WALKING POULTERER. One who steals fowls, and hawks them from door to door. WALKING STATIONER. A hawker of pamphlets, &c. WALKING THE PLANK. A mode of destroying devoted persons or officers in a mutiny or ship-board, by blindfolding them, and obliging them to walk on a plank laid over the ship's side; by this means, as the mutineers suppose, avoiding the penalty of murder. WALKING UP AGAINST THE WALL. To run up a score, which in alehouses is commonly recorded with chalk on the walls of the bar. WALL. To walk or crawl up the wall; to be scored up at a public-nouse. Wall-eyed, having an eye with little or no sight, all white like a plaistered wall. TO WAP. To copulate, to beat. If she wont wap for a winne, let her trine for a make; if she won't lie with a man for a penny, let her hang for a halfpenny. Mort wap-apace; a woman of experience, or very expert at the sport. WAPPER-EYED. Sore-eyed. WARE. A woman's ware; her commodity. WARE HAWK. An exclamation used by thieves to inform their confederates that some police officers are at hand. WARM. Rich, in good circumstances. To warm, or give a man a warming; to beat him. See CHAFED. WARMING-PAN. A large old-fashioned watch. A Scotch warming-pan; a female bedfellow. WARREN. One that is security for goods taken up on credit by extravagant young gentlemen. Cunny warren; a girl's boarding-school, also a bawdy-house. WASH. Paint for the face, or cosmetic water. Hog-wash; thick and bad beer. WASP. An infected prostitute, who like a wasp carries a sting in her tail. WASPISH. Peevish, spiteful. WASTE. House of waste; a tavern or alehouse, where idle people waste both their time and money. WATCH, CHAIN, AND SEALS. A sheep's head And pluck. WATER-MILL. A woman's private parts. WATER SNEAKSMAN. A man who steals from ships or craft on the river. WATER. His chops watered at it; he longed earnestly for it. To watch his waters; to keep a strict watch on any one's actions. In hot water: in trouble, engaged in disputes. WATER BEWITCHED. Very weak punch or beer. WATERPAD. One that robs ships in the river Thames. WATERY-HEADED. Apt to shed tears. WATER SCRIGER, A doctor who prescribes from inspecting the water of his patients. See PISS PROPHET. WATTLES. Ears. CANT. WEAR A--E. A one-horse chaise. WEASEL-FACED. Thin, meagre-faced. Weasel-gutted; thin-bodied; a weasel is a thin long slender animal with a sharp face. WEDDING. The emptying of a necessary-house, particularly in London. You have been at an Irish wedding, where black eyes are given instead of favours; saying to one who has a black eye. WEDGE. Silver plate, because melted by the receivers of stolen goods into wedges. CANT. TO WEED. To take a part. The kiddey weeded the swell's screens; the youth took some of the gentleman's bank notes. WEEPING CROSS. To come home by weeping cross; to repent. WELCH COMB. The thumb and four fingers.