DRY BOB, a smart repartee, also copulation without emission,

in law Latin, siccus robertulus.

DRY BOOTS, a sly humourous fellow.

DUB, a picklock key, (cant).

DUB THE GIGGER, open the door, (cant).

DUBBER, a picker of locks (cant).

DUCE, two pence.

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.

DUCK F-CK-R, the man who has the care of the poultry on board a ship of war.

DUCK LEGS, short legs.
DUDS, clothes.

DUDDERING RAKE, a thundering rake, a buck of the first head, one extremely lewd.

DUDGEON, anger.

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.

DUKE OF LIMBS, a tall aukward ill made fellow. DUKE, or RUM DUKE, a queer unaccountable fellow. DUKE HUMPHREY, to dine with Duke Humphrey, to fast. Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, surnamed the good, was famous for his voluntary mortifications, particularly frequent fasting.

DULL SWIFT, a stupid sluggish fellow, one long going on an errand.

DUMB ARM, a lame arm.

DUMB GLUTTON, a woman's privities.

DUMB FOUNDED, silenced, also soundly beaten.

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DUMB WATCH, a venereal bubo in the groin.

DUMPS, down in the dumps, low spirited, melancholly. 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 country.

DUN, an importunate creditor; dunny in the provincial dialect of several countries, signifies deaf; to dun, then perhaps may mean to deafen with importunate demands. Some derive it from the word donnez, which signifies give, but the true original meaning of the word, owes its birth to one Joe Dun, a famous bailiff of the town of Lincoln, so extremely active, and so dexterous in his business, that it became a proverb, when a man refused to pay, why do not you Dun him, that is, why do not you set Dun to arrest him; hence it became a cant word, and is now as old, as since the days of Henry VII. Dun was also the general name for the hangman, before that of Jack Ketch.

And presently a halter got,

Made of the best strong hempen teer,
And e'er a cat could lick her ear,
Had tied it up with as much art,
As DUN himself could do for's heart.

Cotton's Virgil Tra. book 4.

DUNAKER, a stealer of cows and calves. DUNGHILL, a coward, a cockpit phrase, all but game cocks being stiled dunghills; to die dunghill, to repent, or shew any signs of contrition at the gallows; moving dunghill, a dirty filthy man or woman; dung, an abbreviation of dunghill, also means a journeyman taylor who submits to the law for regulating journeymen taylors wages, therefore deemed by the flints, a coward. See flints. DUP, to open a door. See dub.

DURGEN, a little trifling fellow.

DUST, money; down with your dust, deposit the money; to raise, or kick up a dust, to make a disturbance, or riot. See breeze. Dust it away, drink about.

DUSTMAN, a dead man; your father is a dustman.

DUTCH RECKONING, or ALLE-MAL, a verbal, or lump

account with particulars, as brought at spunging, or bawdy houses.

DUTCH CONCERT, where every one plays, or sings a different tune.

DUTCH FEAST, where the entertainer gets drunk before his guests.

DUTCHESS, a woman enjoyed with her pattens on, or by a man in boots, is said to be made a dutchess.

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ARNEST, a deposit in part of payment, to bind a bargain. EASY, to make the cull easy, or quiet, gagg, or kill him. EASY VIRTUE, a lady of easy virtue, an impure, or prostitute. EAT, to eat like a beggar man, and wag his under jaw, a jocular reproach to a proud man; to eat one's words, to retract what one has said.

EDGE, to edge, to stimulate or provoke, or as it is vulgarly called, to egg a man on; fall back, fall edge, i. e. let what will happen. Some derive to egg on, from the Latin word, age, age.

ELBOW GREASE, labour, elbow grease will make an oak table shine.

ELBOW SHAKER, a gamester, one who rattles Sir Hugh's bones, i. e. the dice.

ELF, a fairy, or hobgoblin, a little man or woman.
ENGLISH BURGUNDY, porter.

EQUIPT, rich, also having new clothes; well equipt, full of money, or well dressed; the cull equiped me with a brace of meggs, the gentleman furnished me with a couple of guineas.

ERIFFS, rogues just initiated, and beginning to practice. ESSEX LION, a calf, Essex being famous for calves, and chiefly supplying the London markets.

ESSEX STILE, a ditch, great part of Essex is low marshy ground, in which there are more ditches than stiles.

EVANS, Mrs. Evans, a name frequently give to a she cat, owing, as it is said, to a witch of the name of Evans, who frequently assumed the appearance of a cat.

EVES, hen roosts.

EVES DROPPER, one that lurks about to rob hen roosts, also a listener at doors and windows, to hear private conversation.

EWE, a white ewe, a beautiful woman; an old ewe drest lamb fashion, an old woman drest like a young girl. EXECUTION DAY, washing day.

EXPENDED, killed, (sea phrase) alluding to the gunners accounts, wherein the articles consumed are charged under the title of expended.

EYES AND LIMBS, the foot guards were formerly so called, by the marching regiments, from a favourite execration in use among them, which was, damning their eyes, limbs, and blue breeches.

EYE SORE, a disagreeable object; it will be an eye sore as long as she lives, said by a man whose wife was cut for a fistula in ano.

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FACE MAKING, begetting children; to face it out, to persist in a falsity; no face but his own, saying of one who has no money in his pocket, or no court cards in his hand.

FACER, a bumper, a glass filled so full as to leave no room for the lip.

FADGE, it wont fadge, it wont do.

FAG (cant) to beat; fag the bloss, beat the wench; a fag

also means a boy of an inferior form or class, who acts as a servant to one of a superior, who is said to fag him; he is my fag, whence perhaps fagged out for jaded or tired. FAGGER, a little boy put in at a window to rob the house. FAGGOT, a man hired as a muster, to appear as a soldier

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to faggot, in the canting sense, means to bind, an allusion
to the faggots made up by the woodmen, which are all
bound; faggot the culls, bind the men.

FAITHFUL, one of the faithful, a taylor who gives long credit;
his faith has made him unwhole, i. e. trusting too much
broke him.

FALLALLS, ornaments, chiefly women's, such as ribbands, necklaces, &c.

FAMMS, or FAMBLES, hands; (cant) famble cheats, rings or gloves.

FAMGRASP, to shake hands, (cant); figuratively to agree or make up a difference; famgrasp the cove, shake hands with the fellow.

FAMILY OF LOVE, lewd women; also a religious sect. FAN, to beat any one; I fanned him sweetly, I beat him heartily.

FASTNER, a warrant.

FASTNESSES, bogs.

FARTLEBERRIES, excrement hanging to the hairs about the anus, &c., of a man or woman.

FART CATCHER, a valet or footman, from his walking behind his master or mistress.

FARTING CRACKERS, breeches.

FUSTIAN, bombast language; red fustian, port wine.

FAT, the last landed, inned, or stowed of any sort of merchandise, so called by the waterside porters, carmen, &c.

FAT HEADED, stupid.

FAT CULL, a rich fellow.

FAULKNER, a tumbler, juggler, or shewer of tricks, (cant); perhaps because they lure the people, as a faulconer does his hawks.

FAYTORS, or FATORS, fortune tellers.

FEAGUE, to feague a horse, to put ginger up a horse's fundament, to make him lively and carry his tail well; it is said, a forfeit is incurred by any horse dealer's servant who shall show a horse without first feagueing him, used figuratively for encouraging or spiriting one up.