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YOGABULUM; 
 
 OE, 
 
 THE EOGUE'S LEXICON 
 
 COMPILED FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOUKCEa 
 
 BY 
 JPBOIAL JUSTICE, CHIEF OF POLIOS, ETC., ETC. 
 
 NEW-YORK: 
 
 PUBLISHED BY GEORGE Vf. MATSELL & CO. 
 
 PnOPRIETORS OF THE NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE. 
 
 No. 3, Tryon Row. 
 
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 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by 
 
 GEORGE W. MATSELL & CO., 
 
 in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of tho United 
 States for the Southern District of Now-York. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 When a young man enters upon the business of life, 
 he may have some indeQnite idea of what he intends to 
 follow out to the close thereof; but he soon finds him- 
 se'f surrounded by circumstances which control his 
 actions and business pursuits, and load him into chan- 
 nels 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 com- 
 piler of a language used in all parts of the world, and 
 yet understood connectedly but by few persons. 
 
 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 tlieir comprehensive meaning, have come into 
 general use, so that a Vocabulum or Rogue's Lexicon, 
 has become a necessity to the general reader, but 
 
IV PREFACE. 
 
 more especially to those who read police intelli- 
 gence. 
 
 Occupying the position of a Speciul Juslico, 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 case, 
 and thus acquire a knowledge of their character, be- 
 sides 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 t.isk 
 was no mean undertaking, as I found that it required 
 years of diligent labor to hunt up the various authori- 
 ties, and these when found proved only parti.iUy avail- 
 able, as much of the language in present use was un- 
 written, and could only bo obtained by personal study 
 among flrst-class thieves who had been taught it in 
 their youth. The difflculties surrounding it, did not 
 deter me from following out my I'osolution, 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 
 
PEBFACE. V 
 
 any man engaged in police business can not excel 
 without understanding the rogues' language, in the 
 studj of which they will find this Lexicon of invalua- 
 ble service 
 
 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 pul- 
 pit, 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 elite of the Fifth Avenue pay 
 homage to their worth, by frequently using them to 
 express thoughts, that could not, othersvise, find a fit- 
 ting 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 TCiiropo, 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 
 
VI PEBFACB. 
 
 of these words are peculiarly national, but as a general 
 thing the language of the rojue in New-York is the 
 language of the rogue the world over. 
 
 Among policemen, not only in this city but in dif- 
 ferent 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 "patois" to the exclusion of the true 
 " Parisian French." This departure from the true 
 meaning of the words used is mischievous in its tend- 
 ency, 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 fallibility in these matters, yet I believe that 
 I have arrived at as high a degree of perfection as is 
 now attanab'e. 
 
 To the readers of the National Poliai Oaiette, 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 compre- 
 hend language that the editors and correspondents are 
 frequently compelled to use in order to convey the 
 idea as understood by rogues in general. 
 
 Geo. W. Matsell. 
 New-York, 1859. 
 
VOCABULUM ; 
 
 OR, 
 
 THE ROGUE'S LEXIC01(. 
 
 ABRAHAM. To sham ; to pretend sickness. 
 
 ABRAHAM COVE. A naked or poor man ; a beg- 
 gar in rags. 
 
 ACADEMY. A penitentiary, or prison for minor of- 
 fenses. 
 
 ACCOUNTS. To cast accounts; to vomit. 
 
 ACE OF SPADES. A widow. 
 
 ACKRUFFS. River-thieves ; river-pirates. 
 
 ACORN. A gallows. 
 
 ADAM. An accomplice ; a pal. 
 
 ADAM-TILER. A fellow whose bu.siness it is to re- 
 ceive the plunder from the " File" — the one who 
 picked the pocket — and get away with it. 
 
 ACTEON. A cuckold. 
 
 ACTIVE CITIZEN. A louse. 
 
 ADDLE-COVE. A foolish man. 
 
 AGOG. Anxious; impatient; all-agog. 
 
 AGOGARE. Anxious; eager; impatient; be quick. 
 
 AIR AND EXERCISE. To work in the stone quarry 
 at Blackwell's Island or at Sing Sing. 
 
 ALAMORT. Confounded; struck dumb; unable to 
 say or do any thing. 
 
 ALBERT. A chain. 
 1 
 
8 VOCABULUII ; OR, 
 
 ALBONIZED. Whitened. 
 
 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." 
 ALTEMAL. All in a heap , without items ; the sum 
 
 total. 
 ALTITUDES. A state of drunkenness ; being high. 
 AMBIDEXTER. One who befriends both sides; a 
 
 lawyer who takes fees from both parties in a suit. 
 AMERAOE. Very near ; don't go far ; be within call. 
 AMPUTATE YOUR MAHOGANY or TIMBER. Be 
 
 off quick ; away with you. 
 AMUSE, 'io amuse ; to invent plausible stories and 
 
 thereby rob or cheat unsuspecting persons. 
 AMUSERS. Fellows who carry snuff or pepper in 
 their pockets, which they throw into a person's eyes 
 and then run avvay ; the accomplice rushing up to 
 the victim, pretending to assist, robs him while suf- 
 fering with pain. 
 ANGLERS. Small thieves who place a hook on the 
 end of a stick, and therewith steal from store-win- 
 dows, doors, etc. It also applies to fencemen ; put- 
 ters up, etc. 
 ANOINTED. Flogged. 
 ANKLE. "A sprained ankle ;'' the mother of a child 
 
 born out of wedlock. 
 ANODYNE. Death; to anodyne, to kill. "Ahr 
 say. Bill, vy don't yer hopon that jug and draw the 
 cole?" "Vy, my cove, aren't you avare as how a 
 bloke snoses hin it?" "Veil, vot hof it, aren't yer 
 habel to put him to hanodyne ?" 
 APPLES AND PEARS. Stairs. 
 AQUA. Water. 
 
 ARCH-OOVES. Chief of the gang or mob ; head- 
 men ; governors ; presidents. 
 ARCH-DUKE. A funny fellow. 
 AROH-GONNOFF. The chief of a gang of thieves. 
 
THE eogue's lexicon. 9 
 
 ARD. Hot. 
 
 ARK. A ship ; n, boat ; a vessel. 
 
 ARTFUL DODGERS. Lodgers; fellows who dare 
 not sleep twice in the same place for fear of arrest. 
 
 ARTICLE. Man. "You're a pretty article." A 
 term of contempt. 
 
 ARTICLES. A suit of clothes. 
 
 ARTIST. An adroit rogue. 
 
 ASSAY. Go on ; commence; try it. 
 
 ATTLEBOROUGII. Not genuine ; made to imitate. 
 At the town of Attleborough jewelry is manufactur- 
 ed from the ba.sor metals, or so alloyed as to deceive 
 those who arc not good judges of the genuine article. 
 
 AUTUM. A church. 
 
 AUTUM-BAWLER. A parson. 
 
 AUTUM-DIVERS. Pickpockets who practise in 
 churches. 
 
 AUTUMED. Married. 
 
 AUTUM-COVE. A married man. 
 
 AUTUM-CACKLER. A married woman. 
 
 AUTUM-JET. A parson. 
 
 AAV^AKR. To knoiv ; to let know. 
 
 B 
 
 BABY PAPS. Caps. 
 
 BACONNING. A fat round face ; a full pale face. 
 
 BADGER. A panel thief; a fellow who robs a man's 
 
 pocket after he has been enticed into bed with a 
 
 woman ; to torment 
 BAGGED. Imprisoned. 
 BAG GP NAILS. Every thing in confusion. 
 BALLUM-RANCUM. A ball where all the dancers 
 
 are thieves and prostitutes. 
 BALSAM. Money. 
 BALL. Prison allowance. 
 BAM. A lie ; to bamboozle ; humbug. 
 BANDOG. A civil ofScer. 
 1* 
 
10 vocabulum; oe, 
 
 BANDERO. A widow's weeds. 
 BANGUP. The best ; very fine ; height of the fash- 
 ion. 
 BAPTIZED. Liquor that has been watered. 
 BARDY. A sixpence. 
 
 BARKER. One who patrols the streets for customers 
 in front of his employer's shop ; vide Chatham street. 
 
 BARKING. Shooting. 
 
 BARKING-IRONS. Pistols. 
 
 BARNACLES. A good booty ; a pair of spectacles ; 
 Imiid-cufVs. 
 
 BARREL FEVER. Delirium tremens. 
 
 BASTER. A house-thief 
 
 BAT. A prostitute who walks ihe streets only at Dight 
 
 BAZAAR. A counter. 
 
 BEAK. A magistrate; a judge. 
 
 BEAKQUERE. A sharp, strict magistrate who is at- 
 tentive to his duty. 
 
 BEAT. Get the best of him; "Beat the flat;" rob 
 the man. 
 
 BEATERS. ) r> . 
 
 BEATER-OASES, f ^°°'^- 
 
 BEAU -TRAPS. "Well-dressed sharpers; fortune- 
 hunters. 
 
 BEANS. Eive-doUar gold-pieces. 
 
 BELCHER TIE. A flashy neckerchief. 
 
 BEN. A vest. 
 
 BENE. Good ; first rate. 
 
 BENE-BOUSB. Good drink. 
 
 BENE-COVR. A good man. 
 
 BENEN-OOVE. A better man. 
 
 BENE-OULL. A good fellow. 
 
 BENE-DARKMAN. Good night. 
 
 BENDER. A spree ; a drunken frolic. 
 
 BENFLAKE. A cheap beef-steak. 
 
 BENISON. A blessing. 
 
 BENJAMIN. A coat. 
 
 BENS. Fools. 
 
 BESS. A pick of a very simple construction. 
 
THE ROGUE'S LEXICON. 11 
 
 BETSEY. See Be»s. 
 
 BETTING HIS EYES. A term used by gamblers 
 when a " sucker" looks on at the game, but does 
 not bet. 
 
 BETTY. A picklock. 
 
 BEVER. An afternoon lunch. 
 
 BIENLY. Excellently, " She coaxed so bienly." 
 
 BIG THING. A rich booty. 
 
 BILBOA. A pointed instrument. 
 
 BILK. To cheat. 
 
 BILLY. A piece of whalebone or rawhide about 
 fourteen inches long, with an OTal-shaped lump of 
 lead at each end, one larger than the other, the whole 
 being covered with buckskin or india-rubber. 
 
 BILLY BUTTER. Mutton. 
 
 BILLY NOODLE. A soft fellow that believes the 
 girls are all in love with him. 
 
 BILL OF SALE. A widow's weeds. 
 
 BINGO. Liquor. 
 
 BINGO-BOY. A drunken man. 
 
 BINGO-MORT. A drunken woman. 
 
 BINGAVAST. Get you gone, "Bing we to New- 
 York ;" go we to New-York. 
 
 BIRDLIME. Time. Time arrests and reveals all things. 
 
 BIRTHDAY SUIT. Stark naked. 
 
 BIT. Outwitted, "The cove was bit ;" "The cove has 
 bit the flat, and pinched his cole," outwitted and 
 robbed him. 
 
 BIT. Done ; sentenced ; convicted. 
 
 BITE. To steal ; to rob. 
 
 BLACK COVE-DUBBER. A turn-key; a prison 
 keeper. 
 
 BLACK ACT. Picking locks. 
 
 BLACK-BOX. A lawyer. 
 
 BLACK FRIARS. Look out. 
 
 BLACK OINTMENT. Raw meat 
 
 BLACK SPY. The devil. 
 
 BLACKLEG. A gambler. 
 
 BLARNEY. A picklock. 
 
12 vocAnuLUM ; or, 
 
 BLEAK-MORT. A pretty girl. 
 
 BLEED. To compel a person to give money under 
 tlircat of exposure. 
 
 BLEAK. Iliindsome ; " The Moll is bleak," the girl 
 is haiid.soinc. 
 
 BLEATINU IIIG. Sheep-stealing. 
 
 BLINK. Not to see when one may. " The copper 
 blinks, and won't drop to me," i. e. the officer pre- 
 tends not to see me ; the oflicer looks another way. 
 To go to sleep. 
 
 BLOCK-IIOUSB. A prison. 
 
 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. 
 
 BLOW A CLOUD. Smoke a segar or pipe. 
 
 BLOKE. A man. 
 
 BLOTTED. Written. 
 
 BLOW. To inform. 
 
 BLOSS. Woman ; mistress ; girl. 
 
 BLUDGET. A female thief who decoys her victims 
 into alley-ways, or other dark places, for the pur- 
 pose of robbing them. 
 
 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 unfre- 
 quented 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 ac- 
 cuses the man with having seduced his wife. The 
 poor fool gets away as fast as possible, and does not 
 know that he is robbed. 
 
 BLUE-BILLY. A peculiar handkerchief. 
 
 BLUE-PIGEON-FLYING. Stealing lead off the tops 
 of houses. 
 
 BLUE-PLUM. A bullet; "Surfeit the bloke with 
 blue-plum," shoot him. 
 
 BLUE-RUIN. Bad gin. 
 
THE HOGUE'S lexicon. 13 
 
 BLUFF. To bluster; look big. 
 
 BLUFFER. The landlord of a hotel. 
 
 BLUNDERBUSS. An ignorant, blustering fellow. 
 
 BLUNT. Money. 
 
 BOARDING-HOUSE. City prison ; the Tombs. 
 
 BOARDING-SCHOOL. Penitentiary. 
 
 BOAT. " To boat with another ;" to go in with him ; 
 to be his partner in the same boat — in the same 
 scrape. 
 
 BOATED. Transported; gone to sea. 
 
 BOH. The fellow that carries oif the plunder ; a shop- 
 lifter ; a cover or staller. 
 
 BOBBIE. A policeman. 
 
 BOB-CULL. A good fellow. 
 
 BOB MY PAL. My girl. 
 
 BODY-COVER. A coat. 
 
 BOGUS. Bad coin ; false. 
 
 BOKE. The nose. 
 
 BOLT. Run away. 
 
 BONE. To take ; to steal ; to ask him for it. 
 
 BONEBOX. The mouth. 
 
 BONED. Arrested ; taken ; carried off. 
 
 BONESETTER. A hard-riding horse. 
 
 BONNET. Hat. " Bonnet him," knock his hat down 
 over his eyes. 
 
 BONNETTER. One who entices another to play ; or 
 tlie fellow who takes the " flat" in hand after the 
 " roper in" has introduced him to the house. 
 
 BOOTH. A place in which thieves congregate. 
 
 BOOSING-KEN. A drinking-shop. 
 
 BOODLE. A quantity of bad money. 
 
 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, hav 
 ing but one " piece" at a time. The fellow with the 
 boodle keeps close in the wake of the shover, to re- 
 ceive the good money, and supply him with the 
 counterfeit, ns occasion requires. 
 
 BOOBY-HATCH. Station-house; watch-house. 
 
14 vocabulum; ok, 
 
 BOOKED. Arrested. 
 
 BOOLY-DOG. An officer ; a policeman. 
 
 BOOZE. Intoxicating drink. 
 
 BORDELLO. A house oF ill-fame. 
 
 BOSHING. A flogging. 
 
 BOTTLB-IIBAD. A stupid fellow. 
 
 BOTS. Boots. 
 
 BOUNCE. To scold ; blow up ; to swagger ; to con- 
 vince by the force of sound more than sense. 
 
 BOUNCER. A fellow that robs while bargaining 
 with the store-keeper. 
 
 BOUNCING CHEAT. A bottle. 
 
 BOUNG. A purse. 
 
 BOVVER. A prison. 
 
 BOWSPRIT IN PARENTHESIS. A pulled nose. 
 
 BRACKET-MUG. A very ugly face. 
 
 BRADS. Money. 
 
 BRAG. To boast. 
 
 BRASS. Money. 
 
 BREAD-BAG. The stomach. 
 
 BREAKUPS. Steamboat-landings; dispersing of peo- 
 ple from theatres, lecture-rooms, churches, etc. 
 
 BREAK-'O-DAY DRUM. A place for the sale of li- 
 quor, that never closes day or night. 
 
 BRIEF. Duplicate. 
 
 BROADY. Materials of any kind. 
 
 BROAD PITCHING. The game of three-card monte. 
 
 BROADS. Cards. 
 
 BROKEN LEG. A woman that has had a child out 
 of marriage. 
 
 BROTHER OP THE BLADE. A soldier. 
 
 BROTHER OF THE BOLUS. A doctor. 
 
 BROTHER OF THE BUSKIN. An actor. 
 
 BROTHER OP THE BUNG. A brewer. 
 
 BROTHER OP THE COIP. A counsellor-at-law. 
 
 BROTHER OF THE GUSSET. A pimp. 
 
 BROTHER OF THE QUILL. An author; an editor. 
 
 BROTHER OF THE S'l'RING. Fiddler, or musician. 
 
 BROTHER OF THE SURPLICE. A minister. 
 
THE EOGUIS'S LEXICON. 15 
 
 BROTHER OF THE WHIP. A coachman. 
 
 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." 
 
 BRUSHER. A full glass. 
 
 BRUSHING UP A FLAT. Praising or flattering. 
 
 BRUISER. A fighter. 
 
 BUBB. To drink ; " Bubb your lush,'' drink your grog. 
 
 BUBBLE. To cheat. 
 
 BUCK. A hack-driver ; bail. 
 
 BUCKET. A live man. 
 
 BUCKLER. A collar. 
 
 BUCKS-FACE. A cuckold. 
 
 BUDGE. A thief that sneaks into a store, and hides 
 until the persons who lock up are gone, when he 
 lots in his accomplice. 
 
 BUFE. A dog. 
 
 BUFE-NAPPER. A dog-thief; a mean rogue. 
 
 BUFFER. A pugilist. 
 
 BUFFET. A false swearer. 
 
 BUFFING IT HOME. Swearing point blank to a 
 circumstance or thing. 
 
 BUG. A breast-pin. 
 
 BUGGING. Taking money from a thief by a police- 
 man. 
 
 BUGABOSE. Sheriff's officers. 
 
 BUGAROOH. Handsome ; very pretty. 
 
 BUGGER. A pickpocket; a buggsman. 
 
 BULL. A locomotive. 
 
 BULL-DOGS. Pistols. 
 
 BULL-TRAPS. Rogues who personate officers for 
 the purpose of extorting money. 
 
 BULLY. A lump of lead tied in a corner of a ker- 
 chief 
 
 BULLY TIMES. Good times. 
 
 BULK AND PILE. Shop-lifters ; two pickpockets 
 operating together — the " bulk" jostles the party 
 that is to be robbed, and the " file" steals the trea- 
 sure. 
 
16 VOCADULUM ; OK, 
 
 BUMMER. A sponger. 
 
 BUMY-JUIOE. Porter or beer. 
 
 BUN. A fellow that can not be shaken off. 
 
 BUNG. A purse or pocket. 
 
 BUllNINO. Cheating. 
 
 BURNERS. Rogues who cheat countrymen with 
 false cards or dice. 
 
 BURSTER. A burglar. Sometimes it denotes bread. 
 
 BURNT OUT. Worn-out rou6s ; fellows that sor- 
 row for the past, fear the future, and can only make 
 the present endurable through means that are re- 
 volting to human reason. 
 
 BURST. The conclusion of an entertainment ; a 
 spree. 
 
 BUSTLED. Confused ; perplexed ; puzzled. 
 
 BUS-NAPPER. A constable. 
 
 BUST. To enter forcibly ; a burglary. 
 
 BUTTEKER. A store. 
 
 BUTTER-KEN. A shop or store. 
 
 BUTTERED. Whipped. 
 
 BUTTON. To secure ; to entice a simpleton to play. 
 
 BUZZINGr. 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." 
 
 CAB-MOLL. A woman that keeps a bad house. 
 CACKLE. To blab. " The cove cackles"— tells all 
 
 he knows. 
 CAD. A baggage-smasher ; a railroad conductor. 
 CADGER. A beggar ; a mean thief 
 CADY. A hat. 
 CAG. Sulky ; morose 
 
THE EOGUE'S LEXICOir. ' 11 
 
 CAIN AND ABEL. A table. 
 
 CAKE. An easy fool of a policeman ; a flat cop. 
 
 CALFSKIN FIDDLE. A drum. 
 
 CALLE. A gown. 
 
 CAM. Cambric, " Cam wiper." Cambric kerchieE 
 
 OAMRSOR. A shirt or shift 
 
 CAN. A dollar. 
 
 CANARY-BIRD. A convict. 
 
 CANK. Dumb. 
 
 CANT. A gift ; to give. 
 
 CANNIS COVE. A dog-man ; a dog-merchant ; a 
 
 dog-thief. 
 CAN'T SEE. Very drunk ; so that he can not see a 
 
 hole through a ladder. 
 CAP. To join in, " I will cap in with him" — I will 
 
 appear to be his friend. 
 CAPPER. One who supports another's assertion, to 
 a.ssist 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. 
 CAPER COVE. A dancing-master. 
 CAP BUNG. Hand it over ; give it to me. 
 CAPTAIN HEEMAN. A blustering fellow ; a cow- 
 ard. 
 CAPTAIN TOPER. A smart highwayman. 
 CAP YOUR LUCKY. Run away. 
 CARAVAN. Plenty of cash ; rich; money enough. 
 CARLEll. A clerk. 
 CART OF TOU.S. A gift of clothes. 
 CARREL. Jealous. 
 
 OASA. 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 tlic house. 
 CASE. A dollar. 
 CASS. Cheese. 
 CASSE. A house. 
 
18 VOCABULUM ; OK, 
 
 CAST. Course, "lie traversed the cast" — he walked 
 
 the course. 
 CASTER. A cloak. 
 CASTOR. A hat. 
 CAT. A drunken prostitute ; a cross old woman ; a 
 
 muff; a pewter pot. 
 CATAMARAN. An ugly woman. 
 CAT AND MOUSE. Keeps house, " He keeps a cat 
 
 and mouse." 
 CATCII-POLE. A constable. 
 CATTER. A crowbar. 
 CAVED. Gave up ; surrendered. 
 CAXON. A wig. 
 
 CENTURY. One hundred dollars ; one hundred. 
 CHAFF. Humbug. 
 CHAFER. The treadmill. 
 CHAFFEY. Boisterous; happy; jolly. 
 CHAFFING. Talking; bantering. 
 CHALK. To mark ; to spot. 
 CHALKS. To walk your chalks ; to run away. 
 CHALK FARM. The arm. 
 CHANT. Talk ; to publish ; to inform. " Give mo 
 
 your chant," Give me your name. 
 CHARLEY. A gold watch. 
 CHARM. A picklock. 
 CHAPT. Dry; thirsty. 
 CHATES. Gallows. 
 CHANT COVES. Reporters. 
 CHATTS. Lice. Chatt, a louse. 
 CHATTY FEEDER. A spoon. 
 CHARLEY PRESCOT. A vest. 
 CHEESE. Be silent; listen. "Cheese it, the coves 
 
 are fly," be silent, the people understand us. 
 CHERRY PH'E. A pipe; a full-grown woman. 
 CHIE. Who is it ? do you know ? 
 OIHN. A child. 
 CHINK. Money. 
 CHINKERS. Handcuffs and leg-irons united by a 
 
 chain ; money. 
 
