_Blind-man’s-holiday_, when it is too dark to see to Work. _Blind side_, every Man’s weak Part. _Bloated_, Smoked Herrings; also, one puffed or swelled with false Fat, and has not a Healthy Complexion. _Blobber-lipp’d_, very thick, hanging down, or turning over. _Block_, a silly Fellow. _Block-houses_, c. Prisons, also Forts upon Rivers. _Blockish_, Stupid. _Blockstock_, See _Block_. _Bloss_, c. a Thief or Shop-lift, also, a Bulhes pretended Wife, or Mistress, whom he guards, and who by her Trading supports him, also a Whore. _Blot the Skrip and jark it_, c. to stand Engaged, or be Bound for any body. _Blot in the Tables_, what is fair to be hit. _Blot in a Scutcheon_, a blemish or imputation upon any one. _Bloud_, _’twill breed ill Bloud_, of what will produce a misunderstanding or Difference. _Blower_, c. a Mistress, also a Whore. _Blowing_, c. _the same_. _Blow-off-on the grounsills_, c. to lie with a Woman on the Floor or Stairs. _Blown upon_, seen by several, or slighted; _not blown upon_, a secret piece of News or Poetry, that has not taken air, spick and span-new. _To blow Hot and Cold_ with a Breath, or play fast and loose. _Blow off the loose corns_, c. to Lie now and then with a Woman. _It is blow’d_, c. it is made publick, and all have notice. _Blubber_, Whale-oyl, (imperfect.) _Blubbering_, much Crying. _Bluffer_, c. a Host, Inn-keeper or Victualler, _to look bluff_, to look big, or like Bull-beef. _Blunder_, an Ignorant Mistake. _Blunderbuss_, a Dunce, an unganely Fellow, also a short Gun carrying Twenty Pistol-Bullets at one Charge. _Bluster_, to huff, a _blustring Fellow_, a rude ratling Fellow. _Boor_, see wild Boar. _Boarding-school_, c. Bridewell. _Boarding-scholars_, c. Bridewell-birds. _Bob_, c. a Shop-lift’s camrade, assistant, or receiver, also a very short Periwig, and for Robert. _It’s all bob_, c. all is safe, the Bet is secured. _Bob’d_, c. Cheated, Trick’d, Disappointed, or Baulk’d. _Bob-tail_, a light Woman, also a short Arrow-head. _Bode-ill_, to presage or betoken ill. Also in _Holland_, a _Bode_ is a Messinger, attending the Burgo-Masters, and executing their Orders. _Bodle_, Six make a Penney, Scotch Coin. _Boer_, a Country-Fellow or Clown. _Boerish_, Rude, Unmannerly, Clownish. _Boggs_, Irish Fastnesses or Marshes. _Bog-houses_, Privies. _Bog-landers_, Irish Men. _Bog-trotters_, Scotch or North Country Moss-troopers or High-way Men formerly, and now Irish Men. _Boisterous Fellow_ or, _Sea_, Blustering, Rude, Rough. _Boldface_, Impudent. _A Bold Harbour_, where Ships may Ride at Anchor with safety, _a bold Shore_ where Ships may Sail securely. _Bolter of White Friers_, c. one that Peeps out, but dares not venture abroad, as a Coney bolts out of the Hole in a Warren, and starts back again. _Bolting_, the leaping by one’s Adversary’s Left-side quite out of all measure. _Boltsprit_, a Nose. _He has broke his Boltsprit_, he has lost his Nose with the Pox.