Part 4

_Dust_, money, _down with your Dust_, deposit your Money, pay your Reckoning. Also in another sence, _dust it away_ drink quick about.

_Dutchified_, in the Dutch Interest, or of that Faction.

_Dutch-Reckoning_, or _Alte-mall_, a verbal or Lump-account without particulars.

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_Eager_, warm, or earnest in Debate; also sharp Liquors, as hard Beer, Wine turned soure, &c. Hence the Compounds, Vinegar, Alegar.

_Eagle_, c. the winning Gamester.

_Earnest_, c. Part or Share. _Tip me my earnest_, c. give me my Snack or Dividend.

_Easy_, facil, supple, pliable, managable. _He is an easy fellow_, very silly or soft, _an easy mort_, c. a forward or coming wench.

_Ebb-water_, c. when there’s but little Money in the Pocket.

_Edge-tools_, as Scythes, Swords, and such as are set or ground, as Razors. Knives, Scissors, Sheers, &c. to distinguish them from flat Tools and Tongs, _&c._ _’tis ill jesting with Edged tools_ or trusting unexpert Men with dangerous things. _Fall back fall edge_ or come what will.

_Effort_, an Endeavour or Proffer, a _Weak Effort_, an Offer in vain.

_Egge one on_, to prick him on, to provoke or stir him up. _He’ll be glad to take Eggs for his money_, or to compound the matter with Loss. _You come in with your five Eggs a penny, and four of ’em addle_, of a Pragmatical Prater, or Busi-body, that wasts many Words to little purpose. _To leave a Nest-egg_, to have alwaies a Reserve to come again. _As sure as Eggs be Eggs._ When nothing is so sure. _As full of Roguery as an Egg is full, of Meat._

_Elbow-grease_, a derisory Term for Sweat. _It will cost nothing but a little Elbow-grease_; in a jeer to one that is lazy, and thinks much of his Labour. _Who is at your Elbow?_ a Caution to a Lyer. _He lives by shaking of the Elbow_; a Gamester.

_Elonge_, to stretch forward the right Arm and Leg, and to keep a close Left-foot.

_Elevated_, pufft up; also raised to Honour, Dignity, _&c._ _Above the common Elevation_, above the common Level.

_Eminence_, a Rising opposed to a flat Ground, _rais’d to an Eminence of pitch of greatness; to make a figure, or be a Man of mark in the World_, i. e. to be conspicuous, as a City set on a Hill cannot be hid. _His Eminence_, the Title given to a Cardinal.

_Empty-fellow_, Silly.

_Empty-skull’d_, Foolish.

_Empty-talk_, silly, idle vain Discourse, more Noise then Sense.

_Ends_, Aim, Design, Drift, and variously used in composition as, _Candle-ends_, _Ends of gold and silver_, Shreds of either. _Cable-ends_, _finger-ends_ for extremity or utmost part of either. _’Tis good to make both Ends meet_, or to cut your Coat according to your Cloth. Every thing has an End, and a Pudding has two.

_English-cane_, an oaken Plant.

_English Manufacture_, Ale, Beer, or Syder.

_Ensnaring Questions_, Interrogatories laid to trap and catch one.

_Entries_, where the Deer have lately passed the thickets.

_Epicurean_, one that indulges himself, nice of Palate, very curious and a critick in eating.

_Equip_, c. to furnish one.

_Equipt_, c. rich; also having new Clothes. _Well equipt_, c. plump in the Pocket, or very full of Money; also very well drest. _The Cull equipt me with a brace of Meggs_, c. the Gentleman furnish’d me with a couple of Guineas.

_Eriffs_, Canary-birds two years old.

_Evasion_, a Shift, sly or indirect Answer.

_Eves-drop_, to be an

_Eves-dropper_, one that skulks, lurks at or lies under his Neighbor’s Window or Door.

_Ewe_ or _the White Ewe_, c. a Top-woman among the Canting Crew, very Beautiful.

_Execution-day_, Washing-day; also that on which the Malefactors Die.

