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<h1>The Letter C</h1>
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<h2>CACKLE</h2>
<p>to discover. <i class="eg">The Cull
Cackles</i>, The Rogue tells all.</p>
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<h2>CACKLING-CHEATS</h2>
<p>Chickens,
Cocks or Hens.</p>
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<h2>CACKLING-FARTS</h2>
<p>Eggs.</p>
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<h2>CALLE</h2>
<p>a Cloak or Gown.</p>
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<h2>CAMBRIDGE-FORTUNE</h2>
<p>a Woman without any Substance.</p>
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<h2>CAMESA</h2>
<p>a Shirt or Shift.</p>
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<h2>CAMPAIGN-COAT</h2>
<p>in a <i>Canting</i>
Sense, the ragged, tatter'd, patch'd
Coat, worn by Beggars and Gypsies, in
order to move Compassion.</p>
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<h2>CANARY-BIRD</h2>
<p>a little arch or
knavish Boy; a Rogue or Whore
taken, and clapp'd into the Cage or
Round-house.</p>
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<h2>CANE <i>upon</i> ABEL</h2>
<p>a good Stick or
Cudgel, well-favouredly laid on a
Man's shoulders.</p>
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<h2>CANK</h2>
<p>Dumb.
<i class="eg">The Cull's Cank</i>; the Rogue's Dumb; a Term used by
<i>Canters</i>, when one of their Fraternity,
being apprehended, upon Examination,
confesses nothing.</p>
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<h2>CANNIKIN</h2>
<p>the Plague.</p>
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<h2><i>A</i> CANT</h2>
<p>an Hypocrite, a Dissembler,
a double-tongu'd, whining Person.</p>
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<h2>CANTING</h2>
<p>the mysterious Language
of Rogues, Gypsies, Beggars,
Thieves, &c.</p>
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<h2>CANTING CREW</h2>
<p>Beggars, Gypsies.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> CAP</h2>
<p>to Swear.
<i class="eg">I will Cap
downright</i>, I will Swear home.</p>
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<h2>CAPTAIN-HACKUM</h2>
<p>a fighting,
blustering Bully.</p>
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<h2>CAPTAIN-QUEERNABS</h2>
<p>a Fellow
in poor Cloaths, or Shabby.</p>
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<h2>CAPTAIN-SHARP</h2>
<p>a great Cheat;
also a huffing, yet sneaking, cowardly
Bully.</p>
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<h2>CAPTAIM-TOM</h2>
<p>a Leader of the
Mob; also the Mob itself.</p>
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<h2>CARAVAN</h2>
<p>a good round Sum of
Money about a Man; also him that is
cheated of it.</p>
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<h2>CARRIERS</h2>
<p>a Set or Rogues, who
are employ'd to look out, and whatch
upon the Roads, at Inns, &c. in order
to carry Information to their respective
Gangs, of a Booty in Prospect.</p>
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<h2>CARTED-WHORE</h2>
<p>whipp'd publickly,
and pack'd out of Town.</p>
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<h2>CASE</h2>
<p>a House, Shop, or Warehouse;
also a Bawdy-house.
As <i class="eg">Toute
the Case</i>, view, mark, or eye the House
or Shop. <i class="eg">'Tis all Bob; now let us dub
the Gigg of the Case</i>; now the Coast is
clear, let us fall on, and break open
the door of the House.</p>
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<h2>A CASE-VROW</h2>
<p>a Whore that
plie in a Bawdy-house.</p>
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<h2>CASH</h2>
<p>or <i>Cassan</i>, cheese.</p>
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<h2>CASTER</h2>
<p>a Cloak.</p>
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<h2>CAT</h2>
<p>a common Whore or Prostitute.
