BOUNCING CHEAT. A bottle; from the explosion in drawing the cork. CANT. BOUNG. A purse. CANT. BOUNG NIPPER. A cut purse. CANT.--Formerly purses were worn at the girdle, from whence they were cut. BOOSE, or BOUSE. Drink. BOOSEY. Drunk. BOWSING KEN. An ale-house or gin-shop. BOWSPRIT. The nose, from its being the most projecting part of the human face, as the bowsprit is of a ship. BOW-WOW. The childish name for a dog; also a jeering appellation for a man born at Boston in America. BOW-WOW MUTTON. Dog's flesh. BOW-WOW SHOP. A salesman's shop in Monmouth-street; so called because the servant barks, and the master bites. See BARKER. BOWYER. One that draws a long bow, a dealer in the marvellous, a teller of improbable stories, a liar: perhaps from the wonderful shots frequently boasted of by archers. TO BOX THE COMPASS. To say or repeat the mariner's compass, not only backwards or forwards, but also to be able to answer any and all questions respecting its divisions. SEA TERM. TO BOX THE JESUIT, AND GET COCK ROACHES. A sea term for masturbation; a crime, it is said, much practised by the reverend fathers of that society. BRACE. The Brace tavern; a room in the S.E. corner of the King's Bench, where, for the convenience of prisoners residing thereabouts, beer purchased at the tap-house was retailed at a halfpenny per pot advance. It was kept by two brothers of the name of Partridge, and thence called the Brace. BRACKET-FACED. Ugly, hard-featured. BRAGGET. Mead and ale sweetened with honey. BRAGGADOCIA. vain-glorious fellow, a boaster. BRAINS. If you had as much brains as guts, what a clever fellow you would be! a saying to a stupid fat fellow. To have some guts in his brains; to know something. BRAN-FACED. Freckled. He was christened by a baker, he carries the bran in his face. BRANDY-FACED. Red-faced, as if from drinking brandy. BRANDY. Brandy is Latin for a goose; a memento to prevent the animal from rising in the stomach by a glass of the good creature. BRAT. A child or infant. BRAY. A vicar of Bray; one who frequently changes his principles, always siding with the strongest party: an allusion to a vicar of Bray, in Berkshire, commemorated in a well-known ballad for the pliability of his conscience. BRAZEN-FACED. Bold-faced, shameless, impudent. BREAD AND BUTTER FASHION. One slice upon the other. John and his maid were caught lying bread and butter fashion.--To quarrel with one's bread and butter; to act contrary to one's interest. To know on which side one's bread is buttered; to know one's interest, or what is best for one. It is no bread and butter of mine; I have no business with it; or rather, I won't intermeddle, because I shall get nothing by it. BREAK-TEETH WORDS. Hard words, difficult to pronounce. BREAKING SHINS. Borrowing money; perhaps from the figurative operation being, like the real one, extremely disagreeable to the patient.