THE EOGUE'S LEXICON 19 
 
 CHIPS. Money.- 
 
 CHIVE. A flic or saw. " Chive your darbies," file 
 
 your irons off. 
 CHIVEY. To scold. 
 CHOKER. A neckerchief. 
 CIIOVEY. A shop or store. 
 
 CHOPPED UP. When large quantities of goods are 
 sold to a receiver, they arc divided into small lots, 
 and put into various houses, and this is called 
 "chopping up the swag." 
 CHRISTENING. Erasing the name of the maker 
 from a stolen watch and putting another in it3 
 place. 
 CHURCH. A term of endearment, " My church.'' 
 CHUMP. Head. 
 CITY COLLEGE. The Tombs. 
 CLANKERS. Silver vessels. 
 CLARET. Blood. 
 CLEAN. Expert; smart. 
 CLEAR. Run ; go away ; be off. 
 CLERKED. Imposed upon. " The flat will not be 
 
 clerked." 
 CLEYMANS. Artificial sores made by beggars to 
 
 impose on the credulous. 
 CLICK. A blow ; a thrust. 
 CLICKER. A knock down. 
 CLINK. To grab ; to snatch ; be quick ; start. 
 CLOUT. Handkerchief. 
 CLOWER. A basket. 
 CLY. A pocket. 
 CLY-FAKTNG. Picking pockets. 
 COACH VVHKHL. A dollar. 
 
 COCKED HIS TOES UP. Dead. " He is dead." 
 COCK AND HEN CLUB. A place frequented by 
 
 thieves of both sexes. 
 COCUM. Sly; wary. 
 COFFEE. Beans. 
 
 COG. To cheat ; to impose ; a tooth. 
 COGLIONE. A fool ; a woman's dupe ; a fop. 
 
20 vooabulum; or, 
 
 COLD DECK. A prepared deck of cards played on 
 a novice or "sucker." 
 
 COLD PIG. A person that has been robbed of his 
 clothes. 
 
 COLLAR. To seize or take. 
 
 COLLARED. Taken; arrested. 
 
 COLLEGE. A State prison. 
 
 COLLEGE CHUM. A fellow-prisoner. 
 
 COLTMAN. One who lets horses and vehicles to 
 l)iirp;lars. 
 
 COMMISTER. A parson. 
 
 COMMISSION. A shirt or shift. 
 
 COMMIT. To inform. 
 
 CONK. The nose. 
 
 CONSOLATION, Assassination. To kill a man, is 
 to give him consolation. 
 
 CONVENIENT. A mistress. 
 
 CONFIDENCE MAN. A fellow that by means of 
 extraordinary powers of persuasion gains tlie con- 
 fidence 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. lie 
 knows his subject is only a knave wrongside out, 
 and accordingly he offers him a protended gold 
 watch at the price of a brass one ; he call^ at the 
 front door with presents from no where, as none 
 could be expected; he writes letters ia the most 
 generous spirit, announcing large legacies to persons 
 who have no kin on the face of the earth wlio cares 
 a copper for them. The Confidence man is perfect- 
 ly aware that he has to deal with a man who expects 
 a result without having worked for it, who gapes, 
 
THE ROGUE'S LEXICON-. 21 
 
 and stands ready to grasp at magnificent returns. 
 The consequence is, that the victim — the confiding 
 man — is always done. 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; hut as this is bad doctrine, he waives 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. 
 
 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 pick- 
 pocket was arrested, and when searched by the 
 officer, a purse was found in his pantaloons pocket 
 full of money. 
 
 COPPED TO RIGHTS. Arrested on undoubted evi- 
 dence of guilt. 
 
 COPBUSY. The act of handing over stolen proper- 
 ty by a thief to one of his pals for the purpose of 
 preventing its being found on him if arrested. 
 
 COOK. Melt; dissolve. 
 
 CORINTH. A bad house. 
 
 CORINTHIANS. Bad women who move in respect- 
 able society. 
 
 CORN-THRASHERS. Farmers. 
 
 COUPLE. To live with. 
 
 COVE or COVEY. A m.an. 
 
 COVER. The follow that covers the pickpocket whilo 
 he is operating. 
 
 COVING. Palming; stealing jewelry before the face 
 and eyes of the owner, or person that is selling it. 
 
 COW. A dilapidated prostitute. 
 
 COW'S GREASE. Butter. 
 
 COW JUICE. Milk. 
 
 COWS AND KISSES. Miss, or the ladies. 
 
 2* 
 
22 TOCABULUM ; OR, 
 
 CRACK. To force ; to burst open. 
 
 CRACKSMAN. A burglar who uses force instead of 
 picklocks or false keys. 
 
 CRABS. Feet. 
 
 CRAB-SIIELLS. Shoes. 
 
 CRAMP WORDS. Sentence of death. 
 
 CRAMPED. Killed; murdered; hanged. 
 
 CRAMMER. A falsehood. 
 
 CRAMP-RINGS. Shackles or handcuffs. 
 
 CRANKY. Uiul; insane. 
 
 CUANKY-IiaTClI. An insane asylum. 
 
 CRAMPING CULL. E.xccutioner ; hangman. 
 
 CRASH. To kill. " Crash that cull," kill that fellow. 
 
 CREAMY. Secretly. 
 
 CREATURE. Liquor. 
 
 CREEME. To slip money into the hands of another. 
 
 CRIB. A house. 
 
 CROAKE. To murder ; to die. 
 
 CROAKED. Dead. 
 
 CROAKERS. Newspapers. 
 
 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. 
 
 CROSLEITE. To cheat a friend. 
 
 CROSS. Dishonest. 
 
 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 wait- 
 ing for their victims on the cross-roads. 
 
 CROSS-DRUM. A drinking-placo where thieves re- 
 sort. 
 
 CROSSED. To meet another and pass him. "'The 
 swell moved as he crossed «ie," the gentleman bowed 
 as he passed me. 
 
 CROSS-KANNINO. Ticking 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 hiui, first 
 folds his arms across his breast ; and pretending to 
 
THE eogue's lexicon. 23 
 
 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 at- 
 tention, and, while in this attitude, with tlie hand 
 which is stretched across his own breast, he twists 
 tlie watch from the other's pocket. 
 
 CROW. The crow is the fellow that watches outside 
 when his accomplices are inside, and gives them 
 warning of the approach of danger. 
 
 CRUMEY. Fat ; pockets full ; plenty. 
 
 CRUMP. One who procures false witnesses. 
 
 CRUSHER. A policeman. 
 
 CUES. The points. 
 
 CUFFIR. A man. 
 
 CUFFIN QUEERS. Magistrates. 
 
 OULING. Snatching reticules and purses from ladies. 
 
 CULL. A man ; sometimes a partner. 
 
 CUPS [10 r. Drunk. 
 
 CUPBOARD LOVE. lie or she loves only for what 
 they can get. 
 
 CURLERS. Fellows who sweat gold coins by putting 
 them in a bag, and after violently shaking, gather 
 the dust. 
 
 CURTISONS. Broken-down lawyers ; Tombs skin- 
 ners. 
 
 CURBINGLAW. Stealing goods out of windows. 
 
 CUSSINE. A male. 
 
 CUT. To abandon; to renounce acquaintance : drunk: 
 "Half cut," half drunk. 
 
 OUT BENE. Pleasant words ; to speak kind. 
 
 CUTTER. A peculiar instrument that first-class 
 screwsmen (burglars) use for cutting through iron 
 chests doors etc. 
 
 CUTTING HIS EYES. Beginning to see; learning; 
 suspicious. 
 
 CUTTY-EYED. To look out of the corner of the 
 eyes ; to look suspiciou.s ; to leer ; to look askance. 
 " The copper cutty-eyed us," the officer looked sus- 
 picious at us. 
 
24 vocabulum; or, 
 
 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. 
 
 CYMBAL. A watch. 
 
 D 
 
 DACE. Two cents. 
 
 DADDLES. Hands. 
 
 DAGAN. A sword. 
 
 D AIRY. The breasts of a woman that suckles a baby. 
 
 DATSY-KOOTS. Boots and shoos. 
 
 DAISyVILLK The country. 
 
 DAKMA. Silence ; " Dakma the bloke, and cloy his 
 cole," silence the man, and steal his money. 
 
 DAMBER. First. 
 
 DAMBEil COVE. The head man. 
 
 DANAN. Stairs. 
 
 DANCE AT HIS DEATH. To be hung; "May ho 
 dance when he dies," may he be hanged. 
 
 DANCERS. Shooting stars ; fellows who do not re- 
 main long in one place. 
 
 DANCING. Sneaking up stairs to commit a larceny. 
 
 DANGLER. A roue ; a seducer. 
 
 DANGLERS. A bunch of seals. 
 
 DAPPER. Well made. " The crack was dapper." 
 
 DARBIES. Handcuffs; fetters. 
 
 DARBY. Cash. " Eork over the darby," hand over 
 the cash. 
 
 DARK CULLEY. A man who visits his mistress 
 only at night. 
 
 DARKEY. A dark lantern. " The coves had screwed 
 tJ'.e gig of the jug, when Jack flashed the darkey 
 into it, and found it planted full of coppers. ' Bin- 
 gavastl' was the word ; some one has cackled," the 
 thieves had opened the door of a bank with false 
 
TIIR KOGUE'S LEXICON. 25 
 
 keys, and when they looked in with the aid of a 
 dark lantern, they found the place filled with offi- 
 cers. One of the thieves cried out : "Be off I soma 
 one has cackled." 
 
 DAUB. A ribbon. 
 
 DAA'^EY. Affidavit ; to witness under oath. 
 
 DAWB. To bribe. " The bene cove was scragged, 
 because he could not dawb the beak," the good fel- 
 low was hanged, because he could not bribe the 
 judge. 
 
 DAY-LIGITTS. The eyes. 
 
 DKAT) BROKE. Not a cent. 
 
 DEAD BEAT. Without hope ; certain. 
 
 DEAD GAME. A term used by gamblers when they 
 have a certainty of winning. 
 
 DEAD TO RIGHTS. Positively guilty, and no way 
 of getting clear. 
 
 DEAD SET. A concentrated attack on a person or 
 thing. 
 
 DEAD SWAG. Not worth so much as it was thought 
 to be ; things stolen that are not easily disposed of. 
 
 DEATH HUNTKR. The undertaker. 
 
 DEHK THE COVE. See the fellow ; look at him. 
 
 DELLS. A prostitute. 
 
 DERREY. An eye-glass. 
 
 DEVIL BOOKS. Cards. 
 
 DEW-BBATERS. The feet. 
 
 DEWS. A gold eagle ; ten dollars. 
 
 DIAL-PLATE. The face. 
 
 DIARY. To remember; to enter in a book. "I'L 
 diary the joskin," I'll remember the fool. 
 
 DIB. Portion or share. 
 
 DIBS. Money. 
 
 DIDDLE. Liquor. 
 
 DIDDLE COVE. A landlord. 
 
 DIE. Dummy, or pocket-book. 
 
 DIET COVE. A neat little man. 
 
 JIGGERS. Finger-nails. 
 
 DIMBER. Handsome; pretty 
 3 
 
26 TOCABrrLUM ; or, 
 
 DIMBER-MORT. Pretty girl ; enchanting girL 
 
 DING. To throw away ; to strilie. 
 
 D. I. 0. Damn it I I'm off. 
 
 DIP. A kiss in the dark ; a pickpocket. 
 
 DIP. To pick a pocket; the act of putting a hand 
 into a pocket. 
 
 DIPT. Pawned. 
 
 DISMAL DITTY. The psalm or hymn sung by per- 
 sons just before they are hanged. 
 
 DISPATCH. A mittimus ; a warrant of arrest. 
 
 DIVKfl. A piek pocket 
 
 DIVING. Picking pockets. 
 
 DIVING-BELL. A ram-shop in a basement. 
 
 DOASH. A cloak. 
 
 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 in- 
 quired for are either in the back of the stoi-e or up 
 stairs. In the absence of the porter, the other fel- 
 low robs the store. 
 
 DOCTORS. False cards or dice. 
 
 DOCTOR GREEN. A young inexperienced fellow. 
 
 DOG-NIPPERS. Rogues who steal dogs, and restore 
 them to their owners after a reward has been of- 
 fered. 
 
 DOGS-PASTE. Sausage-meat; mince-meat. 
 
 DOING POLLY. Picking oakum in prison. 
 
 DOLLY SHOP. A loan office. 
 
 DOMESTIC. Made at home. The man robbed him- 
 self; some one in the house assisted the thieves. 
 
 " You may look at home for the thief" 
 
 DOMMBRER. A fellow that pretends to be deaf and 
 dumb. 
 
 DONE. Convicted. 
 
 DONKEY-RIDING. Cheating in weight or measure; 
 miscounting. 
 
 DONNEZ. To give. 
 
THE kogue's lexicon. 27 
 
 DOPEY. A thief's mistress. 
 
 DOOKIN COVE. A fortune-teller. 
 
 DOSE. Burglary. 
 
 DOSS. A bed. "The badger got under the doss, 
 and fiisked the bloke's pokes of two centuries and a 
 half, and then bounced the flat till he mizzled." 
 
 DOTS. Money. 
 
 DOWN. Hatred ; dislike ; vindictive ; to suspect an- 
 other. "Tlic copper cutty-cycd nic and measured 
 my mug, and is down on the job," the officer looked 
 at me from the corners of his eye.=, and examined 
 my face ; he suspects what we are about. 
 
 DOWNEY. A smooth, pleasant talker ; a knowing 
 fellow. 
 
 DOWNER. A five cent piece. 
 
 DOWSE. To strike. "Dowse his mug." hit his face. 
 
 DONDITE. A street. 
 
 DOXIE. A girl. 
 
 DRAB. A nasty woman. 
 
 DRAG. A cart or wagon. 
 
 DRAGGING. Stealing from shop-doors. 
 
 DRAGONS. Sovereigns ; gold coins. 
 
 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. 
 
 DRAY. Three. 
 
 DRAW ^ Picking pockets. " I say, my kinchin, 
 
 DRAWING f what's your lay ?" "Vy, yersee, 
 
 mtAVVliNU. ^ as how I am learning to draw." 
 
 ])ROM10I)ARY. A clumsy, blunduving fellow. 
 
 DROPS, or DROPPERS. Eellows that cheat country- 
 men 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 country- 
 man is induced to purcliaso it, with the avowed in- 
 tention of finding the real owner, believing it to con- 
 tain good money. 
 
 DROPT DOWN. Low-spirited. "The kiddy dropt 
 
iS vocABULUir ; or, 
 
 down when He went to bo scragged," the youngster 
 ■was very low-spirited when he walked out to bo 
 hanged. 
 
 DRUM. A drinking-placo. 
 
 DRUMSTICK. A club. 
 
 DRY UP. Be silent ; stop that 
 
 DUB LAY. Robbing houses by picking the locks. 
 
 DUB. A key ; a picklock. 
 
 DUCE. Two cents; two. 
 
 DUB 0' THE HICK. A blow on the head. Tbo 
 copper tipt tho dromedary a dub o' the hick with 
 his drum-§tick. 
 
 DUB THE JIGGER. Open the door. 
 
 DUBLER. A picker of locks. 
 
 DUDS.' Clothes. 
 
 DUFF. Pudding. 
 
 DUFFER. A fellow, in the dress of a sailor, who 
 knocks at the ba.sement-door, and inquires if the 
 lady of the house does not want to buy some smug- 
 gled 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. 
 
 DUKES. The hands. 
 
 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! 
 
 DUN. A very importunate CTQditOT. Dunny, in the 
 provincial dialect of several counties in England, 
 signifles deaf; to dun, then, perhaps may mean to 
 deafen with importunate demands; it may have 
 been derived from the word donnez, which signifies 
 give. But tho 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 pro- 
 verb, when a man refused to pay, to say, " Why 
 
TUB nOGUE'S LEXICON. 29 
 
 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 VH. Dun was also the name for 
 the hangman, before that of Jack Ketch. 
 
 " And presently a halter got. 
 Made of the best strong liempea teer, 
 And ere a cat could lick her ear, 
 Had tied it up with as much art, 
 A3 Dun himself could do for's heart." 
 
 Collon's Virgil Tiav. Book IV. 
 
 DUNNAKTN. It can't be helped ; necessary. 
 
 DUNNOCK. A cow. 
 
 DUNEKER. A thief that steals cattle. 
 
 DUNNE Y. Deaf; to dun. 
 
 DUIUA. Fire. 
 
 DUSTMAN. Dead man. " Poor Bill is a dustman ; 
 he was a bene cove," poor Bill is dead ; he Was a 
 good man. 
 
 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. 
 
 E 
 
 EARTH-BATH. A grave. 
 
 EASE. To rob. 
 
 EASK THE COVE. Rob the man. 
 
 BASON. To tell. 
 
 EASY. Killed. " Make the cull easy," kill him ; gag 
 
 him. 
 EAT. To take back ; to recall ; to retract ; to unsay. 
 EAVES. A hen-roost ; a poultry-hou.so. 
 EAVESDROPPER. A mean follow ; a petty larceny 
 
 v.agabond. 
 EDGE. Encourage ; persuade ; induce. 
 3* 
 
30 vooabulum; oe, 
 
 EGROTAT. He is sick. 
 
 ELBOW. Turn the corner ; get out of sight. 
 ELBOW-SHAKER. A man that gambles with dice. 
 ELEPHANT. The fellow has an enormous booty, 
 
 and knows not how to secrete it. If he had less, ho 
 
 would bo able to save more. 
 ELPEN. Walk light ; on tiptoe. 
 EMPEROR. A drunken man. 
 ENGLISH BURGUNDY. London porter. 
 EQUIPT. Rich; full of money; well dressed, "The 
 
 cull equipped me with a douce of finifs," the man 
 
 gave me two five-dollar bills. 
 ERIFPS. Young thieves ; minor rogues. 
 ETERNITY-BOX. A coffin. 
 EVERLASTING. The treadmill. 
 EVIL. A wife ; a halter ; matrimony. 
 EWE. An old woman dressed like a young girl, "An 
 
 old ewe dressed lamb fashion." " A white ewe," 
 
 a boautifid woman. 
 EXKOUTION-DAY. Wash-day; cleaning house. 
 EYE. Nonsense ; humbug. 
 
 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. 
 
 FADGE. It won't do, " It won't fadge." 
 
 FAG. A lawyer's clerk'; to beat. "Fag the flat," 
 beat the fool. 
 
 FAGGER. A small boy put into a window to rob 
 the house, or to open it for others to rob. 
 
 FAGGOT. To bind. " Faggot the culls," bind the 
 men. 
 
 FAIKING. Cutting out the wards of a key. 
 
 FAITHFUL. A tailor that gives long credit. "I 
 say, Sam, what kind of crib was that you cracked f" 
 " Oh 1 it belonged to one of the faithful." 
 
THE ROGUE'S LEXICON, 31 
 
 FAKEMENT. A written or printed paper ; the writ- 
 ten deposition of a witness. 
 
 FAKER. A jeweller. 
 
 FAM GRASP. To shake hands. " Fam grasp the 
 cove," sliako liands with the fellow. 
 
 FAMiLY-MAN. A receiver of stolen goods from a 
 dwelling-house. 
 
 FAMLY-MAN. Connected with thieves. 
 
 FAM LAY. Thieves who rob jewellers' stores by 
 pretending to want to make a purchase. 
 
 FAMS. Hands. 
 
 FAN. A waistcoat. 
 
 FANNY BLAIR. The hair. 
 
 FARMER. An alderman. 
 
 FASTNER. A warrant. 
 
 FAT. Money. 
 
 FA'J'ERS. Fortune-tellers. 
 
 FEEDERS. Silver spoons or forks. " Nap the feeders," 
 steal the spoons. 
 
 FEKER. Trade ; profession. 
 
 FEINT. A pawn-broker. 
 
 FEN. A common woman. 
 
 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. 
 
 FENCED. Sold. 
 
 FERM. A hole. 
 
 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 tho street, and steal the money 
 in Ills pocket. 
 
 F115RINU. Striking with the fist. 
 
 FIDLAM BENS. Thieves who have no particular lay, 
 whose every finger is a fish-hook ; fellows that will 
 steal any thing they can remove. 
 
 FI]:)LAM COVES. Small thieves who steal any thing 
 they can lay hands on. 
 
 FIGDEAN. To kill. 
 
 FIGGER. A juvenile thief put through side-lights at 
 
32 voGABULUir ; or, 
 
 outside doors to unbolt the door and admit other 
 thieves to the house. 
 
 FIGNER. A small thief. 
 
 FIGGING LAW. The art of picking pockets. 
 
 PIGUllE-DANOER. One who alters the numbers or 
 iif!;ures on bank-bills. 
 
 FU.E. A pick-pocket. The file is one who is gener- 
 ally accompanied by two others, one of whom is 
 nailed the "Adam tylor;" and tlic other the " bul- 
 kor, ' or " stallcr." It is their business to Jn.sUo, or 
 " ramp" the victim, while the " lile" picks his 
 pocket and then hands the plunder to the Adam 
 • tyler, who makes off with it. 
 
 FINE. Imprisoned. " The cove had a fine of two 
 stretchers and a half imposeil upon liim for reliev- 
 ing a joskin of a load of cole," the fellow was sen- 
 tenced to imprisonment for stealing a countryman's 
 money. 
 
 FINGER-BETTER. A fellow who wants to bet on 
 credit, and indicates the favorite card by pointing 
 to it with his finger. 
 
 FINNIFF. Five dollars. 
 
 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. 
 
 FISH. A seaman. 
 
 FITTER. A fellow that fits keys to looks for burg- 
 lars. 
 
 FIZZLE. To escape. "Tho cove made a fizzle," 
 the fellow escaped. 
 
 FIZZLED. Broke up ; fell through. 
 
 FLAG ABOUT. A low strumpet. 
 
 FLAM. To humbug. "Flam tho bloke," humbug 
 the fellow. 
 
 FLAME. A mistress. 
 
 FLAPPERS. Hands. 
 
 FLASH. Knowing I to understand another's moan- 
 ing ; to " patter flash," to speak knowingly. 
 
THE eogub's lexicon 33 
 
 FLASH - DRUM. A drinking-place resorted to by 
 thieves. 
 
 FLASH- HOUSE. A house of resort for thieves. 
 
 FLASH-KEN. A thieves' boarding-hou,=e. 
 
 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. 
 
 FLASH YOUR IVORY. Laugh ; show your teeth. 
 
 FLASH HER DILES. Spend her money. 
 
 FLASH PANNY. A house resorted to by rogues of. 
 both sexes. 
 
 FLAT. A man that is not acquainted with the tricks 
 and devices of rogues. 
 
 FLATTER-TRAP. The mouth. 
 
 FLAWED. Half-drunk ; quick-tempered ; not ex- 
 actly honest. 
 
 FLAY. To vomit. 
 