<i class="eg">Who shall hang the bell about the
Cat's Neck?</i> Who shall begin the Attack first? said of a desperate Undertaking.</p>
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<h2>CATCH-FART</h2>
<p>a Foot-boy.</p>
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<h2>CATCHING-HARVEST</h2>
<p>a precarious
Time for Robbery; when many
People are out upon the Road, by
means of any adjacent Fair, Horse-race, &c.</p>
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<h2>CATCH-POLL</h2>
<p>a Serjeant, or Bayliff,
that arrests People.</p>
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<h2>CATHARPIN FASHION</h2>
<p>when
People in Company drink cross, and
not round about from the Right to
the Left, or according to the Sun's
Motion.</p>
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<h2>CATTING</h2>
<p>drawing a Fellow thro'
a Pond with a Cat. Also whoring.</p>
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<h2>CATMATCH</h2>
<p>when a Rook or
Cully is engag'd amongst bad Bowlers.</p>
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<h2>CAVAULTING SCHOOL</h2>
<p>a Bawdy-house.</p>
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<h2>CAUDGE-PAW'D</h2>
<p>Left-handed.</p>
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<h2>CAW-HANDED</h2>
<p>awkward, not
dextrous, ready or nimble.</p>
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<h2>CHAF'D</h2>
<p>well beaten or bang'd.</p>
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<h2>CHAPT</h2>
<p>dry or thirsty.</p>
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<h2>CHARACTERED</h2>
<p>Burnt in the Hand;
as, <i class="eg">They have pawn'd the Character upon
him</i>; <i>i.e.</i> They have burnt the Rogue
in the Hand.</p>
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<h2>CHATES</h2>
<p>the Gallows.</p>
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<h2>CHATTS</h2>
<p>Lice. To <i class="eg">Squeeze the
Chatts</i>; To crack or kill those Vermin.</p>
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<h2>CHICKEN</h2>
<p>a feeble little Creature,
of mean Spirit.</p>
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<h2>CHINK</h2>
<p>Money, so call'd because it
chinks in the Pocket.</p>
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<h2><i>A</i> CHIP</h2>
<p>a Child. As, <i class="eg">A Chip of the
old Block</i>; A Son that is his Father's
likeness.</p>
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<h2>CHIRPING-MERRY</h2>
<p>very pleasant
over a Glass of good Liquor.</p>
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<h2>CHIT</h2>
<p>a Dandyprat, or Durgen, a
little trifling-Fellow.</p>
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<h2>CHITTIFACE</h2>
<p>a little puny Child.</p>
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<h2>CHIVE</h2>
<p>a Kinfe, File or Saw.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> CHIVE <i>his Darbies</i></h2>
<p>To saw asunder
his Irons or Fetters.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> CHOP</h2>
<p>to change or barter. Also
a Job, or Booty, as <i class="eg">A Chop by Chance</i>,
a rare Booty, when 'twas not expected.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> CHOP</h2>
<p>is also used to make Dispatch,
to slubber over in Post-haste, as
<i class="eg">The Autem-Bawler, will soon quit the
Hums, for he chops up the Whiners</i>; <i>i.e.</i>
The Parson will soon have dispatch'd
the Congregation, for he huddles over
the Prayers.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> CHOUSE</h2>
<p>to cheat or trick.</p>
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<h2>CHUB</h2>
<p>
<i class="eg">He is a young Chub</i>, or <i class="eg">a meer
Chub</i>, very ignorant or unexperienc'd
in Gaming, not at all acquainted with
Sharping. <i class="eg">A good Chub</i>, said by the
Butchers, when they have bit a silly raw
Customer.</p>
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<h2>CHUCK-FARTHING</h2>
<p>a Parish Clerk.</p>
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<h2>CLACK</h2>
<p>a Woman's Tongue.</p>
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<h2>CLAN</h2>
<p>a Family, Tribe, Faction,
or Party, in <i>Scotland</i> chiefly, but now
any where else.</p>
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<h2>CLANK</h2>
<p>a Silver-tankard.</p>
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<h2>CLANKER</h2>
<p>a swinging Lye.</p>
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<h2>CLANK NAPPER</h2>
<p>a Silver-tankard
Stealer. See <i>Rumbubber</i>.</p>
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<h2>CLAPPERDOGEON</h2>
<p>a Beggar born
and bred.</p>
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<h2>CLAW'D-OFF</h2>
<p>lustily lash'd. Also
swingingly pox'd or clap'd.</p>
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<h2>CLEAR</h2>
<p>very Drunk. <i class="eg">The Cull is
clear, let's Bite him.</i> The Fellow is
