BARNACLE. A good job, or snack easily got: also shellfish growing at the bottoms of ships; a bird of the goose kind; an instrument like a pair of pincers, to fix on the noses of vicious horses whilst shoeing; a nick name for spectacles, and also for the gratuity given to grooms by the buyers and sellers of horses. BARREL FEVER. He died of the barrel fever; he killed himself by drinking. BARROW MAN. A man under sentence of transportation; alluding to the convicts at Woolwich, who are principally employed in wheeling barrows full of brick or dirt. BARTHOLOMEW BABY. A person dressed up in a tawdry manner, like the dolls or babies sold at Bartholomew fair. BASKET. An exclamation frequently made use of in cock-pits, at cock-fightings, where persons refusing or unable to pay their losings, are adjudged by that respectable assembly to be put into a basket suspended over the pit, there to remain during that day's diversion: on the least demur to pay a bet, Basket is vociferated in terrorem. He grins like a basket of chips: a saying of one who is on the broad grin. BASKET-MAKING. The good old trade of basket-making; copulation, or making feet for children's stockings. BASTARD. The child of an unmarried woman. BASTARDLY GULLION. A bastard's bastard. TO BASTE. To beat. I'll give him his bastings, I'll beat him heartily. BASTING. A beating. BASTONADING. Beating any one with a stick; from baton, a stick, formerly spelt baston. BAT. A low whore: so called from moving out like bats in the dusk of the evening. BATCH. We had a pretty batch of it last night; we had a hearty dose of liquor. Batch originally means the whole quantity of bread baked at one time in an oven. BATTNER. An ox: beef being apt to batten or fatten those that eat it. The cove has hushed the battner; i.e. has killed the ox. BATCHELOR'S FARE. Bread and cheese and kisses. BATCHELOR'S SON. A bastard. BATTLE-ROYAL. A battle or bout at cudgels or fisty-cuffs, wherein more than two persons are engaged: perhaps from its resemblance, in that particular, to more serious engagements fought to settle royal disputes. BAWBEE. A halfpenny. Scotch. BAWBELS, or BAWBLES. Trinkets; a man's testicles. BAWD. A female procuress. BAWDY BASKET. The twenty-third rank of canters, who carry pins, tape, ballads, and obscene books to sell, but live mostly by stealing. Cant. BAWDY-HOUSE BOTTLE. A very small bottle; short measure being among the many means used by the keepers of those houses, to gain what they call an honest livelihood: indeed this is one of the least reprehensible; the less they give a man of their infernal beverages for his money, the kinder they behave to him. BAY FEVER. A term of ridicule applied to convicts, who sham illness, to avoid being sent to Botany Bay. BAYARD OF TEN TOES. To ride bayard of ten toes, is to walk on foot. Bayard was a horse famous in old romances,