 FLESH-BROKER. A match maker ; a procuress. 
 
 FLICKER. To drink. "Flicker with me," drink 
 with me. 
 
 FLICKERING. Laughing ; smiling ; drinking. 
 
 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 ray 
 beaters," cut the portmanteau and divide the plun- 
 der, I want to walk my boots, (to be off.) 
 
 FLIMP. To tussel ; to wrestle. 
 
 FI IMPING. Garroting ; highway robbery. 
 
 FLIMSEY. A bank-note. 
 
 FLING. To get the best of another. " The sharp 
 will fling the bloke," the rogue will cheat the man. 
 
 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 gentle- 
 man in a hurry on his way to the bank, or any 
 other phce 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 
 
34 VOCABULUM ; OR, 
 
 stumbled, and in endeavoring to save himself from 
 falling, thrusts his head into the pit of the gentle- 
 man's stomach, thereby knocking hira down; Im- 
 mediately 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 profusencss, 
 he goes on his way, and very soon afterwards finds 
 himself minus his watch or pocket-book, and per- 
 haps both. 
 
 FLUE-SORAPERS. Chimney-sweeps. 
 
 FLUSH. Plenty ; the cove. 
 
 FLUTE. The recorder of a city. 
 
 FLUX. To cheat ; cozen ; over-reach. 
 
 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 hand- 
 kerchief. 
 
 FLY-COP. Sharp officer; an oiHcer that is well 
 posted; one who understands his business. 
 
 FLYERS. Shoes. 
 
 FLYING COVES. Fellows who obtain money by pre- 
 tending to persons who have been robbed, that they 
 can give them information that will be the means 
 of recovering their lost goods. 
 
 FLYING JIGGERS. Turnpike-gates. 
 
 FOB. To cheat. 
 
 FOG. Smoke. 
 
 FOGLE. A pocket-handkerchief 
 
 FOGLE-HUNTING, Stealing pocket-handkerchiefs. 
 
 FOGRAM. A fusty old fellow. 
 
 FOGUE. Fierce ; fiery ; impetuous. 
 
 FOGUS. Tobacco. "Tip mo a gage of fogus," giro 
 me a cigar, or a pipe and tobacco. 
 
 FORIC. A pickpocket. 
 
 FORKS. The fore and middle fingers. 
 
 FOXEY. Cunning ; crafty ; sly. 
 
 FOXING. To pretend to bo asleep. 
 
THE EOGUE'S lexicon. 35 
 
 FOYST. A cheat. 
 
 FOYSTER. A pickpocket. 
 
 FRAMEIl. A shawl. 
 
 FREE. To steal. 
 
 FRENCH CREAM. Brandy— called "French cream," 
 
 by the old Tabbies, when mixed with their tea. 
 FRIDAY. Hangman's day. 
 FRIDAY FACE. A di.snial countenance; the face of 
 
 a man who is sentenced to be executed. 
 FRTSK. To search ; to examine. 
 FROG. A policeman. 
 FROttANDTOE. The city of New- York. "Coves, 
 
 let us frog and toe," coves, let us go to New- York. 
 FRUMPER. A sturdy blade. 
 FUBSEY. Plump. 
 
 FUBSEY DUMMEY. A fat pocket-book. 
 FULLIED. Committed for trial. 
 FUMBLES. Gloves. 
 
 FUN. To cheat. " To fun a man," is to cheat him. 
 FUNK. To frighten. 
 
 FUNKED OUT. Frightened; backed out. 
 FUNKBRS. The very lowest order of thieves. 
 FUSSOCK. An old fat woman. 
 FUSTIAN. Wine. 
 
 G 
 
 GABS. Talk. 
 
 GABBEY. A foolish fellow. 
 
 GADDING THE HOOF. Going without shoes. 
 
 GAFF. A theatre; a fair. "The drop-coves maced 
 
 the joskins at the gaff," the ring-droppers cheated 
 
 the countrymen at the fair. 
 GAFFING. Tossing; pitching; throwing. 
 GAGE. Man ; fellow. " Deck the gage," see the 
 
 man. 
 GAGERS. Eyes. 
 GAIT. Manner ; fashion ; way ; profession. " I say, 
 
 Tim, what's your gait now ?" "Why, you see, I'm 
 
 on the crack," (burglary.) 
 
36 VOOABULUM ; OR, 
 
 GALENA. Salt pork. 
 
 GALIGASKIN. A pair of breeches. 
 
 GAM. Stealing. 
 
 GAME. The particular line of rascality the roguo 13 
 engaged in ; thieving ; cheiiting. 
 
 GAMMON. To deceive. " What rum gammon the 
 old sharp pitched into the flat," how finely the 
 knowing old fellow flattered the fool. 
 
 GAMMY. Bad. 
 
 QAN. The mouth or lips. 
 
 GANDER. A married man not living at homo with 
 liis wife. 
 
 GANG. Company; squad; mob. 
 
 GAl'ESEED. Wonderful stories ; any thing that will 
 cause people to stop, look, or listen. 
 
 GARRET. The head. 
 
 G.VRRETTING. To rob a house by entering it through 
 the scuttle or an upper window. 
 
 GARROTB. To choke. 
 
 GARROTERS. Eellows that rob by choking their 
 victim. Tlireo fellows work together in this man- 
 ner ; The tallest of the three steps behind the vic- 
 tim, 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 wore a pleasant lark among fiiends. 
 They sometimes sprinkle rum on and about the vic- 
 tim's neck and face, so as to induce persons who 
 find him, after they have left him half-dead and stu- 
 jjified, to believe that he is drunk. 
 
 GATTER. Drink of any kind. 
 
 GELTER. Monev. 
 
 GERMAN FLUTE. A pair of boots. 
 
 GETAWAY. A locomotive ; railroad train. 
 
 GHOULS. Fellows who watch assignatioji-houses, and 
 
THE rogue's lexicon. 37 
 
 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. 
 
 GIG. A door. " Dub the gig of the cosa," break 
 open the door of the house. 
 
 GIGG. A nose. " Snitchel the bloke's gigg," smash 
 the man's nose. 
 
 GIGGER. A lock or door. " Dub the gigger," open 
 tlie door. 
 
 GIGGKIl-DUIUJRR. A turn-key ; a prison-keeper. 
 
 GIG-LAMPS. A pair of spectacles. 
 
 GILFLIRT. A proud, capricious woman. 
 
 GILL. A woman. 
 
 GILT or JILT. A crowbar. 
 
 GILT-DUBBBR. A hotel-thief 
 
 GILYORE. Plenty. 
 
 GINGERLY. Cautiously. 
 
 GIP. A thief 
 
 GLASS. An hour. "The badger piped his Moll 
 about a glass and a half before she cribbed the flat." 
 
 GLAZE. Break tlie 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. 
 
 GLAZIER. A fellow that breaks windows or show- 
 cases, to steal the goods exposed for sale. 
 
 GLIB. Smooth; polite. "The bloke is glib," the 
 fellow is polite. 
 
 GLIBE. Writing ; a written agreement. 
 
 GLIMS. Eyes. 
 
 GLIMSTIOKS. Candlesticks. 
 
 GLIM FLASHY. In a passion ; savage. 
 
 GLIMMER. Tho fire. 
 
 GLUM. Sombre ; low-spirited. 
 
 GLUTTON. A fellow that can stand a great deal of 
 boating. 
 
 GNOSTICS. Knowing ones ; smart fellows ; sharps. 
 
 GNARLER. A little dog, who, by his barking, alarms 
 4 
 
38 vocABULUM ; or, 
 
 the family. Gnarlers are more feared by burglars 
 than guns or pistols. 
 
 GO AW AYS. Railroad trains. "The knuck was work- 
 ing 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 m:id," tlie pickpocket was 
 busy in the cars at Jersey City, and had just stolen 
 a man's pocket-book, as tlie locouiolivo l)1ew its 
 whistle for the last time. Tlie thief bolted Lbiough 
 the door, and off the cars, just as the victim had dis- 
 covered his loss and cried, " stop thief!" But it was 
 of no avail, as the locomotive was going very fast. 
 
 GO. The fashion. " All the go," all the fashion. 
 
 GOADS. Peter Funks ; cappers in. 
 
 GO BACK. To turn against. " lie won't go back 
 on the cove ; he is staunch," he will not turn against 
 the fellow, for he is a true man. 
 
 GOATER. Dress. 
 
 GOB. The mouth. 
 
 GOBSTICKS. Silver forks or spoons. 
 
 GOBSTRING. A bridle. 
 
 GODFATHERS. Jurymen; so called because they 
 name the degrees of crime as to grand or petit lar- 
 ceny, etc., etc. 
 
 GOLDFINCH. Gold coin. 
 
 GONNOFF. A thief th^it has attained the higher 
 walks of his profession. 
 
 GOO II. A prostitute. 
 
 OOREB. Gold dust. 
 
 GORGER. A gentleman; a well-dressed man. 
 
 GOOSEOAP. A silly fellow ; a fool. 
 
 GOOSEBERRY-LAY. Stealing wet clothes from 
 clothes-line^ or bushes. 
 
 GOOSEBERRY-PUDDING. Woman. 
 
 GOOSING SLUM. A brothel. 
 
 GOT HIM DOWN CLOSE. Know all about him; 
 know whore to find him. 
 
THE eogue's lexicon. 39 
 
 GOT HIM DOWN FINE. Know for a certainty; 
 
 Know all his antecedents. 
 GO THE JUMP. Sneak into a room througti the 
 
 window. 
 GOVERNOR'S STIFF. A governor's pardon. 
 GRABBED. Arrested. 
 
 GRABBLE. To seize. " You grabble the goose-cap 
 and I'll frisk his pokes," you seize the fool, and 
 I'll search his pockets. 
 GRAFT. To work. 
 
 GRAFTING. Working ; helping another to steal. 
 GRASSVILLE. The country. 
 
 GREASE. A bribe. "(Jreasethe 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. 
 GREED. Money. 
 GRIG. A merry fellow. 
 GRIM. Death ; " Old Grim." 
 GRIN. A skeleton. 
 GRIPE-FIST. A broker ; a miser. 
 GRO ANERS. ThicTcs 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. 
 GROGHAM. A horse. 
 G ROPERS. Blind men. 
 GROUND SWEAT. A grave. 
 GRUEL. Coffee. 
 
 GRUNTER. A country constable. 
 GUMMEy-STUFF. Medicine. 
 GUN. To watch ; to examine ; to look at. 
 GUN. A thief 
 
 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. 
 GUNPOWDER. A scolding or quick-tempered wo- 
 rn, an. 
 GUNS. Pickpockets. 
 GUERRILLAS. This name is applied by gamblers to 
 
40 VOCABULUM ; OR, 
 
 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. 
 
 GUTTER. Porter. 
 
 GUTTER-LANE. The throat. 
 
 GUY. A dark lantern. 
 
 HAOKUM. A bravado ; a slasher. " Oapt. Ilackum," 
 a fellow who slashes with a bowie-knife. 
 
 HALP-A-HOG. A five-cent piece. 
 
 HALP-A-NED. A five-dollar gold piece. 
 
 HALP-A-STRETOII. Six months' imprisonment. 
 
 HAMLET. A captain of police. 
 
 HAMS. Pants. 
 
 HANDLE. Nose. "The cove flashed a rare handle 
 ta his physon;." The fellow has a very large nose. 
 
 HANG liLUPP. SnufF. 
 
 HANG IT UP. Think of it ; remember it. 
 
 HANG OUT. The place one lives in. "The cops 
 scavey where we hang out," the officers know 
 where we live. 
 
 HANGMAN'S DAY. Friday is so called from the 
 custom of hanging people on a Friday. 
 
 HANK. To know something about a man that is dis- 
 reputable. " Ho has a hank on the bloke whereby 
 he sucks honey when he chooses," he knows some- 
 thing about the man, and tliereforo induces him to 
 give him money when he chooses. 
 
 HARD. Metal. 
 
 HARD COLE. Silver or gold money. 
 
 HARDWARE. False coin. 
 
 HARM IT. Return ; come back. 
 
 HARMAN. A constable. 
 
 HARMAN BEAK. The sheriff. 
 
 HARP. A woman. 
 
 HARRIDAN. A haggard old woman ; a scold. 
 
THE EOGtJE'S LEXICON. 41 
 
 HASH. To vomit. 
 
 HATCHES. In distress ; in trouble ; in debt. 
 
 HAWK. A confidence man ; a swindler. 
 
 HAVIL. A sheep. 
 
 HAVRY CAVEY. Wavering; doubtful. 
 
 HEAVE. To rob. " To heave a crib," to rob a house. 
 
 HE AVER. The breast or chest of a person. 
 
 HEAVEllS. Persons in love. 
 
 HEAVING. Stealing; taking, " The cove was done 
 for heaving a peter from a cart," the fellow was con- 
 victed for stealing a trunk from a cart. 
 
 HEDGE. To bet on both sides ; to be friends with 
 both sides; to pray "Good God," " Good Devil." 
 
 HEELS. To run away. 
 
 HEELER. An accomplice of the pocket-book drop- 
 per. 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. 
 
 HEMP. To choke. 
 
 HEMP THE FLAT. Choke the fool. 
 
 HEN. A woman. 
 
 HERRING. All bad ; all alike. 
 
 IIICKEY. Tipsy; not quite drunk ; elated. 
 
 IIICKJOP. A fool. 
 
 IHOKSAM. A countryman ; a fool. 
 
 HIGH HEAK. The first judge; the president; the 
 governor ; the head official. 
 
 IIIGIIl''LYER. An audacious, lewd woman. 
 
 HIGH BLOKE. A well-dressed fellow. 
 
 HIGH GAG. Telling secrets ; a fellow that whispers. 
 
 HIGH JiNKS. Small gamblers. 
 
 IIIGII-LIVER. A follow who lives in a garret. 
 
 HIGH PADS. Highway robbers. 
 
 HIGH ROPES. In a passion ; very loud. 
 
 HIGH TIDE. Plenty of money. 
 
 HIGH TOBERS. Gonnofifs; the highest order of 
 thieves, who generally go well dressed, and frequent 
 watering-places, etc., etc. 
 4* 
 
42 vocabulum; or, 
 
 HIGH TOBY. A highway robber. 
 
 HIKE. Runaway. "Hike; the cops have tumbled 
 •to us," run ; tho officers have seen us. 
 
 HIP INSrD15. .Inside coat-poolcet. 
 
 HIP OUTSIDE. Outside coat-pocket. 
 
 HISTORY OP THE FOUR KINGS. A pack of cards. 
 " The bloke's skin is lathy, ho studies the history 
 of the four kings closer than tho autuin-bawler's 
 patter," the man's purse is thin ; ho studies a pack 
 of cards more than the parson's sermons. 
 
 HOCK. Caught in hock ; caught by the heels. " If 
 tho cove should be caught in the hock ho won't 
 sniokle," if the fellow should be cauglit in the act, 
 he would not tell. 
 
 HOCKEY. Drunk. 
 
 HOCKS. The feet. 
 
 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. 
 
 HOBB. A country-fellow. 
 
 HOBINOL. A clown. 
 
 HOBNAIL. A countryman. 
 
 HOB OR NOB. Wliat will you drink ? 
 
 HOD. A mason ; a builder. 
 
 HOG IN ARMOR. A blustering office-holder. 
 
 HOG IN TOGS. A well-dressed loafer. 
 
 HOGO. High-flavored; strong-scented. 
 
 HOGG. A ten-cent piece. 
 
 HOGGING. To humbug. 
 
 HOIST. To rob houses by climbing into a window. 
 It is generally done by two or three fellows, one of 
 whom stands close to the house, and tho others 
 climb up on him to the window. 
 
 HOISTER. A shop-lifter. 
 
 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 bo no robbery. 
 
 HOISTLAY. See Uokt. 
 
THE eogue's lexicon. 43 
 
 HOLLOW. Certain : a decided beat. 
 HONEY. Money. 
 
 HOODY-DOODY. A short clump of a person. 
 HOOF. Foot. " To beat the hoof," to travel on foot 
 HOOKED. To steal. 
 HOOKER. A thief. 
 HOOP. A ring. 
 HOOP IT. Run away. 
 HOP THE TWIG. Be off; go off. 
 HOPPED THE TWIG. Hung. 
 HORNESS. Watchman. 
 
 HORSE-CAPPERS. Fellows that cheat simple people 
 out of their money by the aid of a broken-down flrst- 
 class horse. 
 HOSTEL. A tavern. 
 
 HOT. Too well known* " The cove had better move 
 his beaters into Dewsville, it is too hot for him here; 
 if ho 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 
 yciirs. 
 HOUSE TO LET. A widow's weeds. 
 HUBRUB. Pain in the stomach. 
 HUE. Lash him. 
 
 HUEY. The National Police Gazette. 
 HUFF. A bullying, cowardly fellow. 
 HUG. To choke. 
 
 HUGGING THE HOOKER. Choking the thief. 
 HUMBOX. An auctioneer's rostrum. 
 HUMMER. A great lie. 
 HUMPHREY. A coat used by pickpockets, that has 
 
 pocket-holes, but no pockets. 
 HUSH. Murder. " Hush the bloke," kill the fellow. 
 IIUSH-STUFF. Money given to prevent a witness 
 from testifying. 
 
44 vooABULuir ; OE, 
 
 I 
 rCKEN. Oak. 
 
 10 KEN BAUM. An oak-tree. 
 IDEA-POT. A man's head. 
 IMPOST-TAKER. One who lends money to thieves 
 
 and gamblers at very high rates. 
 IMPUDENT. To cut tlie tails of a man's coat. 
 IMPURE. A lady of easy virtue. 
 INDORSER. One who flogs another on the back. 
 INGLERS. Ilorse-dealers who cheat those that deal 
 
 with them. 
 INKLE. Let him know. 
 INLAID. Plenty of money saved. 
 INNOCENT. A corpse. 
 INNOCENTS. Convicts, because it is supposed that 
 
 they can not commit crime. 
 INSIDER. Ono who knows. 
 INTIMATE. A shirt "Intimate as your shirt." 
 IRON. Courage ; fearless ; staunch. 
 IRON DOUBLET. Innocence ; not guilty. 
 IRONED. Handcuffed. 
 IVY BUSH. A very small-faced man who has a large 
 
 quantity of hair on his face and head. 
 IVORIES. The teeth. " How the blowen flashes her 
 
 ivories," how the girl shows her teeth. 
 
 JABBER. To talk in an unknown language. 
 
 JACK. A small coin. 
 
 JACK COVE, A mean low fellow. 
 
 JACK DANDY. A little impertinent fellow. 
 
 JACKED. Lamed. 
 
 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 ad- 
 vised him to pike into Daisyville for a few moons 
 until the down blew ofl". 
 
THE eogue's lexicon. 45 
 
 JACK-GAGGER. A fellow that lives on the prosti- 
 tution of his wife. 
 
 JACK KETCH. The hangman. This cognomen for 
 the hangman is of very ancient date. In the year 
 1G82, we find in "Butler's Ghost," p. 5i, the fol- 
 lowing Jines: 
 
 " Till Ketch ohserving he was choused, 
 And in his province much abused; 
 In open hall the tribute dunned, 
 To do liis oiricc, or refund." 
 
 Jack Ketch had not been long appointed to his 
 ofBce; for we find the name of his predecessor 
 (Dun) in the former part of this poem, 
 
 " For you, yourself, to act Squire Dun, 
 Such ignominy ne'er saw the sun." 
 
 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, ac- 
 corded 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 Prag- 
 maticus," tragi-comcdy, acted in 1641 : 
 
 " This trembles under the blaclc rod, and ho 
 Doth fenr liis fate from tlic Gregorian tree." 
 
 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 Der- 
 rick 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 whicli they must all cast anchor, 
 if Derrick's cables do but hold." 
 JACOB. A ladder. 
 
46 VOCABULUM ; OK, 
 
 JACOBITE. A shirt-collar. 
 
 JACK OF LEGS. A very tall fellow. 
 
 JACK-RUN. A license. 
 
 JACK SPRAT. A small fellow. 
 
 JACK WRIGHT. A fat fellow. 
 
 JADE. A long term of imprisonment. 
 
 JAGGER. A gentleman. 
 
 JAG [IE. A cut; a ditch. 
 
 JAM. A gold ring. 
 
 JAMMED. Killed; murdered; hanged. 
 
 JANASMUG. A go-between ; one who goes between 
 the thief and the fence. 
 
 JAN AZ ARIES. A mob of pickpockets. 
 
 JAPANNED. A convict is said to be japanned when 
 the chaplain pronounces him to be converted. 
 
 JARK. A seal. 
 
 JARKMAN. One who writes characters for servants, 
 begging petitions, etc., etc. 
 
 JARVEY. A driver. 
 
 JASKER. A seal. 
 
 JAW COVES. Auctioneers, lawyers. 
 
 JAZEY. A man with an enormous quantity of hair 
 on his head and face. 
 
 JEPFBY. Lightning. 
 
 JEM. A gold ring. 
 
 JENNEY. A hook on the end of a stick. 
 
 JENNY LINDA. A window, pronounced winder. 
 
 JERRY. A chamber-pot. 
 
 JERRY-SNEAK. A hen-pecked husband. 
 
 JESSANY. A man well dressed. 
 
 JET AUTUM. A parson. 
 
 JEWS-EYE. A pleasant, agreeable sight. 
 
 JIG. A trick. 
 
 JIGGER. Adoor. "Dub the jigger," open the door. 
 
 JILT. A prostitute who hugs and kisses a country- 
 man while her accomplice robs him. 
 
 JILTER. A sneak-thief. 
 
 JINGLEBRAINS. A wild, thoughtless fellow. 
 
 JOB. A robbery. "To do a job," to commit a rob- 
 bery. 
 
TUB eogue's lexicoit. 4'? 
 
 JOB. Patience ; take time ; don't be in a hurry. 
 
 JOBATION. A reproof; painful. 
 
 JOBBER-NOT. A tall, ungainly fellow. 
 
 JOB'S DOCK. An hospital. " The poor cove is in 
 Job's dock," the poor fellow is in the hospital. 
 
 JOCK. Enjoy; to enjoy any thing. 
 
 JOCKUM GAGE. A chamber-pot. 
 
 JOEY. A hypocrite. Sometimes, four. 
 
 JOLLY. The head ; an excuse ; a pretense. 
 
 JOMER. A mistress. 
 
 JORDAN. Disagreeable ; hard to be done. 
 
 JORDAIN. A blow. " I'll tip the Jack Cove a jor- 
 dain 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. 
 
 JOSEPH. A coat that's patched; a sheepish, bashful 
 fellow. 
 
 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 tho 
 man? No, Dick, its no use trying, he is guarded 
 
 ■ against temptation. 
 
 JOSKIN. A countryman ; a silly fellow. " The cove 
 maced the joskin of twenty cases," the fellow cheat- 
 ed the countryman out of twenty dollars. 
 
 JUG. A bank. 
 
 JUMP. A widow ; run away. 
 
 JUMPED HIS BAIL. Bun away from his bail. 
 
