LOB

LITTLE BARBARY. Wapping.

LITTLE BREECHES. A familiar appellation used to a little boy.

LITTLE CLERGYMAN. A young chimney-fweeper.

LITTLE EASE. A fmall dark cell in Guildhall, London, where diforderly apprentices are confined by the City Chamberlain: it is called Little Eafe, from its being fo low that a lad cannot stand upright in it.

LITTLE SNAKESMAN.

A little boy who gets into a house through the fink hole, and then opens the door for his accomplices: he is fo called, from writhing and twisting like a fnake, in order to work himself through the narrow paffage.

LIVE LUMBER. A term ufed by failors, to fignify all landfmen on board their fhips.

LIVE STOCK. Lice or fleas.

LOAF. To be in bad loaf; to be in a difagreeable fituation, or in trouble.

TO LOAP. To run away. He loaped down the dancers; he ran down ftairs.

LOB. Going on the lob; going into a fhop to get change for gold, and fecreting some of the change.

LOB'S POUND. A prifon. Dr. Grey, in his notes on Hudibras, explains it to allude to one Doctor Lob, a diffenting preacher, who ufed to hold forth when conventicles were prohibited, and had made himself a retreat by means of a trap door at the bottom of his pulpit. Once being pursued by the officers of juftice, they followed him through divers fubterraneous paffages, till they got into a dark cell, from whence they could not find their way out, but calling to fome of their companions, fwore they had got into Lob's Pound.

LOвCOCK. A large relaxed penis; alfo a dull inanimate fellow.

LOBKIN. A houfe to lie in; alfo a lodging.

LOBLOLLEY Boy. A nick name for the furgeon's fervant on board a man of war, fometimes for the furgeon himfelf: from the water gruel prescribed to the fick, which is called loblolley.

LOBONIAN

LOBONIAN SOCIETY.

LOL

A fociety which met at Lob Hail, at the King and Queen, Norton Falgate, by order of Lob the Great.

LOESCOUSE. A difh much eaten at fea, compofed of falt

beef, bifcuit, and onions, well peppered and ftewed to

gether.

LOBSTER. A nick-name for a foldier: from the colour of his clothes. To boil one's lobster; for a churchman to become a foldier: lobflers, which are of a bluish black, being made red by boiling. I will not make a lobster kettle of my ****; a reply frequently made by the nymphs of the Point of Portfmouth, when requefted by a foldier to grant him a favour.

Lock. Character. He flood a queer lock; he bore but an indifferent character. A lock is also a buyer of stolen goods, as well as the receptacle for them.

LOCK HOSPITAL. An hofpital for venereal patients. LOCK UP HOUSE. A fpanging houfe; a public houfe kept by fheriff's officers, to which they convey the perfons they have arrefted, where they practife every fpecies of impofition and extortion with impunity. Alfo houfes kept by. agents or crimps, who enlift, or rather trepan, men to ferve the Eaft India or African Company as foldiers. LOCKERAM-JAWED. Thin-faced, or lanthorn-jawed. See LANTHORN-JAWED.

LOCKSMITH'S DAUGHTER.
LOGE. A watch. He filed

A key.

a cloy of a loge, or fcout; he picked a pocket of a watch. See SCOUT.

LOGGERHEAD. A blockhead, or ftupid fellow. We three

loggerheads be; a fentence frequently written under two heads, and the reader by repeating it makes himself the third. A loggerhead is alfo a double-headed or bar fhot of iron. To go to loggerheads; to fall to fighting.

LOLL. Mother's loll; a favourite child, the mother's darling.

LOLL TONGUE. He has been playing a game at loll tongue; he has been falivated.

LOLLIPOPS. Sweet lozenges purchafed by children..

To LOLLOP. To lean with one's elbows on a table.

LOLLPOOP.

LOR

LOLLPOOP. A lazy, idle drone.

LOMBARD FEVER. Sick of a lombard fever; i. e. of the idles.

LONG. Great. A long price; a great price.

LONG GALLERY. Throwing, or rather trundling, the dice the whole length of the board.

LONG MEG. A jeering name for a very tall woman: from one famous in ftory, called Long Meg of Westminster. LONG SHANKS. A long-legged perfon.

