)--one having planted a hit, the other 

within a colon-pause, returns with the lilxe hand. 

Revoke —at cards, when one refuseth to play: to suite, though 

holding that suite, is to revolte—fenumne, mostly. To 

Renigue—is the same, from niguer, to.deny or refuse, again. 

Reward (kennel)--dog's or hound's supper ; also the blood 

and entrails of the objects of chase, hot and hot. On one 

occasion a 4 suitable reward' being offered for the restora- 

tion of a lost five-pound note, Tom Rees defined it to 

mean a kick as hard as the rewarder was able, upon the 

third person in a suit of clothes. 

Rhino—coined money, though extended to paper. 

"Jack gave all his rhino to lessen their woe, 

And steer them from poverty's rock." 

Ribbons.---reins for guiding horses; four-in-hand. 

Riddlesworth stakes (the)---are the largest in England, being 

for 200gs. each, positive ; sixteen havmg entered forth. Arst 

class (colts) in 1821, and eighteen (fillies) fbr the second- 

class, next day. They are run at Newmarket Craven 

meeting, are of nine or ten years standing, and carry—fillies 

8 st. 2 lbs. colts 8 st. 4 lbs. adding 3lb. each for parent.' 

winners. 

Ride (v.)---a thing every one can do, In some way or other; 

S.

148 

few well. Grooms ride better than esquires, rough riders 

than captains, stable-boys than horse-dealers. 

"Wow, Sirs, close your heels and sit back; 

Oh, pray drop your hands and don't pull ! 

If this be card riding, good lack! 

What can we expect from John Bull!!" 

Riding to hounds—seldom done by novices, who generally 

go over as much ground again as the old hands, or get 

thrown out. Keep the hounds in view to the last, and 

when the chase takes a circle, or any segment thereof, 

ride inside it, or diametrically across towards the chase's 

favourite gorse or cover. 

Rig—he who has ' the rig run upon him,' has to undergo a 

great number of fake imputations. One may run his rig, 

however, impersonally, or upon all of the company without 

much offence. To rig,' to dress out anew. ' The rig ;' 

in auction sales, the dealers agree not to bid against each 

other, buy low, and afterwards re-sell the same, by a 

rnimick auction—called ' knock out.' 

Ring—Huntsmen are said to make a ring, when they cast 

about a wood or gorse. Ring-walks; the rounds ia 

which springs were set for the ,stag. 

The Ring—the roped space within which pugilists display 

their science or their hardihood usually about 24 feet 

each way, and by an easy transition, applied to those who 

look on, or take delight in the manly, peaceful contests 

there exhibited. " I leave it to the ring." "Not a voice 

was heard all round the ring." They are divided into 

amateurs (persons of property) and 'the men,' or boxers, 

part of whom only are pugilists. The word is derived 

from a certain circular space inclosed with rails in Hyde 

park, by command of George H. having a large oak in 

the middle; the area is now planted with young limes and 

the railing is decayed; going strait Up from Grosvenor-gate, 

the ring lies about 550 .steps tnto the park. "A ring, a ring!" 

Call a ring,' is the necessary preliminary to a regular 

fight. In America, Ey...justice of the peace being fatigued 

with the wordy disputes of his applicants, called a ring,' 

at which the constables, barristers, and other applicants 

assisted—and saw fair play. 

Ring-dropping—is practised occasionally by fellows who 

pretend to chop upon a gold ring, and confer half the pro- 

- perty upon a by-stander, in order to sell him the other 

balf--lis brass-faced cheatery.

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' Ring the changes'—changing of' good money for bad, by 

hackney-coachmen, Jews in the streets, etc. 

Riot—is an uproar and misdoing by several; five according 

to the old law, but modernly they are enacted ' riotous' 

though decorous ! The law of common sense says No; 

and with common parlance must soon put the law in 

abeyance. In Ireland, a single person may make a riot, 

if he or she have good lungs : says Murdoch Delaney to 

Jenny O'Donellye_ 

I pray you be quiet, 

And breed no more riot, 

But kiss me----" 

In the business of the chase, when stag-hounds run among 

the herd, they are said to run riot.' Then, all whips to 

work, or the pack is spoiled in ten minutes. 

Ripe—drunk. First cousin to mellow. 

4 R. N.—Mornings 12 to 4: evenings ,7 to 12 at—Pall- 

Mall.' Cards so inscribed are handed about as invitations 

to rouge et noire in the hells about St. James's. Some are 

distributed from 'Cleveland-row, others from Jermynstreet, 

Bennet-street, &c. 

Rogues in grain'—corn-factors and jobbers. 

Roley-poley—Running down Greenwich-park hills, and its 

consequent tumble and roll to the bottom, when the parties 

embrace, is one way of making love among the young 

folks of Cockneywihire. A newly introduced French 

game, which they call ' tine, deux, einque; has been Anglicised 

into roley-poley, from the tumbling about of the 

ball, which is many-sided ;„ each flat surface is marked 

with black, red, Or blue spots and the colour which remains 

uppermost when the ba ll rests, is successful for 

those of the players who may have put down their money 

upon that particular colour on the table : the monies down 

upon the other two colours are then lost by the players 

who have chosen them, to ibe roulette-keeper or groom, he 

covering the stakes when black wins, paying double when 

'tis red, and five times when blue. Of course, the number 

of blue spots are but a fifth that of the black, and the red 

twice as many. When these proportions are faithfully 

observed, the play is two to one against the punters. 

Roll—in the gait; rolling-sailor. See ' Oh my Leg!' 

My mammy sent me to the well, 

To get some water for my tea, 

My foot it slippl and in I fell, 

The rolling sailor top of nu.

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Rollo—dough-boated small bread, eaten by low-bred cockneys 

for the most part, and eotne out for delivery at eight o'clock 

A. of. " Ah, Mister Gallus (gallows) I tell ye vhat, I shall 

see you come sot, along vid de roles one of these here 

mornings,'—eight being also the hour of hanging male- 

factors. By a poor pun, Master of the Rolls'--ft -is any 

baker 6 if he can box any.' Jack Martin is the actual M. R. 

Rooker;--courts and alleys with a full population, are aptly 

termed rookeries, from the manner of assembling, the croak- 

ings, and dark colour of the two sets of inhabitants—with 

several other veri-similitudes. 

Rooks—those fellows about gambling-houses who are em- 

ployed In plucking well-fledged pigeons. They are of 

every quality, from the thorough-paced gent down to the 

marker, and may be engaged either in actual play, in 

acting the confederate, in procuring loans, in forcible rob- 

bery, in breaking the pigeon's neck down-stairs, or, finally, 

fighting him with pistols, by way of finish. 

Roost—bed. Gone to roost, is Dougliey;" the baiter is abed. 

Rotan.--qi carriage of an sort, originally meaning the cart 

only. Hence--.4 Rotan-row,' the ride m Hyde-park, now 

mis-spelt Rottex-row: 

' Rotten-row, 

my Sunday ride; 

Totdedom, hey I Tumbledown, ho 

Paney eighteen pence aside, 

glanderum„ho. - 

Rot-gut—swipes of the third running off the wort, or porter 

after being doctored by the publican. Jemmy Lee had a 

saying of the three runnings—that the first was g merry- 

Fo-down,' the second, must-be-swallowed,' but the third 

is 'rot-gut.' 

Round-about—female thief's pocket, which encircles her body 

and reaches down to the knees, with two apertures; it will 

stand a common search undetected; a watch, spoons, or 

money, sliding round from side to side; and if the wearer . 

be bulky, much larger articles pass undiscovered. 

Round-about—the tread-mill recently invented for the em- 

ployment of' convicts in prison, is thus denominated by 

them. ' About she goes,' said when at work. This invention 

of Mr. Cubit's, we fmd anticipated by Sam. Butler, 

who having endeavoured to describe a turnspit—from 

hearsay probably—missed his mark, and hit off the contrivance 

of 1821, to a tee:

R 0 .U---R O. U Vat 

" iust as a dog, dial turns, a slits 

Bestirs himself, and plies his teet 

To climb the wheel; but all in vain 

. His own weight brings him dowel age's ; 

. 4 And still be's in the self.mame place 

Where at his setting out he was. 

Round-betting-.--(Turf.) Those who bet upon or against 

several horses that are entered for any given stakes, are 

saki to bet round.' A taker in revising his betting-book, 

should sit clown coolly and estimate his losses upon each 

ndi.vidual horse of jiis tahing, supposing it should be the 

winner, andbhe may make a safe thing of his entire seriis ; 

but the best game is to give the odds upou a series of ten 

horses (a few' more or less) rejecting the favourite, which 

seldom wins, particularly the Doncaster St. Loser, because 

there several riders usually combine to *shut biri 

cut' from the start. The results of this mode of betting 

are found uniformly successful, under the management of 

a keen sportsman—such as was the inventor, Mr. Robert 

Wardell; nor indeed could he well fail, seeing that when 

the sportsman lays his bets 10 to 1 spinet any one horse, 

aid gives the same. odds on te* horses v:ound, he not only 

restores the balance of his entire bets upon the ten horses 

named, but takes his chance that some few of these may 

be withdrawn; as well as that some five, six, seven, or more 

horses besides the remanet of those ten named, may start, 

and one of those outside horses' carry off the stakes. To 

gentlemen who would push to extremities their inquiries 

respecting the Doctrine. of Chances,' the information 

may be acceptable, that Mr, Thomas Simpson has written 

a Treatise on the "Nature and Laws of Chance," aud our 

. celebrated Dr. Hutton some curious observations on this 

abstract science. A celebrated German (Jacob Bernoulli) 

has written, in Latin, " De Atte Conjectandi ;" and Condomet, 

a Frenchman, hasro6luced a small Tract on the 

same interesting subject. 

Roulette—(La). See Roley-poley, Grab, Punt. 

Bounds—(ring.) When boxers set-to, they fight till down, 

and that is a round i the next round begins not until haya-minute 

at least, has expired. Any deviation, attended 

with fatal consequences., is an act constituting manslaughter, 

on thq, part of the assistants. The Round of 

„ Ins vava ns Some men make a series of calls every day 

, 

g certain poozing-nouses, which constitute their rounds

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respectively. The most celebrated of these were formerly 

the Jump, the Go, and the Finish: at the first, supper and 

wine, the second, max or punch, with an intervening call 

over at a Mrs. Fubbsts ; lastly, ale and more grog—cups 

of coffee and home, or — 

Row (a)—When people congregate in the streets, and hold 

a bother or fight a little pell-mellish, 'tis a row; so, if a 

man and his wife quarrel, though she may not scratch his 

smeller, nor tear out his ogles, 'tis equally a row, though 

wanting those finishing requisites of a row. To 

row in the boat—to partake in the adventure, as robbery, 

gambling, &c. 

Row (the)—the birth-place of literature, where dwell some 

forty or fifty wet-nurses of rhetoric, who when they begin, 

to breed themselves (seldom though it be) always leave 

the spot. Geographically speaking, 'tis situated near St. 

Paul's, and the last day of every month, they run up and 

down like Bedlarnites—this is the monthly row. 

Rowland (a) for an Oliver—to give a man as good as he 

brings; a confounding repartee in speech or in writing. 

'Tis 'lit for tat,' in low life : 

Who knows but Menelaus may, ' 

On this, or hap some other day 

Get, though he make such fuss and stir, 

A Rowland for his Oliver.' 

Rubicund—a red face, mostly masculinam genus. 

Rule of thumb—the performing a scientific operation, without 

knowing aught of science—merely by tact—in fact, 

no rule at all. 

Ruffles—band-irons or wrist manacles. 

Rum—any thing large, good, strong, is a rum-one ;' a ' runsbeak,' 

a mild justice of the peace ; rum-ogles, big eyes. 

6 Rum-clank,' a large silver tankard. It is the opposite 

of queer. Rum—besides the extract of sugar-cane, it 

means out-of-the-way,' comical, as when a man is funnily 

drunk. 'Come it rum'—to talk oddly. 

Rum-one—a hit which settles the hash,' is described as 

' such a rum-one !' pron. rum-mun. A set of the rumones' 

meet at the Blue-posts, Haymarket: we have tried 

them on, and they merit the title they have taken. 

Rump—a certain part of the body, and thence the part of 

any body (remaining) behind, is deemed the rump. ' The 

long (sitting) parliament' wore away, leaving few members

ehind----these were ' 

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rump (of that) parliament,' and 

the 

were likened by Butler to the rump of Taliocothus, whose 

sitting-place remained on his seat, when he was so rudely 

tweaked off, as 'tie said. 

Rump and dozen—a wager oftener proposed than accepted ; 

and, when settled, not so soon adjusted. Before argument 

sto,od instead of fact, either way' did for ' either 

party,' and settle it as you like,' was the Order of the 

day, nothing being meant beyond a rump of beef [cut into 

steaks] and a dozen of wine; now, however, the words 

for all the party present' being added, a sip nor a scrap 

would fall to the lot of one half, but for the munificence 

of the loser: he sometimes gives the devil-and-all of a 

dinner and wine, and flabbergasts the whole company 

by ringing the bell for more. 

Rumping—showing the rump of one to the person to be 

rumped : 'tis the cut visible and an invention we owe to 

Carlton-house. It's master, occasion to show his 

displeasure, looks well at the subject to be rumped, and 

when the latter approaches near the person, he perceives 

the sitting part most prominent. This mode of enacting 

a painful but necessary duty, is described as very tasteful 

and elegant; it is moreover far preferable to his papa's 

method, which showed itself thus—' Robinson you are a 

scoundrel'—' Cunningham, you are a villain'—and the first 

mentioned hung, the second drowned for it: 

Rum-ti-tum—a bull with horns tipped to be baited. Thus 

we have Pritchard's rum-ti-turn,' and 'Jem Rolfe's 

rum-ti-tum—will be out for the spree on Monday.' 

Run—the track of a hare, or the line of march she adopts 

in going to feed (at nights) is her run ; at her return in the 

morning, she will walk backward a short space, and leap 

into her seat in order to elude pursuit, home. A Run-a 

fox-chase, &c. is described as a fine run, a long run, 

&c. and so is coursing, as so many runs. 

Rush—(ring;) when a milling-cove runs in at his opponent, 

hitting away hard and sharp, his head is more or less low. 

(See Purr). Such must be received by sharp right and 

left nobbers, continuing to retreat; and tis fair and safe 

to tumble over the ropes, or drop, as if from the blows. 

Russian hotel—the Bear tavern or public-house, whether 

bruin be white, brown, or black. 

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Sack it-4o appropriate things to Oneself, put them into the 

pocket or sac. Bill Richmond sacked the purse at Doncaster 

(1822) which two men were to contend for.' Got 

the sack'—a discharge from a regiment or employment. 

Saltnagundy —a mixture of scraps—dressed up highly to 

deceive the taste or palate, mental and physical. 

Sand-boy —all rags and all happiness; the urchins who drive 

the sand-laden neddies through our streets, are envied by 

the capon-eating turtle-loving epicures of these cities. As 

jolly as a sand-boy,' designates a merry fellow who has 

tasted a drop. 

Sapskull—one whose softness retains not the news of the 

day, nor the art of spelling always alike. 

Sandwich (a) —an apology for treating the stomach--cold 

meat between bread and butter. 

Sarvice, sarve out—(ring); see pay-away, Which being done 

effectually, is a sarvice, 1. e. of some sertice towards 

victory. 

Satchell-a—sed fellow —a satchel' is a bag, and some chaps 

put on certain habiliments in a very bag-like manner. 

For they sometimes substitute the appellation, 

' son of a whore. 

Satisfaction —to demand of any man satisfaction, is an in- 

vitation to fight. See Duel, .Fight. 

Satraps —a radical sarcasm on ministers of state, in allusion 

to the governors among the eastern nations. 

Saturday-night---is kept up' throughout the London district, 

-with ruinous regularity by the heedless and tht dissolute— 

by women and children as well as men. No wonder if 

tke famil3", separate drunk for the night, nor that this 

brings them to water-drinking next day, nor that they feel 

compunctious throbbings against the ribs; (see Blue- 

devils) this is the moral of the following stanzas: 

Last Saturday-night I lost my wife; 

Where do you think I found her ?. 

At Aidgate-pump, scratching her rump, 

And the devil was dancing round her. 

Say-4 lime no say in the business; no power, one way or 

the other. ''Tis true -upon my say-so'--.-a speckles of 

affirmation. 4 What Sir William is trying to say in the

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tifte# night, no one knew'--Eicho, e4 nor 

hialedVeith .er.' 

Soarnpw.-to go upon the scamp, scamping tricks. 'A general 

,terin for thieves who confine not their abilities to-one kind 

of 

game. Beggars, who would turn their hands to any 

thing occasionally, without inquiring in whom the thing 

'vested, are said to .1 0 upon the scamp.' Fellows who 

t pilfer in markets, from: staTs or orchards, who.snatclu off 

hats, cheat publicans out of liquor, or tots up cheatingly 

--commit scamping tricks. 

Seape--or skip; said to a painter who is supposed to neglect 

his brush. 

Scarce—' my time is up, I shall make myself scarce.' 

&hliver— pron. Shliver ; a clasp-knife of some length, not 

meant to lie inoffensively, when the owner is grabb'd. 

,Sconce (a)----' she 's got a pretty little sconce,' said of a girli 

a she-ass, or other animal. I'll crack your sconce if you 

shy this vay, master Bill Villis ; I'll 'that in von minnit. 

To Seotice----to discontinue, surcease. ' Sconce his diet,' 

give less victuals. ' Sconce the reckoning; to go no 

farther in debt, but bolt. 

Score—an ale-house reckoning, which is kept in chalk-scores. 

Score it up high landlord,ris said by one who would not 

have it rubbed out by accident; when the personage has 

scored thence down as low as most men's shoulders, he 

"goes no farther for fear of accidents." Set off at score,' 

a road phrase for a horse gone off full tilt, perhaps at 

20 miles an 'hour; sometimes applied to racers, to pedes- 

trians, &c. - 

Scot—a butchees 'designation of a fractious man, the small 

Scots oxen coming to their doom with little resignation to 

fate : indeecl, all animals try harder to retain life than man. 

.Scratch—avig, natural, resembling the wearer's own shocky 

locks, guess. 

Spruce was the barber's shop; 

Wigs decorated every block, 

From &rote* to Tyburn.tep.se 

The last mentioned, however, is becoming obsolete. 

Scratch—(ring). Not a scratch: the .skin not broke it, 

tight. ' 4 The scratch; is a mark made in the middle of a 

stage, 'room, or ring, in *Ili& men may be fighting, and 

up to which, as to a centre, the men are to be brought at 

the commencement of each round; if one pannot -come

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to this mark (real or supposed, for 'tis not always diatinet) 

in time he is pronounced the loser. Fight them at the 

scratch,' [pit] means to bring the dogs up at short intervals 

and set them on again, when they see each other, and he 

who has fight in him continues the turmoil ; him without 

it, runs away. 

Screens—vel screeves; forged notes of the Bank of Finland. 

Scrip—on the stock exchange; a written engagement for a 

- loan 

to government, on which 10 per cent. is commonly 

paid down and remainder at intervals ; soon, however, it 

becomes omnium, when the bargain has been calculated 

upon two or more species of property, with bonus, and the 

contractors transfer omnium, or the whole intezest of their 

bargain to others. I 

Scrub—a shabby fellow whose conduct suits his Eippearance. 

One who pays not his whack at the tavern. 

