DEVILISH. Very: an epithet which in the English vulgar language is made to agree with every quality or thing; as, devilish bad, devilish good; devilish sick, devilish well; devilish sweet, devilish sour; devilish hot, devilish cold, &c. &c. DEUSEA VILLE. The country. Cant. DEUSEA VILLE STAMPERS. Country carriers. Cant. DEW BEATERS. Feet. Cant. DEWS WINS, or DEUX WINS. Two-pence. Cant. DEWITTED. Torn to pieces by a mob, as that great statesman John de Wit was in Holland, anno 1672. DIAL PLATE. The face. To alter his dial plate; to disfigure his face. DICE. The names of false dice: A bale of bard cinque deuces A bale of flat cinque deuces A bale of flat sice aces A bale of bard cater traes A bale of flat cater traes A bale of fulhams A bale of light graniers A bale of langrets contrary to the ventage A bale of gordes, with as many highmen as lowmen, for passage A bale of demies A bale of long dice for even and odd A bale of bristles A bale of direct contraries. DICK. That happened in the reign of queen Dick, i. e. never: said of any absurd old story. I am as queer as Dick's hatband; that is, out of spirits, or don't know what ails me. DICKY. A woman's under-petticoat. It's all Dicky with him; i.e. it's all over with him. DICKED IN THE NOB. Silly. Crazed. DICKEY. A sham shirt. DICKEY. An ass. Roll your dickey; drive your ass. Also a seat for servants to sit behind a carriage, when their master drives. TO DIDDLE. To cheat. To defraud. The cull diddled me out of my dearee; the fellow robbed me of my sweetheart. See Jeremy Diddler In Raising The Wind. DIDDEYS. A woman's breasts or bubbies. DIDDLE. Gin. DIGGERS. Spurs. Cant. DILBERRIES. Small pieces of excrement adhering to the hairs near the fundament. DILBERRY MAKER. The fundament. DILDO. [From the Italian DILETTO, q. d. a woman's delight; or from our word DALLY, q. d. a thing to play withal.] Penis-succedaneus, called in Lombardy Passo Tempo. Bailey. DILIGENT. Double diligent, like the Devil's apothecary; said of one affectedly diligent. DILLY. (An abbreviation of the word DILIGENCE.) A public voiture or stage, commonly a post chaise, carrying three persons; the name is taken from the public stage vehicles in France and Flanders. The dillies first began to run in England about the year 1779. DIMBER. Pretty. A dimber cove; a pretty fellow. Dimber mort; a pretty wench. CANT. DIMBER DAMBER. A top man, or prince, among the canting crew: also the chief rogue of the gang, or the completest cheat. CANT. DING. To knock down. To ding it in one's ears; to reproach or tell one something one is not desirous of hearing. Also to throw away or hide: thus a highwayman who throws away or hides any thing with which he robbed, to prevent being known or detected, is, in the canting lingo, styled a Dinger. DING BOY. A rogue, a hector, a bully, or sharper. CANT.