Interest of _William Pen_, the chief Proprietor and Governor of
_Pensylvania_, a Country lying betwixt Forty and Forty five Degrees of
Latitude, in _America_, much improv’d, and like to florish.
_Penny-worth._ _I’ll fetch my Pennyworth out of him_, or make him earn
what he cost me.
_Penny-white_, said of her, to whom Fortune has been kinder than Nature.
_Penny-wise and Pound-foolish_, Sparing in a little and Lavish in a
great Deal, _save at the Spiggot and let it out at the Bung-hole_. _A
Penny-worth for one’s Penny_, for what is worth one’s Money. _To get a
Penny_, to endeaver to Live; _to turn and winde the Penny_, to make to
most of one’s Money, or Lay it out at the best Advantage, _Pennyless_,
poor, sharp, bare of Money.
_Penurious_, pinching, hard, parsimonious, little.
_Pentice Nab_, a very broad-brm’d Hat.
_Pepper’d off_, Damnably Clapt; or Poxt. _Pepper-proof_, not Clapt or
Poxt.
_Pericranium_, the Head or Skull.
_Perking_, the late D. of M. also any pert forward silly Fellow. _To Perk
up_, to hold up the Head after Drooping.
_Periwinkle_, a Perruque or Periwig; also the same as _Pinpatches_.
_Pestilent-fine_, Tearing-fine.
_Pet_, a Fret. _To be in a Pet_, or out of Humor.
_Peter Lug_, _Who is Peter Lug?_ Who let’s the Glass stand at his Door?
_Petrify_, to turn to Stone.
_Petrification_, Concretions, either such as are hardned into Stone, by
exposing them to Air, as Coral; or by casting them into Cold, petrifying
Waters, as Wood.
_Pettycoat-Pensioner_, a Gallant, or one Maintain’d for secret Service.
_Phanatics_, Dissenters from the Church of _England_.
_Pharoah_, very strong Mault-Drink.
_Phenix-men_, the same as _Fire-drakes_.
_Philadelphians_, a new Sect of Enthusiasts pretenders to Brotherly Love,
_&c._
_Philistines_, Serjeants Bailiffs and their Crew; also Drunkards. _I fell
among the Philistines_, I chopt upon a knot of Drunken Fellows.
_Phis_, for Physiognomy, Face or Aspect.
_Picking_, little Stealing, Pilfering, petty Larceny.
_Pickthank_, a Talebearer, or an Insinuator by any means to curry Favor.
_Pickaroon_, a very small Privateer; also a shabby poor Fellow.
_Pickled_, very Arch or Waggish. _In Pickle_, Poxt. _Rodds in Pickle, or
revenge in Lavender._
_Pig_, c. Sixpence. _The Cull tipt me a Pig_, c. the Man gave me Sixpence.
_Pig of the Sounder_, see Wild Boar.
_Pigsnie_, a word of Love.
_Pig-widgeon_, a silly Fellow.
_Pike_, c. to run away, flee, quit, or leave the Place; also to Die. _As
he Pikes_, c. he walks or goes. _Pike on the been_, c. run away as fast
as you can. _Piked off_, c. run away, fled, broke; also Dead. To _pass
the Pikes_, to be out of Danger.
_Pillau_, a Hen and Rice Boil’d, a Turkish Dish, but now in use in
_England_, _France_ and _Holland_.
_Pillory_, a Baker, also a Punishment mostly heretofore for Beggers, now
for Perjury, Forgery and suborned Persons.
_Pimp_, the same as Cock-bawd.
_Pimp-whisking_, a Top Trader that way; also a little mean-spirited,
narrow-soul’d Fellow.
_Pimlico_, a noted Cake-house formerly, but now converted into a
Bowlinggreen, of good report at _Hogsden_ near _London_.
_Pin_, a small Vessel containing Four Gallons and a half, or the Eighth
part of a Barrel. _To Pin himself upon you_, or to Hang on. _To Pin ones
Faith on another’s Sleeve_, or take all upon Trust, for Gospel that he
saies. _Not a Pin to chuse_, when there is little or no difference. _Upon
a merry Pin_, or in a pleasant Mood. _Nick the Pin_, to Drink fairly.
_Pimginnit_, a large, red, angry Pimple.
