Part 2

_Bouncer_, c. a Bully.

_Bout_, a Tryal, Act, Essay.

_Bowse_, c. Drink, or to Drink, see _Benbowse_ and _Rumbowse_.

_Bowsy_, c. Drunk. _We Bows’d it about_, we Drank damn’d hard.

_Bowsingken_, c. an Ale-house. _The Cul tipt us a Hog, which we melted in Rumbowse_, c. the Gentleman gave us a Shilling, which we spent in Strong Drink.

_Box_, to Fight with the Fists. _Box it about Boys_, Drink briskly round. _In a wrong Bow_, of one that has taken wrong measures, or made false steps. _A pretty Box_, a Compleat little House, also a small drinking place.

_Bracket-face_, Ugly, Homely, Illfavor’d.

_Bragget_, Meed, and Ale sweetned with Honey.

_Brag_, _Braggadocio_, A vapouring, Swaggering, Bullying Fellow.

_Brat_, a little Child.

_Branchers_, Canary-Birds of the first Year.

_Bravado_, a Vapouring, or Bouncing.

_Bravo_, a Mercenary Murderer, that will Kill any Body.

_Brawl_, Squabble, or Quarrel. _To Brangle, and Brawl_, to Squabble and Scold.

_Brazen-fac’d_, Bold, Impudent, Audacious.

_Bread and Cheese Bowling-green_, a very ord’nary one, where they play for Drink and Tobacco, all wet, as ’tis called.

_Bread and Cheese Constables_, that treats their Neighbors and Friends at their coming into Office with such mean Food only.

_Breaking Shins_, c. borrowing of Money.

_Breast_, _in the breast of the Judge_, what he keeps in Reserve, or Suspence.

_Briers_, _in the Briers_, in trouble.

_Brook_, _he cannot brook it_, bear or endure it.

_Brickle_, Brittle, ape to Break.

_Bristol-milk_, Sherry.

_Bristol-stone_, Sham-Diamonds.

_Broach’d_, Opinion or Doctrine, Published, Divulged.

_Brimming_, a Boor’s copulating with a Sow, also now us’d for a Man’s with——

_Brim_, or _Brimstone_, a very Impudent, Lew’d Woman.

_Brock_, see Hart.

_Brock’s Sister_, see Hind.

_Broke_, Officers turn’d out of Commission, Traders Absconding, Quitting their Business and Paying no Debts.

_Bromigham-conscience_, very bad, _Bromigham-protestants_, Dissenters or Whiggs. _Bromigham-wine_, Balderdash, Sophisticate Taplash.

_Brother-starling_, that Lies with the same Woman, or Builds in the same Nest.

{ _Blade_, a Sword-Man or Soldier. _Brother_ of the { _Gussit_, a Pimp, Procurer, also, a Whore-Master. { _Quill_, of the Scribbling Tribe. { _String_, a Fidler, or Musician.

_Brothel-house_, a Bawdy House.

_Brow-beat_, to Cow, to Daunt, to awe with Big Looks, or Snub.

_Brown-study_, a Deep Thought or Speculation.

_Brush_, c. to Fly or Run away. _The Cully is Brusht or Rub’d_, c. the Fellow is march’d off, or Broke. _Bought a Brush_, c. Run away: Also a small Faggot, to light the other at Taverns, and a Fox’s Tail.

_Brusher_, c. an exceeding full Glass.

_Bub_, c. Drink. _Rum-bub_, c. very good Tip.

_Bub_, or _Bubble_, c. one that is Cheated; also an Easy, Soft Fellow.

_Bubber_, c. a drinking Bowl; also a great Drinker, and he that used to Steal Plate from Publick-houses.

_Bube_, c. the Pox. _The Mort has tipt the Bube upon the Cully_, c. the Wench has Clapt the Fellow.

_Buckaneers_, West-Indian Pirates, of several Nations; also the Rude Rabble in _Jamaica_.

_Buckle_, to Bend or give Way. _He’ll buckle to no Man_, he won’t Yield or Stoop to any Man.

