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Matsell - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Vocabulum - or The Rogue's Lexicon - -Author: George W. Matsell - -Release Date: June 13, 2016 [EBook #52320] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VOCABULUM *** - - - - -Produced by Chris Curnow, Ernest Schaal, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - - - -<div class="image-center" style="max-width: 526px;"> -<img src="images/cover.jpg" width="526" height="700" -alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="hr2" /> - -<div class="image-center" style="max-width: 515px;"> -<img class="border" src="images/i_frontis.jpg" width="515" height="700" -alt="Geo. W. Matsell" -title="Geo. W. Matsell"/> -</div> - -<hr class="hr2" /> - -<div class="image-center" style="max-width: 498px;"> -<img class="border" src="images/i_title.jpg" width="498" height="700" -alt="VOCABULUM; -OR, -THE ROGUE'S LEXICON. - -COMPILED FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES. - -BY -GEORGE W. MATSELL, -SPECIAL JUSTICE, CHIEF OF POLICE, ETC., ETC. - -NEW-YORK: -PUBLISHED BY GEORGE W. MATSELL & CO. -PROPRIETORS OF THE NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE. -No. 3 Tryon Row." -title="VOCABULUM; -OR, -THE ROGUE'S LEXICON. - -COMPILED FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES. - -BY -GEORGE W. MATSELL, -SPECIAL JUSTICE, CHIEF OF POLICE, ETC., ETC. - -NEW-YORK: -PUBLISHED BY GEORGE W. MATSELL & CO. -PROPRIETORS OF THE NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE. -No. 3 Tryon Row." /> -</div> - -<hr class="hr2" /> - -<div class="bt"> -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Entered</span>, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by</p> -</div> - -<p class="center">GEORGE W. MATSELL & CO.,</p> - -<div class="bb"> -<p class="center">in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United -States for the Southern District of New-York.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="hr2" /> - -<h2>PREFACE.</h2> - -<p class="indent">When a young man enters upon the business of life, -he may have some indefinite idea of what he intends to -follow out to the close thereof; but he soon finds himself -surrounded by circumstances which control his -actions and business pursuits, and lead him into channels -of thought and industry that had not previously -entered into his philosophy. At least I have found it -to be so, and I have no doubt others have had a similar -experience. To become a lexicographer, certainly -never entered into my calculation, or even found a -place in the castle-building of my younger days; and -if a kind friend had suggested to me that I was -destined to fill such a position in life, I would simply -have regarded him as a fit subject for the care of the -authorities. This improbable event has now taken -place; and I present myself to the world as the compiler -of a language used in all parts of the world, and -yet understood connectedly but by few persons.</p> - -<p class="indent">The rogue fraternity have a language peculiarly -their own, which is understood and spoken by them -no matter what their dialect, or the nation where -they were reared. Many of their words and phrases, -owing to their comprehensive meaning, have come into -general use, so that a Vocabulum or Rogue's Lexicon, -has become a necessity to the general reader, but -<span class="pagenum"><a name="pageiv" id="pageiv"></a>[pg iv]</span> -more especially to those who read police intelligence.</p> - -<p class="indent">Occupying the position of a Special Justice, and -Chief of the Police of the great Metropolis of New-York, -where thieves and others of a like character -from all parts of the world congregate, and realizing -the necessity of possessing a positive knowledge of -every thing connected with the class of individuals -with whom it was my duty to deal, I was naturally -led to study their peculiar language, believing that it -would enable me to converse with them more at ease, -and thus acquire a knowledge of their character, besides -obtaining from them information that would assist -me in the position I occupied, and consequently be of -great service to the public. To accomplish this task -was no mean undertaking, as I found that it required -years of diligent labor to hunt up the various authorities, -and these when found proved only partially available, -as much of the language in present use was unwritten, -and could only be obtained by personal study -among first-class thieves who had been taught it in -their youth. The difficulties surrounding it, did not -deter me from following out my resolution, and by -closely pursuing it, I had opened up to me a fountain -of knowledge that I could not have obtained if I had -not possessed a clear understanding of this peculiar -dialect. Experience has since demonstrated to me that -<span class="pagenum"><a name="pagev" id="pagev"></a>[pg v]</span> -any man engaged in police business can not excel -without understanding the rogues' language, in the -study of which they will find this Lexicon of invaluable -service.</p> - -<p class="indent">It is not, however, to policemen alone that this book -will be of service, as these cant words and phrases are -being interwoven with our language and many of them -are becoming recognized Anglicisms. It is not unusual -to see them in the messages of presidents and governors—to -hear them enunciated at the bar and from the pulpit, -and thus they have come to be acknowledged as -appropriately expressive of particular ideas; so that -while they are in common use among the footpads -that infest the land, the <i>élite</i> of the Fifth Avenue pay -homage to their worth, by frequently using them to -express thoughts, that could not, otherwise, find a fitting -representative. The vocabulary of the rogue is -not of recent date; although it is mainly made up of -arbitrary or technical words and phrases, while others -are of a purely classical origin. It is a language of great -antiquity, and may be dated back to the earliest days -of the roving gipsy bands, that infested Europe, from -whom the greater portion of it has been derived. It -might more properly be termed the Romany or Gipsy -language, adapted to the use of modern rogues in all -parts of the world, and in which the etymologist will -find words drawn from every known language. Some -<span class="pagenum"><a name="pagevi" id="pagevi"></a>[pg vi]</span> -of these words are peculiarly national, but as a general -thing the language of the rogue in New-York is the -language of the rogue the world over.</p> - -<p class="indent">Among policemen, not only in this city but in different -parts of the United States, the cant language of -thieves is attempted to be used; but there being no -standard they are unable to do so understandingly, -and each one gives to the words the corrupted sense -in which he received it; thus speaking as it were, a -miserable "<i>patois</i>," to the exclusion of the true -"Parisian French." This departure from the true -meaning of the words used is mischievous in its tendency, -as it is calculated to mislead and bewilder, so -that rogues might still converse in the presence of an -officer, and he be ignorant of what they said. This I -have endeavored to correct, and although I may not -claim infallibility in these matters, yet I believe that -I have arrived at as high a degree of perfection as is -now attainable.</p> - -<p class="indent">To the readers of the <i>National Police Gazette</i>, the -oldest and most reliable criminal journal published in -the United States, this work will prove invaluable, as -it will enable them to understand and fully comprehend -language that the editors and correspondents are -frequently compelled to use in order to convey the -idea as understood by rogues in general.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Geo. W. Matsell.</span></p> - -<p><i>New-York, 1859.</i></p> - -<hr class="hr2" /> - -<p class="center">VOCABULUM;</p> - -<p class="center">OR,</p> - -<h2>THE ROGUE'S LEXICON.</h2> - -<div class="image-center" style="max-width: 302px;"> -<img src="images/i_001.jpg" width="302" height="62" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h3>A</h3> - -<p>ABRAHAM. To sham; to pretend sickness.</p> - -<p>ABRAHAM COVE. A naked or poor man; a beggar -in rags.</p> - -<p>ACADEMY. A penitentiary, or prison for minor offenses.</p> - -<p>ACCOUNTS. To cast accounts; to vomit.</p> - -<p>ACE OF SPADES. A widow.</p> - -<p>ACKRUFFS. River-thieves; river-pirates.</p> - -<p>ACORN. A gallows.</p> - -<p>ACTEON. A cuckold.</p> - -<p>ACTIVE CITIZEN. A louse.</p> - -<p>ADAM. An accomplice; a pal.</p> - -<p>ADAM-TILER. A fellow whose business it is to receive -the plunder from the "File"—the one who -picked the pocket—and get away with it.</p> - -<p>ADDLE-COVE. A foolish man.</p> - -<p>AGOG. Anxious; impatient; all-agog.</p> - -<p>AGOGARE. Anxious; eager; impatient; be quick.</p> - -<p>AIR AND EXERCISE. To work in the stone quarry -at Blackwell's Island or at Sing Sing.</p> - -<p>ALAMORT. Confounded; struck dumb; unable to -say or do any thing.</p> - -<p>ALBERT. A chain.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page8" id="page8"></a>[pg 8]</span> -ALBONIZED. Whitened.</p> - -<p>ALLS. The five alls. First, the monarch's motto, -"I govern all." Second, the bishop's motto, "I -pray for all." Third, the lawyer's motto, "I plead -for all." Fourth, the soldier's motto, "I fight for -all." Fifth, the farmer's motto, "I pay for all."</p> - -<p>ALTEMAL. All in a heap, without items; the sum -total.</p> - -<p>ALTITUDES. A state of drunkenness; being high.</p> - -<p>AMBIDEXTER. One who befriends both sides; a -lawyer who takes fees from both parties in a suit.</p> - -<p>AMERACE. Very near; don't go far; be within call.</p> - -<p>AMPUTATE YOUR MAHOGANY or TIMBER. Be -off quick; away with you.</p> - -<p>AMUSE. To amuse; to invent plausible stories and -thereby rob or cheat unsuspecting persons.</p> - -<p>AMUSERS. Fellows who carry snuff or pepper in -their pockets, which they throw into a person's eyes -and then run away; the accomplice rushing up to -the victim, pretending to assist, robs him while suffering -with pain.</p> - -<p>ANGLERS. Small thieves who place a hook on the -end of a stick, and therewith steal from store-windows, -doors, etc. It also applies to fencemen; putters -up, etc.</p> - -<p>ANKLE. "A sprained ankle;" the mother of a child -born out of wedlock.</p> - -<p>ANODYNE. Death; to anodyne, to kill. "Ahr -say, Bill, vy don't yer hopen that jug and draw the -cole?" "Vy, my cove, aren't you avare as how a -bloke snoses hin it?" "Vell, vot hof it, aren't yer -habel to put him to hanodyne?"</p> - -<p>ANOINTED. Flogged.</p> - -<p>APPLES AND PEARS. Stairs.</p> - -<p>AQUA. Water.</p> - -<p>ARCH-COVES. Chief of the gang or mob; headmen; -governors; presidents.</p> - -<p>ARCH-DUKE. A funny fellow.</p> - -<p>ARCH-GONNOFF. The chief of a gang of thieves.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page9" id="page9"></a>[pg 9]</span> -ARD. Hot.</p> - -<p>ARK. A ship; a boat; a vessel.</p> - -<p>ARTFUL DODGERS. Lodgers; fellows who dare -not sleep twice in the same place for fear of arrest.</p> - -<p>ARTICLE. Man. "You're a pretty article." A -term of contempt.</p> - -<p>ARTICLES. A suit of clothes.</p> - -<p>ARTIST. An adroit rogue.</p> - -<p>ASSAY. Go on; commence; try it.</p> - -<p>ATTLEBOROUGH. Not genuine; made to imitate. -At the town of Attleborough jewelry is manufactured -from the baser metals, or so alloyed as to deceive -those who are not good judges of the genuine article.</p> - -<p>AUTUM. A church.</p> - -<p>AUTUM-BAWLER. A parson.</p> - -<p>AUTUM-CACKLER. A married woman.</p> - -<p>AUTUM-COVE. A married man.</p> - -<p>AUTUM-DIVERS. Pickpockets who practise in -churches.</p> - -<p>AUTUM-JET. A parson.</p> - -<p>AUTUMED. Married.</p> - -<p>AWAKE. To know; to let know.</p> - - -<h3>B</h3> - -<p>BABY PAPS. Caps.</p> - -<p>BACONNING. A fat round face; a full pale face.</p> - -<p>BADGER. A panel thief; a fellow who robs a man's -pocket after he has been enticed into bed with a -woman; to torment.</p> - -<p>BAG OF NAILS. Every thing in confusion.</p> - -<p>BAGGED. Imprisoned.</p> - -<p>BALL. Prison allowance.</p> - -<p>BALLUM-RANCUM. A ball where all the dancers -are thieves and prostitutes.</p> - -<p>BALSAM. Money.</p> - -<p>BAM. A lie; to bamboozle; humbug.</p> - -<p>BANDERO. A widow's weeds.</p> - -<p>BANDOG. A civil officer.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page10" id="page10"></a>[pg 10]</span> -BANGUP. The best; very fine; height of the fashion.</p> - -<p>BAPTIZED. Liquor that has been watered.</p> - -<p>BARDY. A sixpence.</p> - -<p>BARKER. One who patrols the streets for customers -in front of his employer's shop; vide Chatham street.</p> - -<p>BARKING. Shooting.</p> - -<p>BARKING-IRONS. Pistols.</p> - -<p>BARNACLES. A good booty; a pair of spectacles; -hand-cuffs.</p> - -<p>BARREL FEVER. Delirium tremens.</p> - -<p>BASTER. A house-thief.</p> - -<p>BAT. A prostitute who walks the streets only at night.</p> - -<p>BAZAAR. A counter.</p> - -<p>BEAK. A magistrate; a judge.</p> - -<p>BEAKQUERE. A sharp, strict magistrate who is attentive -to his duty.</p> - -<p>BEANS. Five-dollar gold-pieces.</p> - -<p>BEAT. Get the best of him; "Beat the flat;" rob -the man.</p> - -<p>BEATER-CASES.}<br /> -BEATERS. } Boots.</p> - -<p>BEAU-TRAPS. Well-dressed sharpers; fortune-hunters.</p> - -<p>BELCHER TIE. A flashy neckerchief.</p> - -<p>BEN. A vest.</p> - -<p>BENDER. A spree; a drunken frolic.</p> - -<p>BENE. Good; first rate.</p> - -<p>BENE-BOUSE. Good drink.</p> - -<p>BENE-COVE. A good man.</p> - -<p>BENE-CULL. A good fellow.</p> - -<p>BENE-DARKMAN. Good night.</p> - -<p>BENEN-COVE. A better man.</p> - -<p>BENFLAKE. A cheap beef-steak.</p> - -<p>BENISON. A blessing.</p> - -<p>BENJAMIN. A coat.</p> - -<p>BENS. Fools.</p> - -<p>BESS. A pick of a very simple construction.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page11" id="page11"></a>[pg 11]</span> -BETSEY. <i>See Bess.</i></p> - -<p>BETTING HIS EYES. A term used by gamblers -when a "sucker" looks on at the game, but does -not bet.</p> - -<p>BETTY. A picklock.</p> - -<p>BEVER. An afternoon lunch.</p> - -<p>BIENLY. Excellently, "She coaxed so bienly."</p> - -<p>BIG THING. A rich booty.</p> - -<p>BILBOA. A pointed instrument.</p> - -<p>BILK. To cheat.</p> - -<p>BILL OF SALE. A widow's weeds.</p> - -<p>BILLY. A piece of whalebone or rawhide about -fourteen inches long, with an oval-shaped lump of -lead at each end, one larger than the other, the whole -being covered with buckskin or india-rubber.</p> - -<p>BILLY BUTTER. Mutton.</p> - -<p>BILLY NOODLE. A soft fellow that believes the -girls are all in love with him.</p> - -<p>BINGAVAST. Get you gone, "Bing we to New-York;" -go we to New-York.</p> - -<p>BINGO. Liquor.</p> - -<p>BINGO-BOY. A drunken man.</p> - -<p>BINGO-MORT. A drunken woman.</p> - -<p>BIRDLIME. Time. Time arrests and reveals all things.</p> - -<p>BIRTHDAY SUIT. Stark naked.</p> - -<p>BIT. Out-witted, "The cove was bit;" "The cove has -bit the flat, and pinched his cole," outwitted and -robbed him.</p> - -<p>BIT. Done; sentenced; convicted.</p> - -<p>BITE. To steal; to rob.</p> - -<p>BLACK ACT. Picking locks.</p> - -<p>BLACK COVE-DUBBER. A turn-key; a prison -keeper.</p> - -<p>BLACK FRIARS. Look out.</p> - -<p>BLACK OINTMENT. Raw meat.</p> - -<p>BLACK SPY. The devil.</p> - -<p>BLACK-BOX. A lawyer.</p> - -<p>BLACKLEG. A gambler.</p> - -<p>BLARNEY. A picklock.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page12" id="page12"></a>[pg 12]</span> -BLEAK. Handsome; "The Moll is bleak," the girl -is handsome.</p> - -<p>BLEAK-MORT. A pretty girl.</p> - -<p>BLEATING RIG. Sheep-stealing.</p> - -<p>BLEED. To compel a person to give money under -threat of exposure.</p> - -<p>BLINK. Not to see when one may. "The copper -blinks, and won't drop to me," i. e. the officer pretends -not to see me; the officer looks another way. -To go to sleep.</p> - -<p>BLOCK-HOUSE. A prison.</p> - -<p>BLOKE. A man.</p> - -<p>BLOSS. Woman; mistress; girl.</p> - -<p>BLOTTED. Written.</p> - -<p>BLOW. To inform.</p> - -<p>BLOW A CLOUD. Smoke a segar or pipe.</p> - -<p>BLOWEN. The mistress of a thief. "The blowen -kidded the bloke into a panel crib, and shook him -of his honey and thimble," i. e. the girl enticed the -man into a thieving-house, and robbed him of his -watch and money.</p> - -<p>BLUDGEONER. A fellow who passes off some well-dressed -woman as his wife. She goes out in search -of a gallant, and entices her victim into some unfrequented -place. The bludgeoner waits outside until -she gives him a signal that the man is robbed, when -he rushes in with a knife, pistol, or club, and accuses -the man with having seduced his wife. The -poor fool gets away as fast as possible, and does not -know that he is robbed.</p> - -<p>BLUDGET. A female thief who decoys her victims -into alley-ways, or other dark places, for the purpose -of robbing them.</p> - -<p>BLUE-BILLY. A peculiar handkerchief.</p> - -<p>BLUE-PIGEON-FLYING. Stealing lead off the tops -of houses.</p> - -<p>BLUE-PLUM. A bullet; "Surfeit the bloke with -blue-plum," shoot him.</p> - -<p>BLUE-RUIN. Bad gin.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page13" id="page13"></a>[pg 13]</span> -BLUFF. To bluster; look big.</p> - -<p>BLUFFER. The landlord of a hotel.</p> - -<p>BLUNDERBUSS. An ignorant, blustering fellow.</p> - -<p>BLUNT. Money.</p> - -<p>BOARDING-HOUSE. City prison; the Tombs.</p> - -<p>BOARDING-SCHOOL. Penitentiary.</p> - -<p>BOAT. "To boat with another;" to go in with him; -to be his partner in the same boat—in the same -scrape.</p> - -<p>BOATED. Transported; gone to sea.</p> - -<p>BOB. The fellow that carries off the plunder; a shop-lifter; -a cover or staller.</p> - -<p>BOB MY PAL. My girl.</p> - -<p>BOB-CULL. A good fellow.</p> - -<p>BOBBIE. A policeman.</p> - -<p>BODY-COVER. A coat.</p> - -<p>BOGUS. Bad coin; false.</p> - -<p>BOKE. The nose.</p> - -<p>BOLT. Run away.</p> - -<p>BONE. To take; to steal; to ask him for it.</p> - -<p>BONEBOX. The mouth.</p> - -<p>BONED. Arrested; taken; carried off.</p> - -<p>BONESETTER. A hard-riding horse.</p> - -<p>BONNET. Hat. "Bonnet him," knock his hat down -over his eyes.</p> - -<p>BONNETTER. One who entices another to play; or -the fellow who takes the "flat" in hand after the -"roper in" has introduced him to the house.</p> - -<p>BOOBY-HATCH. Station-house; watch-house.</p> - -<p>BOODLE. A quantity of bad money.</p> - -<p>BOODLE-CARRIER. The man who carries the bulk -of the counterfeit money that is to be passed. The -person who passes, or shoves it, as it is called, having -but one "piece" at a time. The fellow with the -boodle keeps close in the wake of the shover, to receive -the good money, and supply him with the -counterfeit, as occasion requires.</p> - -<p>BOOKED. Arrested.</p> - -<p>BOOLY-DOG. An officer; a policeman.</p> - -<p>BOOSING-KEN. A drinking-shop.</p> - -<p>BOOTH. A place in which thieves congregate.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page14" id="page14"></a>[pg 14]</span> -BOOZE. Intoxicating drink.</p> - -<p>BORDELLO. A house of ill-fame.</p> - -<p>BOSHING. A flogging.</p> - -<p>BOTS. Boots.</p> - -<p>BOTTLE-HEAD. A stupid fellow.</p> - -<p>BOUNCE. To scold; blow up; to swagger; to convince -by the force of sound more than sense.</p> - -<p>BOUNCER. A fellow that robs while bargaining -with the store-keeper.</p> - -<p>BOUNCING CHEAT. A bottle.</p> - -<p>BOUNG. A purse.</p> - -<p>BOWER. A prison.</p> - -<p>BOWSPRIT IN PARENTHESIS. A pulled nose.</p> - -<p>BRACKET-MUG. A very ugly face.</p> - -<p>BRADS. Money.</p> - -<p>BRAG. To boast.</p> - -<p>BRASS. Money.</p> - -<p>BREAD-BAG. The stomach.</p> - -<p>BREAK-'O-DAY DRUM. A place for the sale of liquor, -that never closes day or night.</p> - -<p>BREAKUPS. Steamboat-landings; dispersing of people -from theatres, lecture-rooms, churches, etc.</p> - -<p>BRIEF. Duplicate.</p> - -<p>BROAD PITCHING. The game of three-card monte.</p> - -<p>BROADS. Cards.</p> - -<p>BROADY. Materials of any kind.</p> - -<p>BROKEN LEG. A woman that has had a child out -of marriage.</p> - -<p>BROTHER OF THE BLADE. A soldier.</p> - -<p>BROTHER OF THE BOLUS. A doctor.</p> - -<p>BROTHER OF THE BUNG. A brewer.</p> - -<p>BROTHER OF THE BUSKIN. An actor.</p> - -<p>BROTHER OF THE COIF. A counsellor-at-law.</p> - -<p>BROTHER OF THE GUSSET. A pimp.</p> - -<p>BROTHER OF THE QUILL. An author; an editor.</p> - -<p>BROTHER OF THE STRING. Fiddler, or musician.</p> - -<p>BROTHER OF THE SURPLICE. A minister.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page15" id="page15"></a>[pg 15]</span> -BROTHER OF THE WHIP. A coachman.</p> - -<p>BRUISER. A fighter.</p> - -<p>BRUSH. To flatter; to humbug; an encounter. "It -was the hardest brush I ever saw; both men were -as game as pebbles. It was nothing but cut, carve, -and come again."</p> - -<p>BRUSHER. A full glass.</p> - -<p>BRUSHING UP A FLAT. Praising or flattering.</p> - -<p>BUBB. To drink; "Bubb your lush," drink your grog.</p> - -<p>BUBBLE. To cheat.</p> - -<p>BUCK. A hack-driver; bail.</p> - -<p>BUCKET. A live man.</p> - -<p>BUCKLER. A collar.</p> - -<p>BUCKS-FACE. A cuckold.</p> - -<p>BUDGE. A thief that sneaks into a store, and hides -until the persons who lock up are gone, when he -lets in his accomplice.</p> - -<p>BUFE. A dog.</p> - -<p>BUFE-NAPPER. A dog-thief; a mean rogue.</p> - -<p>BUFFER. A pugilist.</p> - -<p>BUFFET. A false swearer.</p> - -<p>BUFFING IT HOME. Swearing point blank to a -circumstance or thing.</p> - -<p>BUG. A breast-pin.</p> - -<p>BUGABOSE. Sheriff's officers.</p> - -<p>BUGAROCH. Handsome; very pretty.</p> - -<p>BUGGER. A pickpocket; a buggsman.</p> - -<p>BUGGING. Taking money from a thief by a policeman.</p> - -<p>BULK AND FILE. Shop-lifters; two pickpockets -operating together—the "bulk" jostles the party -that is to be robbed, and the "file" steals the treasure.</p> - -<p>BULL. A locomotive.</p> - -<p>BULL-DOGS. Pistols.</p> - -<p>BULL-TRAPS. Rogues who personate officers for -the purpose of extorting money.</p> - -<p>BULLY. A lump of lead tied in a corner of a kerchief.</p> - -<p>BULLY TIMES. Good times.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page16" id="page16"></a>[pg 16]</span> -BUMMER. A sponger.</p> - -<p>BUMY-JUICE. Porter or beer.</p> - -<p>BUN. A fellow that can not be shaken off.</p> - -<p>BUNG. A purse or pocket.</p> - -<p>BURNERS. Rogues who cheat countrymen with -false cards or dice.</p> - -<p>BURNING. Cheating.</p> - -<p>BURNT OUT. Worn-out roués; fellows that sorrow -for the past, fear the future, and can only make -the present endurable through means that are revolting -to human reason.</p> - -<p>BURST. The conclusion of an entertainment; a -spree.</p> - -<p>BURSTER. A burglar. Sometimes it denotes bread.</p> - -<p>BUS-NAPPER. A constable.</p> - -<p>BUST. To enter forcibly; a burglary.</p> - -<p>BUSTLED. Confused; perplexed; puzzled.</p> - -<p>BUTTEKER. A store.</p> - -<p>BUTTER-KEN. A shop or store.</p> - -<p>BUTTERED. Whipped.</p> - -<p>BUTTON. To secure; to entice a simpleton to play.</p> - -<p>BUZZING. Searching for. "I was in a push and -had to buzz about half a glass before I touched a -flat's thimble and slang. I fenced the swag for half -a century"—"I was in a crowd and searched for -half an hour before I succeeded in stealing a man's -watch and chain, which I sold for fifty dollars."</p> - -<h3>C</h3> - -<p>CAB-MOLL. A woman that keeps a bad house.</p> - -<p>CACKLE. To blab. "The cove cackles"—tells all -he knows.</p> - -<p>CAD. A baggage-smasher; a railroad conductor.</p> - -<p>CADGER. A beggar; a mean thief.</p> - -<p>CADY. A hat.</p> - -<p>CAG. Sulky; morose.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page17" id="page17"></a>[pg 17]</span> -CAIN AND ABEL. A table.</p> - -<p>CAKE. An easy fool of a policeman; a flat cop.</p> - -<p>CALF-SKIN FIDDLE. A drum.</p> - -<p>CALLE. A gown.</p> - -<p>CAM. Cambric, "Cam wiper." Cambric kerchief.</p> - -<p>CAMESOR. A shirt or shift.</p> - -<p>CAN. A dollar.</p> - -<p>CAN'T SEE. Very drunk; so that he can not see a -hole through a ladder.</p> - -<p>CANARY-BIRD. A convict.</p> - -<p>CANK. Dumb.</p> - -<p>CANNIS COVE. A dog-man; a dog-merchant; a -dog-thief.</p> - -<p>CANT. A gift; to give.</p> - -<p>CAP. To join in, "I will cap in with him"—I will -appear to be his friend.</p> - -<p>CAP BUNG. Hand it over; give it to me.</p> - -<p>CAP YOUR LUCKY. Run away.</p> - -<p>CAPER COVE. A dancing-master.</p> - -<p>CAPPER. One who supports another's assertion, to -assist in cheating, "The burner bammed the flat -with sham books, and his pal capped in for him"—The -sharp cheated the countryman with false cards, -and his confederate assisted (capped) in the -fraud.</p> - -<p>CAPTAIN HEEMAN. A blustering fellow; a coward.</p> - -<p>CAPTAIN TOPER. A smart highwayman.</p> - -<p>CARAVAN. Plenty of cash; rich; money enough.</p> - -<p>CARLER. A clerk.</p> - -<p>CARREL. Jealous.</p> - -<p>CART OF TOGS. A gift of clothes.</p> - -<p>CASA. A house, "Tout that casa"—mark that -house. "It is all bob; let's dub the gig of the -casa"—Now the coast is clear; let us break open -the door of the house.</p> - -<p>CASE. A dollar.</p> - -<p>CASS. Cheese.</p> - -<p>CASSE. A house.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page18" id="page18"></a>[pg 18]</span> -CAST. Course, "He traversed the cast"—he walked -the course.</p> - -<p>CASTER. A cloak.</p> - -<p>CASTOR. A hat.</p> - -<p>CAT. A drunken prostitute; a cross old woman; a -muff; a pewter pot.</p> - -<p>CAT AND MOUSE. Keeps house, "He keeps a cat -and mouse."</p> - -<p>CATAMARAN. An ugly woman.</p> - -<p>CATCH-POLE. A constable.</p> - -<p>CATTER. A crowbar.</p> - -<p>CAVED. Gave up; surrendered.</p> - -<p>CAXON. A wig.</p> - -<p>CENTURY. One hundred dollars; one hundred.</p> - -<p>CHAFER. The treadmill.</p> - -<p>CHAFF. Humbug.</p> - -<p>CHAFFEY. Boisterous; happy; jolly.</p> - -<p>CHAFFING. Talking; bantering.</p> - -<p>CHALK. To mark; to spot.</p> - -<p>CHALK FARM. The arm.</p> - -<p>CHALKS. To walk your chalks; to run away.</p> - -<p>CHANT. Talk; to publish; to inform. "Give me -your chant," Give me your name.</p> - -<p>CHANT COVES. Reporters.</p> - -<p>CHAPT. Dry; thirsty.</p> - -<p>CHARLEY. A gold watch.</p> - -<p>CHARLEY PRESCOT. A vest.</p> - -<p>CHARM. A picklock.