very drunk, let's Sharp him.</p>
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<h2>CLEAVE</h2>
<p>as, <i class="eg">One that will cleave</i>;
used of a Wanton Woman. <i>Vide Clown</i></p>
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<h2>CLENCH</h2>
<p>a Pun or Quibble.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> CLENCH</h2>
<p>to nick a Business by
timing it; as <i class="eg">The Cull has clench'd
the Job at a Pinch</i>. The Rogue has
nick'd the Time, before any Passengers
came by, who might have rescu'd
the plunder'd Person.</p>
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<h2>CLEYMS</h2>
<p>Sores without Pain, raised on Beggars Bodies, by their own
Artifice and Cunning, (to move Charity)
by bruising Crows-foot, Spearwort,
and Salt together, and clapping
them onthe Place, which frets the
Skin; then with a Linnen Rag, which
sticks close to it, they tear off the Skin,
and strew on it a little Powder'd rsnick,
which makes it look angrily or
ill-favouredly, as if it were a real
Sore.</p>
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<h2>CLERK'D</h2>
<p>sooth'd, sunn'd imposed
on; <i class="eg">The Cull will not be Clerk'd</i>, <i>i.e.</i>
He will not be caught or taken by fair
Words.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> CLICK</h2>
<p>to Snatch. <i class="eg">I have Clickt
the Nab from the Cull</i>; I whipt the Hat
from the Man's Head. <i class="eg">Click the rum
Topping</i>. Snatch that Woman's fine
Commode, or Head-Dress.</p>
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<h2>CLICKER</h2>
<p>[among the <i>Canters</i>.] He
whom they intrust to divide their
Spoils, and proportion to every one
his Share.</p>
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<h2>CLICKET</h2>
<p>Copulation of Foxes, and
thence used in a <i>Canting</i> Sense, for that
of Men and Women; as <i class="eg">The Cull and
the Mort are at Clicket in the Dyke</i>.</p>
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<h2>CLICKETING</h2>
<p>the Act of Fruition.</p>
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<h2>CLINKER</h2>
<p>a crafty Fellow.</p>
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<h2>CLINKERS</h2>
<p>the Irons Felons wear
in Goals.</p>
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<h2>CLOAK-TWITCHERS</h2>
<p>Villains
who lurk in by and dark Places, to
snatch them off the Wearer's Shoulders.</p>
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<h2>CLOD-HOPPER</h2>
<p>a Ploughman.</p>
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<h2>CLOUD</h2>
<p>Tobacco. <i class="eg">Will you raise a
Cloud?</i> Will you smoak a Pipe?</p>
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<h2>CLOVEN</h2>
<h2><i>Cleave</i></h2>
<h2>or <i>Cleft</i></h2>
<p>used of a young Woman who passes for a Maid,
and is not one.</p>
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<h2>CLOUT</h2>
<p>a Handkerchief.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> CLOY</h2>
<p>to Steal. <i class="eg">Cloy the Clout</i>;
steal the Money.</p>
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<h2>CLOYERS</h2>
<p>Thieves, Robbers,
Rogues.</p>
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<h2>CLOYING</h2>
<p>Stealing, Thieving,
Robbing.</p>
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<h2>CLOWES</h2>
<p>Rogues.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> CLUCK</h2>
<p>a Wench's Propension
to Male-Conversation, by her romping
and playfulness; when they say, <i class="eg">The
Mort Clucks</i>.</p>
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<h2>CUMP</h2>
<p>a Heap or Lump.</p>
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<h2>CLUMPISH</h2>
<p>Lumpish.</p>
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<h2>CLUNCH</h2>
<p>a clumsy Clown, an awkward
or unhandy Fellow.</p>
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<h2>CLY</h2>
<p>Money. <i class="eg">To cly the Jerk</i>, to
be Whipt. <i class="eg">Let's strike his Cly</i>; Let's
get his Money from him. Also a
Pocket, as, <i class="eg">Filed a Cly</i>, Pick'd a Pocket.</p>
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<h2>COACH-WHEEL</h2>
<p>as, <i class="eg">A Fore-Coach-Wheel</i>
Half a Crown. <i class="eg">A Hind-Coach-Wheel</i>,
a Crown or Five-shilling Piece.</p>
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<h2>COB</h2>
<p>an <i>Irish</i> Dollar.</p>
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<h2>COBBLE-COLTER</h2>
<p>a Turkey. <i class="eg">A
rum Cobble-colter</i>, a fat large Cock-Turkey.</p>
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<h2>COCK-BAWD</h2>
<p>a Man who follows
that base Employment, of procuring;
a Pimp.</p>
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<h2>COCKISH</h2>
<p>wanton, uppish, forward.</p>
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<h2>COCK-PIMP</h2>
<p>a supposed Husband to
a Bawd.</p>
