Part 3

_Codsounds_, the Pith or Marrow in the Cod’s Back, esteem’d as choice Peck.

_Cofe_, c. as Cove.

_Cog_, to cheat at Dice, _Cog a Die_, to conceal or secure a Die; also the Money or whatever the _Sweetners_ drop to draw in the Bubbles; also to wheedle, as _Cog a Dinner_, to wheedle a Spark out of a Dinner.

_Cogue_, of Brandy, a small Cup or Dram.

_Coker_, c. a Lye, _rum Coker_, c. a whisking Lye.

_Cokes_, the Fool in the Play, or Bartholomew-Fair, and hence (perhaps) Coxcomb.

_Cold_, shy, or averse to Act.

_Cold-Tea_, Brandy. _A couple of cold words_, a Curtain-Lecture. _Cold-Iron_, Derisory Periphrasis for a Sword. _In cold Blood_, when the heat of War, or Passion are over. _The Matter will keep cold_, it will stay a while, and not be the worse for keeping.

_Cole_, c. Money.

_Coliander-seed_, c. Money.

_Collation_, a Treat or Entertainment.

_College_, c. Newgate; also the Royal Exchange.

_Collegiates_, c. those Prisoners and Shop-keepers.

_Collogue_, wheedle.

_Colquarron_, c. a Man’s Neck.

_Colt_, c. an Inn-keeper that lends a Horse to a Highway-man, or to Gentlemen Beggers; also a Lad newly bound Prentice.

_Coltish_, said when an old Fellow is frolicksom or wanton; or he has a Colt’s Tooth.

_Colt bowl_, laid short of the Jack by a

_Colt bowler_, a raw or unexperienc’d Person.

_Colt-veal_, very red.

_Come_, c. to Lend. _Has he come it?_ c. has he lent it you?

_Comical_, very pleasant, or diverting.

_Coming-women_, such as are free of their Flesh; also breeding Women.

_Commission_, c. a Shirt.

_Commode_, a Woman’s Head-dress, easily put on, and as soon taken off.

_Common garden-gout_, or rather Covent-garden, the Pox.

_Common Women_, Whores, Plyers in the Streets and at Bawdy-Houses.

_Complement_, the Ship’s or Regiment’s compleat Number or Company.

_Comfortable Importance_, a Wife.

_Conceited_, a Self-lover, and Admirer, Wise in his own Opinion.

_Coney-sitteth_.

_Confect_, c. Counterfeit.

_Conger_, a Set or Knot of Topping Book-sellers of _London_, who agree among themselves, that whoever of them Buys a good Copy, the rest are to take off such a particular number, as (it may be) Fifty, in Quires, on easy Terms. Also they that joyn together to Buy either a Considerable, or Dangerous Copy. And a great over-grown Sea-Eel.

_Conjurers_, _Astrologers_, _Physiognomists_, _Chiromancers_, and the whole Tribe of Fortune-tellers, by the common People (Ignorantly) so called.

_Consent_, Leave, Approbation, Agreement. _Affected by Consent_, as one Sore Eye infects the other, (unseen) because they are both strung with one Optic Nerve: As in two Strings set to an Unison, upon the Touch of One, the other will Sound.

_Consult of Physicians_, Two, or more.

_Content_, a thick Liquor, made up in Rolls in imitation of Chocolate, Sold in some Coffee-Houses.

_Contre-temps_, making a Pass or Thrust without any advantage, or to no purpose.

_Convenient_, c. a Mistress; also a Whore.

_Conveniency_, c. a Wife; also a Mistress.

_Conundrums_, Whimms, Maggots, and such like.

_Cony_, a silly Fellow, _a meer Cony_, very silly indeed.

_Cook-ruffin_, c. the Devil of a Cook, or a very bad one.

_Cool-crape_, a slight Chequer’d Stuff made in imitation of Scotch Plad.

_Cooler_, a Woman.

_Cool-Lady_, a Wench that sells Brandy (in Camps).

_Cool nantz_, Brandy.

_Cool Tankard_, Wine and Water, with a Lemon, Sugar and Nutmeg.

