_Tackle_, c. a Mistress; also good Cloths. _The Cull has tipt his Tackle Rum rigging_, c. or, _has Tipt his Bloss Rum-tackle_, c. the keeping Coxcomb has given his Mistress very fine Cloths. _Taffy_, a Welshman or David. _Taffy’s Day_, the first of March. _Tables_, a Game. _Turn the tables_, make it your own Case. _Take the Culls in_, c. Seize the Men, in order to Rob them. _Take-time_, never to thrust but with advantage. _Very taking_, acceptable, agreeable, or becoming. _It Takes well_, or, _the Town Takes it_, the Play pleas’d, or was acted with Applause, or the Book Sells well. _No doubt but it will Take_, no question but it will sell. _Talent_, the same with Capacity, Genius, Inclination or Ability; also 375_l._ in Silver, and 4500_l._ in Gold. _His Talent does not lye that way_, he has no Genius for it, or his Head does not lean to it. _Tale-tellers_, a sort of Servants in use with the great Men in _Ireland_, to Lull them a sleep with Tales and Stories of a Cock and a Bull, _&c._ _I tell you my Tale, and my Tales-man_, or Author. _Tall boy_, a Pottle or two Quart-pot full of Wine. _Talons_, or _Pounces_, a Bird’s Claws as Fangs are Beast’s Claws. _Tally-men_, Brokers that let out Cloths at moderate Rates to wear per Week, Month, or Year. _Tame-fellow_, tractable, easy, manageable. _Tamper_, to practise upon one. _Tant_, _Tantest_, Mast of a Ship or Man, Tall, Tallest. _Tantivy-boies_, high-Flyers, or High-flown Church-men, in opposition, to the moderate Church-men; or Latitudinarians a lower sort of Flyers, like Batts, between Church-men and Dissenters. _Taplash_, Wretched, sorry Drink, or Hog-wash. _Tappeth_, see, _Beateth_. _Tariff_, a Book of Rates or Customs; also another of the Current Coin. _Tarnish_, to Fade. _Tar_, _Tarpaulin_, a Seaman; also a piece of Canvas (tarr’d) laid over the Hatches to keep out Wet. _Tar-terms_, proper Sea-Phrases, or Words. _Tart dame_, sharp, quick. _Tartar_, a sharper. _To catch a Tartar_, in stead of catching, to be catcht in a Trap. _Tatter-de-mallion_, c. a ragged, tatter’d Begger, sometimes half Naked, with design to move Charity, having better Cloths at Home. _In Tatters_, in Raggs. _Tatter’d and Torn_, rent and torn. _Tattler_, c. an Alarm, or Striking Watch, or (indeed) any. _Tatts_, c. false Dice. _Tat-monger_, c. a Sharper, or Cheat, using false Dice. _Tatling_ { _Fellow_, } prating, impertinent. { or _Woman_, } _Taunts_, Girds, Quips, or Jeers. _To Taunt_, to Jeer or Flout. _Taudry_, garish, gawdy, with Lace or mismatched and staring Colours: A Term borrow’d from those times when they Trickt and Bedeckt the Shrines and Altars of the Saints, as being at vye with each other upon that occasion. The Votaries of St. _Audrey_ (an Isle of _Ely_ Saint) exceeding all the rest in the Dress and Equipage of her Altar, it grew into a Nay-word, upon any thing very Gawdy, that it was all Taudry, as much as to say all St. _Audrey_. _Tayle_, c. a Sword.