_Exigence_, a special or extraordinary occasion, a pinch.

_Expedient_, a ready shift or trick to deliver one from any difficulty, or danger near at hand.

_Ey_, of Pheasants, the whole Brood of young ones.

_Eye-sore_, an Annoyance, whatever is grievous or offensive, an unwelcome dish or guest. _All that you get you may put in your Eye and see ne’er the worse_, a pleasant Periphrasis or Round of Words, for getting nothing at all. ’Tis good to have an Eye to the main Chance, or look to your Hits. What the Eye ne’er sees the Heart ne’er rues: Or out of Sight, out of Mind.

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_Facer_, c. a Bumper without Lip-room.

_Face_, in Wine, the Colour. _A good Face_, a very fine bright Colour. _To make a Face_, to make a show or feign; also to wryth, contract or distort the Face in Contempt or Derision. _To set a good Face upon a bad Cause, or Matter_, to make the best of it. _A good Face needs no Band_, or no advantage to set it off. _The Broad-fac’d Bird, or the Bird that is all Face under Feathers_, a Periphrasis for an Owl. _Face about to the Right or Left_, turn about. _To Face Danger_, to meet it. _Facing of the Sleeve_, the Turn-up.

_Facetious_, full of Merry Tales and Jests, pleasantly merry.

_Factitious_, Bodies made by Art, as Glass, Paper, and all Compound or made Metals, as Brass, Steel, Pewter, Latin _&c._

_Fadge_, it won’t fadge or doe.

_Fag_, c. to Beat.

_Fag’d_, c. Beaten.

_Fag the Bloss_, c. bang the Wench.

_Fag the Fen_, c. drub the Whore.

_Faggot the Culls_, c. Bind the Men.

_Faggots_, Men Muster’d for Souldiers, not yet Listed.

_Fair Roe-Buck_, the Fifth Year.

_Fair Speech_, or fine Words. _Fair-spoken_, or Courteous. _A Fair Day_, or Fair Weather. _Fair in the Cradle, and foul in the Saddle_, a pretty Boy, and a hard-favor’d Man. _Soft and Fair goes far_; or not more Haste than good Speed. _Fair and far off_; wide of the Mark. _You have made a Fair Speech_, said in derision of one that spends many Words to little purpose. _A Fair or Market for Beasts._ _A Day after the Fair_, a Day too late, of one that has out-stayed his Markets.

_Fall-a-bord_, fall on and Eat heartily.

_Fallacies_, Cheats, Tricks, Deceipts.

_Falter_, to fail or more particularly a failure, or Trip of the Tongue, entangled with the Palsy, produced also from excess of Drink, or Guilt.

_Famms_, c. Hands.

_Fambles_, c. Hands.

_Famble-cheats_, c. Gold-rings, or Gloves.

_Famgrasp_, c. to agree or make up a Difference. _Famgrasp the Cove_, c. to agree with the Adversary.

_Family of Love_, Lewd Women, Whores; also a Sect.

_Fangs_, Beast-claws as Talons are of a Bird.

_Fanning_, or refreshing of the Trees or Woods with Wind. _Fanning_ or refreshing of a Close Room, opening the Windows. _Fire-fanns_, little Hand-Skreens for the Fire.

_Fantastick_, Whimsical, Freakish, or Capricious. _A Fantastick Dress_, very particular, remarkable.

_Fardel_, a Bundle.

_Fardy_, for Ferdinando.

_Fare_, Hire; also a litter of Piggs.

_Farting-crackers_, c. Breeches.

_Fast-friends_, sure or trusty.

_Fastner_, c. a Warrant.

_Fastnesses_, Boggs.

_Fat_, the last landed, inned or stow’d of any sort of Merchandize whatever, so called by the several Gangs of Water-side-Porters, _&c._

_Fat Cull_, c. a rich Fellow. _All the Fat is in the Fire_, of a miscarriage or shrewd Turn. _Change of Pasture makes Fat Calves_, of him that thrives upon mending his Commons.