Scrub's Coffee-house—Reed's saloop-shop in Fleet-street, 

was the reiort of second-rate gents : there is now a.very 

respectable room, au dedans ; the scrubs being restricted to 

the front slum. Great numbers of such shops sprung up 

about the year 1812, when the duty on coffee had been 

reduced. See Coffee-shops. 

&uddick—is used negatively; not a scuddick'—aot any 

brads, not a whinn, empty clies. Every soaddick gone; 

she gets not a scuddick from me,' does not amend the 

matter by repetition. 

&ut—the tail of a coney or hare. To scud, to run, or 

sneak off, (among rogues) like those anlmals. 

&a-crabs—sailors. See Flannel. 

Seal—the marks by which the recesses of the otter are found 

—his goose-foot, &c. being similar to foiling in stags, &c. 

Ah I on that yielding sag-bed, see, once more 

His seal I view, 

Seedy—shabby dress, without money. Seedy-cove—thread- 

bare, dirty, unshaven, or ragged. 

&gar—tobacco-leaves rolled up, tubular-wise; so called 

after Sir William Segar, garter principal king at. arms. 

Set out—(a) which may be ' a pretty set-out,' or a charms* 

one, a handsome, or a rum set-out—of chaise and horse, 

'tis also applied to a side-board, decked out, or a din. ner 

table, set out. 

Setter—any dog whatever (chiefly the land spaniel) which 

.

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has been educated to seek or make a dead point, at coming 

near to his game. 

S'even-penn'orih—transportation for seven years. 

Shades (the)—at .London-bridge are under Fishmongers' 

hall. Sound wine out of the wood, reasonable and tolerably 

good, are characteristics of this establishment. The 

Shades at Spring-gardens, is a subterranean ale-shop. 

Shake-bag match—in cocking; the fighting adventitiously, 

or guessing at weights and pairing, while the fowls are 

. still in their respective bags. A Shake-bag fellow,' if he 

be no pick-pocket, is at least a seedy cove. 

Shamrock—trefoil, or rank grass of three leaves, employed 

by St. Patrick in demonstrating the doctrine of the Trinity 

to the earliest converts in Ireland; before which time the 

country was so infested with bad spirits, that it was called 

the devil's own island.' 

Shanks's mare—to ride on ;' to go a-foot. 

Sharp, Sharper—a man may look about him sharply without 

being a sharper. This latter is a leg, a wagering-kiddy, 

a swindler. 

Shave—to shave a man, is to obtain his money, honestly or 

not so, as the case may be. -4 I have been close shaved,' 

would signify emptied dies. Shaver—one who cuts close. 

Holloa, you shaver;' addressed to a sharp-looking fellow. 

'He's a shaver said of one who charges high for his 

goods. 

Sherif—See, Ketch (Jack.) 

Shindy—a riot. To kick up a shindy,' or general row, 

resembles very much an Irish paddy-row, and is derived 

from shins, no doubt, which suffer many a loose kick: 

a pretty shindy in St. -Giles's,' and there was such a 

gallows shindy at West-end fair!' 

6 Shiver—his fist' (ring ;) when a boxer means mischief and 

nothing else,' he shakes his hand, and generally let's fly 

with it. This happens early in the battle, usually; but 'tis 

a symptom of gayness that leaves a man, as the contest 

approaches towards finis.' 

Shopping—among women, going about from shop to shop, 

buying little articles perhaps, of 

not, but always 

pulling about great quantities of goods. 

Shot--a public-house reckoning. ' Landlord, whet the 

shot ?' is the signal that some of the party are going to 

mizzle ; the remainder commence de novo, and these 'boys

148 STLOLA 

of the second reckoning' leek upon themselves u the 

choicest of men. One of these dying one day, bequeathed. 

his property among those of the old boys' who should 

remain to the second shot or reckoning, on the evening of 

his funeral. Till that moment arrived the executors con- . 

cealed the circumstance; the will was then read, and they 

lighted their pipes once more, and filled glasses again. 

Shouldering—to take up a load on the shoulder, or back ; 

but among stage-coachmen, to shoulder, is to take up passengers 

on own account, without consulting the proprietors. 

Shy—to be shy of a person or neighbouthood ; to aloid 

such. To shy at any one—to throw missiles at him, as 

stones, tobacco-pipes, oyster-shells, &c. 

Sight (a)—a great quantity. ' What a precious sight of old. 

women!' ' You seldom see such a sight o' pigeons.' 

Sinner—public-house keepeii (publicans) are sinners. 

Skin -f/int—one who would perform that operation, were it 

possible. 

Skittish—mares in-heat caper about, and appear shy; they 

are then said to be skittish. The term is applied to horses, 

too, when they are full of corn and frisky. So is a lass 

skittish when she cuts capers before the men, or indeed 

behind them as when she slaps the buckskin inexpressibles 

a post-:able post-chaise boy, or nods from her chamber-window 

at passers-by : both are broad hints. 

g ! a skool !'..the cry all along the .southern coast when 

the herrings ppear first for the season. We had it from 

the Bergen fishermen; in English 'tis shod. Herrings 

swim with their heads turned S..8. W. and drift tail-in, or 

sideways, to those inlets which stand differently. . 

Sky-parlour—the attic story. See Parlour. 

Slab—a mile-stone. 'The rum-ti-turn turns out for the spree 

to-morrow near' the nine-mile slab e. A bull-baiting 

at the place indicated. 

Slam-bang shops'—places where gourmands of the fourth 

rate regale ; so called, probably, from the mat-adroit 

manner of serving up the viands to their customers, or the 

slam-banging' of the doors, plates, and tools. 

Slang—language, words, phrases, invented by doctors and 

boxers, lawyers, thieves, sportsmen and whores, necessa- 

rily or purposely to convey their mowing secretly to eat& 

other ; but all which (and much more) is here exposed 10

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the uninitiated, and ilkstrated for the use of adepths.: 

cimens of several kinds not hitherto expounded follow. 

1st. Court slang. 'We observe by the court circular, that 

-since the duke's return from a certain excursion, his Royal 

Highness's visits to a great personage have been often - 

repeated.' 2nd. Learned slang. A woman meeting a 

learned doctor in a certain square, asked him where she 

might find a shopkeeper whom she named, whereupon 

the doctor .gave the following directions Move your 

pedestrian digits along the diagonal of this rectangle, in 

a line perpendicular to the earth's equator, till you arrive at 

the junction of the two sides. Diverge then to the dexter, 

at right angles—Perge for about fifty paces in that qua- 

- -drangle, and you will have ocular demonstration of him, 

%standing in an orifice made in an edifice for the purpose 

of illumination.'" 3rd. The slang of periodical literature. 

4 There are a set of blockheads who pretend to think that 

tSe sale of Byron's works has been knocked down,' dici &c. 

But this is mere humbug. The public curiosity is always 

stimulated to an astonishing degree, by clever blackguard,- 

ism; and a book of real wickedness, and red talent,. although 

it may not always be exhibited in the boudoir, is pretty sure _ 

to find its way into every house that has any 'pretensions to 

be' comme-il-faut.' " Blatkwood's Mag. for Jan. 1823. 

Doubtless the writer sat facing a mirror, and drew the 

likeness inconsciously murder will out. See Ebony, Jar- 

-cdnic, Modesty. 4th. Slang of the Daily. 'The addresses 

presented. to the king at Edinburgh would have done 

honour to the land of blarney, and present some fine speci. 

mens of the flummery style. 5th. The radicals have a 

slang of their own—so says the Quarterly Review, No. 55, 

p. 213: AR that the revolutionist has had to do has been 

to assume the name of the whigs, to tread in their footsteps, 

and to translate into his own slang what they expressed in 

more decent phraseology.' See Cockney Slang. 

fang-whangers—fellows who pretend to talk superiorly fine 

English at the -expence of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. 

Likewise, those who having access to the press, would in- 

troduce, neck and heels, slang phrases inappropriate to 

their subjects, or words that possess noaecornmendation 

but freshness and impertinence : even naivete of expres- 

sion, which is sometimes attained by such adoptions, 

-seldom et cuseth the invention. When borrowed . front

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*feigners, who maybe in the dark as to the things spokeh 

of, 'tis seldom bearable ; as, when the French is brought to 

'bear upon the ring, the chase, or the turf, of all which 

Monsieur is utterly ignorant (see ' a la,' in Addenda); or 

when barbarous languages, (as Welch, Irish, Scotch,) are 

employed in elegant literature. For example : Blackwood 

uses anent' for about, concerning, (and many other such) 

which never can be naturalized here ; he also says, at p. 

790, No. for Jan. 1823, Sidney Smith turned the laugh 

against the bishop [of Peterborough] most triumphantly 

and gahrawingly.' This word is derived from nothing on 

earth : see Gaff. The slang -whangery of commercial cor- 

respondence is equally to be reprobated with the meagre 

style; both, however, have their advantages and disad- 

vantages,—the one evincing the gentleman and scholar, 

yet placeth his correspondents at too great a distance; th e 

other shews the plodding cit, who not unfrequently kept 

copies of letters full of set phrases ready penned, which 

served several occasions—and they got laughed at; but 

the foreigner had little more to do than scent out the drift 

of the writers ) and the translation was already finished. 

But Dr. Birch (' Aristarchus,' p. 142,) gives a curious il- 

lustration of meagre slangery, in the power of the mono- 

syllabic verb 'to get :' he says, all events from the birth 

of time may be detailed in the English language without 

the use of a single verb, the omnipotent get excepted:' 

I got on horseback within ten minutes after I got your 

letter. When I got to Canterbury, I got a chaise for 

town ; but I had got wet through before I got to Canter- 

bury, and I got such a cold as I shall not be able to get 

rid of in a hurry. I got to the Treasury about three; but 

first of all I got shaved and drest. As soon as I got back 

to my inn, I got my supper, and getting sleepy, shortly 

after got to bed : it was not long before I got asleep. When 

I got up in the morning, I got my breakfast, and then got 

myself drest, that I might get out in time to get an answer 

from the treasury.' 

Slap—a hit, with the open hand, usually. A slap in the 

face,' may, however, be a tart reply, abashing to the re- 

ceiver; as, 'You an honest man! Yes, I know you are, 

Johnny ; as for you, you got discharged from Ckrkenveli 

only this here precious morning.' 

Map-bang—a blow from each hand. See One-two.

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Slap-up—used for'bang-up.' Tis northern. 

Slashing fighter—he who throws about his arms without 

judgment, but heavi1y4 

Slavey--4-a servant of all-work at a little lxidikin : A bob to 

the ken, a bender for the slavey, Mann Puss, nix.' . 

Meek.aqd' slum shop--.-a public-house, or tavern where single 

men arid their wives resort:' Fountain, Key, Bath-hotel, 

Haddock's ; also, at obe oyster-shop, one coffee-shop, one 

eatirig-house, one female-servants -office, one lodging- 

house-or more. 

Slot—(in stag-hunting,) the .tract of any deer, including the 

scent, foot-marks, and aewelling, or tearing the brambles. 

Shim-i--.1oose, ridiculous talk, is.'‘ all slum.' None of your 

slum,' is said by a girl to a blarneying chap who would 

soothe her unintelligibly. The gipsey language, or cant, 

is slum; so would it fare with slang, if not well and dis -ft 

tinctly applied to its proper objects. Dutch Sam excelled 

, in ,stonemery, beyond any man of his day. or since : e. g. 

6 Willus youvus gtvibus glasso ginibus." A. Slum,' is also 

the room in which persons Meet who talk in that style; 

thus we may have the little shim,' or the great slum.;' 

4 sa dirty slum,' or a pretty slum;' the back slum ,' and 

slum in front.' Derived from slumber, to sleep; the molls 

and coves napping nine winks' at those places, and then. 

their discourse is slumberous, [slummily] as if they still 

_ slept and dreamt, and delivered their drowsy oracles. 

Sly upon the,' secretly. 

..5`mashgd—broken, as glass or other brittle materials. An 

oath comes to us but of Staffordshire, &c. : I'm smash!d if 

I do-a.' In the ring we hear 'Barlow got smash'A in the 

very first round.' 'Jack Ford smash'.d his fist upon Weston's 

hard sconce.' F. Gaz. Smashers—passers of bad money 

were so 'called, during' the pest of the old smooth coin. 

The term was soon extended to bad notes of the Bank of 

England; and their occupation was called smashing,' 

from the resemblance each bore the other in morals. See_ 

, Rinsing . 

Smeller—the nose is a man's smeller, (and a woman's too,) 

and a blow upon either is a smeller also. 

Smell-powder—a duellist, whether a good shot or not. , 

Smoke .(to)—to fathom a secret. to come out with a lot of 

I - I 

such against a man to his face. 

Paacks----shargs in an adyenture, as a wager, a find, or &ea-

let SNA---SOF 

sure-trove, also in a dinner or luncheon. .These latter, 

when the supply is small, have each the term snack; to 

' take a snack of a tit-bit,' is one mouthful. 

Snavel—to steal, by snatching, probably, or concealing any 

small property by piece-meal. 

4 Sneak—to go upon the,' to walk about, undefinedly, to see 

what may be picked up, and what houses stand exposed 

to the neat evening's depredation. 

Sneeze—the nose; and a hit upon it is also a sneeser, when 

the patient sniffs the claret. 'A handsome girl with a few 

thousands tacked tci her —, is not to be sneezed at.' 

Snigger—ill-suppressed laughter. Provincial for fun in a 

cottage, or at the farmer's fire-side, when dame is in the 

way. 

Snip, Sniplouse—a tailor's shears work with a clicketting 

snip; this explains the first word; and, for the second, 

they, no doubt, were furnished with an insect a-piece to 

snip, when, like other mechanics, they wore powder and 

pomatum in the louse-gorse. 

1 8y:itch-A° turn,' to lodge information, to betray. 

Snob's-cat (like a)—full of p— and tantarums. 

Snootsinrken—a lodging-house. To snooze, to sleep, a-bed 

Or sitting up. 

Snotter-waoragged, dirty kerchief. See Wipe. When Manslew 

Lalorente stole the zodiac from the church at 

Denderah, he hoisted his white snotter at the main-topg'ant 

of his ark, and the English authorities on the Nile 

recognized it for the real Bourbon flag—by the nasal.signs 

impressed thereon. 

Snuffy—drunk, with a nasal delivery. Snuffy—drtink in the 

feminine application, and applied but seldom to puling 

fellows. 

Soap-suds—gin and water, hot, with lemon and lump sugar. 

Society (the)---the vice-society, or vice-suppression society. 

Annual subscriptions put into the hands of a lawyer, to 

defray the expences of entering abortive actions, whic h 

ruin the defendant by their exorbitancy—though no guilt 

. be proven or proveable. 

Socketting—is alluded to under ' Burning shame.' 

Loft one, or soft cove—a fool easily imposed upon. Soft is 

your horn—you make a mistake. An Irishman in his caps, 

thought he saw a bull, but upon taking him by the horn, 

Paddy found it was a Jack-ass's ears; 'soft is your horn, 

honey,' cried he.

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Soldier—a dried, or red herring; also a boiled lobster. 

Sou of a gun—a soldier% bastard: 

SOW--6411 appellation due to Jewish ingenuity; it is cast op- 

probriously without discrimination at any full-grown lady 

of the apple-stall, or old clothes' shop. See Cow. 

Spstrr (to)—fighting demonstrated : lessons in the art. Game - 

'chickens are said to sparr, when they fight for the mastery, 

which it is desirable one or the other should obtain soon, 

to prevent everlasting rows in the walk. Pugilists learn , 

the art of personal defence, with gloves on, that are stuffed 

upon the knuckles; this is sparring; if they would learn 

the mode of attack, let them begin early the actual set-to. 

Dr. Johnson spelt the word with one (r) only ; but, saving 

his prescience, he knew nothing at all about sparring, he 

being but a single-fight man, having once floored Tom 

Osborn, the bibliopolian. His spar' is a long fir pole, 

used on board ships; and a fine piece of fun it would have 

been to see the old gent riding like a bear astride one 

of these up Streatham-hill where was his den. He gives 

no etymology, but simply says, "Spar, v. n. to fight with 

prelusive Strokes." Whereas, every cocker and pugilifit 

know* right well, that 'tis any thing but fighting: it comes 

- from the verb to spare, which in the gerund takes an ad- 

ditional [r], and keeps it when we return to the infinithre 

again; for the earliest use of the word,which is in Froissart's 

Chronicles, the distinction was drawn to a great nicety; 

he says, ' The Englishmen on one parte, and the Scottes 

on the other, be goode men of warre ; for when they doe 

mete, there is a hard fighte, without sparynge." 

Speak-softly-shop—the house of a smuggler. 

Spec--speculation, abbreviated. 4 To join a bank' in a hell, 

is to go upon the spec.' 

Spice-islands—any filthy stinking neighbourhood. 

Spice of luck---to win a small stake, or small share in a lot- 

. tery prize. From 4 espece de bonne fortune,' French. 

Spifiicate (v. a.)---to spiflicate a thief is to spill him, or be- 

tray the subject of his roguery. A man is deserving of 

spiflication who cannot hold his tongue, but will speak to 

'harm a fellow.mortal, whose opinions are of that primitive 

. kind which maintains the doctrine that, all goods belong 

to all men. 

Spill (to)—to capsize, overturn, or betray a person. One who 

is .suspended at the drop is spilled completely.

164 SPI—STA 

Spinsters—unmarried women: the greater part do spin, but 

not thread. This is one of' the fictiones leges that are still 

retained in our law proceedings in the face of fact. It 

seems that, among our industrious and frugal forefathers, 

it was a maxim that a young woman should never be 

married until she had spun herself a set of body, bed, and 

table-linen. From this custom, all unmarried women were 

and are termed spinsters. 

Spittoon—an utensil mostly Used in public-houses for %he 

reception of smokers' expectorations. 

Split-fig—any or every grocer. See Count. 

Spoon, spooney—a natural fool is no spooney ; but he who 

acts sillily, too junior for his years, is a spoon; and if one 

suffers imposition, he is (according to the Hebrews,) ' 80 

help ma lifes, a great pig spooney. Horn spoons, by their 

ineffectiveness on warm occasions, are finely admonitory to 

soup-eaters. 

Spout—to make a speech. To spout Billy,' (v.) to recite 

passages out of Shakespeace, in a pompous mouthing manner. 

Many there are, who go about 'from club to club, 

and from Free and Easy to midnight, ' spouting Billy,' to 

gaping mechanics, ground-rent bricklayers, and luckyescape 

shop-clerks. A spout, is a contrivance in pawnbrokers' 

shops to keep up communication with the storerooms 

rooms, by passing up and down tbe things required. Put 

it up spout' —pawn the articles. ' Knight of the spout,' 

a pawnbroker, or his man. Tom is up the spout—he is 

imprisoned,---at the hospital,----or otherwise reduced in 

life. 

Spree (a)—fun, lark. A bullock-hunt, a battle of women, or 

any quarrel of blows ; a bit of a spree in the streets,' is 

also knocking down persons and robbing them ;—which 

terminates in' crossing the herring-pond, or worser. 

Squad pie—(prov. Devon.) Seasoned meat-pie, which has 

apples and onions ; and though seemingly droll upon 

paper, it smacks well on the palate. 

Square—to 'walk round Grosvenor-square,' or any other, 

is a very common expression in Cockaigne, though any 

carpenter could demonstrate its utter impossibility. To 

square, (ring) V present the fists for attack or defence. 

Square your elbows,' in driving four-in-hand : 

Stakes—money put down to be contended for at alorse-race, 

boxing-match, dec.