</p> - -<p>CHATES. Gallows.</p> - -<p>CHATTS. Lice. Chatt, a louse.</p> - -<p>CHATTY FEEDER. A spoon.</p> - -<p>CHEESE. Be silent; listen. "Cheese it, the coves -are fly," be silent, the people understand us.</p> - -<p>CHERRY PIPE. A pipe; a full-grown woman.</p> - -<p>CHIE. Who is it? do you know?</p> - -<p>CHIN. A child.</p> - -<p>CHINK. Money.</p> - -<p>CHINKERS. Handcuffs and leg-irons united by a -chain; money.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page19" id="page19"></a>[pg 19]</span> -CHIPS. Money.</p> - -<p>CHIVE. A file or saw. "Chive your darbies," file -your irons off.</p> - -<p>CHIVEY. To scold.</p> - -<p>CHOKER. A neckerchief.</p> - -<p>CHOPPED UP. When large quantities of goods are -sold to a receiver, they are divided into small lots, -and put into various houses, and this is called -"chopping up the swag."</p> - -<p>CHOVEY. A shop or store.</p> - -<p>CHRISTENING. Erasing the name of the maker -from a stolen watch and putting another in its -place.</p> - -<p>CHUMP. Head.</p> - -<p>CHURCH. A term of endearment, "My church."</p> - -<p>CITY COLLEGE. The Tombs.</p> - -<p>CLANKERS. Silver vessels.</p> - -<p>CLARET. Blood.</p> - -<p>CLEAN. Expert; smart.</p> - -<p>CLEAR. Run; go away; be off.</p> - -<p>CLERKED. Imposed upon. "The flat will not be -clerked."</p> - -<p>CLEYMANS. Artificial sores made by beggars to -impose on the credulous.</p> - -<p>CLICK. A blow; a thrust.</p> - -<p>CLICKER. A knock down.</p> - -<p>CLINK. To grab; to snatch; be quick; start.</p> - -<p>CLOUT. Handkerchief.</p> - -<p>CLOWER. A basket.</p> - -<p>CLY. A pocket.</p> - -<p>CLY-FAKING. Picking pockets.</p> - -<p>COACHWHEEL. A dollar.</p> - -<p>COCK AND HEN CLUB. A place frequented by -thieves of both sexes.</p> - -<p>COCKED HIS TOES UP. Dead. "He is dead."</p> - -<p>COCUM. Sly; wary.</p> - -<p>COFFEE. Beans.</p> - -<p>COG. To cheat; to impose; a tooth.</p> - -<p>COGLIONE. A fool; a woman's dupe; a fop.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page20" id="page20"></a>[pg 20]</span> -COLD DECK. A prepared deck of cards played on -a novice or "sucker."</p> - -<p>COLD PIG. A person that has been robbed of his -clothes.</p> - -<p>COLLAR. To seize or take.</p> - -<p>COLLARED. Taken; arrested.</p> - -<p>COLLEGE. A State prison.</p> - -<p>COLLEGE CHUM. A fellow-prisoner.</p> - -<p>COLTMAN. One who lets horses and vehicles to -burglars.</p> - -<p>COMMISSION. A shirt or shift.</p> - -<p>COMMISTER. A parson.</p> - -<p>COMMIT. To inform.</p> - -<p>CONFIDENCE MAN. A fellow that by means of -extraordinary powers of persuasion gains the confidence -of his victims to the extent of drawing upon -their treasury, almost to an unlimited extent. To -every knave born into the world it has been said -that there is a due proportion of fools. Of all the -rogue tribe, the Confidence man is, perhaps, the -most liberally supplied with subjects; for every -man has his soft spot, and nine times out of ten the -soft spot is softened by an idiotic desire to overreach -the man that is about to overreach us. This is just -the spot on which the Confidence man works. He -knows his subject is only a knave wrongside out, -and accordingly he offers him a pretended gold -watch at the price of a brass one; he calls at the -front door with presents from no where, as none -could be expected; he writes letters in the most -generous spirit, announcing large legacies to persons -who have no kin on the face of the earth who cares -a copper for them. The Confidence man is perfectly -aware that he has to deal with a man who expects -a result without having worked for it, who gapes, -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page21" id="page21"></a>[pg 21]</span> -and stands ready to grasp at magnificent returns. -The consequence is, that the victim—the confiding -man—is always <i>done</i>. The one plays a sure game; -his sagacity has taught him that the great study of -the mass of mankind is to get something and give -nothing; but as this is bad doctrine, he wakes up -out of his "brown study," and finds himself, in lieu -of his fine expectations, in possession of a turnip -for a watch, a cigar-box in place of a casket. The -Confidence man always carries the trump card; and -whoever wishes to be victimized can secure his -object by making a flat of himself in a small way, -while attempting to victimize somebody else.</p> - -<p>CONK. The nose.</p> - -<p>CONSOLATION. Assassination. To kill a man, is -to give him consolation.</p> - -<p>CONVENIENT. A mistress.</p> - -<p>COOK. Melt; dissolve.</p> - -<p>COPBUSY. The act of handing over stolen property -by a thief to one of his pals for the purpose of -preventing its being found on him if arrested.</p> - -<p>COPPED. Arrested. "The knuck was copped to -rights, a skin full of honey was found in his kick's -poke by the copper when he frisked him," the pickpocket -was arrested, and when searched by the -officer, a purse was found in his pantaloons pocket -full of money.</p> - -<p>COPPED TO RIGHTS. Arrested on undoubted evidence -of guilt.</p> - -<p>CORINTH. A bad house.</p> - -<p>CORINTHIANS. Bad women who move in respectable -society.</p> - -<p>CORN-THRASHERS. Farmers.</p> - -<p>COUPLE. To live with.</p> - -<p>COVE or COVEY. A man.</p> - -<p>COVER. The follow that covers the pickpocket while -he is operating.</p> - -<p>COVING. Palming; stealing jewelry before the face -and eyes of the owner, or person that is selling it.</p> - -<p>COW. A dilapidated prostitute.</p> - -<p>COW JUICE. Milk.</p> - -<p>COW'S GREASE. Butter.</p> - -<p>COWS AND KISSES. Miss, or the ladies.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page22" id="page22"></a>[pg 22]</span> -CRAB-SHELLS. Shoes.</p> - -<p>CRABS. Feet.</p> - -<p>CRACK. To force; to burst open.</p> - -<p>CRACKSMAN. A burglar who uses force instead of -picklocks or false keys.</p> - -<p>CRAMMER. A falsehood.</p> - -<p>CRAMP WORDS. Sentence of death.</p> - -<p>CRAMP-RINGS. Shackles or handcuffs.</p> - -<p>CRAMPED. Killed; murdered; hanged.</p> - -<p>CRAMPING CULL. Executioner; hangman.</p> - -<p>CRANKY. Mad; insane.</p> - -<p>CRANKY-HUTCH. An insane asylum.</p> - -<p>CRASH. To kill. "Crash that cull," kill that fellow.</p> - -<p>CREAMY. Secretly.</p> - -<p>CREATURE. Liquor.</p> - -<p>CREEME. To slip money into the hands of another.</p> - -<p>CRIB. A house.</p> - -<p>CROAKE. To murder; to die.</p> - -<p>CROAKED. Dead.</p> - -<p>CROAKERS. Newspapers.</p> - -<p>CROKUS. A doctor. "The cove sold a stiff un to a -crokus for twenty cases," the rogue sold a corpse to -a doctor for twenty dollars.</p> - -<p>CROSLEITE. To cheat a friend.</p> - -<p>CROSS. Dishonest.</p> - -<p>CROSS-COVE. A thief; any person that lives in a -dishonest way is said to be "on the cross," from -the fact that highwaymen were in the habit of waiting -for their victims on the cross-roads.</p> - -<p>CROSS-DRUM. A drinking-place where thieves resort.</p> - -<p>CROSS-FANNING. Picking a pocket with the arms -folded across the chest. A knuck in the front rank -of a crowd desiring to steal a watch from the pocket -of a gentleman standing on either side of him, first -folds his arms across his breast; and pretending to -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page23" id="page23"></a>[pg 23]</span> -be intensely looking at some object before him, -stretches out the arm next his victim, and by rapid -movements of his fingers and hands excites his attention, -and, while in this attitude, with the hand -which is stretched across his own breast, he twists -the watch from the other's pocket.</p> - -<p>CROSSED. To meet another and pass him. "The -swell moved as he crossed me," the gentleman bowed -as he passed me.</p> - -<p>CROW. The crow is the fellow that watches outside -when his accomplices are inside, and gives them -warning of the approach of danger.</p> - -<p>CRUMEY. Fat; pockets full; plenty.</p> - -<p>CRUMP. One who procures false witnesses.</p> - -<p>CRUSHER. A policeman.</p> - -<p>CUES. The points.</p> - -<p>CUFFIN QUEERS. Magistrates.</p> - -<p>CUFFIR. A man.</p> - -<p>CULING. Snatching reticules and purses from ladies.</p> - -<p>CULL. A man; sometimes a partner.</p> - -<p>CUPBOARD LOVE. He or she loves only for what -they can get.</p> - -<p>CUPSHOT. Drunk.</p> - -<p>CURBINGLAW. Stealing goods out of windows.</p> - -<p>CURLERS. Fellows who sweat gold coins by putting -them in a bag, and after violently shaking, gather -the dust.</p> - -<p>CURTISONS. Broken-down lawyers; Tombs skinners.</p> - -<p>CUSSINE. A male.</p> - -<p>CUT. To abandon; to renounce acquaintance; drunk; -"Half cut," half drunk.</p> - -<p>CUT BENE. Pleasant words; to speak kind.</p> - -<p>CUT UP. "The jug cut up very fat, and the gonniffs -all got their regulars; there was no sinking in that -mob," the bank was very rich, and the thieves all -received their share; there was no cheating in that -gang.</p> - -<p>CUTTER. A peculiar instrument that first-class -screwsmen (burglars) use for cutting through iron -chests, doors, etc.</p> - -<p>CUTTING HIS EYES. Beginning to see; learning; -suspicious.</p> - -<p>CUTTY-EYED. To look out of the corner of the -eyes; to look suspicious; to leer; to look askance. -"The copper cutty-eyed us," the officer looked suspicious -at us.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page24" id="page24"></a>[pg 24]</span> -CYMBAL. A watch.</p> - - -<h3>D</h3> - -<p>D. I. O. Damn it! I'm off.</p> - -<p>DACE. Two cents.</p> - -<p>DADDLES. Hands.</p> - -<p>DAGAN. A sword.</p> - -<p>DAIRY. The breasts of a woman that suckles a baby.</p> - -<p>DAISY-ROOTS. Boots and shoes.</p> - -<p>DAISYVILLE. The country.</p> - -<p>DAKMA. Silence; "Dakma the bloke, and cloy his -cole," silence the man, and steal his money.</p> - -<p>DAMBER. First.</p> - -<p>DAMBER COVE. The head man.</p> - -<p>DANAN. Stairs.</p> - -<p>DANCE AT HIS DEATH. To be hung; "May he -dance when he dies," may he be hanged.</p> - -<p>DANCERS. Shooting stars; fellows who do not remain -long in one place.</p> - -<p>DANCING. Sneaking up stairs to commit a larceny.</p> - -<p>DANGLER. A roué; a seducer.</p> - -<p>DANGLERS. A bunch of seals.</p> - -<p>DAPPER. Well made. "The crack was dapper."</p> - -<p>DARBIES. Handcuffs; fetters.</p> - -<p>DARBY. Cash. "Fork over the darby," hand over -the cash.</p> - -<p>DARK CULLEY. A man who visits his mistress -only at night.</p> - -<p>DARKEY. A dark lantern. "The coves had screwed -the gig of the jug, when Jack flashed the darkey -into it, and found it planted full of coppers. 'Bingavast!' -was the word; some one has cackled," the -thieves had opened the door of a bank with false -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page25" id="page25"></a>[pg 25]</span> -keys, and when they looked in with the aid of a -dark lantern, they found the place filled with officers. -One of the thieves cried out: "Be off! some -one has cackled."</p> - -<p>DAUB. A ribbon.</p> - -<p>DAVEY. Affidavit; to witness under oath.</p> - -<p>DAWB. To bribe. "The bene cove was scragged, -because he could not dawb the beak," the good fellow -was hanged, because he could not bribe the -judge.</p> - -<p>DAY-LIGHTS. The eyes.</p> - -<p>DEAD BEAT. Without hope; certain.</p> - -<p>DEAD BROKE. Not a cent.</p> - -<p>DEAD GAME. A term used by gamblers when they -have a certainty of winning.</p> - -<p>DEAD SET. A concentrated attack on a person or -thing.</p> - -<p>DEAD SWAG. Not worth so much as it was thought -to be; things stolen that are not easily disposed of.</p> - -<p>DEAD TO RIGHTS. Positively guilty, and no way -of getting clear.</p> - -<p>DEATH HUNTER. The undertaker.</p> - -<p>DEEK THE COVE. See the fellow; look at him.</p> - -<p>DELLS. A prostitute.</p> - -<p>DERREY. An eye-glass.</p> - -<p>DEVIL BOOKS. Cards.</p> - -<p>DEW-BEATERS. The feet.</p> - -<p>DEWS. A gold eagle; ten dollars.</p> - -<p>DIAL-PLATE. The face.</p> - -<p>DIARY. To remember; to enter in a book. "I'll -diary the joskin," I'll remember the fool.</p> - -<p>DIB. Portion or share.</p> - -<p>DIBS. Money.</p> - -<p>DIDDLE. Liquor.</p> - -<p>DIDDLE COVE. A landlord.</p> - -<p>DIE. Dummy, or pocket-book.</p> - -<p>DIFT COVE. A neat little man.</p> - -<p>DIGGERS. Finger-nails.</p> - -<p>DIMBER. Handsome; pretty.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page26" id="page26"></a>[pg 26]</span> -DIMBER-MORT. Pretty girl; enchanting girl.</p> - -<p>DING. To throw away; to strike.</p> - -<p>DIP. A kiss in the dark; a pickpocket.</p> - -<p>DIP. To pick a pocket; the act of putting a hand -into a pocket.</p> - -<p>DIPT. Pawned.</p> - -<p>DISMAL DITTY. The psalm or hymn sung by persons -just before they are hanged.</p> - -<p>DISPATCH. A mittimus; a warrant of arrest.</p> - -<p>DIVER. A pickpocket.</p> - -<p>DIVING. Picking pockets.</p> - -<p>DIVING-BELL. A rum-shop in a basement.</p> - -<p>DOASH. A cloak.</p> - -<p>DOBING LAY. To steal from stores early in the -morning. Two thieves enter a store, as soon as -the porter opens it; one of them inquires about -some goods he pretends he was looking at the day -before, and wishes to see them. The goods inquired -for are either in the back of the store or up -stairs. In the absence of the porter, the other fellow -robs the store.</p> - -<p>DOCTOR GREEN. A young inexperienced fellow.</p> - -<p>DOCTORS. False cards or dice.</p> - -<p>DOG-NIPPERS. Rogues who steal dogs, and restore -them to their owners after a reward has been offered.</p> - -<p>DOGS-PASTE. Sausage-meat; mince meat.</p> - -<p>DOING POLLY. Picking oakum in prison.</p> - -<p>DOLLY SHOP. A loan office.</p> - -<p>DOMESTIC. Made at home. The man robbed himself; -some one in the house assisted the thieves. -"You may look at home for the thief."</p> - -<p>DOMMERER. A fellow that pretends to be deaf and -dumb.</p> - -<p>DONBITE. A street.</p> - -<p>DONE. Convicted.</p> - -<p>DONKEY-RIDING. Cheating in weight or measure; -miscounting.</p> - -<p>DONNEZ. To give.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page27" id="page27"></a>[pg 27]</span> -DOOKIN COVE. A fortune-teller.</p> - -<p>DOPEY. A thief's mistress.</p> - -<p>DOSE. Burglary.</p> - -<p>DOSS. A bed. "The badger got under the doss, -and frisked the bloke's pokes of two centuries and a -half, and then bounced the flat till he mizzled."</p> - -<p>DOTS. Money.</p> - -<p>DOWN. Hatred; dislike; vindictive; to suspect another. -"The copper cutty-eyed me and measured -my mug, and is down on the job," the officer looked -at me from the corners of his eyes, and examined -my face; he suspects what we are about.</p> - -<p>DOWNER. A five cent piece.</p> - -<p>DOWNEY. A smooth, pleasant talker; a knowing -fellow.</p> - -<p>DOWSE. To strike. "Dowse his mug." hit his face.</p> - -<p>DOXIE. A girl.</p> - -<p>DRAB. A nasty woman.</p> - -<p>DRAG. A cart or wagon.</p> - -<p>DRAGGING. Stealing from shop-doors.</p> - -<p>DRAGONS. Sovereigns; gold coins.</p> - -<p>DRAGSMAN. A thief that steals from express -wagons and carts; also trunks from the back of -coaches. They sometimes have a fast horse and -light wagon.</p> - -<p>DRAW. } Picking pockets. "I say, my kinchin,<br /> -DRAWING. } what's your lay?" "Vy, yer see, as how -I am learning to draw."</p> - -<p>DRAY. Three.</p> - -<p>DROMEDARY. A clumsy, blundering fellow.</p> - -<p>DROPS, or DROPPERS. Fellows that cheat countrymen -by dropping a pocket-book filled with bad -money, near their heels, and then pretend that they -found it. By the aid of an accomplice, the countryman -is induced to purchase it, with the avowed intention -of finding the real owner, believing it to contain -good money.</p> - -<p>DROPT DOWN. Low-spirited. "The kiddy dropt -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page28" id="page28"></a>[pg 28]</span> -down when he went to be scragged," the youngster -was very low-spirited when he walked out to be -hanged.</p> - -<p>DRUM. A drinking-place.</p> - -<p>DRUMSTICK. A club.</p> - -<p>DRY UP. Be silent; stop that.</p> - -<p>DUB. A key; a picklock.</p> - -<p>DUB LAY. Robbing houses by picking the locks.</p> - -<p>DUB O' THE HICK. A blow on the head. The -copper tipt the dromedary a dub o' the hick with -his drum-stick.</p> - -<p>DUB THE JIGGER. Open the door.</p> - -<p>DUBLER. A picker of locks.</p> - -<p>DUCE. Two cents; two.</p> - -<p>DUDS. Clothes.</p> - -<p>DUFF. Pudding.</p> - -<p>DUFFER. A fellow, in the dress of a sailor, who -knocks at the basement-door, and inquires if the -lady of the house does not want to buy some smuggled -goods, and then exhibits imitation silks, satins, -Irish linens, etc., etc., which he pretends to have -run ashore without the knowledge of the custom-house -officers.</p> - -<p>DUKES. The hands.</p> - -<p>DUMMY. A pocket-book; a portmonnaie. "Frisk -the dummy of the screens, ding it and bolt; they -are crying out beef," take out the money and throw -the pocket-book away; run, they are crying, stop -thief!</p> - -<p>DUN. A <i>very importunate</i> creditor. Dunny, in the -provincial dialect of several counties in England, -signifies <i>deaf</i>; to dun, then, perhaps may mean to -deafen with <i>importunate demands</i>; it may have -been derived from the word <i>donnez</i>, which signifies -<i>give</i>. But the word undoubtedly originated in the -days of one Joe Dun, a famous bailiff of the town -of Lincoln, England, who was so extremely active -and dexterous in his business, that it became a proverb, -when a man refused to pay, to say, "Why -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page29" id="page29"></a>[pg 29]</span> -don't you Dun him?" that is, send Dun after him. -Hence it became a cant word, and is now as old as -the days of Henry VII. Dun was also the name for -the hangman, before that of Jack Ketch.</p> - -<div class="poem"> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">"And presently a halter got,</span><br /> -<span class="i0">Made of the best strong hempen teer,</span><br /> -<span class="i0">And ere a cat could lick her ear,</span><br /> -<span class="i0">Had tied it up with as much art,</span><br /> -<span class="i0">As Dun himself could do for's heart."</span><br /> -<span class="i0"><i>Cotton's Virgil Trav.</i> Book IV.</span><br /> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="image-center" style="max-width: 527px;"> -<img class="border" src="images/i_028fp.jpg" width="527" height="700" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>DUNEKER. A thief that steals cattle.</p> - -<p>DUNNAKIN. It can't be helped; necessary.</p> - -<p>DUNNEY. Deaf; to dun.</p> - -<p>DUNNOCK. A cow.</p> - -<p>DURIA. Fire.</p> - -<p>DUSTMAN. Dead man. "Poor Bill is a dustman; -he was a bene cove," poor Bill is dead; he was a -good man.</p> - -<p>DUSTY. Dangerous. "Two fly-cops and a beak -tumbled to us, and Bill thought as how it was rather -dusty, and so, shady was the word," two detectives -and a magistrate came upon us suddenly; Bill said -it was rather dangerous, and so we got out of sight.</p> - - -<h3>E</h3> - -<p>EARTH-BATH. A grave.</p> - -<p>EASE. To rob.</p> - -<p>EASE THE COVE. Rob the man.</p> - -<p>EASON. To tell.</p> - -<p>EASY. Killed. "Make the cull easy," kill him; gag -him.</p> - -<p>EAT. To take back; to recall; to retract; to unsay.</p> - -<p>EAVES. A hen-roost; a poultry-house.</p> - -<p>EAVESDROPPER. A mean fellow; a petty larceny -vagabond.</p> - -<p>EDGE. Encourage; persuade; induce.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page30" id="page30"></a>[pg 30]</span> -EGROTAT. He is sick.</p> - -<p>ELBOW. Turn the corner; get out of sight.</p> - -<p>ELBOW-SHAKER. A man that gambles with dice.</p> - -<p>ELEPHANT. The fellow has an enormous booty, -and knows not how to secrete it. If he had less, he -would be able to save more.</p> - -<p>ELFEN. Walk light; on tiptoe.</p> - -<p>EMPEROR. A drunken man.</p> - -<p>ENGLISH BURGUNDY. London porter.</p> - -<p>EQUIPT. Rich; full of money; well dressed, "The -cull equipped me with a deuce of finifs," the man -gave me two five-dollar bills.</p> - -<p>ERIFFS. Young thieves; minor rogues.</p> - -<p>ETERNITY-BOX. A coffin.</p> - -<p>EVERLASTING. The treadmill.</p> - -<p>EVIL. A wife; a halter; matrimony.</p> - -<p>EWE. An old woman dressed like a young girl, "An -old ewe dressed lamb fashion." "A white ewe," -a beautiful woman.</p> - -<p>EXECUTION-DAY. Wash-day; cleaning house.</p> - -<p>EYE. Nonsense; humbug.</p> - - -<h3>F</h3> - -<p>FACER. A glass filled so full that there is no room -for the lip; a staller, or one who places himself in -the way of persons who are in hot pursuit of his -accomplices.</p> - -<p>FADGE. It won't do, "It won't fadge."</p> - -<p>FAG. A lawyer's clerk; to beat. "Fag the flat," -beat the fool.</p> - -<p>FAGGER. A small boy put into a window to rob -the house, or to open it for others to rob.</p> - -<p>FAGGOT. To bind. "Faggot the culls," bind the -men.</p> - -<p>FAIKING. Cutting out the wards of a key.</p> - -<p>FAITHFUL. A tailor that gives long credit. "I -say, Sam, what kind of crib was that you cracked?" -"Oh! it belonged to one of the faithful."</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page31" id="page31"></a>[pg 31]</span> -FAKEMENT. A written or printed paper; the written -deposition of a witness.</p> - -<p>FAKER. A jeweller.</p> - -<p>FAM GRASP. To shake hands. "Fam grasp the -cove," shake hands with the fellow.</p> - -<p>FAM LAY. Thieves who rob jewellers' stores by -pretending to want to make a purchase.</p> - -<p>FAMILY-MAN. A receiver of stolen goods from a -dwelling-house.</p> - -<p>FAMLY-MAN. Connected with thieves.</p> - -<p>FAMS. Hands.</p> - -<p>FAN. A waistcoat.</p> - -<p>FANNY BLAIR. The hair.</p> - -<p>FARMER. An alderman.</p> - -<p>FASTNER. A warrant.</p> - -<p>FAT. Money.</p> - -<p>FATERS. Fortune-tellers.</p> - -<p>FEEDERS. Silver spoons or forks. "Nap the feeders," -steal the spoons.</p> - -<p>FEINT. A pawn-broker.</p> - -<p>FEKER. Trade; profession.</p> - -<p>FEN. A common woman.</p> - -<p>FENCE. A receiver of stolen goods; to sell stolen -goods. "The bloke fenced the swag for five cases," -the fellow sold the plunder for five dollars.</p> - -<p>FENCED. Sold.</p> - -<p>FERM. A hole.</p> - -<p>FIB. To beat. "Fib the bloke's quarron in the rum-pad, -and draw the honey in his poke," beat the -fellow's carcase in the street, and steal the money -in his pocket.</p> - -<p>FIBBING. Striking with the fist.</p> - -<p>FIDLAM BENS. Thieves who have no particular lay, -whose every finger is a fish-hook; fellows that will -steal any thing they can remove.</p> - -<p>FIDLAM COVES. Small thieves who steal any thing -they can lay hands on.</p> - -<p>FIGDEAN. To kill.</p> - -<p>FIGGER. A juvenile thief put through side-lights at -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page32" id="page32"></a>[pg 32]</span> -outside doors to unbolt the door and admit other -thieves to the house.</p> - -<p>FIGGING LAW. The art of picking pockets.</p> - -<p>FIGNER. A small thief.</p> - -<p>FIGURE-DANCER. One who alters the numbers or -figures on bank-bills.</p> - -<p>FILE. A pick-pocket. The file is one who is generally -accompanied by two others, one of whom is -called the "Adam tyler;" and the other the "bulker," -or "staller." It is their business to jostle, or -"ramp" the victim, while the "file" picks his -pocket and then hands the plunder to the Adam -tyler, who makes off with it.</p> - -<p>FINE. Imprisoned. "The cove had a fine of two -stretchers and a half imposed upon him for relieving -a joskin of a load of cole," the fellow was sentenced -to imprisonment for stealing a countryman's -money.</p> - -<p>FINGER-BETTER. A fellow who wants to bet on -credit, and indicates the favorite card by pointing -to it with his finger.</p> - -<p>FINNIFF. Five dollars.</p> - -<p>FIRE. Danger. "This place is all on fire; I must -pad like a bull or the cops will nail me," every -body is after me in this place; I must run like a -locomotive or the officers will arrest me.</p> - -<p>FISH. A seaman.</p> - -<p>FITTER. A fellow that fits keys to locks for burglars.</p> - -<p>FIZZLE. To escape. "The cove made a fizzle," -the fellow escaped.</p> - -<p>FIZZLED. Broke up; fell through.</p> - -<p>FLAG ABOUT. A low strumpet.</p> - -<p>FLAM. To humbug. "Flam the bloke," humbug -the fellow.</p> - -<p>FLAME. A mistress.</p> - -<p>FLAPPERS. Hands.</p> - -<p>FLASH. Knowing; to understand another's meaning; -to "patter flash," to speak knowingly.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page33" id="page33"></a>[pg 33]</span> -FLASH HER DILES. Spend her money.</p> - -<p>FLASH PANNY. A house resorted to by rogues of -both sexes.</p> - -<p>FLASH YOUR IVORY. Laugh; show your teeth.</p> - -<p>FLASH-DRUM. A drinking-place resorted to by -thieves.</p> - -<p>FLASH-HOUSE. A house of resort for thieves.</p> - -<p>FLASH-KEN. A thieves' boarding-house.</p> - -<p>FLASH-MAN. A fellow that has no visible means -of living, yet goes dressed in fine clothes, exhibiting -a profusion of jewelry about his person.</p> - -<p>FLAT. A man that is not acquainted with the tricks -and devices of rogues.</p> - -<p>FLATTER-TRAP. The mouth.</p> - -<p>FLAWED. Half-drunk; quick-tempered; not exactly -honest.</p> - -<p>FLAY. To vomit.</p> - -<p>FLESH-BROKER. A match maker; a procuress.</p> - -<p>FLICKER. To drink. "Flicker with me," drink -with me.</p> - -<p>FLICKERING. Laughing; smiling; drinking.</p> - -<p>FLICKING. Cutting. "Flick me some panam and -caffar," cut me some bread and cheese. "Flick the -Peter and rake the swag, for I want to pad my -beaters," cut the portmanteau and divide the plunder, -I want to walk my boots, (to be off.)</p> - -<p>FLIMP. To tussel; to wrestle.</p> - -<p>FLIMPING. Garroting; highway robbery.</p> - -<p>FLIMSEY. A bank-note.</p> - -<p>FLING. To get the best of another. "The sharp -will fling the bloke," the rogue will cheat the man.</p> - -<p>FLOORERS or TRIPPERS. Fellows that cause -persons to slip or fall in the street, and then, while -assisting them up, steal their watch or portmonnaie. -They are sometimes called "rampers." A gentleman -in a hurry on his way to the bank, or any -other place of business, is suddenly stopped by a -fellow directly in front of him, going in an opposite -direction to himself, who has apparently slipped or -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page34" id="page34"></a>[pg 34]</span> -stumbled, and in endeavoring to save himself from -falling, thrusts his head into the pit of the gentleman's -stomach, thereby knocking him down. Immediately -two very kind gentlemen, one on each -side, assist him to rise, and when on his feet busy -themselves in brushing the dirt from his clothing, -during which operation they pick his pockets. -Thanking his kind assistants with much profuseness, -he goes on his way, and very soon afterwards finds -himself minus his watch or pocket-book, and perhaps -both.