_Faulkner_, c. see Tumbler, first Part.

_Faytors_, c. the Second (old) Rank of the Canting Crew.

_Feat_, strange, odd.

_Feats of Activity_, exercise, or Agility of Body in Tumbling, turning through a Hoop, Running, Leaping, Vaulting, Wrestling, Pitching of the Bar, Quoiting, _&c._ or Slights of Hand, Tricks, Legerdemain, _&c._

_Feats of Chivalry_, Exploits of War, Riding the great Horse, Tilting, Tournaments, Running at the Ring, _&c._

_Feather-bed-lane_, any bad Road, but particularly that betwixt _Dunchurch_ and _Daintrie_. _He has a Feather in his Cap_, a Periphrasis for a Fool. _Play with a Feather_, of things that are gamesom and full of Play, as Kittens and Kids. _To Feather his Nest_, to enrich himself by indirect means, or at the Expence of others. _Fine Feathers make fine Birds_, Gay Cloaths make fine Folks.

_Feble_, the narrowest Part of the Sword-blade nearest the Point.

_Feinting, or Falsifying_, to deceive the Adversary, by pretending to thrust in one Place, and really doing it in another.

_Fence_, c. to Spend or Lay out. _Fence his Hog_, c. to Spend his Shilling. _A Fence_, c. a Receiver and Securer of Stolen-goods.

_Fencing Cully_, c. a Broker, or Receiver of Stolen-goods.

_Fencing-ken_, c. the Magazine, or Ware-house, where Stolen-goods are secured.

_Ferme_, c. a Hole.

_Fermerly Beggers_, c. all those that have not the Sham-sores or _Cleymes_.

_Ferret_, c. a Tradesman that sells Goods to young Unthrifts, upon Trust at excessive Rates.

_Ferreted_, c. Cheated; also driven out of Holes and lurking Places, and hunted as Conies, by a little, Fierce, red-eyed Beast. Hence _Ferret eyed_, or Eyes as red as a Ferret.

_Fetch_, a Trick or Wheedle. _A meer Fetch_, that is far fetched, or brought in by Head and Shoulders.

_Fetids_, Vegetables, or Animals, rank and strong-scented; as Garlick, Assa fœtida, _&c._ Pole-cats, Foxes, Goats, _&c._

_Fewmets_, Deers Excrements.

_Fib_, c. to beat; also a little Lie.

_Fib the Cove’s quarons in the Rum-pad, for the Lour in his Bung_, c. Beat the Man in the High-way lustily for the Money in his Purse.

_Fickle_, mutable, or changeable, of many Minds in a short time.

_Fiddle_, c. a Writ to Arrest.

_Fiddle-faddle_, meer silly Stuff, or Nonsense; Idle, Vain Discourse.

_Fidlers-pay_, Thanks and Wine.

_Filch_, c. to Steal.

_Filchers_, c. Thieves, Robbers. _A good Filch_, c. a Staff, of Ash or Hazel, with a Hole through, and a Spike at the bottom, to pluck Cloathes from a Hedge or any thing out of a Casement.

_Filching-cove_, c. a Man-thief.

_Filching-mort_, c. a Woman-thief.

_File_, c. to Rob, or Cheat. _The File_, c. a Pick-pocket.

_Fine-mouth’d_, nice, dainty.

_Finical_, spruce, neat.

_Finify_, to trick up or dress sprucely.

_Fire-drakes_, Men with a Phenix for their Badge, in Livery, and Pay from the _Insurance-Office_, to extinguish Fires, covering their Heads with an Iron-pot, or Head-piece; also a Fiery Meteor, being a great unequal Exhalation inflamed between a Hot and a Cold Cloud.

_Fire-ship_, a Pockey Whore.

_Fire-side_, a Health to the Wife and Children.

_Firkin of foul Stuff_, a very Homely coarse corpulent Woman.