 JUMPERS. Fellows that rob houses by getting into 
 windows. 
 
 JURK. A seal. 
 
 K 
 
 KATE. A smart, brazen-faced woman. 
 KATEY. A picklock. 
 KEELER. A small tub, or firkin. 
 KEFFEL. A horse. 
 
43 VOCABULUM ; OR, 
 
 KELTER. Condition; order. 
 
 ICEKEYA. Devil; Satan. 
 
 KEN. A house. " Bite the ken," rob the house. 
 
 KEN-ORACKER. A house-brealcer. 
 
 KEfOH. Hang. "I'll ketch you," I'll hang you. 
 
 KICK. A pocket. " The Moll stubbled her skin in 
 her kick," the woman held her purse in her 
 pocket. 
 
 KICK-CLOY. A pair of breeches. 
 
 KIOKSIES. Pants; breeches. 
 
 KICKED THE BUCKET. Dead. 
 
 KID.- A child ; a youth; a young one. i 
 
 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. 
 
 KIDDIES. Young thieves. 
 
 KIDDEN. A boy lodging-liouse. 
 
 KLDMENT. Comical. 
 
 KIDSMAN. A fellow that boards and lodges boys 
 for the purpose of teaching them how to steal, put- 
 ting 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 de- 
 predations himself, he controls and directs the mo- 
 tions of the others. - 
 
 KIDNEY. The same kind. 
 
 KILL DEVIL. New rum. 
 
 KIMBAW. To bully ; to beat. " Let's kimbaw the 
 bloke," let us bully or beat the fellow. 
 
 KINCHIN. A young child. 
 
 KINCHIN COVES. Boys taught how to steal. 
 
 KINCHIN MORTS. Girls educated to steal. 
 
 KIP. Abed; half a fool. 
 
 KIRJALIS. Who fears ? I fear not ; come on. 
 
 KIRKBUZZER. A fellow that picks pockets in 
 churches. 
 
 KIT. A dancing-master ; the implements of a burg- 
 lar. 
 
THE eogub's lexicon. 40 
 
 KITE. A letter ; fancy stocks. 
 
 KITCHEN PHYSIO. Food. " A little kitchen phy- 
 
 sic will set me up." I have more need of a cook 
 
 than a doctor. 
 KITING. Restless ; going from place to place. 
 KITTLE. To tickle ; to please. 
 KITTLER. One who tickles or pleases. 
 KITTYS. Stock in trade; tools "The bobbies 
 
 seized the screwsman's kittys," the oflScers seized 
 
 the burglar's tools. 
 KLEM. To strike. " Klcm the bloke," hit the man. 
 KNAPPED. Arrested. 
 KNIGHT OF ALSATIA. A person that treats the 
 
 whole company. 
 KNIGHT OP THE POST. A fellow that will swear 
 
 any thing for money. 
 KNOB. The head. 
 KNOB-TIIATCHER. A wig-maker. 
 KNOOK-ME-DOWN. Very strong liquor. 
 KNOSE. Tobacco ; smoke. 
 KNOT. A gang of thieves. 
 'KNOWLEDGE-BOX. The head. 
 KNUCK. A pickpocket. 
 KONE. Counterfeit money. 
 KONIACKER. A counterfeiter. 
 
 LACE. To boat ; to whip. 
 
 LACED MUTTON. A common woman. 
 
 LAOII. Let in. " The cove is bene, shall we lach 
 him?" the man is good, shall we let him in ? "If ha 
 is not leaky." "I'll answer for him ; he is staunch." 
 
 LADDER. " He mounted the ladder," he was hung. 
 
 LADY. A humpbacked female. 
 
 LADY BIRD. A kept mistress. 
 
 LAG. A convicted felon. 
 
 LAGGED. Convicted ; transported. 
 5 
 
50 TOCABULTJM ; OE, 
 
 LAOE. Water; a basket. 
 
 LAGE OP DUDS. A basket of clothes. 
 
 LAID. Pawned. 
 
 LAMB. To flog. 
 
 LAMBASTE. Flog. " Lambaste the bloke," flog the 
 fclloiv. 
 
 LAM BO. To beat with a club. 
 
 LAMP. Eye. "The covehas a queer lamp," the man 
 has a blind. or squinting eye. 
 
 LAND-YARD. The grave-yard. 
 
 LAND-BROKER. An undertaker. " Tlie cove buys 
 lands for stiff uns," the man purchases land for dead 
 people.- 
 
 LANTERN-JAWED. Thin-faced. 
 
 LAP. Drink ; buttermilk ; pick it up ; to take ; to 
 steal. 
 
 LAP UP. To wipe out ; to put out of sight. 
 
 LARK. A boat ; a piece of fun ; looking for some- 
 tliing to steal ; on a lark. 
 
 LARREY. Cunning. 
 
 LATIIY. Not fat "I touched the joskin's skin, 
 but it was as lathy as his jaws wore lantern," I 
 stole the countryman's purse, but it was as thin as 
 bis face. 
 
 LATITAT. Attorney. 
 
 LAVENDER COVE. A pawnbroker. 
 
 LAW. " Grive the cove law," give the fellow a chance 
 to escape. 
 
 LAY. A particular kind of rascality, trade, or pro- 
 fession ; on the look out ; watching for something 
 to steal. Sometimes tlio same as gait. "What's 
 tlie cove's lay ?" " Why, you see, he is on the 
 ken's crack" — house-breaking. 
 
 LEAF. Autumn. "I will bo out in tho leaf," I will 
 be out in the autumn. 
 
 LEAK. To impart a secret. 
 
 LEAKY. Not trustworthy. 
 
 LEAP THE BOOK. A false marriage. 
 
 LEAST. Keep out of the way ; hide ; out of sight. 
 
THE EOfiUE'S LEXICON. 61 
 
 LEATHER. A pocket-book ; portmonnaie. " The 
 bloke lost his leather," the man lost his pocket- 
 book. 
 
 LEERY. On guard ; look out; wide awake. 
 
 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, in- 
 stead of the right. 
 
 LEG. A gambler. 
 
 LEG-BAIL AND LAND-SECURITY. Runaway. 
 
 LEGGED. Full-fettered; double-ironed. 
 
 LEG rr. Run away ; clear out. 
 
 LENTEN. Nothing to eat ; starving. 
 
 LETCH, Unusual fastenings to a door. 
 
 LIIS. Sleep. "The coves lib together," the fellows 
 sleep together. 
 
 LIBBEGE. A bed. 
 
 LIBBEN. A private house. 
 
 LI15KEN. A lodging-house. 
 
 LICK. To coax. 
 
 LIFE-PRESERVER. A slung-shot. 
 
 LIFT. Help. "Lift the poor cove, he is almost Icn- 
 ton," help the poor fellow, he is almost starved. 
 
 LIFTERS. Crutches. 
 
 LIG. A bedstead. 
 
 LIGHT-HOUSE. A man with a very red nose. 
 
 LIGHT MANS. The day. 
 
 LIL. A pocket-book. 
 
 LILL. A bad bill. 
 
 LILLY WHITE. A chimney-sweep ; a negro. 
 
 LIMB. A lawyer, or lawyer's clerk. 
 
 LiMliS. A long-legged fellow. 
 
 UMBO. A prison. 
 
 LINGO. Talk ; language. 
 
 LION. Be saucy; lion the fellow ; make a loud noise 5 
 substitute noise for good sense ; frighten ; bluff. 
 
 LISTNERS. Ears. 
 
 LIVE EELS. Fields. "Bill has gone to live eels, to 
 read and write with Joe." See Read. 
 
62 VOCABULUM ; OB, 
 
 LOB. A money-drawer ; the till. 
 
 LOBLAY. Robbing money-drawers. 
 
 LOBSNEAK. A fellow that robs money-drawers. 
 
 LOCK. Sometimes a receiver of stolen money ; a 
 character. "Tlie cove stood a queer lock," the fol- 
 low had a bad character. 
 
 LOLL. The favorite child ; the mother's darling. 
 
 LOLLOP. Lazy. 
 
 LOLLOP FEVER. Lazy fever. 
 
 LONG. A large price. 
 
 LONQ-aONE. Sentenced for life. 
 
 LOO. For tlie good of all. 
 
 LOOBY. An ignorant fellow ; a fool. 
 
 LONG-TAILED-ONES. Bank bills for large amount. 
 
 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. 
 
 LORD LOVEL. A spade or shovel. 
 
 LOUNOE. The pri-soner's box in a criminal court. 
 
 LO WING-LAY. Stealing cattle, oxen, or cows. 
 
 LOWRE. Coin. 
 
 LOW TIDE. Very little money left. 
 
 LUGGER. A sailor. 
 
 LUGS. Ears. 
 
 LULLABY KID. An infant. 
 
 LULLIES. Wet linen. 
 
 LULLIE-PRIGQERS. Thieves who rob clothes-lines. 
 
 LUMBS. Too many ; too much. 
 
 LUMP. To beat. " Lump the booby," flog the fool. 
 
 LUMP OF LE.4D. A bullet; sometimes the head. 
 
 LUMPING THE LIGHTER. Transported. 
 
 LUMBER. To walk; to walk in a careless, uncon- 
 cerned manner. 
 
 LUMBER. To receive stolen property from a thief 
 for safe keeping, or disposing of it for his benefit, 
 
 LUMBERER. A pawnbroker. 
 
 LUMBERER CRIB. A pawnbroker's shop. 
 
 LUN. The funny fellow ; a clown. 
 
THE rogue's lexicon. 63 
 
 LUNAN. A girl. 
 
 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. 
 LURRIES. Valuables ; watches ; rings ; money. 
 LUSH. Drink. 
 
 LUSHINGTONS. Drunken men. 
 LUSHY. Drunk. " The bang-up kiddies had a spree, 
 
 and got bloody lushy," the dashing boys had a party, 
 
 and got very drunk." 
 LUSTRES. Diamonds. 
 LYE. Urine. 
 
 M 
 
 MAB. A harlot. 
 
 MAOE COVE. A false pretense man ; a swindler ; 
 
 " On the mace," to live by swindling. 
 MADAME. A kept mistress. 
 MADAM RHAN. A bad woman ; a strumpet. 
 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 
 
 t, but got it honestly. 
 MAD TOM. A fellow who feigns to bo foolish. 
 MADGE. Private places. 
 MAGG. A half-cent. 
 MAGGING. Getting money by cheating countrymen 
 
 with balls, patent safe.'!, etc., etc. 
 MAGS MEN. Fellows who are too cowardly to steal, 
 
 but prefer to cheat confiding people by acting upon 
 
 their cupidity. 
 MAKE HIM SVVIM FOR IT. Cheat him out of his 
 
 MANDERER. A beggar. 
 MAN-TRAP. A widow. 
 MARKING. Observing ; taking notice. 
 MARRIED. Two fellows handcuffed together. 
 5* 
 
54 VOOABULUM ; OE, 
 
 MATER. Mother. 
 
 MAUDLING. Crying. 
 
 MAULD. Very drunk. 
 
 M.VUNDING. Asking alms; soliciting. 
 
 MAWICS. A slattern. 
 
 MAWLEy. Hand. "Tip us your mawley," tip us 
 your hand. 
 
 MAX. Gin ; intoxicating liquor. 
 
 MAZZARU. The face. 
 
 MKASCJRE. To examine closely. " The copper snap- 
 ped 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 mored my boots like a locomotive. 
 
 MEDLAR. A fellow that smells bad. 
 
 MELLOW. Good-natured; a little intoxicated. 
 
 MELT. To spend money. " The cove melted a flnniff 
 in lush before we parted," the fellow spent five dol- 
 lars for drink before we parted. 
 
 MERKIN. Hair-dye. 
 
 ME3TING. Dissolving; melting. 
 
 MIDDLE-PIEOE. The stomach. 
 
 MILOII COW". A man that is easily cheated out of 
 his money. 
 
 MILKY. White. 
 
 MILKY DUDS. White clothes. 
 
 MILL. The treadmill ; a fight ; a chisel. 
 
 MILL DOSE. Working in prison. 
 
 MILLING COVE. A pugilist. "How the milling 
 covo served out the cull," how the boxer beat the 
 man. 
 
 MILL LAY. Breaking into houses ; on the crack. 
 
 MILLER. A fighter. 
 
 MILL THE GLAZE. Break the window. A young 
 thief who had turned State's evidence gave his tes- 
 timony 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 got it ; 
 
TUB ROGUE'S LEXICON. 55 
 
 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. 
 
 MILL TOG. A shirt. 
 
 MILKEN. A house-breaker. 
 
 MINNIKON. Very small. 
 
 MINT. Plenty of money. 
 
 MISCHIEF. A man with his wife on his back. 
 
 MISS. A mistress. 
 
 MISIL A sliirt. 
 
 MISH-TOPPER. A coat or petticoat. 
 
 MIXME f AL. A silver-smith. 
 
 MfZZLK. Go; run; be off. 
 
 MOAIJITES. Constables. 
 
 MOBILITy. The mob ; opposition to nobility. 
 
 MOBS. A number of thieves working together. 
 
 MOE Y. 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 
 gotrup 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. 
 
 MOHAIR. An upholsterer. 
 
 MOIETY. Fifty. 
 
 MOKE. A negro. 
 
 MOLL. A woman. 
 
 MOLL BUZZER. A thief that devotes himself to 
 picking the pockets of women. 
 
56 vocABtJLUir ; or, 
 
 MOLLEY. A miss ; a young woman ; an effeminate 
 fellow ; a sodomite. 
 
 MOLL-SACK. Reticule. 
 
 MONDONGO. Filthy ; full of stench , it stinks be- 
 yond the power of endurenco. 
 
 MONEKER. A name. 
 
 MONEY. A private place. 
 
 MOON. One month ; thirty days' imprisonment. 
 " The poor cove was done for two stretolies and six 
 moons," the poor fellow was sentenced for two years 
 and six months. 
 
 MOON-EYED HEN. A squinting prostitute. 
 
 MORNING DROP. The gallows. " He napped the 
 Governor's stiff, and escaped the morning drop," he 
 received the Governor's pardon, and escaped the gal- 
 lows. 
 
 MORRIS. Move off; dance off 
 
 MORT. A woman. 
 
 MOSES. A man that fathers another man's child for 
 a consideration. 
 
 MOSII. Dining at an eating-house and leaving with- 
 out making payment. 
 
 MOSS, Money. "A rolling stone gathers no moss." 
 
 MOPSEY. A short dowdy woman. 
 
 MOPUSSES. Money. 
 
 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. 
 
 MOUNT. To give false testimony. 
 
 MOUNTER. Men who give false bail ; or who, for a 
 consideration, will swear to any thing required. 
 
 MOUNTERS Fellows who hire clothes to wear for a 
 particular occasion ; those who wear second-hand 
 clothes. 
 
 MOUSE. Be quiet ; be still ; talk low ; whisper ; 
 step light ; make no noise ; softly. 
 
 MOUTH. A noisy fellow ; a silly fellow. 
 
 MOUTH IT. Speak loud. 
 
TUB rogue's lexicon. 51 
 
 MOUTHING. Crying. "The mort ia mouthing," 
 
 the girl is crying. 
 MOVED. Bowed to. " The swell moved to the Moll 
 
 as they crossed," the gentleman bowed to the girl 
 
 as they passed each other. 
 MOW. To kiss. " The bloke was mowing the molly," 
 
 the man was kissing the girl. 
 MUCK. Money. 
 MUCK-WORM. A miser. 
 MUD. A fool. 
 MUFFLKllS. Boxing-gloTcs. 
 MUG. The face ; a simple fellow. 
 MULL. To spend money. 
 MUM. Say nothing ; nothing to say. 
 MUMMER. The mouth. 
 MUMPERS. Beggars. 
 MUND. Mouth. 
 MUNG. To solicit; to beg. 
 MUNS. The face. " Tout the mab's muns," look at 
 
 the woman's face. 
 MUSIL An umbrella. 
 MUSIIROOM-FAKERS. Umbrella hawkers. 
 MUSIC. The verdict of a jury when they find " not 
 
 guilty." 
 MUSS. A quarrel ; a row. 
 M T. Empty. " The bloke's leather was M T," the 
 
 man's pocket-book had nothing in it — was empty. 
 MY UNCLE. A pawnbroker. 
 
 NABBED. Arrested. 
 
 NABCIIEAT. A hat. 
 
 NABGIRDER. A bridle. 
 
 NABS. Coxcombs. 
 
 NACKY. Ingenious. 
 
 NAIDER. Nothing ; can't have it. 
 
 NAILED. Fixed ; secured ; taken ; arrested. 
 
58 VOOABULUM ; OR, 
 
 NAMASED. Ran away ; got out of sight ; ran. 
 
 NAP. To cheat. 
 
 NAPPBR. A cheat ; a thief; the head. 
 
 NARP. A shirt. 
 
 NARY. Not. " I frisked the joskin's sacks, hut nary 
 red was there," I searched the countryman's pock- 
 ets, but not a cent was there. 
 
 NASK. A prison. 
 
 NATTY KIDS. Young thieves ; smart, well-dressed 
 youngsters. 
 
 NATURAL. Not fastidious ; a liberal, clever fellow. 
 " The bloke is very natural," the fellow is very 
 liberal. 
 
 NAZY. Drunken. 
 
 NAZY COVES. Drunken fellows. 
 
 NAZY NOBS. Drunken coxcombs or fops. 
 
 NEB. The face. 
 
 NEOKWEED. Hemp. 
 
 NED. A ten-dollar gold piece. 
 
 NEDDY. A slung-shot. 
 
 NEGLIGEE. A woman with nothing on but her shift. 
 
 NEMAN. Stealing. 
 
 NERVE. Courage ; endurance ; staunch. 
 
 NESCIO. No ; I know not ; can't say. 
 
 NETTLED. Diseased. 
 
 NEW LIGHT. New coin ; new money. 
 
 NIB. The mouth. 
 
 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. 
 
 NICKEY. The devil; " Old Nick." 
 
 NIDERING. Bad; without mitigation of any kind. 
 
 NIG. To clip. 
 
 NIL. Nothing. 
 
 NIM. To steal 
 
THE rogub's lexicon. 69 
 
 NIMENOG. A very silly fellow. 
 
 NIPPERS. An instrument for turning a key on the 
 
 outside of the door, used by hotel-thieves. 
 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. 
 NIPPER-KIN. A tumbler ; a drinking vessel. 
 NIQUE. Contempt ; don't care. 
 NISII. Keep quiet ; be still. 
 NIX. Nothing. 
 NOB. One who stands at the head ; a king ; a man 
 
 of rank. 
 NOBLEllS. Confederates of thimble-riggers, who 
 appear to play, to induce the flats to try their luck 
 with the "little joker." 
 NOCKY BOY. A simpleton. 
 NOD. Asleep. " Gone to the land of Nod," gone to 
 
 sleep. 
 NODDLE. An empty-pated fellow ; a fool ; the he.ad 
 
 of an animal. 
 NONSENSE. Melting butter in a wig. 
 NOOSED. Married. 
 NOPE. A blow. 
 
 NOSE. A spy ; one who informs. " His pal nosed, 
 and the bene cove was pulled for a crack," his part- 
 ner informed against him, and the good fellow was 
 arrested for burglary. 
 NOSEMY. Tobacco. 
 NOTCH. A pocket. 
 NOTE. A singer. 
 NOUSE-BOX. The head. 
 NOZZLE. A chimney. 
 NUB. The neck. 
 NUBBTNG. Hanging. ' 
 NUBIBUS. In the clouds. "Blowanubibas," make 
 
 a smoke. 
 NUG. Dear. " My niig," my dear. 
 NULL. To flog. 
 
60 vocabulum; or, 
 
 NUMS. Sham; not real. 
 
 NYPPER. A cut-purse, so called by a person named 
 Wotton, who in the year 1685, 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- 
 lingered 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 tlicni, were small bells ; each 
 contained counters, and he who could withdraw a 
 counter without causing any of the bells to ring, 
 was adjudged to bo a " Nypper." A nypper was a 
 pick-purse ; a pick-pocket was called a " Foyster." 
 
 OAF. A silly fellow. 
 
 OAFISH. Simple. 
 
 OAK. Strong; rich; good reputation. 
 
 OAK TOWEL. An oaken cudgel. 
 
 OAR. Meddle with. 
 
 OCCUPY. To wear. " The cove occupies the oaf's 
 benjamin," the fellow wears the silly man's coat 
 
 OOHIVES. Bone-handled knives. 
 
 OCHRE. Money. 
 
 OFFICE. Information conveyed by a look, word, or 
 in any way by which the person receiving it is in- 
 telligibly impressed. " The cove tipped the ofHce, 
 and I was fly to the cop," the fellow gave me the 
 hint, and then I knew it was a policeman. 
 
 OFFICING. Signalizing ; a preconcerted signal by a 
 confederate. 
 
 OGLES. The eyes. 
 
 OGLE THE COVE. Look at the fellow. 
 
 OIL OF BARLEY. Strong beer. 
 
 0. K. All right; "Ollkerect." 
 
THE rogue's lexicon. 61 
 
 OLD. Death. 
 
 OLD DOSS. The Tombs. 
 
 OLD TOAST. A smart old man. 
 
 OLD ONE. The Devil. 
 
 OLD POGER. Tlic Devil. 
 
 OLD SHOE. Good Luck. 
 
 OLIVER. The moon. 
 
 OLIVER'S SKULL. A chamber-pot 
 
 OLLI COMPOLLL The chief rogue ; a, very smart 
 thief. 
 
 ON A S'I'RING. To send a person to look for some- 
 thing that you are sure is in some other place, is 
 putting him on a string, or humbugging, fooling 
 him. 
 
 ON HIS MUSCLE. "The fellow travels on his 
 muscle," he presumes on his abilities to fight. 
 
 ON IT. "On the cross," getting a living by other 
 than honest means. 
 
 ON THE MUSCLE. On the fight; a fighter; a 
 pugilist. 
 
 ON THE MACE. Ready to cheat ; cheating for a 
 living; a professional cheat. 
 
 ON THE SHARP. Persons who are well acquainted 
 with the mysteries of gaming, and therefore not 
 easily cheated. 
 
 ON THE SHALLOW. Half-naked. 
 
 OPTIME. Class. " He's optime No. one as a screws- 
 man," he is a first-class burglar. 
 
 ORACLE. To plan a robbery or any kind of deceit. 
 
 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 ? 
 
 OSTLER. House thief. 
 
 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. 
 
 OTTOMY. A skeleton. 
 
 OUTS. Ex-ofEcers. 
 6 
 
02 VOOABULUM ; OK, 
 
 OUT-AND-OUT. A spree ; a frolic. 
 
 OUT-AND-OUTER. Distinguished; first-class. 
 
 OUTSIDER. Not in the spcret; not of our party. 
 
 OUTSIDE PAL. TUe thief that watches. outsido 
 when his confederates are working within. 
 
 OUTSIDE PLANT'. A sly place in which the re- 
 ceiver generally keep his goods after purchasing. 
 
