CHOP AND CHANGE, to exchange backwards and forwards, to chop in the canting sense, means making dispatch, or hurrying over any business: ex. the autem bawler will soon quit the hums, for he chops up the whiners, the parson will soon quit the pulpit, for he hurries over the prayers. See autem bawler, hums, and whiners. A CHOPPING BOY, or GIRL, a lusty child.

TO CHOUSE, to cheat or trick, he choused me out of it, Chouse is also a game like chuck farthing.

CHUB, he is a young chub, or a meer chub, a foolish fellow easily imposed on, an allusion to a fish of that name easily taken.

CHUBBY, round faced, plump.

CHUCKLE HEADED, stupid, thick headed.

CHUCK, my chuck, a term of endearment.
CHUCK FARTHING, a parish clerk.

CHUFFY, round faced, chubby.

A CHUM, a chamber fellow, particularly at the universities and in prisons.

CHUMMAGE, money by the richer sort of prisoners in the Fleet and King's Bench, to the poorer for their share of a room; when prisons are very full, which is too often the case, particularly on the eve of an insolvent act, two or three persons are obliged to sleep in a room. A prisoner who can pay for being alone, chuses two poor chums, who for a stipulated price, called chummage, give up their share of the room, and sleep on the stairs, or as the term is, ruff it.

CHURCH WARDEN, a Sussex name for a shag, or cormorant, probably from their voracity.

CHURCH WORK, said of any work that advances slowly. CHURCH YARD COUGH, a cough that is likely to terminate in death.

CHURL, originally a labourer or husbandman, figuratively,

a rude surly boorish fellow. To put a churl upon a gentleman, to drink malt liquor immediately after having drank wine.

CINDER GARBLER, a servant maid, from her business of sifting the ashes from the cinders (Custom-House Wit). CIRCUMBENDIBUS, a round about way, or story. He took such a circumbendibus; he took such a circuit.

CIT, a citizen of London.

CIVILITY MONEY, a reward claimed by bailiffs, for executing their office with civility.

CIVIL RECEPTION, a house of civil reception, a bawdy house, or nanny house. See nanny house.

CLACK, a tongue, chiefly applied to women, a simile drawn from the clack of a water mill.

CLAMMED, starved.

CLAN, a family's tribe or brotherhood; a word much used in Scotland. The head of the clan, the chief, an allusion to a story of a Scotchman, who when a very large louse crept down his arm, put him back again, saying he was the head of the clan, and that if injured, all the rest would resent it. CLANK, a silver tankard (cant).

CLANK NAPPER, a silver tankard stealer. See rum bubber. CLANKER, a great lie.

CLAP, a venereal taint. He went out by Had'em, and came round by Clapham home; i. e. he went out a wenching, and got a clap.

CLAP ON THE SHOULDER, an arrest for debt; whence a bum bailiff is called a shoulder clapper.

CLAPPER, the tongue of a bell, and figuratively of a man or

woman.

CLAPPER CLAW, to scold, to abuse, or claw off with the tongue.

CLAPPERDOGEON, a beggar born (cant).

CLARET, French red wine, figuratively blood. I tapped his claret; I broke his head, and made the blood run. Claret faced, or red faced.

CLAWED OFF, severely beaten or whipped; also smartly poxed or clapped.

CLEAR, very drunk (cant). The cull is clear, let's bite him ; the fellow is very drunk, let's cheat him.

CLEAVE, one that will cleave, used of a forward or wanton

woman.

CLICK, a blow, (cant) a click in the muns, a blow or knock in the face.

CLICKER, a salesman's servant.

To CLICK, to snatch (cant). To click a nab; to snatch a hat. CLICKER, one who proportions out the different shares of the booty among thieves.

CLINCH, a pun, or quibble. A clincher, or to clinch the nail; to confirm an improbable story by another: as, a man swore he drove a tenpenny nail through the moon, a bystander said it was true, for he was on the other side and clinched it.

CLICKET, copulation of foxes, and thence used in canting sense, for that of men and women; as, the cull and the mort are at clicket in the dyke; the man and woman are copulating in the ditch.