_Pinch_, to Steal, or Slily convey any thing away. _To Pinch_, to Cut the
Measures of Ale, Beer, _&c._ _To Pinch on the Parson’s side_, or Sharp
him of his Tythes.
_At Pinch_, upon a Push or Exigence.
_Pinch-gut-hall_, a noted House at _Milend_, so Nick-nam’d by the
_Tarrs_, who were half Starved in an _East-India_ Voiage, by their then
Commander, who Built (at his return) that famous Fabrick, and (as they
say) with what he Pinch’d out of their Bellies.
_Pinch-gut-money_, allow’d by the King to the Seamen, that Serve on Bord
the Navy Royal, when their Provision falls Short; also in long Voyages
when they are forced to Drink Water instead of Beer.
_Pinpatches_, a small Shel-fish very like a Snail, but less, Caught on
the Ouzes at low Tide, in Rivers near the Sea, and Sold cheap.
_Picquant_, a sharp Reflection; also a poynant Sawce.
_Pink’t_, Prickt with a Sword in a Rencounter or Duel. _He Pink’d his
Doublet_, he Run him Through.
_Piquet_, a game at Cards.
_Pit_, c. the hole under the Gallows into which those that Pay not the
Fee, _viz._ 6_s_ 8_d_, are cast and Buried.
_Pit-a pat_, or _Pintle de Pantledy_, sadly Scared, grievously put to it.
_Pitcher-bawd_, the poor Hack that runs of Errands to fetch Wenches or
Liquor. _Little Pitchers have large Ears_, Children may over-hear, and
discover Secrets. _The Pitcher do’s not go so often to the Well, but it
comes home Broke at last_, of him that after many lucky Adventures or
narrow Escapes, miscarries in the End.
_Pithy jest_, or Sentence, that couches a great deal in a little room.
_Pittance_, a small Largess or petty Gratuity.
_Placaert_, a Dutch Proclamation, or Order of the States.
_Plad_, Scotch striped Stuff.
_Plaint_ for _Complaint_, _he made his Plaint to me_, or made his
Complaint to me. Hence _Plaintiff_ and _Defendant_ at Law, for
Complainant and Defendant.
_Planks_, thrown out to save those that can Swim in a Wreck; also
Flooring.
_Plant_, c. to lay, place, or hide. _Plant your Whids and Stow them_, c.
be wary what you say or let slip.
_Plaister of hot Gutts_, one warm Belly clapt to another.
_Plate-fleet comes in_, when Money comes to Hand.
_Platter-fac’d-jade_, a very broad, ord’nary faced Woman.
_Plausible_, smooth, specious, Taking.
_Play it off_, to play Booty; also to throw away, at Gaming, so much and
no more. _He Plaies it off_, he Cheats.
_Pliant_, supple, flexible, ductile, manageable, Wax to every Thumb.
_Plodder_, a Porer in Records, Writings or Books, a dull Drudge, or hard
Student. _A Plodding Lawyer_, a Laborious Lawyer. _A Plodding Horse_, a
good Drudge or Pack-horse.
_Pluck the Ribond_, or _Pluck Sir O——n_, ring the Bell at the Tavern.
_Plump-in-the-pocket_, flush of Money.
_Plyer_, c. a Crutch.
_Poching_, a sly destroying of Game, with Dogs, Netts, Snares &c.
Contrary to the Laws; also an Egg Boyld in Water out of the Shell.
_Poke_, a Bag, Sack, or Pocket. _To buy a Pig in a Poke_, or unsight or
unseen. _To carry your Passions in your Pocket_, or smother your Passions.
_Poker_, one that conveys Coals (at _Newcastle_) in Sacks, on Horseback;
also a pointed Porr to raise the Fire, and a Sword.
_Polt on the Pate_, a good Rap there.
_Poltron_, a Coward.
_Ponyard_, a short Dagger or Stilletto.
_Porker_, c. a Sword.
_Porters_, Hirelings to carry Burthens, Beasts of Burthen, or else
Menial Servants set to Guard the Gates in a great Man’s House, of whom
Dr. _Donne_ said pleasantly, that he was ever next the Door, yet the
seldomest Abroad of any of the Family.
_Portable_, Pocketable.
_Portage_, Carriage of any thing, whether by Land or Water.