 OVEN. A large mouth. " The bloke should bo a 
 baker — twig his oven," the man should be a baker 
 — look at his big mouth. 
 
 OWLS. Women who walk the streets only at night. 
 
 OWLERS. Smugglers. 
 
 O YES. To cry out. " The yes of beef was rush- 
 ing 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. 
 
 PACKET. A false report. 
 
 PAD. A street; highway, "To go on the pad," to 
 go on the street. 
 
 PAD THE HOOP. Walk the street ; to bo off. 
 
 PADDING KEN. A lodging-house. 
 
 PAIR OP WINGS. A pair of oars. 
 
 PALAVER. Talk ; flattery ; conference. 
 
 PAL. A companion ; the partner of a thief 
 
 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 artilicial 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. 
 
 PALLING IN. A connection formed by a male and 
 female thief to steal and sleep together. 
 
THE rogue's lexicon. ~ 03 
 
 PALM. To fee or bribe. 
 
 PALMER. A thief tbiit adroitly slips jewelry from 
 the top of a show-case into his pocket. 
 
 PAM. A knave. 
 
 PANNAM. Bread. 
 
 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. 
 
 PANTER. The heart. " 'I'he lead reached the poor 
 cove's panter, and so there was notliing to bo 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. 
 
 PANEL-CRIB. A place especially and ingeniously 
 fitted up for the robbery of gentlemen who are en- 
 ticed 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 ap- 
 pears to be hung in the usual manner, and well 
 secured by bolts and lock. At other times the en- 
 trance 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, ab- 
 stracts 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 an- 
 
64 TOCABULTJM ; OE, 
 
 other door, congratulating himself on his happy 
 deliyerance. 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. 
 
 PANEL-TIIIEF. One who fits up a place for the pur- 
 pose of robbing men that are brought to the panel- 
 crib by women who are trained to pick up gentle- 
 men 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. 
 
 PANZY. A burglar. 
 
 PAPER-SKULL. A thin-skulled fellow. 
 
 PAP LAP. An infant. " He is but a pap lap," he 
 is but a baby. 
 
 PARCHMENT. A ticket of leave. " The cove has 
 his parchment," the man has his ticket of leave. 
 
 PARCHMENT COVES. Ticket-of-leavo men. 
 
 PARELL. To make clear. 
 
 PARNEY. A ring. 
 
 PARK RAILING. The teeth. 
 
 PARSON. A guide-post. 
 
 PARTIAL. Putting one's hand into another man's 
 pocket ; stealing. 
 
 PASII. Price; cost. 
 
 PATE. The head. 
 
 PATTER. To talk. " How the Moll lushes her.jockey 
 and patters," how the girl drinks her gin and tjilks. 
 
 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 stretch- 
 ers and a moon," the pickpocket was tried for steal- 
 ing a purse from the man's pocket, who caught him 
 in the act, and of course the jury convicted hiui, 
 and the judge sentenced him for five years and a 
 month. 
 
THE rogue's lexicon. 65 
 
 PATRICO. One who in olden time used to marry per- . 
 sons by placing tlie 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, shak- 
 ing hands, the wedding was ended. 
 
 PAUM. To conceal in the hand. " To paum penny- 
 weights," 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 arc called paum-coves. 
 
 I'AW. The hand or foot. "The fore-paw hand;" 
 " the hind paw foot." 
 
 PEACH. To inform; "to turn stag;" to blow the 
 gab ; to squeal or squeak. 
 
 PEAK. Lace goods. 
 
 PEAL. A ball. 
 
 PEAR. To draw supplies from both sides ; to give 
 the officers information, and then tell the thieves to 
 get out of the way. 
 
 PEAR-MAKING. The act of drawing supplies from 
 both sides. See Pear. 
 
 PECCAVL I have sinned; I am wrong; a confes- 
 sion of wrong. 
 
 PECK. Food. 
 
 PECK AND BOOZE. Food and drink. 
 
 PECKISIL Hungry. 
 
 PECULIAR. A mistress. 
 
 PED. A basket. 
 
 PEDDLER'S PONY. A walking-stick. 
 
 PEEL. Strip ; undress. 
 
 PEEPER. A spy-glass ; an opera-glass ; a looking- 
 glass. " Track up the dancers and pike with the 
 l)ecpcr," jump up stairs and run off'with the look- 
 ing-glass. 
 
 PEEPERS. Eyes. 
 
 PEEPING TOM. A curious, prying fellow, who 
 minds other people's business more than his own. 
 
 PEEPY. Drowsy. 
 6* 
 
66 VOCABULUM ; ou, 
 
 PEER. To look cautiously about ; to be circumspect ; 
 
 careful. 
 PEERY. Suspicious. " The bloke's peery," the man 
 suspects something. " There's a peery, 'tis snitch," 
 we are observed, nothing can be done. 
 PEGTANTRUM. Dead. 
 PELT. A passion ; rage. "What a pelt the cull is 
 
 in," what a passion the fellow is in. 
 PENNYWEIGHT. Jewelry ; gold and silver trinkets. 
 PEPPERY. Warm ; passionate. 
 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 ofBcer seized him. 
 PETER. A portmanteau ; a travelling-bag ; a trunk; 
 
 an iron chest ; a cash-box. 
 PETER-BITER. A man who steals baggage at hotels, 
 
 railroad depots, and from the back of coaches. 
 PIIARO, Strong malt liquor. 
 PIIARSE. The eighth part. 
 
 PHILISTINES. Police ofBcers ; officers of justice. 
 PHIZ. The face. "A rum phiz," an odd face. 
 PHYSOG. The face. 
 PICAROON. A sharper ; a rogue. 
 PICKLE. A smart fellow. 
 PICKLING. Stealing; petit larceny. 
 PICK LING-TUBS. Shoes and boots. 
 PIOTURE-imAME. The gallows. 
 PIECE. A prostitute. 
 PIG. A police oflicer. " Floor the pig and bolt," 
 
 knock down the ollicer and run away. 
 PIGEON. A thief that joins in with other thieves to 
 commit a crime, and then informs the officer, who ho 
 pigeons for ; and for this service the officer is sup- 
 posed to be oocaaionally both deaf and blind. 
 PIG'S EYES. Small eyes. 
 
 PIG'S FOOT. A jimmy cloven at one end like a pig's 
 foot. 
 
THE eogue's lexicon. 67 
 
 PIG TOGETHER. Sleep together, two or more in a 
 bed. 
 
 PIG WIDGEON. A simple fellow. 
 
 PIKE. To run away ; to pike off. 
 
 PILOIIER. A stealer ; generally applied to fellows 
 wlio steal pocket-handkerchiefs. 
 
 PILGARLIC. I ; myself. " There was no one with 
 him but Pilgarlic," he was alone. 
 
 PIMP. A boarding-house runner ; an attache of a 
 bawdy-house. 
 
 PTMPLK. The head. 
 
 PIN. 'J'o drink ope's allotted share. 
 
 PINNED. Arrested. 
 
 PINS. Legs. 
 
 PIN-JJASKET. The youngest child ; the baby. 
 
 PINOII. To steal. 
 
 PINCHED. Arrested. 
 
 PINCHERS. Sometimes called "Exchangers;" fel- 
 lows who go into stores or exchange offices with a 
 twenty-dollar gold coin and ask to have it changed 
 for banlc bills, and after receiving the bills, suddenly 
 pretend to have changed their minds, and, handing 
 tlie 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. 
 
 PINK. To stab. 
 
 PINKED. Stabbed. 
 
 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 advan- 
 tage of some weak point, he is said to be "pinked 
 between the lacings." 
 
 PIN-MONEy. Money received by a married woman 
 for prostituting her person. 
 
68 VOOAB0LUM; OE, 
 
 PINNIPE. A crab. 
 
 PINNIPED. Sideways; crab-fashion. 
 
 PIPER. A short-winded person ; a broken-winded 
 horse. 
 
 PIPING. PoUovving ; trailing ; dogging ; looking 
 after ; watching. 
 
 PIT. A pocket. 
 
 PLAIUL. Go home. 
 
 PLANT. To bury ; to conceal. Stolen goods are 
 said to be planted when they arc concealed. " Plant 
 your wids and slow tlieni," be careful what you 
 say. 
 
 PLANTER. One who hides stolen' property. 
 
 PLANTING. Hiding; concealing. 
 
 PLASTIC. A model artist. 
 
 PLATE. Money. 
 
 PLATE OF MEAT. A street or highway. 
 
 PLAYED OUT. Exhausted; expended. 
 
 PLAYTHINGS. Burglar's tools. 
 
 PLUCK. To pull. 
 
 PLUCK THE RIBBON. Pull the bell. 
 
 PLUMB. Honest; upright; good. 
 
 PLUMBY. It is all right, or as it should be ; we 
 have plenty ; they hare enough. 
 
 PLUMP. Rich; plenty of money. "A plump skin," 
 a full purse. 
 
 PLYER. A crutch. 
 
 POGY. Drunk. 
 
 POINT. To pay. 
 
 POKE. A pocket; a purse. 
 
 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. 
 
 POLL. The head. 
 
 POLL HIM. Get hold of the property, and then re- 
 fuse to pay for it. 
 
 POLT. A blow. " Lend the pam a polt in the muns," 
 give the fool a blow in the face. 
 
THE EOGTJE'S LEXICON. 69 
 
 POMP. The game. " Save the pomp," save the 
 game. 
 
 PONCE. A man who is kept by a woman. 
 
 PONCESS. A woman that keeps a man by prostitu- 
 tion. 
 
 POND. The ocean. 
 
 PONEY. Money. "Post the poney," put down the 
 money. 
 
 PONGELO. Drink; liquor. 
 
 POP. To pawn ; to shoot. 
 
 POPS. Pistols. " I popped the bloke," I shot the 
 fellow. 
 
 POPSHOP. Pawnbroker's shop. 
 
 PORK. To inform the coroner of the whereabouts of 
 a corpse. 
 
 PORKER. A saddle. Saddles are mostly made of 
 hog's skins. 
 
 PORT ST. MARTIN. A valise ; a portmanteau. 
 
 POSH. Money ; smallest piece of money. 
 
 POST. Pay; put up. 
 
 POST THE COLE. Pay the money. 
 
 POT-HUNTER. A poor person who steals food only 
 to prevent himself from starving. 
 
 POULTERER. A fellow who opens letters, abstracts 
 the money and then drops them back into the post- 
 oiBce box. " The kiddy was pulled for the poultry 
 rig," the boy was arrested for opening letters and 
 robbing them. 
 
 POUCH. A pocket. 
 
 PRAO. A hov.sc. 
 
 PJJAD-liORROWERS. llorse-thicvcs. 
 
 PRAD-LAY. Stealing horses. 
 
 PRANCER. A horse. 
 
 PRATE ROAST. A talkative fellow. 
 
 PRATER. A hen. 
 
 PRATING CHEAT. The tongue. 
 
 PRATT. I?ack parte. 
 
 PREMONITORY. The penitentiary. 
 
 PRIG. A thief. 
 
70 vocABixLuir ; on, 
 
 PRIGGER-NAPPER. A police officer. 
 
 PRIGGERS. Thieves in general. 
 
 PRIGSTAR. A rival in a love aflair. 
 
 PRIM. A handsome woman. 
 
 PRIME TWIG. First-rate condition. 
 
 PROD. A cart or wagon ; a coach. 
 
 PROG. Food. 
 
 PROP. A breast-pin. 
 
 PROPS. Dice. 
 
 PROSPECTING. Looking for something to steal. 
 
 PUFFERS. Peter Funks. 
 
 PULL. To arrest. To "pull a purse," is to steal a 
 
 purse. 
 PUNCIL A blow struck with the fist. " A punch 
 in the day-light, the victualling-office, or the halter- 
 ing place," a blow in the eye, the stomach, or under 
 the ear. 
 PUNK. A bad woman. 
 PUPPr. Blind. 
 PUSH. A crowd. 
 PUT. An ignorant clown. 
 PUT AWAY. Locked up ; imprisoned. 
 PUT A FELLOVV UP TO HIS ARMPITS. Cheated 
 
 by his companions of his share of the plunder. 
 PUT TO BED WITH A SHOVEL. Buried in the 
 
 earth. 
 PUT UP. Information given to thieves by persons 
 in the employ of parties to be robbed, such as ser- 
 vants, clerks, porters, etc., whereby the thief is fa- 
 cilitated in his operations. 
 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. 
 PUZZLE-COVE. A lawyer. 
 
THE eogub's lexicon. 71 
 
 Q 
 
 QUACKING CHEAT. A duck. 
 
 QUAG. Unsafe; not reliable; not to be trusted. 
 
 QUAIL. An old maid. 
 
 QUAIL-PIPE. A woman's tongue. 
 
 QUAKING-CHEAT. A calf or a sheep. 
 
 QUANDARY. What shall 1 do! 
 
 QUARREL-PICKER. A glazier. 
 
 QUARROON. A body. 
 
 QUARTERED. To receive a part of the profits. 
 
 QUASH. ,To kill ; the end of; no more. 
 
 QUEAN. A slut ; a worthless woman. 
 
 QUEEN DICK. Never. " It happened in the reign 
 
 of Queen Dick," it never occurred ; has never been. 
 QUEEN STREET. "The joskin lives in Queen 
 
 Street," the fool is governed entirely by his wife. 
 QUEER. Counterfeit bank bills ; base ; roguish ; 
 
 worthless. 
 QUEER. To puzzle. "The cove queered the full 
 
 bottom," the fellow puzzled the judge. "The bloko 
 
 queered his ogles among the bruisers," he had his 
 
 eyes blacked by the pugilists. 
 QUEER BIRDS. Reformed convicts who return to 
 
 their old profession. 
 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. 
 QUEER BURY. An empty purse. 
 QUEER COLE FENCER. A passer of bad money. 
 QUEER COLE MAKER. One who makes bad 
 
 money. 
 QUEER PRANOER. A bad horse. 
 QUEER ROOSTER. A fellow that lodges among 
 
 thieves to hear what they have to say, and then 
 
 imparts his information to ofliccrs for a consider- 
 ation. 
 
12 vocabctlum:; oe, 
 
 QTJEMAR. Burn the fellow. 
 
 QUES. Points. 
 
 QUIDS. Cash ; five dollars. " The swell tipped the 
 
 mace cove fifty quids for the prad," the gentleman 
 
 gave fifty dollars for the horse. 
 QUINSEY. Ohoaked. " Quinsey the bloke while I 
 
 frisk his sacks," choke the fellow while I pick his 
 
 pockets. 
 QUOD. Prison. 
 QUOTA. Share. "Tip me my quota," give me my 
 
 share. 
 
 B 
 
 RABBIT. A rowdy. " Dead rabbit," a very athletic 
 
 rowdy fellow. 
 RABBIT-SUCKERS. Young spendthrifts ; fast young 
 
 men. 
 RAOKLAW. A married woman. 
 RAG. A dollar. " Not a rag," not a dollar. 
 RAQGED. Abused; slandered. 
 RAGS. Paper money. " Poor cove, rags are few 
 
 with him," poor fellow, money is not plenty with 
 
 him. 
 RAG-WATER. Intoxicating liquor of all kinds. If 
 
 frequently taken to excess, will reduce any person 
 
 to rags. 
 RAILS. Curtain lectures. 
 RAINBOW. A footman ; so called from the fact that 
 
 lie wears livery, or garments of different colors. 
 RAINY DAY. A day of sickness ; a day of want; 
 
 bad times and rainy days. 
 RAKE. To apportion ; share. 
 RALPH. A fool. 
 
 RAMMER. The arm. " The copper seized my ram- 
 mer, and run me like a prad to the wit," the officer 
 
 laid hold of my arm, and run me like a horse to 
 
 prison. 
 RAMP. To snatch ; to tear any thing forcibly from 
 
THE eogue's lexicon. 73 
 
 the person. Pickpockets are said to bo 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 (inrry piclc his pocket. 
 
 KANOAT COVE. A man covered with fur. 
 
 RANDY. Unruly ; rampant. 
 
 RANOLINO. Intriguing with a number of women. 
 
 RAP. To take a false oath ; to curse. 
 
 RAPPER. A perjurer. 
 
 RASOAGLTON. A eunuch. 
 
 RAT. A trick ; a cheat. " To smell a rat," to sus- 
 pect. 
 
 RATTLE. A hackney coach. 
 
 RATTLING COVE. A coachman. 
 
 READ AND WRITE. Flight. " He took to read and 
 lorite with Joe in Daisyville. 
 
 READER. A pocket-book. 
 
 READER MERCHANTS. Pickpockets who operate 
 in and about the banks. 
 
 READY. Cash. 
 
 RECKON. Cheat. 
 
 RECRUITING. Thieves hunting for plunder. 
 
 RED. Gold ; a cent. 
 
 RED SUPER. A gold watch. 
 
 RED FUSTIAN. Porter or red wine. 
 
 RBDGE. Gold. 
 
 RED RAG. The tongue. "Shut your potato-trap 
 and give the red rag a holiday," shut your mouth 
 and let your tongue rest. 
 
 RED LANE. The throat. 
 
 REEFING. Drawing. "Reefing up into work," 
 drawing up the pocket until the purse or port- 
 monnaie is within reach of the fingers. 
 REG UL ARS. 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. 
 REP. A man of good reputation. 
 7 
 
74 vooABULUM ; oe, 
 
 REPS. A woman of good reputation. 
 
 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. 
 
 RTB. A cross, ill-natured wife. 
 
 RIBBON. Liquor. 
 
 RIB-ROAST. Tlie act of scolding a husband unmer- 
 cifully by his wife. 
 
 RICHARDSNARY. A dictionary. 
 
 RED RIBBON. Brandy. 
 
 RIG. Joke ; fun. 
 
 RIGGING. Clothing. 
 
 RIGHT. All right; just as it was wished to be. 
 
 RIGHTS. " To rights," clear. " Oh ! then, you are 
 to rights this time," there is a clear case against 
 you. 
 
 RIGHT SORT. One of your kind ; a good follow. 
 
 RHINO. Money. 
 
 RHINO FAT. Being rich 
 
 RING. To ring in is to join in with another and ap- 
 pear to think as he thinks; to intrude; to force 
 one's self into company where he is not wanted. 
 
 RIP. A poor devil. 
 
 RIPPERS. Spurs. 
 
 ROAST. To arrest. 
 
 ROBIN'S MEN. From Robin Hood. Expert thieves; 
 grand larceny men ; bank robbers, etc. 
 
 ROCKED IN A STONE CRADLE. Born in a pri- 
 son. 
 
 RODGER. A portmanteau. 
 
 ROGUE. "liot/ue and pulley,'' a man and woman 
 going out to rob gentlemen. 
 
 ROLL OF SNOW. A roll of linen. 
 
 ROME COVE. .A king; the president. 
 
 ROME MORT. A queen. 
 
 ROME VILLE. New-York. 
 
 ROMONERS. Fortune-tellers. 
 
 ROMONBY. A gipsy. 
 
 ROOFER. A hat. 
 
THE EOGUB'S LEXICON. 15 
 
 'ROOK. A cheat. 
 
 ROOST-LAY. Stealing poultry. 
 
 ROPED. Led astray ; taken in and done for. 
 
 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. 
 
 ROSE. A secret. 
 
 ROTAN. Any wheeled carriage. 
 
 ROUGHS. Men that are ready to fight in any way 
 or shape. 
 
 ROUGH MUSIC. Noise made by beating old tins. 
 
 ROUND. Good. 
 
 ROUND ABOUT. An instrument used by burglars 
 to cut a large hole into an iron chest or door. 
 
 ROUNDING. Informing; giving information. 
 
 ROUND ROBIN. A burglar's instrument. 
 
 ROVERS. Thoughts. 
 
 RUB. Run. " Don't rub us to wit," don't run us to 
 prison. 
 
 RUB US TO WIT. Send us to prison. 
 
 RUFFELS. Hand-cufFs. 
 
 RUFFIAN. The devil. " May the ruffian nab the cuf- 
 fin queer, and let the copper twine with his kinchins 
 around his colquarren," may the devil take the jus- 
 tice, and let the policeman be hanged with all his 
 children about his neck. "The ruffian cly you," 
 the devil take you. 
 
 RUG. Sleep. 
 
 RUGG. It is all right. 
 
 RUMBEAK. A magistrate that can be bribed. 
 
 RUMBLE THE FLATS. Playing cards. 
 
 RUMBOB. A money-drawer. 
 
 RUMBING. A full purse. 
 
 RUM BITE. A smart cheat ; a clean trick. 
 
 RUM BLOWEN. A handsome girl. 
 
 RUM BLUFFER. A jolly landlord. 
 
 RUMBO. A prison. 
 
76 vocabulum; or, 
 
 RUMBOB. A young apprentice 
 
 RUMBOSE. Wine or any Idnd of good drink. 
 
 RUMBUGHER. A valuable dog. 
 
 RUM OIICJB. A fellow. 
 
 RUN. Fine; good; valuable. 
 
 RUN IN. Arrested. 
 
 RUNNING IITM THROUGH. A term used by gam- 
 
 blcra when they play with a sucker, and don't give 
 
 him a chance to win a single bet. 
 RUSHERS. House-breakers who break into country 
 
 houses. 
 RUSTY. Ill-natured. His tongue goes like a door on 
 
 rusty hinges. 
 RYBUCK. All right; straight; it will do; I am 
 
 satisfied. 
 RYDER. A cloak. 
 
 S 
 
 SAOHEVERBL. An iron door. 
 
 SACK. A pocket. 
 
 SAINT GILES BUZZMAN. A handkerchief thief. 
 
 SAINT TERRA. A churchyard. 
 
 SAM. A stupid fellow. 
 
 SANGUINARY. Bloody. 
 
 SANS. Without; nothing. 
 
 SAWNEY. Bacon ; fat pork. 
 
 SOAMP-FOOT. A foot-pad. 
 
 SCANDAL PROOF. One who has eaten shame and 
 
 (Inuik after it ; or would blusli at being ashaiueil. 
 SCANDAL SOUP. Tea. 
 
 SCARCE. To slip away ; to make one's self scarce. 
 SOAVOIR. Sharp; cunning; knowledge. 
 SCENT. Bad management. " The cove was nabbed 
 
 on the scent," the fellow was arrested by reason of 
 
 his own bad management. 
 SCHEME. A party of pleasure. 
 SCHOPBL. Bad money. 
 SCHOFEL-PITCHERS. Passers of bad money. 
 
THE EOGUE'S LEXICON". 77 
 
 SCHOOL. A gang of thieves. "A school of knucks,'' 
 a gang of pickpockets. 
 
 SCHOOL OIL. A whipping. 
 
 SCHOOLING. Jostling; pitching. 
 
 SCOUT. A watchman. 
 
 SCRAGG. The neck. 
 
 SGIIAGGED. Hanged. 
 
 SOilAN. Food. 
 
 SCRANNING. Begging. 
 
 SCRAPK. Trouble. 
 
 SCIIAPP. A plan to rob a house or commit any kind 
 of roguery. 
 
