_Autumn cacklers_ or _prick-ears_, dissenters of whatever denomination. _Autumn divers_, church pickpockets; but often used for churchwardens, overseers of the poor, sidesmen, and others, who manage the poor’s money. _Autumn jet_, a parson. _Babes in the Wood_, criminals in the stocks. _Back’d_, dead. _Badge Coves_, parish pensioners. _Balsam_, money. _Bam_, a jocular imposition, the same as humbug. _Bandog_, a bailiff, or his followers; a sergeant, or his yeomen; also a fierce mastiff. _Bandero_, a widow’s mourning peak; also a musical instrument. _Baptised_, rum, brandy, or any other spirits that have been lowered with water. _Barker_, a salesman’s servant that walks before the shop, and cries, coats, gowns, &c., what d’ye buy? _Barking irons_, pistols, from their explosion resembling the barking of a dog. _Barnacles_, a good job, or a snack easily got; also, the irons worn by felons in gaols. _Barrel Fever_, he died of the barrel fever; he killed himself by drinking. _Battner_, an ox. _Bawbee_, a halfpenny. _Baudrons_, a cat. _Beak_, a justice of peace, or magistrate. _Beard splitter_, a whoremaster, or a beadle. _Beater cases_, boots. _Bellows_, the lungs. _Belly cheat_, an apron. _Bill of sale_, a widow’s weeds. _Bing_, to go, bing avast; get you gone. Binged avast in a darkmans; stole away in the night. Bing we to Rumvilck; shall we go to London. _Bingo_, brandy, or other spirituous liquor. _Bingo boy_, a dram drinker. _Bingo mort_, a female dram drinker. _Bingowaste_, get you hence. _Black fly_, the greatest drawback on the farmer is the black fly, i.e. the parson. _Bleating rig_, sheep-stealing. _Blind harpers_, beggars counterfeiting blindness, playing on fiddles, &c. _Black box_, a lawyer. _Black Indies_, Newcastle, from whence the coals are brought. _Black spy_, the devil. _Blind cheek_, the breech. _Blowen_, a whore. _Bluffer_, an innkeeper, or victualler. _Boarding school_, Bridewell, Newgate, or any other prison, or house of correction. _Bob_, a shoplifter’s assistant, or one that receives and carries off stolen goods. _Bob ken_, or _a Brownmanken_, a well furnished house. _Bone_, to apprehend, seize, or arrest. _Bone box_, the mouth. _Bone Darkmans_, a good night. _Bone setter_, a hard-trotting horse. _Booby hutch_, a one-horse chaise, noddy, buggy, or leathern bottle. _Borde_, a shilling. _Bouncing cheat_, a bottle. _Bracket face_, ugly, ill-favoured. _Brown George_, an ammunition loaf. _Buck’s face_, a cuckold. _Bufe_, a dog. _Butt’s eye_, a crown, or five shilling piece. _Bung_, a purse, pocket, or fob. _Bur_, a hanger-on, a dependant. _Bum bailiff_, a sheriff’s officer who arrests debtors; so called perhaps from following his prey, and being at their bums, or as the vulgar phrase is, hard at their a---s. Blackstone says it is a corruption of bound bailiff, from their being obliged to give bond for their good behaviour. _Bum brusher_, a schoolmaster.