TO BUM. To arrest a debtor. The gill bummed the swell for a thimble; the tradesman arrested the gentleman for a watch. BUM TRAP. A sheriff's officer who arrests debtors. Ware hawke! the bum traps are fly to our panney; keep a good look out, the bailiffs know where our house is situated. BUM BAILIFF. A sheriff's officer, who arrests debtors; so called perhaps from following his prey, and being at their bums, or, as the vulgar phrase is, hard at their a-ses. Blackstone says, it is a corruption of bound bailiff, from their being obliged to give bond for their good behaviour. BUM BRUSHER. A schoolmaster. BUM BOAT. A boat attending ships to retail greens, drams, &c. commonly rowed by a woman; a kind of floating chandler's shop, BUM FODDER. Soft paper for the necessary house or torchecul. BUMFIDDLE. The backside, the breech. See ARS MUSICA. BUMBO. Brandy, water, and sugar; also the negro name for the private parts of a woman. BUMKIN. A raw country fellow. BUMMED. Arrested. BUMPER. A full glass; in all likelihood from its convexity or bump at the top: some derive it from a full glass formerly drunk to the health of the pope--AU BON PERE. BUMPING. A ceremony performed on boys perambulating the bounds of the parish on Whit-monday, when they have their posteriors bumped against the stones marking the boundaries, in order to fix them in their memory. BUN. A common name for a rabbit, also for the monosyllable. To touch bun for luck; a practice observed among sailors going on a cruize. BUNDLING. A man and woman sleeping in the same bed, he with his small clothes, and she with her petticoats on; an expedient practised in America on a scarcity of beds, where, on such an occasion, husbands and parents frequently permitted travellers to bundle with their wives and daughters. This custom is now abolished. See Duke of Rochefoucalt's Travels in America, BUNG UPWARDS. Said of a person lying on his face. BUNG YOUR EYE. Drink a dram; strictly speaking, to drink till one's eye is bunged up or closed. BUNT. An apron. BUNTER. A low dirty prostitute, half whore and half beggar. BUNTLINGS. Petticoats. CANT. BURN CRUST. A jocular name for a baker. BURN THE KEN. Strollers living in an alehouse without paying their quarters, are said to burn the ken. CANT. BURNING SHAME. A lighted candle stuck into the parts of a woman, certainly not intended by nature for a candlestick. BURNER. A clap. The blowen tipped the swell a burner; the girl gave the gentleman a clap. BURNER. He is no burner of navigable rivers; i.e. he is no conjuror, or man of extraordinary abilities; or rather, he is, but a simple fellow. See THAMES. BURNT. Poxed or clapped. He was sent out a sacrifice, and came home a burnt offering; a saying of seamen who have caught the venereal disease abroad. He has burnt his fingers; he has suffered by meddling.