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Stag, Staggard.red deer, male, of full size, is called a stag 

usually, but the latter term is limited to the fourth year: 

though hart in the sixth year, yet most do still call him 

stag. Queer bail are 'stag:' those men who being hired 

at a guinea or two per oath, to swear they are worth vast 

sums, stand about thedu dges' chambers in term-time, 

giving out cards of ad ress, which are commonly their 

whole stock in trade. Never a shirt on ; the cravat standing 

responsible for that superfluity in the habiliments of a 

stag. 'To stag' a thief, to look on, and spoil his sport: 

What's that cove a stagging there for? Down him, 

Billy.' A young game cock—is a stag. 

Stamps—the legs, and stampers, are shoes of the stout kind; 

kicksees' being lighter ones. 

Stand (turf)—a house for accommodating the spectators at 

horse-races. ' Stand up to him'—(ring); do not flinch 

from the blows. To Stand, is also the position of pointers 

when they perceive their game. 

" My pointers stand: 

Bow beautiful they look with ouistretch'd tails, 

With heads immoveable, and eyes fast fixed, 

One fore-leg raised and bent, the other firm 

Advancing forward pressing on the ground." 

.Start (the)—Newgate is thus termed, par excellence. But 

every felon-prison would be equally a start, with an expletive 

word or two, as a country start,' a county goal; 

the b—y start' (House of Correction); the west 

country start;' (Tothill-fields) &c. Start at a horse-race, 

is the setting out of the horses; a matter that is very ill 

conducted in Yorkshire : we should start with surprise if 

the Doncaster St. Leger were run for till half-a-dozen 

false starts had bothered the best and most anxious of the 

colts and fillies. 

Stash—the matter,' or he stash'd it altogether,' set it at 

rest, made it to cease. Stash the glim'—to put out lights, 

or to place an extinguiiher on the candle. 

Steamer—a pipe. Keep up the steam or steamer,' to smoke 

indefatigably. To blow a cloud,' and to' burn tobacco,' 

are the same but with less pertinacity. 

Stick (a).--a fellow clumsy at any profession—as ' a such 

of an artist,' should not be an exhibitioner. 

Stichs—housellold goods. 'The tax-gatherer sold Tom's 

sticks,' i. e. .sold his furniture. I lost all my stick by 

that 'ere fire at Stepney.'

166 STI—STR 

oinissoty notes and bills of exchange receive this 

iss appellation, when suspicion may hang about the 

ilyz 

certainty of their be g honourably paid—though not 

alwayi so. 'Tie used in contradistinction to fiirasy—a 

bank-note. Probably, a bond for money may be consi- 

dered stiff. Stif-'dealer----a dealer in stiff t a pseudo-mer- 

chant, or trader in moonshine paper. In the ring, 'tis 

ogled a stiff fight' when the men stand up well to each 

other, giving and taking. 

Altiatgers—a sharp and rapid hit, generally understood to be 

.placed upon the upper works, is described as—' My 

eyes what a stinger P 

Atiiitetlisea mare which has received a horse is said to be 

stinted to him; as pregnancy advances, she is then consi- 

dered iiisloat. 

Stir—bestir, move, be in action. 'I will not stir for the 

king,' i. e. ou no account 'I won't Or a peg,' i. e. not a 

leg, which is a peg.' I visit as I may never stir if I do.' 

'Stir 'em up said to one who would set folks together 

by the ears; and stir 'est up with a long pole, as the 

. fellow does with the beestes,' alludes to the bellowings of 

these latter. Stereo. abbreviated from stereotype; one of 

the cheap-and-nasty manufactures in this country, the 

pages being tsually left incorrect and bltmderous ' in pur- 

- suonce of the saving plan which first suggested awing. 

.ttiem in stereo. Originally done by Glasgow Foulis. 

iliditim----horteman's weight, 141bs. and is so understood ge- 

.. nattily: Butcher's-meat, bacon, and cheese (in London,) 

. are sold by 81b. stones. 

Etonelug---a prison. Giltspur-street Compter is most com- 

manly considered as the jug, in which poor fellows' get 

bottled in the intervals of their examinations. 

Stoop—the attack of a hawk when he, drops from on high, 

and strikes his game. 

"Then mark the swift hawks*. hiin now make his *cp. 

Ah ! down goes the same; call him in the°, a leup ! Ia leup!" 

St44-44a1 oz which never can &we progeny, and the term 

has been applied by Ebony to writers of the milk-and- 

' Ander genus. 

Stow, stow it, and stoismarketsweare synonymous for to cease; 

and '.tow-wagging' for hold your tongue, is bet an emcation 

of the Ant word, /which is oinautical origin. 

segul —fighting in,' is when pme chicken hese woollen

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or leather faistesed Irpon their spurs, to fight for the mastery. 

Man of strawy...4.ra billwacceptor, without property 

' 6 no assets.' 

Strike hands—bargains in Smithfield an confirmed by the 

striking of bands—the palms together. So in the provinces. 

String—of horses. Dealers fasten the halter of one horse to 

the halter and tail of another, and so on to the amount of 

sistmen, twenty, or more, and either is a siring. Several 

stoinp of good horses entered Smithfield today.' ' Got 

him in a string,' is when a man is made to believe one 

thing, several others follow as matter of course...mostly 

lies ; this is to be in a string, or line. See Line. 

sltu."--inoney... ' Hand over the stuff,' give the money. See 

Bluat, Bustle. All stuff and nonsense,' designates Mi.. 

- callous or deceitful talk. If meant to harm another, then 

"ti..*tut' ' She hearkened to his stuff, elk got 

ruinated by him, the willian Bawdry is stuff, that's 

certain. 

Sitoter—young whale; are so termed; and sometimes come 

into shoal water, on the S. and E. parts of England. l'ISs 

fine sport. Sucker—a baby, or °Mei Children that stick 

17 their Mothers. &eking banisters—those who are 

wItholittbriefs: Still in the 'childhood of the profession. 

Bether-ise tea-kettle. Put over the Sukey,' set the tea-keitle 

on the fire; or, Molly put the kettle on, we'll all have 

toe.' 

Swpenkaculuisi—any article of consumption unusually good 

—as, a superior pinch of snuff [viv. Maconba, or Prince's 

mixture,] a drop of brandy like a nosegay,' or port 

Vintage, 1816! 

Suspicious—has been alimg-whangered beyond all suspicion. 

If a auspecqul person sees a poor man he declares him 

a ' suspicious character;' though the dinne rless poor devil 

suspecteth nothing less than starvation must be his lot. 

asiveyor of the pavements'—a pilloried person, who fills 

that high office for an hour. 

_ Sang (the)--store of money. The swag lies upstairs, in a 

chest of drawers. A fireman once found the swag amid 

the limes.' 'Ram good deal of it 4 

' Scans (his) an all geese—said of one who brags 'inordi- 

. nobly. It was said (or sung) of the French people: 

"They am t.& of their weeders as keg as they please, 

ig Soot Putrid' their NNW small Both* but geom." -

160 B A-K 

Sweet (to be)'—to talk kind, 'conciliating, to the other tier. 

Sweep stakes'—.are .the subseiiption-of three or more, which 

iiy one of the parties can sweep of or. carry away, by 

winiung the race:—.the . .stake's being put down 

by several subscribers to be run for, the horse first 

coming in wins all. The Oaks, nor the. Derby, are 

sweepstakes,' the second horse in both cases, having 1001. 

Swell—a man highly dressed, in white upper tog and lilly 

shallow, (for example,) is a swell, however circumstanced 

in pocket ; but to keep up the name he must kraut his 

blunt freely ; bet, and swear 4 damme, Sir.' If he does not 

fight, at least he ought to knew how; and take lessons— 

or .eve them. No fighting man by prOfession can be a 

lie is 4 tulip, if he dresses thereafter, atid looks 

4wellish :—'tis esteemed the first grade towards Carinthia. 

nisaa, which he never can reach by any possibility whatiVer. 

No man who ever performed .any duty or servibeh foi tire 

(except doctors, lawyers, parsons, and statesmint) - can 

possibly be a fela sell, certainly nota'eentientelv i inost 

Judibitably not a Corinthian. Try back, read* =under 

r 'those heads of information.. . , 

.8tvindier—one who orders to a neighbouring-house a pat of 

ale and change for a guinea guinea, anti Si. nizaks with eithir is a 

low swindler; he who takes 

orders 

, it fine goods, with which, he bolts, is a genteel. swindler 

but the wholesale dealer is he, or they, who operi.ware- 

' house or office, -assume the aka of tradesmen, and. order 

goods from manufacturers and others, wbic4 are;aold-at a 

loss, but not paid for-tafter tke firsi .; : 

Swop, swap—to exchange goods or chattel. Horse-dealers 

. practise;mich this Species of bargain.. 

- 

T. 

riske.:in-r.a cheat, when the 'ostensible and "the ,real ire 

expensively dissimilar. Taking in--cheating or dupery. 

. Also, on the Stock Exchange, the pawning of -scrip to the 

persons taking it in,* until a future day . named, with 

liberty to sell then unless redeemed. Formerly, tit% tans- 

- action was teimed. ‘, the Rescouiters f it is .ruidons.to the 

pledger when a fall takesplace of five per .cent...*.Thore. 

.Take.it as, you. like„'-r-be. offended or not,r.iiistr as you 

choose. Talie.itout of 'that,' actompanied by showing

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the elbow, and patting it: now fight away. '1 cannot 

take it in'—not swallow a lie. To take it out of him'—to 

beat one enough to counterbalance his offence. A good 

scolding effects the same prrpose, occasionally. Och, the 

mordering Jews ! Ahi—h—gh—k exclaimed a Munster 

lady of the apple-stall, I alNvays takes it out of dem :' vhy, 

my dear? why don't you know how ill they used the poor 

cratur as com'd to us?' She allowed nothing for the lapse - 

of 1822 years. 

Tag-rat—fellows ill-drest, in parties, are the tag-rag part 

of a crowd so named by the kiddies, tulips, and swells 

of the procession, because their clothes (or rags) are but 

just tacked or stitched together. Tag 7rag and bobtail'— 

the latter are females, and a bob is the extreme value of 

each tail. 

Talbot—the original of our present race of hounds ; he is 

' maid to have been white about the time of the Norman 

kings but, more recently, black and white, with tan over 

the eyes. His nose very good, voice sonorous but mel- 

low; large long ears, deep flewed : pace tardy but lasting. 

So called from the Talbot family, who had the keeping of 

the king's hounds. This variety hath merged into the 

stag4ound, fox-hound, harrier, and blood-hound. 

"The deep-fled hound, strong, heavy, slow, but sure, 

Whose ears down-hanging from his thick round head, 

Sian *weep the morning dew; whose clanging voice 

Awake the mountain-echo in her cell, 

And shake the forest." (See Hound. 

Tally-man—he who sells his goods to be satisfied by instal- 

ments, as is., 2s. 6d., or 6s. per week or month : at each 

payment a split stick, kept by either party, is put together, 

and a notch being cut in both at once, they must then 

tally or agree. Though profitable, it is a mean mode 

of doing business, notwithstanding government manage 

their exchequer-issues by the same wooden tally. 

Tandem—one horse before another in a single horse-chaise 

ione too such in. length, 1. e. Tandem. 

Tantivy----aa a word, is an invitation to the field. 

"While health gives new charms to the sports of the field, 

Tantivy, my boys? let's away." 

Likewise an answer to all cavil, and to all objections : 

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170 TAP—TEA 

Cries Jane, "dear John, avoid the snare 

That lurks in yonder field!" 

Yoicks! Maar), , soho! 

" Ah, John," cries Jane, " if life's your care, 

Of Tantivy, 0 beware!" 

Properly, certain notes upon the horn, called ton-tavoti, 

thus .marked—ton n, tavon ; very frequently employed 

in the recheat, and upon the deaths of animals. See 

Ton taron. 

Tapp'd (ring)—' tapp'd his claret,' gave a bloody nose. 

Tapp'd on the shoulder,' arrested on a civil process- 

' had for a hundred.' 

Tap -tub (the)—Morning Advertiser; so surnamed after the 

tubs placed under the taps of each proprietor—whether 

licensed victualler, or gin-spinner; because that print 

catcheth the drippings of yesterday's news, and dish:eth 

it up anew. 

Tare -and-fret, my boy,' (city bon-ton for)—a Rowland for 

an Oliver, no matter the juxtaposition of the two matters. 

To give as good as is brought. 

Tartar —an adept in any game is a tartar at it. To ' catch 

Tartar'—to encounter one who is superiorly gifted, and 

get done. 

Tattler —a watch. Why, Doughey drew a gold tattler, and 

got but two p3nd ten of the fence for it; so my regulars is 

ten bob—I'll split else.' 

Tattsz - dice. The saying tit for tat,' as good as is brought, 

means literally, a horse for a tooth—dice being made of 

teeth. So, if one knock another's tooth out, he must give 

his horse in compensation. 

Team —a flight of wild ducks. 

Teaster —a sixpence, which is also tizzy, &c. Teaster is the 

most classical name for sixpence we have got, and is also 

the most ancient. Derived from teste, the head (French); - 

and the (s) having been dropped nearly two centuries 

(now the) the word must be so old at the very least. 

Tea turn -out---a seedy kind of invitation to take tea; and 

as soon as over the party break up. Tea and cards,' 

includes a sandwich at least, if not a supper—hot in 

the city. 

Teazer —a hit on some queer point, as on the tip of the nose. 

Also, '1st. A summons to little chancery. 2nd. A talking 

,fellow who haunts another. 3rd. An old horse belonging

TEE—THI / 

to a breeding-stud—A though devoid of fun himself, he is 

the cause of it in others.' 

Tee—done to a,' meat roasted to a turn, or T. 

Tee-totung—a juvenile instrument of play, and marked P. 1'. 

H. N..; being spun round for the stakes, the player who 

brought P, put down a stake; he who had N, neither put 

down or took up; H won half the money down; T takes 

all, or totum. 

Teeth—the masticatores have been called 'dining-room 

chairs,' 'grinders,' &c. ''Tis of no use to show your 

teeth, unless you can [venture to] bite ;' persons need not 

show their anger if they are powerless. .4 In spite of your 

teeth ;' notwithstanding all your threats and endeavours : 

'tis a canine notion. ' Nothing is certain in this life ; not 

even that you will swallow the meat upon your plate; nor 

that after its descent into the cavum corporis, it may not 

offend or be offended, and return in spite of your teeth.' 

Vide Fancy. 

Telling the law— (in cocking;) counting forty deliberately, 

. with.a semicolon pause—thus one; two; three; &c. this 

occurs when the cocks leave off fighting through fatigue; 

at the word "forty," the setters-to pit: them anew, beak to 

beak. See Told-out. 

Thief—a name never assumed, but applied by others; and 

when used, he of whom 'tis spoken calls it beef. Sly ones 

and peculators inveigh with most asperity agaiest the 

small-scale public ones, as these do bawl out stop beef!' 

when pursued ;—both seeking to avoid detection. See 

Honour. 

Thick-head—he whose understanding is deeply entrenched 

against instruction behind great lumps of fat. 

Thimble—a watch. Thimbled —laid hold of. 

Thing (res, rem, re)---is applied to every thing of every kind. 

' A thing of a man,' is he who has not much sense or spunk 

in him ; and a mere thing in her hands (whatever he may 

be in her arms,) is the man who suffers a woman to rule 

the roost. A thing of a horse,' should be rode by a 

scapegrace runagate only; such a horse as can neither 

walk, trot, or gallop, but makes up for those deficiencies 

by the accession of broken knees and a staring coat, is a 

tag. Buggies, curricles, chaise-carts, gigs, and tandems, 

when altered, amended, re-mended, and patched, are 

things, and nothing else. A thing,' is an animal of doubt. 

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172 T IL 1.--T 11 0 

ful gender, i. e. 

to be guodded, 

as per exerapleu 

no-thing. 'Tis a sad thing for a gentleman 

who has hitherto been 'quite the thing;' 

"My name's Tippy-bob, 

rire a watch in each fob, 

View me round on each side and the top; 

I know I'm the thing, 

And I wish I may swing, 

If I arn't now a nice natty crop." 

'The things,' in the eye of a matron, Or in her eyes if she 

have more than one,) are the articles of housekeeping : 

such have ' a pretty little thing,' occasionally, of a baby; 

and, 'tis 'such a thing ! to keep it quiet at night,' when 

papa is rocky; and 'a horrid thing,' when Nis tumbled out 

of bed. Gamblers call cards or dice ' the things,' in softened 

tones; and so are fetters comical things.' Tipprbeb, 

aforesaid, might be every thing' in the eye of some pretty 

woman, if his egotism and self-love did not conspirq:to 

render him a no-thing at all sort of a chap. A man's actions, 

or one single act of his life, may render him a thing to the 

end of his days in the opinion of all--even of a horse, or 

of dogs ; for, what would a kennel of hungry hounds think 

of a whipper-in walking into their dininprootn, without a 

whip. What thought the calendrees nag, when Mr. Gilpin 

(that sage horseman) stooped down and seised the beast 

round the neck ? Why, 

"His horse who never in that sort 

Had treated been before, 

What thing upon his back had got 

Did wonder more and more." 

A poor, weak, but pretending mortal, is a thing, whether 

\ his defect be of mind or body. ' You fight! Why you area at 

' Never was exhibited, perhaps, so ding-like a mind 

as this young lawyer's.' Vide Fancy. Thing (on the road)-a 

poor drag, poorly horsed. According to Cobbett, 4 the 

thing' political, is the corruption oT the state working out 

a reform of the state. All that sort of thing,'---bon -ton, 

a common kind of addenda to any dandy-speech. 

' Thing-urn-bob--thing-urn-bee, and thing-a-merry, names of 

things, or thin-like persons, not worthy of being more 

distinguishedly marked. Mostly used by females: the 

first was applied to the man who would stand only a bob 

for the thing under treaty. 

Thought (a)—a single operation of the mind. Who would

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hate thought it? When something unCommon takes place. 

Yet, 'I thought it would happen so,' says the silly part of 

the creation, who cannot foresee a shower of rain, nor 

reckon upon a minnow-bite. The thinking nation,' is the 

English ; and persons capable of great thoughts and accurate, 

are the thinking part of the nation; the remainder 

being the soft part, or, "those. whose brains are thin and 

pulpy, of a consistency lying between water-gruel and 

stirwabour--as Mr. Abernethy has it. 

Three tinses three---shouting in exultation, greeting after the 

British fashion, some patron, the donor of a feast, the 

king, &c. Three is the mystical number; firm as a tripod 

in mechanics, and its triplicate implies something more; 

but those who greet with four times 'bur, because George 

IV: is the person greeted, are noodles of the fourth class 

--weak in cause and effect. 

Through-stitch—a tailor's expression for finishing any thing 

once begun. 

a To go through-stitch won't be Mina 

Said Bock, then gave miss Doe a kiss 

But 1---d hie wife-popp 5d in on this, 

And caught them cooing—" 

Your fox-hunters are the being* for going throw/Jai:lite& 

"We drove him, many a, mile; 

O'er hedge and. ditch we got throligit OM* 

And bit off many 4 

rhrow (ring)—when boxers are tired, at tin-fighting,' they 

struggle to get each other down, and the throw is sometimes 

rendered. so' hard, as to win the battle„ especially 

whoa an adroit tumble upon the. opponent's wind is. added 

thereto. See Fall, Floorer, &c. A throw over the knee, 

is effec.ted similarly to a cross-buttock, but is not half so 

effectual, unless the thrower punisheth as the adversary is 

going down,. 