_Posse Mobilitatis_, the whole Rabble in a Body.
_Post_, Employment, Office, Station; also an advanced, or advantagious
piece of Ground: A Pillar in the Way or Street. _From Pillar to Post_,
from Constable to Constable.
_Pot-hooks_, Scrawls or bad Writing.
_Pot-valiant_, Drunk.
_Pot and Spit_, Boyl’d and Roast. _A little Pot is soon Hot_, or a little
Fellow soon made angry. _The Pot calls the Kettle black A——_, when one
accuses another of what he is as Deep in himself.
_Poulain_, a Bubo.
_Powder-monkey_, Boys planted at the Guns a Bord the Ship, to fetch
Gun-powder _&c._ in the Engagement.
_Powdring-Tub_, the pocky Hospital at _Kingsland_ near _London_.
_Poyson’d_, Big with Child.
_Poyson-pate_, red Hair’d.
_Prancer_, c. a Horse.
_Prancers-nab_, c. a Horse’s Head used in a Sham-Seal to such a Pass.
_Prancers-poll_, c. the same as before; also the Sign of the Nag’s Head.
_Mount the Prancer_, c. get on the Horse’s Back.
_Pranks_, Tricks.
_Pratts_, c. Buttocks; also a Tinder-box or Touch-box.
_Prating-cheat_, c. a Tongue.
_Prateroast_, a Talking Boy.
_Precarious_, what is Disputable and uncertain, as being purely at the
Pleasure and Courtesy of another.
_Precaution_, Forecast, or the Wisdom of Prevention, which is beyond
that of Remedy.
_Precipitate_, Rash, Headstrong, Unadvised, Inconsiderate, hurrying in
Business.
_Precisians_, Strait-laced, Squeemish, Foolishly Scrupulous.
_Preservatives_, Antidotes to keep off, or prevent Diseases.
_Priest-craft_, the Art of awing the People, managing their Consciences,
and diving into their Purses.
_Pretext_, Show, Colour, Pretence, or Excuse.
_Prey_, c. Money.
_Prick_, the first Head of a Fallow Deer; also a Skewer.
_Pricker_, a Huntsman on Horse Back.
_Pricketh_, the Footing of a Hare on the hard Highway, when it can be
perceived.
_Prickear’d Fellow_, a Crop, whose Ears are longer than his Hair.
_Prick louse_, a Taylor.
_Pricks_, decayed Wine, tending to Sower. _The Prick and Praise of
our Town_, that bears the Bell from all the Rest, in all Exercises, as
Wrestling, Running, Leaping, Vaulting, Pitching of the Barr, _&c._
_Priest-link’d_, Married.
_Priest-ridden_, wholly influenc’d and absolutely govern’d by that Tribe.
_Prig_, c. a Thief, a Cheat; also a Nice beauish, silly Fellow, is called
_a meer Prig_.
_Priggs_, c. the Ninth Rank of Canting Rogues, Thieves.
_Priggers_, c. Thieves.
_Prigging_, c. Riding; also Lying with a Woman.
_Prigstar_, c. a Rival in Love.
_Priggish_, c. Thievish.
_Prig-napper_, c. a Horse-Stealer; also a Thief-taker.
_Priggers of the Cacklers._ c. Poultry-Stealers.
_Priggers of Prancers_, c. the Sixth Order of the Canting Crew,
Horse-Stealers, who carry a Bridle in their Pockets, a small Pad Saddle
in their Breeches.
_Primero_, an old German Game at Cards.
_Prim_, a silly empty starcht Fellow.
_Princock_, a pert, forward Fellow.
_Princes-metal_, a mixt Metal, betwixt Brass and Copper, and of a mixt
Colour between both, not so Pale as the one, nor so Red as the other, the
late Invention of Prince _Rupert_.
_Prince Prig_, c. a King of the Gypsies; also a Top-Thief, or Receiver
General.
_Prinking_, nicely Dressing. _Prinkt up_, set up on the Cupboards-head
in their best Cloaths, or in State. Stiff-starched. _Mistress
Princum-Prancum_, such a one.
_Print_, the Treading of a Fox. _To set in Print_, with Mouth skrew’d up
and Neck Stretcht out.
