PRATTS. Buttocks; also a tinder box. CANT. PRATTLE BROTH. Tea. See CHATTER BROTH, SCANDAL BROTH, &c. PRATTLING BOX. The pulpit. PRAY. She prays with her knees upwards; said of a woman much given to gallantry and intrigue. At her last prayers; saying of an old maid. PREADAMITE QUACABITES. This great and laudable society (as they termed themselves) held their grand chapter at the Coal-hole. P---K. The virile member. PRICK-EARED. A prick-eared fellow; one whose ears are longer than his hair: an appellation frequently given to puritans, who considered long hair as the mark of the whore of Babylon. PRICKLOUSE. A taylor. PRIEST-CRAFT. The art of awing the laity, managing their consciences, and diving into their pockets. PRIEST-LINKED. Married. PRIEST-RIDDEN. Governed by a priest, or priests. PRIG. A thief, a cheat: also a conceited coxcomical fellow. PRIG NAPPER. A thief taker. PRIGGERS. Thieves in general. Priggers of prancers; horse stealers. Priggers of cacklers: robbers of hen-roosts. PRIGGING. Riding; also lying with a woman. PRIGSTAR. A rival in love. PRIME. Bang up. Quite the thing. Excellent. Well done. She's a prime piece; she is very skilful in the venereal act. Prime post. She's a prime article. PRIMINAKY. I had like to be brought into a priminary; i.e. into trouble; from PREMUNIRE. PRINCE PRIG. A king of the gypsies; also the head thief or receiver general. PRINCES. When the majesty of the people was a favourite terra in the House of Commons, a celebrated wit, seeing chimney sweepers dancing on a May-day, styled them the young princes. PRINCOD. A pincushion. SCOTCH--Also a round plump man or woman. PRINCOX. A pert, lively, forward fellow. PRINCUM PRANCUM. Mrs. Princum Prancum; a nice, precise, formal madam. PRINKING. Dressing over nicely: prinked up as if he came out of a bandbox, or fit to sit upon a cupboard's head. PRINT. All in print, quite neat or exact, set, screwed up. Quite in print; set in a formal manner. PRISCIAN. To break Priscian's head; to write or speak false grammar. Priscian was a famous grammarian, who flourished at Constantinople in the year 525; and who was so devoted to his favourite study, that to speak false Latin in his company, was as disagreeable to him as to break his head. PRITTLE PRATTLE. Insignificant talk: generally applied to women and children. PROG. Provision. Rum prog; choice provision. To prog; to be on the hunt for provision: called in the military term to forage. PROPS. Crutches. PROPERTY. To make a property of any one; to make him a conveniency, tool, or cat's paw; to use him as one's own. PROUD. Desirous of copulation. A proud bitch; a bitch at heat, or desirous of a dog. PROVENDER. He from whom any money is taken on the highway: perhaps provider, or provider. CANT. PROPHET. The prophet; the Cock at Temple Bar: so called, in 1788, by the bucks of the town of the inferior order.