RUM DUKE. A jolly handsome fellow; also an odd eccentric fellow; likewise the boldest and stoutest fellows lately among the Alsatians, Minters, Savoyards, and other inhabitants of privileged districts, sent to remove and guard the goods of such bankrupts as intended to take sanctuary in those places. CANT. RUM FILE. See RUM DIVER. RUM FUN. A sharp trick. CANT. RUM GAGGERS. Cheats who tell wonderful stories of their sufferings at sea, or when taken by the Algerines, CANT. RUM GHELT. See RUM COLE. CANT. RUM GLYMMER. King or chief of the link-boys. CANT. RUM KICKS. Breeches of gold or silver brocade, or richly laced with gold or silver. CANT. RUM MAWND. One that counterfeits a fool. CANT RUM MORT. A queen, or great lady. CANT. RUM NAB. A good hat. RUM NANTZ. Good French brandy. CANT. RUM NED. A very rich silly fellow. CANT. RUM PAD. The highway. CANT. RUM PADDERS. Highwaymen well mounted and armed. CANT. RUM PEEPERS. Fine looking-glasses. CANT. RUM PRANCER. A fine horse. CANT. RUM QUIDS. A great booty. CANT. RUM RUFF PECK. Westphalia ham. CANT. RUM SNITCH. A smart fillip on the nose. RUM SQUEEZE. Much wine, or good liquor, given among fiddlers. CANT. RUM TILTER. See RUM DEGEN. RUM TOL. See RUM DEGEN. RUM TOPPING. A rich commode, or woman's head-dress. RUM VILLE. See ROMEVILLE. RUM WIPER. See RUM CLOUT. RUMBO. Rum, water, and sugar; also a prison. RUMBOYLE. A ward or watch. RUMBUMTIOUS. Obstreperous. RUMFORD. To ride to Rumford to have one's backside new bottomed: i.e. to have a pair of new leather breeches. Rumford was formerly a famous place for leather breeches. A like saying is current in Norfolk and Suffolk, of Bungay, and for the same reason.--Rumford lion; a calf. See ESSEX LION. RUMP. To rump any one; to turn the back to him: an evolution sometimes used at court. Rump and a dozen; a rump of beef and a dozen of claret; an Irish wager, called also buttock and trimmings. Rump and kidney men; fiddlers that play at feasts, fairs, weddings, &c. and live chiefly on the remnants. RUMPUS. A riot, quarrel, or confusion. RUN GOODS. A maidenhead, being a commodity never entered. RUNNING HORSE, or NAG. A clap, or gleet. RUNNING SMOBBLE. Snatching goods off a counter, and throwing them to an accomplice, who brushes off with them. RUNNING STATIONERS. Hawker of newspapers, trials, and dying speeches. RUNT. A short squat man or woman: from the small cattle called Welsh runts. RUSHERS. Thieves who knock at the doors of great houses in London, in summer time, when the families are gone out of town, and on the door being opened by a woman, rush in and rob the house; also housebreakers who enter lone houses by force. RUSSIAN COFFEE-HOUSE. The Brown Bear in Bow-street, Covent Garden, a house of call for thief-takers and runners of the Bow street justices.