Acting the deceitful, performing, mumming, acting Adam, a henchman, an accomplice Adam's ale, our first father's drink, water, 'best with brandy' Adam tiler, a receiver of stolen goods, a pickpocket, a fence Affair of honour, killing an innocent man in a duel All set, desperate fellows, ready for any kind of mischief Alderman in chains, turkey and sausages Alive, awake, fly, up, leery, acquainted with All out, the reckoning drank out, 'How stands the account 'twixt me and vengeance?' Ambidexter, one who snacks in gaming with both parties Amen curler, a parish clerk Anglers or starrers, an order of thieves who break show glasses in jeweller's windows to steal the goods Angling cove, a receiver of stolen goods Angelics, young unmarried ladies Anointed, knowing, ripe for mischief Arm props, crutches Arch rogue, the chief of a gang of thieves, or gypsies Arch doxey, the same among female canters or gypsies Astronomer, a star gazer, a horse that carries his head high As right as a trevit, the tippy all right A pig's whisper, a grunt, 'a word 'twixt you and me' Aunt, a bawd, sometimes called mother Autem, a church, meeting-house Autem cacklers, dissenters of all sects Autem bawler, a preacher, a parson Autem dippers, anabaptists Autem cackel tub, a meeting house for dissenters, a pulpit Autem divers, pickpockets who practise in churches; also churchwardens and overseers of the poor, who defraud, deceive, and impose on the parish Autem gogglers, conjurors, fortune tellers Autem mort, or mot, a woman of the same sect, a beggar, a prostitute Autem quaver's tub, a quaker's meeting house B. Babes in the wood, rogues in the stocks or pillory Bacon-faced, full faced Back slums, low unfrequented parts in the metropolis Badge coves, parish pensioners Badge, one burnt in the hand Badger, to confound, perplex, or tease Badgers, forestallers and murderers Bag the swag, pocket your portion, hide your whack Baggage, a slut, a common prostitute Ball o'wax, a snob or shoemaker Ballum ranorum, a hop or a dance, where the women are all prostitutes Balsam, rag, rhino, money Balm, a lie Bandog, a bum-bailiff Bank, a depository for cash at a gaming-table Bandy, a tanner, a sixpence Banyan day, Saturday, when there's nothing left to eat Bantling, a young child Bar that, cheese it, stow it, don't mention it Barber's clerks, conceited ignorant shop-boys Bark, an Irishman Barker, a salesman's servant, a prowler to pick up countrymen in the streets Barking irons, pistols Barnacles, spectacles Battered bully, an old gloak, well milled huffing fellow Bawd, a procuress, a woman that keeps a brothel Batter, an ox Beak, a justice of the peace, a magistrate Beak, rum, a justice who will do any thing for money Beak, queer, a magistrate that is particularly strict to his duty Beaks out on the nose, magistrates out on a search night Beaksman, traps Bear leader, a travelling tutor Beat, a watchman's walk