Throwing-Re—talk about any one in his presence always 

adversely, And generally in the third person. g They that 

don't like' Cold Bath-fields„ vhy, let them try Horsemonger-lane,' 

Reply. ' Veil, I'm sure ! ha'n't be. forgot the 

start ! y mother v.os no b----- to bring forth puppies, 

howsonulever, as goes mid dere own Rejoinder. 

My father wer'n't lagged for being a our old man 

Jives down in Vbitechapel. now,, and. Tarns his five-and- 

tve.nty quid, a,-weekp,'

174 THR—TIM 

To Throw-of the hounds—to uncouple and set them 'to 

quest for the object of chase : 

Here, on this verdant spot, 

Where Bowers autumnal spring, and the rank mead 

Affords the wandering hares a rich repast, 

Throw off thy ready pack. 

77irurns—threepence, used by low bidders, at low auctions. 

Tick—credit in small quantities; usually scored up with 

chalk, (called ink ironically,) which being done with a 

sound resembling tick, tick, tick,' gives the appellation. 

Going to tick,' 'tick it up,' 'my tick is out,' 'no more tick.' 

Vide Pontic, and see what it amounts to. . - 

Ticker—a watch. A tick-tack.derived from the ticking of a 

watch; 'tis the shortest apace of time-.--' done in a tick-tack.' 

Tiddyvated—i. e. made tidy, or neat ; derived from Nitida, 

neat, tidy, spruce genteel, prim, gay. Used by barbers and 

friseurs for a dres t head formerly ; but now confined to 

lasses and dandies who may have emerged from a recent 

state of filth, after adonising their persons an hour or two. 

'Tie up in the wind* (ring)—a blow on the mark will do it for 

any one. Tie yourself up'T--to bind oneself negatively ; . 

either not to play, to fight, to lay bets, &c. for a certain 

period, usually to the and of time; but seldom kept. My 

opinion is, Tom Cribb may safely tie-up from this time.' 

Vide Soares's speech. ' A certain hell-keeper tied himself 

up before the magistrates, never to touch a card, or handle . 

a rake again, during his natural life.' Vide Police Report. 

But what ate oaths or bonds to him, or any of his kind? _ 

Tiff—g a tiff;' is to take offence at small cause, or none at 

all; these are sulky hounds and proud ones. 

Tilbury —a sixpence, which has, moreover, several other 

names, as tizzy, bender, fiddler's money, teaster. 

Time of day—very oppositely applied at various points : the 

pass-word for civilly accosting another, at one place; a 

knock-down-blow at another. In the islan d (Wight) every 

good joke is the time o' day.' 

Times—' 'tie all owing to the times,' said a mechanic to his 

wife, as an apology for getting drunky ; wishing to make 

the state of politics answerable for his aberrations. The 

Times paper might, also, have some share in his sottishness, 

by reason of its lengthy columns and close paragraphs 

requiring much orthographising, and numerous 

drowthy expositions.

TIN—TOA 

-Tisey—small; little. Mostly applied to 

chick—tiny mort, but used also of 

tiny drop of gin,' when the cove can 

towards a quartern of three outs. 

175 

mankind; as, a tiny 

L small ken, and 6 a 

only muster a penny 

Pray, butcher, please to moderate the rancour of your tongue, 

Why flash those sparks of fury from your eyes? 

Remember I'm a tiny man and you are very strong, 

A taylor why should you despise. 

Finney—a conflagration of houses—a fire; derived from 

Tinnitus —the ringing of the town-bell (tocsin) when such 

accidents do happen; practised every where but in London. 

Each call to a tinney,' is 5s. for every fireman. 

' To Tip'—to give; a noun as well as verb. ' To tip,' is to 

, pay. How much is the tip " What is the payment? as, 

the fare of a coach, toll at a turnpike, &c. ' Come, 

come, tip the bustle,' said by a highwayman when he would 

rob the traveller. Tip us none of your jaw.'—' There's 

the tip, Marm, now send in the max.' 'The tip' at skittles 

tnd Dutch-pin playing, when the player plays frozn_his 

ball after having bowled, or close up to the frame, called 

' bowl and tip.' 'Tip the wink,' a hint. Tip him a good 

deal of the blarney. Tipytiwitchett, a senseless elf. '1 

tip'd him the double,' ran away. Tip us your daddle; 

or thieving-irons, to shake hands. 

Tits —horses, mostly applied to those in stage-coaches. 

Derived from the latin titubo, to trip, stumble, and stagger; 

the tits of our day should be lame a little, if not foot- 

foundered past all condemption' (as Dan has it); they 

cannot otherwise be titubans, nor percorm a stage titu- 

banter. Titt -up—a canter, scarcely made out. ' 

Tit -bits—favourite cuts of meats preferred by epicures. In 

town they choose a bit of the brown:' turn up a shoulder 

of mutton, and the lean corner whieh comes next the neck 

is the cuckold's fit-bit:' tis soft and juicy. Term ap- 

plied to live females also. 

Toad-eaters—sycophants, who would swallow poison and 

declare it delicious, to please their patrons. Jamie Bos- 

well was toad-eater to Sam Johnson. Turtle feasters 

were appelled toad-eaters by David Garrick: 

Who knows, says he, 

For want of turtle he might soon eat me: 

So I left toad-eater. 

itic.h persons, without heirs, attract myriads of toad-eaters.

176 T 0 B--Te0 N 

Toby-lay—robbery in road or street. Low 104-lay—foot- 

pad robbery. See High-toby. 

To-by---' To be or not to be?' (Shakspeare) means, shall the 

proposal take place? as, more wine; or spoken hypotheti- 

cally—' is this to be a drunken night, or no? ' On the 

iligh-toby'—high fellows who spend much money, but 

care little how ' tis got,' generally gamblers. 

Toco for Yam—Yams are food for negroes in the West-- 

Indies, (resembling potatoes) and if, instead of receir- 

. ing his proper ration of these, Blackee gets a whip (toco) 

about his back, why he has caught toco' instead of yam. 

Toddy—spirits and water, hot with sugar. 

Tog—clothes ; derived from ioga, the official gown or upper 

garment worn by the Roman nobs, and our own gownsmen. 

Toggery— dress, generally. White upper tog'--the great 

coat, white. Well-togg'd f so dressed, a-la-modes 

Togamans—a gown or cloak, for either sex. 

Told-out—in the language of the cock-pit; when a cock has 

refused fighting ten several times, counting tett delibe- 

rately between each set-to and refusal, he loseth the baltle 

—and generally .gets scragg'd by his enraged owners So, 

when a gambler is unblunted, he is said to be told out ; 

and so is the debauchte when he can't come again, and 

the drunkard, when the burnt-up power of secretion brings 

about schirrous liver, adhesion of the pleura, and dim - 

ordered respiration, with hectic.—Mrs. Mary Ann Clarke 

was told out, when she was turned-up by the faded ever- 

green. See Telling the law. 

Tontaron—pron. Tantaran by the red-stag hunters of the 

West country, and frequently without the final (n). Either 

gives pretty nearly the sound of a huntsman's notes on 

his horn, which being variously modified, convey his wishes 

and intelligence to the hearers; it is a corruption of ton- 

tavon, the repetition of the last syllable—' tavon, tavon, 

tavon'--quickly, being the call away; a change this which 

hath been effected within a century past by the warblers, 

for sake of the liquid (r): 

But vain is his speed— 

They faster proceed, 

In hopes to o'ertake him anon; 

While echo around 

With the horn and the hound, 

Responsive replies Taron-ton. 

They have gone farther (see Tan (iv!,') and made an midi- 

,

To 0—TO P6 177 

eon also—viz.. after three repetitions of 6 tontara, tontara, 

tontara,' they add a ton-tay ;' their tay being of the 

same length as tone, which terminated almost every re- 

cheat. Tara would seem the. feminine of taron, when 

used substantively;, probably the lady and lord of the 

mansion in which the hunters caroused:. 

For, no joys can compare 

To hunting of the hare 

Sing agro:," 

- 

Ego, as mosso eoce--" and Tontaron." 

"Sing Tare—Mho, "and Tontaron," 

Both voices aloud, 

"Sing Tara, my brave boys, mid Tontaron." . 

The tara, however, may have been older than taron,. ortavon, 

in some' parts of the empire of G. B.: among the 

Celts of Ireland, Tara was the baronial castle, or seat 

and the large hall was, in like manner,Tara, where the lord 

or petty king, gave audience, settled disputes, awarded 

justice (in aula regia) caroused. his retainers after hunting, , 

and heard music; 

The harp that once through rara's.halls 

The soul of music shed,- 

Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls 

As if that soul had fled. 

Here, of course, the horn vim heard. in every variety of 

modulation., with, its ton„ ton, ton, tare': tontara, ton-. 

tara—tone.' Rory, , king of Connaught, and Brian B'ru, 

had their assemblages. of chiefs,. called Tara—a council„ 

or parliament. Tom Moore sings- 

; No more to Ales and ladies brig,ht 

The harp of Tars swells,_ 

The chord' alone that breaks at night 

Its tale-of ruin tar.. 

Too/s—house-breaking implements,, or otherwise.. 

Too muck--of one thing is good for nothing,' is understand., 

able; but Paddy has turned the latter wont into something,' 

by which he means a grate big bating.' 

Topper ; a flush hit high on the upper works; 

plied also„ to a blow with a, stick on Abe head; so give , 

him at topper for luck, and another for me* 

Topping—the upper covering; and a topper is a hat, the 

head sometimes, and the roof of shows always. Topping 

wit' is Attica, and 'a topping number' at a painting-. 

office is that quantity which the printer takes. off to hiss 

own Cheek,. surreptitiously. , 

5:

118 - TOR—TRA 

Tories —a political party, originally attached to the exiidd 

family, and the principle of governing single-handed, Or 

corruptly: intolerant of sectarians, lovers of tythes and 

bell-ringing, of pageants, and pluralities—ubiquity itself. 

"Come all ye tory citizens, 

Ye 'radicals and whigs ; 

Join all your famous companies, 

And merry be as grigs. 

Supposed to be a corruption of' tow-row,' a soldier of the 

guards or grenadiers—of whom, in Marlborough's time, 

a song was sung with this burden : 

Sing Tow, row, row, row, row, row, 

The British grenadiers; 

Tot—the whole; from totius (Latin). By amplification 'tis 

said, ' 

I'll 

take the whole tot.' Mr. Hook says, 

"There's Hume, with his tots and his vets 

Gaffer Grey —" 

Tout---(v.) to watch. Touting—is eying the women gene- 

rally, or spoiling an amour, platonically. 'Tis extended 

to stagging,' also. 

Town—London is Town; without the article, and is in 

fact, three towns, viz. London (the city proper) West- 

minster, and the borough of Southwark, or Tripoli— 

without taking in to estimate the out-lying parishes. This 

is the district for seeing life in its varieties, as the present 

work attests. A man in town,' is in sash—' out of town,' 

without blunt. . 

Trade. Swindlers of goods, inquire about ' the state of trade 

to-day ? very much like regOar -paying persons. What 

trade are you doing?' 'I have a prospect of doing something, 

or have a thing in hand,' is the slangery of this 

species of rogue. Free-trade—smuggling; and so is 

Fair-trade. Thus called from that space, which was 

marked out in war-time, by the French in certain ports, for 

our smugglers' resort and purchase of contraband goods, 

and called la foire, or fair-ground. 

Trail—(chase;) scent laid upon the grbund. A dead hare 

being dragged along leaves trail for harriers. The scent 

of the living' .hare i s likewise trail. Oleum Origanum 

(vulgo, oil of rignum) makes a good artificial scent, or 

drag—and is good for entering young hounds. 

If some staunch hound with his authentic voice 

Avow the recent trail, the josdin tribe 

Attend his ca.

TR A—TRA 179 

.Training—animals that are pretty much exposed to excesses 

in their manner of living, require to be put in training 

when they are about to take strong exercise. Men, horses, 

and dogs are trained .before fighting or running. Bleed- 

ing (if feverish) purging, and sweating, get rid of the 

surplus which overcharges the system, and impair its 

functions. Generous, but not .heating food is to follow ; 

no flatulent drink; all being given at regular intervals. 

Regular exercise, running a heat every morning, and a 

hreathing in the evening, rubbing down the body and limbs 

much—the horse with the hand and wisps of hay, the man 

with cloths. The latter must fight his trainer at ;loon; 

twice at least, with the gloves; the former must be tried 

against other liaises, and if the actual race is to be in the 

north country, he must be taught the false starts,', usual 

to those parts. N. B. Little sleep and much moderation; 

even training may be carried to excess. The good effects 

of training are soon visible on the cuticle; horses showing 

a fine coat, men fair skin without scorbutic spots, having 

thrown off the hair which those spots engender. Hard 

living, and a cold country, 'tis known, produce hair upon 

the body, which pugilists lose by training. One of Black- 

wood's people (No. 72. p. 87.) says he was covered With 

the long hair tha,t boys come home with at the Christmas 

holidays, frona a Yorkshire cheap academy.' 

Trained,o.nr—weakness of body, inefficient athletic: an animal 

without sufficient stamina to bear hard training, gets worse 

for the above—prescribed mode of living and trains of. 

Training upwards—is done, when the subject is already too 

low in habit, by means of nutricious, diet: avoid bleeding 

and sweating; let the exercise be little, steady, and con- 

genial. The fighting men stand in need or training up, 

as often as they do the contrary. 

Tramp—(tle); travelling a-foot. 4.111 tramp it for trade', 

Out upon the tramp. Said of mechanics who go from 

town to town for employment. 

Transmogrify—to alter, to change. A Transmogrifierz one 

who so changeth the works and the cases of watches, that 

the real owners cannot recognise their property. 

Traps—hired constables ; probably an abbreviation of to. 

Wrap, to ensnare. See Nose. 

To Travel—to go, or be sent, beyond sea, he is on his travels. 

Tbe high-go boutonian sap, 4Meclare I must travvii,,onuox.!

180 T R E—T R Y 

Tread-mill—an invention we owe to the Chinese, who raise 

water' by this means, and it is now adopted in these 

realms for the amusement of such philanthropic lads 'of 

the village,' as undertake the disposition of other peoi)le's 

effects, without leave. See Cubit, Round-about. The 

Radicals declare it to have been set up "on Rot-a -Tory 

principles." 

Trente une apres—at rouge et noir; the advantage taken by 

Me bosh of the punters, for profit, and as sett-off for the 

retreshments, &c. It looks like three per cent. upon the 

winnings, but is in/act about seven—arithmetically proven. 

Trick—at cards ; the play round at whist, for example ; and 

the odd trick occurs the thirteenth time of so playing round. 

A Trick--a cheatery. Tricks on cards'—in cutting and 

shuffling dexterously, so as to produce certain results. 

Tricks upon travellers,' cannot be practised safely, they 

being usually up to snuff. Tricks of youth; leave us in 

old age, though every Senex pretends that he has left the 

tricks. Nestos sagely observed, 

Age, with a pox will come apace; 

But dear esperience can't be gotten, 

'Till we 're with tricks of youth half rotten. 

Triposions—a small lot of persons fond of cows' stomachs., 

and the most pungent of edible roots; who take an occa- 

sional snap at Tom Rees's coffee-panny in the Strand.— 

Card of invitation " The Triponions congregate to masti- 

cate, to vocalise, and fumigate; 

Thomas Rees, 

At his ease, 

A fine treat, 

About eight, 

Nought gaudy but neat." 

rnajon—Trew-john, a Trojan. A hardy indomptable per- 

son; alluding to the twelve years' siege of Troy. 

Trull—the lowest state of prostitution. 

rrump--he is one who sticks by a poor friend in distress, 

who scorns dirty actions and littleness of spirit, who dif- 

fuseth happiness around, maugre the difficulty of execu- 

tion. In ring affairs, he is a trump who stands up to his 

man like a Trudjon. 

Try-back—an order or command given to a dog, to go over 

the same ground again, for game, as in beating a gorse- 

for a fox. Try-back—is saia to a talkative person who 

may be flinging the hatchet a little.

R TT R. 181* 

Try-on—and trying it on An essay or endeavour to do a 

thing. Here's a queer shilling; 111 try it on with the 

landlord," Veil, my customer, you tried it on tolerably 

tightish, but k voud'tit, fit, ye see.* 

Tuck-out—plenteous fare at dinner or sumer. See Blow-etut. 

Tuiik---fine habiliments of various colours tvid strong ones; 

compose the Jack Cooper, evolved ex earcera a 

tulip of no common colour,' vide iancy Gaz. 117. 6 Ah ! 

Jack Atcherley, how are é my tulip?' Tulips compared to. 

Swells, are what gilt gingerbread is to a gilded sign-board;. 

the one fades soon, the other is at least intelligent to the 

last. See Corinthian, Gentleman, Swell. 

Tosidolir.--a cart. To shove the tumbler to be whipped 

at the cart's-tail. 

Turf--(the). That species of sport which consists in run- 

ning horses against each other, as trial of their speed or 

bottom and these races are either matches '(of two) or 

for sweepstakes of three or more. It is an improvement, 

or rather a refinement, upon the runs experienced in the 

chase; hunters stakes,' by their full weights and lengthy 

courses, assiinilating nearest to that earliest sport of the 

field. Name derived from the verdure— turf; that at New- 

market being the finest, most extended, and various in the 

island-entpire—which is the mother-country of turf-sports„ 

of large stakes and great matches, and the only residence 

of round-betting. 

Races are held in France, of royal horses mostly; but 

a -devoid of-emulation, except in the animals alone—spunk- 

less. Occasionally, at Petetsburgh as in most of the 

British ultra-marine possessions, and:before the die-union, 

in North-America. Proceeding upwards in the enumera- 

tion, Ireland comes nest in importance, their stakes being 

_minor imitations of those in England;. yet they there dis- 

pense with sixteen king's plates, whilst all England has 

only twenty-one, and bet two are Oven in Scotland. This 

last mentioned portion of the kingdom stands forward 

next in order as to spirit, amount, and execution, though 

less in number than Ireland; whilst York is inferior only 

to Newmarket, Epsom next after York es to totality of 

sums run for; and Ascot, for great resort, and the attend- 

-ance of royalty, has acquired the appellation of royal 

races. Doubtless to these latter, Somervile alludes in 

his didactic Poem, The Chase, Book II.,

182 TUR--TWO 

Oh, bear me, some kind power invisible! 

To that extended lawn, where the gay court 

View the swift racers stretching to the goal; 

Games more renown'd, and a far nobler train, 

Than proud Elean fields could boast of old. 

See Round-betiing, Stakes, 4.c. 

Turf abbreviatures—Those short and pithy literals that un- 

explained lead the uninitiated into certain loss ; yet again 

some there are which signify little—nothing p. p. play 

or pay, post the poney, put down pounds, or pay pounder. 

h. ft. half-forfeit, i. e. half the stake is to be paid certain, 

by the party who does not choose to run for the whole : 

forfeits are limited to very small sums occasionally. List, 

list b. bay, br. brown, bl. black, c. colt, ch. chesnut, 

d. dun, dis. distanced-(240 yards off, at least) dr. drirstn, 

f. filly, g. gelding, gr. grey, p. guineas, h. horse, lb. 

pounds, m. mare, pd. paid, p. poney, p. p. play or pay, 

e positive,' must be done, dead or alive, ro. roan, st. stone, 

(141b.) yr. year; the figures 1, 2, 3, the first, second, or 

third horses in, at the winning post. 

