LOUSE. A gentleman's companion. He will never louse a grey head of his own; he will never live to be old. LOVE BEGOTTEN CHILD. A bastard. LOUNGE. A loitering place, or gossiping shop. LOUSE BAG. A black bag worn to the hair or wig. LOUSE HOUSE. The round house, cage, or any other place of confinement. LOUSE LADDER. A stitch fallen in a stocking. LOUSE LAND. Scotland. LOUSE TRAP. A small toothed comb. LOUT. A clumsy stupid fellow. LOWING RIG. Stealing oxen or cows. LOW PAD. A footpad. LOW TIDE, or LOW WATER. When there is no money in a man's pocket. LOWRE. Money. Cant. LUBBER. An awkward fellow: a name given by sailors to landsmen. LUCK, or GOOD LUCK. To tread in a surreverence, to be bewrayed: an allusion to the proverb, Sh-tt-n luck is good luck. LUD'S BULWARK. Ludgate prison. LUGS. Ears or wattles. See WATTLES. LULLABY CHEAT. An infant. Cant. LULLIES. Wet linen. Cant. LULLY TRIGGERS. Thieves who steal wet linen. Cant. LUMB. Too much. LUMBER. Live lumber; soldiers or passengers on board a ship are so called by the sailors. LUMBER TROOP. A club or society of citizens of London. LUMBER HOUSE. A house appropriated by thieves for the reception of their stolen property. To LUMP. To beat; also to include a number of articles under one head. To LUMP THE LIGHTER. To be transported. LUMPERS. Persons who contract to unload ships; also thieves who lurk about wharfs to pilfer goods from ships, lighters, &c. LUMPING. Great. A lumping penny worth; a great quantity for the money, a bargain. He has'got a lumping penny-worth; frequently said of a man who marries a fat woman. LUN. Harlequin. LURCH. To be left in the lurch; to be abandoned by one's confederates or party, to be left in a scrape. LURCHED. Those who lose a game of whist, without scoring five, are said to be lurched. LURCHER. A lurcher of the law; a bum bailiff, or his setter. LURRIES. Money, watches, rings, or other moveables. LUSH. Strong beer. TO LUSH. To drink. LUSHEY. Drunk. The rolling kiddeys hud a spree, and got bloody lushey; the dashing lads went on a party of pleasure, and got very drunk. LYE. Chamber lye; urine. MACCARONI. An Italian paste made of flour and eggs. Also a fop: which name arose from a club, called the Maccaroni Club, instituted by some of the most dressy travelled gentlemen about town, who led the fashions; whence a man foppishly dressed, was supposed a member of that club, and by contraction styled a Maccaroni. MACE COVE. A swindler, a sharper, a cheat. On the mace; to live by swindling. MACHINES. Mrs. Phillips's ware. See CUNDUM. MACKEREL. A bawd: from the French maquerel. Mackerel-backed; long-backed. MAD TOM, or TOM OF BEDLAM, otherwise an Abram Man. A rogue that counterfeits madness. CANT. MADAM. A kept madam; a kept mistress. MADAM RAN. A whore. CANT. MADE. Stolen. CANT. MADGE. The private parts of a woman. MADGE CULLS. Sodomites. CANT. MAGG. A halfpenny.