COLT BOWL. Laid short of the jack by a colt bowler, i.e. a person raw or unexperienced in the art of bowling. COLT'S TOOTH. An old fellow who marries or keeps a young girl, is said to have a colt's tooth in his head. COLT VEAL. Coarse red veal, more like the flesh of a colt than that of a calf. COMB. To comb one's head; to clapperclaw, or scold any one: a woman who lectures her husband, is said to comb his head. She combed his head with a joint stool; she threw a stool at him. COME. To come; to lend. Has he come it; has he lent it? To come over any one; to cheat or over reach him. Coming wench; a forward wench, also a breeding woman. COMING! SO IS CHRISTMAS. Said of a person who has long been called, and at length answers, Coming! COMFORTABLE IMPORTANCE. A wife. COMMISSION. A shirt. CANT. COMMODE. A woman's head dress. COMMODITY. A woman's commodity; the private parts of a modest woman, and the public parts of a prostitute. COMMONS. The house of commons; the necessary house. COMPANY. To see company; to enter into a course of prostitution. COMPLIMENT. See CHRISTMAS. COMUS'S COURT. A social meeting formerly held at the Half Moon tavern Cheapside. CONFECT. Counterfeited. CONGER. To conger; the agreement of a set or knot of booksellers of London, that whosoever of them shall buy a good copy, the rest shall take off such a particular number, in quires, at a stated price; also booksellers joining to buy either a considerable or dangerous copy. CONGO. Will you lap your congo with me? will you drink tea with me? CONNY WABBLE. Eggs and brandy beat up together. IRISH. CONSCIENCE KEEPER. A superior, who by his influence makes his dependants act as he pleases. CONTENT. The cull's content; the man is past complaining: a saying of a person murdered for resisting the robbers. CANT. CONTENT. A thick liquor, in imitation of chocolate, made of milk and gingerbread. CONTRA DANCE. A dance where the dancers of the different sexes stand opposite each other, instead of side by side, as in the minuet, rigadoon, louvre, &c. and now corruptly called a country dance. CONUNDRUMS. Enigmatical conceits. CONVENIENT. A mistress. CANT. CONVENIENCY. A necessary. A leathern conveniency, a coach. COOPED UP. Imprisoned, confined like a fowl in a coop. COQUET. A jilt. CORINTH. A bawdy-house. CANT. CORINTHIANS: Frequenters of brothels. Also an impudent, brazen-faced fellow, perhaps from the Corinthian brass. CORK-BRAINED. Light-headed, foolish. CORNED. Drunk. CORNISH HUG. A particular lock in wrestling, peculiar to the people of that county. CORNY-FACED. A very red pimpled face. CORPORAL. To mount a corporal and four; to be guilty of onanism: the thumb is the corporal, the four fingers the privates. CORPORATION. A large belly. He has a glorious corporation; he has a very prominent belly.