Turned-up—ruined, in any way. A kept mistress is turn'd 

up,' when her occupation's gone;' she is then said to have 

got g turnips'..{turn-ups.] 

Turnip—a watch; and if silver, the more vraisemblable. 

Turnsp-tops--watch-chain and seals : cutting turnip-tops 

on the autem sneak'—is the taking-off those appendages 

of the congregation by means of short strong forceps. 

Turn-out (a)—an equipage, including horses, carriage, 

servants, sett', and liveries. Superior to S'et-out. 

Tweedle-duus and Tweedle.-dee—(bon-ton) musicians : two 

signiors (fiddlers) at Bath, were thus nicked, circa 1780, 

on occasion of a quarrel and duel on Lansdown. In the 

Albums at the pump-room, one wrote--(before the fight), 

Pity such difference e'er should be 11- 

'Taut tweedleduni and tweedledee." 

After the battle had been declared harmless, be addeil, 

Surely, nci clinger e'er can come 

To tweedledee or tweedledum. 

Twig—to notice, to remark upon a thing or person. ' Did 

you twig the old cock?' 6 twig'd him a touting on Us.' 

' I do not twig your meaning.' in twig,' well dressed; 

' out of twig,' shabbily clad, or in undress. 

Two-penny e. two-pence per line for fabricating 

articles of intelligence for the newspapers, paid to men

TWO--VAG 183 

calling themselves reporters [qu. porterers? carriers] for- 

Booth. When thetype used for such minor purposes ceases 

to be minion (e mignon, little) and devolves into bourgeois 

(or commonalty letter)—into brevier, or short letter—then 

three half-pence is the digne payment per line. Sometimes 

called 4 penny-a-line-men ;' but this applies only to such 

as work at under price—dungs ; an invidious kind of gene- 

ralising. Consult Caddee and Kedger, without prejudice; 

and see Patin, who characterises the whole race of news- 

scribes as kominem genus audacissinsum mendacissinim 

avidioissimum.' See Reporters. 

Two-a-penny—London cry for oranges, pronounced fwa- 

pinny, when probably the ware is two-pence a-piece. The 

Jews only come it thus rumly. 

Two-to-one—(ring.) This trick is carried sometimes to 3 to I, 

when so many fall foul of one. Mister Two-to-one'— 

a pawnbroker; that being the advantage he takes of 

his customers' necessities : the method of suspending 

his golden-balls—two above, one below, seems to tell 

this plainly. . 

Tyburn—formerly the place of execution of criminals, but 

changed about the year '80, for the new-drop. 'Tyburn,' 

is figurative of hanging, as is ' the drop.' The place or 

situation of the destructive and sanguinary instrument, 

was across the Edgeware-road, about 150 paces from the 

corner of Oxford-road, near the corner of Upper Seymour- 

street, west; two or three instruments were set up occa- 

sio. nally, for the better dispatch of business. 

Tye—a neckcloth; also the neck itself occasionally. 

7,'e-O!—is the call of one patrol to others, about Clerken. 

well, that they may look out for the rogues. 

V. 

Vagabond—one who journeyeth from place to place for% 

precarious living. Ergo--the actor-men and women were 

vagabonds, without the aid, of an act of parliament. The 

lower Irish accuse each other of this crime [' as by law 

established] with a Spanish pronunciation : 'get along 

ye Bagavond nearly approaching to Bag-o-bones, in the 

plural. This application of the word is illegitimate, inas- 

much as those ' countrymen,' though they may be employed 

here to-day and there to-morrow,' yet is their living not 

precarious; scaroely a man but earns his three bob *day.

184 

Tagary—indurgence of a whim or notion out of the common 

way; called Figgary formerly, vide ' Scotch Figgaries, a 

Tragedy,' 1649. Figario, a Spaniard of whimsical habits ; 

he should be active on his pins as if he were ligged. 

Falai; ers—stockinge. 

Vinjus—verjuice ; sourness. 4- Oh, the varjus r an exclamation, 

which shows the utterees utter astonishment. 

. Varment— applied to badgers, polecats, and the otter; in, 

common parlance, 'tie spelled 'vermin;' but no foxhunter 

holds a fox to be a varment, however true in Fact. 

Not many years since, (20). several gentlemen, associated 

fox' four-in-hand amusements, took the title of the Var- 

. merit Club.' See Bon-ton, Four-in-hand. 

Vastly—bon-ton; one of the prodigious fine words so muck 

mis-used by the dandies; who apply it to every thing but 

the heavens, which alone are vast; though it is extended 

naturally- to the ocean, when the two seem to touch. We 

should like it vastly, if the reader would turn to M011 

Arms,' and 'prodigious;' but our city-aldermen' get monstrous 

cross, when they become wally fat,' so say their 

wives and families all. ' A-vast heaving,' is derived from-the 

heaving up of an anchor. 

U. D. C. Mornings 12 to 4—Evenings 7 to 

Cleveland-row, St. James's." Some Frenchmen, from 

the Palais-royal, thus introduce this game to the notice of 

gentlemen, at coffee-houses, in the streets, and parks. The 

place of address is 'a Her upon earth; , so termed to deter 

conscientious persons from limn their fortunes. Roley- 

poley is the more vulgar Mine for une-deux-cinque. 

7b Vegetate—mere existence; haut-ton for retirement.. See 

Life.' 

nighty-von—a fat landlady, who has a good run of custom,. 

is a weighty one in both senses of the word. 

Veleci*cle—or Bicipede. See Dandy horse. We have also 

had- the tricipede, or three-wheeled foot *vehicle; more 

recently, and mote utilely, we have the aquatic tripod or 

tvicipede, for traversing shallow waters after wild-fowl._ 

See Badcoces Philosophical Recreations, Vo1. 42. 

Velvet--the to , e. To tip the velvet; to give out the 

tongue by eit = - r sex. To scold. 

Yeniserk-Ifiest of red deer; modernly used of the whole race,., 

indefinitely : whoever has venison en his chase,' vide 

filitue-ktws .: again,. g Vaprialsts, the zee, is no venisqt

V M P 185 

unless hunted.' Beasts of Venary (five in number) are 

venison : Buck is not one. See Chase, Forest, Park. 

To Vent —to breathe—said of otters, when at length they 

come to the surfitce to iespire : 

Ah, there once more he vents! 

sSee, that bold hound has seig'd him; down they sink, 

Together lost. 

Again he vents; 

Again the crowd attack: that spear has pierc'd his neck. 

Vestot—ironicaily said of an incontinent woman. 

Ugly-mug—he who has queer features and variolous. 

Vicar of Bray —,..one who acts now with this party now that. 

Bray lies near Putney, and one of its incumbents (circa 

1680) changed to opinions most diametrical, repeatedly. 

Victualling -office—the stomach, and sometimes the cup-board; 

at others, a man's means of subsistence are alluded to 

as his victualling-office. 

Viviet-armis—(bon-ton); by force and arms : 'you shall dine, 

egad George you shall; if you don't come we'll fetch ye, 

vi-et-armie, as they served the new speaker t'other day, in 

the house.' This was an allusion to the shoving of the 

speaker, Mr. Addington, into the chair of the H. 0.— 

according to ancient practice. . 

Virago —derived from vir, Latin for mankind, and acu sharp: 

The lady virago (as we now spell her name) is a scold, 

whose voice fills the domicile of her good man, Cornuto ; 

and the noise she makes is intended to drown her own 

reproaches of conscience, for the horns she is planting. 

But should she be virtuous, as regards the intercourse au 

double, if she drink, rob his till, or amasses, virago scolds 

her husband, as a cover to her heroical misdeeds. 

Vixen—a bitch-fox with cubs in her hole, and quarrelsome. 

Umpire—he to whom the referees of disputed points appeal 

as the last resort, when those arbitrators cannot agree.. 

In most legal adjustments, the arbitration bond has a rule 

of umpirage attached thereto. See Referee 

and note, 

also, the subsequent ' articles of. agreement to ' fight, mode 

between Neat and Spring, for May 28, 1823, drawn up at 

"the Castle," and countersigned, with a "witness P. E." - 

meaning (we are told) the Sporting Editor of the Weekly 

' Dispatch paper--Pierce Egan. In this published docu- 

ment, the same blunder is thus again attempted to be per

186 UNC---UP 

petuated, and thus stands exposed the author of those 

_ ignoramuses we have noticed under the word Referee. 

Uncle (ny)—the pawn-broker. Q. Whereabout is your 

mammy, my dear?' - A. She is gone to my uncle's Mann, 

at the corner of the alley.' 

Who dwells at yonder three gold balls, 

Where poverty so often calls, 

Guarding her offerings in his walls ? 

My Uncle. 

Unguentunt aureum—among the literati—when a bookseller 

advanceth money to needy authors, he is then said to 

apply this salve for all sores'—money. 

lb:kid—ugly, awkward, (prove of Bucks) thus we have an 

unkid or onkid house' man knock-kneed, with long 

toes and visage, must be onhyd, exceedingly. 

Up or U. P.—may be taken and used in various significa- 

tions, in one or two of which contradiction may be visible 

to an hypercritic, or one who is not soon pleased ; but we, 

on the contrary, firmly believe in the natural affinity of all 

things on earth—some coming closer together than others. 

'Tis all up,' and ''tis U. P. with him, is said of a poor 

fellow who may not have a leg to stand upon, or in other 

words (meaning the same thing)—nothing on which to 

place his leg, as in the case of suspension at the drop, 

as well as suspension of payment, or ruin coming upon a 

man's commercial concerns. The game is up with him,' 

is said very properly of a gambler recently unblunted ; 

but, after poverty has long attached itself to his pocket 

and person, he must be considered as no other than a 

seedy cove, whose holy pocket is neither likely to be visited 

by, nor capable of containing, that pale comfort of the 

poor man's pocket—coined silver. When a pugilistic 

contest approaches its termination, said to be all up, 

or U. P. on the part of the losing man and his backers: 

See Down. 

Up—as regards either house of parliament, means that the 

. house has been sitting, but that the sitting is over and the 

members up—on their legs, and of A man who knows 

a little how things are going on in the world, is said to be 

uppish; when he makes a display of this knowledge, this 

is uppishness ; but, if he pretends to be aware of more 

than he knows, and gets bowled out, he is not to be On. 

sidered as up at all, Scout the rip.

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Up/tills—loaded dice, that throw high. 

Uphill-work—it is, when a cove's Moll is in kid. 

Upon the town..—street-walkers, persons who live about at 

this place and that, and every where, whether men or 

women, (the latter particularly) with loose habits—sexually 

or otherwise. 

Upper-crust—one who lords it over others, is Mister Uppercrust. 

Upperworks—the head and parts adjacent, in boxing. ' Gas 

paid serious attention to Tom's upper-works.' 

g Upset—his apple-cart ruin his whole pecuniary concern : 

a costermonger's idea. 

goiug'—in fair way to the tread-mill. 

' Upstairs, 

' Up to snuff'—worldly knowledge, however pungent or errhi- , 

uical. See Cabbage. A girl who is so up is no virgin: 

Used-up—one who, by his labours or his irregularities, is no 

longer the active clever person he was wont to be. 

Ustful men—beggars alive, though they ask no alms. Cockney-breds, 

who hang about, along-shore in the east, and 

at the West end of town, to show strangers the sights—a 

sort of Ciceroni. Another kind of useful men, are little 

jobbers, small brokers, who effect sales of goods for needy 

manufacturers and traders upon the go. in number not 

above two hundred; they are all country-born, and their 

resorts are to the north of St. Paul's. 

Vulgar behaviour—the mode of conducting civil life of those 

immediately below the speaker. See Gentility. 

W. 

Wabbler (a)—a boiled leg of mutton, alluding to the noise 

made in dressing it. Hence Pot-4oabblers'—the qualifi 

cation for .some borough-votes; 'moving, that they are 

house-keepers, dressing their own victuals—boiling a pot. 

To Waddle-out—of the Stock-exclxange. Jobbers, usually 

brokers, who cannot make good their engagements for the 

delivery of stock, or run short in funds to pay for what 

they have bought, or those who fail to complete the instal- 

ments on loans—equally become lame ducks and waddle 

out. They then retire to the rotunda opposite, or cease 

their gambling tricks altogether, and turn honest shop- 

keepers, or black shoes—or vegetate afar off—accoriiisig 

to their savings. See Botany -bay, Duch, Taking-in,

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Wag—one who turns serious matters to jokes ; sometimes 

applied practically, when they became no jokes, and recoil 

upon the waggish spree-hunting perpetrator. 

Wagers—Nome men settle all disputes by offering excessive- 

- bets that troth is falsehood, F. nd vice versa; these are -, 

'wagering kiddies'—or fellows who lay quirking bets on 

equivocal subjects, and out-vote the persons to be done. 

See A. B. C—darian, Bets Bubble (bar the.) 

Wahe..from awake. Very differently ' used in England, 

Scotland, and Ireland, maugre the acts of union.' The 

Scot considers no man awake, or wakeful, who is not alive 

to his own interests ; at Bristol, one eye is ever upon the 

wake while the othet nappeth : hence the question, are ye 

awake?' are ye up?' Such an one 4 is always awake, or 

the (a) being nearly mute in most cases ; very 

unlike Milton's Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen.' 

Wakes—in most parts of England, are merry-makings, 

- held once awyear in each parish, on the day preceding (or 

eve of) the patron-saint's day to whom the church may be 

dedicated: as St. Bartholomew (Sept. 3); St. David 

(March 1); St. Nicholas (Dec. 6) ; a custom introduced 

by Augustin, first bishop of Canterbury, at the request of 

his earthly master, Gregory of Nazianzen Pontifex Max. 

about A. D. 600. ' Let your flocks get dru nk with their 

pastors ' said the pope ; all night,. 0 be joyful:: 

added the pye-house bishop, the better to meet your saintin 

the .° ' If you do you'll be d-,41, rejoined. 

the modernMethodists; - and these new -saints got the 

parliament to sanction - their anathema,, by fining every. 

man who did as the pope and bishop bid him, 5s. for each 

extra refresher, which is to be d—.d - 

To 'wake a poor fello,ve—an Irish custom, practised by 

those people every where, and is intended. to answer two or. 

three purposes at once: 1st. Lamentation for the loss. 

society has sustained. 2nd.. A funeral oration on the 

virtues of the deceased, in which his love of gin and Of potatoes 

are lauded. 3rd. To raise the wind for 'defraying the 

- eitpenses, or to put something in the packet& of the our- 

"mirk in order ko invite farther marriage alliance, or to 

'procure. grab. In England, the body is sometimes placed 

in a coffin; Ireland, seldom so, the waking being usually 

called for the purpose of procuring one. The deceased is 

dresse& up as in life, with hat, wig, &c. the body is set

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upright, and partakes a sup or two of spirits with the company 

at parting, and the whole then issuel a repekted 

howl, or balloot, in which the voices of soarie two or three 

hired women-weepets are conspicuous,---they are adepts. 

This would wake or awake the deceased, one would imagine, 

if any thing on earth conkl do so; and the legend 

speaks confidently of several corpses shaving been restored 

to life by this kind of last sip of their favorite beverage. 

Name, time, and place, however, are wanting to confirm 

the accuracy of such statement—with one exception. 

Early in the 16th century, at Shine, in Devon, lived Sir 

John Acland, a Bart very fond of brandy. He, also, 'died 

one day,' so they say, and his ever-faithful groom watched 

the body during the night. That he might perform this 

duty fearlessly; the brandy-bottle was replenished as if 

Sir John still lived. Hang it!' exclaimed the groom to 

his companion of the watch, 'Sir John used to like a drap 

out of this bottle, and I ordain he shall have a drap sew, 

by my truly ; Vath, ha lookth as if ha was a little a-dry. 

There, there, there!' ended the groom as he poured the 

last drain of a bumper into the mouth of his deteased 

master. Hereupon arose a throttling noise in the throat 

of the corpse; it articulated more brandy,' and the faithful 

groom supplied its wishes, while his co-watchman ran 

tumbling down-Stairs, awoke the doctor, who that night 

slept at Shute; and Sir John Acland rose again, took *upper, 

and lived several years afterwards, to the great an 

novance of the disbelievers in miracles, and the luting 

edification of all the old women in East Devon. 

Walk (in cocking)—the ground for keeping them. Among 

Cyprians, it means the district where she plies for game. 

To walk over' another, is to domineer or assume the upper 

hand, swellishly ; also, to set him at naught, as a 

racer which is- so vastly superior to other cattle that none 

dare start, and he walks over the course. ' To walk the 

chalk'—amilitary manoeuvre to discover which is drunkest. 

Wall.chalkert—fellows who, having received due qualifica- 

tion at the charity-school, scrawl balderdash upon garden 

walls, empty houses, and builders' hoards, to prove to their 

benefactresses (in particular) that 'a little learning is a 

dangerous thing,' unless it teach respect for the feelings 

of all others, and not for a party only. When they reach 

maturity, they chalk up Quoz—B. C. Y. or —, and in

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process of time reach Tyburn-tree, or cross the herringpond. 

Others chalk up their trades—as 'try Warren's 

blacking ;' . 6 Qui-hi,' a book-advertisement,' 6 Bonassus,' 

a beast ; or, try Dr. Eady'—and these fellows, though 

they may amass money, are nevertheless low souled rips, 

despised of all that is worthy in society. 

Wallup—a random hit, any where. A good wallupping' 

cannot be mistaken for plum-pudding. A walluping sort 

of fellow,' one whose walk, or gait, is of the aukward kind, 

rolling, knock-kneed, unkid, and difficult. 'A walluping 

bout,' a fight without skill. 

Wan -horse-chaise (a)--lean cattle; a Hyde-park corner joke 

upon an one-horsed vehicle. 

Wap--a species of slap, resounding, as if imparted by a wet 

dishelout. So, a man may tumble down, wap, in battle, 

when he gets grassed by the first intention. Wapped and 

licked are nearly synonimous, as regards the patient. Wapper-eyed 

—heavy-eyed, drunk, so that the eyelids lose the 

retractile function, occasionally. A tapper —a big one, 

whether man, woman, or thing. A stiff stick is a wapping 

one, capable of administering a good wap. 

Wapeti--the largest species of deer extant, serving the double 

purpose of roadster and the chase. Imported here 

1820, from the back settlements of North America. 

.Warblers — singers who go about to 'free and easy' meetings, 

to chaunt for pay, for grog, or for the purpose of putting 

- off benefit-tickets. Some of them dish up a song, now 

and then, and are dubbed poets (agrah .9; others spout 

Billy,' and are thought great actors,' fair orators,' g up 

to snuff,' and all that sort of thing.' - 

Vare -haunch—in stag-hunting; ill-taught hounds, afraid of 

the stag's horns,fasten upon the hind-quarters of their prey; 

whereupon the people up, cry Ware -haunch! Warehaunch, 

ye scoundrels!' and whip off the canine as soon 

as the chase is pulled down. Play these babblers with 

the antlers as soon as the face is cut off; let them lick it 

for reward, dab their head with the croches, and, finally, 

throw the head among them ; they will thus learn to fight 

at the head fearlessly. See Do. Ware - hawk, derived 

from the last, is used among poachers and rogues, when 

their pursuers would make prey of them, as hawks are 

wont to do when they pounce upon small birds. 

Warrnjiannel—spirits, mixed ; hot,perhaps.