</p> - -<p>FLUE-SCRAPERS. Chimney-sweeps.</p> - -<p>FLUSH. Plenty; the cove.</p> - -<p>FLUTE. The recorder of a city.</p> - -<p>FLUX. To cheat; cozen; over-reach.</p> - -<p>FLY. Knowing; up to him. "The bloke was fly, -and I could not draw his fogle," the man was aware -of what I wanted, and I could not steal his handkerchief.</p> - -<p>FLY-COP. Sharp officer; an officer that is well -posted; one who understands his business.</p> - -<p>FLYERS. Shoes.</p> - -<p>FLYING COVES. Fellows who obtain money by pretending -to persons who have been robbed, that they -can give them information that will be the means -of recovering their lost goods.</p> - -<p>FLYING JIGGERS. Turnpike-gates.</p> - -<p>FOB. To cheat.</p> - -<p>FOG. Smoke.</p> - -<p>FOGLE. A pocket-handkerchief.</p> - -<p>FOGLE-HUNTING. Stealing pocket-handkerchiefs.</p> - -<p>FOGRAM. A fusty old fellow.</p> - -<p>FOGUE. Fierce; fiery; impetuous.</p> - -<p>FOGUS. Tobacco. "Tip me a gage of fogus," give -me a cigar, or a pipe and tobacco.</p> - -<p>FORK. A pickpocket.</p> - -<p>FORKS. The fore and middle fingers.</p> - -<p>FOXEY. Cunning; crafty; sly.</p> - -<p>FOXING. To pretend to be asleep.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page35" id="page35"></a>[pg 35]</span> -FOYST. A cheat.</p> - -<p>FOYSTER. A pickpocket.</p> - -<p>FRAMER. A shawl.</p> - -<p>FREE. To steal.</p> - -<p>FRENCH CREAM. Brandy—called "French cream," -by the old Tabbies, when mixed with their tea.</p> - -<p>FRIDAY. Hangman's day.</p> - -<p>FRIDAY FACE. A dismal countenance; the face of -a man who is sentenced to be executed.</p> - -<p>FRISK. To search; to examine.</p> - -<p>FROG. A policeman.</p> - -<p>FROG AND TOE. The city of New-York. "Coves, -let us frog and toe," coves, let us go to New-York.</p> - -<p>FRUMPER. A sturdy blade.</p> - -<p>FUBSEY. Plump.</p> - -<p>FUBSEY DUMMEY. A fat pocket-book.</p> - -<p>FULLIED. Committed for trial.</p> - -<p>FUMBLES. Gloves.</p> - -<p>FUN. To cheat. "To fun a man," is to cheat him.</p> - -<p>FUNK. To frighten.</p> - -<p>FUNKED OUT. Frightened; backed out.</p> - -<p>FUNKERS. The very lowest order of thieves.</p> - -<p>FUSSOCK. An old fat woman.</p> - -<p>FUSTIAN. Wine.</p> - - -<h3>G</h3> - -<p>GABBEY. A foolish fellow.</p> - -<p>GABS. Talk.</p> - -<p>GADDING THE HOOF. Going without shoes.</p> - -<p>GAFF. A theatre; a fair. "The drop-coves maced -the joskins at the gaff," the ring-droppers cheated -the countrymen at the fair.</p> - -<p>GAFFING. Tossing; pitching; throwing.</p> - -<p>GAGE. Man; fellow. "Deck the gage," see the -man.</p> - -<p>GAGERS. Eyes.</p> - -<p>GAIT. Manner; fashion; way; profession. "I say, -Tim, what's your gait now?" "Why, you see, I'm -on the crack," (burglary.)</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page36" id="page36"></a>[pg 36]</span> -GALENA. Salt pork.</p> - -<p>GALIGASKIN. A pair of breeches.</p> - -<p>GAM. Stealing.</p> - -<p>GAME. The particular line of rascality the rogue is -engaged in; thieving; cheating.</p> - -<p>GAMMON. To deceive. "What rum gammon the -old sharp pitched into the flat," how finely the -knowing old fellow flattered the fool.</p> - -<p>GAMMY. Bad.</p> - -<p>GAN. The mouth or lips.</p> - -<p>GANDER. A married man not living at home with -his wife.</p> - -<p>GANG. Company; squad; mob.</p> - -<p>GAPESEED. Wonderful stories; any thing that will -cause people to stop, look, or listen.</p> - -<p>GARRET. The head.</p> - -<p>GARRETTING. To rob a house by entering it through -the scuttle or an upper window.</p> - -<p>GARROTE. To choke.</p> - -<p>GARROTERS. Fellows that rob by choking their -victim. Three fellows work together in this manner: -The tallest of the three steps behind the victim, -and putting his right arm around the neck, -compresses the windpipe, and at the same time, -locks the right leg by throwing his own around it. -Another of the confederates secures his hands, while -the third rifles his pockets. Should the garroting -be done on a public thoroughfare, where people are -passing, the garroters engage in laughter and jocular -remarks, as if it were a pleasant lark among friends. -They sometimes sprinkle rum on and about the victim's -neck and face, so as to induce persons who -find him, after they have left him half-dead and stupified, -to believe that he is drunk.</p> - -<p>GATTER. Drink of any kind.</p> - -<p>GELTER. Money.</p> - -<p>GERMAN FLUTE. A pair of boots.</p> - -<p>GETAWAY. A locomotive; railroad train.</p> - -<p>GHOULS. Fellows who watch assignation-houses, and -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page37" id="page37"></a>[pg 37]</span> -follow females that come out of them to their homes -and then threaten to expose them to their husbands, -relatives, or friends, if they refuse to give them not -only money, but also the use of their bodies.</p> - -<p>GIG. A door. "Dub the gig of the cosa," break -open the door of the house.</p> - -<p>GIG-LAMPS. A pair of spectacles.</p> - -<p>GIGG. A nose. "Snitchel the bloke's gigg," smash -the man's nose.</p> - -<p>GIGGER. A lock or door. "Dub the gigger," open -the door.</p> - -<p>GIGGER-DUBBER. A turn-key; a prison-keeper.</p> - -<p>GILFLIRT. A proud, capricious woman.</p> - -<p>GILL. A woman.</p> - -<p>GILT or JILT. A crowbar.</p> - -<p>GILT-DUBBER. A hotel-thief.</p> - -<p>GILYORE. Plenty.</p> - -<p>GINGERLY. Cautiously.</p> - -<p>GIP. A thief.</p> - -<p>GLASS. An hour. "The badger piped his Moll -about a glass and a half before she cribbed the flat."</p> - -<p>GLAZE. Break the glass. "I say, Bill, you mill the -glaze, and I'll touch the swag and mizzle," I say, -Bill, you break the glass, and I will steal the goods -and run away.</p> - -<p>GLAZIER. A fellow that breaks windows or showcases, -to steal the goods exposed for sale.</p> - -<p>GLIB. Smooth; polite. "The bloke is glib," the -fellow is polite.</p> - -<p>GLIBE. Writing; a written agreement.</p> - -<p>GLIM FLASHY. In a passion; savage.</p> - -<p>GLIMMER. The fire.</p> - -<p>GLIMS. Eyes.</p> - -<p>GLIMSTICKS. Candlesticks.</p> - -<p>GLUM. Sombre; low-spirited.</p> - -<p>GLUTTON. A fellow that can stand a great deal of -beating.</p> - -<p>GNARLER. A little dog, who, by his barking, alarms -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page38" id="page38"></a>[pg 38]</span> -the family. Gnarlers are more feared by burglars -than guns or pistols.</p> - -<p>GNOSTICS. Knowing ones; smart fellows; sharps.</p> - -<p>GO. The fashion. "All the go," all the fashion.</p> - -<p>GO BACK. To turn against. "He won't go back -on the cove; he is staunch," he will not turn against -the fellow, for he is a true man.</p> - -<p>GO THE JUMP. Sneak into a room through the -window.</p> - -<p>GOADS. Peter Funks; cappers in.</p> - -<p>GOATER. Dress.</p> - -<p>GOAWAYS. Railroad trains. "The knuck was working -the goaways at Jersey City, and had but just -touched a bloke's leather, as the bull bellowed for -the last time, and so the cove mizzled through the -jigger. The flat roared beef; but it was no go, as -the bull was going very mad," the pickpocket was -busy in the cars at Jersey City, and had just stolen -a man's pocket-book, as the locomotive blew its -whistle for the last time. The thief bolted through -the door, and off the cars, just as the victim had discovered -his loss and cried, "stop thief!" But it was -of no avail, as the locomotive was going very fast.</p> - -<p>GOB. The mouth.</p> - -<p>GOBSTICKS. Silver forks or spoons.</p> - -<p>GOBSTRING. A bridle.</p> - -<p>GODFATHERS. Jurymen; so called because they -name the degrees of crime as to grand or petit larceny, -etc., etc.</p> - -<p>GOLDFINCH. Gold coin.</p> - -<p>GONNOFF. A thief that has attained the higher -walks of his profession.</p> - -<p>GOOH. A prostitute.</p> - -<p>GOOSEBERRY-LAY. Stealing wet clothes from -clothes-lines or bushes.</p> - -<p>GOOSEBERRY-PUDDING. Woman.</p> - -<p>GOOSECAP. A silly fellow; a fool.</p> - -<p>GOOSING SLUM. A brothel.</p> - -<p>GOREE. Gold dust.</p> - -<p>GORGER. A gentleman; a well-dressed man.</p> - -<p>GOT HIM DOWN CLOSE. Know all about him; -know where to find him.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page39" id="page39"></a>[pg 39]</span> -GOT HIM DOWN FINE. Know for a certainty; -Know all his antecedents.</p> - -<p>GOVERNOR'S STIFF. A governor's pardon.</p> - -<p>GRABBED. Arrested.</p> - -<p>GRABBLE. To seize. "You grabble the goose-cap -and I'll frisk his pokes," you seize the fool, and -I'll search his pockets.</p> - -<p>GRAFT. To work.</p> - -<p>GRAFTING. Working; helping another to steal.</p> - -<p>GRASSVILLE. The country.</p> - -<p>GREASE. A bribe. "Grease the copper in the fist, -and he'll be as blind as your mother," put money -in the officer's hand, and he will not watch you.</p> - -<p>GREED. Money.</p> - -<p>GRIG. A merry fellow.</p> - -<p>GRIM. Death; "Old Grim."</p> - -<p>GRIN. A skeleton.</p> - -<p>GRIPE-FIST. A broker; a miser.</p> - -<p>GROANERS. Thieves who attend at charity sermons, -and rob the congregation of their watches and -purses, exchange bad hats for good ones, steal the -prayer-books, etc., etc.</p> - -<p>GROGHAM. A horse.</p> - -<p>GROPERS. Blind men.</p> - -<p>GROUND SWEAT. A grave.</p> - -<p>GRUEL. Coffee.</p> - -<p>GRUNTER. A country constable.</p> - -<p>GUERRILLAS. This name is applied by gamblers to -fellows who skin suckers when and where they can, -who do not like the professional gamblers, but try -to beat them, sometimes inform on them, and tell -the suckers that they have been cheated.</p> - -<p>GUMMEY-STUFF. Medicine.</p> - -<p>GUN. To watch; to examine; to look at.</p> - -<p>GUN. A thief.</p> - -<p>GUNNED. Looked at; examined. "The copper -gunned me as if he was fly to my mug," the officer -looked at me as if he knew my face.</p> - -<p>GUNPOWDER. A scolding or quick-tempered woman.</p> - -<p>GUNS. Pickpockets.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page40" id="page40"></a>[pg 40]</span> -GUTTER. Porter.</p> - -<p>GUTTER-LANE. The throat.</p> - -<p>GUY. A dark lantern.</p> - - -<h3>H</h3> - -<p>HACKUM. A bravado; a slasher. "Capt. Hackum," -a fellow who slashes with a bowie-knife.</p> - -<p>HALF-A-HOG. A five-cent piece.</p> - -<p>HALF-A-NED. A five-dollar gold piece.</p> - -<p>HALF-A-STRETCH. Six months' imprisonment.</p> - -<p>HAMLET. A captain of police.</p> - -<p>HAMS. Pants.</p> - -<p>HANDLE. Nose. "The cove flashed a rare handle -to his physog." The fellow has a very large nose.</p> - -<p>HANG BLUFF. Snuff.</p> - -<p>HANG IT UP. Think of it; remember it.</p> - -<p>HANG OUT. The place one lives in. "The cops -scavey where we hang out," the officers know -where we live.</p> - -<p>HANGMAN'S DAY. Friday is so called from the -custom of hanging people on a Friday.</p> - -<p>HANK. To know something about a man that is disreputable. -"He has a hank on the bloke whereby -he sucks honey when he chooses," he knows something -about the man, and therefore induces him to -give him money when he chooses.</p> - -<p>HARD. Metal.</p> - -<p>HARD COLE. Silver or gold money.</p> - -<p>HARDWARE. False coin.</p> - -<p>HARE IT. Return; come back.</p> - -<p>HARMAN. A constable.</p> - -<p>HARMAN BEAK. The sheriff</p> - -<p>HARP. A woman.</p> - -<p>HARRIDAN. A haggard old woman; a scold.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page41" id="page41"></a>[pg 41]</span> -HASH. To vomit.</p> - -<p>HATCHES. In distress; in trouble; in debt.</p> - -<p>HAVEY CAVEY. Wavering; doubtful.</p> - -<p>HAVIL. A sheep.</p> - -<p>HAWK. A confidence man; a swindler.</p> - -<p>HEAVE. To rob. "To heave a crib," to rob a house.</p> - -<p>HEAVER. The breast or chest of a person.</p> - -<p>HEAVERS. Persons in love.</p> - -<p>HEAVING. Stealing; taking, "The cove was done -for heaving a peter from a cart," the fellow was convicted -for stealing a trunk from a cart.</p> - -<p>HEDGE. To bet on both sides; to be friends with -both sides; to pray "Good God," "Good Devil."</p> - -<p>HEELER. An accomplice of the pocket-book dropper. -The heeler stoops behind the victim, and -strikes one of his heels as if by mistake; this draws -his attention to the pocket-book that lies on the -ground.</p> - -<p>HEELS. To run away.</p> - -<p>HEMP. To choke.</p> - -<p>HEMP THE FLAT. Choke the fool.</p> - -<p>HEN. A woman.</p> - -<p>HERRING. All bad; all alike.</p> - -<p>HICKEY. Tipsy; not quite drunk; elated.</p> - -<p>HICKJOP. A fool.</p> - -<p>HICKSAM. A countryman; a fool.</p> - -<p>HIGH BEAK. The first judge; the president; the -governor; the head official.</p> - -<p>HIGH BLOKE. A well-dressed fellow.</p> - -<p>HIGH GAG. Telling secrets; a fellow that whispers.</p> - -<p>HIGH JINKS. Small gamblers.</p> - -<p>HIGH PADS. Highway robbers.</p> - -<p>HIGH ROPES. In a passion; very loud.</p> - -<p>HIGH TIDE. Plenty of money.</p> - -<p>HIGH TOBERS. Gonnoffs; the highest order of -thieves, who generally go well dressed, and frequent -watering-places, etc., etc.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page42" id="page42"></a>[pg 42]</span> -HIGH TOBY. A highway robber.</p> - -<p>HIGH-LIVER. A fellow who lives in a garret.</p> - -<p>HIGHFLYER. An audacious, lewd woman.</p> - -<p>HIKE. Run away. "Hike; the cops have tumbled -to us," run; the officers have seen us.</p> - -<p>HIP INSIDE. Inside coat-pocket.</p> - -<p>HIP OUTSIDE. Outside coat-pocket.</p> - -<p>HISTORY OF THE FOUR KINGS. A pack of cards. -"The bloke's skin is lathy, he studies the history -of the four kings closer than the autum-bawler's -patter," the man's purse is thin; he studies a pack -of cards more than the parson's sermons.</p> - -<p>HOB OR NOB. What will you drink?</p> - -<p>HOBB. A country-fellow.</p> - -<p>HOBINOL. A clown.</p> - -<p>HOBNAIL. A countryman.</p> - -<p>HOCK. Caught in hock; caught by the heels. "If -the cove should be caught in the hock he won't -snickle," if the fellow should be caught in the act, -he would not tell.</p> - -<p>HOCKEY. Drunk.</p> - -<p>HOCKS. The feet.</p> - -<p>HOCUS. To stupify. "Hocus the bloke's lush, and -then frisk his sacks," put something into the fellow's -drink that will stupify him, and then search his -pockets.</p> - -<p>HOD. A mason; a builder.</p> - -<p>HOG IN ARMOR. A blustering office-holder.</p> - -<p>HOG IN TOGS. A well-dressed loafer.</p> - -<p>HOGG. A ten-cent piece.</p> - -<p>HOGGING. To humbug.</p> - -<p>HOGO. High-flavored; strong-scented.</p> - -<p>HOIST. To rob houses by climbing into a window. -It is generally done by two or three follows, one of -whom stands close to the house, and the others -climb up on him to the window.</p> - -<p>HOISTER. A shop-lifter.</p> - -<p>HOISTING. Putting a man upright on his head, and -shaking him until his money and watch fall out of -his pockets; they hold this to be no robbery.</p> - -<p>HOISTLAY. <i>See Hoist.</i></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page43" id="page43"></a>[pg 43]</span> -HOLLOW. Certain; a decided beat.</p> - -<p>HONEY. Money.</p> - -<p>HOODY-DOODY. A short clump of a person.</p> - -<p>HOOF. Foot. "To beat the hoof," to travel on foot.</p> - -<p>HOOKED. To steal.</p> - -<p>HOOKER. A thief.</p> - -<p>HOOP. A ring.</p> - -<p>HOOP IT. Run away.</p> - -<p>HOP THE TWIG. Be off; go off.</p> - -<p>HOPPED THE TWIG. Hung.</p> - -<p>HORNESS. Watchman.</p> - -<p>HORSE-CAPPERS. Fellows that cheat simple people -out of their money by the aid of a broken-down first-class -horse.</p> - -<p>HOSTEL. A tavern.</p> - -<p>HOT. Too well known. "The cove had better move -his beaters into Dewsville, it is too hot for him here; -if he stops, he'll be sure to be sick for twenty -stretches," the fellow had better go into the country, -for if he stays, he will be sent to prison for twenty -years.</p> - -<p>HOUSE TO LET. A widow's weeds.</p> - -<p>HUBBUB. Pain in the stomach.</p> - -<p>HUE. Lash him.</p> - -<p>HUEY. The National Police Gazette.</p> - -<p>HUFF. A bullying, cowardly fellow.</p> - -<p>HUG. To choke.</p> - -<p>HUGGING THE HOOKER. Choking the thief.</p> - -<p>HUMBOX. An auctioneer's rostrum.</p> - -<p>HUMMER. A great lie.</p> - -<p>HUMPHREY. A coat used by pickpockets, that has -pocket-holes, but no pockets.</p> - -<p>HUSH. Murder. "Hush the bloke," kill the fellow.</p> - -<p>HUSH-STUFF. Money given to prevent a witness -from testifying.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page44" id="page44"></a>[pg 44]</span></p> - -<h3>I</h3> - -<p>ICKEN. Oak.</p> - -<p>ICKEN BAUM. An oak-tree.</p> - -<p>IDEA-POT. A man's head.</p> - -<p>IMPOST-TAKER. One who lends money to thieves -and gamblers at very high rates.</p> - -<p>IMPUDENT. To cut the tails of a man's coat.</p> - -<p>IMPURE. A lady of easy virtue.</p> - -<p>INDORSER. One who flogs another on the back.</p> - -<p>INGLERS. Horse-dealers who cheat those that deal -with them.</p> - -<p>INKLE. Let him know.</p> - -<p>INLAID. Plenty of money saved.</p> - -<p>INNOCENT. A corpse.</p> - -<p>INNOCENTS. Convicts, because it is supposed that -they can not commit crime.</p> - -<p>INSIDER. One who knows.</p> - -<p>INTIMATE. A shirt. "Intimate as your shirt."</p> - -<p>IRON. Courage; fearless; staunch.</p> - -<p>IRON DOUBLET. Innocence; not guilty.</p> - -<p>IRONED. Handcuffed.</p> - -<p>IVORIES. The teeth. "How the blowen flashes her -ivories," how the girl shows her teeth.</p> - -<p>IVY BUSH. A very small-faced man who has a large -quantity of hair on his face and head.</p> - - -<h3>J</h3> - -<p>JABBER. To talk in an unknown language.</p> - -<p>JACK. A small coin.</p> - -<p>JACK COVE. A mean low fellow.</p> - -<p>JACK DANDY. A little impertinent fellow.</p> - -<p>JACK KETCH. The hangman. This cognomen for -the hangman is of very ancient date. In the year -1682, we find in "Butler's Ghost," p. 54, the following -lines:</p> - -<div class="poem"> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">"Till Ketch observing he was choused,</span><br /> -<span class="i0">And in his province much abused;</span><br /> -<span class="i0">In open hall the tribute dunned,</span><br /> -<span class="i0">To do his office, or refund."</span><br /> -</div> -</div> - -<p>Jack Ketch had not been long appointed to his -office; for we find the name of his predecessor -(Dun) in the former part of this poem,</p> - -<div class="poem"> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">"For you, yourself, to act Squire Dun,</span><br /> -<span class="i0">Such ignominy ne'er saw the sun."</span><br /> -</div> -</div> - -<p>The addition of "Squire" to Dun's name was an -evidence that he had executed some state criminal, -which, according to the custom of the times, accorded -to him that title. The predecessor of Dun -was one Gregory; from whom the gallows was -called the "Gregorian tree," and by which name it -is mentioned in the prologue to "Mercurius Pragmaticus," -tragi-comedy, acted in 1641:</p> - -<div class="poem"> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">"This trembles under the black rod, and he</span><br /> -<span class="i0">Doth fear his fate from the Gregorian tree."</span><br /> -</div> -</div> - -<p>Gregory succeeded Derrick, who flourished in the -year 1608, as we find in an old book of that time: -"For he rides his circuit with the devil, and Derrick -must be his host, and Tyburn the inne at which -he will light." "At the gallows where I leave them, -as to the haven at which they must all cast anchor, -if Derrick's cables do but hold."</p> - -<p>JACK OF LEGS. A very tall fellow.</p> - -<p>JACK SPRAT. A small fellow.</p> - -<p>JACK WRIGHT. A fat fellow.</p> - -<p>JACK-GAGGER. A fellow that lives on the prostitution -of his wife.</p> - -<p>JACK-RUN. A license.</p> - -<p>JACKED. Lamed.</p> - -<p>JACKET. To show one up; point one out. The fly -cops pulled him, and allowed the flat cops to jacket -him; so you see it was dusty for him, and I advised -him to pike into Daisyville for a few moons -until the down blew off.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page45" id="page45"></a>[pg 45]</span> -JACOB. A ladder.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page46" id="page46"></a>[pg 46]</span> -JACOBITE. A shirt-collar.</p> - -<p>JADE. A long term of imprisonment.</p> - -<p>JAGGER. A gentleman.</p> - -<p>JAGUE. A cut; a ditch.</p> - -<p>JAM. A gold ring.</p> - -<p>JAMMED. Killed; murdered; hanged.</p> - -<p>JANASMUG. A go-between; one who goes between -the thief and the fence.</p> - -<p>JANAZARIES. A mob of pickpockets.</p> - -<p>JAPANNED. A convict is said to be japanned when -the chaplain pronounces him to be converted.</p> - -<p>JARK. A seal.</p> - -<p>JARKMAN. One who writes characters for servants, -begging petitions, etc., etc.</p> - -<p>JARVEY. A driver.</p> - -<p>JASKER. A seal.</p> - -<p>JAW COVES. Auctioneers, lawyers.</p> - -<p>JAZEY. A man with an enormous quantity of hair -on his head and face.</p> - -<p>JEFFEY. Lightning.</p> - -<p>JEM. A gold ring.</p> - -<p>JENNEY. A hook on the end of a stick.</p> - -<p>JENNY LINDA. A window, pronounced <i>winder</i>.</p> - -<p>JERRY. A chamber-pot.</p> - -<p>JERRY-SNEAK. A hen-pecked husband.</p> - -<p>JESSANY. A man well dressed.</p> - -<p>JET AUTUM. A parson.</p> - -<p>JEW'S-EYE. A pleasant, agreeable sight.</p> - -<p>JIG. A trick.</p> - -<p>JIGGER. A door. "Dub the jigger," open the door.</p> - -<p>JILT. A prostitute who hugs and kisses a countryman -while her accomplice robs him.</p> - -<p>JILTER. A sneak-thief.</p> - -<p>JINGLEBRAINS. A wild, thoughtless fellow.</p> - -<p>JOB. A robbery. "To do a job," to commit a robbery.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page47" id="page47"></a>[pg 47]</span> -JOB. Patience; take time; don't be in a hurry.</p> - -<p>JOB'S DOCK. An hospital. "The poor cove is in -Job's dock," the poor fellow is in the hospital.</p> - -<p>JOBATION. A reproof; painful.</p> - -<p>JOBBER-NOT. A tall, ungainly fellow.</p> - -<p>JOCK. Enjoy; to enjoy any thing.</p> - -<p>JOCKUM GAGE. A chamber-pot.</p> - -<p>JOEY. A hypocrite. Sometimes, four.</p> - -<p>JOLLY. The head; an excuse; a pretense.</p> - -<p>JOMER. A mistress.</p> - -<p>JORDAIN. A blow. "I'll tip the Jack Cove a jordain -on the jazey, if I transnear him," I'll hit the -mean fellow with my club on his big nose, if I get -near him.</p> - -<p>JORDAN. Disagreeable; hard to be done.</p> - -<p>JOSEPH. A coat that's patched; a sheepish, bashful -fellow.</p> - -<p>JOSEPH'S COAT. Guarded against temptation. "I -say, my bene blowen, can't you kiddy the bloke?" -"No, Dick, it's of no use trying, he wears a Joseph's -coat," I say, my good girl, can't you seduce the -man? No, Dick, it's no use trying, he is guarded -against temptation.</p> - -<p>JOSKIN. A countryman; a silly fellow. "The cove -maced the joskin of twenty cases," the fellow cheated -the countryman out of twenty dollars.</p> - -<p>JUG. A bank.</p> - -<p>JUMP. A widow; run away.</p> - -<p>JUMPED HIS BAIL. Run away from his bail.</p> - -<p>JUMPERS. Fellows that rob houses by getting into -windows.</p> - -<p>JURK. A seal.</p> - - -<h3>K</h3> - -<p>KATE. A smart, brazen-faced woman.</p> - -<p>KATEY. A picklock.</p> - -<p>KE-KEYA. Devil; Satan.</p> - -<p>KEELER. A small tub, or firkin.</p> - -<p>KEFFEL. A horse.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page48" id="page48"></a>[pg 48]</span> -KELTER. Condition; order.</p> - -<p>KEN. A house. "Bite the ken," rob the house.</p> - -<p>KEN-CRACKER. A house-breaker.</p> - -<p>KETCH. Hang. "I'll ketch you," I'll hang you.</p> - -<p>KICK. A pocket. "The Moll stubbled her skin in -her kick," the woman held her purse in her -pocket.</p> - -<p>KICK-CLOY. A pair of breeches.</p> - -<p>KICKED THE BUCKET. Dead.</p> - -<p>KICKSIES. Pants; breeches.</p> - -<p>KID. A child; a youth; a young one.</p> - -<p>KIDDED. Coaxed; amused; humbugged. "The -sneaksman kidded the cove of the crib, while his -pal tapped the till," the thief amused the store-keeper, -while his comrade robbed the money-drawer.</p> - -<p>KIDDIES. Young thieves.</p> - -<p>KIDDEN. A boy lodging-house.</p> - -<p>KIDMENT. Comical.</p> - -<p>KIDNEY. The same kind.</p> - -<p>KIDSMAN. A fellow that boards and lodges boys -for the purpose of teaching them how to steal, putting -them through a course of training, as a dog-trainer -will train dogs for the hunt. The kidsman -accompanies the kid, and though committing no depredations -himself, he controls and directs the motions -of the others.</p> - -<p>KILL DEVIL. New rum.</p> - -<p>KIMBAW. To bully; to beat. "Let's kimbaw the -bloke," let us bully or beat the fellow.</p> - -<p>KINCHIN. A young child.</p> - -<p>KINCHIN COVES. Boys taught how to steal.</p> - -<p>KINCHIN MORTS. Girls educated to steal.</p> - -<p>KIP. A bed; half a fool.</p> - -<p>KIRJALIS. Who fears? I fear not; come on.</p> - -<p>KIRKBUZZER. A fellow that picks pockets in -churches.</p> - -<p>KIT. A dancing-master; the implements of a burglar.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page49" id="page49"></a>[pg 49]</span> -KITCHEN PHYSIC. Food. "A little kitchen physic -will set me up." I have more need of a cook -than a doctor.</p> - -<p>KITE. A letter; fancy stocks.</p> - -<p>KITING. Restless; going from place to place.</p> - -<p>KITTLE. To tickle; to please.</p> - -<p>KITTLER. One who tickles or pleases.</p> - -<p>KITTYS. Stock in trade; tools. "The bobbies -seized the screwsman's kittys," the officers seized -the burglar's tools.</p> - -<p>KLEM. To strike. "Klem the bloke," hit the man.</p> - -<p>KNAPPED. Arrested.</p> - -<p>KNIGHT OF ALSATIA. A person that treats the -whole company.</p> - -<p>KNIGHT OF THE POST. A fellow that will swear -any thing for money.</p> - -<p>KNOB. The head.</p> - -<p>KNOB-THATCHER. A wig-maker.</p> - -<p>KNOCK-ME-DOWN. Very strong liquor.</p> - -<p>KNOSE. Tobacco; smoke.</p> - -<p>KNOT. A gang of thieves.</p> - -<p>KNOWLEDGE-BOX. The head.</p> - -<p>KNUCK. A pickpocket.</p> - -<p>KONE. Counterfeit money.</p> - -<p>KONIACKER. A counterfeiter.</p> - - -<h3>L</h3> - -<p>LACE. To beat; to whip.</p> - -<p>LACED MUTTON. A common woman.</p> - -<p>LACH. Let in. "The cove is bene, shall we lach -him?" the man is good, shall we let him in? "If he -is not leaky." "I'll answer for him; he is staunch."</p> - -<p>LADDER. "He mounted the ladder," he was hung.</p> - -<p>LADY. A humpbacked female.</p> - -<p>LADY BIRD. A kept mistress.</p> - -<p>LAG. A convicted felon.