_Fishing Bill_, in Chancery, to make what Discoveries may be. _Who Cries Stinking Fish?_ or who dispraises his own Ware? _Good Fish when it is Caught_, of what is not got so soon as reckoned upon. _All is Fish that comes to Net_, of him that flies boldly at all Game. _I have other Fish to Fry_, I am otherwise taken up, engag’d, or have other Business on my Hands.

_Fixen_, a froward, peevish Child; also a She-Fox.

_Fizzle_, a little or low-sounding Fart.

_Flabby_, flimsy, not sound, firm or solid.

_Flagg_, c. a Groat; also a coarse rough Stone us’d in Paving. _To Flagg_, to fall off, droop, decline, or fail; also to suspend or let fall a Suit or Prosecution. _The Flag of Defiance is out_, (among the Tarrs) the Fellow’s Face is very Red, and he is Drunk.

_Flam_, a Trick, or Sham-story.

_Flanderkin_, a very large Fat Man or Horse; also Natives of that Country.

_Flanders-fortunes_, of small Substance.

_Flanders-pieces_, Pictures that look fair at a distance, but coarser near at Hand.

_Flapdragon_, a Clap or Pox.

_Flare_, to Shine or glare like a Comet or Beacon.

_Flash_, c. a Periwig. _Rum Flash_, c. a long, full, high-priz’d Wig. _Queer Flash_, c. a sorry weather-beaten Wig, not worth Stealing, fit only to put on a Pole or dress a Scare-Crow. _Flash-ken_, c. a House where Thieves use, and are connived at.

_Flasque_, a Bottle (or it’s resemblance) of Sand, bound about with Iron, into which the melted Metal is by Coyners and others poured; also a Pottle or five Pints and half, that quantity, formerly of _Florence_, now of any Wine; A Box for Gun-powder; a Carriage for Ordinance; an Arch-line somewhat distant from the corner of the Chief, and swelling by degrees toward the middle of the Escutcheon.

_Flat_, dead Drink; also dull Poetry or Discourse.

_Flavour_, Scent of Fruits; as Peaches, Quinces, _&c._ Or of Wines, as Rhenish, Canary, _&c._

_Flaunting_, tearing-fine. _To Flaunt it_, to Spark it, or Gallant it.

_Flaw_, a water-flaw and a crack in Chrystals, as well as a speck in Gemms and Stones.

_Flaw’d_, c. Drunk.

_Flay_, to flea or skinn. _He’ll flay a Flint_, of a meer _Scrat_ or _Miser_.

_Flear_, to grinn. _A Flearing Fool_, a grinning silly Fellow.

_Fleece_, to Rob, Plunder or Strip; also Wooll, the true Golden-Fleece of _England_, a clear Spring, or Flowing Fountain of Wealth.

_Fleet_, swift of Wing or Foot, in flight or Course, used not only of Birds upon the Wing, but of winged Arrows, resembling them in Flight.

_Flegmatic_, dull, heavy. _A Flegmatic Fellow_, a drowsy insipid Tool, an ill Companion.

_Flesh-broker_, a Match-maker; also a Bawd; between whom but little difference, for they both (usually) take Money.

_Flibustiers_, West-Indian Pirates, or Buckaneers, Free-booters.

_Flicker_, c. a Drinking Glass. _Flicker snapt_, c. the Glass is broken. _Nim the Flicker_, c. Steal the Glass. _Rum Flicker_, c. a large Glass or Rummer. _Queer Flicker_, c. a Green or ordinary Glass. _To Flicker_, to grin or flout. _Flickering_, grinning or laughing in a Man’s Face.

_Flicking_, c. to cut, cutting.

_Flick me some Panam and Cash_, c. cut me some Bread and Cheese.

_Flick the Peeter_, c. cut off the Cloak-bag or Port-manteau.

_Flip_, Sea Drink, of small Beer, (chiefly) and Brandy, sweetned and Spiced upon occasion: _A Kan of Sir. Clously_, is among the Tarrs, a Kan of choice Flip, with a Lemon squeez’d in, and the Pill hung round.

_Flippant_, pert and full of Prattle.

