BLIND EXCUSE. A poor or insufficient excuse. A blind ale-house, lane, or alley; an obscure, or little known or frequented ale-house, lane, or alley. BLIND HARPERS. Beggars counterfeiting blindness, playing on fiddles, &c. BLINDMAN'S BUFF. A play used by children, where one being blinded by a handkerchief bound over his eyes, attempts to seize any one of the company, who all endeavour to avoid him; the person caught, must be blinded in his stead. BLIND CUPID. The backside. BLINDMAN'S HOLIDAY. Night, darkness. BLOCK HOUSES. Prisons, houses of correction, &c. BLOCKED AT BOTH ENDS. Finished. The game is blocked at both ends; the game is ended. BLOOD. A riotous disorderly fellow. BLOOD FOR BLOOD. A term used by tradesmen for bartering the different commodities in which they deal. Thus a hatter furnishing a hosier with a hat, and taking payment in stockings, is said to deal blood for blood. BLOOD MONEY. The reward given by the legislature on the conviction of highwaymen, burglars, &c. BLOODY BACK. A jeering appellation for a soldier, alluding to his scarlet coat. BLOODY. A favourite word used by the thieves in swearing, as bloody eyes, bloody rascal. BLOSS or BLOWEN. The pretended wife of a bully, or shoplifter. Cant. TO BLOT THE SKRIP AND JAR IT. To stand engaged or bound for any one. Cant. BLOW. He has bit the blow, i.e. he has stolen the goods. Cant. BLOWEN. A mistress or whore of a gentleman of the scamp. The blowen kidded the swell into a snoozing ken, and shook him of his dummee and thimble; the girl inveigled the gentleman into a brothel and robbed him of his pocket book and watch. BLOWER. A pipe. How the swell funks his blower and lushes red tape; what a smoke the gentleman makes with his pipe, and drinks brandy. TO BLOW THE GROUNSILS. To lie with a woman on the floor. Cant. TO BLOW THE GAB. To confess, or impeach a confederate. Cant. BLOW-UP. A discovery, or the confusion occasioned by one. A BLOWSE, or BLOWSABELLA. A woman whose hair is dishevelled, and hanging about her face; a slattern. BLUBBER. The mouth.--I have stopped the cull's blubber; I have stopped the fellow's mouth, meant either by gagging or murdering him. TO BLUBBER. To cry. TO SPORT BLUBBER. Said of a large coarse woman, who exposes her bosom. BLUBBER CHEEKS. Large flaccid cheeks, hanging like the fat or blubber of a whale. BLUE, To look blue; to be confounded, terrified, or disappointed. Blue as a razor; perhaps, blue as azure. BLUE BOAR. A venereal bubo. BLUE DEVILS. Low spirits. BLUE FLAG. He has hoisted the blue flag; he has commenced publican, or taken a public house, an allusion to the blue aprons worn by publicans. See ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE. BLUE PIGEONS. Thieves who steal lead off houses and churches. Cant. To fly a blue pigeon; to steal lead off houses or churches.