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Watch—the instrument for marking the egress of time is 

never so named but by flats, or persons not up to the thinp 

that be. It is a tattler, a thimble, a ticker, or turnip. ' A 

watch of nightingales,' expresses the presence of several of 

those ' sweet songstresses of the night,' as the saying goes, 

though the cock-bird alone sings--the female never. He 

also assists in hatching the young. 

Water bewitched —grog too weak, or tea fit only for husbands 

to sip. Watery chops, hath he or she who long for a thing 

that is uncomeatable. A watery head bath the wife, whose 

nob, like Niobe's, is all tears; sometimes termed' the New 

River head,' after an elevated back-water near Islington. 

Wax—persons who receive impressions easily, are said to 

have a nose of wax.' 'Ah, my cock of wax!' is a shoemaker's 

salutation. Some bootmakers of Cockaigne, when 

a customer forgets to pay his account, they insert a ball of 

wax at the toe, which renders the boot a fixture. Waxy—a 

cobbler or shoemaker; sometimes he is dubbed lad of 

wax,' at others, 'ball o' wax:' this latter is frequently contracted 

into two syllables, by dropping the w; the former - 

is well illustrated by Atrides, when speaking of Diomed's 

father : 

" 'Tis known he was a lad of wax,' 

Let belly= be the word aut pa:: 

He was, indeed, of stature small, 

But then in valour he was tall." 

- 

'Way of life' (the)—a state of prostitution. To the question 

' What are you, young woman ?' a prisoner replied," I am 

in the vay of life, your vorship.' 

Weapons—in cocking, the spurs appearing on hens or young 

cocks. The foils, in fencing, are also denominated weapons. 

Weather—the changeableness of our climate, gives rise to 

many remarks, inquiries, and opinions on the state of the 

weather. Fine day, this ;'—' Rather cold, though 

The sun shines bright It snowed this morning ;'— 

But the stars were out last night;'—and other most evident 

statements, are nothing in comparison to the charge 

brought by some persons, drunk, who assert that 'tis all 

owing to the weather.' 

Weed (the)—tobacco. To weed—to steal part only. 

Weights—(turf) These differ on different courses, as well as 

for various kinds of prizes. See Catch, Give-and-take, 

King's-plate, Stone, Turf, Whim. But a horse needs no

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certificate, . whose owner will put upon him the highest 

weight required by the rules of any particular race. 

.Wesyhts, in post-stakes, those for which the ages merelyare 

.entered in the articles; and upon coming to the post,, you 

run either of those named, or any other of the same age. 

Welch rabbit—cheese and bread, both toasted. -Those socalled 

rabbits (quere rare-bits?) seldom bolt, upon any occasion, 

in greater numbers than braces and treys ; but a 

certain book-knight. entertaining a large party of booka 

couple 

people at the London,' pompously ordered up ' 

of dozen of Welch rabbits,' which naturally raised the grin ; 

hereupon the knight rung again boisterously, and in great 

stew commanded five dozen of rabbits'—and they ap- 

peared accordingly, but without legs. N. B. The real 

coney is a great favorite with all the book-men. 

a little'—somewhat drunky ; but a wet soul,' is he 

who gets drunk a little and often.' See Heavy. 

Wacick—share in any concern or thing; also an Irish excla- 

emotion, meaning semething like a smack—of the hand. 

Jon and Harry vhacked the blunt a-tween then two.' 'I. 

sladl have my vkack of the booty; I'll open else.' Paddy- 

whack —any Irishman. 

" With a whack! for my sweet Kitty Grogan, 

The delight of her dear Darby Logan, 

And whilst I've a tongue with the brogue on, 

Oh! bother the world with her praise." See Pip. 

Whe/p—a boy with dog's-tricks. Those ladies who would 

call him clog must wait until he is full grown; when aged 

he will be an old dog; and if he mag too much he is a yap- 

ping old dog—and all the ladies his sisters b--s. When 

Pallas would stay the regicide arm of Achilles, she 

swift descending down, 

Lent him a knock upon the crown ; 

Then rimed as load as she could yelp, 

Lunging kis ears, 'tis 1 you whelp:" 

Whid — talk. 'Hold your whid,' is to stow magging. ' The 

whiddle' —trial, or police-examination. To wheedle —to 

soothe, cajole, or coax. 

Whigs —a political party; oligarchs, that dO not worship the 

episcopacy ; civil liberty on tbeir lips, the crown in the* 

teeth, philanthropy on their tongues, with tough lungs 

and piping trachete, 'the sacred duty of insurrection' is 

ever at heart. Colour—blue and buff; but, when Pitt threw

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TIE the chrysaliel, and butterftied it among the tories, he . 

carried on the war' under the same colours. 

Iniggamores—an expanded scholia of' whigs the political 

party upon whose principles the present family were sebured 

in the succession to the throne. The Scotch deli- 

,v..ation runs thus, Not from sour milk, as is somewhere 

-alleged, but from the cry of the West-country horse-dealers 

to their trains of horses. To whig,is to make haste. 

Hence whig away,' and whig a more' was the usual 

cry of those country sjockies, who bequeathed their name 

to a numerous pOlitical.party ;' -so says Sir W. Scott. 

- Whip-hand—the right, or that -which you give to persons 

met on the Toad.. To have the whip-hand of One,' to 

have file best, or tam advantage in a bargain of horses, 

&c. The left is the bridle-hand. Brother whip,' a stagecoach 

driver; also the four-in-hand club, who were all 

‘ 1‘ prime whips? To ' whip otit the ring,' ten or twelve pu- 

gilists with whips, clear a large space round the roped ring; 

And the spectators then form the personal ring, or outer 

ring; the whippers' pay 5s. each. 

Whipper-in (the) of the House of Commons'-.-the ministe- 

rial jackal, formerly called the manager' of the Mandarin 

members. He who, in the chase, flogs up lagging hounds. 

Whipper-snipper Jack—a thin, actIve underling, togged high. 

%Whipping —most men of any school attainments , know its 

import ; the learning that is driven in at the bottom must 

be fundamentally good, upon which the upper works may 

iiraw at will, or rest at leisure. ',Whip me the man with- 

out understanding'—fools live , ye upon To eat 

whip syllabub,' or ' whip out the cove's ticker,' is iiot half 

such hard work as coal-whipping,' at which the whzppers, 

-six or eight in number, buff-it; then, by cunning up steps 

and throwing themselves off, they whip out a large mea- 

sure of coals (by means of a snatch-block) from brigs to 

barges. Whipping the cat'—mechanic's idling their time. 

Derived from the practice of Aricklayers' men, who, when 

repairing the pantiles, sneak into adjacent gutters, &c, 

,pretending to be in pursuit 'of, and whipping the Tom 

cats and their moll-rows!' 

Whir, iwhirraL-the noise made by large birds at rising, as 

pheasants, wild-fowl, &c. which astounds the young fowler, 

I

- whiz 

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." The sportsman finds a.zest 

Which all others can outvie, 

With his lightning to arrest 

. Pheasants whirring through the sky." 

Whistling -shops-7-those rooms in a prison where spirits are 

sold, contrary to the regulations. 

Whites —in the language of smashers, small whites' are 

shillings, large whites' half-crowns, which are also 'half.. 

bull whites.' He who is said to carry a white feather, has 

the mark of a coward set upon, him; in cocking, white is 

eschewed as indicating a runaway cock. A white swelling 

—a good dollop of silver. Women with child, are also 

said to have the white swelling. 

White serjeant —the wiffi of a mechanic, or other man, who 

would drill him into certain observances. 

Whiz —buz, or noise, interruption of tongues. Hould your 

there in the shilling gallery, you sixpenny half-price 

- marms.' 

Who -bawl—a milk-woman, calling to her cows; and, )33T refraction, 

she herself. 

Whoop and halloo —the calling and hallooing on of the 'ca- 

▪ nine, particularly harriers, has been employed to describe 

the whole chase—chiefly of the hare. 

" Now each god and goddess 

Assumed human bodies, 

With whoop and halloo, boys, after the hare." 

The phrase is frequently spelled hoop and hollow by care.less 

persons, (song-smiths and such-like,) who have no 

regard for orthography or the dignity of the sporting-character, 

King Arthur, speaking of his queen's vagaries, 

gave out the ch -aunt thus : 

"When we husbands do give away 

Unto our wives the precious sway, 

We for our breeches the next day 

May go whoop and halloo." 

The hunter ; 

O'er gap and gate he leaps elate, 

The vaulting stag to follow, 

And at the death has scarcely breath 

To give the whaop and halloo l See fittllo-- -Chont. 

g..Whore's -bird —a bastard, a despicable fellow. So Juno, 

speakirig of Hector, to her husband : 

"Perhaps, you'll take the whore's -bird's side, 

And thrash my Grecians back and bide." 

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Wiggins—Mr.; any -mannerist of small brains and showy 

feather. ' The three Mr. Wigginses: portrayed by Digh- 

ton, were habited alike from top to toe," and kept the 

step of the bird-cage walk, in their Sunday ambulitions : 

Here's to you Mister Wiggins, 

And to you Mr. Figgins 

So push the bowl about. - Asperne's Song. 

Win—abbreviation of Winchester—a half-penny : two far- 

things are not a win. Sometimes spelled whinn. 

Winkers—sparkling eyes—female; also, the appendages of 

leather, placed near the eyes of horses given to shying. 

To tip the signal; when 'tits found a nod is as 

good as a wink to a blind horse.' 

Wipe —a pocket-handkerchief, Of the cotton kind, though a. 

Silk one would be thus termed, as well as fogle. When 

this . kind of article is in the last stages of consumption, 

they scoff at it, as a snotter.' Gas now entered the 

ring with a bide: bird's eye wipe tied round his squeeze."' 

Vide Fancy Gat. No. 1. 

Wane* of Plecortre—have been spoken of as ladies Of ex- 

pansive sensibility,' and the man of pleasure, as an old 

goat'—a very satyr. 

Wood—money. 'Hand over the wood,' said . Wallis, in the 

Shades., and' silence my customers fbr a song.' 

Wooden -gads—the men of a draught-board, so named after 

the pagan worship. Thus Alcides rebukes the priest 

Chalchas : 

A pretty fellow, thou! to teach 

Our men to murmur at thy speech; 

Tell lies as thick as thou can pack 'em, 

Abd.briog'your teooden gods to back 'emit. 

Wooden -habeas—a coffin for an imprisoned debtor‘ 

Wooden -ruff—the pillory. Taking the air for an hour.' 

Word -pecker —a critic upon words, a punster, or onethat plays 

with words. The author of this Vol. is one, for certain. 

Worthy —commonly applied to magistrates of police, when 

they act with a vigour beyond the law.' The scrap-news . 

reporters use it once a week at least, lest they attract 

censure and lose their bread ; 'tis usually set down.with a 

gr 

- 

m—' worthy of the police,' is police worthiness (vaut- 

rien.) When Home Sumner committed poor Joyce for 

not telling his name, he too was a worthy magister—rate. 

Like-wise Sir William C. I shall send you to Bridewell 

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tor a month, said the worthy alderman, where you will 

have bread and water sufficient to keep soul and body 

'together, and light enough to 'let you know there s a 

god 

in heaven.' Sublime and due ; 'therefore not worthy. 

Wrangle—(ring;) is that state of a battle, wherein the spectators; 

losers, try to make a drawn battle by jawbation, 

as in the case of Warren and Curtis. See Bets.. 

Wranglers'-hail—Westminster-hall, filled by Discord, who 

When born, though smaller than a fly, 

In half an hour she'll grow so high 

Her head will almost touch the sky. 

Too oft she drags both great and small 

In heat of blood to Wranglers' Hail, 

Where half their blunt is from them lugg'd, 

&fore they find themselves humbuged. 

X. 

X or ,x, the sign of cheatery, or Cross, which see. 

Xantippe—a scold, who applies her prattle chiefly to het 

husband. - Socrates, the moral philosopher, was bound 

by the marriage-act of Greece to the first Xantippe—who 

was a ' tip-slang hen.'- 

X, Y,-Z—pron. rapidly as exquisite, would give the sound of 

that word. Supposed to be derived ex ' quiz—it,' by 

reason of these fine fellows wearing an eye-glass, with 

*chi& they quiz the ladies'—it. 

Y. 

Yarn—La long story-. Naval, from 4 to spin yarn' in the 

dock-yard for rooving-in with king's-store ropes. To 

yarn a sum -of money, is Cockney for to ears it. 

Yam—(v); to eat heartily, how he yams.' See Tom. 

Yapp—to bark ; in the language of the pit, ,when dogs fight 

silently they are mute; if they make a noise,, they are said 

to open; when a dog barks a little, be yapps, and is con- 

,. sidered a cur., So a man with a .snarling manner, or 

replete with short testy replies—yappeth ; if his talk be 

smooth, monotonous, and nonsensical, 'tis, twaddle; if 

boisterous and accusatory, with or without oaths and 

astieverations--Lttis is a blow-up. 

,Yarmouth-capon---a red herring, or soldier.

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Yellow-man--the silk fogle or canary, tied round the neat 

squeeze of our pugilists. John Gully introduced the 

yellowman. 

Yelper—a town-crier. Also, a diaccintented cove, who is. 

forward to complain of his woes, and the imaginary evils 

of life. Covesses yelp most. 

roick—the cheer used by hunters at the death, or any other 

notable exploit. Yoicks—tantivy, a call to the hounds 

to keep them together, or to excite attentiOn.. Hoick is. 

nearly the same kind of cheering, singly : 

"She turns and she doubles in vain, 

And hoic ! she now loses breath ; 

tiuzza, she is fiat on the plain, 

We'll. revel my boys o'er her death." 

Yokel—or Youkel. A countryman, or newly-arrived person, 

easily cheated, by the tricksters of the town. 

s /We—the noise made by pigeons in their cote, sometimes 

called 4 cooing when the dove is concerned. Yule is also 

the name of a pagan festival, which has passed into most 

, European languages—and thus we have the french Noel, 

for the Easter holidays., 

Zedland—name slang-whanged by Capt. Grose, upon the 

Western counties —Gloucester, Somerset, and Devon, 

where the letter z is commonly substituted for s. When 

the captain was among them sketching for his antiquities, 

he demanded of a nurse, whether her children were then 

. laughing or crying? ". Zinging zur," zaid zhe. Foreigners 

. Long. complained of the letter (s) that ran hissing through- 

out our rich language—(rich in variety) like anguis - hi 

herba ;' the Zedlanders, thetefore, did well to amend that 

objection. In this laudable endeavour they are mainly 

bupponted by the typographers of Cockaigne, to a man ; 

who,, when any word which has an (s) in its inflections 

sounded bard like (z) is sent them to print, they Al- 

. krw the, Zedlanderz' practice by practizing the izzard ; 

which they idolize while they , temporize or harmonize it, 

, and may e;e long misuze and abuze, until they capsize.the. 

genius of the English tongue.

ADDENDA . 

op 

OBSOLETE AND FAR-FETCHED 

MotIs an NW-ism 

010111111111MMIll 

ABS—ALL 

Absolute Wisdom—interference of a third party in the negotiations 

of two great ones, cannot be the effect of absolute 

wisdom. Coined by Brougham, 1820, as regarded Wood 

(not timber,) negatively, in the case of the queen; though 

the counsellor himself did not evince absolute wisdom, when 

subsequently overlooking some accounts,' instead of 

' looking them over,' he was mortified at being set right by. 

an Italian frastagano. Absolute ignorance' is modestly 

avowed by Miss Hawkins at the set out of her Anecdotes. 

Adonise (to) bon-ton—to dress a-la Dandy. Derived from 

Adonis, the supposed minion of Venus ; a cyprian by birth. 

Ala (ring, mostly, but bon-ton also)—an importaticn from 

France and applied by the jargonic writers to ring-affairs, 

as a-la a-la Cribb, a-la Mendoza; whereas, 'tis as 

well known that the French are no boxers, as it is, that 

those who thus express themselves concerning what is 

only and truly British in a .foreign lingo, must be fools by 

the first intention. We have turned to ' and served out 

chaps who were insolent—a-la eBelcher.' Vide Edinburgh 

Magazine. We can forgive scribes like Kent and Egan 

for using such far-fetched foolish stuff, but, for Blackwood 

and Wilson—Oh fie! See Nouvelle. 

Album- 4 a faire booke, compact in pergola, for that wittie 

personnes therein cloth aye write dowie their cogitations 

at watering-plaoes, the pump-rooms were thus furnished 

with the means of visitors miking known their arrival, and 

showing their wit—always of the watery kind. 

Alligators—fellows who open wide their potatoe-traps while 

chaunting. - .Arckery- 

7-a neglected fine old sport ; the oldest missile 

known, next to David's sling. At Troy, Pandarus, a Ly- 

cian by birth, and a famous shot at the long-bow, was 

foiled in his aims by Minerva, 'whereupon he exclaimed,

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"With this damn'd bow, a.plague confound 'em,. 

I only scratch but cannot wound 'eat; 

'I could, as sure as I was born 

Find in my heart to break the ' horn." 

lirkeediS answers : "Pie, for shame! 

Pray don't your bows and arrows blame-, 

They're Phcebus' gift : with these you may. 

At distance ducks and wildgeese.slay ; 

They have their lives, let me tell ye, 

When timber's wanting for the belly."' 

Thus does the Trojan point out the bow as the ready instrument 

of field-sports as of warfare; and this particulat 

bow, we are told, was made of a stag's horns, six feet 

long, fastened in the middle. From Ireland we now hear 

of no bow-mceting' whatever; that country which derives 

its name from Yr, the Runic for a bow, whose inhabitants 

were so expert in pulling the long-bow,' now never think 

of the thing, unless, mayhap, when any hyperbolise the 

land of Yr. 

'Argument, the' (ring)—a .battle ; and, to arguefy the topic,' 

—a boxing-bout. These were bastardly creations of Capt.. 

Topham, a prize-fight reporter, 1780-1796; this was the 

writer who gave the present tone to the literary part of 

ring-affairs, and who, for the sake of the figure alliteration, 

said (contrary to fact,), 'Big Ben (Brian) is a big black..guard.' 

'Whereas, a more inoffensive fellow never left 

Bristol ; though he had constitutional hoarseness and 

rough voice, this could not reasonably be construed into 

blackguardism. 

Babblers—ill-bred hounds. See Open. When 'the pack 

is questing, the babblers open frequently without cause- 

- senselessly ; let them be well flogged, and soon after finding 

they may be seen headmost in the chase: at fault, 

they are loudest when most wrong; so do fools and old 

women' babble most pertinaciously when their errors are 

rankest—let these be flogged, likewise, and if a eoirveit to 

Truth be brought over, he becomes her most active partisan, 

ihilst she blusheth whenever he opens wide. 

Baia—low, mean, or senseless talk; derived from Balare, 

(Lat.) the bleating of sheep. The French washerwomen 

are termed Baylayer, from the rum stuff they talk while 

at work; hence, also, Balandran, the cloke worn by those 

washerwomen. 

Backed (laid on theqba.ck)—dead. Meagre.

200 BAS—BOX 

Bas-bku—literally, blue stockings; the obsolete name given 

to a club or assembly of dames scavantes (circa 1778) Bath 

and London. Mewls. Moore, Carter, Montagu, led the 

way; Mesds. Hurst, Warrens, Mashams closed the vagary: 

name obnoxious to the survivors. Their aversions were 

manifold : 1st. The ascendancy of males. 2nd.. Crim-con. 

3rd. Man-milliners and all male shopkeepers. 4th. Subjection 

in the marriage-states 5th. The dance, theatricals, 

and opera. 6th. All scandal not of their own making; 

ergo, parson Bate, soldier Topham, counsellor Boremq. 

