BUL of the furs and wools of diverfe animals, among which is a fmall portion of bevers fur. Bugging, is ftealing the bever, and fubftituting in lieu thereof an equal weight of fome cheaper ingredient.-Bailiffs who take money to poftpone or refrain the ferving of a writ, are faid to bug the writ. BUG-HUNTER. An upholsterer. BUGABOO. A fcare-babe, or bully-beggar. BUGHER. A little yelping dog. BULK AND FILE. Two pickpockets; the bulk jostles the party to be robbed, and the file does the business. BULKER. One who lodges all night on a bulk or projection before old-fashioned fhop windows. EULL. An Exchange Alley term for one who buys stock on fpeculation for time, i. e. agrees with the feller, called a Bear, to take a certain fum of flock at a future day, at a ftated price: if at that day ftock fetches more than the price agreed on, he receives the difference; if it falls or is cheaper, he either pays it, or becomes a lame duck, and waddles out of the Alley. See LAME DUCK and BEAR. BULL. A blunder; from one Obadiah Bull, a blundering lawyer of London, who lived in the reign of Henry VII,: by a bull, is now always meant a blunder made by an Irishman. A bull was alfo the name of falfe hair formerly much worn by women. To look like bull beef, or as bluff as bull beef; to look fierce or furly. Town bull, a great whoremaster. BULL BEGGAR, or BULLY BEGGAR. An imaginary being with which children are threatened by fervants and nurses, like raw head and bloody bones. BULL CALF. A great hulkey or clumfy fellow. See HULKEY. BULL CHIN. A fat chubby child. BULL'S EYE. A crown piece. BULL'S FEATHER. A horn he wears the bull's feather; he is a cuckold. TO BULLOCK. To hector, bounce, or bully. BULLY. BUM BULLY. A cowardly fellow, who gives himself airs of great bravery. A bully huff cap; a hector. See HECTOR. BULLY BACK. A bully to a bawdy houfe; one who is kept in pay, to oblige the frequenters of the houfe to fubmit to the impofitions of the mother abbefs, or bawd; and who alfo fometimes pretends to be the hufband of one of the ladies, and under that pretence extorts money from greenhorns, or ignorant young men, whom he finds with her. See GREENHORN. BULLY COCK. One who foments quarrels in order to rob the perfons quarrelling. BULLY RUFFIANS. Highwaymen who attack paffengers with oaths and imprecations. BULLY TRAP. A brave man with a mild or effeminate appearance, by whom bullies are frequently taken in. BUM. The breech, or backfide. BUM BAILIFF. A fheriff's officer, who arrefts debtors; fo called perhaps from following his prey, and being at their bums, or, as the vulgar phrafe is, hard at their a-fes. Blackstone fays, it is a corruption of bound bailiff, from their being obliged to give bond for their good behaviour. BUM BRUSHER. A fchoolmafter. BUM BOAT. A boat attending fhips to retail greens, drams, &c. commonly rowed by a woman; a kind of floating chandler's fhop. BUM FODDER. Soft paper for the neceffary house or torchecul. BUMFIDDLE. The backfide, the breech. See ARS MUSI CA. BUMBO. Brandy, water, and fugar; alfo the negro name for the private parts of a woman. BUMKIN. BUMMED. BUMPER. A raw country fellow. Arrefted. A full glass; in all likelihood from its convexity or bump at the top: fome derive it from a full glafs formerly drank to the health of the pope-au bon pere. BUMPING. A ceremony performed on boys perambulating the bounds of the parish on Whitmonday; when they have their pofteriors bumped against the flones, marking the boundaries, in order to fix them in their memory. BUN. BUR BUN. A common name for a rabbit, alfo for the monofyllable. To touch bun for luck; a practice obferved among failors going on a cruise. BUNDLING. A man and woman fleeping in the fame bed, he with his small clothes, and fhe with her petticoats on; an expedient practifed in America on a fcarcity of beds, where, on fuch an occafion, hufbands and parents frequently permitted travellers to bundle with their wives and daughters. BUNG UPWARDS. Said of a perfon lying on his face. Drink a dram; ftri&tly fpeaking, to drink till one's eye is bunged up or