_Copper-nos’d_, extremely Red.

_Coquet_, a flippant, pert Gossip.

_Corky-brain’d_ Fellow, silly, foolish.

_Corinthian_, a very impudent, harden’d, brazen-fac’d Fellow.

_Cornish-hug_, a hard gripe, or squeeze.

_Corn-jobber_, an Enhancer of the Price, by early buying, monopolizing, and sharp tricks. _A great Harvest of a little Corn_, a great adoe in a little Matter. _He measures my Corn by his own Bushel_, _he muses as he uses_, he thinks me Bad because he is so himself.

_Cornuted_, made a Cuckold of.

_Corny-fac’d_, a very Red or Blue pimpled Phiz.

_Cosset_, a Fondling Child.

_Cosset-Colt or Lamb_, brought up by Hand, made Tame, and used to follow any Body about the House.

_Costard_, the Head, _I’ll give ye a knock on the Costard_, I’ll hit ye a blow on the Pate.

_Coster-monger_, a Wholesale Dealer in Apples, Pears, _&c._

_Cot_ for _Cotquean_, a Man that meddles with Womens matters.

_Cotton_, _they don’t cotton_, they don’t agree well.

_Cote_, a sorry, slight Country-House or Hovel, now a _Cottage_. Hence the Compounds yet in use, of _Dove-cote_, _Sheep-cote_, &c.

_Couchee_, going to Bed _I was at Court at the Couchee_, I attended the King at his going to Bed.

_Couch a Hogs-head_, c. to go to Bed.

_Cove_, c. a Man, a Fellow, also a Rogue. _The Cove was bit_, c. the Rogue was out-sharp’d or out-witted. _The Cove has bit the Cole_, c. The Rogue has Stolen the Money. _The Cove’s a rum Diver_, c. that Fellow is a cleaver Pick-pocket.

_Covey of Whores_, a well fill’d Bawdy-house; also of _Partridges_, a Nest or Brood.

_Counterfeit-cranks_, c. the Twentieth Rank or Order of the Canting Tribe.

_Counterfeit_, a Cheat Or Impostor. _A Counterfeiter of Hands_, a Forger. _A Counterfeiter of Persons_, a Sham. _Counterfeit Gemms or Jewels_, Bristol-stones. Counterfeits, for the most part exceed the Truth. Thus a Flatterer pleases more than a Friend; a Braggadochio-coward thunders more than a Hero; a Mountebank promises more than a Doctor, and a Hypocrite over-acts a Religious Man, as a Counterfeit Gem is often fairer than a True one.

_Country-put_, a silly Country-Fellow.

_Couped up_, Imprison’d, Environ’d, Surrounded Pent up.

_Court-promises_, fair Speeches, or empty Promises without performances. Much the same with Court-holy-water. _Court-card_, a gay fluttering Fellow. _Court-tricks_, State-Policy.

_Course_, or rather

_Coarse_, homely, ord’nary, oppos’d to fine; as _Coarse treatment_, rough or rude Dealing; _Coarse fare_, homely Food; _a Coarse Dish_, a mean one; _Coarse or Hard-Favor’d_, oppos’d to Fair or Handsom. _Of Course_ of Custom; _out of Course_, extraordinary, or out of the way; _a Horse-Course_ a Race, also the place where the Race is Run. _A Water-course_, a Drain. _Course of Law_, the proceedings, at Law, _The Law must have its Course_, or run freely. _I’ll take a Course with you_, I’ll hamper ye, or stick close on your Skirts. _A Course of Physick_, an Order or set Constitution of Physick, for a continuance or course of time. _Course of the Sun_, _Yearly or Daily_, a Yearly or Daily Revolution, _Course of the Moon_, the Circle of a Month.

_Court-holy-water_, Court Promises.

_Cow-hearted_, fearful or Hen-hearted.

_Cows-thumb_, when a thing is done exactly, nicely, or to a Hair.

_Cows-baby_, a Calf.

_Coxcomb_, a Fool; _a silly Coxcomb_, a very foolish Fellow.

_Crabbed_, sower, churls.

