CAPTAIN PODD. A celebrated master of a puppet-shew, in Ben Johnson's time, whose name became a common one to signify any of that fraternity. CAPTAIN QUEERNABS. A shabby ill-dressed fellow. CAPTAIN SHARP. A cheating bully, or one in a set of gamblers, whose office is to bully any pigeon, who, suspecting roguery, refuses to pay what he has lost. CANT. CAPTAIN TOM. The leader of a mob; also the mob itself. CARAVAN. A large sum of money; also, a person cheated of such sum. CANT. CARBUNCLE FACE. A red face, full of pimples. CARDINAL. A cloak in fashion about the year 1760. To CAROUSE. To drink freely or deep: from the German word expressing ALL OUT. CARRIERS. A set of rogues who are employed to look out and watch upon the roads, at inns, &c. in order to carry information to their respective gangs, of a booty in prospect. CARRIERS. Pigeons which carry expresses. CARRION HUNTER. An undertaker; called also a cold cook, and death hunter. See COLD COOK and DEATH HUNTER. CARROTS. Red hair. CARROTTY-PATED. Ginger-hackled, red-haired. See GINGER-HACKLED. CARRY WITCHET. A sort of conundrum, puzzlewit, or riddle. CART. To put the cart before the horse; to mention the last part of a story first. To be flogged at the cart's a-se or tail; persons guilty of petty larceny are frequently sentenced to be tied to the tail of a cart, and whipped by the common executioner, for a certain distance: the degree of severity in the execution is left to the discretion of the executioner, who, it is said, has cats of nine tails of all prices. CARTING. The punishment formerly inflicted on bawds, who were placed in a tumbrel or cart, and led through a town, that their persons might be known. CARVEL'S RING. The private parts of a woman. Ham Carvel, a jealous old doctor, being in bed with his wife, dreamed that the Devil gave him a ring, which, so long as he had it on his finger, would prevent his being made a cuckold: waking he found he had got his finger the Lord knows where. See Rabelais, and Prior's versification of the story. TO CASCADE. To vomit. CASE. A house; perhaps from the Italian CASA. In the canting lingo it meant store or ware house, as well as a dwelling house. Tout that case; mark or observe that house. It is all bob, now let's dub the gig of the case; now the coast is clear, let us break open the door of the house. CASE VROW. A prostitute attached to a particular bawdy house. CASH, or CAFFAN. Cheese; CANT. See CAFFAN. CASTER. A cloak. CANT. CASTOR. A hat. To prig a castor; to steal a hat. CASTING UP ONE'S ACCOUNTS. Vomiting. CAT. A common prostitute. An old cat; a cross old woman. CAT-HEADS. A Woman's breasts. SEA PHRASE. TO CAT, or SHOOT THE CAT. To vomit from drunkenness.