clofed. BUNT. An apron. TO BUNT. To run against, or joftle. BUNTER. A low dirty proflitute, half whore and half beggar. BUNTLINGS. Petticoats. Cant. BURN CRUST. A jocular name for a baker. BURN THE KEN. Strollers living in an alehoufe without paying their quarters, are faid to burn the ken. Cant. BURNING THE PARADE. Warning more men for a guard than were neceffary, and excufing the fupernumeraries for money. This was a practice formerly winked at in most garrifons, and was a very confiderable perquifite to the adjutants and ferjeant majors; the pretence for it was, to purchase coal and candle for the guard, whence it was called burning the parade. BURNING SHAME. A lighted candle ftuck into the parts of a woman, certainly not intended by nature for a candleftick. BURNER. He is no burner of navigable rivers; i. e. he is no conjurer, or man of extraordinary abilities; or rather, he is but a fimple fellow. See THAMES. BURNT. Poxed or clapped. He was fent out a facrifice, and came home a burnt offering; a faying of feamen who have caught the venereal disease abroad. He has burnt his fingers; he has fuffered by meddling. BURR. A hanger on, or dependant; an allufion to the field. burrs, which are not eafily got rid of. Alfo the Northumbrian pronunciation: the people of that country, but chief ly BUT ly about Newcastle and Morpeth, are faid to have a burr in their throats, particularly called the Newcastle burr. BUSHEL BUBBY. A full-breafted woman. BUSK. A piece of whalebone or ivory, formerly worn by women, to ftiffen the fore part of their stays: hence the toaft-Both ends of the bufk. BUSS BEGGAR. An old fuperannuated fumbler, whom none but beggars will fuffer to kifs them. BUS-NAPPER. A conftable. Cant. BUS-NAPPER'S KENCHIN. A watchman. Cant. BUSY. As bufy as the devil in a high wind; as bufy as a hen with one chick. BUTCHER. A jocular exclamation ufed at fea, or by foldiers on a march, when one of their comrades falls down; and means-Butcher! butcher! where are you? here is a calf that has the ftaggers, and wants bleeding. BUTCHER'S DOG. To be like a butcher's dog, i. e. lie by the beef without touching it; a fimile often applicable to married men. BUTCHER'S MEAT. Meat taken up on truft, which continues the butcher's till paid for. BUTCHER'S HORSE. That must have been a butcher's horse, by his carrying a calf fo well; a vulgar joke on an aukward rider. BUTT. A dependant, poor relation, or fimpleton, on whom all kinds of practical jokes are played off; and who ferves as a butt for all the fhafts of wit and ridicule. BUTTER. A butter; in inch of butter, that commodity being fold at Cambridge by the yard, in rolls of about an inch diameter. The word is used plurally, as-Send me a roll and two butters. BUTTER BOX. A Dutchman, from the great quantity of butter eaten by the people of that country. To BUTTER A BET. To double or treble it. BUTTERED BUN. One lying with a woman that has just lain with another man, is faid to have a buttered bun. BUTTER TEETH. Large broad fore teeth. fuch as is used by women going to market, with butter and CAB and eggs. She looks as if butter would not melt in her mouth, yet I warrant you cheese would not choak her; a faying of a demure-looking woman, of fufpected character. Don't make butter dear; a gird at the patient angler. BUTTOCK. A whore. Cant. BUTTOCK BROKER. A bawd, or match maker. Cant. BUTTOCK AND TWANG, or A Down BUTTOCK AND BUTTON. A bad shilling, among coiners. His a-se makes buttons; he is ready to bewray himself through fear. Cant. BUZMAN. A pickpocket. Cant. BUZZA. To buzza one, is to challenge him to pour out all the wine in the bottle into his glass, undertaking to drink it, should it prove more than the glass will hold; it is commonly faid to one who hesitates to empty a bottle that is nearly out. Some derive it from bouze all, i. e. drink it all. BUZZARD. A fimple fellow. man or woman. BYE BLOW. A baftard. CABALLARIANS. C. CAB The very honourable order of Caballarians was held at the Magpye Tavern, without Bishopfgate. CABBAGE, Cloth, ftuff, or filk purloined by taylors from |