_Buck_, _Great Buck_, the Sixth Year. _Buck of the first Head_, the Fifth Year, a _Sore_, the Fourth Year, a _Sorel_, the Third Year, a _Pricket_, the Second Year, a _Fawn_, the First Year. _A Buck Lodgeth._ _Rouze the Buck_, Dislodge him. _A Buck Growneth or Troateth_, makes a Noise at Rutting time.

_Buck-fitches_, c. old Leacherous, Nasty, Stinking Fellows; also He Polecats, and their Fur.

_Buck’s Face_, a Cuckold.

_Buck_, Copulation of Conies.

_Bucksom_, Wanton, Merry.

_Budge_, c. one that slips into an House in the Dark, and taketh Cloaks, Coats, or what comes next to Hand, marching off with them; also Lambs-fur, and to stir, or move. _Standing Budge_, c. the Thieves Scout or Perdu.

_Bufe_, c. a Dog.

_Buffcoat_, a Soldier, or Redcoat.

_Buffer_, c. a Rogue that kills good sound Horses, only for their Skins, by running a long Wyre into them, and sometimes knocking them on the Head, for the quicker Dispatch.

_Buffenapper_, c. a Dog-stealer, that Trades in _Setters_, _Hounds_, _Spaniels_, _Lap_, and all sorts of Dogs, Selling them at a round Rate, and himself or Partner Stealing them away the first opportunity.

_Buffers-nab_, c. a Dog’s Head, used in a Counterfeit Seal to a false Pass.

_Buffle-head_, a Foolish Fellow.

_Buffoon_, a Great Man’s Jester or Fool.

_Buffoonery_, Jesting or playing the Fool’s Part. _To stand Buff_, to stand Tightly or Resolutely to any thing.

_Bugher_, c. a Dog.

_Bugging_, c. taking Money by Bailiffs and Serjeants of the Defendant not to Arrest him.

_Busy-bodies_, Pryers into other Folks Concerns, such as thrust their Sickle in another’s Harvest; and will have an Oar in every Boat. _As busy as a Hen with one Chick_, of one that has a great deal of business and nothing to do.

_Bulchim_, a Chubbingly Boy or Lad.

_Bulls-Eye_, c. a Crown or Five shilling Piece.

_Bull-head_, see Miller’s Thumb.

_Bull_, an absurd contradiction or incongruity; also false Hair worn (formerly much) by Women. _A Town-bull_, a Whore-master. _To look like Bull-beef_, to look Big and Grim.

_Bulk and File_, c. one jostles while the other Picks the Pocket.

_Bulker_, c. one that lodges all Night on Shop-windows and Bulkheads.

_Bulky_, strong like common Oyl, also of large bulk or size.

_Bullet-headed_, a dull silly Fellow.

_Bully_, c. a supposed Husband to a Bawd, or Whore; also a huffing Fellow.

_Bully huff_, c. a poor sorry Rogue that haunts Bawdy-houses, and pretends to get Money out of Gentlemen and others, Ratling and Swearing the Whore is his Wife, calling to his assistance a parcel of Hectors.

_Bully-fop_, c. a Maggot-pated, huffing, silly ratling Fellow.

_Bully-rock_, c. a Hector, or Bravo.

_Bully-ruffins_, c. Highway-men, or Padders.

_Bully-trap_, c. or _Trapan_, c. a Sharper, or Cheat.

_Bum_, a Bailiff, or Serjeant; also one’s Breech.

_Bumbast_, see Bombast.

_Bumbaste_, to Beat much, or hard, on the Breech.

_Bumble_, Cloaths setting in a heap, or ruck.

_Bumfodder_, what serves to wipe the Tail.

_Bumpkin_, a Country Fellow or Clown.

_Bumper_, a full Glass.

_Bundletail_, a short Fat or squat Lass.

_Bungler_, an unperforming Husband, or Mechanic.

_Bung_, c. a Purse, Pocket, or Fob.

_Bung-nipper_, c. a Cut-purse, or Pickpocket. _Claying the Bung_, c. cutting the Purse, or Picking the Pocket.

_Bunting-time_, when the Grass is high enough to hide the young Men and Maids.

_Buntlings_, c. Pettycoats. _Hale up the Main-buntlings_, c. take up the Woman’s Pettycoats.