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page50" id="page50"></a>[pg 50]</span> -LAGE. Water; a basket.</p> - -<p>LAGE OF DUDS. A basket of clothes.</p> - -<p>LAGGED. Convicted; transported.</p> - -<p>LAID. Pawned.</p> - -<p>LAMB. To flog.</p> - -<p>LAMBASTE. Flog. "Lambaste the bloke," flog the -fellow.</p> - -<p>LAMBO. To beat with a club.</p> - -<p>LAMP. Eye. "The cove has a queer lamp," the man -has a blind or squinting eye.</p> - -<p>LAND-BROKER. An undertaker. "The cove buys -lands for stiff uns," the man purchases land for dead -people.</p> - -<p>LAND-YARD. The grave-yard.</p> - -<p>LANTERN-JAWED. Thin-faced.</p> - -<p>LAP. Drink; butter-milk; pick it up; to take; to -steal.</p> - -<p>LAP UP. To wipe out; to put out of sight.</p> - -<p>LARK. A boat; a piece of fun; looking for something -to steal; on a lark.</p> - -<p>LARREY. Cunning.</p> - -<p>LATHY. Not fat. "I touched the joskin's skin, -but it was as lathy as his jaws were lantern," I -stole the countryman's purse, but it was as thin as -his face.</p> - -<p>LATITAT. Attorney.</p> - -<p>LAVENDER COVE. A pawnbroker.</p> - -<p>LAW. "Give the cove law," give the fellow a chance -to escape.</p> - -<p>LAY. A particular kind of rascality, trade, or profession; -on the look out; watching for something -to steal. Sometimes the same as gait. "What's -the cove's lay?" "Why, you see, he is on the -ken's crack"—house-breaking.</p> - -<p>LEAF. Autumn. "I will be out in the leaf," I will -be out in the autumn.</p> - -<p>LEAK. To impart a secret.</p> - -<p>LEAKY. Not trustworthy.</p> - -<p>LEAP THE BOOK. A false marriage.</p> - -<p>LEAST. Keep out of the way; hide; out of sight.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page51" id="page51"></a>[pg 51]</span> -LEATHER. A pocket-book; portmonnaie. "The -bloke lost his leather," the man lost his pocket-book.</p> - -<p>LEERY. On guard; look out; wide awake.</p> - -<p>LEFT-HANDED WIFE. A concubine. It was an -ancient custom among the Germans for a man, if he -married his concubine, to give her his left hand, instead -of the right.</p> - -<p>LEG. A gambler.</p> - -<p>LEG IT. Run away; clear out.</p> - -<p>LEG-BAIL AND LAND-SECURITY. Runaway.</p> - -<p>LEGGED. Full-fettered; double-ironed.</p> - -<p>LENTEN. Nothing to eat; starving.</p> - -<p>LETCH. Unusual fastenings to a door.</p> - -<p>LIB. Sleep. "The coves lib together," the fellows -sleep together.</p> - -<p>LIBBEGE. A bed.</p> - -<p>LIBBEN. A private house.</p> - -<p>LIBKEN. A lodging-house.</p> - -<p>LICK. To coax.</p> - -<p>LIFE-PRESERVER. A slung-shot.</p> - -<p>LIFT. Help. "Lift the poor cove, he is almost lenten," -help the poor fellow, he is almost starved.</p> - -<p>LIFTERS. Crutches.</p> - -<p>LIG. A bedstead.</p> - -<p>LIGHT MANS. The day.</p> - -<p>LIGHT-HOUSE. A man with a very red nose.</p> - -<p>LIL. A pocket-book.</p> - -<p>LILL. A bad bill.</p> - -<p>LILLY WHITE. A chimney-sweep; a negro.</p> - -<p>LIMB. A lawyer, or lawyer's clerk.</p> - -<p>LIMBO. A prison.</p> - -<p>LIMBS. A long-legged fellow.</p> - -<p>LINGO. Talk; language.</p> - -<p>LION. Be saucy; lion the fellow; make a loud noise; -substitute noise for good sense; frighten; bluff.</p> - -<p>LISTNERS. Ears.</p> - -<p>LIVE EELS. Fields. "Bill has gone to live eels, to -read and write with Joe." <i>See Read.</i></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page52" id="page52"></a>[pg 52]</span> -LOB. A money-drawer; the till.</p> - -<p>LOBLAY. Robbing money-drawers.</p> - -<p>LOBSNEAK. A fellow that robs money-drawers.</p> - -<p>LOCK. Sometimes a receiver of stolen money; a -character. "The cove stood a queer lock," the fellow -had a bad character.</p> - -<p>LOLL. The favorite child; the mother's darling.</p> - -<p>LOLLOP. Lazy.</p> - -<p>LOLLOP FEVER. Lazy fever.</p> - -<p>LONG. A large price.</p> - -<p>LONG-GONE. Sentenced for life.</p> - -<p>LONG-TAILED-ONES. Bank bills for large amount.</p> - -<p>LOO. For the good of all.</p> - -<p>LOOBY. An ignorant fellow; a fool.</p> - -<p>LOPE. Run; be off. "The cove loped down the -dancers, and got off with the wedge-feeders," the -thief leaped down the stairs, and got away with the -silver spoons.</p> - -<p>LORD LOVEL. A spade or shovel.</p> - -<p>LOUNGE. The prisoner's box in a criminal court.</p> - -<p>LOW TIDE. Very little money left.</p> - -<p>LOWING-LAY. Stealing cattle, oxen, or cows.</p> - -<p>LOWRE. Coin.</p> - -<p>LUGGER. A sailor.</p> - -<p>LUGS. Ears.</p> - -<p>LULLABY KID. An infant.</p> - -<p>LULLIE-PRIGGERS. Thieves who rob clothes-lines.</p> - -<p>LULLIES. Wet linen.</p> - -<p>LUMBER. To walk; to walk in a careless, unconcerned -manner.</p> - -<p>LUMBER. To receive stolen property from a thief -for safe keeping, or disposing of it for his benefit.</p> - -<p>LUMBERER. A pawnbroker.</p> - -<p>LUMBERER CRIB. A pawnbroker's shop.</p> - -<p>LUMBS. Too many; too much.</p> - -<p>LUMP. To beat. "Lump the booby," flog the fool.</p> - -<p>LUMP OF LEAD. A bullet; sometimes the head.</p> - -<p>LUMPING THE LIGHTER. Transported.</p> - -<p>LUN. The funny fellow; a clown.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page53" id="page53"></a>[pg 53]</span> -LUNAN. A girl.</p> - -<p>LURCH. Abandon. "Lurch the booby, he has -leaked his insides out to the coppers," abandon the -fool, he has told the officers all he knows.</p> - -<p>LURRIES. Valuables; watches; rings; money.</p> - -<p>LUSH. Drink.</p> - -<p>LUSHINGTONS. Drunken men.</p> - -<p>LUSHY. Drunk. "The bang-up kiddies had a spree, -and got bloody lushy," the dashing boys had a party, -and got very drunk.</p> - -<p>LUSTRES. Diamonds.</p> - -<p>LYE. Urine.</p> - - -<h3>M</h3> - -<p>M T. Empty. "The bloke's leather was M T," the -man's pocket-book had nothing in it—was empty.</p> - -<p>MAB. A harlot.</p> - -<p>MACE COVE. A false pretense man; a swindler; -"On the mace," to live by swindling.</p> - -<p>MAD TOM. A fellow who feigns to be foolish.</p> - -<p>MADAM RHAN. A bad woman; a strumpet.</p> - -<p>MADAME. A kept mistress.</p> - -<p>MADE. Stolen. "The copper asked me where I -made the benjamin. I told him I didn't make it, -but got it on the square," the officer asked me where -I stole the coat, and I told him that I did not steal -it, but got it honestly.</p> - -<p>MADGE. Private places.</p> - -<p>MAGG. A half-cent.</p> - -<p>MAGGING. Getting money by cheating countrymen -with balls, patent safes, etc., etc.</p> - -<p>MAGSMEN. Fellows who are too cowardly to steal, -but prefer to cheat confiding people by acting upon -their cupidity.</p> - -<p>MAKE HIM SWIM FOR IT. Cheat him out of his -share.</p> - -<p>MAN-TRAP. A widow.</p> - -<p>MANDERER. A beggar.</p> - -<p>MARKING. Observing; taking notice.</p> - -<p>MARRIED. Two fellows handcuffed together.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page54" id="page54"></a>[pg 54]</span> -MATER. Mother.</p> - -<p>MAUDLING. Crying.</p> - -<p>MAULD. Very drunk.</p> - -<p>MAUNDING. Asking alms; soliciting.</p> - -<p>MAWKS. A slattern.</p> - -<p>MAWLEY. Hand. "Tip us your mawley," tip us -your hand.</p> - -<p>MAX. Gin; intoxicating liquor.</p> - -<p>MAZZARD. The face.</p> - -<p>MEASURE. To examine closely. "The copper snapped -and measured me, but could not drop to my -chant or mug, and so he turned me up, and I moved -my beaters like a bull," the officer examined me, -but could not recollect my name or face, and then -let me go, and I moved my boots like a locomotive.</p> - -<p>MEDLAR. A fellow that smells bad.</p> - -<p>MELLOW. Good-natured; a little intoxicated.</p> - -<p>MELT. To spend money. "The cove melted a finniff -in lush before we parted," the fellow spent five dollars -for drink before we parted.</p> - -<p>MERKIN. Hair-dye.</p> - -<p>MESTING. Dissolving; melting.</p> - -<p>MIDDLE-PIECE. The stomach.</p> - -<p>MILCH COW. A man that is easily cheated out of -his money.</p> - -<p>MILKEN. A house-breaker.</p> - -<p>MILKY. White.</p> - -<p>MILKY DUDS. White clothes.</p> - -<p>MILL. The treadmill; a fight; a chisel.</p> - -<p>MILL DOSE. Working in prison.</p> - -<p>MILL LAY. Breaking into houses; on the crack.</p> - -<p>MILL THE GLAZE. Break the window. A young -thief who had turned State's evidence gave his testimony -to the officer as follows: "Jack and Sneaky -bustled in front of the jigger. Jack dingged Sneaky's -castor into the crib; Sneaky brushed to get it; -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page55" id="page55"></a>[pg 55]</span> -Jack pulled the jigger to, and Smasher milled the -glaze, touched the swag, and mizzled like a bull, -and, ye see, I played shady to pipe the bloke what -was done," Jack and Sneaky pretended to scuffle in -front of the shop-door. Jack pulled off Sneaky's -hat and threw it into the store; Sneaky rushed in -to get it; Jack, in the meantime, pulled the door to. -Smasher broke the window, stole the jewelry, and -was off like a locomotive. I remained near by to -watch and see what steps the man would take to -recover his property.</p> - -<p>MILL TOG. A shirt.</p> - -<p>MILLER. A fighter.</p> - -<p>MILLING COVE. A pugilist. "How the milling -cove served out the cull," how the boxer beat the -man.</p> - -<p>MINNIKON. Very small.</p> - -<p>MINT. Plenty of money.</p> - -<p>MISCHIEF. A man with his wife on his back.</p> - -<p>MISH. A shirt.</p> - -<p>MISH-TOPPER. A coat or petticoat.</p> - -<p>MISS. A mistress.</p> - -<p>MIX-METAL. A silver-smith.</p> - -<p>MIZZLE. Go; run; be off.</p> - -<p>MOABITES. Constables.</p> - -<p>MOBILITY. The mob; opposition to nobility.</p> - -<p>MOBS. A number of thieves working together.</p> - -<p>MOEY. A petition. A convict would say to another: -"My pals have got up a bene moey to send to the -head bloke, and if it comes off rye buck, I shall soon -vamose from the stir; but if it should turn out a -shise, then I must do my bit," my partners have -got up a good petition to send to the Governor, and -if it turns out well, I shall soon leave the prison; -but if it should be good for nothing, I must stay my -time out.</p> - -<p>MOHAIR. An upholsterer.</p> - -<p>MOIETY. Fifty.</p> - -<p>MOKE. A negro.</p> - -<p>MOLL. A woman.</p> - -<p>MOLL BUZZER. A thief that devotes himself to -picking the pockets of women.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page56" id="page56"></a>[pg 56]</span> -MOLL-SACK. Reticule.</p> - -<p>MOLLEY. A miss; a young woman; an effeminate -fellow; a sodomite.</p> - -<p>MONDONGO. Filthy; full of stench, it stinks beyond -the power of endurance.</p> - -<p>MONEKER. A name.</p> - -<p>MONEY. A private place.</p> - -<p>MOON. One month; thirty days' imprisonment. -"The poor cove was done for two stretches and six -moons," the poor fellow was sentenced for two years -and six months.</p> - -<p>MOON-EYED HEN. A squinting prostitute.</p> - -<p>MOOSE-FACE. A rich, ugly-faced man; a poor but -handsome young girl who marries an old, wrinkle-faced, -ill-looking rich man, is said to have married -a moose-face.</p> - -<p>MOPSEY. A short dowdy woman.</p> - -<p>MOPUSSES. Money.</p> - -<p>MORNING DROP. The gallows. "He napped the -Governor's stiff, and escaped the morning drop," he -received the Governor's pardon, and escaped the gallows.</p> - -<p>MORRIS. Move off; dance off.</p> - -<p>MORT. A woman.</p> - -<p>MOSES. A man that fathers another man's child for -a consideration.</p> - -<p>MOSH. Dining at an eating-house and leaving without -making payment.</p> - -<p>MOSS. Money. "A rolling stone gathers no moss."</p> - -<p>MOUNT. To give false testimony.</p> - -<p>MOUNTER. Men who give false bail; or who, for a -consideration, will swear to any thing required.</p> - -<p>MOUNTERS. Fellows who hire clothes to wear for a -particular occasion; those who wear second-hand -clothes.</p> - -<p>MOUSE. Be quiet; be still; talk low; whisper; -step light; make no noise; softly.</p> - -<p>MOUTH. A noisy fellow; a silly fellow.</p> - -<p>MOUTH IT. Speak loud.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page57" id="page57"></a>[pg 57]</span> -MOUTHING. Crying. "The mort is mouthing," -the girl is crying.</p> - -<p>MOVED. Bowed to. "The swell moved to the Moll -as they crossed," the gentleman bowed to the girl -as they passed each other.</p> - -<p>MOW. To kiss. "The bloke was mowing the molly," -the man was kissing the girl.</p> - -<p>MUCK. Money.</p> - -<p>MUCK-WORM. A miser.</p> - -<p>MUD. A fool.</p> - -<p>MUFFLERS. Boxing-gloves.</p> - -<p>MUG. The face; a simple fellow.</p> - -<p>MULL. To spend money.</p> - -<p>MUM. Say nothing; nothing to say.</p> - -<p>MUMMER. The mouth.</p> - -<p>MUMPERS. Beggars.</p> - -<p>MUND. Mouth.</p> - -<p>MUNG. To solicit; to beg.</p> - -<p>MUNS. The face. "Tout the mab's muns," look at -the woman's face.</p> - -<p>MUSH. An umbrella.</p> - -<p>MUSHROOM-FAKERS. Umbrella hawkers.</p> - -<p>MUSIC. The verdict of a jury when they find "not -guilty."</p> - -<p>MUSS. A quarrel; a row.</p> - -<p>MY UNCLE. A pawnbroker.</p> - - -<h3>N</h3> - -<p>NABBED. Arrested.</p> - -<p>NABCHEAT. A hat.</p> - -<p>NABGIRDER. A bridle.</p> - -<p>NABS. Coxcombs.</p> - -<p>NACKY. Ingenious.</p> - -<p>NAIDER. Nothing; can't have it.</p> - -<p>NAILED. Fixed; secured; taken; arrested.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page58" id="page58"></a>[pg 58]</span> -NAMASED. Ran away; got out of sight; ran.</p> - -<p>NAP. To cheat.</p> - -<p>NAPPER. A cheat; a thief; the head.</p> - -<p>NARP. A shirt.</p> - -<p>NARY. Not. "I frisked the joskin's sacks, but nary -red was there," I searched the countryman's pockets, -but not a cent was there.</p> - -<p>NASK. A prison.</p> - -<p>NATTY KIDS. Young thieves; smart, well-dressed -youngsters.</p> - -<p>NATURAL. Not fastidious; a liberal, clever fellow. -"The bloke is very natural," the fellow is very -liberal.</p> - -<p>NAZY. Drunken.</p> - -<p>NAZY COVES. Drunken fellows.</p> - -<p>NAZY NOBS. Drunken coxcombs or fops.</p> - -<p>NEB. The face.</p> - -<p>NECKWEED. Hemp.</p> - -<p>NED. A ten-dollar gold piece.</p> - -<p>NEDDY. A slung-shot.</p> - -<p>NEGLIGEE. A woman with nothing on but her shift.</p> - -<p>NEMAN. Stealing.</p> - -<p>NERVE. Courage; endurance; staunch.</p> - -<p>NESCIO. No; I know not; can't say.</p> - -<p>NETTLED. Diseased.</p> - -<p>NEW LIGHT. New coin; new money.</p> - -<p>NIB. The mouth.</p> - -<p>NICK. To cut. "The knuck nicked the bloke's -kicks into the bottom of his poke, and the dummy -fell into his mauley," the pickpocket cut through -the man's pants into the bottom of his pocket, when -the pocket-book dropped into his hand. This mode -of stealing is only practised by the artists of the -fraternity.</p> - -<p>NICKEY. The devil; "Old Nick."</p> - -<p>NIDERING. Bad; without mitigation of any kind.</p> - -<p>NIG. To clip.</p> - -<p>NIL. Nothing.</p> - -<p>NIM. To steal.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page59" id="page59"></a>[pg 59]</span> -NIMENOG. A very silly fellow.</p> - -<p>NIPPER-KIN. A tumbler; a drinking vessel.</p> - -<p>NIPPERED. Turning a key in the inside of a door, -from the outside, with a peculiar pair of forceps -or nippers. Hotel-thieves use nippers to enter -rooms after the inmates have gone to sleep.</p> - -<p>NIPPERS. An instrument for turning a key on the -outside of the door, used by hotel-thieves.</p> - -<p>NIQUE. Contempt; don't care.</p> - -<p>NISH. Keep quiet; be still.</p> - -<p>NIX. Nothing.</p> - -<p>NOB. One who stands at the head; a king; a man -of rank.</p> - -<p>NOBLERS. Confederates of thimble-riggers, who -appear to play, to induce the flats to try their luck -with the "little joker."</p> - -<p>NOCKY BOY. A simpleton.</p> - -<p>NOD. Asleep. "Gone to the land of Nod," gone to -sleep.</p> - -<p>NODDLE. An empty-pated fellow; a fool; the head -of an animal.</p> - -<p>NONSENSE. Melting butter in a wig.</p> - -<p>NOOSED. Married.</p> - -<p>NOPE. A blow.</p> - -<p>NOSE. A spy; one who informs. "His pal nosed, -and the bene cove was pulled for a crack," his partner -informed against him, and the good fellow was -arrested for burglary.</p> - -<p>NOSEMY. Tobacco.</p> - -<p>NOTCH. A pocket.</p> - -<p>NOTE. A singer.</p> - -<p>NOUSE-BOX. The head.</p> - -<p>NOZZLE. A chimney.</p> - -<p>NUB. The neck.</p> - -<p>NUBBING. Hanging.</p> - -<p>NUBIBUS. In the clouds. "Blow a nubibus," make -a smoke.</p> - -<p>NUG. Dear. "My nug," my dear.</p> - -<p>NULL. To flog.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page60" id="page60"></a>[pg 60]</span> -NUMS. Sham; not real.</p> - -<p>NYPPER. A cut-purse, so called by a person named -Wotton, who in the year 1585, kept in London an -academy for the education and perfection of rogues -in the art of abstracting purses and pocket-books. -At that period persons wore their purses at their -girdles. Cutting them was a branch of the light-fingered -art, which is now out of use, though the -name remains. Instruction in the practice of this -art was given as follows: A purse and a pocket -were separately suspended, attached to which, both -around and above them, were small bells; each -contained counters, and he who could withdraw a -counter without causing any of the bells to ring, -was adjudged to be a "Nypper." A nypper was a -pick-purse; a pick-pocket was called a "Foyster."</p> - - -<h3>O</h3> - -<p>O YES. To cry out. "The O yes of beef was rushing -out of his oven like steam from a bull," the cry -of stop thief was rushing out of his big mouth like -steam from a locomotive.</p> - -<p>O. K. All right; "Oll kerect."</p> - -<p>OAF. A silly fellow.</p> - -<p>OAFISH. Simple.</p> - -<p>OAK. Strong; rich; good reputation.</p> - -<p>OAK TOWEL. An oaken cudgel.</p> - -<p>OAR. Meddle with.</p> - -<p>OCCUPY. To wear. "The cove occupies the oaf's -benjamin," the fellow wears the silly man's coat.</p> - -<p>OCHIVES. Bone-handled knives.</p> - -<p>OCHRE. Money.</p> - -<p>OFFICE. Information conveyed by a look, word, or -in any way by which the person receiving it is intelligibly -impressed. "The cove tipped the office, -and I was fly to the cop," the fellow gave me the -hint, and then I knew it was a policeman.</p> - -<p>OFFICING. Signalizing; a preconcerted signal by a -confederate.</p> - -<p>OGLE THE COVE. Look at the fellow.</p> - -<p>OGLES. The eyes.</p> - -<p>OIL OF BARLEY. Strong beer.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page61" id="page61"></a>[pg 61]</span> -OLD. Death.</p> - -<p>OLD DOSS. The Tombs.</p> - -<p>OLD ONE. The Devil.</p> - -<p>OLD POGER. The Devil.</p> - -<p>OLD SHOE. Good Luck.</p> - -<p>OLD TOAST. A smart old man.</p> - -<p>OLIVER. The moon.</p> - -<p>OLIVER'S SKULL. A chamber-pot.</p> - -<p>OLLI COMPOLLI. The chief rogue; a very smart -thief.</p> - -<p>ON A STRING. To send a person to look for something -that you are sure is in some other place, is -putting him on a string, or humbugging, fooling -him.</p> - -<p>ON HIS MUSCLE. "The fellow travels on his -muscle," he presumes on his abilities to fight.</p> - -<p>ON IT. "On the cross," getting a living by other -than honest means.</p> - -<p>ON THE MACE. Ready to cheat; cheating for a -living; a professional cheat.</p> - -<p>ON THE MUSCLE. On the fight; a fighter; a -pugilist.</p> - -<p>ON THE SHALLOW. Half-naked.</p> - -<p>ON THE SHARP. Persons who are well acquainted -with the mysteries of gaming, and therefore not -easily cheated.</p> - -<p>OPTIME. Class. "He's optime No. one as a screwsman," -he is a first-class burglar.</p> - -<p>ORACLE. To plan a robbery or any kind of deceit.</p> - -<p>ORGAN. Pipe. "Will you lush and cock an organ -with me, my bene cove?" will you drink and smoke -a pipe with me, my good fellow?</p> - -<p>OSTLER. House thief.</p> - -<p>OTTOMISED. To be dissected. "The bene cove -was scragged, ottomised, and put in a glass case for -oafs to ogle," the good fellow was hung, dissected, -and put in a glass case for fools to gaze at.</p> - -<p>OTTOMY. A skeleton.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page62" id="page62"></a>[pg 62]</span> -OUT-AND-OUT. A spree; a frolic.</p> - -<p>OUT-AND-OUTER. Distinguished; first-class.</p> - -<p>OUTS. Ex-officers.</p> - -<p>OUTSIDE PAL. The thief that watches outside -when his confederates are working within.</p> - -<p>OUTSIDE PLANT. A sly place in which the receiver -generally keep his goods after purchasing.</p> - -<p>OUTSIDER. Not in the secret; not of our party.</p> - -<p>OVEN. A large mouth. "The bloke should be a -baker—twig his oven," the man should be a baker—look -at his big mouth.</p> - -<p>OWLERS. Smugglers.</p> - -<p>OWLS. Women who walk the streets only at night.</p> - - -<h3>P</h3> - -<p>PACKET. A false report.</p> - -<p>PAD. A street; highway, "To go on the pad," to -go on the street.</p> - -<p>PAD THE HOOF. Walk the street; to be off.</p> - -<p>PADDING KEN. A lodging-house.</p> - -<p>PAIR OF WINGS. A pair of oars.</p> - -<p>PAL. A companion; the partner of a thief.</p> - -<p>PALAVER. Talk; flattery; conference.</p> - -<p>PALLIARDS. Female mendicants who beg with a -number of children, borrowing from others of the -same fraternity if they have not enough of their own, -giving an opiate to one to make it sleep, pinching -and sticking pins into another to make it cry, and -making artificial sores on the arms, hands, and face -of a third, all to move the hand of the benevolent -from their purses to the outstretched hand of the -beggar.</p> - -<p>PALLING IN. A connection formed by a male and -female thief to steal and sleep together.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page63" id="page63"></a>[pg 63]</span> -PALM. To fee or bribe.</p> - -<p>PALMER. A thief that adroitly slips jewelry from -the top of a show-case into his pocket.</p> - -<p>PAM. A knave.</p> - -<p>PANEL-CRIB. A place especially and ingeniously -fitted up for the robbery of gentlemen who are enticed -thereto by women who make it their business -to pick up strangers. Panel-cribs are sometimes -called badger-cribs, shakedowns, touch-cribs, and -are variously fitted for the admission of those who -are in the secret, but which defy the scrutiny of -the uninitiated. Sometimes the casing of the door -is made to swing on well-oiled hinges which are not -discoverable in the room, while the door itself appears -to be hung in the usual manner, and well -secured by bolts and lock. At other times the entrance -is effected by means of what appears to be -an ordinary wardrobe, the back of which revolves -like a turn-style on pivots in the middle above and -below. When the victim has undressed himself -and got into bed with the woman, the thief enters, -and picking the pocket-book out of the pocket, abstracts -the money, and supplying its place with a -small roll of paper, returns the book to its place. -He then withdraws, and coming to the door raps -and demands admission, calling the woman by the -name of wife. The frightened victim, springing out -of bed, dresses himself in a hurry, feels his pocket-book -in its proper place, and escapes through another -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page64" id="page64"></a>[pg 64]</span> -other door, congratulating himself on his happy -deliverance. He soon, however, finds out that he -has been victimized, and not unfrequently tells the -story of his loss and shame to the police; while -others, minus their cash, pocket the dear-bought -experience.</p> - -<p>PANEL-THIEF. One who fits up a place for the purpose -of robbing men that are brought to the panel-crib -by women who are trained to pick up gentlemen -that are on a visit to the city on business or -pleasure. They endeavor to select those who are -not likely to remain and prosecute the thieves that -have robbed and duped them of their money.</p> - -<p>PANNAM. Bread.</p> - -<p>PANNY. A house. "The cove done the panny," -the fellow robbed the house; "the cops frisked my -panny and nailed my screws," the officers searched -my house and seized my picklocks, or false keys.</p> - -<p>PANTER. The heart. "The lead reached the poor -cove's panter, and so there was nothing to be done -but to give him a ground sweat," the bullet entered -the poor fellow's heart, and all that we had then to -do was to put him in the grave.</p> - -<p>PANZY. A burglar.</p> - -<p>PAP LAP. An infant. "He is but a pap lap," he -is but a baby.</p> - -<p>PAPER-SKULL. A thin-skulled fellow.</p> - -<p>PARCHMENT. A ticket of leave. "The cove has -his parchment," the man has his ticket of leave.</p> - -<p>PARCHMENT COVES. Ticket-of-leave men.</p> - -<p>PARELL. To make clear.</p> - -<p>PARK RAILING. The teeth.</p> - -<p>PARNEY. A ring.</p> - -<p>PARSON. A guide-post.</p> - -<p>PARTIAL. Putting one's hand into another man's -pocket; stealing.</p> - -<p>PASH. Price; cost.</p> - -<p>PATE. The head.</p> - -<p>PATRICO. One who in olden time used to marry persons -by placing the man on the right hand side and -the woman on the left side of a dead animal. -Causing them to join hands, he commanded them to -live together till death did them part, and so, shaking -hands, the wedding was ended.</p> - -<p>PATTER. To talk. "How the Moll lushes her jockey -and patters," how the girl drinks her gin and talks.</p> - -<p>PATTERED. Tried in a court of justice. "The wire -was pattered for drawing a skin from a bloke's poke, -who buffed him home, and of course his godfathers -named him, and the beak slung him for five stretchers -and a moon," the pickpocket was tried for stealing -a purse from the man's pocket, who caught him -in the act, and of course the jury convicted him, -and the judge sentenced him for five years and a -month.</p> - -<div class="image-center" style="max-width: 409px;"> -<img class="border" src="images/i_064fp.jpg" width="409" height="700" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page65" id="page65"></a>[pg 65]</span> -PAUM. To conceal in the hand. "To paum pennyweights" -to steal rings or any kind of jewelry by -working it with the fingers under the palm of the -hand, and then up the sleeve or into a pocket. -These fellows are called paum-coves.</p> - -<p>PAW. The hand or foot. "The fore-paw hand;" -"the hind paw foot."</p> - -<p>PEACH. To inform; "to turn stag;" to blow the -gab; to squeal or squeak.</p> - -<p>PEAK. Lace goods.</p> - -<p>PEAL. A ball.</p> - -<p>PEAR. To draw supplies from both sides; to give -the officers information, and then tell the thieves to -get out of the way.</p> - -<p>PEAR-MAKING. The act of drawing supplies from -both sides. <i>See Pear.</i></p> - -<p>PECCAVI. I have sinned; I am wrong; a confession -of wrong.</p> - -<p>PECK. Food.</p> - -<p>PECK AND BOOZE. Food and drink.</p> - -<p>PECKISH. Hungry.