_c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester College_, p. 89. The Kitchen is a spacious apartment with a vaulted roof, occupying the entire height of the building on the west side of the quadrangle, and at least half its length; here we might see a few Fags endeavouring to coax Jem Sims, John Coward, or Mother Mariner (the cooks) for an extra supply of mashed potatoes, till Kitchen is cleared by the exasperated Manciple, who has just detected a delinquent in the act of secreting under his gown an armful of the small faggots used for lighting the Kitchen fires (called BILL BRIGHTERS), an opportunity for purloining which was never allowed to slip by a Junior of a properly regulated mind. *Bim* (or *Bimb*), _verb_ (Tonbridge).—To cane. Hence BIMB-STICK = a cane. *Binge*, _subs._ (Oxford).—A drinking-bout. [_Binger_ (Linc.) = tipsy.] *Birch-broom Race*, _subs. phr._ (Winchester).—_See_ TORCH-RACE. *Birch-room*, _subs._ (Westminster).—_See_ quot. 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 178. Behind is the “French room,” once known as the BIRCH-ROOM (in which those useful implements were manufactured and used), where a bench is carefully preserved bearing the name of “John Dryden,” no doubt cut by the poet himself, as the style of the letters corresponds with his date. *Bird*, _subs._ (Durham).—A credulous boy; one easily cajoled; a “soft.” *Bishop*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The sapling with which a fagot is bound together. *Bite*, _intj._ (Charterhouse and Christ’s Hospital).—_Cave!_ *Black*, _subs._ (Rugby).—A nickname. 1856. HUGHES, _Tom Brown’s School-days_, I. vi. “There’s plenty of youngsters don’t care about it,” said Walker. “Here, here’s Scud East—you’ll be tossed, won’t you, young un?” Scud was East’s nickname, or BLACK, as we called it, gained by his fleetness of foot. *Black Book, The* (Charterhouse).—_See_ EXTRA. *Black-hole*, _subs._ (Shrewsbury).—_See_ quot. 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 241. There used to be a small four-square apartment, not much larger than a Punch-and-Judy box, lighted by a single narrow loop-hole—a receptacle for the flogging-block and other like apparatus. This was known as the BLACK-HOLE, or sometimes more familiarly as “Rome’s Hole,” from a traditionary culprit who had been a very regular occupant. *Black-jack*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A large leathern beer jug used in College. It holds two gallons. In olden times BLACK-JACKS were in common use for small beer. [_See_ UNTON, _Inventories_, p. 1; BRAND’S _Pop. Antiq._, ii. 206; _Ord. and Reg._, p. 392; HEYWOOD’S _Edward IV._, p. 97. Also JACK: whence (Christ’s Hospital) JACK-BOY = a boy servitor of beer.] 15—. _Simon the Cellarer._ But oh, oh, oh! his nose doth show, How oft the BLACK-JACK to his lips doth go.