KNUCKLES. Pickpockets who attend the avenues to public places to steal pocket-books, watches, &c. a superior kind of pickpockets. To knuckle to, to submit. TO KNUCKLE ONE'S WIPE. To steal his handkerchief. KNUCKLE-DABS, or KNUCKLE-CONFOUNDERS. Ruffles. KONOBLIN RIG. Stealing large pieces of coal from coalsheds. LACED MUTTON. A prostitute. LACING. Beating. I'll lace your jacket handsomely. LADDER. To go up the ladder to rest; to be hanged. LADY. A crooked or hump-backed woman. LADY OF EASY VIRTUE. A woman of the town, an impure, a prostitute. LADYBIRDS. Light or lewd women. LADY DACRE'S WINE. Gin. LAG. A man transported. The cove was lagged for a drag. The man was transported for stealing something out of a waggon. LAG FEVER. A term of ridicule applied to men who being under sentence of transportation, pretend illness, to avoid being sent from gaol to the hulks. TO LAG. To drop behind, to keep back. Lag last; the last of a company. LAGE. Water. CANT. LAGE OF DUDS. A buck of linen. LAID ON THE SHELF, or LAID UP IN LAVENDER. Pawned. To LAMB, or LAMBASTE. To beat. Lamb pye; a beating: from lambo. LAMB'S WOOL. Apples roasted and put into strong ale. LAMBSKIN MEN. The judges: from their robes lined and bordered with ermine. LAMP. An eye. The cove has a queer lamp. The man has a blind or squinting eye. LAND. How lies the land? How stands the reckoning? Who has any land in Appleby? a question asked the man at whose door the glass stands long, or who does not circulate it in due time. LAND LOPERS, or LAND LUBBERS. Vagabonds lurking about the country who subsist by pilfering. LAND PIRATES. Highwaymen. LANK SLEEVE. The empty sleeve of a one armed man. A fellow with a lank sleeve; a man who has lost an arm. LANSPRISADO. One who has only two-pence in his pocket. Also a lance, or deputy corporal; that is, one doing the duty without the pay of a corporal. Formerly a lancier, or horseman, who being dismounted by the death of his horse, served in the foot, by the title of lansprisado, or lancepesato, a broken lance. LANTHORN-JAWED. Thin-visaged: from their cheeks being almost transparent. Or else, lenten jawed; i.e. having the jaws of one emaciated by a too rigid observation of Lent. Dark lanthorn; a servant or agent at court, who receives a bribe for his principal or master. LAP. Butter-milk or whey. CANT. LARK. A boat. LARK. A piece of merriment. People playing together jocosely. LARRY DUGAN'S EYE WATER. Blacking: Larry Dugan was a famous shoe-black at Dublin. LATCH. Let in. LATHY. Thin, slender. A lathy wench; a girl almost as slender as a lath. LATITAT. A nick-name for an attorney; from the name of a writ. LAVENDER. Laid up in lavender; pawned. LAUGH. To laugh on the wrong side of the mouth; to cry. I'll make him laugh on the wrong (or t'other) side of his mouth. LAUNCH. The delivery, or labour, of a pregnant woman; a crying out or groaning.