QUICK AND NIMBLE. More like a bear than a squirrel. Jeeringly said to any one moving sluggishly on a business or errand that requires dispatch. QUID. The quantity of tobacco put into the mouth at one time. To quid tobacco; to chew tobacco. Quid est hoc? hoc est quid; a guinea. Half a quid; half a guinea. The swell tipped me fifty quid for the prad; the gentleman gave fifty pounds for the horse. QUIDS. Cash, money. Can you tip me any quids? can you lend me some money? QUIFFING. Rogering. See TO ROGER. QUIDNUNC. A politician: from a character of that name in the farce of the Upholsterer. QUILL DRIVER. A clerk, scribe, or hackney writer. QUIM. The private parts of a woman: perhaps from the Spanish quemar, to burn. (CAMBRIDGE) A piece's furbelow. QUINSEY. Choked by a hempen quinsey; hanged. QUIPPS. Girds, taunts, jests. QUIRE, or CHOIR BIRD. A complete rogue, one that has sung in different choirs or cages, i.e. gaols. CANT. QUIRKS AND QUILLETS. Tricks and devices. Quirks in law; subtle distinctions and evasions. QUIZ. A strange-looking fellow, an odd dog. OXFORD. QUOD. Newgate, or any other prison. The dab's in quod; the poor rogue is in prison. QUOTA. Snack, share, part, proportion, or dividend. Tip me my quota; give me part of the winnings, booty, or plunder. CANT. RABBIT. A Welch rabbit; bread and cheese toasted, i.e. a Welch rare bit. Rabbits were also a sort of wooden canns to drink out of, now out of use. RABBIT CATCHER. A midwife. RABBIT SUCKERS. Young spendthrifts taking up goods on trust at great prices. RACK RENT. Rent strained to the utmost value. To lie at rack and manger; to be in great disorder. RACKABACK. A gormagon. See GORMAGON. RAFFS. An appellation given by the gownsmen of the university of Oxford to the inhabitants of that place. RAG. Bank notes. Money in general. The cove has no rag; the fellow has no money. RAG. A farthing. TO RAG. To abuse, and tear to rags the characters of the persons abused. She gave him a good ragging, or ragged him off heartily. RAG CARRIER. An ensign. RAG FAIR. An inspection of the linen and necessaries of a company of soldiers, commonly made by their officers on Mondays or Saturdays. RAG WATER. Gin, or any other common dram: these liquors seldom failing to reduce those that drink them to rags. RAGAMUFFIN. A ragged fellow, one all in tatters, a tatterdemallion. RAILS. See HEAD RAILS. A dish of rails; a lecture, jobation, or scolding from a married woman to her husband. RAINBOW. Knight of the rainbow; a footman: from being commonly clothed in garments of different colours. A meeting of gentlemen, styled of the most ancient order of the rainbow, was advertised to be held at the Foppington's Head, Moorfields. RAINY DAY. To lay up something for a rainy day; to provide against a time of necessity or distress. RAKE, RAKEHELL, or RAKESHAME. A lewd, debauched fellow. RALPH SPOONER. A fool. RAM CAT. A he cat.