_Crab-lice_, { Cock, Male. } Vermin breeding in Moist and Hairy Parts { Hen, Female. } of the Body.

_Crack_, c. a Whore.

_Cracker_, c. an Arse; also Crust.

_Crackish_, c. Whorish.

_Cracking_, Boasting, Vaporing. _Crackt credit_, Lost, Gone. Broken. _Crackt-title_, Unsound _Crackt-brains_, lost Wits.

_Crackmans_, c. Hedges.

_Cramped_, a weight with a string tied to one’s Toe, when a Sleep, much used by School-boies, one to another; also obstructed or hampered in any Business whatever.

_Crag_, a Neck; also a Rock.

_Cramp-rings_, c. Bolts or Shackles.

_Cramp-words_, difficult or uncommon.

_Crank_, brisk, pert.

_Cranksided-ship_, that does not bear Sail well.

_Cranked-shells_ or _Stones_, wrinkled or wreathed.

_Crap_, c. Money. _Nim the Crap_, c. to Steal the Money. _Wheedle for Crap_, c. to coakse Money out of any Body.

_Crash_, c. to Kill.

_Crash the Cull_, c. Kill the Fellow.

_Crashing-cheats_, c. Teeth.

_Craz’d_, Mad.

_Crazy_, infirm or distemper’d.

_Creatures_, Men raised by others, and their _Tools_ ever after.

_Creeme_, to slip or slide any thing into another’s Hand.

_Crew_, the Coxon and Rowers in the Barge, or Pinnace, are called the _Boats-crew_, in distinction from the Complement of Men on Board the Ship, who are term’d the _Ships-company_, not _Crew_; also an ill Knot or Gang, as a _Crew of Rogues_.

_Crimp_, one that undertakes for, or agrees to unlade a whole Ship of Coals. _To play Crimp_, to lay or bet on one side, and (by foul play) to let t’other win, having a share of it. _Run a Crimp_, to run a Race or Horse-match fouly or knavishly. _He Crimps it_, he plays booty. _A Crimping Fellow_, a sneaking Cur.

_Crinkums_, the French Pox.

_Crispin_, a Shoe-maker, from the St. of that Name, their Patron.

_Crispin’s Holy-day_, ev’ry Munday in the Year, but more particularly the Twenty fifth of _October_, whereon the whole Fraternity fail not to lay they Hearts in Soak.

_Crochets_ in the crown, whimsies, Maggots.

_Crockers_, Forestallers, Regraters, see _Badgers_.

_Croker_, c. a Groat or Four-pence. _The Cull tipt me a Croker_, c. the Fellow gave me a Groat.

_Crony_, a Camerade or intimate Friend; _an old Crony_, one of long standing; used also for a tough old Hen.

_Crop_, one with very short Hair; also a Horse whose Ears are Cut.

_Crop-ear’d-Fellow_, whose Hair is so short it won’t hide his Ears.

_Croppin-ken_, c. a Privy, or Bog-house.

_Crop-sick_, Stomack-sick.

_Crossbite_, c. to draw in a Friend, yet snack with the Sharper.

_Crosspatch_, a peevish froward Person.

_Crotiles_, Hares Excrements.

_Crow-over_, to insult or domineer. _To pluck a Crow with one_, to have a bout with him. _Strut like a Crow in a Gutter_, said in jeer of the Stalking of a proud Fellow. _The Crow thinks her own Bird the Fairest_, applied to those that dote on their foul issues. _As good Land as any the Crow Flies over_, with regard it may be, to the Crow’s being a long Liver; as _no Carrion will kill a Crow_, to his being so hardy a Bird.

_Crowder_, a Fidler.

_Crown_, the top of the Head or Hat; Imperial or Regal Crown. _Where the Earth is raised_ it is said, to be Crown’d with Hills, in Poetry. _The End Crowns all_, said both of the Event of Actions, and Finishing of Works. _In the Crown-Office_, Drunk; also _to Crown_, to pour on the Head.