_Flimsy_, flabby, not firm, sound or solid.

_Flocks and Herds_, Flocks are of lesser Cattel, Herds are of Black Cattel, a Flock of Sheep or Goats, and sometimes of Birds, as Pidgeons; and in Imitation of the Gregarious Creatures, Men, that are sociable, are said to follow and flock after one another as Sheep, or to flock together to see Shows and Spectacles.

_Flog_, c. to Whip _Flog’d_, c. severely Lasht.

_Flogging-cove_, c. the Beadle, or Whipper in Bridewell, or any such Place.

_Flogging-stake_, c. a Whipping-post.

_Flogg’d at the Tumbler_, c. Whipt ac the Cart’s Arse.

_Flogging_, c. a Naked Woman’s whipping (with Rods) an Old (usually) and (sometimes) a Young Lecher. _As the Prancer drew the Queer-Cove, at the cropping of the Rotan, the Rum Pads of the Rum vile, and was Flogg’d by the Rum Cove_, c. the Rogue was dragg’d at the Cart’s tail through the chief Streets of _London_, and was soundly Whipt by the Hangman.

_Florence_, a Wench that is touz’d and ruffled.

_Florentine_, a made Dish of Minced Meats, Currans, Spice, Eggs, _&c._ Bak’d.

_Flounce_, to toss, _to fling and flounce_, to fling and toss.

_Flout_, a jeer, to flout or jeer.

_Flummery_, a cleansing Dish made of Oatmeal boyl’d in Water to a kind of Jelly or Consistence and strained.

_Flush in the Pocket_, c. full of Money. _The Cull_ is flush in the _Fob_, the Spark’s Pocket is well Lined with Money. _Flushing in the Face_, a frequent redning, occasion’d by a sudden Question, surprize, and also from a distemper’d Liver.

_Flustered_, Drunk.

_Flute_, c. the Recorder of _London_, or of any other Town.

_Flutter_, or Flie low, anciently to _Flitter_, hence a Flitter-mouse or Bat; as much as to say, a Flying Mouse, as an Owl is a Flying-Cat.

_Flyers_, c. Shoes.

_Flying-Camps_, Beggers plying in Bodies at Funerals.

_Fob_, c. a cheat, trick; also a little Pocket.

_Fob off_, slyly to cheat or deceive.

_Fogus_, c. Tobacco. _Tip me gage of Fogus_, c. give me a Pipe of Tobacco.

_Foiling_, the Footing of Deer on the Grass, scarce seen.

_Folks_, the Servants, or ordinary People, as Country-folks, Harvest-Folks, Work-folks, _&c._ _The Folks Bread or Pudding_, for the coarsest Bread or Pudding.

_Fool’s Coat_, or _Colours_, a Motley of incongruous Colours too near a Kin to match, as Red and Yellow, which is the Fool’s Coat with us, as Blew and Green is with the French. _A Fool’s-Coat_, a Tulip so called, striped with Red and Yellow.

_Fools-Cap_, a sort of Paper so called.

_Footman’s Mawnd_, c. an artificial Sore made with unslack’d Lime, Soap and the Rust of old Iron; on the Back of a Begger’s hand, as if hurt by the bite or kick of a Horse.

_Foot-pad_, c. see _Low-pad_, for _one Foot in the Grave_, a Pariphrasis an old Man. _He has the length of his Foot._

_Fop_, _Foppish_, one that is singular or affected in Dress, Gestures, _&c._

_Foplin_, the same, only younger.

_Forebode_, to presage, betoken or fore-show.

_Foreboding-signs_, tokens, Presages of ill Luck; as _spilling of the Salt_, _a Hare’s crossing the Way_; _Croaking of Ravens_; _Screaking of Screach-Owls_. Or of ill Weather, either natural Signs or artificial; as, Aches, Corns, Cry of a Peacock, Water-galls, Weather-Glasses, _&c._

_Forecast_, contrivance or laying a design; Precaution, or the Wisdom of Prevention, which is beyond the Wisdom of Remedy. _To Forecast_, to contrive, or digest Matters for Execution.