_Prisme_, a Triangular Crystal-Glass or Fools Paradise, that by
refraction reflects imaginary Blew, Red, and Yellow Colours upon all
Objects seen through it; also any Saw-dust.
_Prittle-Prattle_, idle impertinent Chat.
_Proclamations_, _his Head is full of Proclamations_, much taken up to
little Purpose.
_Prog_, c. Meat. _Rum Prog_, c. nice Eating _The Cull tipt us Rum Prog_,
c. the Gentleman Treated us very High.
_Projectors_, Busybodies in new inventions and Discoveries, Virtuoso’s of
Fortune, or Traders in unsuccesful if not impracticable Whimms, who are
alwaies Digging where there is no more to be found.
_Proling_, Hunting or Searching about in quest of a Wench, or any Game.
_Property_, a meer Tool, or Implement, to serve a Turn, a Cat’s foot;
also a natural Quality or Talent, and the highest right a Man can have to
any thing, _Liberty and Property_, two Inestimable Jewells. To change the
Property, or give it another turn, with a new Dress, or the Disguise of a
Wig and a false Beard.
_Proud Bitch_, desirous of Copulation.
_Prying_ Fellow, that is very curious to enquire into other Men’s Secrets
and Affairs.
_Provender_, c. he from whom any Money is taken on the Highway.
_Puke_, to Spue.
_Pug_, _Pugnasty_, _a meer Pug_, a nasty Slut, a sorry Jade, of a Woman;
also a Monkey.
_Puling_, Sickly.
_Pummel_, the Hilt, Handle, or round Knob of a Sword, or Saddle; also to
Beat. I _Pummel’d his Sides for him_, I Beat him soundly.
_Pump_, to wheedle Secrets out of any one; Bailives, Serjeants,
Pick-pockets, _&c._ _Pumpt dry_, not a Word left to say.
_Pun_, to Play with Words and Sounds.
_Punch_, Brandy and Water, with Limes or Lemon-juice; also a thick short
Man. _Punch Nag_, a short, thick, fat, squat, strong Horse.
_Punch houses_, Bawdy-houses.
_Punchable_, old passable Money, _Anno_ 1695.
_Punk_, a little Whore.
_Puny_ Child, weak little _Puny Stomack_. _Puny Judge_, the Junior or
Youngest.
_Pure_, c. a Mistress.
_Purest-pure_, c. a Top-Mistress, or Fine Woman.
_Pupil-mongers_, Tutors at the Universities, that have many Pupils, and
make a Penny of them.
_Puritans_, _Puritanical_, those of the precise Cut, strait-laced
Precisians, _whining_ (as Osborn saies) _for a Sanctity God never yet
trusted out of Heaven_.
_Purl_, Worm-wood infus’d in Ale.
_Purl-Royal_, Canary with a dash of Wormwood.
_Pursenets_, c. Goods taken upon Trust by young Unthrifts at treble the
Value; also a little Purse.
_Purse-proud_, haughty because Rich.
_Pursy_, Fuggy, Fat.
_Pushers_, Canary-birds new Flown that cannot Feed themselves.
_Pushing School_, a Fencing School; also Bawdy-house. _At a Push_, at a
pinch or strait. _At Push of Pike_, at Defiance. _Push-pinn_, Childrens
Play. _To Push on one’s Fortune_, to advance, or run it up.
_Put._ _A Country-Put_, a silly, shallow-pated Fellow. _Put to it_,
Beset.
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_Quacking-cheat_, c. a Duck.
_Quack_, an Empirick, or meer pretender to Physic.
_Quaffing_, _Quaff off_, carousing, to carouse.
_Quag_, _Quagmire_, marshy moorish Ground.
_Quailing of the Stomack_, beginning to be qualmish or uneasy.
_Quail-pipe_, a Woman’s Tongue; also a Device to take the Birds of that
Name, which are fine food, the French esteem’d the best; tho’ both those
and the English are of a Currish Nature, and will beat themselves against
the Cage, sides and top, being with difficulty brought to Feed: Wheat is
usually given them, but Hempseed is a great deal better.
_Quaint_, curious, neat; also strange.
_Quaking cheat_, c. a Calf or a Sheep.
_Qualified_, Accomplisht, Statesman, Soldier, Scholar.
