Interest; also sham or Collar Shirts, and Hereticks _Anno_ 530, following
one _Jacobus Syrus_, who held but one Will, Nature and Operation in
Christ, Circumcision of both Sexes, _&c._
_Jade_, a Terme of Reproch given to Women, as _Idle Jade_, _Lazy Jade_,
_Silly Jade_, _&c._ As dull Jade, tried Jade, to a heavy or over-ridden
Horse.
_Jakes_, a House of Office.
_Jague_, c. a Ditch.
_Janizaries_, formerly, only the Grand Signior’s Foot Guard, chosen out
of Tributary Christians, taken early from their Parents, and perverted to
Mahumetanism, ever accounted their best Soldiers; but now any Prince’s
or great Man’s Guards; also the Mob sometimes so called, and Bailives,
Serjeants, Followers, Yeomen, Setters, and any lewd Gang depending upon
others.
_Jarke_, c. a Seal.
_Jarke-men_, c. the Fourteenth Order of the Canting Tribe; also those
who make Counterfeit Licences and Passes, and are well paid by the other
Beggers for their Pains.
_Jarrs_, Quarrels, Disputes, Contentions.
_Jason’s Fleece_, c. a Citizen cheated of his Gold.
_Jayl-birds_, Prisoners.
_Ice-houses_, Repositories to keep Ice and Snow under Ground all Summer,
as there are Conservatories to House Orange-Trees, Limes, and Myrtles
in the Winter. _Break Ice in one place and it will Crack in more_, or
find out one slippery Trick, and suspect another. _When the Ice is once
broke_, or when the Way is open others will Follow. _Ice_ or _Icicles_,
little pendulous pieces of Ice under the Eaves.
_Idioms_, Proprieties of any Speech or Language, Phrases or particular
Expressions, peculiar to each Language.
_Idio-syncrasies_, peculiar Constitutions, or Affections, incident
only in particular to some Temperaments, as several Sympathies and
Antipathies, as different and unaccountable as the Variety of Gifts and
Talents in Men.
_Jenny_, c. an Instrument to lift up a Grate, and whip any thing out of a
Shop-window.
_Jesses_, short Strapps of Leather fastned to the Hawk’s Leggs.
_Jetting along_, or _out_, a Man Dancing in his Gate, or Going; also a
House starting out farther than the rest in the Row.
_Jew_, any over-reaching Dealer, or hard, sharp Fellow. _He treated me
like a Jew_, he used me very barbrously.
_Jews_, Brokers behind St. _Clement’s_ Church in _London_, so called by
(their Brethren) the Tailers.
_Ignoramus_, Novice, or raw Fellow in any Profession; also, we are
Ignorant, written by the Grand Jury upon Bills, when the Evidence is not
Home, and the Party (thereupon) Discharg’d.
_Jig_, a Trick; also a well known Dance. _A Pleasant Jig_, a witty, arch
Trick.
_Jigget_, (of Mutton) the Leg cut off with part of the Loin.
_Jilt_, a Tricking Whore.
_Jilted_, abused by such a one; also deceived or defeated in one’s
Expectation, especially in Amours.
_Jingling_, the Noise of Carriers Horses Bells, or Ringing of Money that
chinks in the Pocket.
_Jingle-boxes_, c. Leathern Jacks tipt and hung with Silver Bells
formerly in use among Fuddle caps.
_Jinglers_, c. Horse-Coursers frequenting Country Fairs.
_Jingle-brains_, a Maggot-pated Fellow.
_Jiniper-Lecture_, a round scolding Bout.
_Ill fortune_, c. a Nine-pence.
_Ill-mann’d_, a Hawk not well broke, taught or train’d.
_Impost-taker_, c. one that stands by and Lends Money to the Gamester at
a very high Interest or Premium.
_Implement_, Tool, a Property or Fool, easily engag’d in any (tho’
difficult or Dangerous) Enterprize.
_Importunate_, Dunning, pressing.
_Importunity of Friends_, the stale Excuse for coming out in Print, when
Friends know nothing of the Matter.
_Inadvertency_, any slip or false step, for want of Thinking and
Reflection.
