_TO MAUNDE_, to aske or require. _TO MILL A KEN_, to robbe a house. _TO NYGLE_ [coition]. _TO NYP A BOUNG_ [nip, to steal], to cut a purse. _TO SKOWER THE CRAMPRINGES_, to weare boltes or fetters. _TO STALL_, to make or ordain. _TO THE RUFFIAN_, to the Devil. _TO TOWRE_, to see. _TRYNING_ [trine], hanging. _TYB OF THE BUTERY_, a goose. _WALKING MORTE_, womene [who pass for widows]. _WAPPING_ [coition]. _WHYDDES_, wordes. _WYN_, a penny. _YANNAM_, bread. Turning our attention more to the Cant of modern times, in connection with the old, we find that words have been drawn into the thieves’ vocabulary from every conceivable source. Hard or infrequent words, vulgarly termed _crack-jaw_, or _jaw-breakers_, were very often used and considered as cant terms. And here it should be mentioned that at the present day the most inconsistent and far-fetched terms are often used for secret purposes, when they are known to be caviare to the million. It is really laughable to know that such words as _incongruous_, _insipid_, _interloper_, _intriguing_, _indecorum_, _forestal_, _equip_, _hush_, _grapple_, &c. &c., were current Cant words a century and a half ago; but such was the case, as any one may see in the _Dictionary of Canting Words_, at the end of _Bacchus and Venus_,[22] 1737. They are inserted not as jokes or squibs, but as selections from the veritable pocket dictionaries of the Jack Sheppards and Dick Turpins of the day. If they were safely used as unknown and cabalistic terms amongst the commonalty, the fact would form a very curious illustration of the ignorance of our poor ancestors. One piece of information is conveyed to us, _i.e._, that the “Knights” or “Gentlemen of the road,” using these polite words in those days of highwaymen, were really well educated men,—which heretofore has always been a hard point of belief, notwithstanding old novels and operas. Amongst those Cant words which have either altered their meaning, or have become extinct, I may cite LADY, formerly the Cant for “a very crooked, deformed, and ill-shapen woman;”[23] and HARMAN, “a pair of stocks, or a constable.” The former is a pleasant piece of satire, whilst the latter indicates a singular method of revenge. HARMAN was the first author who specially wrote against English vagabonds, and for his trouble his name became synonymous with a pair of stocks, and a policeman of the olden time.