_Cup of Comfort_, as _Cup of the Creature_, Strong-liquor. _A Cup too low_, when any of the Company are mute or pensive. _To carry one’s Cup even between two Parties_, to be equal and indifferent, between them. _Many things fall out between the Cup and the Lip_, or many things intervene between the forming and accomplishing a Design. _Cur_, a Dog of a mungrel Breed, good for nothing. _Curle_, c. Clippings of Money. _Currish-fellow_, snapping, snarling. _Curmudgeon_, an old Covetous Fellow, a Miser. _Currant-coyn_, good and Lawful Money. _Currant Custom_, a received custom, the _Current_, Stream; also humor or bent of the People. _Cursitors_, c. Vagabonds; the first (old) Rank of Canters. _Curst_, _a curst Cur_, a sower, surly, snarling, fierce Dog; a Curst Cow has short Horns. _Curtals_, c. the Eleventh Rank of the Canting Crew. _Curtail’d_, cut off, shorten’d. _Curtezan_, a gentile fine Miss or Quality Whore. _Curtain-Lecture_, Womens impertinent Scolding at their Husbands. _Cushion_, _beside the Cushion_, beside the Mark. _Cut_, Drunk. _Deep Cut_, very Drunk. _Cut in the Leg or Back_, very drunk. _To Cut_, c. to Speak. _To Cut bene_, c. to Speak gently, civilly or kindly; _to Cut bene_ (or _bennar_) _Whidds_, c. to give good Words. _To Cut quire whidds_, c. to give ill Language. _A Cut_ or _Chop_ of Meat. _Cut and come again_, of Meat that cries come Eat me. _A cutting wind_, very sharp. _Of the precize Cut or Stamp_, a demure starcht Fellow. _No Present to be made of Knives, because they Cut kindness. Ready Cut and Dried, or turned for the purpose._ _Not Cut out for it_, nor turned for it. _To Cut another out of any business_, to out-doe him far away, or excell, or circumvent. _I’ll cut you out business_, I’ll find you Work enough. A Book with Cuts or Figures; Brass or Wooden Cutts or Prints from Copper-plates, or Wood. _A Cut throat House or Town_, where sharp and Large Reckonings are imposed, as at _Gravesend_, _Deal_, _Dover_, _Portsmouth_, _Plimouth_, _Harwich_, _Helvoetsluyce_, the _Briel_, and indeed all _Sea-ports_, nay and _Common-wealths_ too, according to the observation of a late Learned Traveller in his ingenious Letters publish’d in _Holland_. D _Dab_, c. expert exquisite in Roguery; a Rum-dab, c. a very Dextrous fellow at fileing, thieving, Cheating, Sharping, _&c._ _He is a Dab at it_, He is well vers’d in it. _Dablers_, in Poetry, meer Pretenders. _Dace_, c. Two-pence, Tip me a _Dace_. c. Lend Two-pence, or pay so much for me. _Dag_, a Gun. _Draggle-tail_, a nasty dirty Slut. _Damask the Claret_, Put a roasted Orange slasht smoking hot in it. _Damber_, c. a Rascal. _Damme-boy_, a roaring mad, blusttring fellow, a Scourer of the Streets. _Dancers_, c. Stairs. _Dandyprat_, a little puny Fellow. _Dangle_, to hang. _Dapper-fellow_, a short, pert, brisk, tidy Fellow. _Darby_, c. ready Money. _Darbies_, c. Irons, Shackles or Fetters. _Darkmans_, c. The night, _The Child of darkness_, c. a Bell-man.