<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title>C</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFAFA" text="#330000"> <h1>The Letter C</h1> <div class="entry"> <h2>CACKLE</h2> <p>to discover. <i class="eg">The Cull Cackles</i>, The Rogue tells all.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CACKLING-CHEATS</h2> <p>Chickens, Cocks or Hens.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CACKLING-FARTS</h2> <p>Eggs.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CALLE</h2> <p>a Cloak or Gown.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CAMBRIDGE-FORTUNE</h2> <p>a Woman without any Substance.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CAMESA</h2> <p>a Shirt or Shift.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CANE <i>upon</i> ABEL</h2> <p>a good Stick or Cudgel, well-favouredly laid on a Man's shoulders.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CANNIKIN</h2> <p>the Plague.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2><i>A</i> CANT</h2> <p>an Hypocrite, a Dissembler, a double-tongu'd, whining Person.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CANTING</h2> <p>the mysterious Language of Rogues, Gypsies, Beggars, Thieves, &c.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CANTING CREW</h2> <p>Beggars, Gypsies.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2><i>To</i> CAP</h2> <p>to Swear. <i class="eg">I will Cap downright</i>, I will Swear home.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CAPTAIN-HACKUM</h2> <p>a fighting, blustering Bully.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CAPTAIN-QUEERNABS</h2> <p>a Fellow in poor Cloaths, or Shabby.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CAPTAIN-SHARP</h2> <p>a great Cheat; also a huffing, yet sneaking, cowardly Bully.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CAPTAIM-TOM</h2> <p>a Leader of the Mob; also the Mob itself.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CARAVAN</h2> <p>a good round Sum of Money about a Man; also him that is cheated of it.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CARTED-WHORE</h2> <p>whipp'd publickly, and pack'd out of Town.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>A CASE-VROW</h2> <p>a Whore that plie in a Bawdy-house.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CASH</h2> <p>or <i>Cassan</i>, cheese.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CASTER</h2> <p>a Cloak.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CATCH-FART</h2> <p>a Foot-boy.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CATCH-POLL</h2> <p>a Serjeant, or Bayliff, that arrests People.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CATTING</h2> <p>drawing a Fellow thro' a Pond with a Cat. Also whoring.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CATMATCH</h2> <p>when a Rook or Cully is engag'd amongst bad Bowlers.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CAVAULTING SCHOOL</h2> <p>a Bawdy-house.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CAUDGE-PAW'D</h2> <p>Left-handed.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CAW-HANDED</h2> <p>awkward, not dextrous, ready or nimble.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CHAF'D</h2> <p>well beaten or bang'd.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CHAPT</h2> <p>dry or thirsty.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CHATES</h2> <p>the Gallows.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CHATTS</h2> <p>Lice. To <i class="eg">Squeeze the Chatts</i>; To crack or kill those Vermin.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CHICKEN</h2> <p>a feeble little Creature, of mean Spirit.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CHINK</h2> <p>Money, so call'd because it chinks in the Pocket.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CHIRPING-MERRY</h2> <p>very pleasant over a Glass of good Liquor.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CHIT</h2> <p>a Dandyprat, or Durgen, a little trifling-Fellow.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CHITTIFACE</h2> <p>a little puny Child.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CHIVE</h2> <p>a Kinfe, File or Saw.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2><i>To</i> CHIVE <i>his Darbies</i></h2> <p>To saw asunder his Irons or Fetters.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2><i>To</i> CHOUSE</h2> <p>to cheat or trick.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CHUCK-FARTHING</h2> <p>a Parish Clerk.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CLACK</h2> <p>a Woman's Tongue.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CLAN</h2> <p>a Family, Tribe, Faction, or Party, in <i>Scotland</i> chiefly, but now any where else.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CLANK</h2> <p>a Silver-tankard.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CLANKER</h2> <p>a swinging Lye.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CLANK NAPPER</h2> <p>a Silver-tankard Stealer. See <i>Rumbubber</i>.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CLAPPERDOGEON</h2> <p>a Beggar born and bred.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CLAW'D-OFF</h2> <p>lustily lash'd. Also swingingly pox'd or clap'd.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CLEAVE</h2> <p>as, <i class="eg">One that will cleave</i>; used of a Wanton Woman. <i>Vide Clown</i></p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CLENCH</h2> <p>a Pun or Quibble.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CLICKETING</h2> <p>the Act of Fruition.