Cabbage, tailors' perquisites Cadger, a beggar, a scranning cove, a mean sort of a thief Cag mag, stinking or bad meat Cake, an easy stupid fellow Camesa, a shirt or shift Canary bird, the inmate of a prison Cank, dumb, silent Cannister, _see_ Block Cant, mock religion, language of methodists Canter gloak, a parson, a liar Canting, language of thieves gypsies, beggars, &c. Canting crew, impostors who go about preaching, methodists, &c. Canticle, a parish clerk Cap, to, to out do, to beat Caper merchant, a dancing master Captain tober, first rate highwayman Captain, head of a gang, a bully Captain Flashman, a blustering fellow, a coward Captain queer Nabs, a dirty fellow without shoes Captain Sharp, a cheat, a bully Caravan, great quantity of money Carrion case, shirt and shift Carrion hunters, undertakers Castor, a tile, a hat Cass, cheese Cast your skin, strip naked Cat, a drunken, fighting prostitute Cat's meat, the constitution, the body Cat's meat shop, an eating house Catastrophe, behind, seat of honour Catchpole, bailiff Catgut scraper, a violin player Cavil, to jaw, quarrel Cavon, an old wig, or jasey Chimmy, a shift Chaff, irritating, or ironical language, to banter Chaffer, the mouth Chaffing crib, a drinking room where bantering is carried on Chalk, advantage Chalks, the legs Chant, a flash song Chancery, head in, said in fighting, of him whose head is held fast under the arm of his antagonist, and gets punished with little chance of extricating himself, unless he floors his man Charley, a watchman Charm, picklock Chats, lice Chates, the gallows Chaw-bacons, countrymen, bumpkins Cheeks, an imaginary person; nobody; as, who does that belong to? _Cheeks._ Cheese it, stow it, give over, drop it Cheese cutters, bandy legs Chere amie, a bed fellow, a sweetheart Chickster, a flame, a prostitute Chink, rhino, rag, money Chiv, a bleeder, a knife Chizzle, to gammon, cheat Chuff, jolly, merry Chum, a bedfellow, a companion, fellow prisoner Chummy, or clergyman, a sweep Civil rig, a trick of the beggars to obtain by over civility Clean shirt day, Sunday Clankers, silver tankards Clapper dudgeon, a beggar born Claret, blood Cleaned, out, mucked, having lost all your money Clench it, complete the thing, finish the business Clerked, cheated, imposed upon Clicks in the gob, thumps in the mouth Click, a knock down blow Clinkers, fetters Clickman toad, a watch[3]