_Qualifications_, Accomplishments that render any of them Compleat; also
Conditions.
_Qually-Wines_, Turbulent and Foul.
_Qualm_, a Stomack-Fit; also Calmness, and the Cry of Ravens.
_Qualmish_, Crop-sick, queasy Stomackt.
_Quarrel-picker_, a Glazier; also a contentious Fellow, a Trouble Company.
_Quarron_, c. a Body.
_Quarte_, Nails of the Sword-Hand quite up.
_Quarting upon the streight Line_, keeping the Head and Shoulders very
much back from the Adversary’s Sword, when one thrusts with his own.
_Quash_, to Suppress, Annul, or Overthrow. _To Quash the indictment._
_Quean_, a Whore, or Slut. _A dirty Quean_, a very Puzzel or Slut.
_Queasy_ Stomacht, Crop-sick, Qualmish.
_Queen Elizabeth’s Pocket-pistol_, a Brass-Cannon of a prodigious Length
at _Dover-Castle_.
_Queere_, c. base, Roguish, naught. _How Queerely the Cull Touts?_ c. how
roguishly the Fellow looks.
_Queere Birds_, c. such as having got loose, return to their old Trade of
Roguing and Thieving.
_Queere-bluffer_, c. a sneaking, sharping, Cut-throat Ale-house or
Inn-keeper.
_Queere-bung_, c. an empty Purse.
_Queere-clout_, c. a sorry, coarse ord’nary or old Handkerchief, not
worth _Nimming_.
_Queere cole_, c. Clipt, Counterfeit, or Brass Money.
_Queere cole-maker_, c. a false-Coyner.
_Queere cole-fencer_, c. a Receiver and putter off false Money.
_Queere-cove_, c. a Rogue.
_Queere-cuffin_, c. a Justice of Peace; also a Churl.
_Queere-cull_, c. a Fop, or Fool, a Codshead; also a shabby poor Fellow.
_Queere-degen_, c. an Iron, Steel, or Brass-hilted Sword.
_Queere-diver_, c. a bungling Pick-pocket.
_Queere-doxy_, c. a jilting Jade, a sorry shabby Wench.
_Queere-drawers_, c. Yarn, coarse Worsted, ord’nary or old Stockings.
_Queere duke_, c. a poor decayed Gentleman; also a lean, thin, half
Starved Fellow.
_Queere fun_, c. a bungling Cheat or Trick.
_Queere-ken_, c. an ill House, or a Prison.
_Queere-mort_, c. a dirty Drab, a jilting Wench, a Pockey Jade.
_Queere-nab_, c. a Felt, Carolina, Cloth, or ord’nary Hat, not worth
whipping off a Man’s Head.
_Queere-kicks_, c. coarse, ord’nary or old Breeches.
_Queere-peepers_, c. old-fashion’d, ord’nary, black-fram’d, or common
Looking-glasses.
_Queere-prancer_, c. a Founder’d Jade, an ord’nary low-priz’d Horse.
_Queere-topping_, c. sorry Commodes or Head-dresses.
_Quibble_, to Trifle, or Pun. _Sir Quibble Queere_, a trifling silly
shatter-brain’d Fellow.
_Quidds_, c. Money. _Tip the Quidds_, c. can ye spend your Sixpence.
_Quietists_, a Numerous and considerable Sect amongst the Papists, being
against Oral and wholly for Mental Prayer, Whiggs, Popish Precisians, or
Puritans.
_Quipps_, Girds, Taunts, Jeers, _&c._
_Quirks_ in Law, Law-tricks or Subtilties.
_Quirks and Quillets_, Tricks and Devices.
_Quod_, c. Newgate; also any Prison, tho’ for Debt. _The Dab’s in the
Quod_, c. the poor Rogue is in Limbo.
_Quota_, c. Snack, Share, Part, Proportion or Dividend. _Tip me my
Quota_, c. give me my Part of the Winnings, Booty, Plunder, _&c._
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_Rabbet-suckers_, c. young Unthrifts taking up Goods upon Tick at
excessive rates.
_Rabbet_, the first Year.
_Rabbits_, Wooden Kanns to Drink out of, once used on the Roads, now,
almost laid by.
_Rabble_, the Mob.
_Racket_, a Noise or Bustle; also Tennis-play. _What a Racket those Ramps
keep?_ What a busel these rude Children make?
