to make spirits appear stronger than they really are, or, in their phrase, better proof. DOCTORS. Loaded dice, that will run but two or three chances. They put the doctors upon him; they cheated him with loaded dice. DODSEY. A woman : perhaps a corruption of Doxey. Cant. DOG BUFFERS. Dog stealers, who kill those dogs not advertised for, sell their skins, and feed the remaining dogs with their flesh. DOG IN A DOUBLET. A daring, resolute fellow. In Germany and Flanders the boldest dogs used to hunt the boar. having a kind of buff doublet buttoned on their bodies, Rubens has represented several so equipped, so has Sneyders. DOG. An old dog at it; expert or accustomed to any thing. Dog in a manger; one who would prevent another from enjoying what he himself does not want: an allusion to the well-known fable. The dogs have not dined; a common saying to any one whose shirt hangs out behind. To dog, or dodge; to follow at a distance. To blush like a blue dog, i. e. not at all. To walk the black dog on any one; a punishment inflicted in the night on a fresh prisoner,by his comrades,in case of his refusal to pay the usual footing or garnish. DOG LATIN. Barbarous Latin, such as was formerly used by the lawyers in their pleadings. DOG'S PORTION. A lick and a smell. He comes in for only a dog's portion; a saying of one who is a distant admirer or dangler after women. See DANGLER. DOG'S RIG. To copulate till you' are tired, and then turn tail to it. DOG VANE. A cockade. Sea term. DOGGESS, DOG'S WIFE or LADY, PUPPY'S MAMMA. Jocular ways of calling a woman a bitch. DOLL. Bartholomew doll; a tawdry, over-drest woman, like one of the children's dolls at Bartholomew fair. To mill doll; to beat hemp at Bridewell, or any other house of correction. DOLLY. A Yorkshire dolly; a contrivance for washing, by means of a kind of wheel fixed in a tub, which being turned about, agitates and cleanses the linen put into it, with soap and water. DOMINE DO LITTLE. An impotent old fellow. DOMINEER. To reprove or command in an insolent or haughty haughty manner. Don't think as how you shall domineer here. DOMMERER. A beggar pretending that his tongue has been cut out by the Algerines, or cruel and blood-thirsty Turks, or else that he was born deaf and dumb. Cant. DONE, or DONE OVER. Robbed: also, convicted or hanged. Cant.-See Do. DONE UP. Ruined by gaming and extravagances. Modern term. DONKEY, DONKEY DICK. A he, or jack ass: called donkey, perhaps, from the Spanish or don-like gravity of that animal, intitled also the king of Spain's trumpeter. DOODLE. A silly fellow, or noodle: see NOODLE. Also a child's penis. Doodle doo, or Cock a doodle doo; a childish appellation for a cock, in imitation of its note when crowing. DOODLE SACK. A bagpipe. Dutch.-Also the private parts of a woman. DOPEY. A beggar's trull. DOT AND GO ONE. To waddle: generally applied to persons who have one leg shorter than the other, and who, as the sea phrase is, go upon an uneven keel. Also a jeering appellation for an inferior writing-master, or teacher of arithmetic. DOUBLE. To tip any one the double; to run away in his or her debt. DOUBLE JUGG. A man's backside. Cotton's Virgil. DOVE-TAIL. A species of regular answer, which fits into the subject, like the contrivance whence it takes its name : Ex. Who owns this? The dovetail is, Not you by your asking. DOUGLAS. Roby Douglas, with one eye and a stinking breath; the breech. Sea wit. DowDY. A coarse, vulgar-looking woman. DOWN. Aware of a thing. Knowing it. There is no down. A cant phrase used by house-breakers to signify that the persons belonging to any house are not on their guard, or that they are fast asleep, and have not heard any noise to alarm them. To DowSE. To take down: as, Dowse the pendant. Dowse your dog vane; take the cockade out of your hat. Dowse the glim; put out the candle. DOWSE ON THE CHOPS. A blow in the face. DowSER. Vulgar pronunciation of douceur. F DRAB DRAB. A nasty, sluttish whore. DRAG. To go on the drag; to follow a cart or waggon, in order to rob it. Cant. DRAG LAY. Waiting in the streets to rob carts or waggons. DRAGGLETAIL or DAGGLETAIL. One whose garments are bespattered with dag or dew: generally applied to the female sex, to signify a slattern. DRAGOONING IT. A man who occupies two branches of one profession, is said to dragoon it; because, like the soldier of that denomination, he serves in a double capacity. Such is a physician who furnishes the medicines, and compounds his own prescriptions. DRAIN. Gin: so called from the diuretic qualities imputed to that liquor. DRAM. A glass or small measure of any spirituous liquors, which, being originally sold by apothecaries, were estimated by drams, ounces, &c. Dog's dram; to spit in his mouth, and clap his back. DRAM-A-TICK. A dram served upon credit. DRAUGHT, OF BILL, ON THE PUMP AT ALDGATE. A bad or false bill of exchange. See ALDGATE. DRAW LATCHES. Robbers of houses whose doors are only fastened with latches. Cant. TO DRAW. To take any thing from a