_Inching-in_, Encroaching upon. _One of his Inches_, of his Size or
Stature. _Won by Inches_, dearly or by little and little. _Give you
an Inch and you’ll take an Ell_, of one that presumes much on little
Encouragement.
_Incog_, for Incognito, a Man of Character or Quality concealed or in
disguise.
_Incongruous_, or _an Incongruity_; Treating any Person not according
to his Character, or appearing in any Country, without conforming to
the Habits and Customs of the Place, as teaching a General the Art of
War, talking with an Ambassador without his Language, or the help of an
Interpreter, moving the Hat to _Turks_, that never stirr their Turbants,
or calling for a Chair with such Nations, as sit alwaies crosse-legg’d
upon Carpets.
_Indecorum_, any violation of the Measures of Congruity, in Story,
Painting, or Poetry, as introducing Persons together that are not
Contemporaries, and of the same Age, or representing them with Habits,
Arms or Inventions, unknown to their Times, as the _Romans_ with Gunns
or Drumms, which wou’d be no less Preposterous and Absurd than Painting
the Noblemen of _Venice_ on Horseback, or describing the _West Indians_
before the Arrival of the _Spaniards_, with the Shipping, Horses, and
Arms of the _Europeans_.
_Indulto_, his Catholic Majesty’s Permission to the Merchants to unlade
the Galeons, after his Demands are adjusted.
_In his Ale_ or _Beer_, Drunk, tho’ it be by having too much of that in
him.
_Iniskilling-men_, fam’d for their Prowess, in the late Irish Wars; also
the Royal Regiment (of Citizens) in derision so called, soon raised, and
as soon laid down.
_Inke_, the Neck from the Head to the Body of any Bird the Hawk doth prey
upon.
_Inkle_, Tape. _As great at two Inkle-makers_, or as great as Cup and
Cann.
_Inlayed_, _well inlayed_, at ease in his Fortune, or full of Money.
_Inmates_, Supernumeraries, who have no House or Being of their own,
and yet are no Members of the House or Family they Live in, from whom
they differ in the same Nature, as the Excrescences of Trees do from the
Fruits either Genuin or Grafted; as Misletoe of the Oak, Galls, _&c._
differ from the Mast or Acorns.
_Insipids_, Block-heads; also things that are castless.
_Interlopers_, Hangers on, retainers to, or dependers upon other folks;
also Medlers and Busy-bodies, intruders into other Men’s Professions, and
those that intercept the Trade of a Company, being not legally authorized.
_Intrigues_, Finesses, Tricks of War, or State, as Court-tricks,
Law-quirks, tho’ in War they are rather called Stratagems.
_Intriguing_, Plotting, Tricking, Designing, full of Tricks and
Subtilties.
_Inveterate_, either Enemies that are implacable and of long continuance,
or Diseases that are confirmed, deep-rooted and riveted.
_Joan_, a _homely Joan_, a Coarse Ord’nary Woman, _Joan in the Dark is as
good as my Lady_, or _when the Candles are out all Cats are Gray_.
_Job_, c. a Guinea, Twenty shillings, or a Piece. _Half a Job_, c. half 3
Guinea, Ten shillings, half a Piece, or an Angel.
_Jobbers_, see Badgers, Matchmakers, Salesmen, Stock-jobbers.
_Jobbernoll_, c. a very silly Fellow.
_Jock_ or _Jockumcloy_, c. to copulate with a Woman.
_Jockum-gage_, c. a Chamberpot. _Tip me the Jockumgage_, c. give me or
hand me the Member-mug. _Rum Jockum-gage_, c. a Silver-chamberpot.
_Jockeys_, rank Horse-Coursers, Race Riders; also Hucksters or Sellers of
Horses, very slippery Fellows to deal with.
_Jolter-head_, a vast large Head; also Heavy and Dull. To Jolt or Shake,
jolting or shaking of a Coach.
_Jordain_, c. a great Blow or Staff; also a Chamberpot. _I’ll tip him a
Jordain if I transnear_, c. I will give a Blow with my Staff if I get up
to him.
