JUMP. The jump, or dining-room jump; a species of robbery effected by ascending a ladder placed by a sham lamp-lighter, against the house intended to be robbed. It is so called, because, should the lamp-lighter be put to flight, the thief who ascended the ladder has no means of escaping but that of jumping down. JUMPERS. Persons who rob houses by getting in at the windows. Also a set of Methodists established in South Wales. JUNIPER LECTURE. A round scolding bout. JURY LEG. A wooden leg: allusion to a jury mast, which is a temporary substitute for a mast carried away by a storm, or any other accident. SEA PHRASE. JURY MAST. A JOURNIERE mast; i.e. a mast for the day or occasion. JUST-ASS. A punning appellation for a justice. IVY BUSH. Like an owl in an ivy bush; a simile for a meagre or weasel-faced man, with a large wig, or very bushy hair. KATE. A picklock. 'Tis a rum kate; it is a clever picklock. CANT. KEEL BULLIES. Men employed to load and unload the coal vessels. KEELHAULING. A punishment in use among the Dutch seamen, in which, for certain offences, the delinquent is drawn once, or oftener, under the ship's keel: ludicrously defined, undergoing a great hard-ship. TO KEEP. To inhabit. Lord, where do you keep? i.e. where are your rooms? ACADEMICAL PHRASE. Mother, your tit won't keep; your daughter will not preserve her virginity. TO KEEP IT UP. To prolong a debauch. We kept it up finely last night; metaphor drawn from the game of shuttle-cock. KEEPING CULLY. One who keeps a mistress, as he supposes, for his own use, but really for that of the public. KEFFEL. A horse. WELSH. KELTER. Condition, order. Out of kelter; out of order. KELTER. Money. KEMP'S MORRIS. William Kemp, said to have been the original Dogberry in Much ado about Nothing, danced a morris from London to Norwich in nine days: of which he printed the account, A. D. 1600, intitled, Kemp's Nine Days Wonder, &c. KEMP'S SHOES. Would I had Kemp's shoes to throw after you. BEN JONSON. Perhaps Kemp was a man remarkable for his good luck or fortune; throwing an old shoe, or shoes, after any one going on an important business, being by the vulgar deemed lucky. KEN. A house. A bob ken, or a bowman ken; a well-furnished house, also a house that harbours thieves. Biting the ken; robbing the house. CANT. KEN MILLER, or KEN CRACKER. A housebreaker. CANT. KENT-STREET EJECTMENT. To take away the street door: a method practised by the landlords in Kent-street, Southwark, when their tenants are above a fortnight's rent in arrear. KERRY SECURITY. Bond, pledge, oath, and keep the money.