COM the judge how many times an old offender has been tried, by holding up as many fingers as the number of times the prisoner has been before arraigned at that bar. COLLEGIATES. Prisoners of the one, and shopkeepers of the other of those places. COLLECTOR: A highwayman. TO COLLOGUE. To wheedle or coax. COOK RUFFIAN, who roasted the devil in his feathers. A bad cook. COOL CRAPE. A shroud. COOLER. COOLER. A woman. The backside. Kiss my cooler. Kiss my a-ǝs. It is principally used to signify a woman's posteriors, COOL LADY. A female follower of the camp, who sells brandy. COOL NANTS. Brandy. COOL TANKARD, Wine and water, with lemon, sugar, and burrage. COLQUARRON. A man's neck. His colquarron is just about to be twisted; he is just going to be hanged. Cant. COLT. One who lets horses to highwaymen; also a boy new. ly initiated into roguery; a grand or petty juryman on his, first assize. Cant. COLTAGE. A fine or beverage paid by colts on their first en tering into their offices. COLT BOWL. Laid short of the jack by a colt bowler, i. e. a person raw or unexperienced in the art of bowling. COLT'S TOOTH. An old fellow who marries or keeps a young girl, is said to have a colt's tooth in his head. COLT VEAL. Coarse red veal, more like the flesh of a colt than that of a calf. COMB. To comb one's head; to clapperclaw, or scold any one: a woman who lectures her husband, is said to comb his head. She combed his head with a joint stool; she threw a stool at him. COME. To come; to lend. Has he come it; has he lent it? To come over any one; to cheat or over reach him. Coming wench; a forward wench, also a breeding woman. COMING! SO IS CHRISTMAS. Said of a person who has long been called, and at length answers, Coming! COMFORTABLE IMPORTANCE. A wife. COMMISSION. A shirt. Cant. COMMODE. A woman's head dress. COMMODITY. A woman's commodity; the private parts of a modest woman, and the public parts of a prostitute. COMMONS. The house of commons; the necessary house. COMPANY. To see company; to enter into a course of pros titution. COMPLIMENT. COS COMPLIMENT. See CHRISTMAS. COMUS'S COURT. A social meeting formerly held at the Half Moon tavern Cheapside. CONFECT. Counterfeited. CONGER. To conger; the agreement of a set or knot of booksellers of London, that whosoever of them shall buy a good copy, the rest shall take off such a particular number, in quires, at a stated price; also booksellers joining to buy either a considerable or dangerous copy. CONGO. Will you lap your congo with me? will you drink tea with me? CONNY WABBLE. Eggs and brandy beat up together. Irish. CONSCIENCE KEEPER. A superior, who by his influence makes his dependants act as he pleases. CONTENT. The cull's content; the man is past complaining: a saying of a person murdered for resisting the robbers. Cant. CONTENT. A thick liquor, in imitation of chocolate, made of milk and gingerbread. CONTRA DANCE. A dance where the dancers of the different sexes stand opposite each other, instead of side by side, as in the minuet, rigadoon, louvre, &c. and now corruptly called a country dance. CONUNDRUMS. Enigmatical conceits. CONVENIENT. A mistress. Cant. CONVENIENCY. A necessary. A leathern conveniency, a coach. COOPED UP. Imprisoned, confined like a fowl in a coop. COQUET. A jilt. CORINTH. A bawdy-house. Cant. CORINTHIANS. Frequenters of brothels. Also an impudent, brazen-faced fellow, perhaps from the Corinthian brass. CORK-BRAINED. Light-headed, foolish. CORNED. Drunk. CORNISH HUG. A particular lock in wrestling, peculiar to the people of that county. CORNY-FACED. A very red pimpled face. CORPORAL. To mount a corporal and four; to be guilty of onanism: the thumb is the corporal, the four fingers the privates. CORPORATION. A large belly. He has a glorious corporation; he has a very prominent belly. CORPORATION. The magistrates, &c. of a corporate town. Corpus sine ratione. Freemen of a corporation's work; neither strong nor handsome. COSSET. COU CoSSET. A foundling. Cosset colt or lamb; a colt or lamb brought up by hand. COSTARD. The head. I'll smite your costard; I'll give you a knock on the head. COSTARD MONGER: ples, A dealer in fruit, particularly ap COT, or QUOT. A man who meddles with women's household business, particularly in the kitchen. The punishment commonly inflicted on a quot, is pinning a greasy dishclout to the skirts of his coat. COVE. A man, a fellow, a rogue. The cove was bit; the rogue was outwitted. The