_Joseph_, c. a Cloak or Coat. _A Rum Joseph_, c. a good Cloak or Coat.
_A Queer Joseph_, c. a coarse ord’nary Cloak or Coat; also an old or
Tatter’d one.
_Irish Toyles_, c. the Twelfth Order of Canters; also Rogues carrying
Pinns, Points, Laces, and such like Wares about, and under pretence of
Selling them, commit Thefts and Robberies.
_Iron-doublet_, a Prison.
_Itch-land_, Wales.
_Jugglers_, Nimble and expert Fellows at Tricks, and Slights of Hand, to
distinguish them from Tumblers, that perform Bodily Feats, or Feats of
Activity, by playing of Tricks with the whole Body.
_Jukrum_, c. a License.
_Jumble gut lane_, any very bad or rough Road. _To Jumble_, to shake much
or often.
_Justice_, _I’ll do Justice Child_, c. I will Peach or rather Impeach
or Discover the whole Gang, and so save my own Bacon; also in another
Sense, _I’ll do you Justice Sir_, I will Pledge you.
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_Kate_, c. a Pick-lock. _’Tis a Rum Kate_, c. that is a Cleaver Pick-lock.
_Keel-bullies_, Lighter-men that carry Coals to and from the Ships, so
called in Derision.
_Keel-hale_, to draw by a Rope tied to the Neck and fastned to a Tackle
(with a jerk) quite under the Keel or bottom of the Ship.
_Keffal_, a Horse.
_Kelter_, _out of Kelter_, out of sorts.
_Ken_, c. a House. _A bob Ken_, or _a Bowman-ken_, c. a good or well
Furnished House, full of Booty, worth Robbing; also a House that Harbours
Rogues and Thievs. _Biting the Ken_, c. Robbing the House.
_Ken-miller_, c. a House-breaker. _Friend John_, _or sweet Tom_, _’tis a
bob Ken_, _Brush upon the Sneak_, c. ’tis a good House, go in if you will
but Tread softly, and mind your Business. _Now we have Bit_, c. the House
is Robb’d, or the Business is done. _There’s a Cull knows us, if we don’t
pike he’ll Bone us_, c. that Fellow sees us, if we don’t scour off, he
will Apprehend us. _Ding him_, c. Knock him Down. _Then we’ll pike, tis
all Bowman_, c. we will be gone, all is well, the Coast is clear.
_Keaping Cully_, one that Maintains a Mistress, and parts with his Money
very generously to her.
_Kicks_, c. Breeches. _A high Kick_, the top of the Fashion; also
singularity therein. _Tip us your Kicks, we’ll have them as well as your
Loure_, c. pull off your Breeches, for we must have them as well as your
Money.
_Kid_, c. a Child; also the first Year of a Roe, and a young Goat.
_Kidnapper_, c. one that Decoys or Spirits (as it is commonly called)
Children away, and Sells them for the Plantations.
_Kidder_, c. see Crocker.
_Kidlay_, c. one who meeting a Prentice with a Bundle or Parcel of Goods,
wheedles him by fair Words, and whipping Sixpence into his Hand, to step
on a short and sham Errand for him, in the mean time Runs away with the
Goods.
_Kidney_, (Beans) _French_. _Of that Kidney_, of such a Stamp. _Of a
strange Kidney_, of an odd or unaccountable Humor.
_Kilkenny_, c. an old sorry Frize-Coat.
_Kill-Devil_, Rum. _Kill two Birds with one Stone_, Dispatch two
Businesses at one Stroak.
_Kimbaw_, c. to Trick, Sharp, or Cheat; also to Beat severely or to
Bully. _Lets Kimbaw the Cull_, c. Let’s Beat that Fellow, and get his
Money (by Huffing and Bullying) from him.
_Kinchin_, c. a little Child.
_Kinchin-coes_, c. the Sixteenth Rank of the Canting Tribe, being little
Children whose Parents are Dead, having been Beggers; as also young Ladds
running from their Masters, who are first taught Canting, then thieving.
_Kinchin-cove_, c. a little Man.
