_Stock-jobbing_, a sharp, cunning cheating Trade of Buying and Selling Shares of Stock in East India, Guinea and other Companies; also in the Bank, Exchequer, _&c._ _Stock-drawers_, c. Stockings. _Stone_ { _Dead_, quite. { _Doublet_, a Prison. _Stop-hole Abbey_, c. the Nick-name of the chief Rendezvouz of the Canting Crew of _Gypsies_, _Beggers_, _Cheats_, _Thieves_, _&c. Stop my Vitals_, a silly Curse in use among the _Beaux_. _Stoter_, c. a great Blow. _Stoter him_, c. or _tip him a Stoter_, c. settle him, give him a swinging Blow. _Stout_, very strong, Malt-Drink. _Stow_, c. you have said enough. _Stow you bene Cove_, c. hold your Peace good Fellow. _Stow your Whidds and Plant ’em; for the Cove of the Ken can cant ’em_, Take care what you say, for the Man of the House understands you; also to hoard Treasure, or lay up Corn in Granaries or Drink in Cellars. Hence Stoward, or Steward. _Strain-hard_, to ly heartily. _Strait-lac’d_, precise, squeemish, puritanical, nice. _Straping_, c. lying with a Wench. _Strapping-Lass_, a swinging two-handed Woman. _Stress of weather_, foul weather at Sea. _At a Stress_, at a pinch. _Stretching_, hanging. _He’ll Stretch for it_, he’ll be Hang’d. _He Stretcht hard_, told a whisking Ly. _Stretcher_, the piece of Wood that lies cross the Boat, where on the Water-man rests his Feet. _Strike_, c. to Beg, to Rob; also to borrow Money. _Strike all the Cheats_, c. Rob all you meet. _Strike the Cull_, c. Beg of that Gentleman. _Strike the Cly_, c. get that Fellow’s Money from him. _He has Struck the Quidds_, c. he has got the _Cole_ from him. _He Strikes every Body_, c. he borrows Money every where, he runs in every one’s Debt. _A Strike_, (of _Corn_) a Bushel. _Strip_, c. to Rob or _Gut_ a House, to unrig any Body, or to _Bite_ them of their Money. _Strip the Ken_, c. to _Gut_ the House. _Strip the Table_, c. to Winn all the Money on the Place. _Stripts_, poor, Naked. _We have Stript the Cull_, c. We have got all the Fool’s Money. _The Cove’s Stript_, c. the Rogue has not a _Jack_ left to help himself. _Strommel_, c. Straw. _Strowlers_, c. Vagabonds, Itinerants, Men of no settled Abode, of a Precarious Life, Wanderers of Fortune, such as, Gypsies, Beggers, Pedlers, Hawkers, Mountebanks, Fidlers, Country-Players, Rope-dancers, Juglers, Tumblers, showers of Tricks, and Raree-show-men. _Strowling-morts_, c. pretending to be Widows, sometimes Travel the Countries, making Laces upon Ewes, Beggers-tape, _&c._ Are light Finger’d, Subtil, Hypocritical, Cruel, and often dangerous to meet, especially when a _Ruffler_ is with them. _Study_, a Closet of Books. _In a brown Study_, musing, pensive, careful. _Strum_, c. a Periwig. _Rum-strum_, c. a long Wig; also a handsom Wench, or Strumpet. _Stuff_, Nonsense, idle, ridiculous, impertinent Talk. _Stuling-ken_, c. as _Stalling-ken_, c.