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<h2>COCK-ROBBIN</h2>
<p>a soft easy Fellow.</p>
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<h2>COCK-SURE</h2>
<p>very sure.</p>
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<h2>COD</h2>
<p>a good Sum of Money; also a
Fool. <i class="eg">A meer Cod</i>, a silly, shallow
Fellow. <i class="eg">A rum Cod</i>; a good round
Sum of Money. <i class="eg">An honest Cod</i>; a trusty
Friend.</p>
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<h2>COD's-<i>Head</i></h2>
<p>a Fool.</p>
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<h2>COFE</h2>
<p>as COVE. Which See.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> COG</h2>
<p>to cheat at Dice. <i class="eg">To Cog a
Die</i>; to conceal or secure a Die; also
the Money or whatever the <i>Sweetners</i>
drop, to draw in the Bubbles: Also to
wheedle.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> COG <i>a Dinner</i></h2>
<p>to wheedle one out of a Dinner.</p>
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<h2>COG <i>a Clout</i></h2>
<h2>or, <i>Cog a Sneezer</i></h2>
<p>Beg an Handkerchief, or Snuff box.</p>
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<h2>COGUE</h2>
<p>of brandy, a small Cup or
Dram.</p>
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<h2>COKER</h2>
<p>a Lye. <i class="eg">Rum Coker</i>, a whisking Lye.</p>
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<h2>COLD-<i>Tea</i></h2>
<p>Brandy. <i class="eg">A couple of cold
Words</i>, a Curtain-Lecture. <i class="eg">Cold Iron</i>,
a derisory Periphrasis for a Sword.</p>
</div>
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<h2>COLE</h2>
<p>Money.</p>
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<h2>COLLEGE</h2>
<p><i>Newgate</i>; <i>New College</i>,
the <i>Royal-Exchange</i>.</p>
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<h2>COLLEGIATES</h2>
<p>the Prisoners of
the one, and the Shop-keepers of the
other of those Places.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> COLLOGUE</h2>
<p>wheedle.</p>
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<h2>COLQUARRON</h2>
<p>a Man's Neck; as,
<i class="eg">His Colquarron is just about to be twisted</i>.
He is just going to be turn'd off.</p>
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<h2>COLT</h2>
<p>an Inn-keeper that lends a
Horse to a Highway-man, or to
Gentleman Beggars; also a Lad newly
initiated into Roguery.</p>
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<h2>COLT-BOWL</h2>
<p>laid short of the
Jack, by a [COLT-BOWLER]</p>
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<h2>COL-BOWLER</h2>
<p>a raw or unexperienced Person.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> COME</h2>
<p>to lend. <i class="eg">Has he come it?</i>
Has he lent it to you?</p>
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<h2>COMING-<i>Women</i></h2>
<p>such as are free of
their Flesh; also breeding Women.</p>
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<h2>COMMISSION</h2>
<p>a shirt.</p>
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<h2>COMMON-<i>Garden-Gout</i></h2>
<p>or rather
<i class="eg">Covent-Garden-Gout</i>, the Foul Disease.</p>
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<h2>COMFORTABLE-<i>Importance</i></h2>
<p>a Wife.</p>
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<h2>CONFECT</h2>
<p>conterfeit, feigned.</p>
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<h2>CONTENT</h2>
<p>
<i class="eg">I beat him to his Heart's
Content</i>; <i>till he had enough of Fighting.</i>
Also to murder a Person, who resists
being robb'd. <i class="eg">The Cull's Content</i>; <i>i.e.</i>
He is past complaining.</p>
</div>
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<h2>CONTRE-TEMPS</h2>
<p>a fruitless Attempt,
or at an unseasonable Time.</p>
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<h2>CONVENIENT</h2>
<p>a Mistress; also a
Whore.</p>
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<h2>CONVENIENCY</h2>
<p>a Wife; also a
Mistress.</p>
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<h2>CONUNDRUMS</h2>
<p>Whims, Maggots,
and such like.</p>
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<h2>CONY</h2>
<h2>or <i>Tom Cony</i></h2>
<p>a silly Fellow;
<i class="eg">A meer Cony</i>, very silly indeed.</p>
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<h2><i>A</i> COLD-COOK</h2>
<p>an Undertaker of
Funerals.</p>
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<h2>COOK-RUFFIN</h2>
<p>the Devil of a
Cook; or a very bad one.</p>
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<h2>COOL-CRAPE</h2>
<p>When a Person dies,
he is said to be put into his <i>Cool-crape</i>.</p>
</div>
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<h2>COOLER</h2>
<p>a Woman.</p>
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<h2>COOL-LADY</h2>
<p>a Wench that sells
Brandy (in Camps) a Suttler.</p>