_King’s Head Inn_, or _the Chequer Inn in Newgate-street_, c. the Prison
or Newgate.
_King’s Pictures_, c. Money.
_King of all Beasts of Venery_, a Hare.
_King of the Gypsies_, the Captain, Chief, or Ring-leader of the Gang,
the Master of Misrule.
_Kindly_, Fruit, or Season, towardly. _Kindness will creep where it
cannot go_.
_Kinchin-morts_, c. the Twenty seventh and last Order of the Canting
Crew, being Girls of a Year or two old, whom the _Morts_ (their Mothers)
carry at their Backs in _Slates_ (_Sheets_) and if they have no Children
of their own, they borrow or Steal them from others.
_Kissing the Maid_, an Engine in _Scotland_, and at _Halifax_ in
_England_, in which the Head of the Malefactor is Laid to be Cut off, and
which this way is done to a Hair, said to be invented by Earl _Morton_
who had the ill Fate to Handsel it. _Kissing goes by Favour_, I suppose
another sort is meant by this Proverb than the foremention’d.
_Knack_, or Slight in any Art, the Craft or Mystery in any Trade, a petty
Artifice, or Trick like those upon the Cards. _Knacks_ or Toies, _a
Knack-shop_, or Toy-shop, freight with pretty Devices to pick Pockets.
_Knave in Grain_, one of the First Rate. _Knaves and Fools are the
Composition of the whole World._
_Knight Errant_, the Knight or Hero in Romances, that alwaies is to Beat
the Giant, and Rescue the destressed Damsel.
_Knight-Errantry_, Romantick and Fabulous Exploits, out of the common
Road, and above the ordinary Size, such as the wild Adventures of
wandering Knights.
_Knight of the Blade_, c. a Hector or Bully.
_Knight of the Post_, c. a Mercenary common Swearer, a Prostitute to
every Cause, an Irish Evidence.
_Knight of the Road_, c. the chief High-wayman best Mounted and Armed,
the Stoutest Fellow among them.
_Knobber_, see Hart.
_Knock in the Cradle_, a Fool.
_Knock-down_, very strong Ale or Beer.
_Knock off_, to give over Trading; also to Abandon or Quit one’s Post or
Pretensions.
_Knowledge is no Burden. Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one
dance._
_Knot_, a choice Bird, something less than a Ruff.
_Knotting_, making Fringe.
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_Labourinvain_, lost Labour, such as washing of Blackamoors, shearing of
Hoggs, hedging in the Cuckoe, _&c._
_Lac’d_ { _Coffee_, Sugar’d.
{ _Mutton_, a Woman.
_Lacing_, Beating, Drubbing. _I’ll Lace your Coat Sirrah_, I will Beat
you soundly.
_Ladder_, see _Badger_, first Part.
_Lady_, a very crooked, deformed and ill shapen Woman.
_Lady-birds_, Light or Lewd Women; also a little Red Insect, variegated
with black Spots.
_Lag_, c. Water; also Last.
_Lag-a dudds_, c. a Buck of Cloths. _As we cloy the Lag of Dudds_, c.
come let us Steal that Buck of Cloths. _To Lagg behind_, or come after
with Salt and Spoons. _Lagg of the Flock_, the Hindmost.
_Lambaste_, to Beat soundly.
_Lamb-pye_, Beating or Drubbing.
_Lamb-skin men_, c. the Judges of the several Courts.
_Lambs-wool_, roasted Apples and Ale.
_Lame Excuse_, a sorry Shift or Evasion.
_Land-lopers_ or _Land-lubbers_, Fresh-water Sea-men so called by the
true Tarrs; also Vagabonds that Beg and Steal about the Country.
_Land-pirates_, c. Highwaymen or any other Robbers.
_Land-lord_ and _Land-lady_, Host and Hostess; also Possessors of Land
or Houses, and Letters out of either to farm or for Lodgings. _How lies
the Land?_ How stands the Reckoning? _Who has any Lands in Appleby?_ a
Question askt the Man at whose Door the Glass stands Long.