CLERKED, soothed, funned, imposed on. The cull will not be clerked; i. e. the fellow will not be imposed on by fair words. CLEYMES, artificial sores, made by beggars to excite charity. CLIP, to hug or embrace; to clip and cling. To clip the

coin; to diminish the current coin. To clip the king's English; to be unable to speak plain through drunkenness. CLINKERS, a kind of small Dutch bricks; also irons worn by prisoners. A crafty fellow.

CLICKMAN TOAD, a watch. An appellation for a Westcountry man, said to have arisen from the following story. A West-country man who had never seen a watch, found one on a heath near Pool, which by the motion of the hand, and the noise of the wheels, he concluded to be a living creature of the toad kind, and from its clicking he named it a clickman toad.

CLOAK TWITCHERS, rogues who lurk about the entrances into dark allies, and by lanes, to snatch cloaks from the shoulders of passengers.

CLOD HOPPER, a country farmer or ploughman.

CLOD POLE, a dull heavy booby.

CLOD PATE, the same.

CLOSE FISTED, covetous or stingy.

CLOSE, as close as a God's curse to a whore's a-se, close as shirt and shitten a-se.

CLOSH, a general name given by the mobility to Dutch seamen, being a corruption of Claus, the abbreviation of Nicholas, a name very common among the men of that nation. CLOUD, tobacco. Under a cloud; in adversity.

CLOVEN, CLEAVE, or CLEFT, a term used for a woman, who passes for a maid, but is not one.

CLOVEN FOOT, to spy the cloven foot in any business; to discover some roguery or something bad in it. A saying that alludes to a piece of vulgar superstition, which is, that let the devil transform himself into what shape he will, he cannot hide his cloven foot.

CLOVER, to be, or live in clover; to live luxuriously. Clover is the most desirable food for cattle.

A CLOUT, a blow, (cant) I'll give you a clout on your jolly nob: I'll give you a blow on the head. It also means a handkerchief. Clouted shoon, shoes tipped with iron. CLOWES, rogues.

CLOY, to steal (cant). To cloy the clout; to steal the handkerchief. To cĺoy the lour; to steal money (cant).

CLOYES, thieves, robbers, &c.

CLUB, a meeting, or association, where each man is to spend an equal and stated sum, called his club.

CLUB LAW, argumentum bacculinum, in which an oaken stick is a better plea than an act of parliament.

CHUCK, to shew a propensity for a man. The mort chucks; the wench wants to be doing.

CLUMP, a lump, clumpish, stupid.

CLUNCH, an aukward clownish fellow.

CLUTCHES, hands, gripe, power.

CLUTCH THE FIST, to clench or shut the hand. Clutch fisted, covetous, stingy. See close fisted.

CLUTTER, a stir, noise, or racket; what a confounded clutter here is.

CLY, money, (cant) also a pocket. He has filed the cly; he has picked a pocket.

CLY THE JERK, to be whipped (cant).

CLYSTER PIPE, a nick name for an apothecary.

To COAX, to fondle, or wheedle, To coax a pair of stockings, to pull down the part soiled into the shoe, so as to give a dirty pair of stockings the appearance of clean ones. Coaxing is also used instead of darning, to hide the holes about the ankles.

COACH WHEEL, a half crown piece is a fore coach wheel. and a crown piece a hind coach wheel, the fore wheels of a coach being less than the hind ones.

COB, a Spanish dollar.

COBBLER, mender of shoes, an improver of the understandings of his customers. A translator.

COBBLE, a kind of boat; also to mend, or patch, likewise to do a thing in a bungling manner.

COBBLE COLTER, a turkey.

COB, or COBBING, a punishment used by the seamen for petty offences, or irregularities among themselves; it consists in bastonading the offender on the posterior with a cobbing stick, or pipe staff; the number usually inflicted, is a dozen. At the first stroke the executioner repeats the word watch, on which all persons present are to take off their hats on pain of like punishment: the last stroke is always given as hard as possible, and is called a purse. Ashore among soldiers, where this punishment is sometimes adopted, watch and the purse are not included in the number, but given over and above, or in the vulgar phrase, free gratis for nothing. This piece of discipline is also inflicted in Ireland, by the school boys, on persons, coming into the school without taking off their hats, it is there called school butter.

COCK-A-WHOOP, elevated, in high spirits, transported with joy.

COCK ALE, a provocative drink.

COCK ALLEY, or COCK LANE, the private parts of a

woman.