_Cruisers_, c. Beggers; also nimble Friggats Coasting to and fro for Prizes, and to carry Orders, _&c._

_Crump_, c. one that helps Sollicitors to _Affidavit-men_, and _Swearers_, and _Bail_, who for a small Sum will be Bound or Swear for any Body; on that occasion, putting on good Cloaths to make a good appearance, that Bail may be accepted.

_Crump-back’d_, Crooked or Huncht-backt.

_Crumplings_, wrinkled Codlings, usually the least, but sweetest.

_Crusty-beau_, one that lies with a Cover over his Face all Night, and uses Washes, Paint, _&c._

_Cub_, or _young Cub_, c. a new Gamester drawn in to be rookt; also a young Bear, a Fox, and a Martern the first Year.

_Cucumbers_, Taylers.

_Cucumber-time_, Taylers Holiday, when they have leave to Play, and Cucumbers are in season.

_Cudgelliers_, a Mob rudely arm’d; also Cudgel-Players.

_Cuffin_, c. a Man.

_Cuffin-quire_, c. see Quire-cuffin.

_Culp_, a kick, or blow, also a bit of any thing.

_Culp of the Gutts_, (Suffolk) a hearty kick at the Belly.

_Cull_, _Cully_, c. a Man, a Fop, a Rogue, a Fool or silly Creature that is easily drawn in and Cheated by Whores or Rogues. _Cully napps us_, c. the Person Robb’d, apprehends us. _A Bob-cull_, c. a sweet-humour’d Man to a Whore, and who is very Complaisant. _A Curst-cull_, c. an ill-natur’d Fellow, a Churl to a Woman.

_Culm_, the small or dust of Sea-coal.

_Cunning-shaver_, a sharp Fellow.

_Cup-shot_, Drunk.

_Cup of Comfort_, as

_Cup of the Creature_, Strong-liquor. _A Cup too low_, when any of the Company are mute or pensive. _To carry one’s Cup even between two Parties_, to be equal and indifferent, between them. _Many things fall out between the Cup and the Lip_, or many things intervene between the forming and accomplishing a Design.

_Cur_, a Dog of a mungrel Breed, good for nothing.

_Curle_, c. Clippings of Money.

_Currish-fellow_, snapping, snarling.

_Curmudgeon_, an old Covetous Fellow, a Miser.

_Currant-coyn_, good and Lawful Money. _Currant Custom_, a received custom, the

_Current_, Stream; also humor or bent of the People.

_Cursitors_, c. Vagabonds; the first (old) Rank of Canters.

_Curst_, _a curst Cur_, a sower, surly, snarling, fierce Dog; a Curst Cow has short Horns.

_Curtals_, c. the Eleventh Rank of the Canting Crew.

_Curtail’d_, cut off, shorten’d.

_Curtezan_, a gentile fine Miss or Quality Whore.

_Curtain-Lecture_, Womens impertinent Scolding at their Husbands.

_Cushion_, _beside the Cushion_, beside the Mark.

_Cut_, Drunk. _Deep Cut_, very Drunk. _Cut in the Leg or Back_, very drunk. _To Cut_, c. to Speak. _To Cut bene_, c. to Speak gently, civilly or kindly; _to Cut bene_ (or _bennar_) _Whidds_, c. to give good Words. _To Cut quire whidds_, c. to give ill Language. _A Cut_ or _Chop_ of Meat. _Cut and come again_, of Meat that cries come Eat me. _A cutting wind_, very sharp. _Of the precize Cut or Stamp_, a demure starcht Fellow. _No Present to be made of Knives, because they Cut kindness. Ready Cut and Dried, or turned for the purpose._ _Not Cut out for it_, nor turned for it. _To Cut another out of any business_, to out-doe him far away, or excell, or circumvent. _I’ll cut you out business_, I’ll find you Work enough. A Book with Cuts or Figures; Brass or Wooden Cutts or Prints from Copper-plates, or Wood. _A Cut throat House or Town_, where sharp and Large Reckonings are imposed, as at _Gravesend_, _Deal_, _Dover_, _Portsmouth_, _Plimouth_, _Harwich_, _Helvoetsluyce_, the _Briel_, and indeed all _Sea-ports_, nay and _Common-wealths_ too, according to the observation of a late Learned Traveller in his ingenious Letters publish’d in _Holland_.

