Beaver or tile, a hat Beck or harman, a beadle Beeswax, cheese Belch, malt liquor Ben or Sam, a raw, a novice Beau traps, genteel dressed sharpers, fortune hunters Beef, to alarm, to discover, to pursue Belly cheat, an apron, a pad Belly timber, food of all sorts Belly-go-fister, a hard blow on the belly Bene, prime, good Bene cove, hearty fellow, a tramp Bene bowse, good beer Bene of gibes, counterfeiters of passes Bene darmans, good night Bene fakers, counterfeiters Bender, a shilling Benjamin, a top coat, a great coat Betty, a small picklock Bever, an afternoon's luncheon Better half, an ironical name for a wife Biddy, a fowl, a capon, or chicken; a young chicken Bilboa, a sword, or any pointed instrument Billing and cooing, the sexes humbugging one another; courting Bilk, to swindle, cheat Bing, to cut, go away Bingo, spirituous liquors Bingo boy, a male dram drinker Bingo mot, a female dram drinker Bit, money Big'uns, men of consequence Bit, taken in, duped Bit, queer, counterfeit money Bit cull, a coiner Bit smasher, an utterer of base coin Bit of cavalry, a knacker, a saddle horse Bit of muslin, a flame, a sweetheart Bitch, to, to yield, to give up an attempt thro' fear Bitch, to, a character, or to perform any thing badly Biting your name in, taking a large draught, drinking greedily Blab, a prating stupid fellow, a fool Blab, to, to nose, to chatter, to tell secrets Black beetles, the lower order of people Black diamonds, coals, or coal heavers Black boy, a clergyman Black Indies, Newcastle Black strap, port wine Black box or knob, a lawyer Black spy, an informer Black act, act of picking locks Black cove dubber, a gaoler or turnkey Black-legs, sharpers, fellows who lay wagers, and after losing cannot pay them; a professed gambler Black houses, prisons Blank, frustrated, baffled Blarney, a wonderful story, flattery. _See_ Gammon Bleaters, lambs, sheep Bleats, a sheep stealer Bleak mot, a fair girl Bleeder, a crammer, a lie Blind, to, to cheat under a pretence Blind harpers, itinerant vagabonds with harps Blinker, a one-eyed horse Block, jeminy, pipkin, head Block houses, prisons Blow out, a belly full, an extraordinary meal Blow a cloud, smoking a pipe Blow the gab, to split, to expose, inform Blow, to split, tell, expose Blow me tight, a sort of burlesque oath; as, If I don't I'm jigger'd, &c. Blowings, prostitutes Blue ruin, gin Blue devils, blues, low spirits, horror struck Blue pigeon filers, or flyers, thieves who steal lead from the tops of houses and churches Blubber, to whine, to cry Bluff, to bustle, look big Bluffer, an impudent imposing fellow of an inn-keeper Blunderbuss, a stupid ignorant fellow Blunt, tip, rag, money Boarding school, a house of correction, or prison Bob, a shilling Bob, a shoplifter's assistant Bob-stick, a hog, a shilling Bobtail, a lewd woman, or prostitute Bobbery, a disturbance, a row