[9] _Spouted_--Pawned. The business of the pawnbrokers has so much increased in London of late years, that they find it necessary to have extensive ware-rooms at the top of the house; and in order to save the trouble of running up and down stairs, they have invented a spout of communication between the ware-rooms and the shop. So that, whenever an unfortunate takes his unmentionables, or any other article to pledge, the pawnbroker places them at the bottom of the spout, and "by some cantrip slight" or other, up the spout they go slap into the ware-rooms in an instant, where they remain until the day of redemption, and then, up goes the duplicate ticket, and down comes the unmentionables again. [10] _The Waits_--Those wandering minstrels, who, on the approach of Christmas, nightly serenade the sleeping public by license of the king's sergeant trumpeter. [11] _Bread-basket_, _dumpling depot_, _victualling office_, _&c._, are terms given by the "Fancy" to the digestive organ. [12] Gin.--_Deady_ is, or was, a celebrated distiller of that lively liquid. [13] _Charley_--Corinthianish for _Watchman_. [14] _Canisters_--Corinthianish for _Heads_. [15] _Riddled it_--made it full of holes, like a riddle. [16] _Bilk_, from the Gothic _Bilaican_, to cheat, to defraud. [17] What a pity it is that the poor gentleman never thought of cutting his boots away with a knife! But _nemo mortalium, &c._ [18] Something which may be drank in a short time, and yet have a lengthy effect. [19] A _dodger_ is ginshop-ish for a _dram_. [20] "This is a _sessionable_ assault; that is to say, an assault worthy of trial at Quarter Sessions."--_Country Justice._ [21] _Kennedy_--St. Giles's for the _poker_, from a man of that name being killed by a poker, or a man of that name killing another with that instrument. [22] Query _inured_. [23] _Gal_--cockney for _girl_. [24] _Heavy wet_--Porter;--because, the more a man drinks of it, the heavier he becomes. [25] A back room on the third floor. [26] A _jemmy_ is a sheep's head--a favourite dish with those who can get no other. For _jugg'd_, see Dr. Kitchiner on "jugg'd hare," &c. [27] _Max-upon-tick_--pronounced, maxapóntic--a very gentleman-like term, invented by certain learned tailors, signifying _scored gin_--or _gin upon credit--max_ being cockneyish for gin, and _tick_ being synonymous with credit, all the world over. [28] "Bleak winter wears a _coat_ of snow." _Recit._--Mr. Gluckman. "A _lily-white benjamin_--is it not so?" _Air_--Lord Mops. [29] These lads were tried at the Old Bailey, and being found guilty, they were sentenced to seven years' transportation,--which sentence was afterwards commuted to five years' imprisonment in the Millbank Penitentiary. [30] _Squad_--diminutive of _squadron_; applied generally to little parties, of little sense--as, an awkward squad, a blackguard squad, a squandering squad, &c.