DING DONG. Helter skelter, in a hasty disorderly manner. DINGEY CHRISTIAN. A mulatto; or any one who has, as the West-Indian term is, a lick of the tar-brush, that is, some negro blood in him. DINING ROOM POST. A mode of stealing in houses that let lodgings, by rogues pretending to be postmen, who send up sham letters to the lodgers, and, whilst waiting in the entry for the postage, go into the first room they see open, and rob it. DIP. To dip for a wig. Formerly, in Middle Row, Holborn, wigs of different sorts were, it is said, put into a close-stool box, into which, for three-pence, any one might dip, or thrust in his hand, and take out the first wig he laid hold of; if he was dissatisfied with his prize, he might, on paying three halfpence, return it and dip again. THE DIP. A cook's shop, under Furnival's Inn, where many attornies clerks, and other inferior limbs of the law, take out the wrinkles from their bellies. DIP is also a punning name for a tallow-chandler. DIPPERS. Anabaptists. DIPT. Pawned or mortgaged. DIRTY PUZZLE. A nasty slut. DISGUISED. Drunk. DISGRUNTLED. Offended, disobliged. DISHED UP. He is completely dished up; he is totally ruined. To throw a thing in one's dish; to reproach or twit one with any particular matter. DISHCLOUT. A dirty, greasy woman. He has made a napkin of his dishclout; a saying of one who has married his cook maid. To pin a dishclout to a man's tail; a punishment often threatened by the female servants in a kitchen, to a man who pries too minutely into the secrets of that place. DISMAL DITTY. The psalm sung by the felons at the gallows, just before they are turned off. DISPATCHES. A mittimus, or justice of the peace's warrant, for the commitment of a rogue. DITTO. A suit of ditto; coat, waistcoat, and breeches, all of one colour. DISPATCHERS. Loaded or false dice. DISTRACTED DIVISION. Husband and wife fighting. DIVE. To dive; to pick a pocket. To dive for a dinner; to go down into a cellar to dinner. A dive, is a thief who stands ready to receive goods thrown out to him by a little boy put in at a window. Cant. DIVER. A pickpocket; also one who lives in a cellar. DIVIDE. To divide the house with one's wife; to give her the outside, and to keep all the inside to one's self, i.e. to turn her into the street. DO. To do any one; to rob and cheat him. I have done him; I have robbed him. Also to overcome in a boxing match: witness those laconic lines written on the field of battle, by Humphreys to his patron.--'Sir, I have done the Jew.' TO DO OVER. Carries the same meaning, but is not so briefly expressed: the former having received the polish of the present times. DOASH. A cloak. Cant. DOBIN RIG. Stealing ribbands from haberdashers early in the morning or late at night; generally practised by women in the disguise of maid servants.