pocket. To draw a swell of a clout. To pick a gentleman's pocket of a handkerchief. To draw the long bow; to tell lies. DRAWERS. Stockings. Cant. DRAWING THE KING'S PICTURE. Coining, Cant. TO DRESS. To beat. I'll dress his hide neatly; I'll beat him soundly. DRIBBLE. A method of pouring out, as it were, the dice from the box, gently, by which an old practitioner is enabled to cog one of them with his fore-finger. DRIPPER. A gleet. DROMEDARY. A heavy, bungling thief or rogue, A purple dromedary; a bungler in the art and mystery of thieving. Cant. DROMMERARS. See DOM MERER. DROP. The new drop; a contrivance for executing felons at Newgate, by means of a platform, which drops from under them this is also called the last drop. See LEAF. See MORNING DROP, DROP A COG. To let fall, with design, a piece of gold or silver, in order to draw in and cheat the person who sees it picked up; the piece so dropped is called a dropt cog. DROP DROP IN THE EYE. Almost drunk. DROPPING MEMBER. A man's yard with a gonorrhoea. DROP COVES. Persons who practice the fraud of dropping a ring or other article, and picking it up before the person intended to be defrauded, they pretend that the thing is very valuable to induce their gull to lend them money, or to purchase the article. See FAWNY RIG, and MONEY DROPPERS. TO DROP DOWN. To be dispirited. This expression is used by thieves to signify that their companion did not die game, as the kiddy dropped down when he went to be twisted; the young fellow was very low spirited when he walked out to be hanged. TO DRUB. To beat any one with a stick, or rope's end! perhaps a contraction of dry rub. It is also used to sig nify a good beating with any instrument. DRUMMER. A jockey term for a horse that throws about his fore legs irregularly: the idea is taken from a kettle drummer, who in beating makes many flourishes with his drumsticks. DRUNK. Drunk as a wheel-barrow. Drunk as David's Sow. See DAVID'S Sow. DRURY LANE AGUE. The venereal disorder. DRURY LANE VESTAL. A Woman of the town, or prostitute; Drury-lane and its environs were formerly the residence of many of those ladies. DRY BOB. A smart repartee: also copulation without emission; in law Latin, siccus robertulus. DRY BOOTS. A sly humorous fellow. DUB. A picklock, or master-key. Cant. DUB LAY. Robbing houses by picking the locks. DUB THE JIGGER. Open the door. Cant. DUB O' TH' HICK. Alick on the head. DUCK. A lame duck; an Exchange-alley phrase for a stock-jobber, who either cannot or will not pay his losses, or differences, in which case he is said to waddle out of the alley, as he cannot appear there again till his debts are settled and paid; should he attempt it, he would be hustled out by the fraternity. DUCKS AND DRAKES. To make ducks and drakes: a school-boy's amusement, practised with pieces of tile, oyster-shells, or flattish stones, which being skimmed along the surface of a pond, or still river, rebound many FAL F2 times. times. To make ducks and drakes of one's money; to throw it idly away. DUCK F-CK-R. The man who has the care of the poultry on board a ship of war. DUCK LEGS. Short legs, DUDDERS, or WHISPERING DULDERS. Cheats who travel the country, pretending to sell smuggled goods: they accost their intended dupes in a whisper. The goods they have for sale are old shop-keepers, or damaged; purchased by them of large manufactories. See DUFFER. DUDDERING RAKE. A thundering rake, a buck of the first head, one extremely lewd, DUDGEON. Anger. DUDS. Clothes, DUFFERS. Cheats who ply in different parts of the town, particularly about Water-lane, opposite St. Clement's church, in the Strand, and pretend to deal in smuggled goods, stopping all country people, or such as they think they can impose on; which they frequently do, by selling them Spital-fields goods at double their current price. DUGS. A woman's breasts. DUKE, OF RUM DUKE. A queer unaccountable fellow. DUKE OF LIMBS, A tall, awkward, ill-made fellow. DUKE HUMPHREY. To dine with Duke Humphrey ; to fast. In old St. Paul's church was an aisle called Duke Humphrey's walk (from a tomb vulgarly called his, but in reality belonging to John of Gaunt), and persons who walked there, while others were at dinner, were said to dine with Duke Humphrey. DULL SWIFT. A stupid, sluggish fellow, one long going on an errand. DUMB ARM. A lame arm, DUMB-FOUNDED. Silenced, also soundly beaten. DUMB WATCH. A venereal bubo in the groin. A pocket book. A dummee hunter. A pick pocket, who lurks about to steal pocket books out of gentlemen's pockets. Frisk the dummee of the screens; take all the bank notes out of the pocket book, ding the dum mee, and bolt, they sing out beef. Throw away the pocket book, and run off, as they call out" stop thief," DUMPLIN. A short thick man or woman. Norfolk dumplin; a jeering appellation of a Norfolk man, dumplins being a favourite kind of food in that county. DUMPS. Down in the dumps; low-spirited, melancholy: jocularly said to be derived from Dumpos, a king of Egypt, who |