_Bunny_, a Rabbit.

_Bur_, a Cloud, or dark Circle about the Moon, boding Wind and Rain; also the part next to the Deer’s Head.

_Burlesque_, Raillery in Verse, or Verse in Ridicule.

_Burnish_, to spread, or grow broad; also to refresh Plate, being the Trade of a

_Burnisher_, depending on Gold and Silver-Smiths.

_Burnt_, Poxt, or swingingly Clapt.

_Burnt the Town_, when the Soldiers leave the Place without paying their Quarters.

_Burre_, a Hanger on, or Dependant.

_Bustle_, a Fray, Stir, Tumult in the Streets; also a Noise in any Place. What a Bustle you make? What a Hurry or Rattle you Cause? _Bustle about_, to be very Stirring, or bestir one’s Stumps.

_Butcher’d_, Barbarously Murder’d on the Ground, or Kill’d before his Sword is out; also in Cold Bloud.

_Butter_, c. to double or treble the Bet or Wager to recover all Losses: _No Butter will stick on his Bread_, nothing thrives or goes forward in his Hand. _He knows on which side his Bread is Butter’d_, or the Stronger side, and his own Interest.

_Butter-boxes_, Dutchmen.

_Butter’d Bun_, Lying with a Woman that has been just Layn with by another Man.

_Buttock_, c. a Whore.

_Buttock-broker_, a Bawd, also a Match-maker. _A Buttock and File_, c. both Whore and Pickpocket.

_Buttock and Twang, or a downright Buttock and sham File_, c. a Common Whore but no Pickpocket.

_Buzzard_, c. a foolish soft Fellow, easily drawn in and Cullied or Trickt.

_By-blow_, a Bastard.

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_Cabal_, a secret Junto of Princes, a seated knot of Statesmen, or of Conspirators against the State in Counter-Cabal.

_Cabbage_, a Taylor, and what they pinch from the Cloaths they make up; also that part of the Deer’s Head where the Horns are Planted.

_Cabob_, a Loin of Mutton Roasted with an Onyon betwixt each joint; a _Turkish_ and _Persian_ Dish but now used in _England_.

_Cacafuego_, a Shite-fire; also a furious fierce Felow.

_Cackle_, c. to discover. _The Cull Cackles_, c. the Rogue tells all.

_Cackling-cheats_, c. Chickens, Cocks or Hens.

_Cackling-farts_, c. Eggs.

_Cadet_, or _Cadee_, a Gentleman that Bears Arms in hopes of a Commission; also a younger Brother.

_Caffan_, c. Cheese.

_Cakehis_, _Cake is Dough_, of a Miscarriage or failure of Business. _The Devil ow’d her a Cake, and has pai’d her a Loaf_, when instead of a small, a very great Disaster or Misfortune has happen’d to a Woman.

_Call_, a Lesson, Blowed on the Horn to comfort the Hounds.

_Caliver_, a small Sea-Gun.

_Calle_, c. a Cloak or Gown.

_Cambridge-Fortune_, a Woman without any Substance.

_Cameleon-Diet_, Air, or a very thin slender Diet.

_Cameronians_, Field-Conventiclers, (in _Scotland_) great outward Zealots, and very squeemish Precisians.

_Camesa_, c. a Shirt or Shift.

_Campaign-coat_, Originally only such as Soldiers wore, but afterwards a Mode in Cities. See _Surtout_.

_Canary-Bird_, a little Arch or Knavish, a very Wag.

_Cane upon Abel_, a good Stick or Cudgel well-favoredly laid on a Man’s Shoulders.

_Canal_, a Channel, Kennel, Pipe, Passage, fine Pond, or small River.

_Cannal_, choice Coals, very Fat or Pitchy that Blaze and Burn pleasantly.

_Canibal_, a cruel rigid Fellow in dealing; also Men-Eaters.

_Cank_, c. Dumb. _The Cull’s Cank_, c. the Rogue’s Dumb.

_Cannikin_, c. the Plague, also (among the _Dutch_) a little Kan with a Spout to pour out the Wine or Beer, making it Froth _As great as Cup and Cann_; or _as great as two Inkle-makers_.

