_Ken-miller_, c. a House-breaker. _Friend John_, _or sweet Tom_, _’tis a bob Ken_, _Brush upon the Sneak_, c. ’tis a good House, go in if you will but Tread softly, and mind your Business. _Now we have Bit_, c. the House is Robb’d, or the Business is done. _There’s a Cull knows us, if we don’t pike he’ll Bone us_, c. that Fellow sees us, if we don’t scour off, he will Apprehend us. _Ding him_, c. Knock him Down. _Then we’ll pike, tis all Bowman_, c. we will be gone, all is well, the Coast is clear. _Keaping Cully_, one that Maintains a Mistress, and parts with his Money very generously to her. _Kicks_, c. Breeches. _A high Kick_, the top of the Fashion; also singularity therein. _Tip us your Kicks, we’ll have them as well as your Loure_, c. pull off your Breeches, for we must have them as well as your Money. _Kid_, c. a Child; also the first Year of a Roe, and a young Goat. _Kidnapper_, c. one that Decoys or Spirits (as it is commonly called) Children away, and Sells them for the Plantations. _Kidder_, c. see Crocker. _Kidlay_, c. one who meeting a Prentice with a Bundle or Parcel of Goods, wheedles him by fair Words, and whipping Sixpence into his Hand, to step on a short and sham Errand for him, in the mean time Runs away with the Goods. _Kidney_, (Beans) _French_. _Of that Kidney_, of such a Stamp. _Of a strange Kidney_, of an odd or unaccountable Humor. _Kilkenny_, c. an old sorry Frize-Coat. _Kill-Devil_, Rum. _Kill two Birds with one Stone_, Dispatch two Businesses at one Stroak. _Kimbaw_, c. to Trick, Sharp, or Cheat; also to Beat severely or to Bully. _Lets Kimbaw the Cull_, c. Let’s Beat that Fellow, and get his Money (by Huffing and Bullying) from him. _Kinchin_, c. a little Child. _Kinchin-coes_, c. the Sixteenth Rank of the Canting Tribe, being little Children whose Parents are Dead, having been Beggers; as also young Ladds running from their Masters, who are first taught Canting, then thieving. _Kinchin-cove_, c. a little Man. _King’s Head Inn_, or _the Chequer Inn in Newgate-street_, c. the Prison or Newgate. _King’s Pictures_, c. Money. _King of all Beasts of Venery_, a Hare. _King of the Gypsies_, the Captain, Chief, or Ring-leader of the Gang, the Master of Misrule. _Kindly_, Fruit, or Season, towardly. _Kindness will creep where it cannot go_. _Kinchin-morts_, c. the Twenty seventh and last Order of the Canting Crew, being Girls of a Year or two old, whom the _Morts_ (their Mothers) carry at their Backs in _Slates_ (_Sheets_) and if they have no Children of their own, they borrow or Steal them from others. _Kissing the Maid_, an Engine in _Scotland_, and at _Halifax_ in _England_, in which the Head of the Malefactor is Laid to be Cut off, and which this way is done to a Hair, said to be invented by Earl _Morton_ who had the ill Fate to Handsel it. _Kissing goes by Favour_, I suppose another sort is meant by this Proverb than the foremention’d.