~Blind Monkeys~, an imaginary collection at the Zoological Gardens, which are supposed to receive care and attention from persons fitted by nature for such office and for little else. An idle and useless person is often told that he is only fit to lead the BLIND MONKEYS to evacuate. Another form this elegant conversation takes, is for one man to tell another that he knows of a suitable situation for him. “How much a week? and what to do?” are natural questions, and then comes the scathing and sarcastic reply, “Five bob a week at the doctor’s—you’re to stand behind the door and make the patients sick. They wont want no physic when they sees your mug.” ~Blinker~, a blackened eye.—_Norwich._ Also a hard blow in the eye. BLINKERS, spectacles. ~Blink-Fencer~, a person who sells spectacles. ~Bloated Aristocrat~, a street term for any decently dressed person. From the persistent abuse lavished on a “bloated and parasitical aristocracy” by Hyde Park demagogues and a certain unpleasant portion of the weekly press. ~Bloater.~—_See_ MILD. ~Blob~ (from BLAB), to talk. Beggars are of two kinds—those who SCREEVE (introducing themselves with a FAKEMENT, or false document) and those who BLOB, or state their case in their own truly “unvarnished” language. ~Block~, the head. “To BLOCK a hat,” is to knock a man’s hat down over his eyes.—_See_ BONNET. Also a street obstruction. ~Block Ornaments~, the small dark-coloured and sometimes stinking pieces of meat which used to be exposed on the cheap butchers’ blocks or counters; matters of interest to all the sharp-visaged women in poor neighbourhoods. Since the great rise in the price of meat there has been little necessity for butchers to make block ornaments of their odds and ends. They are bespoke beforehand. ~Bloke~, a man; “the BLOKE with the jasey,” the man with the wig, _i.e._, the Judge. _Gipsy_ and _Hindoo_, LOKE. _North_, BLOACHER, any large animal. ~Blood~, a fast or high-mettled man. Nearly obsolete, but much used in George the Fourth’s time. ~Blood-money~, the money that used to be paid to any one who by information or evidence led to a conviction for a capital offence. Nowadays applied to all sums received by informers. ~Blood-Red Fancy~, a particular kind of handkerchief sometimes worn by pugilists and frequenters of prize fights.—_See_ BILLY and COLOUR. ~Bloody~, an expletive used, without reference to meaning, as an adjective and an adverb, simply for intensification. ~Bloody Jemmy~, an uncooked sheep’s head.—_See_ SANGUINARY JAMES. Also MOUNTAIN PECKER. ~Blow~, to expose, or inform; “BLOW the gaff,” to inform against a person. “‘As for that,’ says Will, ‘I could tell it well enough, if I had it, but I must not be seen anywhere among my old acquaintances, for I am BLOWN, and they will all betray me.’”—_History of Colonel Jack_, 1723.