_Lank_, Gaunt, Thin, Hollow, Lean, Meager, Slender, Weak. _Lank Ears of
Corn_, very thin Ears.
_Lanspresado_, c. he that comes into Company with but Two pence in his
Pocket.
_Lantern-jaw’d_, a very lean, thin faced Fellow. _A Dark-Lanthorn_, the
Servant or Agent that Receives the Bribe (at Court.)
_Lap_, c. Pottage, Butter-milk, or Whey. _’Tis rum Lap_, c. this is
excellent Soupe.
_Larbord_, on the left side or Hand.
_Lare-over_, said when the true Name of the thing must (in decency) be
concealed.
_Largess_, a Pittance properly given to Reapers and Harvest Folks, now
used for any petty Donative, or small Gratuity.
_Latitudinarian_, a Church-man at large, one that is no Slave to Rubrick,
Canons, Liturgy, or Oath of Canonical Obedience, and in fine looks
towards _Lambeth_, and rowes to _Geneva_.
_Layd-up-in Lavender_, when any Cloaths or other Moveables are pawn’d or
dipt for present Money; also _Rodds in Pickle_, of Revenge in reserve,
till an opportunity offers to show it.
_Lawn_, a naked Space in the middle of a Park or Forrest, left Untilled,
and without Wood, contrary to a _Hay_, which see in it’s proper Place;
also very thin Linnen, formerly much Worn.
_Layr_, the Impression where any Deer hath Harboured or reposed.
_Leachers_, Lascivious or Lustful Men.
_Leaden Pate_, a dull, heavy, stupid Fellow.
_Leaders_, the first Players, Generals of Armies, and Men of most sway in
great Councils or Assemblies; also the Fore-horses in Coaches and Teams.
_Who Leads?_ Who begins or Plays first.
_Leash_, Three; also the String wherewith a Grey-hound is Led.
_Leather-head_, a Thick-skull’d, Heavy-headed Fellow.
_Leather-mouth’d Fish_, Carp, Roach, _&c._ having their Teeth in their
Throats.
_Leathern Convenience_ (by the Quakers) a Coach.
_Leaves_, of a Tree, of a Book, of Doors, or Window-shutters, and of
folding Tables; _I must turn over a new Leaf with you_, or take another
Course with you.
_Legerdemain_, Jugglers Tricks; also Sharping.
_Lesses_, Boars Excrements.
_Let’s take an Ark and Winns_, c. let us hire a Skuller.
_Let’s buy a Brush_ or _Let’s Lope_, c. let us scour off, and make what
shift we can to secure our selves from being apprehended. _Let him Laugh
that Wins_: _Let the World say what they will, if I find all well at
Home._ _Let every Man meddle with his own._
_Leveret_, the first Year, see Hare.
_Levite_, a Priest or Parson; also those of the Tribe of Levi, whose
Inheritance the Priest-hood (craft and all) was.
_Levy_, the Prince’s, or any great Man’s time of Rising.
_Leystall_, a Dunghil.
_Lib_, c. to Tumble or Lye together.
_Libben_, c. a private dwelling House.
_Libbege_, c. a Bed.
_Libkin_, c. a House to Lye in; also a Lodging.
_Libertines_, Pleasant and profuse Livers, that Live-apace, but wildly,
without Order, Rule, or Discipline, lighting the Candle (of Life) at both
Ends. _A short Life and a Merry one._ _Life is sweet._ _Life is half
Spent, before we know what it is._
_Lickt_, Pictures new Varnished, Houses new Whitened, or Womens Faces
with a Wash.
_Lifter_, c. a Crutch.
_Light Finger’d_, Thievish.
_Light-mans_, c. the Day or Day-break.
_Light Friggat_, a Whore; also a Cruiser.
_Light Woman_, or _Light Huswife_, Lewd, Whorish.
_Light-timber’d Fellow_, limber or slender Limb’d; also weak.
_Lilly-white_, c. a Chimney-sweeper.
_Linnen-armorers_, c. Tailers.
_Line of the old Author_, a Dram of Brandy.