</p> - -<p>PECULIAR. A mistress.</p> - -<p>PED. A basket.</p> - -<p>PEDDLER'S PONY. A walking-stick.</p> - -<p>PEEL. Strip; undress.</p> - -<p>PEEPER. A spy-glass; an opera-glass; a looking-glass. -"Track up the dancers and pike with the -peeper," jump up stairs and run off with the looking-glass.</p> - -<p>PEEPERS. Eyes.</p> - -<p>PEEPING TOM. A curious, prying fellow, who -minds other people's business more than his own.</p> - -<p>PEEPY. Drowsy.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page66" id="page66"></a>[pg 66]</span> -PEER. To look cautiously about; to be circumspect; -careful.</p> - -<p>PEERY. Suspicious. "The bloke's peery," the man -suspects something. "There's a peery, 'tis snitch," -we are observed, nothing can be done.</p> - -<p>PEGTANTRUM. Dead.</p> - -<p>PELT. A passion; rage. "What a pelt the cull is -in," what a passion the fellow is in.</p> - -<p>PENNYWEIGHT. Jewelry; gold and silver trinkets.</p> - -<p>PEPPERY. Warm; passionate.</p> - -<p>PERSUADERS. Spurs. "The kiddy clapped his -persuaders to his prad, but it was no go, the trap -boned him," the highwayman spurred his horse hard, -but the officer seized him.</p> - -<p>PETER. A portmanteau; a travelling-bag; a trunk; -an iron chest; a cash-box.</p> - -<p>PETER-BITER. A man who steals baggage at hotels, -railroad depots, and from the back of coaches.</p> - -<p>PHARO. Strong malt liquor.</p> - -<p>PHARSE. The eighth part.</p> - -<p>PHILISTINES. Police officers; officers of justice.</p> - -<p>PHIZ. The face. "A rum phiz," an odd face.</p> - -<p>PHYSOG. The face.</p> - -<p>PICAROON. A sharper; a rogue.</p> - -<p>PICKLE. A smart fellow.</p> - -<p>PICKLING. Stealing; petit larceny.</p> - -<p>PICKLING-TUBS. Shoes and boots.</p> - -<p>PICTURE-FRAME. The gallows.</p> - -<p>PIECE. A prostitute.</p> - -<p>PIG. A police officer. "Floor the pig and bolt," -knock down the officer and run away.</p> - -<p>PIG TOGETHER. Sleep together, two or more in a -bed.</p> - -<p>PIG WIDGEON. A simple fellow.</p> - -<p>PIG'S EYES. Small eyes.</p> - -<p>PIG'S FOOT. A jimmy cloven at one end like a pig's -foot.</p> - -<p>PIGEON. A thief that joins in with other thieves to -commit a crime, and then informs the officer, who he -pigeons for; and for this service the officer is supposed -to be <i>occasionally</i> both deaf and blind.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page67" id="page67"></a>[pg 67]</span> -PIKE. To run away; to pike off.</p> - -<p>PILCHER. A stealer; generally applied to fellows -who steal pocket-handkerchiefs.</p> - -<p>PILGARLIC. I; myself. "There was no one with -him but Pilgarlic," he was alone.</p> - -<p>PIMP. A boarding-house runner; an attaché of a -bawdy-house.</p> - -<p>PIMPLE. The head.</p> - -<p>PIN. To drink one's allotted share.</p> - -<p>PIN-BASKET. The youngest child; the baby.</p> - -<p>PIN-MONEY. Money received by a married woman -for prostituting her person.</p> - -<p>PINCH. To steal.</p> - -<p>PINCHED. Arrested.</p> - -<p>PINCHERS. Sometimes called "Exchangers;" fellows -who go into stores or exchange offices with a -twenty-dollar gold coin and ask to have it changed -for bank bills, and after receiving the bills, suddenly -pretend to have changed their minds, and, handing -the bills back again, make very profuse apologies -for the trouble they have given, etc., etc. The man -during the short time that he had the money in his -possession, contrived to change bad bills for some -of the good ones.</p> - -<p>PINK. To stab.</p> - -<p>PINKED. Stabbed.</p> - -<p>PINKED BETWEEN THE LACINGS. Convicted -by reason of perjury. A man encased in steel or -iron is only vulnerable at those parts where his -corselet is laced; and hence when an honest man is -convicted of a false charge by a treacherous advantage -of some weak point, he is said to be "pinked -between the lacings."</p> - -<p>PINNED. Arrested.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page68" id="page68"></a>[pg 68]</span> -PINNIPE. A crab.</p> - -<p>PINNIPED. Sideways; crab-fashion.</p> - -<p>PINS. Legs.</p> - -<p>PIPER. A short-winded person; a broken-winded -horse.</p> - -<p>PIPING. Following; trailing; dogging; looking -after; watching.</p> - -<p>PIT. A pocket.</p> - -<p>PLAIUL. Go home.</p> - -<p>PLANT. To bury; to conceal. Stolen goods are -said to be planted when they are concealed. "Plant -your wids and stow them," be careful what you -say.</p> - -<p>PLANTER. One who hides stolen property.</p> - -<p>PLANTING. Hiding; concealing.</p> - -<p>PLASTIC. A model artist.</p> - -<p>PLATE. Money.</p> - -<p>PLATE OF MEAT. A street or highway.</p> - -<p>PLAYED OUT. Exhausted; expended.</p> - -<p>PLAYTHINGS. Burglar's tools.</p> - -<p>PLUCK. To pull.</p> - -<p>PLUCK THE RIBBON. Pull the bell.</p> - -<p>PLUMB. Honest; upright; good.</p> - -<p>PLUMBY. It is all right, or as it should be; we -have plenty; they have enough.</p> - -<p>PLUMP. Rich; plenty of money. "A plump skin," -a full purse.</p> - -<p>PLYER. A crutch.</p> - -<p>POGY. Drunk.</p> - -<p>POINT. To pay.</p> - -<p>POKE. A pocket; a purse.</p> - -<p>POLISHER. One who is in prison. "The cove -polishes the people's iron with his eyebrows," the -fellow looks out of the grated windows of his -prison.</p> - -<p>POLL. The head.</p> - -<p>POLL HIM. Get hold of the property, and then refuse -to pay for it.</p> - -<p>POLT. A blow. "Lend the pam a polt in the muns," -give the fool a blow in the face.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page69" id="page69"></a>[pg 69]</span> -POMP. The game. "Save the pomp," save the -game.</p> - -<p>PONCE. A man who is kept by a woman.</p> - -<p>PONCESS. A woman that keeps a man by prostitution.</p> - -<p>POND. The ocean.</p> - -<p>PONEY. Money. "Post the poney," put down the -money.</p> - -<p>PONGELO. Drink; liquor.</p> - -<p>POP. To pawn; to shoot.</p> - -<p>POPS. Pistols. "I popped the bloke," I shot the -fellow.</p> - -<p>POPSHOP. Pawnbroker's shop.</p> - -<p>PORK. To inform the coroner of the whereabouts of -a corpse.</p> - -<p>PORKER. A saddle. Saddles are mostly made of -hog's skins.</p> - -<p>PORT ST. MARTIN. A valise; a portmanteau.</p> - -<p>POSH. Money; smallest piece of money.</p> - -<p>POST. Pay; put up.</p> - -<p>POST THE COLE. Pay the money.</p> - -<p>POT-HUNTER. A poor person who steals food only -to prevent himself from starving.</p> - -<p>POUCH. A pocket.</p> - -<p>POULTERER. A fellow who opens letters, abstracts -the money and then drops them back into the post-office -box. "The kiddy was pulled for the poultry -rig," the boy was arrested for opening letters and -robbing them.</p> - -<p>PRAD. A horse.</p> - -<p>PRAD-BORROWERS. Horse-thieves.</p> - -<p>PRAD-LAY. Stealing horses.</p> - -<p>PRANCER. A horse.</p> - -<p>PRATE ROAST. A talkative fellow.</p> - -<p>PRATER. A hen.</p> - -<p>PRATING CHEAT. The tongue.</p> - -<p>PRATT. Back parts.</p> - -<p>PREMONITORY. The penitentiary.</p> - -<p>PRIG. A thief.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page70" id="page70"></a>[pg 70]</span> -PRIGGER-NAPPER. A police officer.</p> - -<p>PRIGGERS. Thieves in general.</p> - -<p>PRIGSTAR. A rival in a love affair.</p> - -<p>PRIM. A handsome woman.</p> - -<p>PRIME TWIG. First-rate condition.</p> - -<p>PROD. A cart or wagon; a coach.</p> - -<p>PROG. Food.</p> - -<p>PROP. A breast-pin.</p> - -<p>PROPS. Dice.</p> - -<p>PROSPECTING. Looking for something to steal.</p> - -<p>PUFFERS. Peter Funks.</p> - -<p>PULL. To arrest. To "pull a purse," is to steal a -purse.</p> - -<p>PUNCH. A blow struck with the fist. "A punch -in the day-light, the victualling-office, or the haltering -place," a blow in the eye, the stomach, or under -the ear.</p> - -<p>PUNK. A bad woman.</p> - -<p>PUPPY. Blind.</p> - -<p>PUSH. A crowd.</p> - -<p>PUT. An ignorant clown.</p> - -<p>PUT A FELLOW UP TO HIS ARMPITS. Cheated -by his companions of his share of the plunder.</p> - -<p>PUT AWAY. Locked up; imprisoned.</p> - -<p>PUT TO BED WITH A SHOVEL. Buried in the -earth.</p> - -<p>PUT UP. Information given to thieves by persons -in the employ of parties to be robbed, such as servants, -clerks, porters, etc., whereby the thief is facilitated -in his operations.</p> - -<p>PUT UP JOB. A job is said to be put up if the -porter of a store should allow a "fitter" to take an -impression of the keys of the door or the safe; or -when a clerk sent to the bank to make a deposit, -or to draw an amount of money, allows himself to -be thrown down and robbed, in order to have his -pocket picked.</p> - -<p>PUZZLE-COVE. A lawyer.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page71" id="page71"></a>[pg 71]</span></p> - -<h3>Q</h3> - -<p>QUACKING CHEAT. A duck.</p> - -<p>QUAG. Unsafe; not reliable; not to be trusted.</p> - -<p>QUAIL. An old maid.</p> - -<p>QUAIL-PIPE. A woman's tongue.</p> - -<p>QUAKING-CHEAT. A calf or a sheep.</p> - -<p>QUANDARY. What shall I do.</p> - -<p>QUARREL-PICKER. A glazier.</p> - -<p>QUARROON. A body.</p> - -<p>QUARTERED. To receive a part of the profits.</p> - -<p>QUASH. To kill; the end of; no more.</p> - -<p>QUEAN. A slut; a worthless woman.</p> - -<p>QUEEN DICK. Never. "It happened in the reign -of Queen Dick," it never occurred; has never been.</p> - -<p>QUEEN STREET. "The joskin lives in Queen -Street," the fool is governed entirely by his wife.</p> - -<p>QUEER. Counterfeit bank bills; base; roguish; -worthless.</p> - -<p>QUEER. To puzzle. "The cove queered the full -bottom," the fellow puzzled the judge. "The bloke -queered his ogles among the bruisers," he had his -eyes blacked by the pugilists.</p> - -<p>QUEER BIRDS. Reformed convicts who return to -their old profession.</p> - -<p>QUEER BLUFFER. The keeper of a rum-shop that -is the resort of the worst kind of rogues, and who -assists them in various ways.</p> - -<p>QUEER BURY. An empty purse.</p> - -<p>QUEER COLE FENCER. A passer of bad money.</p> - -<p>QUEER COLE MAKER. One who makes bad -money.</p> - -<p>QUEER PRANCER. A bad horse.</p> - -<p>QUEER ROOSTER. A fellow that lodges among -thieves to hear what they have to say, and then -imparts his information to officers for a consideration.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page72" id="page72"></a>[pg 72]</span> -QUEMAR. Burn the fellow.</p> - -<p>QUES. Points.</p> - -<p>QUIDS. Cash; five dollars. "The swell tipped the -mace cove fifty quids for the prad," the gentleman -gave fifty dollars for the horse.</p> - -<p>QUINSEY. Choaked. "Quinsey the bloke while I -frisk his sacks," choke the fellow while I pick his -pockets.</p> - -<p>QUOD. Prison.</p> - -<p>QUOTA. Share. "Tip me my quota," give me my -share.</p> - - -<h3>R</h3> - -<p>RABBIT. A rowdy. "Dead rabbit," a very athletic -rowdy fellow.</p> - -<p>RABBIT-SUCKERS. Young spendthrifts; fast young -men.</p> - -<p>RACKLAW. A married woman.</p> - -<p>RAG. A dollar. "Not a rag," not a dollar.</p> - -<p>RAG-WATER. Intoxicating liquor of all kinds. If -frequently taken to excess, will reduce any person -to rags.</p> - -<p>RAGGED. Abused; slandered.</p> - -<p>RAGS. Paper money. "Poor cove, rags are few -with him," poor fellow, money is not plenty with -him.</p> - -<p>RAILS. Curtain lectures.</p> - -<p>RAINBOW. A footman; so called from the fact that -he wears livery, or garments of different colors.</p> - -<p>RAINY DAY. A day of sickness; a day of want; -bad times and rainy days.</p> - -<p>RAKE. To apportion; share.</p> - -<p>RALPH. A fool.</p> - -<p>RAMMER. The arm. "The copper seized my rammer, -and run me like a prad to the wit," the officer -laid hold of my arm, and run me like a horse to -prison.</p> - -<p>RAMP. To snatch; to tear anything forcibly from -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page73" id="page73"></a>[pg 73]</span> -the person. Pickpockets are said to be ramping a -man when a number of them rush on him as if in a -great hurry to pass, but manage to run against him, -and in the flurry pick his pocket.</p> - -<p>RANCAT COVE. A man covered with fur.</p> - -<p>RANDY. Unruly; rampant.</p> - -<p>RANGLING. Intriguing with a number of women.</p> - -<p>RAP. To take a false oath; to curse.</p> - -<p>RAPPER. A perjurer.</p> - -<p>RASCAGLION. A eunuch.</p> - -<p>RAT. A trick; a cheat. "To smell a rat," to suspect.</p> - -<p>RATTLE. A hackney coach.</p> - -<p>RATTLING COVE. A coachman.</p> - -<p>READ AND WRITE. Flight. "He took to <i>read and -write</i> with Joe in Daisyville."</p> - -<p>READER. A pocket-book.</p> - -<p>READER MERCHANTS. Pickpockets who operate -in and about the banks.</p> - -<p>READY. Cash.</p> - -<p>RECKON. Cheat.</p> - -<p>RECRUITING. Thieves hunting for plunder.</p> - -<p>RED. Gold; a cent.</p> - -<p>RED FUSTIAN. Porter or red wine.</p> - -<p>RED LANE. The throat.</p> - -<p>RED RAG. The tongue. "Shut your potato-trap -and give the red rag a holiday," shut your mouth -and let your tongue rest.</p> - -<p>RED RIBBON. Brandy.</p> - -<p>RED SUPER. A gold watch.</p> - -<p>REDGE. Gold.</p> - -<p>REEFING. Drawing. "Reefing up into work," -drawing up the pocket until the purse or portmonnaie -is within reach of the fingers.</p> - -<p>REGULARS. Share or portion. "The coves cracked -the swell's crib, fenced the swag, and then each -bloke napped his regulars," the fellows broke open a -gentleman's house, sold the goods to a receiver, and -each man received his portion.</p> - -<p>REP. A man of good reputation.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page74" id="page74"></a>[pg 74]</span> -REPS. A woman of good reputation.</p> - -<p>REVERSED. A man made to stand on his head by -rowdies, in order that his money may fall out of his -pockets. It is then picked up as money found.</p> - -<p>RHINO. Money.</p> - -<p>RHINO FAT. Being rich.</p> - -<p>RIB. A cross, ill-natured wife.</p> - -<p>RIB-ROAST. The act of scolding a husband unmercifully -by his wife.</p> - -<p>RIBBON. Liquor.</p> - -<p>RICHARDSNARY. A dictionary.</p> - -<p>RIG. Joke; fun.</p> - -<p>RIGGING. Clothing.</p> - -<p>RIGHT. All right; just as it was wished to be.</p> - -<p>RIGHT SORT. One of your kind; a good fellow.</p> - -<p>RIGHTS. "To rights," clear. "Oh! then, you are -<i>to rights</i> this time," there is a clear case against -you.</p> - -<p>RING. To ring in is to join in with another and appear -to think as he thinks; to intrude; to force -one's self into company where he is not wanted.</p> - -<p>RIP. A poor devil.</p> - -<p>RIPPERS. Spurs.</p> - -<p>ROAST. To arrest.</p> - -<p>ROBIN'S MEN. From Robin Hood. Expert thieves; -grand larceny men; bank robbers, etc.</p> - -<p>ROCKED IN A STONE CRADLE. Born in a prison.</p> - -<p>RODGER. A portmanteau.</p> - -<p>ROGUE. "<i>Rogue</i> and pulley," a man and woman -going out to rob gentlemen.</p> - -<p>ROLL OF SNOW. A roll of linen.</p> - -<p>ROME COVE. A king; the president.</p> - -<p>ROME MORT. A queen.</p> - -<p>ROME VILLE. New-York.</p> - -<p>ROMONERS. Fortune-tellers.</p> - -<p>ROMONEY. A gipsy.</p> - -<p>ROOFER. A hat.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page75" id="page75"></a>[pg 75]</span> -ROOK. A cheat.</p> - -<p>ROOST-LAY. Stealing poultry.</p> - -<p>ROPED. Led astray; taken in and done for.</p> - -<p>ROPER-IN. A man who visits hotels and other -places for the purpose of ingratiating himself with -persons who are supposed to have plenty of cash -and little prudence, and inducing them to visit -gaming-houses.</p> - -<p>ROSE. A secret.</p> - -<p>ROTAN. Any wheeled carriage.</p> - -<p>ROUGH MUSIC. Noise made by beating old tins.</p> - -<p>ROUGHS. Men that are ready to fight in any way -or shape.</p> - -<p>ROUND. Good.</p> - -<p>ROUND ABOUT. An instrument used by burglars -to cut a large hole into an iron chest or door.</p> - -<p>ROUND ROBIN. A burglar's instrument.</p> - -<p>ROUNDING. Informing; giving information.</p> - -<p>ROVERS. Thoughts.</p> - -<p>RUB. Run. "Don't rub us to wit," don't run us to -prison.</p> - -<p>RUB US TO WIT. Send us to prison.</p> - -<p>RUFFELS. Hand-cuffs.</p> - -<p>RUFFIAN. The devil. "May the ruffian nab the cuffin -queer, and let the copper twine with his kinchins -around his colquarren," may the devil take the justice, -and let the policeman be hanged with all his -children about his neck. "The ruffian cly you," -the devil take you.</p> - -<p>RUG. Sleep.</p> - -<p>RUGG. It is all right.</p> - -<p>RUM BITE. A smart cheat; a clean trick.</p> - -<p>RUM BLOWEN. A handsome girl.</p> - -<p>RUM BLUFFER. A jolly landlord.</p> - -<p>RUM CHUB. A fellow.</p> - -<p>RUMBEAK. A magistrate that can be bribed.</p> - -<p>RUMBING. A full purse.</p> - -<p>RUMBLE THE FLATS. Playing cards.</p> - -<p>RUMBO. A prison.</p> - -<p>RUMBOB. A money-drawer.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page76" id="page76"></a>[pg 76]</span> -RUMBOB. A young apprentice.</p> - -<p>RUMBOSE. Wine or any kind of good drink.</p> - -<p>RUMBUGHER. A valuable dog.</p> - -<p>RUN. Fine; good; valuable.</p> - -<p>RUN IN. Arrested.</p> - -<p>RUNNING HIM THROUGH. A term used by gamblers -when they play with a sucker, and don't give -him a chance to win a single bet.</p> - -<p>RUSHERS. House-breakers who break into country -houses.</p> - -<p>RUSTY. Ill-natured. His tongue goes like a door on -rusty hinges.</p> - -<p>RYBUCK. All right; straight; it will do; I am -satisfied.</p> - -<p>RYDER. A cloak.</p> - - -<h3>S</h3> - -<p>SACHEVEREL. An iron door.</p> - -<p>SACK. A pocket.</p> - -<p>SAINT GILES BUZZMAN. A handkerchief thief.</p> - -<p>SAINT TERRA. A churchyard.</p> - -<p>SAM. A stupid fellow.</p> - -<p>SANGUINARY. Bloody.</p> - -<p>SANS. Without; nothing.</p> - -<p>SAWNEY. Bacon; fat pork.</p> - -<p>SCAMP-FOOT. A foot-pad.</p> - -<p>SCANDAL PROOF. One who has eaten shame and -drank after it; or would blush at being ashamed.</p> - -<p>SCANDAL SOUP. Tea.</p> - -<p>SCARCE. To slip away; to make one's self scarce.</p> - -<p>SCAVOIR. Sharp; cunning; knowledge.</p> - -<p>SCENT. Bad management. "The cove was nabbed -on the scent," the fellow was arrested by reason of -his own bad management.</p> - -<p>SCHEME. A party of pleasure.</p> - -<p>SCHOFEL. Bad money.</p> - -<p>SCHOFEL-PITCHERS. Passers of bad money.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page77" id="page77"></a>[pg 77]</span> -SCHOOL. A gang of thieves. "A school of knucks," -a gang of pickpockets.</p> - -<p>SCHOOL OIL. A whipping.</p> - -<p>SCHOOLING. Jostling; pitching.</p> - -<p>SCOLD'S CURE. A coffin. "The blowen has napped -the scold's cure," the jade is in her coffin.</p> - -<p>SCOT. A young bull.</p> - -<p>SCOUR. To run away.</p> - -<p>SCOUT. A watchman.</p> - -<p>SCRAGG. The neck.</p> - -<p>SCRAGGED. Hanged.</p> - -<p>SCRAN. Food.</p> - -<p>SCRANNING. Begging.</p> - -<p>SCRAPE. Trouble.</p> - -<p>SCRAPP. A plan to rob a house or commit any kind -of roguery.</p> - -<p>SCRAPPER. A pugilist.</p> - -<p>SCRATCH. To write; to forge.</p> - -<p>SCRATCH. Time agreed upon; to meet at the appointed -time; to face another.</p> - -<p>SCRATCHER. A forger; a copyist.</p> - -<p>SCREAVES. Paper money.</p> - -<p>SCREEN. A bank-bill.</p> - -<p>SCREW. A key.</p> - -<p>SCREWING. Opening a lock with keys.</p> - -<p>SCREWING UP. Choking; garroting. "Screw up -the bloke, and that will stop his blasted red rag -from chanting beef," choke the man, and that will -prevent him from crying "stop thief."</p> - -<p>SCREWSMAN. A burglar who works with keys, -picks, dubs, bettys, etc., etc.</p> - -<p>SCRIP. Writing-paper. "The bloke freely scratched -the scrip, and tipped me forty cases," the man -readily signed the paper, and gave me forty dollars.</p> - -<p>SCROBE. A private chastisement.</p> - -<p>SCROOF. To live with a friend, and at his expense.</p> - -<p>SCROOFING. Living at a friend's expense. Thieves -are in the habit of scroofing with an old pal when -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page78" id="page78"></a>[pg 78]</span> -they first come out of prison, until they can steal -something for themselves.</p> - -<p>SCRUB. A mean fellow.</p> - -<p>SCRUB-BADO. A mean, insignificant puppy; the -lowest of the low; <i>the itch</i>.</p> - -<p>SCUTTLE. To cut a pocket.</p> - -<p>SEA-CRAB. A sailor.</p> - -<p>SEAVEY. Sense; knowledge.</p> - -<p>SECRET. Cheated. "The bloke was let into the -secret," the man was cheated.</p> - -<p>SEES. The eyes.</p> - -<p>SEND. To drive or break. "Take the jimmy and -send it into the jigger," take the crow and force it -into the door.</p> - -<p>SERENE. All right. It is all <i>serene</i>.</p> - -<p>SERVE HIM OUT. Give him a good thrashing.</p> - -<p>SERVED. Found guilty; convicted.</p> - -<p>SET. Prepared beforehand; "a set thing;" a trap; -a determined thing.</p> - -<p>SETTER. A shadow; an officer in disguise, who -points out the thief for others to arrest.</p> - -<p>SETTLED. Knocked down; murdered.</p> - -<p>SETTLING. Killing. "Settling a bloke," killing a -man.</p> - -<p>SHADOW. A first-class police officer; one who -possesses naturally the power of retaining with unerring -certainty the peculiar features and characteristics -of persons, added to the indomitable perseverance -of the slot-hound to follow his quarry.</p> - -<p>SHADY. Quiet; out of sight; not easily found.</p> - -<p>SHADY GLIM. A dark lantern.</p> - -<p>SHAKE. A prostitute; one who gambles with dice; -to shake; to draw any thing from the pocket. "The -knuck shook the swell of his fogle," the pickpocket -stole the gentleman's handkerchief.</p> - -<p>SHAKEDOWN. A panel-thief or badger's crib.</p> - -<p>SHAKESTER. A lady.</p> - -<p>SHALERS. Girls.</p> - -<p>SHALLY. A negative; a person that is never positive.</p> - -<p>SHAM LEGGERS. Men who pretend to sell smuggled -goods.</p> - -<div class="image-center" style="max-width: 485px;"> -<img class="border" src="images/i_078fp.jpg" width="485" height="700" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page79" id="page79"></a>[pg 79]</span> -SHAP. A hat.</p> - -<p>SHAPES. Naked.</p> - -<p>SHARK. A custom-house officer.</p> - -<p>SHARP. A man that is well posted; one who -"knows a thing or two;" a gambler.</p> - -<p>SHARPER. One who obtains goods or money by any -kind of false pretense or representation.</p> - -<p>SHARPER'S TOOLS. A fool and false dice or cards.</p> - -<p>SHAVER. A cheat.</p> - -<p>SHEEN. Bad money.</p> - -<p>SHEENEY. A Jew thief.</p> - -<p>SHELF. A pawn-shop.</p> - -<p>SHELION. A shilling.</p> - -<p>SHERIFF'S BALL. An execution.</p> - -<p>SHERO. The head.</p> - -<p>SHERRID. Run away.</p> - -<p>SHICKSTER. A woman.</p> - -<p>SHIFTING. Cheating or stealing.</p> - -<p>SHIGUS. A judge.</p> - -<p>SHILLEY. No stability.</p> - -<p>SHIN-BREAKING. Borrowing money.</p> - -<p>SHINERAGS. Nothing.</p> - -<p>SHINES. Gold coin.</p> - -<p>SHOE-LEATHER. A phrase to denote some one is -approaching.</p> - -<p>SHOON. A fool; a country lout.</p> - -<p>SHOOTING-STARS. Thieves who do not remain -long in one place.</p> - -<p>SHOP. A prison.</p> - -<p>SHOPPED. Imprisoned.</p> - -<p>SHOVE. Pass money. "Shove the blunt," spend -the money. "Shove queer," pass counterfeit money.</p> - -<p>SHOVING. Passing bad money.</p> - -<p>SHRED. A tailor.</p> - -<p>SHYCOCK. A man who is fearful of being arrested; -shy of the officers.</p> - -<p>SICER. Sixpence.</p> - -<p>SICK. Imprisoned.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page80" id="page80"></a>[pg 80]</span> -SIDE-POCKET. A drinking-saloon in an out-of-the-way-place; -a resort for thieves.</p> - -<p>SIFTING. Examining; emptying purses or pocket-books -for the purpose of examining their contents, -is called sifting.</p> - -<p>SILENCE. To kill; to knock down.</p> - -<p>SIMKIN. A fool.</p> - -<p>SIMON. A simpleton.</p> - -<p>SING. To cry aloud. "The cove sings beef," the -fellow calls thief.</p> - -<p>SING SMALL. Have little to say for yourself.</p> - -<p>SINK. To cheat; to hide from a partner.</p> - -<p>SINKERS. Thieves who do not divide fair with their -companions.</p> - -<p>SINKING. Cheating a partner; not dividing fair.</p> - -<p>SKEP. A pocket full of money; a place for keeping -money; a savings bank.</p> - -<p>SKEW. A cup.</p> - -<p>SKEWER. A sword or dagger.</p> - -<p>SKILLEY. Prison fare.</p> - -<p>SKIN. A purse. "The bloke's skin was full of -honey," the man's purse was full of money.</p> - -<p>SKINK. A waiter.</p> - -<p>SKINNERS. Small lawyers who hang about police -offices and figuratively skin their clients.</p> - -<p>SKIP-KENNEL. A footman.</p> - -<p>SKIPPER. A barn.</p> - -<p>SKIT. Humbug; a joke.</p> - -<p>SKULL. The head of the house; the President of the -United States; the Governor; the head man.</p> - -<p>SKY-BLUE. Gin.</p> - -<p>SKYCER. A mean, sponging fellow.</p> - -<p>SLAMKIN. A slovenly female.</p> - -<p>SLANEY. A theatre.</p> - -<p>SLANG or SLAG. A watch-chain. "The knucks -twisted the swell's thimble, slang, and onions, and -also touched his leather, but it was very lathy. It -only raked a case and a half; the thimble was a -foist, but the slang and onions were bene. The -altemel of the swag raked only fifteen cases," the -pickpockets stole a gentleman's watch, chain, and -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page81" id="page81"></a>[pg 81]</span> -seals, and also his pocket-book; but there was only -a dollar and a half a piece for them in it. The -watch was a cheat, but the chain and seals were -good. The whole plunder divided gave the thieves -fifteen dollars each.</p> - -<p>SLANGED. Chained by the leg.</p> - -<p>SLAP-BANG. An eating-house; a restaurant.</p> - -<p>SLASH. Outside coat pocket.</p> - -<p>SLAT. A half-dollar.</p> - -<p>SLATE. A sheet.</p> - -<p>SLAWEY. A female servant.</p> - -<p>SLICK-A-DIE. A pocket-book.</p> - -<p>SLIM. Punch.</p> - -<p>SLINGTAIL. Poultry.</p> - -<p>SLIPPERY. Soap.</p> - -<p>SLOP. Tea.</p> - -<p>SLOPS. Ready-made clothing.</p> - -<p>SLOUGH. To bow the head.</p> - -<p>SLUBBER. A heavy, stupid fellow.</p> - -<p>SLUBBER DE GULLION. A mean fellow.</p> - -<p>SLUICE YOUR GOB. Take a good long drink.</p> - -<p>SLUICED. To drink. "The bene cove sluiced their -gobs with slim till they all snoozed in the strammel -like sounders," the good fellow gave them punch till -they slept in the straw like hogs.</p> - -<p>SLUM. A package of bank bills; a low drinking-place.</p> - -<p>SLUMING. Passing spurious bills.</p> - -<p>SLUMMING. Stealing packages of bank-bills.</p> - -<p>SLY-BOOTS. A fellow that pretends to be a fool.</p> - -<p>SMACK. To share. "Smack the swag," share the -spoil.</p> - -<p>SMACK. To swear on the Bible. "The queer cuffin -bid me smack the calf-skin, but I only bussed my -thumb," the justice told me to kiss the book, but I -only kissed my thumb.</p> - -<p>SMACKING COVE. A coachman.