_Cant_, c. to speak, also (Cheshire) to grow Strong and Lusty; also to Kick or throw any thing away.

_Canterbury_, a sort of a short or Hand-gallop; from the Road leading to that famous City (of _Kent_) on which they Ride (for the most part) after that manner.

_Canting_, c. the Cypher or Mysterious Language, of Rogues, Gypsies, Beggers, Thieves, _&c._

_Canting-crew_, c. Beggers, Gypsies; also Dissenters in Conventicles, who affect a disguised Speech, and disguised Modes of Speaking, and distinguish themselves from others by a peculiar Snuffle and Tone, as the Shibboleth of their Party; as Gypsies and Beggers have their peculiar Jargon; and are known no less by their several Tones in Praying, than Beggers are by their whining Note in Begging.

_Cap_, c. to Swear. _I’ll Cap downright_, c. I’ll Swear home. Or (in another Sense) _he may fling up his Cap after it_, when a thing or business is past Hope.

_Capitation-Drugget_, a Cheap, Slight Stuff, called so from the Tax of that Name.

_Capricious_, Whimsical, Fantastic, Freakish.

_Captain-Hackum_, c. a Fighting, Blustring Bully.

_Captain-Queere nabs_, c. a Fellow in poor Cloths, or Shabby.

_Captain-Sharp_, c. a great Cheat; also a Huffing, yet Sneaking, Cowardly Bully; and a noted English Buckaneer.

_Captain-Tom_, a Leader of, and the Mob.

_Captious_, Touchy, Snuffy, apt to take Exception.

_Caravan_, c. a good round sum of Money about a Man, and him that is Cheated of it; also a great Convoy of _Arabian_, _Grecian_, _Persian_, _Turkish_, and other Merchants, Travelling with Camels from Place to Place; also a sort of Wagon.

_Carbuncle-Face_, very Red and full of large Pimples.

_Card-Wool_, to cleanse and prepare it for Spinning: Also a Game; _a sure Card_, a trusty Tool, or Confiding Man; a _cooling Card_, cold comfort, no hope; a _Leading Card_, an Example or Precedent.

_Cargo_, c. a good round Sum of Money about a Man; also the Lading of a Ship.

_Carouse_, to Drink hard, or Quaff heartily.

_Carpet-road_, Level and very good.

_Carriers_, Pigeons that will with safety, and almost incredible Swiftness convey Letters from one Place to another, much used at _Smyrna_ and _Aleppo_; also Milk-womens Hirelings, or Servants, that carry the Pail Morning and Evening.

_Carrots_, Red hair’d People, from the Colour of the well known Root of that Name, whence came

_Carrot-pated_, used in derision.

_Carted-Whore_, Whipt publickly, and packt out of Town. _The Cart before the Horse_, of a thing preposterous, and out of Place.

_Cash_, c. Cheese.

_Case_, c. a House, Shop, or Ware-house; also a Bawdy-house. _Toute the Case_, c. to view, mark, or eye the House or Shop. _There’s a peerey, ’tis snitcht_, c. there are a great many People, there’s no good to be done. _’Tis all Bob, and then to dub the gigg_, c. now the coast is clear, there’s good Booty, let’s fall on, and Rob the House. A _Case fro_, c. a Whore that Plies in a Bawdy-house.

_Caster_, c. a Cloak.

_Cast_, to Bowl. _A bad cast_, an ill laid Bowl, or at great distance from the Jack. _He is Cast for Felon and Dose_, c. found guilty of Felony and Burglary.

_Cat_, a common Whore or Prostitute.

_Catch-fart_, a Foot-Boy.

_Catching-harvest_, when the Weather is Showery and Unsettled.

_Catch-pole_, a Serjeant, or Bayliff that Arrests People.

_Cat-in-pan_, turn’d, of one that has chang’d Sides or Parties. _Who shall hang the Bell about the Cat’s Neck_, said of a desperate Undertaking.

_Catchup_, a high _East-India_ Sauce.

_Caterwauling_, Men and Women desirous of Copulation, a Term borrowed from Cats.

_Cathedral_, old-fashioned, out of Date, Ancient; also a chief Church in a Bishop’s See.