 SCRAPPER. A pugilist. 
 
 SCRATCH. To write ; to forge. 
 
 SCRATCHER. A forger ; a copyist. 
 
 SCREAVES. Paper money. 
 
 SCREEN. A bank-bill. 
 
 SCRUB-BADO. A mean, insignificant puppy ; the 
 lowest of the low ; the itch. 
 
 SCREW. A key. 
 
 SCREWING. Opening a lock with keys. 
 
 SCREWS MAN. A burglar who works with keys, 
 picks, dubs, bettys, etc., etc. .... 
 
 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." 
 
 SCRUB. A mean fellow. 
 
 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. 
 
 SCOLD'S CURE. A coffin. " The blowen has nap- 
 ped the scold's cure," the jade is in her coffin. 
 
 SCOT. A young bull. 
 
 SCOUR. To run away. 
 
 SCROBE. A private chastisement. 
 
 SCROOP. To live with a friend, and at his expense. 
 
 SCROOFING. Living at a friend's expense. Thieves 
 are in the habit of scrooflng with an old pal when 
 
78 vocabulum; oe, 
 
 they first come out of prison, until they can steal 
 something for themselves. 
 
 SCRATCH. Time agreed upon; to meet at the ap- 
 pointed time; to face another. 
 
 SCUTTLE. To cut a pocket. 
 
 SEA-CRAB. A sailor. 
 
 SEAVEY. Sense; knowledge. 
 
 SECRET. Cheated. "The bloko was lot into the 
 secret," the man was cheated.' 
 
 SEES. The eyes. 
 
 SEND. To drive or break. "Take the jimmy and 
 send it into the jigger," take the crow and force it 
 into the door. 
 
 SERENE. All right. It is all serene. 
 
 SERVED. Found guilty ; convicted. 
 
 SERVE HIM OUT. Give him a good thrashing. 
 
 SET. Prepared beforehand ; "a set thing;" a, trap ; 
 a determined thing. 
 
 SETTLED. Knocked down; murdered. 
 
 SETTLING. Killing. " Settling a bloke," killing a 
 man. 
 
 SETTER. A shadow ; an officer in disguise, who 
 points out the thief for others to arrest. 
 
 SHADOW. A first-class police officer ; one who 
 possesses naturally the power of retaining with un- 
 erring certainty the peculiar features and charac- 
 teristics of persons, added to the indomitable perse- 
 verance of the slot-hound to follow his quarry. 
 
 SHADY. Quiet; out of sight; not easily found. 
 
 SHADY GLIM. A dark lantern. 
 
 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 
 
 SHAKEDOWN. A panel-thief or badger's crib. 
 
 SHAKESTER. A lady. 
 
 SHALERS. Girls. 
 
 SHALL Y. A negative ; a person that is never positive. 
 
 SHAM LEGGERS. Men who pretend to sell smug- 
 gled goods. 
 
THE EOGUE'S LEXICON. 19 
 
 SIIAP. A hat. 
 
 SHAPES. Naked. 
 
 SHARK. A custom-house officer. 
 
 SHARP. A man that is well posted ; one who 
 
 " knows a thing or two ;" a gambler. 
 SHARPER. One who obtains goods or money by any 
 
 kind of false pretense or representation. 
 SHARPER'S TOOLS. A fool and false dice or cards. 
 SHAVER. A cheat. ■ 
 SHKENEY. A Jew thief. 
 SHELF. A pawn-shop. 
 SIIKEN. Bad money. 
 SHELION. A shilling. 
 SHERIFF'S BALL. An execution. 
 SHERO. The head. 
 SIIERRID. Run away. 
 SHICKSTER. A woman. 
 SHIFTING. Cheating or stealing. 
 SHIGUS. A judge. 
 SHILLEY. No stability. 
 SHIN-BREAKING. Borrowing money. 
 SHINES. Gold coin. 
 SlIINERAGS. Nothing. 
 SHOE-LEATHER. A phrase to denote some one is 
 
 approaching. 
 SIIOON. A fool ; a country lout. 
 SHOOTING -STARS. Thieves who do not remain 
 
 long in one place. 
 SHOP. A prison. 
 SHOPPED. Imprisoned. 
 SHOVE. Pass money. "Shove the blunt," spend 
 
 the money. " Shove queer," pass counterfeit money. 
 SHOVING. Passing bad money. 
 SiniRI). A tailor. 
 SII YCOCK. A man who is fearful of being arrested ; 
 
 shy of the officers. 
 SIOKR. Sixpence. 
 SICK. Imprisoned. 
 
80 vocABULuir ; oe, 
 
 SIDE-POOKET. A drinking-saloon in an out-of-the- 
 way-place ; a resort for thieves. 
 
 SIITTING. Examining ; emptying purses or pocket- 
 books for the purpose of examining their contents, 
 is called sifting. 
 
 SILENCE. To kill ; to knock down. 
 
 SIMKIN. A fool. 
 
 SIMON. A simpleton. 
 
 SING. To cry aloud, " The cove sings beef," the 
 fellow calls thief 
 
 SING SMALL. Have little to say for yourself. 
 
 SINK. To cheat ; to hide from a partner. 
 
 SINKERS. Thieves who do not divide fair with their 
 comp.anions. 
 
 SINICING. Cheating a partner ; not dividing fair. 
 
 SKEP. A pocket full of money ; a place for keeping 
 money : a savings bank. 
 
 SKEW. A cup. 
 
 SKEWER. A sword or dagger. 
 
 SKILLEY. Prison fare. 
 
 SKIN. A purse. "The bloke's skin was full of 
 honey," the man's purse was full of money. 
 
 SKINK. A waiter. 
 
 SKINNERS. Small lawyers who hang about police 
 offices and figuratively skin their clients. 
 
 SKIP-KENNEL. A footman. 
 
 SKIPPER. A barn. 
 
 SKIT. Humbug; a joke. 
 
 SKULL. The head of the house ; the President of the 
 United States ; the Governor ; the head man. 
 
 SKY-I5LUE. Gin. 
 
 SKYCER. A mean, sponging fellow. 
 
 SLANG or SLAG. A watch-chain. "The knucks 
 twisted the swell's thimble, slang, and onions, and 
 also touched his leather, but it vfas very lathy. It 
 only raked a case and a half; the thimble was u, 
 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 
 
THE EOGUE'S LEXICON. 81 
 
 seals, and also his pocket-book ; but there was only 
 a dollar and a half a piece for ihera in it. The 
 watch was a, cheat, but the chain and seals were 
 good. The whole plunder divided gave the thieves 
 fifteen dollars each. 
 
 SLANGED. Chained by the leg. 
 
 SLAP-BANG. An eating-house ; a restaurant. 
 
 SLAMKIN. A slovenly female. 
 
 SLANEY. A theatre. 
 
 SLASIL Outside coat pocket. 
 
 SLAT. A half-dollar. 
 
 SLATE. A sheet. 
 
 SLAWEY. A female servant. 
 
 SLICK-A-DIE. A pocket-book. 
 
 SLIM. Punch. 
 
 SLTNGTAIL. Poultry. 
 
 SLIPPERY. Soap. 
 
 SLOP. Tea. 
 
 SLOPS. Ready-made clothing. 
 
 SLOUGH. To bow the head. 
 
 SLUrSBEll. A heavy, stupid fellow. 
 
 SLUUmOll DR OULLION. A mean fellow. 
 
 SLUICED. To drink. "The bene cove sluiced their 
 gobs with slim till they all snoozed in the strammel 
 like sounders," the good feUow gave them punch till 
 they slept in the straw like hogs. 
 
 SLUICE YOUR GOB. Take a good long drink. 
 
 SLUM. A package of bank bills; a, low drinking- 
 plaoe. 
 
 SLUMING. Passing spurious bills. 
 
 SLUMMING. Stealing packages of bank-bills. 
 
 SLY-BOOTS. A fellow that pretends to be a fool. 
 
 SMACK. To share. " Smack the swag," share the 
 spoil. 
 
 SMACK. To swear on the Bible. " The queer cuffln 
 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. 
 
 SMACKING COVE. A coachman. 
 
82 TOCABULUM ; OB, 
 
 SMALL SNOW. Children's linen. 
 
 SMART. Spruce. 
 
 SMASH. To change. 
 
 SMASHER. Money-changer. 
 
 SMASH-FEEDER. A silver spoon. 
 
 SMEAR. A plasterer; a mason. 
 
 SMEAR GILT. A bribe. 
 
 SMELLER.' A nose. 
 
 SMELLINO CHEAT. A bouquet. 
 •SMELTS. Half-eagles; five dollars. 
 
 SMICKET. A woman's shift or skirt. 
 
 S^HLE. To drink. 
 
 SMILER. A bumper. 
 
 SMIRK. A superficial fellow. 
 
 SMITER. The arm. 
 
 SMOKE. Humbug ; any thing said to conceal the 
 true sentiment of the talker ; to cover the intent. 
 
 SMOKE. To observe ; to suspect ; to understand. 
 
 SMOKY. Suspicious ; curious ; inquisitive. 
 
 SMOUCH. To steal. 
 
 SMUO. A blacksmith. 
 
 SMUSII. To seize suddenly ; to snatch. 
 
 SMUT. Indecent. 
 
 SNABLE. To plunder ; sometimes to kill. 
 
 SNAFFLERS. Highwaymen. 
 
 SNAGS. Large teeth. 
 
 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. 
 
 SNAKE. A fellow that glides into a store or ware- 
 house, and conceals himself for the purpose of lotting 
 in his companions. 
 
 SNAKED. Arrested. 
 
 SNAM. To snatch. 
 
 SNAPPED. Arrested. 
 
 SNAPPER. A gun. 
 
 SNAPPERS. Pistols. 
 
 SNAPT. Arrested; caught. 
 
 SNEAK-THIEF. A fellow who sneaks into areas, 
 
THE EOGUE'S lexicon. 83 
 
 basement-doors or windows, or through front-doors 
 by means of latch-keys, and entering the various 
 ai)artnicnts, steals any thing he can carry off. 
 
 SNEAKING. Conveying away stolen goods. 
 
 SNEAKSMAN. See Sneak-thief. 
 
 SNEEZER. A snuff-box. 
 
 SNIP. Six. 
 
 SNIDE STUFF. Bad money. 
 
 SNITCH. An informer ; the nose ; a spy. 
 
 SNITE. Slap; wipe. "Snite his snitch," wipe his' 
 nose. 
 
 SNIVIOFv. To cry. 
 
 SNOOZING-KEN. A bawdy-house. 
 
 SNOT. A gentleman. 
 
 SNOUT. A hogshead. 
 
 SNOW. Linen. 
 
 SNUDGE. A thief who conceals himself under the 
 bed. 
 
 SNUFF. Offended. " To take snuff," to be offended. 
 
 SNUG. Quiet; all right 
 
 SOAP. Money. 
 
 SOI). A worn-out debauchee, whom excess of indul- 
 gence has rendered unnatural. 
 
 SOFT. Bank bills; paper money. 
 
 SOLDIER. A smoked herring. 
 
 SOLFA. A clerk. 
 
 SOP. A bribe. 
 
 SOT-WEED. Tobacco. 
 
 SOUNDEKS. Hogs. 
 
 SPADO. A Bword. 
 
 SPANISH. Silver coin. 
 
 SPARK. A diamond. 
 
 SPEAK. To steal ; to take away. "Bob spoke with 
 tlie tonoy on the chestnut pranccr," Bob robbed tho 
 fool on the chestnut horse. " To speak with," to 
 steal from. 
 
 SPEAKER. Plunderer. 
 
 SPEALERS. Gamblers. 
 
 SPEILER. A gambler. 
 
84 tocabtoum; oe, 
 
 SPErLING. Gambling. 
 
 SPIOE. To steal. 
 
 SPIOER. A foot-pad. 
 
 SPICER HIGH. A highway-robber. 
 
 SPIT. A sword or dagger. 
 
 SPLIT. Parted; separated. 
 
 SPLIT CAUSE. A lawyer. 
 
 SPLIT ON HIM. Informs against ; denounces him. 
 
 SPLIT OUT. No longer friends ; quarrelled ; dis- 
 solved partnership. 
 
 SPOONEY. Foolish. 
 
 SPORT. A gamester ; a man fond of racing and 
 gaming of all kinds. 
 
 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 bo remembered. 
 
 SPOUT. A pawnbroker's shop. 
 
 SPRAT. Sixpence. 
 
 SPREAD. Butter. " The covo pinched a keclor 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 peniten- 
 tiary for three months. 
 
 SPRINGING THE PLANT. To discover the place 
 where stolen propercy 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 seiul 
 mo my regulars, as I vrantod 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 wo hid it, to sell it, and send me my share of 
 the proceeds, as I wanted to spend it. 
 
 SPUD. Base coin ; bad money. 
 
 SPUNG. A miser. 
 
 SPUNK. Matches. 
 
 SPUNK-FAKERS. Match-sellers. 
 
THE EOGUE'S LEXICOIT. 85 
 
 SQUARE. Honest; upright; good. 
 
 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. 
 
 SQUEAKER. A child. 
 
 SQUAIL. A drink. 
 
 SQUEEZE. Silk or satin. 
 
 SQUEEZE CLOUT. A silk handkerchief. 
 
 SQUELCH. A fall. 
 
 STAG. One who has turned State's evidence. 
 
 STAGr. To see. '■'Stag the cop," see the policeman. 
 
 STAGGED. Discovered ; informed on. 
 
 STAIT. City of New- York. 
 
 STAKE. Plunder, large or small in value, as the case 
 may be. 
 
 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 vic- 
 tim. Any tiling said or done by which the atten- 
 tion is directed from the true state of the case is 
 called a stall. 
 
 STALLING-KEN. A house for the reception of stolen 
 goods. 
 
 STAMFISH. To talk in a way not generally under- 
 stood. 
 
 STANDING. Purchasing stolen property. 
 
 STANDING IN. Bidding for; making an offer; tak- 
 ing part with. " The bloke stands in with the 
 cross-coves, and naps his regulars," the man takes 
 part with the thieves, and receives his share of the 
 plunder. 
 
 STAMP. A particular way of throwing dice out of 
 the box. 
 
 STAMPERS. Feet ; shoes ; sometimes the stairs. 
 
 STARCH. Pride. 
 
 STARDER. A receiver. 
 8 
 
80 vocabulum; or, 
 
 STAR-GAZERS. Prostitutes; street-walkers. 
 STARK NAKED. Stripped of every thing; "skinned 
 
 by a Tombs lawyer." 
 STAR THE GLAZE. Break the show-case; break 
 
 the glas.s. 
 START. The Tombs. " The cove has gone to the 
 
 old start," the fellow has gone to the Tombs. 
 STAUNCli. Can not bo made to tell ; reliable; can 
 bo trusted with a secret. "I say, Smasher, won't 
 the cove squeak if he's pinched and promised by the 
 beak to bo 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 pro- 
 mised by the judge to be set at liberty again ? No, 
 not for all the blasted judges this side of State prison. 
 I tell you ho is a reliable fedow, and there is no 
 fear. 
 
 STAY-TAPE. A dry-goods clerk. 
 
 STEAMBOAT. A term used by gamblers. See In- 
 diana about. 
 
 STEAMER. A tobacco pipe. 
 
 STEEL. House of Refuge. 
 
 STEPPER. The treadmill. 
 
 STEPPING-KEN. A dance-house. 
 
 STICK. A breastpin. 
 
 STICK-FLAMS. Gloves. 
 
 STICKS. Pistols ; household furniture. 
 
 STIFF. A letter ; a written or printed paper ; a 
 nowspapor. 
 
 STIFF ^ UN. A corpse. 
 
 STIFLE. Kill. 
 
 STIFLE THE SQUEAKER. Kill the child. 
 
 STINK. To publish an account of a robbery. 
 
 STIR. A crowd ; a fire. 
 
 STOGGER. A pickpocket. 
 
 STONE PITCHER. Sing Sing. 
 
 STOP. A detective officer. 
 
 STOP LAY. Two or more well-dressed pickpockets 
 
THE rogue's lexicon. 87 
 
 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 
 bo 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 
 liis movable property. The above practice is what 
 is termed the "stop lay." 
 
 STOW YOUR WID. Be silent. 
 
 STRAMMEL. Straw; hay. 
 
 STRANGER. A guinea. 
 
 STRAW-MAN. False bail. 
 
 STRETCH. One year. 
 
 STRETCHERS. Horse-racers. 
 
 STRUCE. To got money from candidates before an 
 election, under the pretense of getting votes for 
 thorn ; to borrow without intending to pay back. 
 
 STRINO. To humbug. " String the bloke and pinch 
 his honey," humbug the man and get his money. 
 
 STRUMMER-FEKER. A hair-dresser. 
 
 STUBBLE. Stop it. 
 
 STUBBLE YOUR RED RAG. Hold your tongue. 
 
 STUFF. Money. 
 
 STUKE. A handkerchief. 
 
 STURBIN. State prison. 
 
 STUMPS. Legs. 
 
 STUNNER. Extra ; superior ; very good. 
 
 STUN HIM OUT OF HIS REGULARS. Cheat him 
 out of his rights ; deprive him of his share of the 
 plunder. 
 
 SUBSIDE. Get out of the way ; run away. 
 
 SUCK. Any kind of liquor. 
 
 SUCKER. A term applied by gamblers to a person 
 that can be cheated at any game of cards. 
 
 SUCKED. Cheated. 
 
88 VOCABULUSI ; OE, 
 
 SUDSDAY. Washday. 
 
 SUET. Liquor. 
 
 SUGAR. Money. 
 
 SUITE. "Watch, seals, etc. 
 
 SUPER or SOUPER. A watch. 
 
 SUPOUCH. A landlady. 
 
 SURE THING. A term used to denote that the per- 
 son is certain to be a winner. 
 
 SUSPEROOL. To hang. 
 
 SWABLER. A dirty fellow. 
 
 SWADDLER. A fellow who protends 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. 
 
 SWAG. Plunder. 
 
 SWAG-OOVE. A receiver of stolen goods. 
 
 SWAG-RUM. Full of wealth. 
 
 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. 
 
 SWELL. A gentleman. "Swell mob," the well- 
 dressed thieves with good address, who appear like 
 honest gentlemen. 
 
 SWIG. Liquor of any kind. 
 
 SWIG-COVES. Fellows who traverse the country 
 under the pretense of begging old clothes. 
 
 SWING. To hang. 
 
 SWITCHED. Married. 
 
 SYEBUCK. Sixpence. 
 
 SYNTAX. ' A schoolmaster. 
 
THE EOGTTE'S LEXICON". 80 
 
 T 
 
 TABBY. An old maid ; or a talkative old woman. 
 TACE. A candle ; silence ; hold your tongue. 
 TACKLE. A mistress ; sometimes clothing. 
 
 TAIL-DIVER. A thief who steals pocket-handker- 
 chiefs from coat-tail pockets. 
 
 TALE. The number ; quantity ; share. " Give him 
 talc," give him his share. 
 
 TALLEYMEN. Men who loan clothing to prostitutes. 
 
 TANGLE-FOOT. Bad liquor. 
 
 TANGLE-FOOTED. Drunk. 
 
 TANNER. Sixpence. " The kiddy tipped the rat- 
 tling cove a tanner for lush," the lad gave the coach- 
 man sixpence to get a drink. 
 
 TAP. To arrest. 
 
 TAPE. Liquor. 
 
 TAPPERS. Officers. 
 
 TARRELS. Skeleton-keys. 
 
 TATTLER. A watch or clock. " To flash a tattler," 
 to sport a watch. 
 
 TATS. False dice ; rags. 
 
 TAT TY-TOG. A sweat-cloth. 
 
 TEASE. A slave ; to work. 
 
 TERIIOKOIS. Dogs or dog. 
 
 TEIZE. To flog. "To nap the teize," to receive a' 
 flogging. 
 
 TESTON. A coin with a head on it. 
 
 THEATRE. Police court 
 
 THIMBLE. A watch. 
 
 THORNS. Anxious; fearful. 
 
 TIIRESWINS. Tlirce cents or pence. 
 
 THROUGH IIIM. Search him. 
 
 THROW. To cheat; to rob ; to steal. 
 
 THROWING OFF. A term used by gahiblers when 
 a capper is the partner of a sucker. The capper 
 can lose when ho pleases, thereby throwing the 
 sucker off, as it is termed. 
 R* 
 
, 90 vocabulum; or, 
 
 THRUMS. Three-cent pieces. 
 
 TIBBS. A goose. 
 
 TIBBY. A cat. 
 
 TICK. Trust. 
 
 TIOKRUM. A license. 
 
 TIED UP GONNOJfFJNG. Stopped stealing ; living 
 honestly. 
 
 TTPPINU. A gooil naturcd war of words. 
 
 TILE. A hat. 
 
 'JTMBER. Matches. 
 
 TIME ON THAT. Wait awhile, sir ; not so fast. 
 
 TIP. Information; give; hand to me; lend. "Tip 
 me your daildle, my bene cove," give me your hand, 
 my good fellow. 
 
 TIPPE r. The haltor. 
 
 TIT A horse. 
 
 TITTER. A sword. 
 
 TIZZY. Sixpence. 
 
 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 accident- 
 ally drowned. 
 
 TOBED. Struck on the head and made senseless. 
 
 TO BLOWER. One who imparts secrets ; to inform. 
 
 TO BLOW THE GAB. To confess. 
 
 TO BREAK A LEG. To seduce a girl. 
 
 T0I5Y. The highway. 
 
 TOBY-TiAY. Robbing on the highway. 
 
 TODGE. To smash. "Todgo the bloke and pad," 
 smoke the man and run. 
 
 TOGE. A coat. 
 
 TOGS Clothes. " The swell is rum-togged," the 
 gentleman is well dressed. 
 
 TO HAVE A GAME DEAD. The gambler has a 
 sure thing, and must beat his opponent. 
 
 TOLOBON. The tongue. 
 
 TOLOBON RIG. Fortune-tellers. 
 
TUB EOGUE'S lexicon. 01 
 
 TOMBSTONES. Teeth. 
 
 TOM-CONEY. A foolish fellow. 
 
 TOMMEY. Bread. 
 
 TONEY. A simpleton. 
 
 TOOLS. Burglars' instruments. 
 
 TOOTII-MUSIC. Chewing food with a good appetite. 
 
 TOP. To cheat ; to trick. 
 
 TOPPED. Hanged. "The cove was topped for 
 settling a bloke," the fellow was hanged for killing a 
 man. 
 
 TOP-DIVEU. A roue. 
 
 TOI'PINC-COVE. The head man of a party ; some- 
 times the hangman. 
 
 TOPPER. A blow on the head. 
 
 TOP-ROPES. Extravagant or riotous living. 
 
 TOP-TOG. An overcoat. 
 
 TOTFF. Rum. 
 
 TO TURN STAG. To turn informer. 
 
 TO BE PUT IN A HOLE. To be cheated by a 
 comrade out of a just share of the plunder. 
 
