_Billingsgate-dialect_, Scolding, ill Language, foul Words. _Binding_, securing the Adversary’s Sword with Eight or ten Inches of one’s one, upon Five or six of his. _Bing_, c. _to go_, _&c._ _Bing-awast_, c. get you hence. _Bing’d awast in a Darkmans_, c. stole away in the Night-time. _Bing we to Rume vile_, c. go we to _London_. _Bingo_, c. Brandy. _Bingo-boy_, c. a great Drinker or Lover thereof. _Bingo-club_, c. a set of Rakes, Lovers of that Liquor. _Birds of a Feather_, c. Rogues of the same gang; also, those of the same Profession, Trade or Employment. _To kill two Birds with one Stone_, to dispatch two Businesses at one Stroke. _Bird-witted_, Wild-headed, not Solid or Stayed, opposed to a Sober-Wit. _Bit_, c. Robb’d, Cheated or Out-witted. Also Drunk, as, _he has bit his Grannam_; he is very Drunk. _Bit the Blow_, c. accomplish’d the Theft, plaied the Cheat, or done the Feat: _You have Bit-a great Blow_, c. you have Robb’d some body of a great deal, or to a considerable value. _Bite_, c. a Rogue, Sharper or Cheat; also a Woman’s Privities. _Bite the Biter_, c. to Rob the Rogue, Sharp the Sharper, or Cheat the Cheater. _Bite the Cully_, c. to put the cheat on the silly Fellow. _Bite the Roger_, c. to Steal the Portmanteau. _Bite the Wiper_, c. to Steal the Handkerchief. _The Cull wapt the Morts bite_, c. the Fellow enjoyed the Whore briskly. _He will not bite, or swallow the Bait._ He won’t be drawn in, _to bite on the bit_; to be pinched, or reduced to hard Meat, a scanty or sorry sort of Living. _Bitter-cold_, very Cold. _Black and White_, under one’s Hand, or in Writing. _Blab_, a Sieve of Secrets, a very prating Fellow that tells all he knows. _Black-box_, a Lawyer. _Black-coat_, a Parson. _Black-guard_, Dirty, Nasty, Tatter’d roguish Boys, that attend (at the Horse-Guards) to wipe Shoes, clean Boots, water Horses, or run of Errands. _Blackjack_, a Leather-Jug to drink in. _Black-Indies_, Newcastle, from whence the Coals are brought. _Blackmuns_, c. Hoods and Scarves of Alamode and Lustrings. _Black-mouth_, foul, malicious, Railing, or Reflecting. _Blacken_, to blast or asperse. _Black-spy_, c. the Devil. _Blank_, baffled, down-look’t, sheepish, guilty. _Bleak_, sharp, piercing Weather. _Bleach_, to whiten. _Bleaters_, c. they that are cheated by Jack-in-a box. _Bleating cheat_, c. a Sheep. _Bleed freely_, c. part with their Money easily. _Blemish_, when Hounds or Beagles find where the Chace has been, and make a proffer to enter, but return. _Blew-John_, Wash, or Asterwort. _Blind-cheeks_, the Breech _Kiss my Blind-cheeks_, Kiss my Ar—. _Blind-excuse_, a sorry shift. _A Blind Ale-house, or Blind Lane_, obscure, of no Sign, Token, or Mark. _Blind harpers_, c. Beggers counterfeiting blindness, with Harps or Fiddles. _Blind-man’s-buff_, a play us’d by Children blindfolded. _Bluffed_, contracted from Blind-man’s-buff, he that is Blinded in the Play.