_Rank_, rammish, strong-scented, as all the Petids, either Vegetables or Animals, as Garlick, Assafœtida, Polecats, Foxes, Goats, _&c._ And whatever is Stale, Corrupt, or Tainted, and Stinks with long or careless Keeping. _A Rank Lie_, a lewd or flat Lie. _A Rank Knaive_, an errant base Knave. _A Rank Whore_, an errant Whore. _Rank-rider_, c. a Highway-man; also a Jockey. _Rank-wink’d_, Hawk, that is a slow Fligher. _Rant_, to Talk Big, High, or Boast much. _Ranters_, Extravagants, Unthritts, Lewd Sparks; also of the Family of Love. _Rantipole_, a rude wild Boy or Girl. _Rap_, to Swop or Exchange a Horse or Goods; also a Polt on the Pate, and a hard Knocking at a Door. _Rapparies_, Wild Irish Robbers, and Out-laws. _Rapper_, a swinging great Lie. _Raree-show-men_, poor _Savoyards_ strolling up and down with portable Boxes of Puppet-shews at their Backs; in short, Pedlars of Puppets. _Rascal_, a base, vile Fellow, a Rogue. _Rascal-Deer_, lean, poor, _an-lying Deer_. _Rat_, a Drunken Man or Woman taken up by the _Watch_, and carried by the Constable to the Counter. _To smell a Rat_, to suspect a Trick. _Rattler_, c. a Coach. _Rattling-cove_, c. a Coach-man. _Rattling Mumpers_, c. such Beggers as Ply Coaches. _To Rattle_, c. to move off, or be gone. _We’ll take Rattle_, c. we must not tarry, but whip away. _Rattling_, the Noise of Coaches and Carts; as also of Armour, or of Hail, or Thunder. _Rattle-pate_, a Hot, Maggot-pated Fellow. _I Rattled him_, I Rated him roundly, and told him his own. _Rattleth_, the Noise a Goat maketh at Rutting time. _Ravilliac_, any Assasin. _Raw-head and Bloody-bones_, a Bull-begger or Scare-child. _Rayn-deer_, a Beast like a _Hart_, but has his Head fuller of Antlers. _Ready_, c. _Ready and Rhino_, c. Money in Possession. _Rebel-rout_, the Rabble, running Riot. _Reaking_, smoking or piping hot as Pies out of the Oven, Iron out of the Forge, or Blood from a warm Wound. Hence perhaps the _Reak_, or _Reaking_, i. e. Smoak of the Clouds. _I’ll Reak my Spite on him_, I’ll be Revenged on him. _Rear the Boar_, Dislodge him. _Rebus’s_, Words or Sentences that are the same backwards as forwards. _Recheat_, a Lesson blown on the Horn. _Recorder_, a musical instrument; also a Law-Officer or Magistrate in Cities and Corporations, their Mouth, or Spokesman. _Recreant_, a Poltron, or Coward, one that eats his Words, or unsaies what he said. _Recruits_, c. Money (Expected.) _Have you rais’d the Recruits_, c. is the Money come in? _Red-fustian_, Clarret or red Port-Wine. _Red letter-man_, a Roman-catholic. _Red-rag_, a Tongue. _Your Red rag will never lie still_, your Tongue will ne’re be quiet. _Red shank_, c. a Duck. _Refugies_, French and Vaudois Protestants, forced to quit their own and fly into others’ Countries to have the Excercise of their Religion.