_Abram-men_, c. the seventeenth Order of the Canting-crew. Beggers antickly trick’d up with Ribbands, Red Tape, Foxtails, Rags, _&c._ pretending Madness to palliate their Thefts of Poultrey, Linnen, _&c._ _Academy_, c. a Bawdy-house, also an University or School to learn Gentleman-like Exercises. _Accutrements_, c. fine rigging (now) for Men or Women, (formerly) only Trappings for Horses. _Well accoutred_, c. gentilly dress’d. _Acquests_, and _Acquisitions_, the rights of Fortune purchased by Labour, Arts or Arms, oppos’d to Hereditary and Paternal. _Acteon_, a Cuckold. _Acteon’d_, Cuckolded, or made a Cuckold of. _Adam’s-ale_, Water. _Adam-tiler_, c. a Pick-pocket’s Camerade, who receives Stolen Money or Goods, and scowers off with them. _Addle-pate_, one full of Whimsies and Projects, and as empty of Wit. _Addle-plot_, a Martin-mar-all. _Adrift_, loose. _I’ll turn ye adrift_, a Tar-phrase; I’ll prevent ye doing me any harm. _Affidavit men_, Knights of the Post, Mercenary Sweaters for Hire, Inhabitants (formerly) of White Friers, now dispersed. _Aft_ and _Abase_, towards the Stern, or hinder Part of the Ship. _Aim_, Endeavour or Design. _To aim_ or _level at a Mark, he has mist his Aim_ or _End_. _Air of a Song_, the Tune. _Air of a Face or picture_, the Configuration and consent of Parts in each. _Airy_, Light, brisk, pleasant; also a Nest of Hawks; He is an Airy Fellow. _Alabaster_, mixt by all the knavish Perfumers with the Hair-Powder they sell, to make it weigh heavy, being of it self very cheap, that their Gain may be the greater, found destructive to the Hair and Health. _Alsatia_, White Friers. _Alsatia the higher_, the same. _Alsatia the lower_, the Mint in Southwark. _Alsatians_, the Inhabitants, such as, broken Gentlemen, Tradesmen, _&c._ Lurking there. _Allay_, the Embasing of a purer and finer Metal, by mixing it with an inferior or coarser Metal, as of pale Gold with a Silver-Allay, or of deep Gold with an Allay of Copper; also whatever is used to qualify what is bitter or nauseous in Compositions, as gilding of Pills, sweetning of Boluses, or Powders. _Aloft_, above or over Head; also anciently an Upper-room or Garret, now more us’d in Compounds, as _Cock-loft_, _Hay-loft_, &c. _Altemall_, altogether. _Altitudes_, _the Man is in his Altitudes_, he is Drunk. _Ambidexter_, one that goes snacks in gaming with both Parties; also a _Lawyer_ that takes Fees of _Plaintif_ and _Defendant_ at once. _Ambient-Air_, Air abroad oppos’d to that pent and shut up in Wells, Vaults, Caves, _&c._ Or else the outward Air in the House, oppos’d to that shut up in the Cavities of Vessels, Glasses Vials, _&c._ _Ambrol_, among the Tarrs for Admiral. _Amphibious Creatures_, of a doubtful kind or of a double Element; as a Bat is between a Bird and a Beast; an Otter between a Beast and a Fish, and a Puffin with the rest of the Sea-Fowl, between Fowl and Fish.