SULKY. A one-horfe chaife, or carriage, capable of hold-
ing but one perfon: called by the French a difobligeant.
SUN. To have been in the fun; faid of one that is drunk.
SUNBURNT. Clapped; alfo having many male children.
SUNDAY MAN. One who goes abroad on that day only, for
fear of arrefts.

SUNNY BANK. A good fire in winter.
SUNSHINE. Profperity.

SUPERNACULUM. Good liquor, of which there is not even
a drop left fufficient to wet one's nail.

SUPOUCH. A landlady of an inn, or hoftefs.

SURVEYOR OF THE HIGHWAYS. One reeling drunk. SURVEYOR OF THE PAVEMENT. One ftanding in the pillory.

SUS. PER COLL. Hanged: perfons who have been hanged are thus entered in the jailer's books.

SUSPENCE. One in a deadly fufpence; a man just turned off at the gallows.

SUTLER, A camp publican; alfo one that pilfers gloves, tobacco boxes, and fuch fmall moyeables.

SWABBERS. The ace of hearts, knave of clubs, ace and deuce of trumps, at whift; alfo the lubberly feamen, put to fwab and clean the ship.

SWAD, or SWADKIN. A foldier. Cant.

TO SWADDLE. To beat with a stick.

SWADLERS. The tenth order of the canting tribe, who not only rob, but beat, and often murder paffengers. Cant.Swaddlers is alfo the Irish name for methodists.

SWAG. A fhop. Rum fwag; a shop full of rich goods.

Cant.

SWAGGER. To bully, brag, or boaft; also to ftrut.

SWANNERY. He keeps a fwannery; i. e. all his geefe are

fwans.

SWEATING. A mode of diminishing the gold coin, prac

tifed chiefly by the Jews, who corrode it with aqua regia. Sweating was alfo a diverfion practised by the bloods of the last century, who ftyled themselves Mohocks: thefe gentlemen lay in wait to surprise fome perfon late in the night, when furrounding him, they with their fwords

pricked

pricked him in the posteriors, which obliged him to be conftantly turning round; this they continued till they thought him fufficiently fweated.

SWEET. Easy to be impofed on, or taken in; alfo expert, dexterous, clever. Sweet's your hand; said of one dexterous at stealing.

SWEET HEART. A term applicable to either the mafculine or feminine gender, fignifying a girl's lover, or a man's mistress: derived from a fweet cake in the shape of a heart. SWEETNERS. Guinea droppers, cheats, fharpers. To fweeten; to decoy, or draw in. To be fweet upon; to coax, wheedle, court, or allure. that wench; he feemed to court that girl. SWELLED HEAD.

He feemed fweet upon

A diforder to which horfes are extremely liable, particularly thofe of the fubalterns of the army. This disorder is generally occafioned by remaining too long in one livery stable or inn, and often arifes to that height that it prevents their coming out of the ftable door. The most certain cure is the unguentum aureum-not applied to the horse, but to the palm of the mafter of the inn or stable. N. B. Neither this diforder, nor its remedy, is mentioned by either Bracken, Bartlet, or any of the modern writers on farriery.

SWIG. A hearty draught of liquor.

SWIGMEN. Thieves who travel the country under colour of buying old fhoes, old clothes, &c. or felling brooms, mops, &c. Cant.

To SwILL. To drink greedily.

SWILL TUB. A drunkard, a fot.

SWIMMER. A counterfeit old coin.

TO SWING. To be hanged. He will fwing for it; he will be hanged for it.

SWING TAIL. A hog.

TO SWINGE

To beat ftoutly:

SWINGING. A great fwinging fellow; a great ftout fellow. A fwinging lye; a lufty lye.

SWINDLER. One who obtains goods on credit by false pretences, and fells them for ready money at any price, in order to make up a purfe. This name is derived from the

TAF

German word fchwindlen, to totter, to be ready to fall; thefe arts being generally practifed by perfons on the totter, or just ready to break. The term fwindler has fince been used to fignify cheats of every kind.

SWIPES. Purfer's fwipes; fmall beer: fo termed on board the King's fhips, where it is furnished by the purfer. TO SWIVE. To copulate.

SWIVEL-EYED Squinting.

SWIZZLE. Drink, or any brisk or windy liquor. In North America, a mixture of fpruce beer, rum, and fugar, was fo called. The 17th regiment had a fociety called the Swizzle Club, at Ticonderoga, A. D. 1760.

Swop. An exchange.

