CHOUDER. A sea-dish, composed of fresh fish, salt pork, herbs, and sea-biscuits, laid in different layers, and stewed together. TO CHOUSE. To cheat or trick: he choused me out of it. Chouse is also the term for a game like chuck-farthing. CHRIST-CROSS ROW. The alphabet in a horn-book: called Christ-cross Row, from having, as an Irishman observed, Christ's cross PREFIXED before and AFTER the twenty-four letters. CHRISTENING. Erasing the name of the true maker from a stolen watch, and engraving a fictitious one in its place. CHRISTIAN PONEY. A chairman. CHRISTIAN. A tradesman who has faith, i.e. will give credit. CHRISTMAS COMPLIMENTS. A cough, kibed heels, and a snotty nose. CHUB. He is a young chub, or a mere chub; i.e. a foolish fellow, easily imposed on: an illusion to a fish of that name, easily taken. CHUBBY. Round-faced, plump. CHUCK. My chuck; a term of endearment. CHUCK FARTHING. A parish clerk. CHUCKLE-HEADED. Stupid, thick-headed. CHUFFY. Round-faced, chubby. CHUM. A chamber-fellow, particularly at the universities and in prison. CHUMMAGE. Money paid by the richer sort of prisoners in the Fleet and King's Bench, to the poorer, for their share of a room. When prisons are very full, which is too often the case, particularly on the eve of an insolvent act, two or three persons are obliged to sleep in a room. A prisoner who can pay for being alone, chuses two poor chums, who for a stipulated price, called chummage, give up their share of the room, and sleep on the stairs, or, as the term is, ruff it. CHUNK. Among printers, a journeyman who refuses to work for legal wages; the same as the flint among taylors. See FLINT. CHURCH WARDEN. A Sussex name for a shag, or cormorant, probably from its voracity. CHURCH WORK. Said of any work that advances slowly. CHURCHYARD COUGH. A cough that is likely to terminate in death. CHURK. The udder. CHURL. Originally, a labourer or husbandman: figuratively a rude, surly, boorish fellow. To put a churl upon a gentleman; to drink malt liquor immediately after having drunk wine. CINDER GARBLER. A servant maid, from her business of sifting the ashes from the cinders. CUSTOM-HOUSE WIT. CIRCUMBENDIBUS. A roundabout way, or story. He took such a circumbendibus; he took such a circuit. CIT. A citizen of London. CITY COLLEGE. Newgate. CIVILITY MONEY. A reward claimed by bailiffs for executing their office with civility. CIVIL RECEPTION. A house of civil reception; a bawdy-house, or nanny-house. See NANNY-HOUSE. CLACK. A tongue, chiefly applied to women; a simile drawn from the clack of a water-mill. CLACK-LOFT. A pulpit, so called by orator Henley. CLAMMED. Starved.