<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<title>K</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFAFA" text="#330000">
<h1>The Letter K</h1>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KATE</h2>
<p>a Pick-lock. <i class="eg">'Tis a Rum kate</i>; She is a clever Pick-lock.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KEEL-<i>Bullies</i></h2>
<p>Lightermen that carry
coals to and from the Ships, so called
in Derision.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KEEPING <i>Cully</i></h2>
<p>one that maintains
a Mistress, and parts with his Money
very generously to her.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KEFFAL</h2>
<p>a Horse.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KELTER</h2>
<p>as, <i class="eg">Out of Kelter</i>, Out of
sorts.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KEN</h2>
<p>a House. <i class="eg">A bob-Ken</i>, or <i class="eg">a
Bowman-ken</i>, a good or well furnished
House; also a House that harbours
Rogues and Thieves. <i class="eg">Biting the Ken</i>,
robbing the House, <i class="eg">'tis a bob Ken, Brush
upon the Sneak</i>, i.e., 'Tis a good House,
go in and tread softly. <i class="eg">We have bit the
Ken</i>, The House is robb'd, or the Business
is done.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KEN-<i>Miller</i></h2>
<p>a House-breaker, who
usually, by getting into an empty
House, finds Means to enter into the
Gutters of Houses inhabited, and so
in at the Windows, &c.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KICK</h2>
<p>Six-pence: <i class="eg">Two, Three, Four,
&c. and a Kick</i>; Two, Three, Four,
&c. Shillings and Six-pence.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KICK'D</h2>
<p>gone, fled, departed; as,
<i class="eg">The Rum Cull kick'd away</i>, i.e. The
Rogue made his Escape.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KICKS</h2>
<p>Breeches. <i class="eg">Tip us your Kicks,
we'll have them as well as your Lour</i>;
Pull off your Breeches, for we must
have them as well as your Money.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KID</h2>
<p>a Child.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KIDLAYS</h2>
<p>an Order of Rogues, who
meeting a Youth with a Bundle or
Parcel of Goods, wheedle him by fair
Words, and whipping Six-pence into
his Hand, to step on a short and sham
Errand, in the mean Time run away
with the Goods.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KIDNAPPER</h2>
<p>one that decoys or
spirits (as it is commonly called) Children
away, and sells them for the
Plantations.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KILKENNY</h2>
<p>an old sorry Frize
Coat.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KILL-<i>Devil</i></h2>
<p>Rum.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2><i>To</i> KIMBAW</h2>
<p>to Trick, Sharp, or
Cheat; also to Beat severely, or to
Bully. <i class="eg">Let's Kimbaw the Cull</i>, Let's
beat that Fellow, and get his Money
(by huffing and bullying) from him.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KIN</h2>
<p>a Thief: <i class="eg">He's one of the Kin,
let him pike</i>; said of a Brother Rogue
whom one of the Gang knows to be a
Villain, tho' not one of their own
Crew.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KINCHIN</h2>
<p>a little Child.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KINCHIN-<i>Coves</i></h2>
<p>little Children whose
Parents are dead, having been Beggars;
as also young Lads running from their
Masters, who are first taught Canting,
then Thieving.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KINCHIN <i>Cove</i></h2>
<p>a little Man.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KINCHIN-<i>Morts</i></h2>
<p>Girls of a Year or
two old, whom the <i>Morts</i> (their Mothers)
carry at their Backs in <i>Slates</i>
(<i>Sheets</i>) and if they have no Children
of thir own, they borrow or steal
them from others.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KING <i>of the Gypsies</i></h2>
<p>the Captain,
Chief, or Ringleader of the Gang, the
Master of Misrule, otherwise called
<i>Uprightman</i>. Vide <i>Gypsies</i>.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KING<i>'s Head Inn</i></h2>
<h2>or <i>the Chequer Inn in Newgate-street</i></h2>
<p>the Prison of <i>Newgate</i>.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KING<i>'s Pictures</i></h2>
<p>Money.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KIT</h2>
<p>a Dancing Master.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2><i>A</i> KNACK <i>Shop</i></h2>
<p>a Toy-shop,
freighted with pretty Devices to pick
Pockets.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KNAVE <i>in Grain</i></h2>
<p>one of the First
Rate.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KNIGHT <i>of the Blade</i></h2>
<p>a Hector or
Bully.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KNIGHT <i>of the Post</i></h2>
<p>a mercenary
common Swearer, a Prostitute to every
Cause, an Irish Evidence.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KNIGHT <i>of the Road</i></h2>
<p>the chief
Highwayman, best mounted and armed,
the stoutest Fellow among them.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KNOB</h2>
<p>the Head or Skull.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KNOCK <i>Down</i></h2>
<p>very strong Ale or
Beer.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2><i>To</i> KNOCK <i>off</i></h2>
<p>to give over Thieving.</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>KNOT</h2>
<p>a Crew of Gang of Villains.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>