_Litter_, any thing clatter’d up, out of Place or Order, _What a litter
here is?_ What a toss and tumble? Also _a Litter of Cubbs_, young Foxes;
_of Whelps, Puppies_, young Doggs.
_Little Barbary_, Wapping.
_Little Fellow or Action_, Contemptible, Base, Sneaking,
Ungentleman-like.
_Loblolly_, any ill-cookt Mess.
_Lob-cock_, a heavy, dull Fellow. _In Lob’s Pound_, Laid by the Heels, or
clap’d up in Jail.
_Lobster_, a Red Coat Soldier.
_Lock all fast_, c. one that Buys and Conceals Stolen Goods. _The Lock_,
c. the Magazine or Ware-house whither, the Thieves carry Stolen Goods to
be secur’d; also an Hospital for Pockey Folks in _Kent-street_.
_Lockram-jaw’d_, Thin, Lean, Sharp-visag’d.
_Loge_, c. a Watch. I suppose from the French _Horloge_, a Clock or
Watch. _Filed a Cly of a Loge, or Scout_, c. Pickt a Pocket of a Watch.
_Biting a Loge, or Scout_, c. the same.
_Loggerhead_, a heavy, dull Fellow. _To go to Loggerheads_, to go to
Fisticuffs.
_Lolpoop_, a Lazy, Idle Drone. _To Loll_, to Lean on the Elbows; also to
put out the Tongue in derision.
_Long-headed_, Wise, of great reach and foresight.
_Long-meg_, a very tall Woman.
_Long-shanks_, Long-legged.
_Long-winded Pay-master_, one that very slowly, heavily, or late Paies.
_Looby_, a lazy dull Fellow.
_Looking-glass_, a Chamber-pot.
_Loon-slatt_, c. a Thirteen Pence half Penny. _A Loon_, see _Lout_. _A
False Loon_, a true _Scotch_ Man, or Knave of any Nation.
_Lord_, a very crooked, deformed, or ill-shapen Person.
_Lore_, Learning or Skill in any Thing.
_Louse-land_, Scotland. _A Scotch Louse-trap_, a Comb.
_Lout_, an heavy, idle Fellow. _To Lout_, to Low like a Cow, or Bellow
like a Bull.
_Loure_, c. Money.
_Low Tide_, when there’s no Money in a Man’s Pocket.
_Low-pad_, c. a Foot-Pad.
_Lubber_, _Lubberly_, a heavy, dull Fellow.
_Lud’s-bulwark_, c. Ludgate Prison.
_Luggage_, Lumber.
_Luggs_, Ears: Hence to Lug by the Ears. _Ye can he make a Silk-Purse of
a Sowe’s Luggs_, a Scotch Proverb. _To Lug out_, to draw a Sword.
_Lullaby-cheat_, c. a Child.
_Lumber_, Rubbish, Trash, Trumpery.
_Lumpish_, heavy dull, drowsy.
_Lurched_, Beaten at any Game. _Left in the Lurch_, Pawn’d for the
Reckoning, or left at Stake to Smart for any Plot.
_Lure_, c. an idle Pamphlet; also a Bait. _Throw out a Lure_, to lay Bait.
_Lurries_, c. Money, Watches, Rings, or other Moveables.
_Lyome_, the String wherewith a Hound is Led.
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_Mab_, a Slattern. _Mab’d up_, Drest carelessly, like a Slattern, of such
a one it is said. _Her Cloths fit on her, like a Saddle on a Sow’s Back._
_Queen Mab_, Queen of the Fairies.
_Mackarel_, c. a Bawd.
_Mackarel-back_, a very tall, lank Person.
_Machiavilian_, one wickedly or knavishly Politic.
_Machines_, Vessels full of Carcasses and Bombs, under Shelter or Covert
of the _Smokers_, to come close up under Walls, Forts, Fortifications,
_&c._ being fixt to Blow up the same. Also Engines or Instruments of
divers Arts, and Movements upon the Stage.
_Madam Van_, c. a Whore, _The Cull has been with Madam Van_, c. the
Fellow has enjoyed such a one.
_Mad-cap_, a frolicksom Person.
_Made_, c. Stolen. _I Made this Knife at a beat_, c. I Stole it cleaverly.