_Catharpin-fashion_, when People in Company Drink cross, and not round about from the Right to the Left, or according to the Sun’s motion; also small Ropes to keep the Shrouds, taut or tight, and the Mast from Rolling.

_Catting_, drawing a Fellow through a Pond with a Cat.

_Catstick_, used by Boies at Trap-ball.

_Cattle_, Whores. _Sad Cattle_, Impudent Lewd Women.

_Catmatch_, c. when a Rook is Engag’d amongst bad Bowlers.

_Cavalcade_, a publick Show on Horseback.

_Cavaulting School_, c. a Bawdy-house.

_Caudge-paw’d_, Left Handed.

_Caveating_, or _Disengaging_, flipping the Adversary’s Sword, when ’tis going to bind or secure one’s own.

_Caw-handed_, awkward not dextrous, ready or nimble.

_Changeable-ribbon_, or _Silks_, of diverse Colours, resembling those of Doves-necks, or of the _Opal_ Stone.

_Chafe_, _in a great Chafe_, a great heat or pet. _To Chafe_, to fret or fume. _Chafing_, fretting or fuming, _Chafing and fretting_, being the same with fretting and fuming, hence a

_Chafing dish_, that carries Fire.

_Chaft_, c. well beaten or bang’d; also much rub’d or bath’d.

_Chagrin_, moody, out of humour, pensive, melancholy, much troubled.

_Chalk_, used in Powder by the Perfumers to mix with their _Grounds_; and also scented Hair-Powders, being cheap and weighing heavy; found to Burn and destroy Wiggs and all Hair in general.

_Chanticlere_, a Cock.

_Chape_, the Tip at the End of a Fox’s Tail; also the Cap at the End of the Scabbard of a Sword.

_Character_, a distinguishing Sign or Mark of Distinction, the same among Great Men or Ministers, that a Badge is among Low and little People. As _a Man of Character_, of Mark or Note, as Privy-Chancellors, Judges, Foreign Ministers, Ministers of State, _&c._

_Chare-women_, Under-drudges, or Taskers, assistants to Servantmaids.

_Char_, a Task or Work. _A good Char well Char’d_, a Work well over.

_Chates_, c. the Gallows.

_Chat_, Talk, Prate.

_Chatter_, to Talk fast or jabber.

_Chattering fellow_, a noisy prating Man.

_Chatts_, c. Lice. _Squeeze the Chatts_, c. to Crack or Kill those Vermin.

_Cheap_, Contemptible. _How Cheap you make your self_, how Contemptible you render your self or undervalue your self.

_Chear_, _good_ or _bad_, high or ordinary fare. _How Chear you?_ How fare you? _Chear up_, be of good courage, hence _chearful_, or _chearly_, for one in Heart, or that keeps up his Spirits, _prety chearly_, indifferent hearty or lightsom.

_Cheats_, Sharpers, which see; also Wristbands or sham Sleeves worn (in good Husbandry) for true, or whole ones.

_Chicken_, a feeble, little creature, of mean Spirit; whence _a Chicken-hearted Fellow_, or _Hen-hearted Fellow_, a Dastard.

_Childish_, Foolish.

_Childing-women_, Breeding.

_China-Ale_, From the well known _East-Indian_ Drug of that Name, of which they ought to put some, but they seldom do any into it, making it sweet only and adding a little Spice.

_Chink_, c. Money, because it chinks in the Pocket.

_Chip_, a Child.

_Chip of the old Block_, a Son that is his Father’s likeness; more particularly the Son of a Cooper, or one brought up to the same Trade.

_Chirping-merry_, very pleasant over a Glass of good Liquor.

_Chit_, a Dandyprat, or Dergen.

_Chittiface_, a little puiny Child.

_Chitchat_, idle Prate, or empty Talk.

_Chive_, c. a Knife.

_Chop_, to change, or barter.

_Chopping-boy_, a bouncing Boy. _To chop up Prayers_, to huddle them up, or slubber them over in posthast. _A Chop by chance_, a rare Contingence, an extraordinary or uncommon Event, out of course.

_Chopps_, (of a Man) his Face (of Mutton) a Bone or Cut.