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_Dab_, c. expert exquisite in Roguery; a Rum-dab, c. a very Dextrous fellow at fileing, thieving, Cheating, Sharping, _&c._ _He is a Dab at it_, He is well vers’d in it.

_Dablers_, in Poetry, meer Pretenders.

_Dace_, c. Two-pence, Tip me a _Dace_. c. Lend Two-pence, or pay so much for me.

_Dag_, a Gun.

_Draggle-tail_, a nasty dirty Slut.

_Damask the Claret_, Put a roasted Orange slasht smoking hot in it.

_Damber_, c. a Rascal.

_Damme-boy_, a roaring mad, blusttring fellow, a Scourer of the Streets.

_Dancers_, c. Stairs.

_Dandyprat_, a little puny Fellow.

_Dangle_, to hang.

_Dapper-fellow_, a short, pert, brisk, tidy Fellow.

_Darby_, c. ready Money.

_Darbies_, c. Irons, Shackles or Fetters.

_Darkmans_, c. The night, _The Child of darkness_, c. a Bell-man.

_Darkmans-Budge_, c. a House-creeper, one that slides into a House in the dusk, to let in more Rogues to rob.

_Dash_, a Tavern-Drawer. _A dash of Gentian, Wormwood, or stale Beer_, a slight touch or tincture of each, _to dash or brew_ as Vintners jumble their Wines together, when they sophisticate them. _A dash of Rain_, a sudden, short, impetuous pouring down, to distinguish it from a soft Shower, or a sprinkling of Rain.

_Dastard_, a Coward.

_Dawn_, Day-break or peep of Day, as the Dusk is twilight or shadow of the Evening. _One may see day at a little hole, or discover the Lyon by his Paw._

_Dawbing_, bribing; also ill painting or thick laying on of Colours: Hence _bedawb’d with Gold or Silver-Lace_, when it is laid thick or close on.

_Dead Cargo_, not a quarter or half freighted. _To wait for dead mens shoes_, for what is little worth, or may never come to pass. _To play or work for a dead horse_, for a trifle.

_Dead-men_, empty-Pots or bottles on a Tavern-table.

_Dear Joies_, Irishmen.

_Debauchee_, a Rake-hel.

_Decayed Gentleman or Tradesman_, broken.

_Deckt-out_, tricked up in fine Cloaths.

_Decus_, c. a Crown or five shilling-piece. _The Cull tipt me a score of Decuses_, c. my Camerade lent me five Pounds.

_Deft-Fellow_, a tidy, neat little Man.

_Defunct_, dead and gone.

_Degen_, c. a Sword. _Nimm the Degen_, c. steal the Sword, or whip it from the Gentleman’s Side.

_Deists_, against the Trinity.

_Dells_, c. the twenty sixth order of the canting Tribe; young bucksome Wenches, ripe and prone to Venery, but have not lost their Virginity, which the _upright man_ pretends to, and seizes: Then she is free for any of the Fraternity; also a common Strumpet.

_Dequarting_, throwing of the left Foot and Body backwards.

_Dergin_, a very short Man or Woman.

_Desperate Fellow_, fit for any lewd Prank or Villany, _desperate condition_, without any hopes.

_Devil drawer_, a sory Painter.

_Deuseavile_, c. the Country.

_Deuseavile-Stampers_, c. Country-Carriers.

_Dews wins_, c. two Pence.

_Dewitted_, cut in pieces, as that great Statesman _John de Witt_, was in Holland Anno 1672. by the Mob.

_Diamond cut Diamond_, bite the Biter.

_Dibble_, a poaking Stick to set Beans with.

_Die like a Dog_, to be hang’d, the worst Employment a Man can be put to. _Die on a Fish-day, or in his shoes_ the same, _die like a Rat_. To be poysoned.

_Dig the Badger_, dislodge him.

_Dimber_, c. pretty.

_Dimber-cove_, a pretty Fellow.

_Dim-mort_, c. a pretty Wench.

_Dimber-Damber_, c. a Top-man or Prince among the Canting Crew; also the chief Rogue of the Gang, or the compleatest Cheat.

