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Dab, c. expert exquisite in Roguery; a Rum-dab, c. a very Dextrous fellow at fileing, thieving, Cheating, Sharping, &c. He is a Dab at it, He is well vers’d in it.
Dablers, in Poetry, meer Pretenders.
Dace, c. Two-pence, Tip me a Dace. c. Lend Two-pence, or pay so much for me.
Dag, a Gun.
Draggle-tail, a nasty dirty Slut.
Damask the Claret, Put a roasted Orange slasht smoking hot in it.
Damber, c. a Rascal.
Damme-boy, a roaring mad, blusttring fellow, a Scourer of the Streets.
Dancers, c. Stairs.
Dandyprat, a little puny Fellow.
Dangle, to hang.
Dapper-fellow, a short, pert, brisk, tidy Fellow.
Darby, c. ready Money.
Darbies, c. Irons, Shackles or Fetters.
Darkmans, c. The night, The Child of darkness, c. a Bell-man.
Darkmans-Budge, c. a House-creeper, one that slides into a House in the dusk, to let in more Rogues to rob.
Dash, a Tavern-Drawer. A dash of Gentian, Wormwood, or stale Beer, a slight touch or tincture of each, to dash or brew as Vintners jumble their Wines together, when they sophisticate them. A dash of Rain, a sudden, short, impetuous pouring down, to distinguish it from a soft Shower, or a sprinkling of Rain.
Dastard, a Coward.
Dawn, Day-break or peep of Day, as the Dusk is twilight or shadow of the Evening. One may see day at a little hole, or discover the Lyon by his Paw.
Dawbing, bribing; also ill painting or thick laying on of Colours: Hence bedawb’d with Gold or Silver-Lace, when it is laid thick or close on.
Dead Cargo, not a quarter or half freighted. To wait for dead mens shoes, for what is little worth, or may never come to pass. To play or work for a dead horse, for a trifle.
Dead-men, empty-Pots or bottles on a Tavern-table.
Dear Joies, Irishmen.
Debauchee, a Rake-hel.
Decayed Gentleman or Tradesman, broken.
Deckt-out, tricked up in fine Cloaths.
Decus, c. a Crown or five shilling-piece. The Cull tipt me a score of Decuses, c. my Camerade lent me five Pounds.
Deft-Fellow, a tidy, neat little Man.
Defunct, dead and gone.
Degen, c. a Sword. Nimm the Degen, c. steal the Sword, or whip it from the Gentleman’s Side.
Deists, against the Trinity.
Dells, c. the twenty sixth order of the canting Tribe; young bucksome Wenches, ripe and prone to Venery, but have not lost their Virginity, which the upright man pretends to, and seizes: Then she is free for any of the Fraternity; also a common Strumpet.
Dequarting, throwing of the left Foot and Body backwards.
Dergin, a very short Man or Woman.
Desperate Fellow, fit for any lewd Prank or Villany, desperate condition, without any hopes.
Devil drawer, a sory Painter.
Deuseavile, c. the Country.
Deuseavile-Stampers, c. Country-Carriers.
Dews wins, c. two Pence.
Dewitted, cut in pieces, as that great Statesman John de Witt, was in Holland Anno 1672. by the Mob.
Diamond cut Diamond, bite the Biter.
Dibble, a poaking Stick to set Beans with.
Die like a Dog, to be hang’d, the worst Employment a Man can be put to. Die on a Fish-day, or in his shoes the same, die like a Rat. To be poysoned.
Dig the Badger, dislodge him.
Dimber, c. pretty.
Dimber-cove, a pretty Fellow.
Dim-mort, c. a pretty Wench.
Dimber-Damber, c. a Top-man or Prince among the Canting Crew; also the chief Rogue of the Gang, or the compleatest Cheat.
Dimple, a small graceful dent in the Chin called in Ignoramus, Loves pretty Dimple.
Din, c. what a din you keep! what a noise you make!
Dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without a Dinner.
Ding, c. to knock down. Ding the Cull, c. knock down the Fellow.
Ding-boy, c. a Rogue, a Hector, a Bully, Sharper.
Ding-dong, helter-skelter.
Dint, edge or force dint of the sword, edge of the Sword, dint of argument, force or power of Argument.
Dippers, Ana-baptists.
Dipt, engag’d or in debt, Land pawn’d or mortgag’d. Damnably dipt, deep in debt, He has dipt his Terra firma, he has mortgaged his dirty Acres. He has dipt his Bill, he is almost drunk. The cull has dipt his Tol, c. the Spark has pawn’d his Sword. The Dell has dipt her Rigging, c. the Whore has pawn’d her Cloaths.
Dirty Acres, an Estate in Land.
Dirty Beau, a slovenly Fellow, yet pretending to Beauishness.
Dirty puzzle, a sorry Slattern or Slut.
Disaffection, a disorder of any part of the Body. Disaffected to the State. Malecontents or factious.
Disgruntled, disobliged or distasted.
Disingenuous, or indirect dealing, oppos’d to dealing on the Square.
Disguis’d, drunkish.
Dismal ditty, a Psalm at the Gallows; also a dull Ballad, or silly Song.
Dive, c. to pick a Pocket.
Diver, c. a Pick-pocket.
Doash, c. a cloak.
Dock, c. to lie with a Woman. The Cull Dockt the Dell in the Darkmans the Rogue lay with a Wench all night.
Doctor, c. a false Die that will run but two or three Chances. They put the Doctor upon him, c. they cheated him with false Dice.
Dog’d, follow’d close, way-laid. Agree like Dog and Cat, of those that are at variance. Every Dog will have his day, none so wretched but has his good Planet. An easy thing to find a Stick to beat a Dog, or it costs little to trouble those that cannot help themselves. It is an ill Dog is not worth the whistling after; or spare to speak spare to speed. He play’d me a Dog-trick, he did basely and dirtily by me.
