DOC DISHCLOUT. A dirty, greasy woman. He has made a napkin of his dishclout; a saying of one who has Inarried his cook maid. To pin a dishclout to a man's tail; a punishment often threatened by the female servants in a kitchen, to a man who pries too minutely into the secrets of that place. DISMAL Dirty. The psalm sung by the felons at the gal lows, just before they are turned off. DISPATCHES. A mittimus, or justice of the peace's warrant, for the commitment of a rogue. Ditto. "A suit of ditto; coat, waistcoat, and breeches, all of one colour. DisPATCHERS. Loaded or false dice. Distracted Division. Husband and wife fighting. Dive. To dive; to pick a pocket. To dive for a dinner; to go down into a cellar to dinner. A dive, is a thief who stands ready to receive goods thrown out to him by a little boy put in at a window. Cant. Diver. A pickpocket; also one who lives in a cellar. Divide. To divide the house with one's wife; to give her the outside, and to keep all the inside to one's self, i.e. to turn her into the street. Do. To do any one; to rob and cheat him. I have done him; I have robbed him. Also to overcome in a boxing match: witness those laconic lines written on the field of battle, by Humphreys to his patron.---'Sir, I have done the Jew. TODO OVER. Carries the same meaning, but is not so briefly expressed: the former having received the polish of the present times. Doash. A cloak. Cant. Dobin Rig. Stealing ribbands from haberdashers early in the morning or late at night; generally practised by wo men in the disguise of maid servants. To Dock. To lie with a woman. The cull docked the dell all the darkmans; the fellow laid with the wench all night. Docked smack smooth; one who has suffered an amputation of his penis from a venereal complaint. He must go into dock; a sea phrase, signifying that the person spoken of must undergo a salivation. Docking is also à punishment inflicted by sailors on the prostitutes who have infected them with the venereal disease; it consists in cut, ting off all their clothes, petticoats, shift and all, close to their stays, and then turning them into the street DOCTOR. Milk and water, with a little rum, and some nutmeg; also the name of a composition used by distillers, to DOM 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 ad vertised for, sell their skins, and feed the remaining dogs with their flesh. DOG IN A DOUBLET. A daring, resolute fellow. In Ger many 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 Sney ders. 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. Doc'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 turu tail to it. Dog's Soup. Rain water. Dog VANE. A cockade. Sea term. Dogged. Surly. Doggess, Dog's WIFE or LADY, PUPPY'S MAMMA. Jocular ways of calling a wor 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 DOMINEER. To reprove or command a when crowing. 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 han : ged. Cant.-See Do. DONE UP. Ruined by gaming and extravagances. Modern. term. DONKEY, Donkey Dick. A he, or jack ass: called don key, 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 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 HILLS. Dice that run low. 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. F DRAB : DRO 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, le 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. . Draper. An ale draper; an alehouse keeper. DRAUGHT, or 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 hand kerchief. 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 en abled 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 DOMMERER. 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 DU C DROP IN THE EYE. Almost drunk, Dropping MEMBER. A man's yard with a gonorrhea. Drop Coves. Persons who practice the fraud of drop ping 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 sign 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 prosti tute; Drury-lane and its environs were formerly the re sidence of many of those ladies. DRY BOB, A smart repartee : also copulation without emission; in law Latin, siccus robertulus. . stock-jobber, who either cannot or will not pay his losses, or differences, in which case he is said to widdle 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 T2 times. |