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page82" id="page82"></a>[pg 82]</span> -SMALL SNOW. Children's linen.</p> - -<p>SMART. Spruce.</p> - -<p>SMASH. To change.</p> - -<p>SMASH-FEEDER. A silver spoon.</p> - -<p>SMASHER. Money-changer.</p> - -<p>SMEAR. A plasterer; a mason.</p> - -<p>SMEAR GILT. A bribe.</p> - -<p>SMELLER. A nose.</p> - -<p>SMELLING CHEAT. A bouquet.</p> - -<p>SMELTS. Half-eagles; five dollars.</p> - -<p>SMICKET. A woman's shift or skirt.</p> - -<p>SMILE. To drink.</p> - -<p>SMILER. A bumper.</p> - -<p>SMIRK. A superficial fellow.</p> - -<p>SMITER. The arm.</p> - -<p>SMOKE. Humbug; any thing said to conceal the -true sentiment of the talker; to cover the intent.</p> - -<p>SMOKE. To observe; to suspect; to understand.</p> - -<p>SMOKY. Suspicious; curious; inquisitive.</p> - -<p>SMOUCH. To steal.</p> - -<p>SMUG. A blacksmith.</p> - -<p>SMUSH. To seize suddenly; to snatch.</p> - -<p>SMUT. Indecent.</p> - -<p>SNABLE. To plunder; sometimes to kill.</p> - -<p>SNAFFLERS. Highwaymen.</p> - -<p>SNAGLING. Stealing poultry by putting a worm on -a fish-hook, thereby catching the fowl, then twisting -their necks and putting them in a bag.</p> - -<p>SNAGS. Large teeth.</p> - -<p>SNAKE. A fellow that glides into a store or warehouse, -and conceals himself for the purpose of letting -in his companions.</p> - -<p>SNAKED. Arrested.</p> - -<p>SNAM. To snatch.</p> - -<p>SNAPPED. Arrested.</p> - -<p>SNAPPER. A gun.</p> - -<p>SNAPPERS. Pistols.</p> - -<p>SNAPT. Arrested; caught.</p> - -<p>SNEAK-THIEF. A fellow who sneaks into areas, -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page83" id="page83"></a>[pg 83]</span> -basement-doors or windows, or through front-doors -by means of latch-keys, and entering the various -apartments, steals any thing he can carry off.</p> - -<p>SNEAKING. Conveying away stolen goods.</p> - -<p>SNEAKSMAN. <i>See Sneak-thief.</i></p> - -<p>SNEEZER. A snuff-box.</p> - -<p>SNID. Six.</p> - -<p>SNIDE STUFF. Bad money.</p> - -<p>SNITCH. An informer; the nose; a spy.</p> - -<p>SNITE. Slap; wipe. "Snite his snitch," wipe his -nose.</p> - -<p>SNIVEL. To cry.</p> - -<p>SNOOZING-KEN. A bawdy-house.</p> - -<p>SNOT. A gentleman.</p> - -<p>SNOUT. A hogshead.</p> - -<p>SNOW. Linen.</p> - -<p>SNUDGE. A thief who conceals himself under the -bed.</p> - -<p>SNUFF. Offended. "To take snuff," to be offended.</p> - -<p>SNUG. Quiet; all right.</p> - -<p>SOAP. Money.</p> - -<p>SOD. A worn-out debauchee, whom excess of indulgence -has rendered unnatural.</p> - -<p>SOFT. Bank bills; paper money.</p> - -<p>SOLDIER. A smoked herring.</p> - -<p>SOLFA. A clerk.</p> - -<p>SOP. A bribe.</p> - -<p>SOT-WEED. Tobacco.</p> - -<p>SOUNDERS. Hogs.</p> - -<p>SPADO. A sword.</p> - -<p>SPANISH. Silver coin.</p> - -<p>SPARK. A diamond.</p> - -<p>SPEAK. To steal; to take away. "Bob spoke with -the toney on the chestnut prancer," Bob robbed the -fool on the chestnut horse. "To speak with," to -steal from.</p> - -<p>SPEAKER. Plunderer.</p> - -<p>SPEALERS. Gamblers.</p> - -<p>SPEILER. A gambler.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page84" id="page84"></a>[pg 84]</span> -SPEILING. Gambling.</p> - -<p>SPICE. To steal.</p> - -<p>SPICER. A foot-pad.</p> - -<p>SPICER HIGH. A highway-robber.</p> - -<p>SPIT. A sword or dagger.</p> - -<p>SPLIT. Parted; separated.</p> - -<p>SPLIT CAUSE. A lawyer.</p> - -<p>SPLIT ON HIM. Informs against; denounces him.</p> - -<p>SPLIT OUT. No longer friends; quarrelled; dissolved -partnership.</p> - -<p>SPOONEY. Foolish.</p> - -<p>SPORT. A gamester; a man fond of racing and -gaming of all kinds.</p> - -<p>SPOT. To make a note of something you wish to -remember; to look at a person with the intention -of remembering him; to point one out to another -as a suspected person, or one to be remembered.</p> - -<p>SPOUT. A pawnbroker's shop.</p> - -<p>SPRAT. Sixpence.</p> - -<p>SPREAD. Butter. "The cove pinched a keeler of -spread, and was pulled foul. The beaks sent him -to the premonitory for three moons," the fellow stole -a tub of butter, and was arrested with it in his -possession. The judges sent him to the penitentiary -for three months.</p> - -<p>SPRINGING THE PLANT. To discover the place -where stolen property is concealed; to remove stolen -property from its place of concealment. "When I -was in the old doss I told my skinner to see Jack -and tell him to spring the plant, fence it, and send -me my regulars, as I wanted to melt it," when I -was in the Tombs I told my lawyer to see Jack, and -tell him to remove the plunder from the place in -which we hid it, to sell it, and send me my share of -the proceeds, as I wanted to spend it.</p> - -<p>SPUD. Base coin; bad money.</p> - -<p>SPUNG. A miser.</p> - -<p>SPUNK. Matches.</p> - -<p>SPUNK-FAKERS. Match-sellers.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page85" id="page85"></a>[pg 85]</span> -SQUAIL. A drink.</p> - -<p>SQUARE. Honest; upright; good.</p> - -<p>SQUEAK or SQUEAL. To inform. A thief is said -to "squeak" or "squeal" when, after his arrest, he -gives information against his accomplices, or where -stolen property may be found.</p> - -<p>SQUEAKER. A child.</p> - -<p>SQUEEZE. Silk or satin.</p> - -<p>SQUEEZE CLOUT. A silk handkerchief.</p> - -<p>SQUELCH. A fall.</p> - -<p>STAG. One who has turned State's evidence.</p> - -<p>STAG. To see. "<i>Stag</i> the cop," see the policeman.</p> - -<p>STAGGED. Discovered; informed on.</p> - -<p>STAIT. City of New-York.</p> - -<p>STAKE. Plunder, large or small in value, as the case -may be.</p> - -<p>STALL. One whose business it is to conceal as far -as possible the manipulation of his confederate who -is trying to pick a person's pocket. The stall places -himself either in front, back, or sideways, or by any -stratagem attracts the attention of the intended victim. -Any thing said or done by which the attention -is directed from the true state of the case is -called a <i>stall</i>.</p> - -<p>STALLING-KEN. A house for the reception of stolen -goods.</p> - -<p>STAMFISH. To talk in a way not generally understood.</p> - -<p>STAMP. A particular way of throwing dice out of -the box.</p> - -<p>STAMPERS. Feet; shoes; sometimes the stairs.</p> - -<p>STANDING. Purchasing stolen property.</p> - -<p>STANDING IN. Bidding for; making an offer; taking -part with. "The bloke <i>stands in</i> with the -cross-coves, and naps his regulars," the man takes -part with the thieves, and receives his share of the -plunder.</p> - -<p>STAR THE GLAZE. Break the show-case; break -the glass.</p> - -<p>STAR-GAZERS. Prostitutes; street-walkers.</p> - -<p>STARCH. Pride.</p> - -<p>STARDER. A receiver.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page86" id="page86"></a>[pg 86]</span> -STARK NAKED. Stripped of every thing; "skinned -by a Tombs lawyer."</p> - -<p>START. The Tombs. "The cove has gone to the -old start," the fellow has gone to the Tombs.</p> - -<p>STAUNCH. Can not be made to tell; reliable; can -be trusted with a secret. "I say, Smasher, won't -the cove squeak if he's pinched and promised by the -beak to be turned up?" "No, not for all the blasted -beaks this side of Sturbin. I tell you he is a staunch -cove, and there need be no fear." I say, Smasher, -won't the fellow betray us if he is arrested and promised -by the judge to be set at liberty again? No, -not for all the blasted judges this side of State prison. -I tell you he is a reliable fellow, and there is no -fear.</p> - -<p>STAY-TAPE. A dry-goods clerk.</p> - -<p>STEAMBOAT. A term used by gamblers. <i>See Indians -about.</i></p> - -<p>STEAMER. A tobacco pipe.</p> - -<p>STEEL. House of Refuge.</p> - -<p>STEPPER. The treadmill.</p> - -<p>STEPPING-KEN. A dance-house.</p> - -<p>STICK. A breastpin.</p> - -<p>STICK-FLAMS. Gloves.</p> - -<p>STICKS. Pistols; household furniture.</p> - -<p>STIFF. A letter; a written or printed paper; a -newspaper.</p> - -<p>STIFF 'UN. A corpse.</p> - -<p>STIFLE. Kill.</p> - -<p>STIFLE THE SQUEAKER. Kill the child.</p> - -<p>STINK. To publish an account of a robbery.</p> - -<p>STIR. A crowd; a fire.</p> - -<p>STOGGER. A pickpocket.</p> - -<p>STONE PITCHER. Sing Sing.</p> - -<p>STOP. A detective officer.</p> - -<p>STOP LAY. Two or more well-dressed pickpockets -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page87" id="page87"></a>[pg 87]</span> -go into a fashionable quiet street and promenade -singly until they select a person that will answer -their purpose; one of them stops the person and -inquires the direction to a place somewhat distant. -On being informed of the route he should take, he -pretends not to exactly understand his informant, -who, getting a little more interested in his desire to -be explicit, draws closer to the inquirer. At about -this point, one or both the others walk up and in an -instant the amiable individual is minus some part of -his movable property. The above practice is what -is termed the "stop lay."</p> - -<p>STOW YOUR WID. Be silent.</p> - -<p>STRAMMEL. Straw; hay.</p> - -<p>STRANGER. A guinea.</p> - -<p>STRAW-MAN. False bail.</p> - -<p>STRETCH. One year.</p> - -<p>STRETCHERS. Horse-racers.</p> - -<p>STRIKE. To get money from candidates before an -election, under the pretense of getting votes for -them; to borrow without intending to pay back.</p> - -<p>STRING. To humbug. "String the bloke and pinch -his honey," humbug the man and get his money.</p> - -<p>STRUMMER-FEKER. A hair-dresser.</p> - -<p>STUBBLE. Stop it.</p> - -<p>STUBBLE YOUR RED RAG. Hold your tongue.</p> - -<p>STUFF. Money.</p> - -<p>STUKE. A handkerchief.</p> - -<p>STUMPS. Legs.</p> - -<p>STUN HIM OUT OF HIS REGULARS. Cheat him -out of his rights; deprive him of his share of the -plunder.</p> - -<p>STUNNER. Extra; superior; very good.</p> - -<p>STURBIN. State prison.</p> - -<p>SUBSIDE. Get out of the way; run away.</p> - -<p>SUCK. Any kind of liquor.</p> - -<p>SUCKED. Cheated.</p> - -<p>SUCKER. A term applied by gamblers to a person -that can be cheated at any game of cards.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page88" id="page88"></a>[pg 88]</span> -SUDSDAY. Washday.</p> - -<p>SUET. Liquor.</p> - -<p>SUGAR. Money.</p> - -<p>SUITE. Watch, seals, etc.</p> - -<p>SUPER or SOUPER. A watch.</p> - -<p>SUPOUCH. A landlady.</p> - -<p>SURE THING. A term used to denote that the person -is certain to be a winner.</p> - -<p>SUSPERCOL. To hang.</p> - -<p>SWABLER. A dirty fellow.</p> - -<p>SWADDLER. A fellow who pretends to be anxious -for the salvation of every body, and harangues -crowds of gaping knaves and fools in the parks, or -any other public place. The pickpockets generally -pay him well for his efforts. Sometimes fellows who -pick a quarrel with a man, beat him, and at the -same time rob him, are called swaddlers.</p> - -<p>SWAG. Plunder.</p> - -<p>SWAG-COVE. A receiver of stolen goods.</p> - -<p>SWAG-RUM. Full of wealth.</p> - -<p>SWEATING. Reducing the weight of gold coin by -putting it in a bag and shaking it violently for some -time, and then collecting the dust which is thus -worn off.</p> - -<p>SWELL. A gentleman. "Swell mob," the well-dressed -thieves with good address, who appear like -honest gentlemen.</p> - -<p>SWIG. Liquor of any kind.</p> - -<p>SWIG-COVES. Fellows who traverse the country -under the pretense of begging old clothes.</p> - -<p>SWING. To hang.</p> - -<p>SWITCHED. Married.</p> - -<p>SYEBUCK. Sixpence.</p> - -<p>SYNTAX. A schoolmaster.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page89" id="page89"></a>[pg 89]</span></p> - -<h3>T</h3> - -<p>TABBY. An old maid; or a talkative old woman.</p> - -<p>TACE. A candle; silence; hold your tongue.</p> - -<p>TACKLE. A mistress; sometimes clothing.</p> - -<p>TAIL-DIVER. A thief who steals pocket-handkerchiefs -from coat-tail pockets.</p> - -<p>TALE. The number; quantity; share. "Give him -tale," give him his share.</p> - -<p>TALLEYMEN. Men who loan clothing to prostitutes.</p> - -<p>TANGLE-FOOT. Bad liquor.</p> - -<p>TANGLE-FOOTED. Drunk.</p> - -<p>TANNER. Sixpence. "The kiddy tipped the rattling -cove a tanner for lush," the lad gave the coachman -sixpence to get a drink.</p> - -<p>TAP. To arrest.</p> - -<p>TAPE. Liquor.</p> - -<p>TAPPERS. Officers.</p> - -<p>TARRELS. Skeleton-keys.</p> - -<p>TATS. False dice; rags.</p> - -<p>TATTLER. A watch or clock. "To flash a tattler," -to sport a watch.</p> - -<p>TATTY-TOG. A sweat-cloth.</p> - -<p>TEASE. A slave; to work.</p> - -<p>TEEHOKOIS. Dogs or dog.</p> - -<p>TEIZE. To flog. "To nap the teize," to receive a -flogging.</p> - -<p>TESTON. A coin with a head on it.</p> - -<p>THEATRE. Police court.</p> - -<p>THIMBLE. A watch.</p> - -<p>THORNS. Anxious; fearful.</p> - -<p>THRESWINS. Three cents or pence.</p> - -<p>THROUGH HIM. Search him.</p> - -<p>THROW. To cheat; to rob; to steal.</p> - -<p>THROWING OFF. A term used by gamblers when -a capper is the partner of a sucker. The capper -can lose when he pleases, thereby throwing the -sucker off, as it is termed.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page90" id="page90"></a>[pg 90]</span> -THRUMS. Three-cent pieces.</p> - -<p>TIBBS. A goose.</p> - -<p>TIBBY. A cat.</p> - -<p>TICK. Trust.</p> - -<p>TICKRUM. A license.</p> - -<p>TIED UP GONNOFFING. Stopped stealing; living -honestly.</p> - -<p>TIFFING. A good natured war of words.</p> - -<p>TILE. A hat.</p> - -<p>TIMBER. Matches.</p> - -<p>TIME ON THAT. Wait awhile, sir; not so fast.</p> - -<p>TIP. Information; give; hand to me; lend. "Tip -me your daddle, my bene cove," give me your hand, -my good fellow.</p> - -<p>TIPPET. The halter.</p> - -<p>TIT. A horse.</p> - -<p>TITTER. A sword.</p> - -<p>TIZZY. Sixpence.</p> - -<p>TO BE PUT IN A HOLE. To be cheated by a -comrade out of a just share of the plunder.</p> - -<p>TO BLOW THE GAB. To confess.</p> - -<p>TO BLOWER. One who imparts secrets; to inform.</p> - -<p>TO BOUNCE. To brag or hector; to tell improbable -stories.</p> - -<p>TO BOUNCE HIM. To get one's property and refuse -to pay for it.</p> - -<p>TO BREAK A LEG. To seduce a girl.</p> - -<p>TO HAVE A GAME DEAD. The gambler has a -sure thing, and must beat his opponent.</p> - -<p>TO RIGHTS. The evidence is conclusive enough to -convict. "Try all they knew, the coppers could -not pinch him to rights—he was too fly for them," -the officers were not able to find evidence enough -against him. He was too cunning for them.</p> - -<p>TO TURN STAG. To turn informer.</p> - -<p>TO YARD KICK. Coat and pants.</p> - -<p>TOBBY COVES. Fellows that in the night walk the -streets near a river. They stun their victim by -striking him with a bludgeon; they then rob him -and tumble him into the river. If the body is found, -it is difficult to say that the man was not accidentally -drowned.</p> - -<p>TOBED. Struck on the head and made senseless.</p> - -<p>TOBY. The highway.</p> - -<p>TOBY-LAY. Robbing on the highway.</p> - -<p>TODGE. To smash. "Todge the bloke and pad," -smoke the man and run.</p> - -<p>TOGE. A coat.</p> - -<p>TOGEMANDS. A gown or cloak.</p> - -<p>TOGS. Clothes. "The swell is rum-togged," the -gentleman is well dressed.</p> - -<p>TOLOBON. The tongue.</p> - -<p>TOLOBON RIG. Fortune-tellers.</p> - -<p>TOM-CONEY. A foolish fellow.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page91" id="page91"></a>[pg 91]</span> -TOMBSTONES. Teeth.</p> - -<p>TOMMEY. Bread.</p> - -<p>TONEY. A simpleton.</p> - -<p>TOOLS. Burglars' instruments.</p> - -<p>TOOTH-MUSIC. Chewing food with a good appetite.</p> - -<p>TOP. To cheat; to trick.</p> - -<p>TOP-DIVER. A roué.</p> - -<p>TOP-ROPES. Extravagant or riotous living.</p> - -<p>TOP-TOG. An overcoat.</p> - -<p>TOPPED. Hanged. "The cove was topped for -settling a bloke," the fellow was hanged for killing a -man.</p> - -<p>TOPPER. A blow on the head.</p> - -<p>TOPPING-COVE. The head man of a party; sometimes -the hangman.</p> - -<p>TOTH. Rum.</p> - -<p>TOUCH. To steal.</p> - -<p>TOUNGE-PAD. A scold.</p> - -<p>TOUT. Look; take notice; remember that.</p> - -<p>TOUTED. Followed or pursued.</p> - -<p>TOUTING-KEN. The bar of a drinking-place.</p> - -<p>TOWER. Rage; very angry.</p> - -<p>TOWN-TODDLERS. Silly fellows easily taken in by -the sharpers.</p> - -<p>TRACK. To go.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page92" id="page92"></a>[pg 92]</span> -TRADESMEN. Thieves.</p> - -<p>TRANSLATORS. Second-hand boots or shoes.</p> - -<p>TRAP. Shrewd; smart.</p> - -<p>TRAPES. Sluttish women.</p> - -<p>TRAPS. Officers.</p> - -<p>TRAY. Three.</p> - -<p>TRIB. A prison.</p> - -<p>TRICKS. Anything stolen from a person at one time -by pickpockets.</p> - -<p>TRICUM LEGIS. A quirk or quibble.</p> - -<p>TRINING. Hanging.</p> - -<p>TRINKETS. Bowie-knife and revolver.</p> - -<p>TRISTIS. Not good. "The fly kinchin is a tristis -canis," the smart boy is a sad dog.</p> - -<p>TROLL. To loaf or loiter about.</p> - -<p>TROT. An old woman.</p> - -<p>TROTTER-CASES. Stockings.</p> - -<p>TROTTERS. Feet.</p> - -<p>TRUCKS. Pants.</p> - -<p>TRUET. Stealing money under pretense of changing -it.</p> - -<p>TRUMP. A brave fellow.</p> - -<p>TRUMPET. A vain fellow who has a decided partiality -for the letter I.</p> - -<p>TRUNDLERS. Peas.</p> - -<p>TRUNKER. The body.</p> - -<p>TRUNT. Nose.</p> - -<p>TRY ON. To endeavor; attempt it. "Coves who -try on," fellows who live by stealing.</p> - -<p>TUMBLED. Suspected; found it out. "Tumbled -on him," came upon him unexpectedly. "Tumbled -to him," suspected him; thought it was him.</p> - -<p>TUMBLER. A cart; a lock; a sharper.</p> - -<p>TUNE. To beat. "Tune the toney," beat the fool.</p> - -<p>TURF. Race-course. "The knucks work the turf -for leather and skins," the pickpockets attend the -race-courses to steal pocket-books and purses.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page93" id="page93"></a>[pg 93]</span> -TURKEY-MERCHANTS. Purchasers of stolen silk.</p> - -<p>TURNED UP. Acquitted; discharged.</p> - -<p>TURNING OVER. Examining.</p> - -<p>TURTLE-DOVES. A pair of gloves.</p> - -<p>TWIG. To observe. "Twig the copper, he is -peery," observe the officer, he is watching us.</p> - -<p>TWISTED. Convicted, hanged.</p> - -<p>TWITTOCK. Two.</p> - -<p>TWO TO ONE. A pawnbroker.</p> - -<p>TYBURN BLOSSOM. A young thief.</p> - -<p>TYE. A neckcloth.</p> - -<p>TYKE. A dog; a clown.</p> - - -<h3>U</h3> - -<p>U. S. COVE. A soldier; a man in the employ of the -United States.</p> - -<p>U. S. PLATE. Fetters; handcuffs.</p> - -<p>UNCLE. A pawnbroker.</p> - -<p>UNDER-DUBBER. A turnkey.</p> - -<p>UNICORN. Two men and one woman, or two women -and one man banded together to steal.</p> - -<p>UNTRUSS. To let down the shutters of a store.</p> - -<p>UP HILLS. False dice.</p> - -<p>UP THE SPOUT. Pawned.</p> - -<p>UP TO. Knowing.</p> - -<p>UP TO SLUM. Humbug; gammon.</p> - -<p>UP TO SNUFF. Cunning; shrewd.</p> - -<p>UPISH. Testy; quarrelsome.</p> - -<p>UPPER-BENJAMIN. An overcoat.</p> - -<p>UPRIGHT MAN. King of the gipsies; the head of -a gang of thieves; the chief of banditti.</p> - -<p>UPRIGHTS. Liquor measures.</p> - -<p>USED UP. Killed; murdered.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page94" id="page94"></a>[pg 94]</span></p> - -<h3>V</h3> - -<p>VAG. Vagrant. "Done on the vag," committed for -vagrancy.</p> - -<p>VAMOSE. Run away; be off quick.</p> - -<p>VAMP. To pledge.</p> - -<p>VAMPERS. Stockings.</p> - -<p>VAMPIRE. A man who lives by extorting money -from men and women whom they have seen coming -out of or going into houses of assignation.</p> - -<p>VARDY. Opinion.</p> - -<p>VELVET. The tongue.</p> - -<p>VENITE. Come.</p> - -<p>VENUS' CURSE. Venereal disease.</p> - -<p>VERGE. A gold watch.</p> - -<p>VICTUALLING OFFICE. The stomach.</p> - -<p>VINCENT'S LAW. The art of cheating at cards.</p> - -<p>VINEGAR. A cloak or gown.</p> - -<p>VIRTUE ATER. A prostitute.</p> - -<p>VIXEN. A she-fox.</p> - -<p>VOWEL. Give your note; I. O. U.</p> - - -<h3>W</h3> - -<p>WAITS. Strolling musicians; organ-players, etc.</p> - -<p>WALL-FLOWERS. Second-hand clothing exposed -for sale.</p> - -<p>WAME. The stomach.</p> - -<p>WARE HAWK. Lookout; beware.</p> - -<p>WARM. Rich; plenty of money; dangerous.</p> - -<p>WASTE. A tavern.</p> - -<p>WATERED. Longed for. "The cove's chops watered -for it," the fellow longed for it.</p> - -<p>WATTLES. The cars.</p> - -<p>WEDGE. Silver-ware.</p> - -<p>WEDGE-BOX. A silver snuff-box.</p> - -<p>WEEDING. Taking a part and leaving the balance -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page95" id="page95"></a>[pg 95]</span> -in such a manner as not to excite suspicion. When -a thief abstracts a portion from the plunder without -the knowledge of his pals, and then receives an -equal proportion of the remainder, it is called -"Weeding the swag."</p> - -<p>WELCH COMB. The thumb and finger.</p> - -<p>WELL. Not to divide fair; to conceal a part.</p> - -<p>WESAND. The throat.</p> - -<p>WET-SNOW. Wet linen.</p> - -<p>WETTING. Drinking.</p> - -<p>WHACK. Share of the plunder.</p> - -<p>WHEEDLE. To decoy a person by fawning or insinuation.</p> - -<p>WHET. To drink.</p> - -<p>WHIDDLE. To tell or discover. "He whiddles," -he peaches. "He whiddles the whole scrap," he -tells all he knows. "The cull whiddled because -they would not tip him his regulars," the fellow informed -because they would not share with him. -"The joskin whiddles beef, and we must pad the -hoof," the countryman cries "thief," and we must -be off.</p> - -<p>WHIDDLER. An informer; one who tells the secrets -of another.</p> - -<p>WHIDS. Words. "Tip me your wattles, my pal, -and touch my whids, or I'll make you whindle like -a kinchin," give me your ears and take my words, -or I'll make you snivel like a child.</p> - -<p>WHIFFLER. A fellow that yelps or cries out with -pain.</p> - -<p>WHINDLE. A low cry; a painful suppressed cry.</p> - -<p>WHIP-JACKS. Men who pretend to be shipwrecked -sailors.</p> - -<p>WHIPE. A blow.</p> - -<p>WHIPER. A kerchief.</p> - -<p>WHIPPED. Cheated out of a share, or equal part of -the plunder.</p> - -<p>WHIPSTER. A sharper; a cunning fellow.</p> - -<p>WHISKER. An enormous lie.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page96" id="page96"></a>[pg 96]</span> -WHISKIN. A drinking-vessel.</p> - -<p>WHISTLER. The throat.</p> - -<p>WHIT. A prison. "Five gonnoffs were rubbed in -the darkmans out of the whit and piked like bulls -into grassville," five thieves broke out of prison in -the night, and ran like locomotives into the country.</p> - -<p>WHITE TAPE. Gin.</p> - -<p>WHITE VELVET. Gin.</p> - -<p>WHITE WOOL. Silver.</p> - -<p>WIBBLE. Bad drink.</p> - -<p>WIFE. A fetter fixed to one leg.</p> - -<p>WIFFLER. A relaxation.</p> - -<p>WILD. A village.</p> - -<p>WILLOW. Poor.</p> - -<p>WIN. A cent.</p> - -<p>WIN. To steal; to cheat. "The sneak tracked the -dancers and win a twittock of witcher glimsticks," -the thief went up-stairs and stole a pair of candlesticks.</p> - -<p>WIND. Money. "Raise the wind," get money.</p> - -<p>WINDER. To sentence for life. "The cove has napped -a winder for settling a tony," the fellow has -been sentenced for life for killing a fool.</p> - -<p>WINGS. Oars.</p> - -<p>WINNINGS. Plunder; money or goods.</p> - -<p>WIRE. A pickpocket; the fellow who picks the -pocket.</p> - -<p>WIREHOOK. A pickpocket.</p> - -<p>WISH. Be off; away with you.</p> - -<p>WITCHER. Silver.</p> - -<p>WITCHER BUBBER. A silver bowl.</p> - -<p>WOBALL. A milkman.</p> - -<p>WOBBLE. To boil; to reel; to stagger.</p> - -<p>WOOD. In a quandary.</p> - -<p>WOODBIRD. A sheep.</p> - -<p>WOODEN COAT. A coffin.</p> - -<p>WOODEN HABEAS. A man who dies in prison is -said to go out on a wooden habeas; that is, in his -coffin.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page97" id="page97"></a>[pg 97]</span> -WORD-PECKER. A wit; a punster.</p> - -<p>WORM. To obtain knowledge by craft and cunning.</p> - - -<h3>Y</h3> - -<p>YACK. A watch.</p> - -<p>YAM. To eat.</p> - -<p>YAVUM. Bread and milk.</p> - -<p>YELLOW. Jealousy.</p> - -<p>YELPER. A fellow who cries before he is hurt.</p> - -<p>YIDISHER. A Jew.</p> - -<p>YOKED. Married.</p> - -<p>YOKLE. A countryman.</p> - - -<h3>Z</h3> - -<p>ZANY. A jester.</p> - -<p>ZNEES. Ice; snow; frost.</p> - -<p>ZOUCHER. A slovenly fellow.</p> - -<p>ZUCKE. A dilapidated prostitute.</p> - -<hr class="hr2" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page98" id="page98"></a>[pg 98]</span></p> - -<h2>SCENE IN<br/> -A LONDON FLASH-PANNY.</h2> - -<div class="image-center" style="max-width: 224px;"> -<img src="images/i_098.jpg" width="224" height="20" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="indent">"Ho! there, my rum-bluffer; send me a nipperkin -of white velvet."</p> - -<p class="indent">"Make it two," said a woman, seating herself on a -skinner's knee; "and if Jim don't post the cole, I -will."</p> - -<p class="indent">"Why, Bell, is it yourself? Tip us your daddle, -my bene mort. May I dance at my death, and grin in -a glass-case, if I didn't think you had been put to bed -with a shovel—you've been so long away from the -cock and hen club."</p> - -<p class="indent">"No, Jim, I only piked into Deuceaville with a -dimber-damber, who couldn't pad the hoof for a single -darkman's without his bloss to keep him from getting -pogy."</p> - -<p class="indent">"Oh! I'm fly. You mean Jumping Jack, who was -done last week, for heaving a peter from a drag. But -you talked of padding the hoof. Why, sure, Jack had -a rattler and a prad?"</p> - -<p class="indent">"Yes, but they were spotted by the harmans, and -so we walked Spanish."</p> - -<p class="indent">"Was he nabbed on the scent?"</p> - -<p class="indent">"No, his pal grew leaky and cackled."</p> - -<p class="indent">"Well, Bell, here's the bingo—sluice your gob! -But who was the cull that peached?"</p> - -<p class="indent">"A slubber de gullion named Harry Long, who -wanted to pass for an out-and-out cracksman, though -he was merely a diver."</p> - -<p class="indent">"Whew! I know the kiddy like a copper, and -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page99" id="page99"></a>[pg 99]</span> -saved him once from lumping the lighter by putting -in buck. Why, he scarcely knows a jimmy from a -round robin, and Jack deserved the tippet for making -a lay with him, as all coves of his kidney blow the -gab. But how did you hare it to Romeville, Bell, for -I suppose the jets cleaned you out?"</p> - -<p class="indent">"I kidded a swell in a snoozing-ken, and shook him -of his dummy and thimble."</p> - -<p class="indent">"Ah! Bell! you were always the blowen for a rum -bing."