_Racking of Wines_, Drawing them off their Lees into fresh Vessels.
_Rack-rent_, strain’d to the utmost Value. The Knights of _Cales_,
Gentlemen of _Wales_, and Lairds of the _North Country_, a Yeoman of
_Kent_, at Rack-rent, will buy ’em all Three. _To lye at Rack and
Manger_, to live hard.
_Rag_, c. a Farthing. _Not a Rag left_, c. I have Lost or Spent, all my
Money.
_Ragou_, a Relishing Bit, with a high Sawce.
_Ragamuffin_, a Tatterdemallion.
_Rag-water_, a common sort of Strong-waters.
_Rake_, _Rake Hell_, _Rake-shame_, a Lewd Spark of Deboshee, one that has
not yet Sowed his Wild Oats, _Rakish_, tending to, or leaning towards
that Extravagant way, of Life. _Rake_, when the Hawk flies out too far
from the Fowls; also so much of the Ships Hull as overhangs both Ends of
the Keel; and to Trot a Horse gently.
_Ralph-Spooner_, a Fool.
_Raillery_, Drolling. _To Railly_, or Droll. _A Railleur_, or Droll.
_Rally_, to Unite or embody broken Troops.
_Rammish_, Rank.
_Ramp_, a Tomrig, or rude Girl. _To Ramp_, to Play rude Horse-Play.
_Rampant_, uppish, overbold, over-pert, over-lusty. _A Lyon Rampant_, i.
e. rearing up his Forefeet.
_Rangle_, when Gravel is given to a Hawk, to bring her to a Stomack.
_Ranging_, c. intriguing, and enjoying many Women.
_Rank_, rammish, strong-scented, as all the Petids, either Vegetables
or Animals, as Garlick, Assafœtida, Polecats, Foxes, Goats, _&c._ And
whatever is Stale, Corrupt, or Tainted, and Stinks with long or careless
Keeping. _A Rank Lie_, a lewd or flat Lie. _A Rank Knaive_, an errant
base Knave. _A Rank Whore_, an errant Whore.
_Rank-rider_, c. a Highway-man; also a Jockey.
_Rank-wink’d_, Hawk, that is a slow Fligher.
_Rant_, to Talk Big, High, or Boast much.
_Ranters_, Extravagants, Unthritts, Lewd Sparks; also of the Family of
Love.
_Rantipole_, a rude wild Boy or Girl.
_Rap_, to Swop or Exchange a Horse or Goods; also a Polt on the Pate, and
a hard Knocking at a Door.
_Rapparies_, Wild Irish Robbers, and Out-laws.
_Rapper_, a swinging great Lie.
_Raree-show-men_, poor _Savoyards_ strolling up and down with portable
Boxes of Puppet-shews at their Backs; in short, Pedlars of Puppets.
_Rascal_, a base, vile Fellow, a Rogue.
_Rascal-Deer_, lean, poor, _an-lying Deer_.
_Rat_, a Drunken Man or Woman taken up by the _Watch_, and carried by the
Constable to the Counter. _To smell a Rat_, to suspect a Trick.
_Rattler_, c. a Coach.
_Rattling-cove_, c. a Coach-man.
_Rattling Mumpers_, c. such Beggers as Ply Coaches. _To Rattle_, c. to
move off, or be gone. _We’ll take Rattle_, c. we must not tarry, but whip
away.
_Rattling_, the Noise of Coaches and Carts; as also of Armour, or of
Hail, or Thunder.
_Rattle-pate_, a Hot, Maggot-pated Fellow. _I Rattled him_, I Rated him
roundly, and told him his own.
_Rattleth_, the Noise a Goat maketh at Rutting time.
_Ravilliac_, any Assasin.
_Raw-head and Bloody-bones_, a Bull-begger or Scare-child.
_Rayn-deer_, a Beast like a _Hart_, but has his Head fuller of Antlers.
_Ready_, c. _Ready and Rhino_, c. Money in Possession.
_Rebel-rout_, the Rabble, running Riot.
_Reaking_, smoking or piping hot as Pies out of the Oven, Iron out of
the Forge, or Blood from a warm Wound. Hence perhaps the _Reak_, or
_Reaking_, i. e. Smoak of the Clouds. _I’ll Reak my Spite on him_, I’ll
be Revenged on him.