LONG SHILLING. This among hackney coachmen, before the alteration in the fares, was from the Royal Exchange to the east corner of Catherine-ftreet in the Strand.

LONG STOMACH. A voracious appetite.

LONG-TONGUED. Loquacious, not able to keep a fecret. He is as long-tongued as Granny: Granny was an ideot who could lick her own eye. See GRANNY.

LONG-WINDED. A long-winded parfon; one who preaches long, tedious fermons. A long-winded paymafter; one who takes long credit.

Loo. For the good of the loo; for the benefit of the company or community.

LOOBY. An aukward, ignorant fellow.

LOOKING AS IF ONE COULD NOT HELP IT. Looking like á fimpleton, or as if one could not say boh! to a goofe. LOOKING GLASS. A chamber pot, jordan, or member mug.

LOON, or LOUT. A country bumpkin, or clown.

LOONSLATE. Thirteen pence halfpenny.

LOOPHOLE. An opening, or means of escape. To find a loophole in an act of parliament; i. e. a method of evading it. LOP-SIDED.

Uneven, having one fide larger or heavier than the other boys paper kites are often faid to be lopfided.

LORD. A crooked or hump-backed man. These unhappy people, afford great fcope for vulgar raillery; fuch as,

Did you come ftraight from home? if fo, you have got confoundedly bent by the way.' .

Don't abufe the

'gemman,'

LUL

gemman,' adds a by-ftander, he has been grofsly in• fulted already; don't you see his back 's up? Or fome one asks him if the show is behind; because I fee,' adds he, you have the drum at your back.' Another piece of vulgar wit is let loose on a deformed perfon: If met by a party of foldiers on the march, one of them obferves that that gentleman is on his march too, for he has got his knapsack at his back. It is faid, in the British Apollo, that the title of Lord was firft given to deformed perfons in the reign of Richard III. from feveral perfons labouring under that misfortune being created peers by him; but it is more probably derived from the Greek word ogãos,

crooked.

LORD MANSFIELD'S TEETH. The chevaux de frize round the top of the wall of the King's Bench prifon. LOVE-BEGOTTEN CHILD. A baftard.

LOUNGE. A loitering place, or goffiping fhop.

LOUSE. A gentleman's companion. He will never louse a grey head of his own; he will never live to be old.

LOUSE BAG. A black bag worn to the hair or wig. LOUSE HOUSE. The round houfe, cage, or any other place of confinement.

LOUSE LADDER. A flitch fallen in a flocking.

Low TIDE, or Low WATER. When there is no money in a man's pocket.

LOWRE. Money. Cant.

LUBBER. An aukward fellow: a name given by failors to landímen.

LUCK, or GOOD LUCK. To tread in a firreverence, to be bewrayed an allufion to the proverb, Sh-tt-n luck is good luck.

LUD'S BULWARK. Ludgate prifon.

LUGS. Ears or wattles. Sec WATTLES.
LULLABY CHEAT. An infant. Cant.

LULLIES.

LULLIES. Wet linen.

LULLY PRIGGERS.

LUMB Too much.

L YE

Cant.

Thieves who fteal wet linen. Cant.

LUMBER. Live lumber; foldiers or paffengers on board a fhip are fo called by the failors.

LUMBER TROOP. A club or fociety of citizens of London. TO LUMP. To beat; alfo to include a number of articles

under one head.

TO LUMP THE LIGHTER. To be tranfported.

LUMPERS.

Perfons who contract to unload fhips; alfo thieves who lurk about wharfs to pilfer goods from ships, lighters, &c.

LUMPING. Great. A lumping pennyworth; a great quàntity for the money, a bargain. He has got a lumping pennyworth; frequently faid of a man who marries a fat

woman.

LUN. Harlequin.

LURCH. To be left in the lurch; to be abandoned by one's confederates or party, to be left in a scrape.

LURCHED. Thofe who lofe a game of whift, without fcoring five, are faid to be lurched.

LURCHER. A lurcher of the law; a bum bailiff, or his fetter.

LURRIES. Money, watches, rings, or other moveables.
LYE. Chamber lye; urine.

MACCARO

M.

MAC

ACCARONI. An Italian pafte made of flour and eggs. Alfo a fop: which name arose from a club, called the Maccaroni Club, inftituted by fome of the most drefly