</p> - -<p class="indent">"It was no great quids, Jim—only six flimseys and -three beans. But I'm flush of the balsam now, for I -dance balum-rancum for the bens."</p> - -<p class="indent">Bell here produced a rum bing, which at once made -her popular, and the nucleus of a host of admirers; -for, as it respects money, it is with rogues and their -doxeys as with all the rest of the world. Bell truly -justified the adage, that "What's got over the devil's -back, goes under the devil's belly;" for she gave a -general order to the rum-bluffer, to supply all the lush -that was called for by the company, at her expense; -and thereon there was a demand for max, oil of barby, -red tape, blue ruin, white velvet, and so forth, that -kept all the tapsters in the establishment in a state of -restless activity for the next half-hour.</p> - -<p class="indent">"Bell, you're benish to-night," exclaimed Knapp, -who probably had a design on the purse, which the -course of events somewhat interfered with.</p> - -<p class="indent">"Stubble your red rag," answered a good-looking -young fellow. "Bell had better flash her dibs than -let you bubble her out of them."</p> - -<p class="indent">"Why, you joskin," retorted Jim; "if you don't -stow your whids I'll put your bowsprit in parenthesis. -Ogle the cove, Bell—he wants to pass for a snafler in -his belcher tye, though he never bid higher than a -wipe in an upper benjamin."</p> - -<p class="indent">"I may bid as high as your pintle, and make you -squint like a bag of nails," replied the intruder, "though -you rub us to whit for it."</p> - -<p class="indent"><span class="pagenum"><a name="page100" id="page100"></a>[pg 100]</span> -"Oh! it's all plummy," said Knapp, "so you may cly -your daddles. But come, Bell, let us track the dancers -and rumble the flats, for I'm tired of pattering flash -and lushing jackey."</p> - -<p class="indent">"Bar that toss, Jim," said Bell, "for you're as fly -at the pictures, as the devil at lying, and I would -rather be a knight of Alsatia than a plucked pigeon."</p> - -<p class="indent">This resolution produced a round of applause, which -was followed by another round of liquor—promptly -paid for by the lady of the rum bing, whose generosity -now so far extended itself, that she withdrew from Mr. -Knapp's protection, and, even without waiting to be -asked, deposited herself in the lap of him of the belcher -tye. She had scarcely asserted her title to the premises, -before it was disputed by another fair damsel, -who emphatically declared, that if the tenant in possession -did not immediately leave that, she would -astonish her mazzard with the contents of a "nipperkin -of thunder and lightning."</p> - -<p class="indent">"If you do," returned Bell, "I will fix my diggers -in your dial-plate, and turn it up with red."</p> - -<p class="indent">"Mizzle, you punk."</p> - -<p class="indent">"Well said," Madame Rhan, "but the bishop might -as soon call the parson pig-stealer."</p> - -<p class="indent">"You lie, you bat. I couple with no cove but my -own. But say, Harry, will you suffer yourself to be -made a two-legged stool of by a flag-about?"</p> - -<p class="indent">"Oh! button your bone-box, Peg," replied Harry. -"Bell's a rum blowen, and you only patter because -your ogle's as green as the Emerald Isle."</p> - -<p class="indent">"It's not half so green as yourself, halter-mad -Harry," retorted Peg; "for you know if I wished to -nose I could have you twisted—not to mention any -thing about the cull that was hushed for his reader."</p> - -<p class="indent">On a bench, close by the last speaker, was seated -Hitch, a police officer, who appeared to be quite at -home with the company, and to occasion no alarm or -misgivings; but the moment Peg mentioned the circumstance -of "the cull that was hushed for his reader," -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page101" id="page101"></a>[pg 101]</span> -he rose from the table, drew forth a pair of handcuffs, -and tapping Knapp's rival on the shoulder, playfully -whispered:</p> - -<p class="indent">"Harry, my lad, the game's up; hold out your -wrists for the ruffles."</p> - -<p class="indent">"There they are, Mr. Hitch, though I suppose you'll -be asking me in a week or so to hold out my gorge for -a Tyburn tippet."</p> - -<p class="indent">These proceedings naturally drew a crowd around -the parties concerned; but though all sympathized -with the prisoner, and the minion of the law was without -any assistant, yet there was not the slightest attempt -at a rescue, or even the least disposition manifested by -the captive of a desire to escape.</p> - -<p class="indent">"Only nine months on the pad, and to be up for -scragging! What a pity!"</p> - -<p class="indent">"He's too young—he hasn't had his lark half out; -and it's like making a man pay a debt he don't owe, -to twist him before he has gone the rounds."</p> - -<p class="indent">"He'll die game for all that! Poor fellow! he takes -it like a glass of egg-nog."</p> - -<p class="indent">"Ah! Mr. Hitch! isn't it out of order, and he so -green? You ought to give a chap a year to ripen for -the hemp."</p> - -<p class="indent">"Do, Hitch, give him a little longer rope, and take -him in his regular turn. You're sure to have him, -you know, when his time's up."</p> - -<p class="indent">"O! stubble it, George. Hitch can't, or he would; -for he never hurries a cove when it's left to himself."</p> - -<p class="indent">"That's a fact, my kiddies," exclaimed the officer, -who seemed pleased at the compliment; "but the -commissioner wants Harry, and so, of course, I must -pull him."</p> - -<p class="indent">"I'm satisfied, whatever comes of it," added the prisoner.</p> - -<p class="indent">Bell whispered in the officer's ear: "Couldn't you -let him pike if I come down with a thimble and ten -beans?"</p> - -<p class="indent">"A watch and ten guineas?"</p> - -<p class="indent"><span class="pagenum"><a name="page102" id="page102"></a>[pg 102]</span> -"Of course."</p> - -<p class="indent">"I might if you paid on delivery."</p> - -<p class="indent">"Ready's the word."</p> - -<p class="indent">"Warehawk, then, and follow."</p> - -<p class="indent">Hitch departed with his prisoner, followed by Bell; -but in a few minutes the latter returned and whispered -to Knapp:</p> - -<p class="indent">"Your client has slipped the darbys, and his name's -Walker. Here's a flimsy, to lay low and bottle your -gab."</p> - -<p class="indent">The flash-panny was now in the full tide of successful -operation—two thirds of its patrons being about -three sheets in the wind, and none of them perfectly -sober. In one corner there was a mill, wherein the -combatants hit the wall more frequently than they hit -each other. In another, two blowens were clapper-clawing -each other for a bob-cull, who was seconding -both parties, and declaring that the winner should -have him. Here a snafler lay snoring on a bench, -while a buzman, just half a degree less intoxicated, -was endeavoring to pick his pocket. There, three -cracksmen were engaged in a remarkably animated -dispute on the state of the country. Under almost -every table might be seen a son or daughter of Adam, -luxuriating in the realms of Nod. But the bulk of the -company were amusing themselves in a dance; for -one of the fixtures of the establishment was an Irish -piper, who, by the way, was a little fortune to it, for -every one treated Pat.</p> - -<p class="indent">The dance was yet in its fullest vigor, when Hitch -returned and called Bell to one of the tables.</p> - -<p class="indent">"Bell", said he, "I have been looking for you more -eagerly than any of your lovers for several months -past—though I found you at length by an accident. -What have you done with the bloke?"</p> - -<p class="indent">"Me, Hitch? Why, I have neither seen or heard -of him."</p> - -<p class="indent">"Come, Bell, it's no use our wasting time in small -talk. You were with him the last night he was heard -of."</p> - -<p class="indent"><span class="pagenum"><a name="page103" id="page103"></a>[pg 103]</span> -"Not I, faith, Hitch. Bring me the book, and I'll -swear No to that."</p> - -<p class="indent">"How then came you by his super?"</p> - -<p class="indent">"Blast the super! for I fear it has got me into a -muss."</p> - -<p class="indent">"If I take you to Newgate for it, Bell, it will be apt -to get you into a halter."</p> - -<p class="indent">"Well, then it will save me from the Bay fever, or -dying in the gutter; for all such as I am must draw -one of the three chances."</p> - -<p class="indent">"Make me your confessor, Bell, without any equivocation -or drawback, and I may stand between you -and Jack Ketch."</p> - -<p class="indent">"But what about the stone-jug?"</p> - -<p class="indent">"That depends upon circumstances. Is the bloke -living or dead?"</p> - -<p class="indent">"Living, for all I know to the contrary."</p> - -<p class="indent">"You know all about him, Bell."</p> - -<p class="indent">"If I do, may I cly the jerk at a drag; be trussed -in a Kilmainham garter, and fall to the surgeons."</p> - -<p class="indent">"Well, it may be so," said Hitch, musing; "for if -you knew all, half the world would have known it before -this time. However, Bell, you can supply a link -or two in the chain of evidence, so give me the particulars; -and remember, if you tell me a lie I will smell -it as it comes out of your mouth."</p> - -<p class="indent">Just then the guests of the Crooked Billet were interrupted -by an uproar in the street.</p> - -<p class="indent">"Some swells on a lark," exclaimed lawyer Knapp; -"dub the jigger and let them in."</p> - -<p class="indent">And Jim was right; for on the jigger being dubbed, -in staggered four bloods, who were sufficiently top-heavy -to be ready for any thing. Two of the newcomers, -who prided themselves on "knowing the -ropes," while their companions were green from the -fens. Immediately on their entrance, this hopeful addition -to the convivial party already assembled, began -to exhibit their "tip-top education" by squaring off -for a fight, pattering flash, and ordering in lush. In -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page104" id="page104"></a>[pg 104]</span> -fact, they out-heroded Herod, for they proved themselves -to be yet greater blackguards than the poor -rogues whom they were so emulous to imitate. And -yet they were "gentlemen," who would have been -shocked at the touch of a mechanic, though they gloried -in doing things up nutty, like pickpockets and -highwaymen. But they were not such knowing kiddies -after all, though they considered themselves bang -up to the mark; for suddenly one of them cried out -that he had lost his purse; and then they all discovered -that they had lost every thing they had which -was fairly removable. Thereupon there was a devil -of a muss, generally, with vociferous calling for the -police. The four fellows who had the four worst hats, -exchanged them <i>sans ceremonie</i> with the strangers, -while a couple of fogle-hunters tore off the skirts of -their coats to mend their breeches. To finish their -spree, by and by in rushed the police, and, on the -charge of an elderly, responsible-looking cracksman, -hurried the bloods off to the nearest station-house. -What rascally things are policemen! Alas! and alack! -just about as rascally as all the rest of the world.</p> - -<hr /> - -<h2>NUMERATION.</h2> - -<div class="poem"> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">1. Eno.</span><br /> -<span class="i0">2. Owt.</span><br /> -<span class="i0">3. Eehrt.</span><br /> -<span class="i0">4. Ruof.</span><br /> -<span class="i0">5. Evif.</span><br /> -<span class="i0">6. Xis.</span><br /> -<span class="i0">7. Neves.</span><br /> -<span class="i0">8. Thgie.</span><br /> -<span class="i0">9. Enin.</span><br /> -<span class="i0">10. Net.</span><br /> -<span class="br"><br /></span><br /> -<span class="i0">1. On.</span><br /> -<span class="i0">2. Duo.</span><br /> -<span class="i0">3. Tray.</span><br /> -<span class="i0">4. Quartre.</span><br /> -<span class="i0">5. Cink or Finniff.</span><br /> -<span class="i0">6. Double Tray.</span><br /> -<span class="i0">7. A Round.</span><br /> -<span class="i0">8. Double Quarter.</span><br /> -<span class="i0">9. A Floorer.</span><br /> -<span class="i0">10. Double Finniff.</span><br /> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="hr2" /> - -<p class="indent"><span class="pagenum"><a name="page105" id="page105"></a>[pg 105]</span></p> - -<h2>EXAMPLES.</h2> - -<p class="indent">Tim Sullivan buzzed a bloke and a shakester of a -reader. His jomer stalled. Johnny Miller, who was -to have his regulars, called out, "cop-bung," for as -you see a fly-cop was marking. Jack speeled to the -crib, when he found Johnny Doyle had been pulling -down sawney for grub. He cracked a casa last night, -and fenced the swag. He told Jack as how Bill had -flimped a yack, and pinched a swell of a spark-fawney, -and had sent the yack to church, and got half a century -and a finnif for the fawney.</p> - - -<p class="h3">TRANSLATION.</p> - -<p class="indent">Tim Sullivan picked the pockets of a gentleman and -lady of a pocket-book and purse. Tim's fancy-girl stood -near him and screened him from observation. Johnny -Miller, who was to have a share of the plunder, called -out to him: "Hand over the stolen property—a detective -is observing your manœuvres." Sullivan ran immediately -to his house, when he found Johnny Doyle -had provided something to eat, by stealing some bacon -from a store-door. Doyle committed a burglary last -night, and disposed of the property plundered. He -told Sullivan that Bill had hustled a person, and obtained -a watch, and also robbed a well-dressed gentleman -of a diamond ring. The watch he sent to have -the works taken out and put into another case, or the -maker's name erased and another inserted; the ring -realized him fifty-five dollars.</p> - -<p class="indent"><span class="pagenum"><a name="page106" id="page106"></a>[pg 106]</span></p> - -<h3>INTERCEPTED LETTER.</h3> - -<p class="indent"><span class="smcap">Raed Mot</span>: Ecnis uoy evah neeb ot eht tiw, semit -evah neeb llud. Mij dna em evah enod gnihton fo yna -tnuocca. Tsal thgin I dezzub a ekolb dna a retsekahs -fo a redaer dna a niks. Ym remoj dellats. A evoc-ssorc, -ohw dah sih sraluger, dellac tuo, "poc gnub," -os sa a gip saw gnikram. I deleeps ot eht birc, erehw -I dnuof Mij dah neeb gnillup nwod yenwas rof burg. -Eh dekcarc a asac tsal thgin, dna decnef eht gaws. -Eh dlot em sa Llib dah depmilf a kcay, dna dehcnip a -llews of a yenwaf; eh tnes eht kcay ot hcruhc, dna -tog eerht sffinnif dna a retooc rof eht yenwaf.</p> - -<p class="indent">Ruoy dlo Llom derauqs flesreh rof a elpuoc fo snoom, -retfa uoy tnew ot tiw; tub uoy ees a detsalb reppoc -deye-yttuc reh, dna derrettap ylneib htiw reh, dna -desimorp reh ytnelp fo eloc fi d'ehs eson rof mih, dna -ni esruoc, Llom ekil, ehs saw demmab yb mih, dna os, -uoy ees, ehs tup pu roop kcalb Llib, dna eh saw deppoc -ot sthgir; rof nehw yeht deksirf mih, yeht dnuof a tol -fo egdew-sredeef ni eht ekop fo sih skcik. Eht -henuats-nu sevoc, sa uoy swonk, Mot, si reven drakcab -nev yeht dluohs emoc drarof. Nev I detnahc roop -S'llib senutrofsim lla no me dias sa woh eh sav a eneb -hcnuats evoc sa reve dellap htiw a eneb ekolb dna -t'ndluohs tnav a wef seirutnec ot esaerg htiv. Yeht -deppit em, rof Llib, evif seirutnec dna a flah. Won, -uoy ees, taht si tav I sllac nieb a dneirf, deedni, nev -uoy si ni deen. Nov rehto nosaer yv I t'nsah detfarg -yletal, si taht eht detsalb yeuh evag ym tnahc dna -gum; dna ni esruoc, uoy swonk I ma oot yreel ot evig -eht spoc eht egatnavdah revo em. On erom ta tneserp.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Nhoj Yellek.</span></p> - -<hr class="hr2" /> - -<p class="indent"><span class="pagenum"><a name="page107" id="page107"></a>[pg 107]</span></p> - -<h2>APPENDIX.</h2> - -<div class="image-center" style="max-width: 202px;"> -<img src="images/i_107.jpg" width="202" height="26" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h3>THE GAMBLER'S FLASH.</h3> - -<p class="center">WORDS FREQUENTLY USED BY GAMBLERS AMONG THEMSELVES, SOMETIMES -IN GENERAL CONVERSATION, AND SOMETIMES WHILE AT PLAY.</p> - -<hr/> - -<h3>A</h3> - -<p>A GOSS. The card that has won three times in one -deal.</p> - -<p>ANTI-GOSS. The card that has lost three times in -one deal. It is sometimes called a "hotel." For -instance, a gambler who has been playing, finally -gets "broke;" but the love of play which from habit -has become a second nature in him, causes him to -linger behind to see the luck of others at the table. -Being "dead broke," he borrows from a brother -gambler money enough to pay his hotel or boarding-house -bill. While looking on at the game an anti-goss -occurs, and thinking that the fourth time is sure -to win, he stakes the money he has borrowed to pay -the hotel, boarding-house, or washerwoman's bill, -whichever it may be, and he loses. The exclamation -among gamblers would then be, "There goes -his hotel."</p> - -<p>ARTIST. One who excels as a gamester.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page108" id="page108"></a>[pg 108]</span></p> - -<h3>B</h3> - -<p>BANK. Without a party to play against, there can -be no faro-playing. The player must play against -some body, and that some body is a party of one or -more, who hire rooms, and own gambling instruments. -The gambling concern is owned by them, -and the servants, from the negro at the door who -answers to the touch of the bell, to the gentlemanly -"picker-up," are in their pay, and act entirely in -accordance with their instructions. The capital -which the owners invest in this gambling co-partnership -is called the "bank," but the amount varies -greatly. Some banking concerns are not worth over -$100, while others are worth $100,000. It is sometimes -easy to break a bank of limited capital, but -to make bankrupt the other is almost an impossibility. -The necessity of a large capital is apparent. -If four or six parties seated at the table should have -$50 each on the table, and four of the six should -win and the other two lose, then the bank in five -minutes would be $1000 the loser. The bank must -be always prepared to lose a thousand or two of an -evening, they knowing well enough that it will all -come back to them before the game closes.</p> - -<p>BANKER. The man who puts the money up to be -played for. The owner of the bank.</p> - -<p>BETTER. A party who enters a gambling-saloon, -takes his seat at the table, and commences to play, -is a better.</p> - -<p>BETTING ON TIME. This frequently occurs when -the character of a party is such that he can be -trusted to pay the money he borrows or the debts -he incurs. If his character is good in this respect, -then he will be permitted to play after he is -"broke," if it occurs that he should be the loser -when he rises from the table. This is betting on -time. The same thing is done in Wall street every -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page109" id="page109"></a>[pg 109]</span> -day by speculating brokers. In Wall street gambling -there are the "bulls" and the "bears," the -object of the one being to raise stock above its -actual value and then dispose of it, while the other -party depresses it below its value and then purchases -it. Nothing of this sort, however, occurs among -the professional gamblers, who locate in Broadway -and some of the down-town streets running from it.</p> - - -<h3>C</h3> - -<p>CALLING THE TURN. When there is one turn, -say 4, 6, and 8, and the player calls 4, 8, the caller -loses; but if on the other hand it should be the -cards he calls, then he wins, and is paid four to one. -When a man calls both, he wins and loses on the -same turn. In the last turn the player can win -three ways. He can copper, call, and play the winning -card. He can double the limit of the game, -which is the privilege of the player on the last turn.</p> - -<p>CAPPER. A man who sets at the table and plays, -but neither wins nor loses. He is there only for -the purpose of swelling the number of players, so -that the game won't hurry through too quickly, -thus giving the actual player proper time to consider -the game and study the moves he should -make.</p> - -<p>CAPPER. A man in the employ of the bank, who -pretends to be playing against it, and winning -large amounts. Some gambling-houses in New-York -keep two sets of cappers all the time; one set goes -on at ten in the morning and retires at six in the -evening, when the night-set comes on. Thus the -game is continually going on; no matter when a man -entered, he finds the game in full blast, and there -never is any necessity to start it because of a fresh -arrival. Professional gamblers drop to cappers very -quickly. Cappers usually want to make too big -bets—that is, make too heavy bets. As a general -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page110" id="page110"></a>[pg 110]</span> -thing they want to bet with the red checks, which -represent $5, putting down ten or twenty at a time.</p> - -<p>CASHING. This is getting the money from the bank -for the checks or chips, if the player has any left on -hand when he stops playing.</p> - -<p>CAT HOPP. Is when there is one turn left in the -box of the same denomination. For instance, two -jacks and a five; or three cards in the box, and two -of a similar count.</p> - -<p>CHANGING IN. Handing in your money for the -chips.</p> - -<p>CHIPS or CHECKS. The chips or checks are round -fancy pieces of ivory of the size of a half dollar, and -a trifle thicker. These represent money, and are -received from the dealer to play with in exchange -for money. They are much easier to handle, and -the dealer can see at a glance how much money is -bet on a card. The color of the chips indicate the -value they represent. There are three colors, -namely, white, red and blue. White chips represent -twenty-five cents, or one dollar, according to -the house. Red chips represent five times the value -of the white chips. Blue chips represent $25, $50, -and $100. A hundred dollar chip is the highest -"fish", as the gambler calls it.</p> - -<p>CHOPPING. A card which commences to win and -lose alternately, is called chopping, and to commence -to lose and win alternately, is anti-chopping.</p> - -<p>COLD DECK. This is generally done in short cards, or -short games. A pack of cards is shuffled, and just as -they are about to be dealt out, another pack is substituted. -This is sometimes done by faro-players. -The dealer having shuffled the cards, or having got -another party to do it, drops the cards at his feet, -and lifts the packed cards from a handkerchief on -his lap. He calls on Sambo, the darkey waiter, to -lift a check at his feet, and thus the evidence of his -guilt is carried off unobserved. When cleverly -done, the trick can not be discovered. One gambler -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page111" id="page111"></a>[pg 111]</span> -often plays this trick on another, and hence it derives -the expressive name of "cold deck."</p> - -<p>COPPER. A card can be played to win or lose, at -the option of the player. If he wishes to play any -particular card to lose, he places a penny on top of -the money he stakes. This signifies that he plays -it to lose; hence it is called coppering.</p> - -<p>CRAPS or PROPS. A game peculiar to Boston. Sometimes -it is played with shells, and sometimes with coffee-beans, -but more generally the former, as they can -be loaded. If four shells are not at hand, four coffee-beans -answer the same purpose. It is a substitute -for the dice. Thousands of dollars have been -lost on this game, but as it has not received the -same condemnation from the moral portion of the -community that dice has, Bostonians patronize it. -There is no other reason why that city alone should -patronize it. The game is so childish, that it is ten -times more dangerous than any other, and gamblers -have no trouble in "roping in" men to play at it, -who would faint with horror at the sight of a pack -of cards.</p> - -<p>CUE. Is a calculation which confirmed gamblers are -guided altogether by in playing. They know that -after three cards of one denomination have gone out, -they can not be split.</p> - -<p>CUE-BOX. The cue-box is an exact representation -of the lay-out of the cards on the table. The player, -by looking at the cue-box, can instantly see what -cards have been drawn from the box, thus relieving -him of the trouble of keeping the run of the cards -in his head. For instance if four jacks had been -drawn from the box, and a player should place his -money on the jack, they being all drawn, he could -not win or lose.</p> - -<p>CUE-KEEPER. The man who keeps the cues or -marks, so that a player knows by looking at it, -which card is in and which is out.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page112" id="page112"></a>[pg 112]</span></p> - -<h3>D</h3> - -<p>DEALER. The party who deals out the cards, receiving -generally for his services from ten to twenty -per cent of the profits of the game from the banker.</p> - -<p>DOUBLE CARD. Two cards of the same denomination.</p> - - -<h3>E</h3> - -<p>EVEN. The player who trys to make up what he has -lost. Having lost $50, he stakes another $50, perhaps -his last, for the purpose of getting back what -he had lost, to be even with the bank, or get broke -in the attempt.</p> - - -<h3>F</h3> - -<p>FLAT. One who has no knowledge, or an imperfect -knowledge, of gambling. No matter how much a -man may know of all the sciences in the world, if -he is ignorant of gambling, and should enter a -gambling-room, the players would smile and say, -"There's a flat," a man who did not know any thing.</p> - - -<h3>G</h3> - -<p>GAFF. The gaff is a ring worn on the fore-finger of -the dealer. It has a sharp point on the inner side, and -the gambler, when dealing from a two-card box, can -deal out the card he chooses; some, however, are -smart enough to do this trick without the gaff. It -is now out of date, and the only city in which it is -now in use, is Baltimore. The gaff has been the -initiative idea of tricks of this character, and many -improvements, of which it is the foundation, have -been discovered by sharpers.