SYEBUCK. Sixpence.
SYNTAX. A fchoolmaster.

TABBY.

T.

TAF

ABBY. An old maid: either from Tabitha, a formal antiquated name; or else from a tabby cat, old maids being often compared to cats. To drive Tab; to go out on a party of pleasure with a wife and family.

TACE. Silence, hold your tongue. Tace is Latin for a candle; a jocular admonition to be filent on any subject.

TACKLE. A miftrefs; alfo good clothes. The cull has

tipt his tackle rum rigging; the fellow has given his miftrefs good clothes. A man's tackle; the genitals. AAFFY. i. e. Davy. A general name for a Welchman, St. David being the tutelar faint of Wales. Taffy's day; the first of March, St. David's day.

TAG

ТАР

TAG-RAG AND BOBTAIL. An expreffion meaning an affemblage of low people, the mobility of all forts. To tag after one like a tantony pig; to follow one wherever one goes, just as St. Anthony is followed by his pig. TAIL. A fword.

TALE TELLERS. Perfons faid to have been formerly hired to tell wonderful stories of giants and fairies, to lull their hearers to fleep. Talefman; the author of a story or report: I'll tell you my tale, and my talefman. Tale bearers; mifchief makers, incendiaries in families,

TALL BOY. A bottle, or two-quart pot.

TALLY MEN.

of the town.

Brokers that let out clothes to the women
See RABBIT SUCKERS.

TALLYWAGS, or TARRYWAGS. A man's tefticles.
TAME. To run tamé about a houfe; to live familiarly in a
family with which one is upon a vifit. Tame army; the
city trained bands.

TANDEM. A two-wheeled chaife, buggy, or noddy, drawn by two horses, one before the other; that is, at length. TANGIER. A room in Newgate where debtors were confined, hence called Tangierines.

TANTADLIN TART. A firreverence, human excrement. TANTRUMS. Pet, or paffion: Madam was in her tantrums. TANTWIVY. Away they went tantwivy; away they went full speed. Tantwivy was the found of the hunting horn in full cry, or that of a post horn.

TAP. A gentle blow. A tap on the fhoulder; an arreft. To tap a girl; to be the first feducer. To tap a guinea; to get it changed.

TAPPERS. Shoulder tappers; bailiffs.

TAPE. Red, white, or blue tape; gin, or any other spirituous liquor.

TAPLASH. Thick and bad beer.

TAPTOO. A beat of the drum, or fignal for foldiers to go to their quarters, and a direction to the futlers to cite the tap, and draw no more liquor for them: it is generally beat at nine in fummer and eight in winter. The devil's taptoo; beating the foot against the ground, as done by perfons in low fpirits.

TAY

TAR. Don't lofe a fheep for an halfpennyworth of tar: tar is used to mark fheep. A jack tar; a failor.

TARADIDDLE. A fib, or falfity.

TARPAWLIN. A coarse cloth tarred over; alfo, figuratively, a failor.

TARRING AND FEATHERING. A punishment lately inflicted by the good people of Boston on any person convicted, or fufpected, of loyalty: fuch delinquents being stripped naked, were daubed all over with tar, and afterwards put into a hogfhead of feathers.

TART. Sour, fharp, quick, pert.

TARTAR. To catch a tartar; to attack one of fuperior ftrength or abilities. This faying originated from a story of an Irish foldier in the imperial fervice, who, in a battle against the Turks, called out to his comrade that he had caught a Tartar. Bring him along then,' faid he. He won't come,' anfwered Paddy.' Then come along yourfelf,' replied his comrade. 'Arrah,' cried he, but he ⚫ won't let me.'-A tartar is also an adept at any feat, or game he is quite a tartar at cricket, or billiards. TAT. Tit for tat; an equivalent.

TATS. Falfe dice.

A watch.

TATLER.

TATMONGER.

One that uses falfe dice.

TATTER DEMALLION.

all in tatters.

A ragged fellow, whofe clothes hang

TAW. A fchool boy's game, played with fmall round balls made of ftone duft, called marbles. I'll be one upon your taw presently; a fpecies of threat.

TAWDRY. Garifh, gawdy with lace or ftaring and difcor

dant colours: a term faid to be derived from the shrine and altar of St. Audrey (an Ifle of Ely faintefs), which for finery exceeded all others thereabouts, fo as to becc me proverbial; whence any fine-dreffed man or woman was faid to be all St. Audrey, and by contraction all tawdry.

TAWED.

Beaten.

TAYLI. See TAIL.

TAYLE