_Dimple_, a small graceful dent in the Chin called in Ignoramus, Loves pretty Dimple.

_Din_, c. what a din you keep! what a noise you make!

_Dine with Duke Humphrey_, to go without a Dinner.

_Ding_, c. to knock down. _Ding the Cull_, c. knock down the Fellow.

_Ding-boy_, c. a Rogue, a Hector, a Bully, Sharper.

_Ding-dong_, helter-skelter.

_Dint_, edge or force _dint of the sword_, edge of the Sword, _dint of argument_, force or power of Argument.

_Dippers_, Ana-baptists.

_Dipt_, engag’d or in debt, Land pawn’d or mortgag’d. _Damnably dipt_, deep in debt, _He has dipt his Terra firma_, he has mortgaged his dirty Acres. _He has dipt his Bill_, he is almost drunk. _The cull has dipt his Tol_, c. the Spark has pawn’d his Sword. _The Dell has dipt her Rigging_, c. the Whore has pawn’d her Cloaths.

_Dirty Acres_, an Estate in Land.

_Dirty Beau_, a slovenly Fellow, yet pretending to Beauishness.

_Dirty puzzle_, a sorry Slattern or Slut.

_Disaffection_, a disorder of any part of the Body. _Disaffected to the State._ Malecontents or factious.

_Disgruntled_, disobliged or distasted.

_Disingenuous, or indirect dealing_, oppos’d to dealing on the Square.

_Disguis’d_, drunkish.

_Dismal ditty_, a Psalm at the Gallows; also a dull Ballad, or silly Song.

_Dive_, c. to pick a Pocket.

_Diver_, c. a Pick-pocket.

_Doash_, c. a cloak.

_Dock_, c. to lie with a Woman. _The Cull Dockt the Dell in the Darkmans_ the Rogue lay with a Wench all night.

_Doctor_, c. a false Die that will run but two or three Chances. _They put the Doctor upon him_, c. they cheated him with false Dice.

_Dog’d_, follow’d close, way-laid. _Agree like Dog and Cat_, of those that are at variance. _Every Dog will have his day_, none so wretched but has his good Planet. _An easy thing to find a Stick to beat a Dog_, or it costs little to trouble those that cannot help themselves. _It is an ill Dog is not worth the whistling after_; or spare to speak spare to speed. _He play’d me a Dog-trick_, he did basely and dirtily by me.

_Dogged_, Sullen, pouting, or in the Dumps.

_Doggrel_, a Term for the meanest and basest Verse; such as Ballads, _Bellmens-songs_, and the like _Meeter_ of _snow hill_.

_Doit_, half a Farthing. Dutch Money, eight to a Penny, _not a doit left_, he has spent all.

_Doll_, a wooden Block to make up Commodes upon, also a Child’s Baby.

_Doltish_, c. Foolish.

_Dolthead_, a Fool.

_Domerars_, c. Rogues, pretending to have had their Tongues cut out, or to be born dumb and deaf, who artificially turning the tip of their Tongues, into their Throat, and with a stick makeing it bleed, weak people think it the stump of their Tongue; one of whom being askt hastily _how long he had been dumb?_ answer’d _but three weeks_, this is the twenty first Order of Canters, the Word also signifing Mad-men.

_Dotard_, An old drowsy Fellow come to Dotage.

_Doudy_, An ugly coarse hard favored Woman. _She is a meer Doudy_ that is, very ugly.

_Dover court_, all Speakers and no Hearers.

_Down hills_, c. Dice that run low.

_Doxies_, c. She-beggers, Trulls, Wenches. Whores, the twenty fifth Rank of _Canters_; being neither, Maids, Wives, nor Widdows, will for good Victuals, or a very small piece of money prostitute their Bodies, protesting they never did so before, and that meer necessity then oblig’d them to it (tho’ common Hackneys). These are very dextrous at picking Pockets (in the action) and so barbarous as often to murder the Children thus got.

_Drab_, a Whore, or Slut, a _Dirty drab_, a very nasty Slut.