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<h2>COOL-NANTZ</h2>
<p>Brandy.</p>
</div>
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<h2>CORK-BRAIN'D</h2>
<p>a very impudent,
harden'd, brazen-faced Fellow.</p>
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<h2>COSTARD</h2>
<p>the Head. <i class="eg">I'll give ye a
Knock on the Costard</i>; I'll hit ye a Blow
on the Pate.</p>
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<h2>COTTON</h2>
<p>
<i class="eg">They don't cotton</i>; They
don't agree well.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> COUCH</h2>
<p>to lie down, as <i class="eg">To
Couch a Hogshead</i>; To go to Bed.</p>
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<h2>COVE</h2>
<p>a Man, a Fellow; also a
Rogue. <i class="eg">The Cove was Bit</i>; The Rogue
was out-sharped or out-witted. <i class="eg">The
Cove has bit the Cole</i>; The Rogue has
stollen the Money. <i class="eg">That Cove's a rum
Diver</i>; That Fellow is a clever Pick-pocket.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>COVEY <i>of Whores</i></h2>
<p>a well-fill'd Bawdy-house.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>COUNTERFEIT-CRANK</h2>
<p>a genteel
Cheat, a Sham or Impostor, appearing in divers Shapes: one who
sometimes counterfeits Mens hands, or
forges Writings; at others personates
other Men: is sometimes a Clipper or
Coiner; at others a Dealer in Counterfeit
Jewels. Sometimes a strowling
Mountebank: To Day he is a Clergyman
in Distress; to Morrow a reduced
Gentleman.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>VOURT-<i>card</i></h2>
<p>a gay, fluttering
Fellow.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>COURT-<i>Holy-Water</i></h2>
<h2>COURT-<i>Promises</i></h2>
<p>fair Speeches without
Performance.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>COURT-<i>Tricks</i></h2>
<p>State-Policy &c.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>COWS-BABY</h2>
<p>a Calf.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CRACK</h2>
<p>a Whore.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2><i>To</i> CRACK</h2>
<p>is also used to break
open; as, <i class="eg">To Crack up a Door</i>; To
break a Door open.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CRACKER</h2>
<p>the Backside; also Crust.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CRACKING</h2>
<p>boasting, vapouring.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CRACKISH</h2>
<p>whorish.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CRACKMANS</h2>
<p>Hedges; as, <i class="eg">The Cull
thought to have lop'd, by breaking thro'
the Crackmans; but we fetch'd him back
by a Nope on the Costard, which made
him silent</i>; <i>i.e.</i> The Gentleman thought
to escape by breaking through the
Hedges; but we brought him back by
a great Blow on the Head, which laid
him for Dead.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CRAG</h2>
<p>a Neck; also the Stomach,
or Womb.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CRAMP-RINGS</h2>
<p>Bolts or Shackles.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CRAMP-WORDS</h2>
<p>Sentence of
Death passed upon a Criminal by the
Judge: as, <i class="eg">He has just undergone the
Cramp-Word</i>; <i>i.e.</i> Sentence is just
passed upon him.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CRANK</h2>
<p>brisk, pert.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CRAP</h2>
<p>Money. <i class="eg">Nim the Crap</i>; Steal
the Money. <i class="eg">Wheedle for Crap</i>; To
coax Money out of any Body.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CRASH</h2>
<p>to Kill. <i class="eg">Crash the Cull</i>, <i>i.e.</i>
Kill the Fellow.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CRASHING-<i>Cheats</i></h2>
<p>Teeth.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CREATURES</h2>
<p>Men raised by others,
and their <i>Tools</i> ever after.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2><i>To</i> CREEME</h2>
<p>to slip or slide any
Thing into another's Hand.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CREW</h2>
<p>a Knot or Gang; as, <i class="eg">A
Crew of Rogues</i>, &c.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CRIMP</h2>
<p>as, <i class="eg">To play Crimp</i>, to lay or
bet on one Side, and (by foul Play) to
let the other win, having a Share of
the Purchase.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2><i>Run a</i> CRIMP</h2>
<p>to run a Race or
Horse-match foully or knavishly.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2><i>He</i> CRIMPS <i>it</i></h2>
<p>He plays booty. <i class="eg">A
crimping Fellow</i>, a sneaking Cur.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CRINKUMS</h2>
<p>the foul Disease.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CROCKERS</h2>
<p>Fore-stallers, Regraters;
otherwise called <i>Kidders</i> and
<i>Tranters</i>.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CROKER</h2>
<p>a Groat or Fourpence.