Jack Bell—his sister, and the Della-Cruscans.. 

Bazaar—a market-place in the eastern countries; imported 

here, 1815, and applied by a host of speculators to certain 

uninhabitable houses, fitted up with myriads of .yardrIong 

shops for little dealers, like nests of Dutch pill-boxesparvorum 

succubit magno. The tumour absorbed in three 

year's. 

Bean—a guinea, but this coin b.eing abrogated, so must bean 

be as its surname. 

Belch—malt-liquor, beer, ale. 

Bilboa—a sword. Bilboes—the stocks, or irons 

Derived from Bilbao, a Spanish port, whence, in the 16th 

century, issued immense privateers, the piratical crews 

whereof confined their prisoners thus, in pairs, treya,.&c. 

Blank—baffled—no proceeds. 

Box, to—is derived from the noun," a box; six pieces of 

wood fastened together, or a snuff-box—Johnson knows 

not which. Indeed, how should he ? Nor does he amend 

the matter by telling us, that "boxing is fighting with the 

fist," whereas nothing can be less true, neither one fist or 

two fists would constitute fighting, unless they.belonked 

to different persons, as in the case of two one-armed men. 

See Lick, Fighting. In support of his definition, the 

doctor adduceth for authorities L'Estrange and Grew, 

one of whom says, the ass stood quietly by, whilst they 

boxed each other a-weary ;'—the other, still better, tells 

that 4 the leopard boxes with his paws like a cat.' Thes e. 

extracts boxes the doctor's derivation a-weary ; for a man 

is only boxed when put in prison, and then 'tie the incarcerator 

who boxes him. Unfortunately, for most inquiries 

respecting the oddities of our language, when old-Johnson 

is but adverted to, all'persons are struck dumb,—fiabbergasted, 

put down and clone for ; notwithstanding the _old

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boy might happen not to know an atomy of the subject 

he was expounding—as in the present case. For example: 

this Johnson (Sam) a lexicographer by trade, having to 

fight Tom Osborne who lived at the sign of the folio, be- 

hind Belcher's back-door, instead of turning out fairly, 

Sam took up a thundering large vol. and floored 'Tom in a 

pig's whisker, so that he Gould not come again., In fine, 

the name of Johnson has been the bug-a-boo to frighten 

cowards with for half a century. If the ver1:0-to.Box,'Is 

to be retained at all—and really we feel no hopes of eras-. 

ing it, by reason of the great preponderance of fools to be , 

found in the world,— why then, in the names of Harry 

Stephens, old Ainsworth, and Stemmata Salmon, let .ua 

carry hoc verbunt to its extreme cases. Then will Boxology 

mean the knowledge of boxing and boxers, as taught in 

these -pages.; Boxosophy—the philosophy of boxing, as 

exhibited .monthly in The Annals of Sporting;' Boximania , 

--is the passion or desire to behold manful exertions, at, 

fisty-cuffs ; but more finely exalted-by .another denomina- 

Lion, viz. FANCY ;'—to satisfy which passion we 

publish monthly details, of such occurrences, with scru- 

pulous regard to truth, and.the exactitude of the Gazette.. 

.Box (v.)—to fight with the , fists, but without science. As 

pugilism. is the highest species.of man-fight, 80 18 boxing 

the lowest. Several. intermediate degrees of fighting ca-. 

pabilities are described- in the foregoing pages, , of which, 

milling and, hammering are most. distinctly marked; the. 

: lug, 

latter including-those who slash away as if they were mowand 

wallop their antagonists. about the carcase, or 

maw (whence ' maw-wallop,' and the term great wallop-s 

ing chap,' for a big country-booby) the preceding terms 

comprise those who rush in, roley-poley-fashion, alike 

uncertain of what. is to become of themselves or their 

blows. Refer back to both terms. A boxing-bout,' and 

4 -boxing-match,' is said properly of boy-fights, or Ole, con.... 

tests of boobies, ploughmen, and navigators. 

,Boxiana—pron. Box-hanny on the frontiers ofCockaigne, and; 

Box-eye-knee by the canaille of Bristol, Birmingham, &c. 

The word is compounded. of the verb to box—as .above,; . 

and ana, trivial remains, scraps, or forgotten trifles, left by 

learned men. 44 Boxiana. or sketches of pugilism," is the 

tide of three you, on those subjects, the first of which is, 

- alone entitled to our regards ilere it was dompiled iU 181.1, ,

2O2 BUM—clIA 

and 12, by oifi John Smeeton, (the sixpenny Iffacona; of 

our earliest flights,) upon the basis of Bill Oxberry's Pan- 

cratio ; the second and third by Egan. This publication 

is the only work of so much bulk in the market ; it contains 

numerous details and, many good portraits. Whoever 

possesses either of those works, and wink' eQffect its 

errors, fill up its omissions, and see eyery fight at a glance, 

should add thereto, a compressed tzact, entitled ‘.‘ Fancy 

Chronology; a history of 700 battles; by John Bee, Esq.' 

the fancy writer, and present quill-man. See Pancratirs. 

Bummarree-men—at Billingsgate; those who, its the clock 

strikes eight, meanly, take the places of the salesmen there, 

and generally buy the last lot. Derived from the Latin 

mare—sea, to which most of them have been addicted, 

and bism, a thing which, like one's faults, is never seen by 

one's self. See Rump and Bacliside. 

Butler (to)—to praise, laud, commend inordinately. 

Callot— originally call-out, vel potias, bawl-out; atokiing, 

family talk, or civil jaw. So Vulcan used it : 

"Mother, you know not what you 'n doing; 

To GOO thnit will be Jour rum." - 

Ctem-a-lanitee—green peas ; 4 here they are, cam-a-lankee.. 

Canceuvre— a low manoeuvre or essay at deception. Quere, 

whether made from Can you-man-ceuvre.' 

Casuak--twoperipy lodgers for the night, ia the rookeries. _ 

Casualty (a)—an over-driven ox or sheep .—one beat to death 

or worried out of eidstence by hankers, *logs, &c. 

Cast, a (chase)—a mud wall, or bank, upon which the hunter 

leaps on and off. To give any one ' a cast to town'—to 

take him up in one's chaise. east horses, those which are 

turned out of a regiment, or stud—thus, Eclipse was. dast 

by the D. Cumberland fin his ugliness. 

' Catch cold (to) at a thing'--t* have the want of betting yof 

a bargain, or contest—ruination sometimes. 

Catch-poll—a bailiff, or serjeant at mace. - 

Champion (ring)—not a reality, though the best man of his 

day. is hailed-as such. The honour, real ov supposed, has 

been obtained surreptitiou4y, as in die sale by Darts to 

Corcoran; or, when the actual ehampion was worn out, as 

in the oase 1 Jem Belcher to Cribb. The latter, however, 

was universally hailed as such on defeating Molinews, and 

xeceived foa presents a lame *Hwy vase, ond a carious

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belt, but iteither is transferable. No emolument ever 

arose from this honour, but casual presents often, and the 

acclaim of all the Fancy. 

Cheese-toaster—midshipmen's dirks — and the swords of 

greater men. Pallas did not hesitate so to call the death- 

dealing instrument of Achilles : 

"Sheathe thy cheese-toaster in its case,, 

But cat him scoundrel to his face." 

Chickendom—*Chick-lane, alias West-street, is merged 

Saffron-down-derry—which see. - 

Civil jaw —iawbation of two or more, in the course of which. 

each Oyes the qj.her a decent sort of character. Ex. gr. 

1st. Why don't you pay your tailor?' 2nd. Your faoe 

is like a jail-door, dotted all over, and your nose stands 

for the knocker.' Again, 3rd. You are a thief and mur- 

derer 7 as for you you have killed a monkey, and run away 

with his fissog.' 

Cognomen —a surname, a travellin.g name, or fighting name; 

the name by which persons choose to be known when pur- 

suing some favourite sport. Fighting-men most commonly 

take cognomen, or it has been put upon them by the slang- 

whang reporters,. who, when a new man appears, inquire 

what name he will go by r These are a few : Death, (S.. 

Oliver,) the Ruffian, (Symonds,) the game chicken, (Pearee,). 

the Out -and-outer, (Turner,) Nonpareil, (Randall,) Bristol 

boy and youth,, al;a youths from other places. The Gas?. 

man, the Wheeler* Black. Diamond, Master of the Rolls ; 

Colonel,. Blackee, Massa, and African—comprise a fair 

specimen. Even potentates assume such, occasionally, to 

avoid the tsediurn . of state-observances, or for the better 

.worming out the secrets, of their subjects, as is illustrated, 

with a vengeance,.in the Arabian Nights Entertainment.' 

Henry IV. of France, however, assumed tincognito with a 

totally different aim,, he having in this manner. wormed 

himself into the secrets of the peasant's fair daughter : our 

own Alfred was harper to the Danes; Peter. of Russia be- 

came an apprentice to,a.Dutcilman as Peterkin ; Gustavus 

of Sweden is but count.Gustavson ; whilst ; the story of an 

earl Of.Exeter.choosing a wife far fromthe blandishments-. 

of' high-life, under the utime. of'. mister Cecil, is tolerably 

well known. Even the author of this highly valuable 

Dictiontwy, underwent vognotninans chiefly on account of 

The sweetuess of his. disposition, his industrious habits,,

204 COM----DAM 

and stinging capabilities; which have enabled him-totill 

several drones of this particular hive, to amass the sweets 

of lingo in adamantine waxation, and to dispose the same 

FAiicy-full-y to the edification of the present generation: 

his family, though generally esteemed of the item. gen. 

(km apis,) are, nevertheless, well assorted, and he him- 

self vir-apis (vet potius, man-bee). See Nick, Surnatnes. 

Cotninander-in-chief(ring)—John Jackson, to whom is often 

confided the arrangements towards pugilistic fighting. 

Commissary-general--Bill Gibbon, in whom centres the news 

as to where fights are to take place, he having the care of 

the P. C. ropes, stakes, and whips, for making a ring. His 

pay, three quid. 

Cooler (a)—any occurrence that reduceth the animation of 

one's pursuit ; as, when a skater mergeth in six-foot water. 

So, also, a hit on the jugular is a cooler for a boxer; twelve 

months at the tread-mill for a leg; and a wipe-out clean 

will cool the ardour of a wagerin kiddy. 

Country (chase)--that district which one set of hunters 

abandon to another, so that their sporting may not clash. 

In like manner, we have high country, (hilly,) low coun- 

try, a Leicester country, (not much inclosed,) as_ well as 

lord Bulkeley's country, Sir Thomas Mostyn's country, &c. 

—District would do better for these. 

Cousin-betty--- a travelling prostitute, frequenting fairs, 

races, &c. 

Crimps—persons employed in procuring seamen for the 

merchants during war: mostly Jews, and invariably cheats. 

None employed for the army since 1796. 

Cyprian—(bon-ton) any native of the island of Cyprus, 

where Venus played Telemachus such slippery tricks that 

his bear-leader (old Mentor) was obliged to jump him into 

the sea, by way of' cooler: solely applied to ladies, who 

comport themselves like she in the accusative of the last 

member. 

Daly (a)—a quartern of gin; and you must toss up who's 

to pay. See Drain. . D. C.—Daffy-club, and P. D. C.-- 

Jem Soares, President. 

Datnn'd souls—merchant's clerks, whose business lay at the 

custom-house in clearing goods, &c. and who commenced 

business.with swearing that they would not make a single 

- . true affidavit in that house: Practice . going down with 

the ascent of the Society. One of these souls being once

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very particular as to some packages, was reproved by his 

employer, but he excused this apparent dereliction, saying 

he was only careful lest he might by accident swear correctly, 

and thus incur the penalty of his major affidavit.' 

Damper.(a)--a wet blanket thrown on a fire will damp it 

. nicely. In like manner a tinney in a ball-room would 

damp the spirits of the company, :end, surcease their 4 funning.' 

.Dumplings were doled out as, dampers to their 

customers at Dollyi beef-steak-house, formerly; she appelled 

them naked boys.' ' A damper,' and ' a whet,'.are 

antipodean. 

Dandy—has been applied to finely-built clinker cutters in 

the smuggling trade. 

Davy-r-.41klavit abbreviated; not solemn, or binding. , 

flu-dot--an article generally supposed to have been menu- 

' factured- and used, formerly, but we do not find any One 

Who has ever seen the thing. Discredited. 

1) I. 0.—(bon-ton) Demme I'm off. 

Doughey (a)—a baker; but some of that fraternity are ill de-- 

serving the name, they being of crusty manners. 

Eatoners—walkers ; used of those who attend mills about 

town, and 'choose to walk it. Derived from one Eaton, a 

book-hawker, who performed a long pull match against 

time-: he was no great shakes, nor the term either. 

Edition, second'—a hoax upon the public, practised pretty 

much in *ar time, at the western extremity of Cockney. 

shire, by hoarse-bawling newsmen with horns:. When 

truly a reprint or new edition, the new information is-usu- 

ally unimportant: in 1812, the Observer had for second 

edition,' .a slip, the size of one's thumb, annonnoing 

that a suggested probability, thrown out by the editor that 

morning had been verified; the paper itself, without alter- 

ation, was given also. Peter Pindar's poetry seldom .at- 

tained a second edition (in 4to.) after his suppression of 

the Lonsdale castigation; but the doctor counteracted this 

evil, apparently, by printing a thousand in number with - 

'second' and' third' edition on the same day : of some, the 

first edition never appeared! Lloyd's Thesaurus Eccksi- 

asticus—was printed but once, though the title underwent 

. five editions, as the books changed hands. ' Edition of a 

story,' or piece of news, is substituted vulgarly for version. 

Editor —of a book, he who looks after the errors and °nibs.

204 LOT—GOT 

Woos of his nether attsl meads or explains them, points 

out his beauties, and if he be an unfledged one, licks brim 

iato form. Editor of a periodical—he who is answerable 

for all that appears in his publication, a leadinrproprie- 

tor, or a party, inserting any libel, or nonsense, at will. 

Egyptian charger---a jackass: aiekery of oriental travellers, 

Everlasting-ma coarse cloth used by tailors for stuffing the 

pudding collets of our modern claudies4 k is employed 

iii small scraps or slips. 'Whereabout are you, _Roberto?' 

demands the niatit of a man ; ' Here am I,' replies an 

eighteenth, here, in hell, Sir, seeking for everlasting.' 

Family (the)—the whole race of thieves were thus termed by 

a few actor-men meeting in Russell-street, and an explanation 

attempted by the pram count de Vaux ; but it 

would not gee. Jent Moore, charged up with ' being one 

of the family,'And therefore not fit company for the chargers 

[diverting vagabonds declared himself only the droppings 

of a deceased w-----, and that his wife was hanged - 

in his own potatoe shop, by (nobody knew, but) himself. 

Fieldsmen (turf),—those who make it a rule to give odds 

against the favorite, or any particular horse; they are considered 

very knowing. 

Minsy—a Bank-note from the light texture of the paper of 

which they were made: mostly one and two pounds. 

Frippery—tawdry dress of misfits and half-worn garments r 

custom and nomen derived from the French/ripen. ' Al! 

frippery and faliale—women and dandies stuffed and 

bolstered. 

Gafawing —triumphing ; used adverbially by Ebony. Not 

legitimate; arbitrary, not derivable. 

Gingling-cart— (ring.) The commissary-general's tumbril, in 

which he carries down the P. C. traps,—arbitrary. 

Glinuns—the eyes, from the glimmer of light. 

Gothamites--fools active, who may have been reared too 

lactarially—derived immediately from a place in Essex, 

alias calf-Aire, called Gotham-hall, of whose inhabitants, 

it was sweetly sang, by Timothy Ticklepitcher. [1 Vol. 

32nta. Newbery.] 

Three wise men of ,Gottiem went to wain a,bovii; 

, . Had the bolsi been stronger, 

lel, sow had begs kAggry - ,

. 

G R 10--G 'CT .1 20, 

Antiquarians, however, insist the derivation should be 

sought farther back, among the Scandinavians, yclept Goth 

or Gothic; part of whom set up, in Germany, au university 

of noodle-professorships, and called it Gotha. Gotham- 

hall, alone, is undeceiving the distinction thus conferred 

upon it by Tim, and others; it makes part only of Cogge- 

-shall (nigh Brain-tree) a little town, of whose inhabitants' 

deficit of 4 absolute Y4doin," many tales are told. 1. A 

mad dog, driven frottBrain-tree, haying bitten a wheelbarrow, 

the machine was tied to a pump-handle, that its 

earliest indications of loathing might be made manifest. 

During a dark windy night the watchmen saw nothing, 

but at 'dawn the head moved round, ana the wheelbarrow 

was burnt exemplarily. 2. In 1800,43 volunteers turned 

out-4I insisted upon being made. officers, one man died, 

and one filled the ranks. 3. The summer following was 

unpropitious to their favourite beverage,' and they lighted 

up several hundred fires in chaffing-dishes to ripen the 

.gruit—walnuts. Yet is not this curious kind of philosophy 

- confined to Essex; it may be discovered in Ireland; an4 in 

Nquingliamshire (written Siottin ighamshire in Doomsday 

nook) , a little town is also called Gotham, of which in.auy 

pleasant tales \ are told. See Noodle., 

Grin—this is not an indicative of Englishleeling: 'tis native 

of France, and betokens servility, conceit, or codtempt, 

as 'the ivories may be shown more or less. At any rate it 

is a smile spoiled; none grin, to show their merriment; 

nor will any one who can laugh outright,, adopt the exotic 

grin. ' To have the grin of any one'—what is it, but 

to contemn his want of foresight, when the grinner has, 

obtained the best of the grianee? To ' repay grin for 

retaliatory contempt. 

Grumbler (a)—four pennyworth of grog; sordid landlords. 

usually grumbling when their customers so economise, or # 

leave off drinking itit great MeafXre: 

Guineas—they had long been proved an incumbrance oü 

commerce; but wem retained to the last moment in the 

- ideas of sportsmen until ' the ghost of a guinea,' was ex, 

orcised in form by ;he Jockei Club, and was laid formally 

at the Epsom meeting, 1822. They were of a round form, 

yellow, (gold for the most part) and milled at the edge; 

5 penny-weights 8 grains in weight, with the king's head 

ou our aisle and his arms oau the other, they gave leg.

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bail' in 1796, to the body politic of this paperised nation. 

Yet are they still spoken of historically, or to prove a lie 

is true; and I'll bet you a guinea 'tis true,' 'twenty-five 

guineas, or a roleau, upon an event,' is most common ; but 

a law of the Jockey-club enacts all such to be con- 

sidered as made in pounds only.' 

Hear! hear !--in the hon. H.. C. the celebrated hear! hear!' 

is commonly intended to intentipt the member on his 

legs; it is then delivered sharply and often, and if set up 

by the ministerial manager, all the mandarin members of 

that side chime in with him, until the balloot becomes 

general. Sometimes, though seldom, hear, hear! is per _ 

suasive, means pay attention,' and hints at the superior 

reasoning then used, or answer thatif you can.' It swells_ 

upon the ear like the prattle of hounds upon finding a fox, , 

or outlying deer. 

. Our British Commons sometimes cry," hear ! bear!" 

A Gallic senate hath more mouth than ear. 

' Historian of the prize-ring'---all fudge; no such thing; He 

of whom it was said being incapable of history, as ire 

have shewn in this here book.' Spoken ironically by 

the Blackwood. 

