FIRE SHIP. A wench who has the venereal disease. FIRE SHOVEL. He or she when young, was fed with a fire shovel; a saying of persons with wide mouths. FISH. A seaman. A scaly fish; a rough, blunt tar. To have other fish to fry; to have other matters to mind, something else to do. FIT. Suitable. It won't fit; It will not suit or do. FIVE SHILLINGS. The sign of five shillings, i.e. the crown. Fifteen shillings; the sign of the three crowns. FIZZLE. An escape backward, FLABAGASTED. Confounded. FLABBY. Relaxed, flaccid, not firm or solid. FLAG. A groat. CANT.--The flag of defiance, or bloody flag is out; signifying the man is drunk, and alluding to the redness of his face. SEA PHRASE. FLAM. A lie, or sham story: also a single stroke on a drum. To flam; to hum, to amuse, to deceive. Flim flams; idle stories. FLAP DRAGON. A clap, or pox. To FLARE. To blaze, shine or glare. FLASH. Knowing. Understanding another's meaning. The swell was flash, so I could not draw his fogle. The gentleman saw what I was about, and therefore I could not pick his pocket of his silk handkerchief. To patter flash, to speak the slang language. See PATTER. FLASH PANNEYS. Houses to which thieves and prostitutes resort. Next for his favourite MOT (Girl) the KIDDEY (Youth) looks about, And if she's in a FLASH PANNEY (Brothel) he swears he'll have her out; So he FENCES (Pawns) all his TOGS (Cloathes) to buy her DUDS, (Wearing Apparel) and then He FRISKS (Robs) his master's LOB (Till) to take her from the bawdy KEN (House). FLASH SONG. FLASH. A periwig. Rum flash; a fine long wig. Queer flash; a miserable weather-beaten caxon. To FLASH. To shew ostentatiously. To flash one's ivory; to laugh and shew one's teeth. Don't flash your ivory, but shut your potatoe trap, and keep your guts warm; the Devil loves hot tripes. To FLASH THE HASH. To vomit. CANT. FLASH KEN. A house that harbours thieves. FLASH LINGO. The canting or slang language. FLASH MAN. A bully to a bawdy house. A whore's bully. FLAT. A bubble, gull, or silly fellow. FLAT COCK. A female. FLAWD. Drunk. FLAYBOTTOMIST. A bum-brusher, or schoolmaster. To FLAY, or FLEA, THE FOX. To vomit. FLEA BITE. A trifling injury. To send any one away with a flea in his ear; to give any one a hearty scolding. To FLEECE. To rob, cheat, or plunder. FLEMISH ACCOUNT. A losing, or bad account. FLESH BROKER. A match-maker, a bawd. FLICKER. A drinking glass. CANT. FLICKERING. Grinning or laughing in a man's face. FLICKING. Cutting. Flick me some panam and caffan; cut me some bread and cheese. Flick the peter; cut off the cloak-bag, or portmanteau. To FLING. To trick or cheat. He flung me fairly out of it: he cheated me out of it. FLINTS. Journeymen taylors, who on a late occasion refused to work for the wages settled by law. Those who submitted, were by the mutineers styled dungs, i.e. dunghills.