_Mad Tom_, alias of Bedlam, the Eighteenth Rank of Canters.
_Madge-howlet_, an Owl.
_Maggot_, a whimsical Fellow, full of strange Fancies and Caprichio’s,
_Maggotty_, Freakish.
_Maiden-sessions_, when none are Hang’d.
_Mailes_, the Breast-Feathers of a Hawk.
_Main_, great, excellent, choice, rare; also the Sea. _Maingood_, very
good. _With Might and Main_, Tooth and Nail.
_Make_, c. a half Penny.
_Make-bait_, a Trouble-House, or Mischief-maker, a stirrer of Strife, and
maker of Debate, a Boute feu, or Incendiary.
_Male-contents_, Disaffected to the State, out of Humor with the
Government.
_Malkin_ or _Maukin_, a Scare-crow, Drest and Set up to fright the Birds.
Also a Scovel (of old Clouts) to cleanse the Oven: Hence _Malkin-trash_,
for one in a rueful Dress, enough to Fright one. _There are more Maids
than Malkins_, _Mawks_, the same abbreaviated. _Mawkish_, a Wallowish,
ill Tast.
_Malmesey-nose_, a jolly, red Nose.
_Man o’ th’ Town_, a Lew’d Spark, or very Debaushe.
_Manning_, a Hawk, making him endure Company.
_Mannikin_, a Dwarf, or diminutive Fellow.
_Mantles_, when Drink is brisk and smiles; also when a Hawk stretcheth
one of her Wings after her Leggs, and so the other.
_Margery-prater_, c. a Hen.
_Marinated_, c. Transported into some forreign Plantation; also Fish
Soused.
_Marriage-music_, Childrens Cries.
_Marks_, the Footing of an Otter.
_Marrel_, a Bird about the bigness of a Knot, but not good Meat.
_Martern_, a Wild Cat, the second Year, called a Cub, the first. _A
Martern Treeth_, Lodgeth; _Tree the Martern_, Dislodge him.
_Masons mawn’d_, c. a Sham sore above the Elbow, to counterfeit a broken
Arm, by a Fail from a Scaffold, expos’d by subtil Beggers, to move
Compassion, and get Money.
_Masons-Word_, who ever has it, shall never want, there being a Bank at
a certain Lodge in _Scotland_ for their Relief. Tis communicated with a
strict Oath, and much Ceremony, (too tedious to insert) and if it be sent
to any of the Society, he must, (nay will) come immediately, tho’ very
Busy, or at great Distance.
_Match_ or _Make_, the Copulation of Woolves.
_Match makers_, a better sort of Procurers of Wives for Men, or Husbands
for Women, Maiden-head-jobbers, Virginity Sellers, Brokers, _&c._
_Maul’d_, swingingly Drunk, or soundly Beat.
_Maunders_, c. Beggers.
_Maunding_, c. to Beg, Begging.
_Maundring-broth_, Scolding.
_Mawdlin_, weepingly Drunk, as we say the Tears of the Tankard. _What are
you Mawdlin you Rake?_ are ye’ neither Drunk, nor Sober?
_May-games_, Frolicks Plaies, Tricks, Pastimes, _&c._ _Do you make a
May-game of me?_ do you Abuse or Expose me?
_Mead_, a pleasant Summer Drink, made of Water and Honey, Boyled, and
Bottled fine, in great vogue in _Moscovy_, where ’tis said the best in
the World is made.
_Meadites_, a Faction of Quakers, that follow most, and are in the
Interest of _Mead_.
_Meal-mouth_, a sly, sheepish Dun, or Sollicitor for Money.
_Measure_, the Distance of Duellers. _To break Measure_, to be out of
the Adversaries reach.
_Mechanic_, a Tradesman; also a mean, inconsiderable, contemptible Fellow.
_Meggs_, c. Guineas. _We fork’d the rum Cull’s Meggs to the tune of
Fifty_, c. We Pickt the Gentleman’s Pocket of full Fourty Guineas.
_Mellow_, a’most Drunk; also smooth, soft Drink.