_Chounter_, to talk pertly, and (sometimes) angrily.

_Chouse_, to cheat or trick.

_Chop-houses_, where Both boyl’d and roast Mutton (in chopps) are alwayes ready.

_Chub_, c. _he is a young chub, or a meer chub_, c. very ignorant or inexperienc’d in gaming, not at all acquainted with Sharping. _A good Chub_, said by the Butchers; when they have met with a silly raw Customer and they have Bit him.

_Chuck-farthing_, a Parish-Clerk (in the Satyr against Hypocrites) also a Play among Boies.

_Chum_, a Chamber-fellow, or constant Companion.

_Church-yard-cough_, that will terminate in Death.

_Churl_, an Ill-natur’d Fellow; a selfish, sordid Clown. _To put a Churl upon a Gentleman_, to Drink Ale or any Mault-Liquor immediately after Wine.

_Ciento_, an old Game at Cards.

_Citt_, for Citizen.

_Civil List_, all the Officers and Servants in the King’s Family.

_Clack_, a Woman’s Tongue.

_Clammed_, Starved, or Famished.

_Clan_, Family, Tribe, Faction, Party in _Scotland_ chiefly, but now anywhere else.

_Clank_, c. a Silver-tankard.

_Clanker_, a swinging Lie.

_Clank-napper_, c. a Silver-tankard Stealer. See _Bubber_.

_Rum-clank_, c. a large Silver-tankard. _Tip me a rum Clank a Booz_, c. give me a double Tankard of Drink.

_Clap_, a Venereal Taint.

_Clapperclaw’d_, beat soundly, or paid off in earnest.

_Clapperdogeon_, c. a Begger-born and Bred.

_Clark_, or _Clerk_, Scholar or Book-learned.

_Clerk-ship_, or _Clergy_, Scholarship or Book-learning, though of late the one be more restrained to a Clergyman, and the other appropriate to a Clergyman’s Skill or Qualifications; because it may be heretofore, none but the Clergy were learned, or so much as taught to Read. Hence the _Benefit of Clergy_, (or Reading) _&c._ _legit ut Clericus_, in the Law, for him that cou’d Read his Neck-verse, like a Clerk or Scholar, when so few perhaps were Scholars or Clerks, that every one that could but only Read, passed for no less: We say still, the greatest Clarks (or Scholars) are not the Wisest Men: And the Scots much to the same Effect. An Ounce of Mother-Wit is worth a Pound of Clergy, or Book-learning.

_Claw’d off_, lustily lasht, also swingingly Poxt.

_Clear_, c. very Drunk. _The Cull is clear, let’s Bite him._ c. The Fellow is Damn’d Drunk, let’s Sharp him.

_Cleave_, has two contrary Senses under one Sound; for _to cleave_, (Verb Neuter) is to cling close or stick fast, and _to cleave_, (verb Active) is to part or divide; as to cleave asunder, when _Cleft_ and _Cloven_.

_Clench_, a pun or quible; also to nick a Business by timing it.

_Cleymes_, c. Sores without Pain raised on Beggers Bodies by their own Artifice and cunning, (to move charity) by bruising Crows-foot, Speerwort, and Salt together, and clapping them on the 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 Arsnick, which makes it look angrily or ill favoredly, as if it were a real Sore.

_Click_, c. to Snatch. _I have Clickt the Nab from the Cull_, c. I whipt the Hat from the Man’s Head. _Click the rum Topping_, c. Snatch that Woman’s fine Commode.

_Clicker_, the Shoemaker’s Journey-man, or Servant, that Cutts out all the Work, and stands at or walks before the Door, and saies, what d’ye’ lack Sir, what d’ye buy Madam.

_Clicket_, Copulation of Foxes, and sometimes, used waggishly for that of Men and Women.

_Clinker_, c. a crafty Fellow.

_Clinkers_, c. the Irons Felons wear in Goals.

_Clip_, to hug or embrace. _To clip and cling_, of a close hug or fast embrace. _To Clip the Coin_, to diminish or Impair it. _To clip the King’s English_, not to Speak Plain, when one’s Drunk.

_Clod-hopper_, c. a Plough-man.

_Clodpate_, a heavy, dull Fellow.

