LEVITE. A priest or parson. TO LIB. To lie together. CANT. LIBBEGE. A bed. CANT. LIBBEN. A private dwelling-house. CANT. LIBKEN. A house to lie in. CANT. TO LICK. To beat; also to wash, or to paint slightly over. I'll give you a good lick o' the chops; I'll give you a good stroke or blow on the face. Jack tumbled into a cow t--d, and nastied his best clothes, for which his father stept up, and licked him neatly.--I'll lick you! the dovetail to which is, If you lick me all over, you won't miss--. LICKSPITTLE. A parasite, or talebearer. LIFT. To give one a lift; to assist. A good hand at a dead lift; a good hand upon an emergency. To lift one's hand to one's head; to drink to excess, or to drink drams. To lift or raise one's elbow; the same. LIFT. See SHOPLIFTER, &c. LIFTER. A crutch. LIG. A bed. See LIB. LIGHT BOB. A soldier of the light infantry company. LIGHT-FINGERED. Thievish, apt to pilfer. LIGHT-HEELED. Swift in running. A light-heeled wench; one who is apt, by the flying up of her heels, to fall flat on her back, a willing wench. LIGHT HOUSE. A man with a red fiery nose. LIGHT TROOPS. Lice; the light troops are in full march; the lice are crawling about. LIGHTMANS. The day. CANT. LIGHTNING. Gin. A flash of lightning; a glass of gin. LIKENESS. A phrase used by thieves when the officers or turnkeys are examining their countenance. As the traps are taking our likeness; the officers are attentively observing us. LILIPUTIAN. A diminutive man or woman: from Gulliver's Travels, written by Dean Swift, where an imaginary kingdom of dwarfs of that name is described. LILY WHITE. A chimney-sweeper. LILY SHALLOW. (WHIP SLANG) A white driving hat. LIMBS. Duke of limbs; a tall awkward fellow. LIMB OF THE LAW. An inferior or pettyfogging attorney. LIMBO. A prison, confinement. To LINE. A term for the act of coition between dog and bitch. LINE OF THE OLD AUTHOR. A dram of brandy. LINE. To get a man into a line, i.e. to divert his attention by a ridiculous or absurd story. To humbug. LINGO. Language. An outlandish lingo; a foreign tongue. The parlezvous lingo; the French language. LINEN ARMOURERS. Taylors. LION. To tip the lion; to squeeze the nose of the party tipped, flat to his face with the thumb. To shew the lions and tombs; to point out the particular curiosities of any place, to act the ciceroni: an allusion to Westminster Abbey, and the Tower, where the tombs and lions are shewn. A lion is also a name given by the gownsmen of Oxford to an inhabitant or visitor. It is a standing joke among the city wits to send boys and country folks, on the first of April, to the Tower-ditch, to see the lions washed. LIQUOR. To liquor one's boots; to drink before a journey: among Roman Catholics, to administer the extreme unction. LITTLE BARBARY. Wapping. LITTLE BREECHES. A familiar appellation used to a little boy. LITTLE CLERGYMAN. A young chimney-sweeper.