DRAW LATCHES. Robbers of houses whose doors are only fastened with latches. CANT. TO DRAW. To take any thing from a pocket. To draw a swell of a clout. To pick a gentleman's pocket of a handkerchief. To draw the long bow; to tell lies. DRAWERS. Stockings. CANT. DRAWING THE KING'S PICTURE. Coining. CANT. TO DRESS. To beat. I'll dress his hide neatly; I'll beat him soundly. DRIBBLE. A method of pouring out, as it were, the dice from the box, gently, by which an old practitioner is enabled to cog one of them with his fore-finger. DRIPPER. A gleet. DROMEDARY. A heavy, bungling thief or rogue. A purple dromedary; a bungler in the art and mystery of thieving. CANT. DROMMERARS. See DOMMERER. DROP. The new drop; a contrivance for executing felons at Newgate, by means of a platform, which drops from under them: this is also called the last drop. See LEAF. See MORNING DROP. DROP A COG. To let fall, with design, a piece of gold or silver, in order to draw in and cheat the person who sees it picked up; the piece so dropped is called a dropt cog. DROP IN THE EYE. Almost drunk. DROPPING MEMBER. A man's yard with a gonorrhoea. DROP COVES. Persons who practice the fraud of dropping a ring or other article, and picking it up before the person intended to be defrauded, they pretend that the thing is very valuable to induce their gull to lend them money, or to purchase the article. See FAWNY RIG, and MONEY DROPPERS. TO DROP DOWN. To be dispirited. This expression is used by thieves to signify that their companion did not die game, as the kiddy dropped down when he went to be twisted; the young fellow was very low spirited when he walked out to be hanged. TO DRUB. To beat any one with a stick, or rope's end: perhaps a contraction of DRY RUB. It is also used to signify a good beating with any instrument. DRUMMER. A jockey term for a horse that throws about his fore legs irregularly: the idea is taken from a kettle drummer, who in beating makes many flourishes with his drumsticks. DRUNK. Drunk as a wheel-barrow. Drunk as David's sow. See DAVID'S SOW. DRURY LANE AGUE. The venereal disorder. DRURY LANE VESTAL. A woman of the town, or prostitute; Drury-lane and its environs were formerly the residence of many of those ladies. DRY BOB. A smart repartee: also copulation without emission; in law Latin, siccus robertulus. DRY BOOTS. A sly humorous fellow. DUB. A picklock, or master-key. CANT. DUB LAY. Robbing houses by picking the locks. DUB THE JIGGER. Open the door. CANT. DUB O' TH' HICK. A lick on the head. DUBBER. A picker of locks. CANT. DUCE. Two-pence. DUCK. A lame duck; an Exchange-alley phrase for a stock-jobber, who either cannot or will not pay his losses, or, differences, in which case he is said to WADDLE OUT OF THE ALLEY, as he cannot appear there again till his debts are settled and paid; should he attempt it, he would be hustled out by the fraternity.