 TO BOUNCE. To brag or hector ; to tell improbable 
 stories. 
 
 TO BOUNCE HIM. To get one's property and refuse 
 to pay for it. 
 
 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 oflicers were not able to find evidence enough 
 against him. lie was too cunning for thera. 
 
 TOUCH. To steal. 
 
 TOUNGE-PAU. A scold. 
 
 TOUT. Look ; take notice ; remember that. 
 
 TOUTED. Followed or pursued. 
 
 TOUTING-KEN. The bar of a drinking-place. 
 
 TOWER. Rage ; very angry. 
 
 TOWN-TODDLERS. Silly fellows easily taken in by 
 tliG stinrDGrs 
 
 TO YARD KICK. Coat and pants. 
 
 TRACK. To go. 
 
92 TOCABm.uM ; ob, 
 
 TRADESMEN. Thieves. 
 
 TRANSLATORS. Second-hand boots or shoes. 
 
 TRAP. Shrewd; smart. 
 
 TRAPES. Sluttish women. 
 
 TRAPS. Officers. 
 
 TRAY. Three. 
 
 TR[B. A prison. 
 
 TRICKS. Any tiling stolen from a person atone time 
 by pickpockets. 
 
 TRICUM LEGIS. A quirk or quibble. 
 
 TRINING. Hanging. 
 
 TRINKETS. Bowie-knife and revolver. 
 
 TRISTIS. Not good. " The fly kinchin is a tristis 
 canis," the smiirt boy is a sad dog. 
 
 TROLL. To loaf or loiter about. 
 
 TROT. An old woman. 
 
 TROTTER-CASES. Stockings. 
 
 TROTTERS. Feet. 
 
 TRUCKS. Pants. 
 
 TRUET. Stealing money under pretense of changing 
 it. 
 
 TRUMP. A brave fellow. 
 
 TRUMPET. A vain fellow who has a decided par- 
 tiality for the letter L 
 
 TRUNDLERS. Peas. 
 
 TRUNT. Nose. 
 
 TRUNKER. The body. 
 
 TRY ON. To endeavor ; attempt it. " Coves who 
 try on," fellows who live by stealing. 
 
 TOfllMf ANDS. A gown or cloak. 
 
 TWITTOCK. Two. 
 
 TUMBLED. Suspected ; found it out. " Tumbled 
 on him," came upon him unexpectedly. '' Tum- 
 bled to him," suspected him ; thought it was him. 
 
 TUMBLER. A cart ; a lock ; a sharper. 
 
 TUNE. To beat. " Tune the toney," beat the fool. 
 
 TURF. Race-course. "The knucks work the turf 
 for leather and skins," the pickpockets attend the 
 race-courses to steal pocket-books and purses. 
 
THE eogue's lexicon. 93 
 
 TURKEY-MERCHANTS. Purchasers of stolen silk, 
 TURNED UP. Acquitted; discharged. 
 TURNING OVER. Examining. 
 TURTLE-DOVES. A pair of gloves. 
 TVVI(jr. To observe. " Twig the copper, he is 
 
 peery," observe the officer, he is watching us. 
 TWISTED. Convicted, hanged. 
 TWO TO ONE. A pawnbroker. 
 TYBURN BLOSSOM. A young thief. 
 TYE. A neckcloth. 
 TYKE. A dog ; a clown. 
 
 U 
 
 UNCLE. A pawnbroker. 
 
 UNDER-DUBBER. A turnkey. 
 
 UNICORN. Two men and one woman, or two women 
 
 and one man banded together to steal. 
 UNTRUSS. To let down the shutters of a store. 
 UP HILLS. False dice. 
 UPISII. Testy ; quarrelsome. 
 UPPER-BENJAMIN. An overcoat. 
 UPRIGHT MAN. King of the gipsies ; the head of 
 
 a gang of thieves ; the chief of banditti. 
 UPRIGHTS. Liquor measures. 
 UP THE SPOUT. Pawned. 
 UP TO. Knowing. 
 UP TO SLUM. Humbug; gammon. 
 UP TO SNUFF. Cunning; shrewd. 
 USED UP. Killed; murdered. 
 U. S. COVE. A soldier ; a man in the employ of the 
 
 United States. 
 U. S. PLATE. Fetters; handculTs. 
 
04 VOOABULUII : OK, 
 
 VAG. Vagrant. " Done on the vag," committed for 
 vagrancy. 
 
 VAMOSE. Runaway; be off quick. 
 
 VAMP. To pledge. 
 
 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. 
 
 VAMPlilRS. Stockings. 
 
 VARDY. Opinion. 
 
 VHr.VRT. The tongue. 
 
 VENITE. Oome. 
 
 VJiNQS' OURSE. Venereal disease. 
 
 VERGE. A Kold watch. 
 
 VICTUALLING OFFICE. The stomach. 
 
 VINCENT'S LAW. The art of cheating at cards. 
 
 VINEGAR. A cloak or gown. 
 
 VIRTLTE ATER. A prostitute. 
 
 VIXEN. A she-fox. 
 
 VOWEL. Give your note ; I. 0. U. 
 
 W 
 
 WATTS. Strolling musicians ; organ-players, etc. 
 
 WALL-FLOWERS. Second-hand clothing exposed 
 for sale. 
 
 WAME Tho stomach. 
 
 WARE HAWK. Lookout; beware. 
 
 WARM. Rich ; plenty of money ; dangerous. 
 
 WASTE. A tavern. 
 
 WATERED. Longed for. "The cove's chops water- 
 ed for it," the fellow longed for it. 
 
 WATTLES. The ears. 
 
 WEDGE. Silver-ware. 
 
 WEDGE-ROX. A silver snuff-box. 
 
 WEEDING. Taking a part and leaving the balance 
 
THE kogue's lexicon. 95 
 
 in such a manner as not to excite suspicion. When 
 a thief abstracts a portion from the plunder without 
 the Ivnowledge of his pals, and then receives an 
 equ.ll proportion of the remainder, it is called 
 " VV^eeding the swag." 
 
 WELCH 00 MB. The thumb and finger. 
 
 WKLL. Not to divide fair ; to conceal a part. 
 
 WESANU. The throat. 
 
 WETSNOW. Wet linen. 
 
 WETTING. Drinking. 
 
 W HACK. Share of the plunder. 
 
 WllICKDIJi;. To decoy a person by fawning or in- 
 sinuation. 
 
 WHET. To drink. 
 
 WniDS. 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. 
 
 WIHDDLE. To tell or discover. "He whiddles," 
 ho peaches. " He whiddles the whole scrap," he 
 tells all he knows. "The cull whiddled because 
 they would not tip him his regulars," the fellow in- 
 formed 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. 
 
 WHIDDLER. An informer ; one who tells the secrets 
 of another. 
 
 WIIIFFLEK. A fellow that yelps or cries out with 
 pain. 
 
 WHINDLE. A low cry ; a painful suppressed cry. 
 
 WHIPE. A blow. 
 
 WIIIPER. A kerchief. 
 
 Will P-JACKS. Men who pretend to bo shipwrecked 
 sailors. 
 
 WHIPPED. Cheated out of a share, or equal part of 
 the plunder. 
 
 WHIPSTER. A sharper; a cunning fellow. 
 
 WHISKER. An enormous lie. 
 
96 vooABUXTjsi ; ok, 
 
 WIITSKIN. A drinking-vessel. 
 WHISTLER. The throat. 
 
 WHIT. A prison. " Five gonnoffs were rubbed in 
 the darkmans out of the whit and piked lilie bulls 
 into grassville," Ave thieves broke out of prison in 
 the night, and ran like locomotives into the country. 
 
 WHITE TAPE. Gin. 
 
 WHITE VELVET. Gin. 
 
 WHITE WOOL. Silver. 
 
 WIBBLE. Bad drink. 
 
 WIFE. A fetter fixed to one leg. 
 
 "NVIFFLER. A relaxation. 
 
 WILD. A village. 
 
 WILLOW. Poor. 
 
 WIN. A cent. 
 
 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 candle- 
 sticks. 
 
 WIND. Money. " Raise the wind," get money. 
 
 WINDER. To sentence for life. " The cove has nap- 
 ped a winder for settling a tony," the fellow has 
 bpcn sentenced for life for killing a fool. 
 
 WINGS. Oars. 
 
 WINNINGS. Plunder ; money or goods. 
 
 WIRE. A pickpocket; the fellow who picks the 
 pocket. 
 
 WIREHOOK. A pickpocket. 
 
 WISH. Be off; away with you. 
 
 WITCHER. Silver. 
 
 WITCHER BUBBER. A silver bowl. 
 
 WOBALL. A milkman. 
 
 WOBBLE. To boil ; to reel ; to stagger. 
 
 WOOD. In a quandary. 
 
 WOODBIRD. A sheep. 
 
 WOODEN COAT. A coffin. 
 
 WOODEN HABEAS. A man who dies in prison is 
 said to go out on a wooden habeas ; that is, in his 
 cofQn. 
 
 9 
 
THE eogue's lexicon. 97 
 
 WORD-PECKER. A wit ; a punster. 
 
 WORM. To obtain knowledge by craft and cunning. 
 
 TACK. A watch. 
 
 YAM. To eat. 
 
 YAVUM. Bread and mills. 
 
 YELLOW. Jealousy. 
 
 YKLPER. A fellow who cries before he is hurt. 
 
 YIDISIIER. A Jew. 
 
 YOKED. Married. 
 
 YOKLB. A countryman. 
 
 Z 
 
 ZANY. Ajesier. 
 ZNEES. Ice; snow; frost. 
 ZOUCHER. A slovenly fellow. 
 ZUCKB. A dilapidated prostitute. 
 
98 VOOABULUJI ; OR, 
 
 SCENE IN 
 
 A LOKDON FLASII-PANNY. 
 
 " Ho ! there, my rum-bluffer ; send me a nipperkin 
 of white velvet." 
 
 "Make it two," said a woman, seating herself on a 
 skinner's knee; "and if Jim don't post the cole, I 
 will." 
 
 "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 tliink you had been put to bed 
 with a shovel — ^you'vo been so long away from the 
 cock and hen club." 
 
 "No, Jim, I only piked into Deuceavillo with a 
 dimber-damber, who couldn't pad the hoof for a single 
 darkman's without his bloss to keep him from getting 
 
 pogy-" 
 
 "Oh I 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 ?" 
 
 '■ Yea, but thoy were spotted by the liarinan.s, and 
 so we walked Spanish." 
 
 " Was he nabbed on the scent?" 
 
 " No, his pal grew leaky and cackled." 
 
 "Well, Bell, here's the bingo — sluice your gob! 
 But who was the cull that peached?" 
 
 " A slubber de guUion named Harry Long, who 
 wanted to pass for an out-and-out cracksman, though 
 he was merely a diver." 
 
 " Whew 1 I know the kiddy like a copper, and 
 
TnE eogue's lexicon. 99 
 
 saved him once from lumping the lighter hy putting 
 in buclc Why, he scarcely knows a jimmy from a 
 round robin, and Jack deserved the tippet for making 
 u, 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?" 
 
 " I kidded a swell in a snoozing-ken, and shook him 
 of his dummy and thimble." 
 
 "Ah ! Bell I you were always the blowen for a rum 
 bing." 
 
 " 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." 
 
 Bell here produced a rum biug, which at once made 
 her popul.ir, and the nucleus of a host of admirers ; 
 for, as it respects money, it is with rogues and their 
 doxcj's 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. 
 
 "Bell, you're benish to-night," exclaimed Knapp, 
 who probably had a design on the purse, which the 
 course of events somewhat interfered with. 
 
 " Stubble your red rag," answered a good looking 
 young fellow. "Bell had better flash her dibs than 
 let you bubble her out of them." 
 
 "Why, you joskin," retorted Jim; "if you don't 
 stow your whids I'll put your bowsprit in parenthesis. 
 Ogle the cove, Bell — ho wants to pass for a snafler in 
 his belcher tye, though he never bid higher than a 
 wipe in an upper benjamin." 
 
 " I may bid as high as your pintle, and make you 
 squint like a bagof nails," replied the intruder, " though 
 you rub us to whit for it." 
 
100 tocabulum; ob, 
 
 "Oh I it's all plummy," said Knapp, "soyoumaycly 
 your daddies. But come, Bell, let us track the dancers 
 and rumble the flats, for I'm tired of pattering flash 
 and lushing jaclcey." 
 
 "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." 
 
 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 pre- 
 mises, before it was disputed by another fair damsel, 
 who emphatically declared, that if the tenant in pos- 
 session did not immediately leave that, she would 
 astonish her mazzard with the contents of a "nipper- 
 kin of thunder and lightning." 
 
 "If you do," returned Bell, "I will fix my diggers 
 in your dial-plate, and turn it up with red." 
 
 " Mizzle, you punk." 
 
 " Well said," Madame Rhan, " but the bishop might 
 as soon call the parson pig-stealer." 
 
 "You lie, you bat. I couple with no cove but my 
 own. But say, Harry, will you suffer yourself to be 
 made a two-leggod stool of by a flag-about?" 
 
 "Oh! button your bone-box. Peg," replied Harry. 
 "Bell's a rum bio wen, and you only patter because 
 your ogle's as green as the Emerald Isle." 
 
 "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." 
 
 On a bench, close by the last speaker, was seated 
 Hitch, a police ofBcer, who appeared to be quite at 
 home with the company, and to occasion no alarm or 
 misgivings ; but the moment Peg mentioned the cir- 
 cumstance of " the cull that was hushed for his reader," 
 
THE EOGUE'S lexicon-. 101 
 
 he rose from the table, drew forth a pair of handcuffs, 
 and tapping Knapp's rival on the shoulder, playfully 
 whispered : 
 
 " Harry, my lad, the game's up ; hold out your 
 wrists for the ruffles." 
 
 " 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." 
 
 Those proceedings naturally drew a crowd around 
 the parties concerned ; but though all sympathized 
 with tlic prisoner, and the minion of the law was with- 
 out 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. 
 
 " Only nine months on the pad, and to be up for 
 scraggingi "What a pity I" 
 
 " lie'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." 
 
 " He'll die game for all that I Poor fellow ! he takes 
 it like a glass of egg-nog." 
 
 " Ah 1 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." 
 
 " 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." 
 
 "01 stubble it, George. Hitch can't, or he would ; 
 for he never hurries a cove when it's left to himself" 
 
 "That's a fact, my kiddies," exclaimed the ofBcer, 
 who seemed pleased at the compliment; "but the 
 commissioner wants Harry, and so, of course, I must 
 pull him." 
 
 "I'm satisfied, whatever comes of it," added the pri- 
 soner. 
 
 Bell whispered in the officer's ear : " Couldn't you 
 let him pike if I come down with a thimble and ten 
 beans ?" 
 
 "A watch and ten guineas?" 
 
102 VOCABITLUir; OK, 
 
 "Of course." 
 
 "I might if you paid on delivery." 
 
 "Ready's the word." 
 
 " Warehawk, then, and follow." 
 
 Hitch dupartod witli his prisoner, followed by Bull ; 
 but in a few minutes the latter returned and whispered 
 to Knapp : 
 
 " Your client has slipped the darbys, and his name's 
 Walker. Here's' a flimsy, to lay low and bottle your 
 gab." 
 
 The flash-panny was now in the full tide of success- 
 ful operation — two thirds of its patrons being about 
 throe sheets iu the wind, and none of them perfectly 
 sober. In one corner there was a mill, wherein tlio 
 combatants hit the wall more frequently than they hit 
 each other. In another, two blowens wore 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 ahnost 
 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. 
 
 The dance was yet in its fullest vigor, when Hitch 
 returned and called Bell to one of the tables. 
 
 "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 ?" 
 
 "Me, Hitch? Why, I have neither seen or hoard 
 of him." 
 
 " Come, Bell, it's no use our wasting time in small 
 talk. You were with him the last night he was hoard 
 of" 
 
THE EOGUE'S LEXICOIT. 103 
 
 " Not I, faith, Hitch. Bring me the book, and I'll 
 swear No to that." 
 
 " How tlien came you by his super?" 
 
 "Blast the super! for 1 fear it has got me into a 
 muss." 
 
 "If I take you to Newgate for it, Bell, it will be apt 
 to get you into a halter." 
 
 " 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." 
 
 " Make mo your confessor, Bell, without any equi- 
 vocation or drawback, and I may stand between you 
 and Jack Ketch." 
 
 " But what about the stone-jug ?" 
 
 " That depends upon circumstances. Is the bloke 
 living or dead ?" 
 
 " Living, for all I know to the contrary." 
 
 "You know all about him. Bell." 
 
 "If I do, may I cly the jerk at a drag ; be trussed 
 in a Kilraainhara garter, and fall to the surgeons." 
 
 "Well, it may be so," said Hitch, musing ; " for if 
 you knew all, half the world would have known it be- 
 fore this time. However, Bell, you can supply a link 
 or two in the chain of evidence, so give me the parti- 
 culars ; and remember, if j'ou tell me a lie I will smell 
 it as it comes out of your mouth." 
 
 Just then the guests of the Crooked Billet were in- 
 terru[)ted by an uproar in the street. 
 
 " Some swells on a lark," exclaimed lawyer Knapp ; 
 " dub the jigger and let them in." 
 
 And Jim was right; for on the jigger being dubbed, 
 in staggered four bloods, who were sufficiently top- 
 heavy to bo ready for any thing. Two of the new- 
 comers, who prided themselves on "knowing the 
 ropes," while their companions were green from the 
 fens. Immediately on their entrance, this hopeful ad- 
 dition 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 
 
104 
 
 TOCABULUM ; OE, 
 
 fact, they out-herodod Herod, for they proved them- 
 selves 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 glo- 
 ried in doing things up nutty, like pickpockets and 
 highwaymen. But they were not such knowing kid- 
 dies 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 dis- 
 covered 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 Sana ceremonie with the strangers, 
 while a couple of fogle-huntcrs 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 
 chargH of an elderly, responsible-looking cracksman, 
 hurried the bloods off to the nearest station-house. 
 What rascally things are policemen I Alas I and alackl 
 just about as rascally as all the rest of the world. 
 
 N TT M E K A T I O N . 
 
 1. Eno. 
 
 1. 
 
 On. 
 
 2. Owt. 
 
 2. 
 
 Duo. 
 
 8. Eehrt. 
 
 3. 
 
 Tray. 
 
 4. Ruof 
 
 4. 
 
 Quartre. 
 
 6. Evif 
 
 5. 
 
 Cink or Pinniffi 
 
 0. Xis. 
 
 6. 
 
 Double Tray. 
 
 7. Neves. 
 
 7. 
 
 A Round. 
 
 8. Thgie. 
 
 8. 
 
 Double Quarter. 
 
 9. Enin. 
 
 9. 
 
 A Floorer. 
 
 10. Not. 
 
 10. 
 
 Double Finniff. 
 
THE EOGTTE'S lexicon. 105 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 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 sawncy 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 cen- 
 tury and a finnif for the fawney. 
 
 TRANSLATION. 
 
 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 de- 
 tective is observing your manoeuvres." Sullivan ran im- 
 mediately 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 ob- 
 tained a watch, and also robbed a well-dressed gentle- 
 man 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. 
 
106 THE eogue's lexicon. 
 
 INTERCEPTED LETTER. 
 
 Raed Mot : Ecnia uoy evah neeb ot eht tiw, semit 
 evah neeb llud. Mij dna em erah enod gniliton fo yna 
 tnuocca. Tsal thgin I dezziib a ekolb dna a retsekahs 
 fo a redaer dna a niks. Yra remoj dellats. A evoc- 
 ssorc, ohw dah sih sraluger, dullac tuo, "poognub," 
 OS sa a gip saw gnikram. I dclceps ot clit birc, ero)iw 
 I dnuof Mij dah neeb gnillup nvvod ycnwas rof burg. 
 Eh dekcarc a asac tsal thgin, dna decnef eht gaws. 
 Eh dlot em sa Llib dah depmilf a kcay, dna dehcnip a 
 Hews of a yenwaf; eh tnes eht kcay ot hcruho, dna 
 tog eeiht sffinnif dna a retooc rof eht yenwaf 
 
 Ruoy dlo Llom dorauqs flesreh rof a clpiioc fo snoom, 
 retfa uoy tnew ot tiw ; tub uoy ees a detsalb reppoc 
 deye-yttuc reh, dna derrcttap ylnoib htiw reh, dna 
 dcsiinorp reh ytnclp fo eloc fi d'ehs eson rof niih, dna 
 ni esruoc, Llom ekil, ehs saw demmab yb mih, dna os, 
 uoy ees, ehs tup pu roop koalb Llib, dna eh saw deppoc 
 ot sthgir ; rof nehw yeht deksirf mih, ycht dnuof a tol 
 fo egdew-sredoef ni eht ekop fo sih skcik. Eht 
 hcnuats-nu sevoc, sa uoy swonk, Mot, si reven drakcab 
 nev yeht dluohs emoc drarof. Nev I dctnalic roop 
 S'llib senutrofsim 11a no me dias sa woh eh sav a cncb 
 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 sUac 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 cot yreel ot evig 
 eht spec eht egatnavdah revo em. On erom ta tnes- 
 crp. Nnoj Yellek. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 THE GAMBLER'S FLASH. 
 
 W0RD3 FREQUENTLY USED DT GAMBLERS AMONQ TOBM3ELTE3, SOMETIMES 
 IN GENERAL CONVERSATION, AND SOMETIMES WUILB AT PLAT, 
 
 A GOSS. The card that has won three times in one 
 deal. 
 
 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 exclama- 
 tion among gamblers would then be, "There goe 
 his hotel." 
 
 ARTIST. One who excels as a gamester. 
 
108 APPENDIX. 
 
 BANK. Without a party to play against, there can 
 bo 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 instru- 
 ments. 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-part- 
 nership 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 some- 
 times easy to break a bank of limited capital, but 
 to make bankrupt the other is almost an impossibi- 
 lity. Tlie 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. 
 
 BANKER. The man who puts the money up to be 
 played for. The owner of the bank. 
 
 BETTER. A party who enters a gambling-saloon, 
 takes his seat at the table, and commences to play, 
 is a better. 
 
 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 sb-eet every 
 
APPENDIX. 109 
 
 day by speculating brokers. In Wall street gam- 
 bling there are the "bulls" and the " bean's," the 
 object of the one being to raise stock above its 
 actual value and then dispose of it, while the other 
 party depresses it belaw 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. 
 
 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. lie can copper, call, and pl.ay the win- 
 ning card. He can double the limit of the game, 
 which is the privilege of the player on the last turn. 
 
 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 con- 
 sider the game and study the moves he should 
 make. 
 
 CAPPER. A man in the employ of the bank, who 
 pretends to be playing against it, . and winning 
 large amounts. Some gjimbling-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 
 
 10 
 
110 APPENDIX. 
 
 thing they want to bet with the red checks, which 
 represent $5, putting down ten or twenty at a time. 
 
 CASHING. This is getting the money from the bank 
 for the checlcs or chips, if the player has any left on 
 hand when he stops playing. 
 