Dogged, Sullen, pouting, or in the Dumps.
Doggrel, a Term for the meanest and basest Verse; such as Ballads, Bellmens-songs, and the like Meeter of snow hill.
Doit, half a Farthing. Dutch Money, eight to a Penny, not a doit left, he has spent all.
Doll, a wooden Block to make up Commodes upon, also a Child’s Baby.
Doltish, c. Foolish.
Dolthead, a Fool.
Domerars, c. Rogues, pretending to have had their Tongues cut out, or to be born dumb and deaf, who artificially turning the tip of their Tongues, into their Throat, and with a stick makeing it bleed, weak people think it the stump of their Tongue; one of whom being askt hastily how long he had been dumb? answer’d but three weeks, this is the twenty first Order of Canters, the Word also signifing Mad-men.
Dotard, An old drowsy Fellow come to Dotage.
Doudy, An ugly coarse hard favored Woman. She is a meer Doudy that is, very ugly.
Dover court, all Speakers and no Hearers.
Down hills, c. Dice that run low.
Doxies, c. She-beggers, Trulls, Wenches. Whores, the twenty fifth Rank of Canters; being neither, Maids, Wives, nor Widdows, will for good Victuals, or a very small piece of money prostitute their Bodies, protesting they never did so before, and that meer necessity then oblig’d them to it (tho’ common Hackneys). These are very dextrous at picking Pockets (in the action) and so barbarous as often to murder the Children thus got.
Drab, a Whore, or Slut, a Dirty drab, a very nasty Slut.
Drag, a Fox’s Tail.
Dragg’d, through the Horse-pond or Bog-house. Bailives and Sergeants are served so that presume to arrest any Body within the Verge of the Court-royal, or Precincts of the Inns of Court.
Dragg’d up, as the Rakes call it, educated or brought up.
Dray, of Squirrels.
Drawers, c. Stockings.
Drawing, Beating the Bushes after the Fox.
Draw-Litches, c. the fourth (old) Order of the Canting Tribe of Rogues.
Drawling in Speech, or dreaming of Speech when the Words are drawn out at length, and keep as great a distance from one another, as if they were not all of a Company.
Dreaming Fellow, a dull, drowsy, heavy Creature. Drift, Design, Aim, Intent.
Drill, to draw in, and entice by degrees; also boring of Pearl.
Dripper, a sort of Clap, or venereal gleating.
Dripping-weather, the same with dropping.
Dromedary, c. a Thief or Rogue, also a kind of Camel with two bunches on his Back. You are a purple Dromedary, c. You are a Bungler or a dull Fellow at thieving.
Drommerars, c. see Domerars.
Droppers, c. Sweetners.
Drop a cog, c. to let fall (with design to draw in and cheat) a Piece of Gold; also the piece it self.
Drop-in-his-eye, almost drunk.
Droop, to fall away, to pine, to break with Age or Infirmity, a drooping bird that hangs the Wing.
Drovers, Horse-leaders in Fairs, or Markets, and Graziers or Drivers of Beasts.
Drub, beat with a stick or Cable-end.
Drudge, or rather dredge, the way of catching Oysters; also a laborious Person.
Drumbelo, a dull heavy Fellow. A meer drumbelo, a very Slug.
Drunk with a continuando, de die in diem.
Dry blows, or dry-basting for Rib roasting.
Dry-bob, a smart or sharp Repartee.
Dry-boots, a sly, close cunning Fellow.
Dry-drinking, without a bit of Victuals. Dry-wine, a little rough upon, but very grateful to the Palate.
Dry youth, sharp, close, witty.
Dub, c. a Pick-lock-key.
Dub, the Giger, c. open the Door. We’ll strike it upon the dub, c. we will rob that Place.
Dubber, c. a Picker of Locks.
Dub’d, Knighted.
A Duce, c. two Pence.
Duck-leggs, short-leggs.
Dudds, c. Cloaths or Goods. Rum dudds, c. fine or rich cloaths or Goods.
Dudd, Cheats wonne. c. Cloaths and things stolen. Abram Cove has wonne (or bit) Rum dudds. c. the poor Fellow has stolen very costly Cloaths.
Dudgeon, Anger, Quarrel, Displeasure.
Duke of Exeter’s Daughter, a Rack in the Tower of London, to torture and force Confession; supposed to be introduced by him, sometimes (formerly) now not in use.
Dullard, a heavy dull stupid Fellow.
Dulpickle, the same.
Dum-found, to beat soundly. I dumfounded the sawcy Rascal, I bang’d his Back tightly. In the dumps, troubled, chagrin, melancholic.
Dunaker, c. a Cow-stealer.
Duncarring, Buggering.
Dunner, a Sollicitor for Debts.
Dunn’d, teiz’d, or much importun’d.
Dunder head, a dull heavy Creature.
Dundering Rake, a thundering Rake, or of the Rank, one develishly lewd.
Dup, c. to enter, or open the door, dup the ken, c. enter the House, dup the boozing ken and booz a gage, c. go into the Ale-house and drink a Pot.
Durance, a Prison.
Durk, a short Dagger, in use with the Scots, as Stilletto is with the Italians.
Dusk, or Twilight, the shadow of the Evening, as Dawn is Daybreak or peep of Day.
Dust, money, down with your Dust, deposit your Money, pay your Reckoning. Also in another sence, dust it away drink quick about.
Dutchified, in the Dutch Interest, or of that Faction.
Dutch-Reckoning, or Alte-mall, a verbal or Lump-account without particulars.