_Foreman of the Jury_, he that engrosses all the Talk to himself.

_Forestall_, to antedate or anticipate.

_Fork_, c. a Pick-pocket. _Let’s fork him_, c. let us Pick that Man’s Pocket, the newest and most dextrous way: It is, to thrust the Fingers, strait, stiff, open, and very quick into the Pocket, and so closing them, hook what can be held between them.

_Fork is often Rakes Heir_, or after a scraping Father comes a scattering Son.

_Forlorn-hope_, c. losing Gamesters; also in another Sense, a Party of Soldiers, _&c._ put upon the most desperate Service.

_Fort_, the broad Part of the Sword-blade nearest to the Hilt.

_Fortune_, a rich Maid, or wealthy Widdow, an Heiress.

_Fortune-hunters_, Pursuers of such to obtain them in Marriage. _A Creature of Fortune_, one that Lives by his Wits. _A Soldier of Fortune_, the Heir of his own Right-hand as the Spaniards call him. _A Gamester of Fortune_, one that Lives by shaking his Elbow. _He has made his Fortune_, he has got a good Estate.

_Fortune-Tellers_, c. the Judges of Life and Death, so called by the Canting Crew: Also _Astrologers_, _Physiognomists_, _Chiromancers_, &c.

_Founder’d_, { _Horse_, _Lame_. { _Ship at sea_, that sprung a Leak and Sunk down-right.

_Foundling_, a Child dropt in the Streets for the Parish (the most able) to keep.

_Foul Jade_, an ordinary coarse Woman.

_Foul Wine_, when it stinks; also when unfine, or Lees flying in the Glass.

_Fox_, the second Year; also a sharp cunning Fellow. _Fox’d_, Drunk. _He has caught a Fox_, he is very Drunk. _An old Fox_, after the second Year; also a subtil old Fellow; also an old broad Sword. _A Fox-blade_, a Sword-blade with a Fox (or some thing like it) Grav’d on it, esteem’d good Metal.

_Foxkennelleth_, Lodgeth.

_Foy_, a farewell or taking leave, usually a Parting-glass. _To Pay his Foy_, to make his Friends Merry, before he leaves them.

_Foyl-cloy_, c. a Pick-pocket, a Thief, a Rogue.

_Foyst_, c. a Cheat, a Rogue; also a close strong Stink, without Noise or Report.

_Fraters_, c. the eighth Order of Canters, such as Beg with a Sham-patents or Briefs for Spitals, Prisons, Fires, _&c._

_Fray_, an Encounter, or Disorder. _Better come at the latter end of a Feast, than the beginning of a Fray._ _To Fray_, to scare or frighten; also to break or crack in wearing. Hence frail, brittle or soon broke; and when Deer rub and push their Heads against Trees to get the pells of their new Horns off.

_Freak_, a Whim or Maggot.

_Freakish_, Fantastic, Whimsical, Capricious.

_Freameth_, see Wild Boar.

_Free-booters_, Lawless Robbers, and Plunderers; also Soldiers serving for that Privilege without Pay, and Inroaders.

_Freeholder_, he whose Wife goes with him to the Ale-house; also he that has to the Value of Fourty Shillings (or more) a Year in Land.

_Freeze_, a thin, small, hard _Cyder_ much us’d by Vintners and Coopers in parting their Wines, to lower the Price of them, and to advance their Gain.

_French Gout_, the Pox. _A blow with a French Faggot Stick_, when the Nose is fallen by the Pox.

_Frenchified_, in the French Interest or Mode; also Clapt or Poxt.

_Fresh-man_, a Novice, in the University.

_Fresh-water-seamen_, that have never been on the Salt, or made any Voyage, meer Land-Men.

_Fret_, to fume or chafe; also Wine in fermenting is said to be upon the _Fret_.

_Fricassee_, any Fried Meats, but chiefly of Rabbets.

_Friggat, well rigg’d_, a Woman well Drest and Gentile.