 OAT IIOPP. 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. 
 
 CHANGING IN. Handing in your money for the 
 chips. 
 
 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 inoicate the 
 value they represent. There are three colors, 
 namelj', white, red and blue. White chips repre- 
 sent twenty-flve 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" ,iis the gambler calls it. 
 
 CHOPPING. A card which commences to win and 
 lose alternately, is called chopping, and to commence 
 to lose and win alternately, is anti-chopping. 
 
 COLD DECK. This is generally done in short cards, or 
 short games. A pack of cards is shufiled, and just as 
 they are about to be dealt out, another pack is sub- 
 stituted. 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 tiius the evidence of his 
 guilt is carried off unobserved. When cleverly 
 done, the trick can not be discovered. One gambler 
 
ArrENDix. Ill 
 
 often plays this trick on another, and hence it de- 
 rives the expressive name of "cold deck." 
 
 COPPER. A card can be played to win or lose, at 
 the option of the player. If he wishes to play any 
 I)articular 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. 
 
 CHAPS or PROPS. A game peculiar to Boston. Some- 
 times it is played with shells, and sometimes with cof- 
 fce-boans, but more generally the former, as they can 
 be loaded. If four shells arc not at hand, four cof- 
 fee-beans answer the same purpose. It is a substi- 
 tute 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, Bostoaians 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 cnrd.'i. 
 
 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. 
 
 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. 
 
 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. 
 
112 APPENDIX. 
 
 DEALER. The party who deals out the cards, receiv- 
 ing generally for his services from ten to twenty 
 per cent of the profits of the game from the banker. 
 
 DOUBLE CARD. Two cards of the same denomi- 
 Dation. 
 
 E 
 
 EVEN. The player who trys to make up what he has 
 lost. Having lost $50, he stakes another $50, per- 
 haps his last, for the purpose of getting back what 
 he had lost, to be even with the bank, or get broke 
 in the attempt. 
 
 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. 
 
 G 
 
 GAFF. The gaff is a ring worn on the fore-finger of 
 the dealer. It has a sharp point on tlio inner side, and 
 the gambler, when dealing from a two-card box, can 
 deal out the card ho cliooses ; some, however, are 
 smart enough to do this trick without the galT. It 
 is now out of date, and the only city in wliich 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, havo 
 been discovered by sharpers. 
 
APFJSNMX. 113 
 
 H 
 
 nOCK. 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 
 cau<;lit, or put in liock, 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 cither 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. 
 
 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 under- 
 stand, and sometimes the signs are agreed upon and 
 known only to the parties interested. 
 
 LAMAS. High chips or checks representing $35, $50, 
 and $100. There are no $1000 lamas, for the sim- 
 ple reason that with $100 chips any amount of 
 money can be laid on the table. 
 
 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 when- 
 ever 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. 
 
 10* 
 
114 APPENDIX. 
 
 LEAVING OUT. Wlien a dispute arises, a referee 
 of outsiders or lookers-on, is appointed, to whom 
 the (lifficuUy is referred, and whoso decision among 
 professional men is decisive. 
 
 LITTLE FIGURE. Aco, douce, and tray. 
 
 LOOK-OUT. The look-out is the man who is sup- 
 posed to keep every thing straight, and see that no 
 mistake is made, and that the dealer does not ne- 
 glect to lift any money that he has won. 
 
 M 
 
 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,asitsuitshim and his 'finances. 
 This saves him from delaying the game by going 
 through his pockets for the exact money ho wants. 
 When the deal is out, he settles." 
 
 N 
 
 NUDGE. This is not often practised at the game of 
 faro ; it is applicable, as its name implies, to crib- 
 bage and similar games. The office of a nudger is 
 to touch an associate with his feet. These toucli- 
 ings are signs, Which are denominated nudging. 
 
 PALMING. Concealing cards in the palm of the 
 hands. 
 
 PARLIEU. Is to allow one's money to lie on the ta- 
 ble and double. For instance, the player puts $5 
 rfn the table, and it wins ; instead of lifting it, ho lota 
 the original sum lie — that is called a parliou. 
 
APPENDIX. 115 
 
 PICKER-UP. We frequently read of country-men 
 being "roped" into gambling-houses, but this occurs 
 from the ignorance of the reporters, who know no- 
 thing of the language used by gamblers and sports- 
 men. Gamblers of the liigher grade in Now- York, 
 never use the word "roper-in." It is usually conli- 
 dence-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 pickcr-up takes his man 
 to a gambling-saloon, and there leaves him to bo 
 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. 
 
 The picker-up is alw.ays a gentleman, in manners, 
 taste, dross, and appearance, and sometimes has tho 
 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 cot- 
 ton-bales. He knows all about the evil results aris- 
 ing 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 wa.s the cradle and the birth-place of li- 
 berty, 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 philoso- 
 phers, poets, and statesmen. 
 
 This is the picker-up. He first sees the man's 
 name on the hotel-register, and where he is from. 
 
116 APPENDIX. 
 
 He then sees him out, studies his character, and as- 
 certains his means and the object of his visit to the 
 city; and the picker-up, if smart, reads his victim 
 phronologically without toucliing 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 talce him long generally to get a stranger 
 to visit a gainhliiig-hell. Very many of the servants 
 of hotels are in the pay of i)ickers-up — the duty of 
 the servant being to get information concerning 
 guests, which his employer can use. 
 
 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. 
 
 PLAYING ON VEIVET. Playing on the money 
 that has been won from the bank. 
 
 PKBSS. When a man wins a bet, and instead of lift- 
 ing and pocketing the winnings, he adds to the ori- 
 ginal .'(take and winnings, it becomes a press. 
 
 PRIVATE GAME. So called because the fiat is led 
 to suppose that no professional gamblers are admit- 
 ted, and thus he is the more easily duped. 
 
 PUBLIC GAME. A game where any body can be 
 admitted. 
 
 B 
 
 REPEATER. For instance, when a card wins or loses 
 at one deal, and the samo tiling occurs the next deal, 
 it is a repeater. 
 
 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, out- 
 siders, loafers. 
 
 RUSSER. A big player. 
 
APPENDIX. 117 
 
 S 
 
 SHOE-STRING. When a man bets a small amount 
 
 and runs it up to a large amount, it is called a 
 
 shoe-string. 
 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." 
 SLEEPER. A b.t won by the bank or a better, 
 
 which h.as been overlooked and lies on the table 
 
 without a claimant. 
 SKINNING. A sure game, where all who play are 
 
 sure to lose, except the gamesters. 
 SPLIT. When two cards come alike. For instance, 
 
 if two jacks should come out, the banker takes one 
 
 half of the money. 
 SQUARE GAME. When cards are dealt fairly, and 
 
 there is no cheating. 
 SUMMER GAME. Playing merely for amusement. 
 SUMMER GAME. Playing a game for the benefit of 
 
 another person with his money. 
 STRIPPERS. Cards cut at the sides for the purpose 
 
 of carrying on a skinning game. 
 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. 
 SUCKER. A flat ; one who can play cards, but does 
 
 not know all the tricks and traps in gambling. 
 SUPPER CUSTOMERS. Some of the fashionable 
 gambling-houses have free suppers for their custom- 
 ers ; this is done to induce the better class of gamb- 
 ling merchants to patronize the house. Bvlt there 
 are some men who frequent these houses and take sup- 
 per, 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." 
 
 T 
 TELL-BOX. The tell-box is an improvement on the 
 10 
 
118 APPENDIX. 
 
 gaff, and has a fine spring attached to it. The object 
 is to cheat the dealer. Tlie dealer plays with a pack 
 of cards which the player has had a chance to 
 handle, and ho rubs the backs of certain of them 
 with sandpaper. 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 tho 
 card that is covered, and ho jilays accordingly. JIo 
 can also play in the same manner with anew pack 
 of cards without sanding them, as certain cards re- 
 quire a greater amount of ink than others. 
 
 THE POT. Tho six, seven, and eight. 
 
 TRICKS. When a player takes the cards from his 
 opponent that counts. If tho queen is put down 
 and king follows, which is higher, then the queen 
 is taken. That is a trick. 
 
 TRICK GAMES. Such games as whist, where tricks 
 count. 
 
 Z 
 
 ZODIAC. This word has degenerated into Soda. It 
 means the top card in the box. 
 
APPENDIX. 119 
 
 TECHNICAL WORDS AND PHRASES, 
 
 BILLIARD-PLAYERS. 
 
 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 al- 
 most impossible to lay down fixed rules in this par- 
 ticular, 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 desideratum ; and this is to be 
 acquired by practice, and a close observation of the 
 best players. 
 
 BANK. When the player makes his own ball hit any 
 of the cushions before striking the object-ball. 
 
 BILLIARD-SHARP. A class of character not tole- 
 rated 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 liv- 
 ing, 6ut 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 ex- , 
 pericncod 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 dis- 
 honest occupation is carried on ; and here he is at 
 home, and in his glory. He makes himself particu- 
 larly friendly with any one who will ask him to 
 
120 APPENDIX. 
 
 " take a drink," and in his assumed duties he fills 
 the offices of lounger, runner, talker, player, sponge, 
 shoulder-hitter, and referee. 
 
 He is also a runner, and sort of travelling blower to 
 Bccond-rato manufacturers of billiard-tables. Tlicso 
 men supply him with clothes, to enable him to 
 mingle in respectable society, and allow him an 
 enormous per centago 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 tliis way goes the lounds of 
 the city until all the places wliich harbor him, are, 
 in his own phrase, " played out." 
 
 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." 
 
 BOWERY SHOT. When the balls played with and 
 at, are jarred together — a pushing shot. 
 
 BREAK. The position the balls are left in after the 
 shot. 
 
 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. 
 
 CAROM. (French, Caromholage.) To hit more than 
 one of the balls on the table with your own. In 
 England this word has been corrupted to " cannon." 
 
 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. 
 
APPENDIX. 121 
 
 DISCOUNT. When one player is so muct the supe- 
 rior of anotlier, that ho allows all the counts made 
 by his opponent to be deducted from his own reckon- 
 ing, 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 de- 
 ducted 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. 
 
 DOUBLET or CROSS. When the ball to be pocketed 
 is first made to rebound from the opposite cushion. 
 
 FOLLOW. When a player's ball rolls on after an- 
 other ball which it has impelled forward. 
 
 FORCE. When the player's ball retrogrades after 
 coming in contact with another. 
 
 FOUL STROKE or SHOT. Any stroke made in vio- 
 lation of the known rules of the game. 
 
 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. 
 
 GERMANTOWNER. See Bowery Shot. 
 
 HAZARD. To drive any of the balls into any of the 
 pockets. 
 
 HAZARD, DOUBLE. When two balls are pocketed 
 with the same stroke. 
 
 HAZARD, LOSING. When the player's ball is 
 pocketed by his own act. 
 
 HAZARD, WINNING. When the player pockets 
 either of the red balls, or his adversary's ball. 
 
 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 
 
 11 
 
122 APPENDIX. 
 
 he would have gained if successful. The phrase is 
 most frequently employed in two-ball pool. 
 
 HUG. When any of the balls run close alongside of 
 a particular cushion, they arc said to hug it. 
 
 JAW. When a ball is prevented from dropping into 
 a pocket by the cushions, which extend like jaws on 
 either side. 
 
 JUMP. When the player forces his ball by a down- 
 ward stroke to leap up from the table. 
 
 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. 
 
 KISS. When the ball played with strikes another ball 
 more than once, they arc said to kiss ; or when two 
 balls, not played with, come in contact. 
 
 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. 
 
 MISS. To fail striking any of the balls upon the table. 
 
 MISS-CUE. When the cue, from any cause, slips 
 off the ball without accomplishing the intended 
 stroke. 
 
 PLAYING FOR SAFETY. When the player foie- 
 goes a possible advantage, in order to leave the balls 
 in such a position that his opponent can make no- 
 thing out of them. 
 
 PLAYING SPOT-BALL. When the player is not 
 limited to the number of times he may pocket the 
 red ball from the spot. 
 
 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." 
 
 SCRATCH. When a player wins a stroke or count 
 by accident, without deserving it, he is said to have 
 
 STRINGING FOR THE LEAD. A preliminary ar- 
 rangement, by which it is determined who shall 
 have the choice of lead and balls. 
 
 TIMBER LICK. See Bowery Shot. 
 
APPENDIX. 123 
 
 BBOKERS' 
 TECHNICALITIES IN BRIEF. 
 
 A BULL 13 ono wlio buys stocks on apccuktion, tliink- 
 iiip; tlioy will rise, so Hint ho can soli at a profit. 
 
 A B15AR is one who sells stocks on speculation, think- 
 ing they will fall, so that he can buy in for less mo- 
 ney to fill his contracts. 
 
 A CORNER is when the bears can not buy or borrow 
 the stock to deliver in fulfillment of their contracts. 
 
 A DEPOSIT is earnest-money, lodged in the hands 
 of a third party, as a guaranty; "6 up," "10 up," 
 etc , is the language expressive of a deposit. 
 
 OVERLOADED is when the bulls can not pay for the 
 stocks they have purchased. 
 
 SHORT is when a person or party sells stocks when 
 they have none, and expect to buy or borrow them 
 in time to deliver. 
 
 LONG is when a person or party has a plentiful sup- 
 ply of stocks. 
 
 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. 
 
 A WASH is a pretended sale, by special agreement 
 between the seller and buyer, for the purpose of get- 
 ting a quotation reported. 
 
124 APPENDIX. 
 
 A HUNDRED STRETCHES HENCE 
 
 On 1 where will be the culls of the bing 
 
 A hundred stretches hence ? 
 The bene morts, who sweetly sing, 
 
 A hundred stretches hence ? 
 The autum-caclders, autum-coves, 
 The jolly blade who wildly roves ; 
 And where the buffer, bruiser, blowen, 
 And all the cops and beaks so knowin', 
 A hundred stretches hence ? 
 
 And where the swag, so bleakly pinched, 
 
 A hundred stretches hence f 
 The thimbles, slang, and danglers filched, 
 
 A hundred stretches hence ? 
 The chips, the fawneys, chatty-feeders. 
 The bugs, the boungs, and well-flUed readers; 
 And where the fence and snoozing-ken, 
 With all the prigs and lushing men, 
 
 A hundred stretches hence f 
 
 Played out their lay, it will be said 
 
 A hundred stretches hence , 
 With shovels they were put to bed 
 
 A hundred stretches since ! 
 Some rubbed to whit had napped a winder, 
 And some were scragged and took a blinder, 
 Planted the swag, and lost to sight, 
 We'll bid them, one and all, good night, 
 
 A hundred stretches hence. 
 
APPENDIX. 125 
 
 TECHNICAL WORDS AND PHRAEJiES 
 
 m GENERAL USE BY PUGILISTS. 
 
 ABROAD. Confused ; staggered. 
 
 A GENERAL. Possessed of superior science. 
 
 BACKHANDED BLOW. Striking with tiie back of 
 
 the clenched fist. 
 BARNEY. A fight thatis sold. 
 BEAK. The nose. 
 
 BEAM-ENDS. Thrown or knocked into a sitting po- 
 sition. 
 BOKO. The nose. 
 BOTTOM. Power of endurance. 
 BOUNCED. Frightened with stories of another's 
 
 prowess. 
 BREAD-BASKET. The stomach. 
 BUFFER. A pugilist. 
 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. 
 CLARET. Blood. 
 
 CHOPPER. A blow given from above. 
 COJyORS. The respective handkerchiefs that each 
 
 figlit.s under. 
 COMMISSARY. The person who fixes the ropes and 
 
 stnkes. 
 CONK. The nose. 
 CORINTHIAN CANVAS. A term applied to the 
 
 propria personm of an English nobleman who is an 
 
 amateur of pugilism. 
 
126 APPENDIX. 
 
 COUNTER-HITTING. When both parties in a fight 
 strike each other at the same time. 
 
 OROSS-BUTTOOK. To get an adversary on the hip, 
 and then throw him. 
 
 OUT OF TIME. Defeated; could not come up to 
 the call. 
 
 DADDLES. The hands. 
 
 DOING WORK. Training. 
 
 DOUBLER. A blow which causes the person struck 
 to bend forward. 
 
 DUKES. The hands. 
 
 DUTCH COURAGE. Cowardice; one who drinks 
 liquor to stimulate his courage. 
 
 ENOUGH. When one of the boxers wishes to discon- 
 tinue the flglit he exclaims, " Enough." 
 
 FACER. A severe blow struck directly in the face. 
 
 FEINTING. Making pretense of delivering a blow. 
 
 FIBBING. Short, quick blows when the parties are 
 close to each other. 
 
 FIDDLER. A pugilist that depends more upon his 
 activity than upon his bottom. 
 
 FINICKING FOP. A dandy or empty swell who 
 makes much ado about pugilism, because he thinks 
 it knowing and stylish. 
 
 PINE FETTLE. In good condition ; healthy. 
 
 FLABBY. The flesh in a soft condition. 
 
 FLOORER. A knock-down blow. 
 
 PORKS. The hands. 
 
 POSSED. Thrown. 
 
 FOUL. An unwarrantable interference on the part 
 of a second to frustrate an opponent's designs. 
 
 FOUL BLOW. A blow given contrary to the ac- 
 cepted rules of the ring ; below the belt. 
 
 GAME. Courageous, unflinching. 
 
 GAVE IN. Yielded. 
 
 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 glutton. 
 
APPENDIX. 127 
 
 aOB. The mouth. 
 
 GOOD-WOOLED. A man of unflinching courage. 
 
 GOT HOME A telling blow. 
 
 GROGGY. Not able to stand erect from punishment 
 
 received. 
 GRUEL. Punishment. 
 GULLET. The throat. 
 HIGH-COLORING. Drawing blood freely. 
 IN DIFFICULTIES. Nearly defeated. 
 IN MOURNING. The eyes blackened and closed up. 
 IN TROUKLE. Almost beaten. 
 IVOIUKS. Teeth. 
 
 JOLLYING. Low expressions used by one combatant 
 to the other during the fight, for the purpose of irri- 
 tating him and diverting his attention. 
 KNOWLEDGE-BOX. The head. 
 LAMPS. The eyes. 
 LEARY. Active ; smart. 
 LEVELLER. When one of the contestants is brought 
 
 completely to the ground. 
 LISTENERS. The ears. 
 MARK. The pit of the stomach. 
 MAZZARD. The mouth. 
 MENTOR. A second in the ring. 
 MILLED. See Punished. 
 
 MILLING COVES. Persons who regularly frequent 
 milling-pannies, for the purpose of exhibiting their 
 skill in boxing. 
 MILLING-PANNIES. Places of resort for pugilists 
 
 in which sparring exhibitions are given. 
 MITTENS. Boxing-gloves. 
 MITTEN-MILL. A glove fight. 
 MUSH. The moutli. 
 NUT. The head. 
 
 NUT-CRACKER. A severe blow on the head. 
 OGLES. The eyes. 
 PINS. The legs. 
 
 PLUCK. Spirit ; boldness ; courage. 
 POTATO-TRAP. The mouth. 
 
128 APPENDIX. 
 
 PUFFED. Swollen. 
 
 PUNISHED. Severely bruised or cut in the tight. 
 RALLY. When the fighters close up and strike pro- 
 miscuously. 
 RANTER. Ono who makes greater pretension of 
 skill in boxing than he exhibits when engaged in a 
 set-to. 
 RIB-BENDER. A forcible hit in the ribs. 
 RUBY. Blood. 
 
 SHAKE-UP. A pugilistic encounter. 
 SHIFT. When a boxer purposely falls to save him- 
 self from a knock-down blow, he is said to make a 
 shift. 
 SLOGGER. A pugilist. 
 SMELLER. The nose. 
 SPARRING GILLS. ' See Milling Goves. 
 STAMINA. Ability to punish and endure punish- 
 ment. 
 TAKE THE SHINE OUT. To lower the man's self- 
 esteem. 
 THE CROOK. Entwining the legs for a fall. 
 THE SCRATCH. A line drawn in the middle of the 
 
 ring. 
 THREW DOWN THE GLOVE. Gave a challenge. 
 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. 
 TOLD OUT. Beaten ; defeated. 
 UPPER OUT. A terrific blow struck upwards. 
 UPPER CUSTOMER. A term applied to patrons of 
 the 7ing amongst the upper classes who are not 
 themselves pugilists. 
 UPPER STORY. The head. 
 WHITE FEATHER. Cowardice. 
 WIND UP. The finishing round. 
 
APPENDIX, 129 
 
 ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 William Bristol, whose chant used to be Bristol 
 Bill, wishes to nose his old pals, and the public gene- 
 rally, that he has tied up prigging, and is now squar- 
 ing it at No. 350 Back Hill, Hatten Garden, where he 
 keeps on hand, for ready cole — tick being no go — up- 
 per benjamins, built on a downy plan ; slap-up vel- 
 veeten togs, lined with the same broady ; moleskin 
 ditto, an}' color, lined with the same broady ; kersey- 
 mere kicksies, any color, built very slap with the art- 
 ful dodge ; stout cord ditto, built in the " Melton 
 Mowbray" style ; broad cord ditto, made very saucy ; 
 moleskin, all colors, built hanky spanlcy, with double 
 fakement down the side, and artful buttons at the bot- 
 tom ; stout ditto, built very serious. Out and out 
 fancy sleeve kicksies, cut to drop down on the trotters. 
 Waist benjamins, cut long, with moleskin back and 
 sleeves. Blue cloth ditto, cut slap-up. Mud-pipes, 
 knee-caps, and trotter-cases, built very low. 
 
 A decent allowance made to Seedy Ssvells, Tea 
 Kettle Purgers, Head Robbers, and Flunkeys out of 
 Collar. N. B. Gentlemen finding their own Broady, 
 can be accommodated. 
 
 William Bristol, formerly known as Bristol Bill, 
 wishes to inform his old friends, and the public gene- 
 rally, that he has given up stealing, and is now getting 
 his living honestly, at 350 Back Hill, Hatten Garden, 
 where he keeps on hand, for ready money, overcoats 
 of a superior style and pattern; superior velveteen 
 coats, lined with the same material ; moleskin, any 
 color, lined with the same stuiF] kerseymere knee- 
 breeches, any color, made very fashionable, with the 
 
130 APPENDIX. 
 
 yellow neckhandkerchief included ; cord ditto, made 
 in the " Melton Mowbray" style ; broad cord ditto, 
 made the top of the fashion ; moleskins, of all colors, 
 made in the latest fashion, with double stripes down 
 the side, and buttons at the bottom ; stout ditto, very 
 strongly made. Waistcoats, cut long-waisted, with 
 moleskin back and sleeyes. Blue cloth ditto, fashion- 
 ably cut. Gaiters, leggins, boots, and shoes, made 
 very reasonable. 
 
 An allowance made to poor men of fashion, men 
 who exchange old clothes, butlers, and footmen out of 
 place. N. B. Gentlemen, finding their own materials, 
 can be accommodated. 
 
R. WORTHINGTON, Publisher, 
 
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