_Drag_, a Fox’s Tail.

_Dragg’d_, _through the Horse-pond_ or _Bog-house_. Bailives and Sergeants are served so that presume to arrest any Body within the Verge of the Court-royal, or Precincts of the Inns of Court.

_Dragg’d up_, as the _Rakes_ call it, educated or brought up.

_Dray_, of Squirrels.

_Drawers_, c. Stockings.

_Drawing_, Beating the Bushes after the Fox.

_Draw-Litches_, c. the fourth (old) Order of the Canting Tribe of Rogues.

_Drawling in Speech_, or _dreaming of Speech_ when the Words are drawn out at length, and keep as great a distance from one another, as if they were not all of a Company.

_Dreaming Fellow_, a dull, drowsy, heavy Creature. _Drift_, Design, Aim, Intent.

_Drill_, to draw in, and entice by degrees; also boring of Pearl.

_Dripper_, a sort of Clap, or venereal gleating.

_Dripping-weather_, the same with dropping.

_Dromedary_, c. a Thief or Rogue, also a kind of Camel with two bunches on his Back. _You are a purple Dromedary_, c. You are a Bungler or a dull Fellow at thieving.

_Drommerars_, c. see Domerars.

_Droppers_, c. Sweetners.

_Drop a cog_, c. to let fall (with design to draw in and cheat) a Piece of Gold; also the piece it self.

_Drop-in-his-eye_, almost drunk.

_Droop_, to fall away, to pine, to break with Age or Infirmity, _a drooping bird_ that hangs the Wing.

_Drovers_, Horse-leaders in Fairs, or Markets, and Graziers or Drivers of Beasts.

_Drub_, beat with a stick or Cable-end.

_Drudge_, or rather _dredge_, the way of catching Oysters; also a laborious Person.

_Drumbelo_, a dull heavy Fellow. _A meer drumbelo_, a very Slug.

_Drunk with a continuando_, de die in diem.

_Dry blows_, or _dry-basting_ for Rib roasting.

_Dry-bob_, a smart or sharp Repartee.

_Dry-boots_, a sly, close cunning Fellow.

_Dry-drinking_, without a bit of Victuals. _Dry-wine_, a little rough upon, but very grateful to the Palate.

_Dry youth_, sharp, close, witty.

_Dub_, c. a Pick-lock-key.

_Dub, the Giger_, c. open the Door. _We’ll strike it upon the dub_, c. we will rob that Place.

_Dubber_, c. a Picker of Locks.

_Dub’d_, Knighted.

_A Duce_, c. two Pence.

_Duck-leggs_, short-leggs.

_Dudds_, c. Cloaths or Goods. _Rum dudds_, c. fine or rich cloaths or Goods.

_Dudd, Cheats wonne._ c. Cloaths and things stolen. _Abram Cove has wonne (or bit) Rum dudds._ c. the poor Fellow has stolen very costly Cloaths.

_Dudgeon_, Anger, Quarrel, Displeasure.

_Duke of Exeter’s Daughter_, a Rack in the Tower of London, to torture and force Confession; supposed to be introduced by him, sometimes (formerly) now not in use.

_Dullard_, a heavy dull stupid Fellow.

_Dulpickle_, the same.

_Dum-found_, to beat soundly. _I dumfounded the sawcy Rascal_, I bang’d his Back tightly. _In the dumps_, troubled, chagrin, melancholic.

_Dunaker_, c. a Cow-stealer.

_Duncarring_, Buggering.

_Dunner_, a Sollicitor for Debts.

_Dunn’d_, teiz’d, or much importun’d.

_Dunder head_, a dull heavy Creature.

_Dundering Rake_, a thundering Rake, or of the Rank, one develishly lewd.

_Dup_, c. to enter, or open the door, _dup the ken_, c. enter the House, _dup the boozing ken and booz a gage_, c. go into the Ale-house and drink a Pot.

_Durance_, a Prison.

_Durk_, a short Dagger, in use with the _Scots_, as Stilletto is with the _Italians_.

_Dusk_, or Twilight, the shadow of the Evening, as Dawn is Daybreak or peep of Day.