_Burnish_, to spread, or grow broad; also to refresh Plate, being the Trade of a _Burnisher_, depending on Gold and Silver-Smiths. _Burnt_, Poxt, or swingingly Clapt. _Burnt the Town_, when the Soldiers leave the Place without paying their Quarters. _Burre_, a Hanger on, or Dependant. _Bustle_, a Fray, Stir, Tumult in the Streets; also a Noise in any Place. What a Bustle you make? What a Hurry or Rattle you Cause? _Bustle about_, to be very Stirring, or bestir one’s Stumps. _Butcher’d_, Barbarously Murder’d on the Ground, or Kill’d before his Sword is out; also in Cold Bloud. _Butter_, c. to double or treble the Bet or Wager to recover all Losses: _No Butter will stick on his Bread_, nothing thrives or goes forward in his Hand. _He knows on which side his Bread is Butter’d_, or the Stronger side, and his own Interest. _Butter-boxes_, Dutchmen. _Butter’d Bun_, Lying with a Woman that has been just Layn with by another Man. _Buttock_, c. a Whore. _Buttock-broker_, a Bawd, also a Match-maker. _A Buttock and File_, c. both Whore and Pickpocket. _Buttock and Twang, or a downright Buttock and sham File_, c. a Common Whore but no Pickpocket. _Buzzard_, c. a foolish soft Fellow, easily drawn in and Cullied or Trickt. _By-blow_, a Bastard. C _Cabal_, a secret Junto of Princes, a seated knot of Statesmen, or of Conspirators against the State in Counter-Cabal. _Cabbage_, a Taylor, and what they pinch from the Cloaths they make up; also that part of the Deer’s Head where the Horns are Planted. _Cabob_, a Loin of Mutton Roasted with an Onyon betwixt each joint; a _Turkish_ and _Persian_ Dish but now used in _England_. _Cacafuego_, a Shite-fire; also a furious fierce Felow. _Cackle_, c. to discover. _The Cull Cackles_, c. the Rogue tells all. _Cackling-cheats_, c. Chickens, Cocks or Hens. _Cackling-farts_, c. Eggs. _Cadet_, or _Cadee_, a Gentleman that Bears Arms in hopes of a Commission; also a younger Brother. _Caffan_, c. Cheese. _Cakehis_, _Cake is Dough_, of a Miscarriage or failure of Business. _The Devil ow’d her a Cake, and has pai’d her a Loaf_, when instead of a small, a very great Disaster or Misfortune has happen’d to a Woman. _Call_, a Lesson, Blowed on the Horn to comfort the Hounds. _Caliver_, a small Sea-Gun. _Calle_, c. a Cloak or Gown. _Cambridge-Fortune_, a Woman without any Substance. _Cameleon-Diet_, Air, or a very thin slender Diet. _Cameronians_, Field-Conventiclers, (in _Scotland_) great outward Zealots, and very squeemish Precisians. _Camesa_, c. a Shirt or Shift. _Campaign-coat_, Originally only such as Soldiers wore, but afterwards a Mode in Cities. See _Surtout_. _Canary-Bird_, a little Arch or Knavish, a very Wag. _Cane upon Abel_, a good Stick or Cudgel well-favoredly laid on a Man’s Shoulders. _Canal_, a Channel, Kennel, Pipe, Passage, fine Pond, or small River. _Cannal_, choice Coals, very Fat or Pitchy that Blaze and Burn pleasantly.