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page113" id="page113"></a>[pg 113]</span></p> - -<h3>H</h3> - -<p>HOCK. The last card in the box. Among thieves a -man is in hock when he is in prison; but when one -gambler is caught by another, smarter than himself, -and is beat, then he is in hock. Men are only -caught, or put in hock, on the race-tracks, or on the -steamboats down South. In a hock-game, if a man -hits a card, he is obliged to let his money lie until -it either wins or loses. Of course there are nine -hundred and ninety-nine chances against the player, -and the oldest man living never yet saw him win, -and thus he is caught in hock.</p> - - -<h3>I</h3> - -<p>ITEMS. Items derives his name from looking at -a party's hand, and conveying to the opposition -player what it contains by signs. This is Item's -occupation. A looking-glass is sometimes used, -sometimes signs which mutes would only understand, -and sometimes the signs are agreed upon and -known only to the parties interested.</p> - - -<h3>L</h3> - -<p>LAMAS. High chips or checks representing $25, $50, -and $100. There are no $1000 lamas, for the simple -reason that with $100 chips any amount of -money can be laid on the table.</p> - -<p>LAY-OUT. The "lay-out" is composed of all the -cards in a suit, commencing at the ace and ending -at the king. These cards are posted upon a piece -of velvet, which can be spread upon the table whenever -the dealer chooses to open the game. When -play has commenced, each player places his stake -upon any card he may choose, and as the cards are -drawn from the box, his bet is determined.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page114" id="page114"></a>[pg 114]</span> -LEAVING OUT. When a dispute arises, a referee -of outsiders or lookers-on, is appointed, to whom -the difficulty is referred, and whose decision among -professional men is decisive.</p> - -<p>LITTLE FIGURE. Ace, deuce, and tray.</p> - -<p>LOOK-OUT. The look-out is the man who is supposed -to keep every thing straight, and see that no -mistake is made, and that the dealer does not neglect -to lift any money that he has won.</p> - - -<h3>M</h3> - -<p>MARKER. Marking is frequently done in playing the -game of faro. It is something put down on the -card, a pencil, a knife, or any thing, to represent any -amount of money the player pleases. He says: I bet -$5, $10, $50, or $100, as it suits him and his finances. -This saves him from delaying the game by going -through his pockets for the exact money he wants. -When the deal is out, he settles.</p> - - -<h3>N</h3> - -<p>NUDGE. This is not often practised at the game of -faro; it is applicable, as its name implies, to cribbage -and similar games. The office of a nudger is -to touch an associate with his feet. These touchings -are signs, which are denominated nudging.</p> - - -<h3>P</h3> - -<p>PALMING. Concealing cards in the palm of the -hands.</p> - -<p>PARLIEU. Is to allow one's money to lie on the table -and double. For instance, the player puts $5 -on the table, and it wins; instead of lifting it, he lets -the original sum lie—that is called a parlieu.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page115" id="page115"></a>[pg 115]</span> -PICKER-UP. We frequently read of country-men -being "roped" into gambling-houses, but this occurs -from the ignorance of the reporters, who know nothing -of the language used by gamblers and sportsmen. -Gamblers of the higher grade in New-York, -never use the word "roper-in." It is usually confidence-men, -ball-players, pocket book droppers, and -others attached to that fraternity. The roper-in -takes a man over to Brooklyn or New-Jersey, and is -an actor in the swindle; the picker-up takes his man -to a gambling-saloon, and there leaves him to be -enchanted, enchained, and allured by what he sees. -Sometimes he only gives the man he has picked up -his card, which will admit him to a gaming-house, -where he can play a card of another description. -The roper-in and the picker-up therefore should not -be confounded.</p> - -<p>The picker-up is always a gentleman, in manners, -taste, dress, and appearance, and sometimes has the -superficial knowledge of a scholar. He is thoroughly -informed on all the topics of the day. He has seen -New-Orleans, knows all about it, and can talk of -the gallant defense made there from behind the cotton-bales. -He knows all about the evil results arising -out of the agitation of the slavery question. -He loves Boston and New-England, for it was there -he was born and spent his earliest and his happiest -days; it was the cradle and the birth-place of liberty, -and the world looked with unreserved delight -upon the efforts which the men of the East put -forth in the cause of freedom; he has spent many -happy years in the far West, its vast prairies, its -wide-spread, majestic forests, and mighty rivers, -and he can not help warming up when he reverts to -these themes, which moved the hearts of philosophers, -poets, and statesmen.</p> - -<p>This is the picker-up. He first sees the man's -name on the hotel-register, and where he is from. -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page116" id="page116"></a>[pg 116]</span> -He then sees him out, studies his character, and ascertains -his means and the object of his visit to the -city; and the picker-up, if smart, reads his victim -phrenologically without touching his head. Every -man has some weak point which can be played upon, -and the duty of the picker-up is to discover it. It -does not take him long generally to get a stranger -to visit a gambling-hell. Very many of the servants -of hotels are in the pay of pickers-up—the duty of -the servant being to get information concerning -guests, which his employer can use.</p> - -<p>PIKER. Is a man who plays very small amounts. -Plays a quarter, wins, pockets the winnings, and -keeps at quarters; and never, if he can help it, -bets on his winnings.</p> - -<p>PLAYING ON VELVET. Playing on the money -that has been won from the bank.</p> - -<p>PRESS. When a man wins a bet, and instead of lifting -and pocketing the winnings, he adds to the original -stake and winnings, it becomes a press.</p> - -<p>PRIVATE GAME. So called because the flat is led -to suppose that no professional gamblers are admitted, -and thus he is the more easily duped.</p> - -<p>PUBLIC GAME. A game where any body can be -admitted.</p> - - -<h3>R</h3> - -<p>REPEATER. For instance, when a card wins or loses -at one deal, and the same thing occurs the next deal, -it is a repeater.</p> - -<p>ROUNDER. One who hangs around faro-banks, but -does not play. In other words, a loafer, a man who -travels on his shape, and is supported by a woman, -but does not receive enough money to enable him to -play faro. Gamblers call such men rounders, outsiders, -loafers.</p> - -<p>RUSSER. A big player.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page117" id="page117"></a>[pg 117]</span></p> - -<h3>S</h3> - -<p>SHOE-STRING. When a man bets a small amount -and runs it up to a large amount, it is called a -shoe-string.</p> - -<p>SHORT CARDS. By some called short game. A -game of seven-up or cribbage. For instance, "Have -you been playing faro to-night?" "No." "What -then?" "I have been playing short cards."</p> - -<p>SKINNING. A sure game, where all who play are -sure to lose, except the gamesters.</p> - -<p>SLEEPER. A bet won by the bank or a better, -which has been overlooked and lies on the table -without a claimant.</p> - -<p>SPLIT. When two cards come alike. For instance, -if two jacks should come out, the banker takes one -half of the money.</p> - -<p>SQUARE GAME. When cards are dealt fairly, and -there is no cheating.</p> - -<p>STRIPPERS. Cards cut at the sides for the purpose -of carrying on a skinning game.</p> - -<p>STUCK. When a man has lost all his money, and is -trying on the last throw to retrieve his loss and he -is beat, then he is stuck.</p> - -<p>SUCKER. A flat; one who can play cards, but does -not know all the tricks and traps in gambling.</p> - -<p>SUMMER GAME. Playing merely for amusement.</p> - -<p>SUMMER GAME. Playing a game for the benefit of -another person with his money.</p> - -<p>SUPPER CUSTOMERS. Some of the fashionable -gambling-houses have free suppers for their customers; -this is done to induce the better class of gambling -merchants to patronize the house. But there -are some men who frequent these houses and take supper, -but never play. When such a one is asked if -he is going to take a hand in, his usual answer is, -"Thank you, sir, I'm a supper customer to night."</p> - - -<h3>T</h3> - -<p>TELL-BOX. The tell-box is an improvement on the -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page118" id="page118"></a>[pg 118]</span> -gaff, and has a fine spring attached to it. The object -is to cheat the dealer. The dealer plays with a pack -of cards which the player has had a chance to -handle, and he rubs the backs of certain of them -with sand-paper. The rough card adheres to the -smooth one, and the fact that it does not move a -hair's breadth in the box enables him to know the -card that is covered, and he plays accordingly. He -can also play in the same manner with a new pack -of cards without sanding them, as certain cards require -a greater amount of ink than others.</p> - -<p>THE POT. The six, seven, and eight.</p> - -<p>TRICKS. When a player takes the cards from his -opponent that counts. If the queen is put down -and king follows, which is higher, then the queen -is taken. That is a trick.</p> - -<p>TRICK GAMES. Such games as whist, where tricks -count.</p> - - -<h3>Z</h3> - -<p>ZODIAC. This word has degenerated into Soda. It -means the top card in the box.</p> - -<hr class="hr2" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page119" id="page119"></a>[pg 119]</span></p> - -<h3>TECHNICAL WORDS AND PHRASES,<br /> -USED BY<br /> -BILLIARD-PLAYERS.</h3> - -<hr/> - -<p>ATTITUDE. The position in which the player stands -while at the billiard-table, when about to strike the -ball. The acquisition of a good attitude is a matter -of first importance to the new beginner. It is almost -impossible to lay down fixed rules in this particular, -as the peculiarities of height and figure -would render the rules that would be excellent in -one case, totally inapplicable in the other. Perfect -ease is the grand <i>desideratum</i>; and this is to be -acquired by practice, and a close observation of the -best players.</p> - -<p>BANK. When the player makes his own ball hit any -of the cushions before striking the object-ball.</p> - -<p>BILLIARD-SHARP. A class of character not tolerated -in respectable saloons. As a general thing, -the billiard-sharp is a retired marker, who fancies it -is no longer respectable to work for an honest living, -but that he is smart enough, and has learned -tricks enough at his former business, to enable him -to win as much money as he wants from the less experienced -amateurs of the game, who figure in his -vocabulary as "the flats." He generally frequents -those establishments where one or two billiard-tables -are made the stall behind which some dishonest -occupation is carried on; and here he is at -home, and in his glory. He makes himself particularly -friendly with any one who will ask him to -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page120" id="page120"></a>[pg 120]</span> -"take a drink," and in his assumed duties he fills -the offices of lounger, runner, talker, player, sponge, -shoulder-hitter, and referee.</p> - -<p>He is also a runner, and sort of travelling blower to -second-rate manufacturers of billiard-tables. These -men supply him with clothes, to enable him to -mingle in respectable society, and allow him an -enormous per centage for every billiard-table sold -to a stranger through his agency. In addition to -this, it is his business to pull down the reputation -of such manufacturers as despise and scorn the -means by which he earns his dishonest livelihood. -As soon as he has made "a hit" in one saloon, he is -off to another, and in this way goes the rounds of -the city until all the places which harbor him, are, -in his own phrase, "played out."</p> - -<p>Such a man is to be avoided as one of the worst -species of sharpers. He has a thousand pretenses -under which to borrow money, and will act as if -quite offended if refused. The stranger should avoid -all such men, and especially any one with whom he -is not well acquainted, who should ask him to play -for any given sum, "just to give an interest to the -game."</p> - -<p>BOWERY SHOT. When the balls played with and -at, are jarred together—a pushing shot.</p> - -<p>BREAK. The position the balls are left in after the -shot.</p> - -<p>BURST. A term chiefly used at pin-pool, when a -player has exceeded the number which is placed as -the common limit to the game, and must, therefore, -either retire from the game, or take a privilege of -another life.</p> - -<p>CAROM. (French, <i>Carombolage</i>.) To hit more than -one of the balls on the table with your own. In -England this word has been corrupted to "cannon."</p> - -<p>COUNT. Is the reckoning of the game. Making a -count, is to make a stroke which will add some -figures to the player's reckoning.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page121" id="page121"></a>[pg 121]</span> -DISCOUNT. When one player is so much the superior -of another, that he allows all the counts made -by his opponent to be deducted from his own reckoning, -he is said to "discount" his adversary's gains. -In "double" and "treble discounts," twice and -thrice the amount of his opponent's gains are deducted -from the player's score. In no other game -but billiards are such immense odds possible. A -man of close observation, temperate habits, steady -nerves, and large experience, may give almost any -odds to an inferior player, and still have a fair -chance of success.</p> - -<p>DOUBLET or CROSS. When the ball to be pocketed -is first made to rebound from the opposite cushion.</p> - -<p>FOLLOW. When a player's ball rolls on after another -ball which it has impelled forward.</p> - -<p>FORCE. When the player's ball retrogrades after -coming in contact with another.</p> - -<p>FOUL STROKE or SHOT. Any stroke made in violation -of the known rules of the game.</p> - -<p>FULL BALL, QUARTER BALL, HALF BALL, -FINE or CUT BALL, OWN or CUE BALL, and -OBJECT BALL. The "object ball" is the ball -aimed at; the "own or cue ball" is the ball directed -toward the "object ball;" the other terms relate to -the position in which the object ball is struck.</p> - -<p>GERMANTOWNER. <i>See Bowery Shot.</i></p> - -<p>HAZARD. To drive any of the balls into any of the -pockets.</p> - -<p>HAZARD, DOUBLE. When two balls are pocketed -with the same stroke.</p> - -<p>HAZARD, LOSING. When the player's ball is -pocketed by his own act.</p> - -<p>HAZARD, TAKING A. A term used to express that -a player is so confident of making a certain hazard, -that he will undertake to do it, under penalty of -losing, in case he does not succeed, as many lives as -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page122" id="page122"></a>[pg 122]</span> -he would have gained if successful. The phrase is -most frequently employed in two-ball pool.</p> - -<p>HAZARD, WINNING. When the player pockets -either of the red balls, or his adversary's ball.</p> - -<p>HUG. When any of the balls run close alongside of -a particular cushion, they are said to hug it.</p> - -<p>JAW. When a ball is prevented from dropping into -a pocket by the cushions, which extend like jaws on -either side.</p> - -<p>JUMP. When the player forces his ball by a downward -stroke to leap up from the table.</p> - -<p>KILLED or DEAD BALL. When a ball in pool has -lost its lives, and its chances are not renewed by -privileges, it is said to be killed.</p> - -<p>KISS. When the ball played with strikes another ball -more than once, they are said to kiss; or when two -balls, not played with, come in contact.</p> - -<p>LONE GAME. A game in which one of the parties -is an experienced player, and the other a novice—the -former having the game in his own hands.</p> - -<p>MISS. To fail striking any of the balls upon the table.</p> - -<p>MISS-CUE. When the cue, from any cause, slips -off the ball without accomplishing the intended -stroke.</p> - -<p>PLAYING FOR SAFETY. When the player foregoes -a possible advantage, in order to leave the balls -in such a position that his opponent can make nothing -out of them.</p> - -<p>PLAYING SPOT-BALL. When the player is not -limited to the number of times he may pocket the -red ball from the spot.</p> - -<p>PRIVILEGE. When a player loses the lives, or -chances, which were given to his ball on its entry -into the game, and desires to purchase another -chance from the other players, he asks a "privilege."</p> - -<p>SCRATCH. When a player wins a stroke or count -by accident, without deserving it, he is said to have -made a scratch.</p> - -<p>STRINGING FOR THE LEAD. A preliminary arrangement, -by which it is determined who shall -have the choice of lead and balls.</p> - -<p>TIMBER LICK. <i>See Bowery Shot.</i></p> - -<hr class="hr2" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page123" id="page123"></a>[pg 123]</span></p> - -<h3>BROKERS'<br /> -TECHNICALITIES IN BRIEF.</h3> - - -<p>A BULL is one who buys stocks on speculation, thinking -they will rise, so that he can sell at a profit.</p> - -<p>A BEAR is one who sells stocks on speculation, thinking -they will fall, so that he can buy in for less money -to fill his contracts.</p> - -<p>A CORNER is when the bears can not buy or borrow -the stock to deliver in fulfillment of their contracts.</p> - -<p>A DEPOSIT is earnest-money, lodged in the hands -of a third party, as a guaranty; "5 up," "10 up," -etc., is the language expressive of a deposit.</p> - -<p>OVERLOADED is when the bulls can not pay for the -stocks they have purchased.</p> - -<p>SHORT is when a person or party sells stocks when -they have none, and expect to buy or borrow them -in time to deliver.</p> - -<p>LONG is when a person or party has a plentiful supply -of stocks.</p> - -<p>A FLYER is to buy some stock with a view to selling -it in a few days, and either make or lose, as luck -will have it.</p> - -<p>A WASH is a pretended sale, by special agreement -between the seller and buyer, for the purpose of getting -a quotation reported.</p> - -<hr class="hr2" /> - -<p class="indent"><span class="pagenum"><a name="page124" id="page124"></a>[pg 124]</span></p> - -<h3>A HUNDRED STRETCHES HENCE</h3> - -<div class="poem"> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Oh! where will be the culls of the bing</span><br /> -<span class="i2">A hundred stretches hence?</span><br /> -<span class="i0">The bene morts, who sweetly sing,</span><br /> -<span class="i2">A hundred stretches hence?</span><br /> -<span class="i0">The autum-cacklers, autum-coves,</span><br /> -<span class="i0">The jolly blade who wildly roves;</span><br /> -<span class="i0">And where the buffer, bruiser, blowen,</span><br /> -<span class="i0">And all the cops and beaks so knowin',</span><br /> -<span class="i2">A hundred stretches hence?</span><br /> - -<span class="i0">And where the swag, so bleakly pinched,</span><br /> -<span class="i2">A hundred stretches hence?</span><br /> -<span class="i0">The thimbles, slang, and danglers filched,</span><br /> -<span class="i2">A hundred stretches hence?</span><br /> -<span class="i0">The chips, the fawneys, chatty-feeders,</span><br /> -<span class="i0">The bugs, the boungs, and well-filled readers;</span><br /> -<span class="i0">And where the fence and snoozing-ken,</span><br /> -<span class="i0">With all the prigs and lushing men,</span><br /> -<span class="i2">A hundred stretches hence?</span><br /> - -<span class="i0">Played out their lay, it will be said</span><br /> -<span class="i2">A hundred stretches hence,</span><br /> -<span class="i0">With shovels they were put to bed</span><br /> -<span class="i2">A hundred stretches since!</span><br /> -<span class="i0">Some rubbed to whit had napped a winder,</span><br /> -<span class="i0">And some were scragged and took a blinder,</span><br /> -<span class="i0">Planted the swag, and lost to sight,</span><br /> -<span class="i0">We'll bid them, one and all, good night,</span><br /> -<span class="i2">A hundred stretches hence.</span><br /> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="hr2" /> - -<p class="indent"><span class="pagenum"><a name="page125" id="page125"></a>[pg 125]</span></p> - -<h3>TECHNICAL WORDS AND PHRASES<br /> -IN GENERAL USE BY PUGILISTS.</h3> - -<hr/> - - -<p>ABROAD. Confused; staggered.</p> - -<p>A GENERAL. Possessed of superior science.</p> - -<p>BACK-HANDED BLOW. Striking with the back of -the clenched fist.</p> - -<p>BARNEY. A fight that is sold.</p> - -<p>BEAK. The nose.</p> - -<p>BEAM-ENDS. Thrown or knocked into a sitting position.</p> - -<p>BOKO. The nose.</p> - -<p>BOTTOM. Power of endurance.</p> - -<p>BOUNCED. Frightened with stories of another's -prowess.</p> - -<p>BREAD-BASKET. The stomach.</p> - -<p>BUFFER. A pugilist.</p> - -<p>CHANCERY. When one boxer gets the head of his -opponent under his left arm, and holding him by -the left wrist, strikes him in the face with his right -hand, severely punishing him.</p> - -<p>CLARET. Blood.</p> - -<p>CHOPPER. A blow given from above.</p> - -<p>COLORS. The respective handkerchiefs that each -fights under.</p> - -<p>COMMISSARY. The person who fixes the ropes and -stakes.</p> - -<p>CONK. The nose.</p> - -<p>CORINTHIAN CANVAS. A term applied to the -<i>propria personæ</i> of an English nobleman who is an -amateur of pugilism.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page126" id="page126"></a>[pg 126]</span> -COUNTER-HITTING. When both parties in a fight -strike each other at the same time.</p> - -<p>CROSS-BUTTOCK. To get an adversary on the hip, -and then throw him.</p> - -<p>CUT OF TIME. Defeated; could not come up to -the call.</p> - -<p>DADDLES. The hands.</p> - -<p>DOING WORK. Training.</p> - -<p>DOUBLER. A blow which causes the person struck -to bend forward.</p> - -<p>DUKES. The hands.</p> - -<p>DUTCH COURAGE. Cowardice; one who drinks -liquor to stimulate his courage.</p> - -<p>ENOUGH. When one of the boxers wishes to discontinue -the fight he exclaims, "Enough."</p> - -<p>FACER. A severe blow struck directly in the face.</p> - -<p>FEINTING. Making pretense of delivering a blow.</p> - -<p>FIBBING. Short, quick blows when the parties are -close to each other.</p> - -<p>FIDDLER. A pugilist that depends more upon his -activity than upon his bottom.</p> - -<p>FINICKING FOP. A dandy or empty swell who -makes much ado about pugilism, because he thinks -it knowing and stylish.</p> - -<p>FINE FETTLE. In good condition; healthy.</p> - -<p>FLABBY. The flesh in a soft condition.</p> - -<p>FLOORER. A knock-down blow.</p> - -<p>FORKS. The hands.</p> - -<p>FOSSED. Thrown.</p> - -<p>FOUL. An unwarrantable interference on the part -of a second to frustrate an opponent's designs.</p> - -<p>FOUL BLOW. A blow given contrary to the accepted -rules of the ring; below the belt.</p> - -<p>GAME. Courageous, unflinching.</p> - -<p>GAVE IN. Yielded.</p> - -<p>GLUTTONY. Punishing a man severely, without -special regard to the science of pugilism. One who -can endure a great amount of punishment, is called -a <i>glutton</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page127" id="page127"></a>[pg 127]</span> -GOB. The mouth.</p> - -<p>GOOD-WOOLED. A man of unflinching courage.</p> - -<p>GOT HOME. A telling blow.</p> - -<p>GROGGY. Not able to stand erect from punishment -received.</p> - -<p>GRUEL. Punishment.</p> - -<p>GULLET. The throat.</p> - -<p>HIGH-COLORING. Drawing blood freely.</p> - -<p>IN DIFFICULTIES. Nearly defeated.</p> - -<p>IN MOURNING. The eyes blackened and closed up.</p> - -<p>IN TROUBLE. Almost beaten.</p> - -<p>IVORIES. Teeth.</p> - -<p>JOLLYING. Low expressions used by one combatant -to the other during the fight, for the purpose of irritating -him and diverting his attention.</p> - -<p>KNOWLEDGE-BOX. The head.</p> - -<p>LAMPS. The eyes.</p> - -<p>LEARY. Active; smart.</p> - -<p>LEVELLER. When one of the contestants is brought -completely to the ground.</p> - -<p>LISTENERS. The ears.</p> - -<p>MARK. The pit of the stomach.</p> - -<p>MAZZARD. The mouth.</p> - -<p>MENTOR. A second in the ring.</p> - -<p>MILLED. <i>See Punished.</i></p> - -<p>MILLING COVES. Persons who regularly frequent -milling-pannies, for the purpose of exhibiting their -skill in boxing.</p> - -<p>MILLING-PANNIES. Places of resort for pugilists -in which sparring exhibitions are given.</p> - -<p>MITTENS. Boxing-gloves.</p> - -<p>MITTEN-MILL. A glove fight.</p> - -<p>MUSH. The mouth.</p> - -<p>NUT. The head.</p> - -<p>NUT-CRACKER. A severe blow on the head.</p> - -<p>OGLES. The eyes.</p> - -<p>PINS. The legs.</p> - -<p>PLUCK. Spirit; boldness; courage.</p> - -<p>POTATO-TRAP. The mouth.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page128" id="page128"></a>[pg 128]</span> -PUFFED. Swollen.</p> - -<p>PUNISHED. Severely bruised or cut in the fight.</p> - -<p>RALLY. When the fighters close up and strike promiscuously.</p> - -<p>RANTER. One who makes greater pretension of -skill in boxing than he exhibits when engaged in a -set-to.</p> - -<p>RIB-BENDER. A forcible hit in the ribs.</p> - -<p>RUBY. Blood.</p> - -<p>SHAKE-UP. A pugilistic encounter.</p> - -<p>SHIFT. When a boxer purposely falls to save himself -from a knock-down blow, he is said to make a -<i>shift</i>.</p> - -<p>SLOGGER. A pugilist.</p> - -<p>SMELLER. The nose.</p> - -<p>SPARRING GILLS. <i>See Milling Coves.</i></p> - -<p>STAMINA. Ability to punish and endure punishment.</p> - -<p>TAKE THE SHINE OUT. To lower the man's self-esteem.</p> - -<p>THE CROOK. Entwining the legs for a fall.</p> - -<p>THE SCRATCH. A line drawn in the middle of the -ring.</p> - -<p>THREW DOWN THE GLOVE. Gave a challenge.</p> - -<p>TIME. The breathing-space which, by the accepted -rules of the ring, is confined to a given period. -"Coming to time," is coming promptly to the line -at the expiration of the time agreed upon.</p> - -<p>TOLD OUT. Beaten; defeated.</p> - -<p>UPPER CUT. A terrific blow struck upwards.</p> - -<p>UPPER CUSTOMER. A term applied to patrons of -the ring amongst the upper classes who are not -themselves pugilists.</p> - -<p>UPPER STORY. The head.</p> - -<p>WHITE FEATHER. 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