_Close_, reserv’d, silent, not talkative, or open.

_Close-confident_, a trusty Bosom-friend.

_Close-fisted_, covetous, stingy, pinching.

_Clotts_, or thick dropps of Bloud clottered or in clots.

_Cloud_, c. Tobacco. _Will ye raise a Cloud_, c. shall we Smoke a Pipe?

_Clouds_, or _Cloudy-Sky_, in opposition to clear open Sky; as _Clouds in Gemms and Stones_, to clear ones; and _Clouded Fate_, to a clear pleasant one. _Under a Cloud_, in disgrace, under misfortunes or disasters; _Speaks in the Clouds_, of one that flies or soars in Talking above the common reach or capacity.

_Cloudy_, dark complexion’d.

_Clout_, c. a Handkerchief.

_Cloy_, c. to Steal. _Cloy the Clout_, c. to Steal the Handkerchief. _Cloy the Lour_, c. to Steal the Money; also, in another Sense, _to Cloy_, is to Nauseate or Satiate.

_Cloyers_, c. Thieves, Robbers, Rogues.

_Cloying_, c. Stealing, Thieving, Robbing; also Fulsom or Satiating.

_Clowes_, c. Rogues.

_Clown_, a Country-Fellow, also one very Ill-bred or unmannerly, Being.

_Clownish_, rustical, unpolish’d, uncouth.

_Club_, each Man’s particular Shot, also a Society of Men agreeing to meet according to a Scheme of Orders under a slight Penalty to promote Trade and Friendship.

_Cluck_, the noise made by Hens, when they set upon their Eggs to Hatch and are disturb’d, or come off to Eat, and also when they wou’d have Eggs put under them for that purpose.

_Clump_, a Heap or Lump.

_Clunch_, a clumsy Clown, an awkward or unhandy Fellow.

_Clutch the Fist_, or close the Hand, whence _Clutches_. I’ll keep out of your Clutches or Claws; _the Clutches of the Parish_, the Constable or Beadle.

_Clutchfisted_, the same as Closefisted.

_Clutter_, Stir. _What a Clutter you keep?_ What a stir you make?

_Cly_, c. Money. _To Cly the Jerk_, c. to be Whipt. _Let’s strike his Cly_, c. let’s get his Money from him; also a Pocket, _Filed a cly_, c. Pickt a Pocket.

_Coach-wheel_, { _Fore_ { _Half a Crown._ { _Hind_ { _A Crown or Five Shilling-Piece._

_Coals to Newcastle_ when the Drawer carries away any Wine in the Pot or Bottle. _To blow the Coals_, to raise differences between Parties. _He’ll carry no Coals_, not be Pissed upon, or Imposed upon, nor bear a Trick, or take an Affront, or tamely pass by any ill Treatment. _Let him that has need blow the Coals_, Let him Labour that wants.

_Cob_, a Dollar (in _Ireland_.)

_Cobble_, to mend or patch.

_Cobbled_, bunglingly done.

_Cobble-colter_, c. a Turkey. _A rum Cobble-colter_, c. a fat large Cock-Turkey.

_Cobweb-cheat_, easily found out.

_Cobweb-pretence_, slight, trivial, weak.

_Cock-a-hoop_, upon the high Ropes Rampant, Transported.

_Cockish_, wanton uppish, forward.

_Cockale_, pleasant Drink, said to be provocative.

_Cock-baw’d_, a Man that follows that base Employment.

_Cocker_, one skill’d in, or much delighted with the sport of Cock-fighting.

_Cockney_, Born within the Sound of Bow-bell; (in _London_) also one ignorant in Country Matters.

_Cock-oyster_, the Male.

_Cock pimp_, a Supposed Husband to a Bawd.

_Cock-robbin_, a soft easy Fellow.

_Cock-sure_, very Sure.

_Cod_, a good sum of Money; also a Fool. _A meer Cod_, a silly, shallow Fellow. _A rum Cod_, c. a good round sum of Money. _A jolly or lusty Cod_, c. the same. _An honest Cod_, a trusty Friend.

_Codders_, gatherers of Peascods.

_Cod’s Head_, a Fool.