cove has bit the cole; the rogue has got the money. Cant. COVENT, or CONVENT GARDEN, vulgarly called COMMON GARDEN. Anciently, the garden belonging to a dissolved monastery; now famous for being the chief market in London for fruit, flowers, and herbs. The theatres are situated near it. In its environs are many brothels, and not long ago, the lodgings of the second order of ladies of easy virtue were either there, or in the purlieus of Drury Lane. COVENT GARDEN ABBESS. A bawd. COVENT GARDEN AGUE. The venereal disease. He broke his shins against Covent Garden rails; he caught the venereal disorder. COVENT GARDEN NUN. A prostitute. COVENTRY. To send one to Coventry; a punishment inflicted by officers of the army on such of their brethren as are testy, or have been guilty of improper behaviour, not worthy the cognizance of a court martial. The person sent to Coventry is considered as absent; no one must speak to or answer any question he asks, except relative to duty, under penalty of being also sent to the same place. On a proper submission, the penitent is recalled, and welcomed by the mess, as just returned from a journey to Coventry. COVEY. A collection of whores. What a fine covey here is, if the Devil would but throw his net! To COUCH A HOGSHEAD. To lie down to sleep. Cant. COUNTY WORK. Said of any work that advances slowly. COURT HOLY WATER. Fair speeches and promises, COURT PROMISES. without performance. COURT CRA COURT OF ASSISTANTS. A court often applied to by young women who marry old men. Cow. To sleep like a cow, with a **** at one's a-se; said of a married man ;'married men being supposed to sleep with their backs towards their wives, according to the fol lowing proclamation : All you that in your beds do lie, Turn to your wives, and occupy :- Cow's BABY. A calf. Cow's COURANT. Gallop and sh---e. COW-HANDED. Awkward. Cow-HEARTED. Fearful. Cow ITCH. The product of a sort of bean, which excites an insufferable itching, used chiefly for playing tricks. Cow's SPOUSE. A bull. Cow's THUMB. Done to a cow's thumb; done exactly. COXCOMB. Anciently, a fool. Fools, in great families, wore a cap with bells, on the top of which was a piece of red cloth, in the shape of a cock's comb. At present, coxcomb signifies a fop, or vain self-conceited fellow. CRAB. To catch a crab; to fall backwards by missing one's stroke in rowing. CRAB LANTHORN. A peevish fellow. CRAB LOUSE. A species of louse peculiar to the human body; the male is denominated a cock, the female a hen. CRAB SHELLS. Shoes. Irish. CRABS. A losing throw to the main at hazard. CRACK. A whore. TO CRACK. To boast or brag; also to break. I cracked his napper; I broke his head. THE CRACK, or ALL THE CRACK. The fashionable theme, the go. The Crack Lay, of late is used, in the cant language, to signify the art and mystery of house-breaking. CRACKER. Crust, sea biscuit, or ammunition loaf; also the backside. Farting crackers; breeches. CRACKISH. Whorish. CRACKING TOOLS. Implements of house-breaking, such as a crow, a center bit, false keys, &c. CRACKMANS. Hedges. The cull thought to have loped by breaking through the crackmans, but we fetched him back by a nope on the costard, which stopped his jaw; the man thought to have escaped by breaking through the hedge, E but but we brought him back by a great blow on the head, which laid him speechless. CRACKSMAN. A house-breaker. The kiddy is a clever cracksman; the young fellow is a very expert house- brea ker. CRAG. The neck. CRAMP RINGS. Bolts, shackles, or fetters. Cant. CRAMP WORDS. Sentence of death passed on a criminal by a judge. He has just undergone the cramp word; sentence has just been passed on him. Cant. CRANK. Gin and water; also, brisk, pert. CRANK. The falling sickness. Cant. TO CRASH. To kill. Crash that cull; kill that fellow. Cant. CRASHING CHEATS. Teeth. CRAW THUMPERS. Roman catholics, so called from their beating their breasts in the confession of their sins. See BRISKET BEATER, and BREAST FLEET. CREAM-POT LOVE. Such as young fellows pretend to dairymaids, to get cream and other good things from them. TO CREEME. To slip or slide any thing into the hands of another. Cant. CREEPERS. Gentlemen's companions, lice. CREW. A knot or gang; also a boat or ship's company. The canting crew are thus divided into twenty-three orders, which see under the different words: CRIB. A house. To crack a crib: to break open a house. term. Bear Garden CRIBBAGE |