Hedge—obsolete. See Fence; though hedge is evidently best., 

intire--falsely written over every public-house within the 

bills of mortality ; the beer. received from the brewers be- 

hardashed with new rivet, coloured with the brown powder, _ 

which increaseth those bills, thereby adding to mortality.. 

Sometimes spelled Entire. See Chemistry, Porter. 

Irish brigade—a knot of black-legs Ifrbrn Eiin. So named 

by the gamblers' weekly apologist (W----t), because 

brigade have outWitted the patrons of the weekly. 

Jerusalem poney—an ass, in allusion to the entry.' 

e. companion, pal; or friend.; used by the 

tail. lids: 6 Ya, heep-ee! Latn,my ! ! Dust-ho!!!' Qu.. 

L'ansi---frietxd? 

Laugh (v)--to evince right Englis'h-Tnerrim'ent aloud, at some 

good thing or other, said or dcne by. another : he whb 

laughs at '11 is own conceit is a puppy; women laugh and . 

cry by prescription. They caltit ' tee-whopping' in north 

Devon, when a man makes his sweet-hearthoghoutright; 

but then she ' laughs on tbv% wrong side of it* ,4moutirti

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in the course .of a few months —nine years according to 

.my-lord Portsmouth! The horse-laugh is not graceful; 

the performer throwing back his head and body, as if he 

-eared nought what became of either; if he laugh in peak, 

he is an ass for his pains. Every man has his peculiar 

laugh: Sam Johnson's laugh was a good-humoured growl; 

Tom Davies, the bookseller, ill-naturedly called it 'the 

rhinoceros' laugh.' Nexander's laugh was a continuous 

expiration, without articula tion and might he termed a 

goose-laugh. Peter Pindar (Wolcot's) ' was a horse-laugh, 

but then it was that of a perfect one, out of the season; 

in a very pretty antithesis, he says : 

Care in our coffin drives its nails no doubt, 

Whilst every laugh so merry draws one onti. 

Leader—' leading article ;' that paragraph or two in' our 

daily prints wherein the whole noddle of the editor is 

spread forth, wherein he showeth his patriotism or his servility, 

and into which he throws the span-new secrets of 

his party, or throws doubts over the statements of the adverse 

party. ,Sometimes, however, 'tis mere milk-andwater 

stuff—as in the hebdomadafpublications, when it 

may only be distinguished by being wide-spaced and 

leaded, and thus, probably, mis-lead the reader. 

Legitimates—a good word for sovereigns—the coins; came 

- into use since the early part of this Dictionary was printed.. 

Loaves and fishes—the good things of this life, easily ob. 

tamed; as are sinecures aud government offices. Coined 

in 1782, as regarded Pitt: ' Here is a boy among you, 

who hath two loaves and' three small fishes, but what. are 

they among so many?' 

Mandarin-members—those honourable M'. PA, who do not 

question any question before- the house, but nod assent, and 

bow submiss, like the Lycurgii of China, whose vera 

gies keep ' nod, nod, nodding, in our tea-men's shop- - 

windows. 

Master of the Ceremonies--(ring); he who at the Fives'-court, 

or other sparring exhibition shows up and- announceth 

- thexcombatants and ties OR ;he gloves-. Joe Norton was 

long time M. C. P and died in office ; his pay, &s. ed. per 

diem: The Colonel (Lennox) was occasionally vice ould 

Joe, as he is also, of Paddington Jones—the actual M. C. 

Mellish, or Miel-ish—a sovereign. Probably from Miel, 

hope y, i. e, a 'sweetener of life

210 MEW—PAN 

Mew—a hare's seat, as well as the layre of all beasts of ye-. 

Nary. euse—a thicket where hares, rabbits, &c. resort 

and hide. Mews—residence of horses, in series. - 

Mistress Jones—housekeeper of the water-closet; sitting in 

the Cloacean portal, she was found somewhat venal at the 

tea-gardens of the metropolis; now, however,ithe or ice 

and mciety-men watch her water, well. 

Moabites—bailifi and their followers. 

Morley—mawley, the hand, nis-spilt by the slang-whangers; 

after the false pronunciation of the .Cockneys. 

Mother Comyns—to win at play by small numbers,' as by 

two's and three's, at La Bagatelle : she is said to have 

done things by driblets, 

Mountain-dew-m-whiskey contsaband, usually drawn from 

1 

malt among the hills. 

A Muff, or Moph—whether derived from the muff worn by 

ladies, for the most part, or hermaphrodite abbreviated, is 

uncertain ; but he who fails in an endeavour, is said to 

make a moph of it,' and if he is commonly guilty of ' 

failure, he is himself a proper mph.' Capt, Morris had 

a song titled the Muff: its burthen, 

Oh, the muff! the jolly, jolly muff, 

Give me of muff great store; 

. Red, black, or brown, divinely rough, 

1 honour and adore. 

The Captain was not himself a mop/i. 

Nouvelle—style, and "quite nouvelle manner of flooring his 

man, the John Bull boxer, &c." The word means new; 

but the impropriety, the silliness.of introducing this and 

a thousand. such French words, to explain transactions 

that are purely English, must strike every one (except-it/Le 

historian') that 'tis a bul confessed. See A.1a. 

Old hat---nearly worn out See Monosyllable: 

Pancratium—a place of boxing at Rome. Bat they knew 

nothing of th# ars pugnandi, as nowpractised : their wrists 

circled with iron, their knuckles defended by bullocks' 

Jude, they larupped away incontinently, and two or thee- 

score proud Romans were thus murdered annually. Hence 

derived we have Pancratia,' which is the title of a 'History 

of Pugilism,' partly done by Bill Oxberry in 1811, the

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first fitly-paws by muggier laud. Out of this vol..8mee- 

ton, &printer, dished up 4 Sketches of Pugilism,' being a 

copy essentially, hot a yulgazised one, of the comedian's 

book; for which piece of djs-service the latter vowed ven- 

geance, iaefficiewly, for .poor Sweeten was burnt with his 

preplifies and family in the interim :See Becciana. 

Pardie (bon-ton)—a small oath, not binding : originally 'par 

Dieu.' 

Pc Nic ,Society—no .‘ society' at all; but an understanding, 

centering in Mr. F. Greville, that eacU of Iteveral noble 

and honourable personages shoisld furnish some one or 

other requisite towards a general assembly—with a ball, 

It was an elegant, asociable select, and. very desirable 

. ...gasegdalage .of the higher cle;ases,—notwithstanding the 

sneers ot the daily press. Mr G. never would bribe the 

varlets. See Reporters, Twopenny.men. 

Pins—a game at howling, or knocking down nine pins: there 

are several modes of doing this. See Bowl, Tip. a 

merry pin,' jocularly drunk; derived from an old Saxon 

practice of driving pegs (or pins) into the sides of drinking 

horns, and the parties undertook to take draughts so 

as to nick certain pills ) or pay forfeit. Anno 1102, at the 

Synod of Westminster, Priests were forefen.ded drinking 

at pins with their parishioners. 

Play-world—a softened phrase for those gamblers black 

legs, cheats, and consequent duellists, who infest the metropolis, 

and possess revenue sufficient to bribe their prosecutors 

and to buy over and maintain a weekly apologist. 

Ni—tt might brag of his origin, and may again 

boast of the paucity of ceremony observed by his ?areas, 

he can whine about the number of his literary bantlings 

without legitimate couttadiction hpt he must not hope by 

many words to make a straw stand upright: 

introduced ntroduced and used nine times in twice as many 

lines by said periodical-monger, on the 4th Jan. 1823A 

Pograms—a silly set of beer-drinking Horitelydown 444 fel- 

lows—never merry, but always noisy. 

e4erians—at Westminster, a stupid landlord permits no 

gentleman to poke ,his ire; they therefore setitedi opp,osite 

ancl exalted a poker, as Ansignia off the event, awl left 

foolish Boniface to plAce the fire by himself. 1 

Police—police-magistrates and police-officerspre-no such .re- 

cognised in law:---written or oral; au invention made f9r

212 POM—SCO 

us by Patrick Colquhoun in his fabulated Treatise' on this 

non-existent subject about 1794; calledpoor-lice, giggishly. 

Ponspel—(ring,) provincial of Okfordshire; compounded of 

pommel, to beat, and to impel. Not good. 

Purl—hot porter, having an infusion of wormwood. It was- 

anciently a winter-morning drink—dashed with gin. 

Relieved—from a troublesome customer, is any woman who 

miscarries; but the advertising 'Mr. White, at the blue 

lamp,' till within a few years, acted professionally in this 

ingenious line.. He is evanished from St. Paul's. 

Ribbon , or ribben—money. 

Ring—the word was applied by the city-officers to that con-. 

flexion, circle, or secret understanding which is supposed. 

to exist among the caddees of stage-coaches.who are upon 

the lay—or kedge; and in this sense of a ring represent-. 

ing a circle, round, or connexion, better heads than their's 

concur. 

" Thus various tastes and tempers may be found 

In our snsall circle as the world's large routod.” 

llokau—fifty guineas, done tip in paper, and pasted close, 

passing from hand to hand at hazard, E. 0., &c. formerly, 

—but commonly one piece short, often two, and we have 

found the mistake a trifle worser for the actual holder. 

Howsomdever the discovery is not to be disclosetl,. unless 

laughingly, if the holder value his neck or collar-bone, 

[see Neck and crop,] or doubts the utility -of the cold steel 

- application at his ribs, or is akvcryphal concerning the. 

final efficacy of cranial perforation by the legs. See Lead 

towels, Guineas once avaunt! not practised upon sovereigns, 

parceque e jeu de grab-coup. 

Roper—the hangman—obsolete. ' If I. do„ *en damme the. 

roper,' is not now used. 

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Safron-down-derry—Saffron-hill and its beautiful vicinage 

Caroline-court was, not long since the sole rookery of 

Derry-men their Shelahs and sheldahs. 

ai-otck ficidle2--the itch. No where to be found, 'tis inculcated, 

since the Bute ascendancy; all the Scotch being now-too 

genteel, though, as Dr. Gregory, (himself a Scot,) lectired 

6 it is engendered by the climate, it pervades every person et 

f every age and every condition, the . present conirany 

always excepted."

S C B t13 

Scrag-fair--a hanging-bout. The procession to Tyburn rem 

sem.bled going to a fair. Cock-feeders, when they twist 

the necks of their dungs, call it scragging them. 

Second (ring)—(seldom performed completely) he who aids 

with advice the actual pugilist, or, indeed, boxer; who, 

when his principal is down, raiseth him up, bodily, sup- 

ports him on his knee, rives advice as to the opponent's 

weak points, admonisheth him if neglectful—cheers him 

up—moistepeth his lips with water or orange, and, as the 

contest is protracted, with brandy diluted,—who, if an ac- 

cident happens, takes prompt means of alleviation. He 

must be furnished with a lancet, to let out the extravasated 

blood below the puff; and never desert his man on account 

of reverse of luck, 

asakin,g-hands—the last ceremony preceding a well -regu- 

lated man-fight; and with some it marks the commence- 

mew. of the battle, the shaking and the . thwacking having 

no interval: shaking of hands, then, is but falseness, 

deceit. 

'Shallow—a hat; term acquired when the crown was worn 

shallow, and continued in the face of fact. 

a51ow-top-A-A-(chase) said of a person who, to all appearances, 

cannot ride to hounds : - the cut of his coat, or wearing a 

three-chisselled wig, or his horse a martingale, tells 

plainly enough he will never do the thing. 

Snake-headed (ring)—ene of the many blunders of the jargo- 

nic writers is, that the best 'fighters, or finest-bottomed 

-men, are long-visaged, vel ' snake-headed,' as they slang- 

whang the matter; whereas, no truth lies in the pretended' 

craniological position, as may be proved upon the nobs of 

Hen. _Pearce, John Gully, and .others,—but the fact is, 

those jargonics reason from effect to cause, and because 

tiome men who have been hammered much about the jaw- 

bones, &c. so that their features become long, possessed 

courar, this must necessarily indicate a priori those 

qualities. . 

4 41So briquets-r-avan t, names, such as were at first given accord* 

mg to individual circumstances. These began about the 

time of the conquest-7-the conqueror himself being nick- 

named ' William Bastard his son was called Carrots,' in 

French, by reason of his nob being all flames;' Henry 1I. 

stuck to his learning, and was therefore called Deauckrh; 

-sod then-about all persons obtained such surnames, which

S14 SON—STO 

shortly became sire-amines. One landholdet *as called 

Simon Wolfsface, several Hog, many Bull, numbers Hare, 

and multitudes Cocks ; Whence proceeded. (respectively) 

Hogsflesh and Hogard, Buller and Bulteel, Hartop and 

Harman, Cockshut and Hitchcock. Mir. White designated 

a pale face, whilst a dark muzzle had Mr. Black ; Grey 

alluded to the hair, and Long, Short, Broad, to the stature 

or built, our Edward I. being king Longshanks. 

Song-mak—one who hammers out a chaunt oeca,sionally; as 

. Tom Durfey did, so did squire Fitzgerald, and so will the 

Bullers. and: Stebbings, and the Fogo tribes of this day— 

who are, after all, mere 4 gatherers - of scrap-iron,' or mud. 

larks prepense h Dibdin the younger called himself 'a 

song-smith;' but he was a poet too, and, it should seem, 

. modest.likewise. 

Steevin-d-moikey, corned; and of silver is understood. 

Step a blow, (rifig)—to prevent its alighting on the part 

intended, by means of the guard, or position of defence ; 

1. e. the fore-arm or elbow. But this was effected differ- 

ent1T by the several sehoole : the Broughtonian caught the 

coming blow on the perpendieular aim, which enabled them 

to make a quids return, cutting downwards: Mendoza's 

consisted in throwing- up the armfrom the .elbo*, catch- 

ing the adversary at the wrist or higher,. which disabled 

the muscle, and spoiled that arm awhile)—when lie chopped. 

The Bristolian tactique is to hit past the intended blow, 

lengtbivise, inside the arm if possible), when the arm 

- must be thrown away, and the man stopping be well in ; 

but he geti; himself to of- fighting again, if desirable, by 

hitting the ribs with the other hand—this springs him 

back, though hehas the option of infighting; if, instead 

thereof, he lets fly at the neck, throat, and upper' works. 

Harmer's guard -(a square one) for the head, or rather'his 

eyes, would inevitably cost him .a broken arralwhen fight. 

ing] were he a shorter man. The sloping goard, against 

an antagonist's main arm, who ruffians in, is a good one 

and effectual, as exemplified in the celebrated' battle of 

Neat and Hickman., We said, "If: Neat can be induced 

to fight upon the retreating system l imoeking away at the 

nob of his antagonist, as he comes ow, with an almost 

straight' left-handed guard, while hitting away with the 

right—hevniiiy pocket the brads, and realise -the odds that 

are now so freely laid upon the-invincible gas-Mani" Tide 

[Old] Fancy, for Nov. 4, 1821.

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I Subecriptiptidutuse90-a species . of, tavern:, open to- sub§criberi 

only, and their friends, eachipeculiarly regulated, gam- 

: bling being allowed in all, and in a few it is carried to a 

great. extent. By a recent 6/Inv-up of their transactions., 

one of these was found to have been robbing its flequenters- 

, sit immense s.ums—Piccadilly to wit. 

ite —course of proceeding in any %air, ' What suite ate . 

you after now ?' i. e. what game, or species ot robbery 

does he follow. Derived from the legal slang for a suit 

at law, which robs :the clients, of the speaker. 

Sukey-tawdry—a slatternly.femaleis fine frippery. 

. . 

Sunianse, or andel-name...such astateitttliten i or applied' untter 

certain circumstances'. Sirosames,.are nantes. derived'frotn 

the sire or ancestor, and were originally nicknames, except 

those :ending in son,,, or beginning; with. 

.show that about. the time.of Henry IL, whenithose nick- 

; 'cries, or sobriquets we now hear, were applied .genentliy, - 

the wearers were worthy of u,o other nGte..thait what they 

derived from. their parents. The family of 0's comefvota 

the squeals of their mothers, - except onelet,, the. &Desne//y, 

Who may place their 0 .ateleast.nine months earlier 

than . any other 0' family, when their.sirewheedled their dam 

, with O i do .Ndly 1' The Otedinots,ofPlanders,* and Hoddint 

s of north-Engtand, are derived from the reply_ to the 

supplication just quoted, which was ' 0, do not!' See 

Sobriquet. 

Swaddle—to baste with stick or, sword. Thus, Hudibras, 

"Great on the bench, great in-the saddle, 

He could as well bind o er as swaddle.v 

System—a word misused - for every course of proceedings-.. 

as the fighting system, eating tystem, system of robbery. 

' The Bonifaces on the road practised the old: system of 

double charges and baptising their max.' 

. 

Three-sheets in the wind.—Naval, but naturalized ashore, 

and means drunk, but capable of going-along—like a ship 

which - has three sheets braced—main, msizen, and foresail. 

. . 

Tintin ci-inftre—inatronical . scolding; when she letteth loose 

her red-rag like the clapper of a bell, perturbed by a 

frightened campagnologist. See finney. 

Tom Owen's Stop—(ring;) the left-hand open, scrawling over 

the antagonist's face, tervice with the right.

26, TOS-L--VAR 

Toss, the Lring).--Ohe 'of the preliminaries to a regalitr fi ght I 

he who wins the toss placing. his. bit& towards the sun at 

each setting-to. At:Blenheim fight' the Btiv'itrian had his 

face towards the sun, and got diddled by Marlborouglt. 

frade.any means of getting money, robbery not excepted: 

Q. ' What tratle is this Tom Bedford ?' A. ' Vhy, ye see, 

he vos a carver, yarning his three quid a week, but now 

lie lives vith a voman as valks the City-road.' 

Tyburn-top—the hair combed over the forehead, with a curl 

betwixt the eye and the ear; up underneath the former the 

cuticle is pushed, wrinkling (sure sign of fear)) in order to 

smoothen the muscle which the consciousness of crime en- 

genders about the eyes. Natni disused; practice continued. 

ragabonds (diverting)—players are so, according to the Act. 

Variety—that change in -our occupations or pleasures which 

. alone renders iffe supportable. I I pity the man that can 

trowel all the way from Dan to Beersheba, mid say 'tis all 

barren.' Sterne was of opinion, that a males happiness 

depended mostly on his own desire to be pleased variety 

performs this operation upon our mitbds ; so sung Morris. 

- To no one subject confinkl, about I mean to range, sir, 

Most folkelike variety—you may be fond of *change, tor, 

Bow, wow, wow; fol lal de iddy oddy 

Vardo—a waggon, is derived from nothing—never was worth 

any thing, and is gone to the nothings. 

116 ■ ■ ■i ■ 

'SHORTLY WILL APPEAR S 

A "work wanted many a-year, which will render full accounts and tie*, 

as regards history of the fancy for fighting; price small, but cannot 

Ix, precisely—not much more than nix (or pretium or prix), of Squire 

Bee's own writing and inditing—viddicit : 

FANCY CHRONOLOGY; a History of PUGILISM in BRI 

TAIN s being a brief Chronological. Account of all the Prize 

Fights, Milling Matches, and Hammering Bouts, which 

have occurred during .the last One Hundred Years. Af- 

fording a clear and perspicuous view Of above Szv *It 

fltarbRED CONTESTS of fisty-cuffs, with the leading incia. 

dents and remarkable circurbstante4 attending each. 

W. 1EW111, 1111111t4) FIRGIE-LAiXs .011181111LIA

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