<i class="eg">The Cull tipt me a Croker</i>, the Fellow
gave me a Groat.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CRONY</h2>
<p>a Comerade [in a <i>Canting</i>
Sense.] Two or Three Rogues, who
agree to beg or rob in Partnership, call
one another <i>Crony</i>; as, <i class="eg">Such a one is
my Crony</i>; as much as to say, He and I
go Snacks.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CROP</h2>
<p>Money.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CROPPIN</h2>
<p>the Tail, as, <i class="eg">The Croppin
of the Rotan</i>, The Tail of the Cart.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CROPPIN-KEN</h2>
<p>a Privy or Bog-house.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2><i>To</i> CROSS-BITE</h2>
<p>to draw in a Friend,
yet snack with the Sharper; also to
countermine or disappoint.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CROWN <i>Office</i></h2>
<p>as, <i class="eg">He is got into
the Crown Office</i>, <i>i.e.</i> He's got drunk.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CRUISERS</h2>
<p>Beggars; Also Highway
Spies, who traverse the Road, to give
Intelligence of a Booty, &c.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CRUMP</h2>
<p>one that helps Sollicitors
to <i>Affidavit-Men</i>.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CRUSTY-BEAU</h2>
<p>one that lies with
a Cover over his Face all Night, and
uses Washes, Paint, &c.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2><i>Young</i> CUB</h2>
<p>a new Gamester drawn
in to be rook'd.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CUCUMBERS</h2>
<p>Taylors.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CUDGELLIERS</h2>
<p>a Mob rudely
arm'd; also Cudgel-Players.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CUFFIN</h2>
<p>a Man.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CUFFIN-QUIRE</h2>
<p>See <i>Quire Cuffin</i>.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CULP</h2>
<p>a Kick or Blow.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CULL</h2>
<p>a Man, either honest, or
otherwise. <i class="eg">A Bob-Cull</i>, a Sweet-humour'd
Man to a Wench. <i class="eg">The Cull
naps us</i>; The Person robb'd apprehends
us. <i class="eg">A curst Cull</i>, an ill-natur'd Fellow,
a Churl to a Woman.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CULLY</h2>
<p>a Fop, a Fool, one who is
easily drawn in and cheated by Whores
and Rogues.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CUNNING-Shaver</h2>
<p>a sharp Fellow,
one that sharps or shaves (as they call
it) close.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CUP-SHOT</h2>
<p>Drunk.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CUP <i>of the Creature</i></h2>
<p>strong-Liquor.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CURLE</h2>
<p>Clippings of Money.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CURSITORS</h2>
<p>reduced Lawyers, assuming
to themselves the Knowledge
of the Quirks and Quiddities of the
Law, and are perpetually fomenting litigious
Brawls, and insignificant Contentions,
among the Scum of the Vulgar.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CURTAILS</h2>
<p>whose Practice is to
cut off Pieces of Silk, Cloth, Linnen
or Stuff, that hang out at the Shop-Windows
of Mercers, Drapers, &c.
as also sometimes the Tails of Womens
Gowns, their Hoods, Scarves,
Pinners, - if richly Lac'd.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CURTAIL'D</h2>
<p>cut off, dock'd, shorten'd, reduced.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CURTAIN-Lecture</h2>
<p>Womens impertinent
scolding at their Husbands
behind the Curtain.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CURTEZAN</h2>
<p>a genteel fine Miss,
or Quality Whore.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>CUT</h2>
<p>Drunk. <i class="eg">Deep Cut</i>, very
Drunk. <i class="eg">Cut in the Leg or Back</i>, the
same. <i class="eg">To Cut</i>, also signifies to speak.
<i class="eg">To Cut bene</i>, to speak gently, civilly or
kindly; <i class="eg">To Cut bene (<i>or</i> benar) Whidds</i>,
to give good Words. <i class="eg">To Cut queere
Whid's</i>, to give ill Language. A Blow
with a Stick or Cane, is also called a
<i>Cut</i>. As, <i class="eg">I took him a Cut cross the
Shoulders</i>.</p>
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