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CLINKER</h2> <p>a crafty Fellow.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CLINKERS</h2> <p>the Irons Felons wear in Goals.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CLOAK-TWITCHERS</h2> <p>Villains who lurk in by and dark Places, to snatch them off the Wearer's Shoulders.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CLOD-HOPPER</h2> <p>a Ploughman.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CLOUD</h2> <p>Tobacco. <i class="eg">Will you raise a Cloud?</i> Will you smoak a Pipe?</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CLOUT</h2> <p>a Handkerchief.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2><i>To</i> CLOY</h2> <p>to Steal. <i class="eg">Cloy the Clout</i>; steal the Money.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CLOYERS</h2> <p>Thieves, Robbers, Rogues.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CLOYING</h2> <p>Stealing, Thieving, Robbing.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CLOWES</h2> <p>Rogues.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CUMP</h2> <p>a Heap or Lump.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CLUMPISH</h2> <p>Lumpish.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CLUNCH</h2> <p>a clumsy Clown, an awkward or unhandy Fellow.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>COB</h2> <p>an <i>Irish</i> Dollar.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>COBBLE-COLTER</h2> <p>a Turkey. <i class="eg">A rum Cobble-colter</i>, a fat large Cock-Turkey.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>COCK-BAWD</h2> <p>a Man who follows that base Employment, of procuring; a Pimp.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>COCKISH</h2> <p>wanton, uppish, forward.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>COCK-PIMP</h2> <p>a supposed Husband to a Bawd.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>COCK-ROBBIN</h2> <p>a soft easy Fellow.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>COCK-SURE</h2> <p>very sure.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>COD's-<i>Head</i></h2> <p>a Fool.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>COFE</h2> <p>as COVE. Which See.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2><i>To</i> COG <i>a Dinner</i></h2> <p>to wheedle one out of a Dinner.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>COG <i>a Clout</i></h2> <h2>or, <i>Cog a Sneezer</i></h2> <p>Beg an Handkerchief, or Snuff box.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>COGUE</h2> <p>of brandy, a small Cup or Dram.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>COKER</h2> <p>a Lye. <i class="eg">Rum Coker</i>, a whisking Lye.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> <div class="entry"> <h2>COLE</h2> <p>Money.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>COLLEGE</h2> <p><i>Newgate</i>; <i>New College</i>, the <i>Royal-Exchange</i>.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>COLLEGIATES</h2> <p>the Prisoners of the one, and the Shop-keepers of the other of those Places.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2><i>To</i> COLLOGUE</h2> <p>wheedle.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>COLT-BOWL</h2> <p>laid short of the Jack, by a [COLT-BOWLER]</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>COL-BOWLER</h2> <p>a raw or unexperienced Person.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2><i>To</i> COME</h2> <p>to lend. <i class="eg">Has he come it?</i> Has he lent it to you?</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>COMING-<i>Women</i></h2> <p>such as are free of their Flesh; also breeding Women.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>COMMISSION</h2> <p>a shirt.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>COMMON-<i>Garden-Gout</i></h2> <p>or rather <i class="eg">Covent-Garden-Gout</i>, the Foul Disease.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>COMFORTABLE-<i>Importance</i></h2> <p>a Wife.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CONFECT</h2> <p>conterfeit, feigned.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> <div class="entry"> <h2>CONTRE-TEMPS</h2> <p>a fruitless Attempt, or at an unseasonable Time.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CONVENIENT</h2> <p>a Mistress; also a Whore.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CONVENIENCY</h2> <p>a Wife; also a Mistress.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CONUNDRUMS</h2> <p>Whims, Maggots, and such like.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2><i>A</i> COLD-COOK</h2> <p>an Undertaker of Funerals.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>COOK-RUFFIN</h2> <p>the Devil of a Cook; or a very bad one.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>COOL-CRAPE</h2> <p>When a Person dies, he is said to be put into his <i>Cool-crape</i>.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>COOLER</h2> <p>a Woman.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>COOL-LADY</h2> <p>a Wench that sells Brandy (in Camps) a Suttler.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>COOL-NANTZ</h2> <p>Brandy.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>CORK-BRAIN'D</h2> <p>a very impudent, harden'd, brazen-faced Fellow.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>COTTON</h2> <p> <i class="eg">They don't cotton</i>; They don't agree well.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2><i>To</i> COUCH</h2> <p>to lie down, as <i class="eg">To Couch a Hogshead</i>; To go to Bed.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> </body> </html>