TOUTING. (From TUERI, to look about) Publicans fore-stalling guests, or meeting them on the road, and begging their custom; also thieves or smugglers looking out to see that the coast is clear. Touting ken; the bar of a public house. TOW ROW. A grenadier. The tow row club; a club or society of the grenadier officers of the line. TOWEL. An oaken towel, a cudgel. To rub one down with an oaken towel; to beat or cudgel him. TOWER. Clipped money: they have been round the tower with it. CANT. TO TOWER. To overlook, to rise aloft as in a high tower. TOWER HILL PLAY. A slap on the face, and a kick on the breech. TOWN. A woman of the town; a prostitute. To be on the town: to live by prostitution. TOWN BULL. A common whoremaster. To roar like a town bull; to cry or bellow aloud. TO TRACK. To go. Track up the dancers; go up stairs. CANT. TRADING JUSTICES. Broken mechanics, discharged footmen, and other low fellows, smuggled into the commission of the peace, who subsist by fomenting disputes, granting warrants, and otherwise retailing justice; to the honour of the present times, these nuisances are by no means, so common as formerly. TRADESMEN. Thieves. Clever tradesmen; good thieves. TRANSLATORS. Sellers of old mended shoes and boots, between coblers and shoemakers. TO TRANSMOGRAPHY, or TRANSMIGRIFY. To patch up vamp, or alter. TO TRANSNEAR. To come up with any body. TRANTER. See CROCKER. TRAP. To understand trap; to know one's own interest. TRAP STICKS. Thin legs, gambs: from the sticks with which boys play at trap-ball. TRAPS. Constables and thief-takers. CANT. TO TRAPAN. To inveigle, or ensnare. TRAPES. A slatternly woman, a careless sluttish woman. TRAVELLER. To tip the traveller; to tell wonderful stories, to romance. TRAVELLING PIQUET. A mode of amusing themselves, practised by two persons riding in a carriage, each reckoning towards his game the persons or animals that pass by on the side next them, according to the following estimation: A parson riding a grey horse, without furniture; game. An old woman under a hedge; ditto. A cat looking out of a window; 60. A man, woman, and child, in a buggy; 40. A man with a woman behind him; 30. A flock of sheep; 20. A flock of geese; 10. A post chaise; 5. A horseman; 2. A man or woman walking; 1. TRAY TRIP. An ancient game like Scotch hop, played on a pavement marked out with chalk into different compartments. TRENCHER CAP. The square cap worn by the collegians. at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. TRENCHER MAN. A stout trencher man; one who has a good appetite, or, as the term is, plays a good knife and fork. TRESWINS. Threepence. TRIB. A prison: perhaps from tribulation. TRICKUM LEGIS. A quirk or quibble in the law. TRIG. The point at which schoolboys stand to shoot their marbles at taw; also the spot whence bowlers deliver the bowl.