_Frigid_, a weak disabled Husband, cold, impotent.

_Frippery_, old Clothes.

_Froe_, c. for _Urowe_, (_Dutch_) a Wife, Mistress, or Whore. _Brush to your Froe_, (or _Bloss_,) _and wheedle for Crap_, c. whip to your Mistress and speak her fair to give, or lend you some Money.

_Frog-landers_, Dutchmen.

_Frolicks_, lewd or merry Pranks, pleasant Rambles, and mad Vagaries.

_Frummagem’d_, c. choaked.

_Frump_, a dry Bob, or Jest.

_Fuants_, Excrements of all Vermin.

_Fubbs_, a loving, fond Word used to prety little Children and Women; also the Name of a Yacht.

_Fuddle_, Drink. _This is Rum fuddle_, c. this is excellent Tipple.

_Fuddle-cap_, a Drunkard.

_Fulsom_, is a Nauseous sort of Excess; as _fulsom fat_, loathsom fat, or fat to loathing. _Fulsom flattery_, nauseous or gross Flattery laid on too thick; as Embroidery too thick Laid on is dawbing with Gold or Silver-lace.

_Fumbler_, an unperforming Husband, one that is insufficient, a weak Brother.

_Fumblers-Hall_, the Place where such are to be put for their Nonperformance.

_Fun_, c. a Cheat, or slippery Trick; also an Arse. _What do you fun me?_ Do you think to Sharp or Trick me? _I’ll Kick your fun_, c. I’ll Kick your Arse. _He put the Fun upon the Cull_, c. he sharp’d the Fellow. _I Funn’d him_, c. I was too hard for him, I out-witted or rook’d him.

_Fund_, or _Fond_, a Bank, or Stock or Exchequer of Money, or Moneys worth; also a Bottom or Foundation.

_A Staunch Fund_, a good Security.

_Funk_, c. Tobacco Smoak; also a strong Smell or Stink. _What a Funk here is!_ What a thick Smoak of Tobacco is here! _Here’s a damn’d Funk_, here’s a great Stink.

_Furbish-up_, to Scrub-up, to Scowre, or Refresh old Armour, _&c._ _He is mightily Furbish’d up on a suddain_, when a Man not accustom’d to wear fine Cloaths, gets a good Suit on his Back.

_Fur-men_, c. Aldermen.

_Fussocks_, _a meer Fussocks_, a Lazy Fat-Ars’d Wench. _A Fat Fussocks_, a Fulsom, Fat, Strapping Woman.

_Fustian-verse_, Verse in Words of lofty Sound, and humble Sense.

_Fustiluggs_, a Fulsom, Beastly, Nasty Woman.

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_Gad up and down_, to Fidle and Fisk, to run a Gossiping.

_Gadding-Gossips_, way-going Women, Fidging and Fisking every where. A Gad of Steel.

_Gag_, c. to put Iron-pinns into the Mouths of the Robbed, to hinder them Crying out.

_Gage_, c. a Pot or Pipe. _Tip me a Gage_, c. give me a Pot or Pipe or Hand hither, the Pot or Pipe.

_Gallant_, a very fine Man; also a Man of Metal, or a brave Fellow; also one that Courts or keeps, or is Kept by a Mistress. _Gallant a Fan_, to break it with Design, or Purpose to have the Opportunity and Favour to Present a better.

_Gambals_, Christmas Gamballs, merry Frolicks or Pranks.

_Game_, c. Bubbles drawn in to be cheated, also at a Bawdy-house, Lewd Women. _Have ye any Game Mother?_ Have ye any Whores Mistress Bawd, and in another Sense. _What you game me?_ c. do you jeer me, or pretend to expose me, to make a May-game of me.

_Gamesome_, Wanton, Frolicksom, Playful.

_Gan_, c. a Mouth.

_Ganns_, c. the Lipps.

_Gang_, an ill Knot or Crew of Thieves, Pick-pockets or Miscreants; also a Society of Porters under a Regulation, and to go.