_Rear the Boar_, Dislodge him.
_Rebus’s_, Words or Sentences that are the same backwards as forwards.
_Recheat_, a Lesson blown on the Horn.
_Recorder_, a musical instrument; also a Law-Officer or Magistrate in
Cities and Corporations, their Mouth, or Spokesman.
_Recreant_, a Poltron, or Coward, one that eats his Words, or unsaies
what he said.
_Recruits_, c. Money (Expected.) _Have you rais’d the Recruits_, c. is
the Money come in?
_Red-fustian_, Clarret or red Port-Wine.
_Red letter-man_, a Roman-catholic.
_Red-rag_, a Tongue. _Your Red rag will never lie still_, your Tongue
will ne’re be quiet.
_Red shank_, c. a Duck.
_Refugies_, French and Vaudois Protestants, forced to quit their own and
fly into others’ Countries to have the Excercise of their Religion.
_Refreshed_, either as the Air is with Winds, when it Blows a Fresh Gale;
or artificially with the motion of Fanns, or opening the Windows to Fann
a close Room; or as Wines are with Snow and Ice; or by casting a new
Gloss, on what is worn out, Withered, or Decayed, in Bodies Artificial,
as Embroidery by Burnishing, or of Pictures by Varnishing, _&c._
_Rellif_, Copulation of Hares.
_Remember Parson Malham_, (Norfolk) Pray Drink about Sir.
_Regraters_, Fore-stallers in Markets.
_Repartee_, a sudden smart Reply.
_Republican_, a Common-wealths-man.
_Reserve_, a Store or Hoard to have recourse to, upon a Push or
particular Exigence; a Nest-Egg.
_Respost_, having given a Thrust, to Receive one from the Adversary,
before he has recover’d his Body.
_Resty_, Head-strong, Wayward, Unruly, Masterless.
_Retailers_, Parcel-traders or Dealers, petty Merchants, Hucksters,
Chandlers, Pedlars, _&c._ _In Retail_, in Parcel or small Sum, oppos’d
to what goes in Tale or Sum at Large.
_Retainers_, a Great Man’s Followers or Servants, attending him
(heretofore) in Blew Coats and Badges, which were the Ancient Liveries,
tho’ little more remains of it at present, save what is left among the
Water-men. Hence the Word _Retinue_, or Train of Attendance.
_Revers’d_, c. a Man set (by Bullies) on his Head, and his Money turn’d
out of his Breeches.
_Reward_, what is given the Hounds, or Beagles by the Hands of the
Hunts-man or others, after they have finished their Chase, by the Death
of what they pursu’d.
_Rhino_, c. ready Money.
_Rhinocerical_, c. full of Money. _The Cull is Rhinocerical_, c. the Fop
is full of Money.
_Rib_, or _Ribroasting_, a Dry-basting.
_Ribbin_, c. Money. _The Ribbin runs thick_, c. his Breeches are well
lined with Money. _The Ribbin runs thin_, c. he has but little Cash about
him.
_Richess_, (of Marterns) a Company.
_Rich-face_, a Red-face.
_Ridg-cully_, c. a Goldsmith.
_Riff-raff_, the Rabble or Scum of the People, Tagrag and Long-tail.
_Ridge_, or _row of Hills_, extended in a Line.
_Ridicule_, to Railly or turn any thing to a Jest. _To turn it all to
Ridicule_, to make a Mock of it.
_Rigging_, c. Cloaths.
_I’ll Unrig the Bloss_, c. I will Strip the Wench.
_Rum Rigging_, c. fine Cloaths. _The Cull has Rum Rigging, let’s Ding
him, and Mill him, and Pike_, c. the Man has very good Cloths, let us
Knock him Down, Rob him, and Scour off.
_Rill_, a Rivulet, or small River.
_Ring_, c. Money extorted by Rogues on the High-way, or by Gentlemen
Beggers. _A Ring_, a Concourse of People for Wrestling, Cudgel-playing,
_&c._ _A Ring of Hills_, a round Circle of Hills.
_Ring-walks_, the Dew-rounds made by Huntsmen, when they go drawing in
their Springs at Hart-Hunting.