BUILD, applied in fashionable Slang to the make or style of dress, &c.; "it's a tidy BUILD, who made it?"

BULGER, large; synonymous with BUSTER.

BULL, one who agrees to purchase stock at a future day, at a stated price, but who does not possess money to pay for it, trusting to a rise in public securities to render the transaction a profitable one. Should stocks fall, the BULL is then called upon to pay the difference. See BEAR, who is the opposite of a BULL, the former selling, the latter purchasing the one operating for a fall or a pull down, whilst the other operates for a rise or toss up.

BULL, a crown-piece, formerly BULL'S EYE. See "WORK THE BULLS." BULL-BEEF, a term of contempt; as ugly as BULL-BEEF," "go to the billy-fencer and sell yourself for BULL-BEEF."

"BULL THE CASK," to pour hot water into an empty rum puncheon, and let it stand until it extracts the spirit from the wood. The result is drunk by sailors in default of something stronger.-Sea. BULLFINCH, a hunting term for a large, thick, quickset hedge, difficult alike to "top" or burst through. Query, corruption of BOLEFENCE? BULLY, a braggart; but in the language of the streets, a man of the most degraded morals, who protects fallen females, and lives off their miserable earnings.-Shakspeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, iii. I 1V. 2. This epithet is often applied in a commendable sense among the vulgar; thus-a good fellow or a good horse will be termed "a BULLY fellow,' a BULLY horse;" and "a BULLY woman

signifies a right,

good, motherly old soul. BULLYRAG, to abuse or scold vehemently; to swindle one out of money by intimidation and sheer abuse, as alleged in a late cab case, (Evans v. Robinson.)

BUM, the part on which we sit.—Shakspeare. BUMBAGS, trousers; Gael. and Fr., BUN, a base or bottom; Welsh, BON, the lowest or worst part of anything.

BUM-BAILIFF, a sheriff's-officer,—a term, some say, derived from the proximity which this gentleman generally maintains to his victims. Blackstone says it is a corruption of "bound bailiff."

BUMBLE, to muffle. BUMBLE-FOOTED, club-footed.

BUMBLES, coverings for the eyes of horses apt to shy in harness. BUMBLE, a beadle. Adopted from Dickens's character in Oliver Twist. This and "BUMBLEDOM are now common.

BUFFER, a dog. Their skins were formerly in great request—hence the
term BUFF meaning in old English to skin. It is still used in the ring,
BUFFED meaning stripped to the skin. In Irish Cant, BUFFER is a
boxer. The BUFFER of a railway carriage doubtless received its very
appropriate name from the old pugilistic application of this term.
BUG-HUNTER, a low wretch who plunders drunken men.

BULL, term amongst prisoners for the meat served to them in jail.
BULKY, a constable.-North.

BUMBLE-PUPPY, a game played in public-houses on a large stone, placed in a slanting direction, on the lower end of which holes are excavated, and numbered like the holes in a bagatelle-table. The player rolls a stone ball from the higher end, and according to the number of the hole it falls into the game is counted. It is undoubtedly the very ancient game of Troule-in-madame.

BUM-BOAT, a shore boat which supplies ships with provisions, and serves as means of communication between the sailors and the shore. BUM-CURTAIN, an old name for an academical gown when they were worn scant and short, especially those of the students of St John's College.-Camb. Univ.

BUMMAREE. This term is given to a class of speculating salesmen at Billingsgate market, not recognised as such by the trade, but who get a living by buying large quantities of fish from the salesmen and re-selling them to smaller buyers. The word has been used in the statutes and bye-laws of the market for upwards of 200 years. It has been variously derived. Some persons think it may be from the French BONNE MAREE, good fresh fish! "Marée signifie toute sorte de poisson de mer que n'est pas sale; bonne marée-marée fraiche, vendeur de marée."-Dict. de l'Acad. Franc. The BUMMAREES are accused of many trade tricks. One of them is to blow up cod-fish with a pipe until they look double their actual size. Of course when the fish come to table they are flabby, sunken, and half dwindled away. In Norwich, to BUMMAREE ONE is to run up a score at a public-house just open, and is equivalent to "running into debt with one.' One of the advertisements issued by Hy. Robinson's "OFFICE," over against Threadneedle Street, was this:

"Touching Advice from the OFFICE, you are desired to give and take notice
as followeth :-

F Monies to be taken up, or delivered on Botto-maria, commonly called
Bomarie.

"OF

'OF money to be put out or taken upon interest," &c.

-The Publick Intelligencer, numb. 17, 25th June 1660. BUMPER, according to Johnson from "bump," but probably from French BON-PERE, the fixed toast in monastic life of old, now used for "full measure.' A match at quoits, bowls, &c., may end in a "BUMPER game," if the play and score be all on one side.

BUMPTIOUS, arrogant, self-sufficient.

BUNCH-OF-FIVES, the hand, or fist.

BUNDLE, "to BUNDLE a person off," i.e., to pack him off, send him flying. BUNDLING, a custom in Wales, and now frequently in America, of men and women sleeping, where the divisions of the house will not permit of better or more decent accommodation, with all their clothes on. BUNG, the landlord of a public-house.

BUNG, to give, pass, hand over, drink, or indeed to perform any action. BUNG UP, to close up.-Pugilistic. "BUNG over the rag," hand over the money.-Old, used by Beaumont and Fletcher, and Shakespeare. Alsú, to deceive one by a lie, to CRAM, which see.

BUNKER, beer.

BUNKUM, American importation, denoting false sentiments in speaking, pretended enthusiasm, &c. The expression arose from a speech made by a North Carolina Senator.

BUNTS, costermongers' perquisites; the money obtained by giving light weight, &c.; costermongers' goods sold by boys on commission. Probably a corruption of bonus, BONE, being the Slang for good. BUNCE, Grose gives as the Cant word for money.

BURDON'S HOTEL, Whitecross Street Prison, of which the Governor is or was a Mr Burdon. Every prison has a nickname of this kind, either from the name of the Governor, or from some local circumstance. The Queen's Bench has also an immense number of names-SPIKE PARK, &c.; and every Chief-Justice stands godfather to it.

BURKE, to kill, to murder, secretly and without noise, by means of strangulation. From Burke, the notorious Edinburgh murderer, who, with an accomplice named Hare, used to decoy people into the den he inhabited, kill them, and sell their bodies for dissection. The wretches having been apprehended and tried, Burke was executed, while Hare, having turned king's evidence, was released. Bishop was their London imitator. The term BURKE is now usually applied to any project that is quietly stopped or stifled-as "the question has been BURKED." A book suppressed before publication is said to be BURKED.

BURRAH, great; as BURRA SAIB, a great man; BURRA KHANAH, a great dinner.-Anglo-Indian.

BUS or BUSS, abbrevation of "omnibus," a public carriage. Also, a kiss, abbrev. of Fr. BAISER. A Mr Shillibeer started the first BUS in London

Why is Temple Bar like a lady's veil? Because it wants to be removed to make

way for the BUSSES.

BUS, business (of which it is a contraction) or action, on the stage.Theatrical.

BUST, or BURST, to tell tales, to SPLIT, to inform. BUSTING, informing against accomplices when in custody.

BUSTER, (BURSTER,) a small new loaf; "twopenny BUSTER," a twopenny loaf. "A pennorth o' BEES-WAX (cheese) and a penny BUSTER," a com mon snack at beershops.

BUSTER, an extra size; "what a BUSTER," i.e., what a large one; "in for a BUSTER," determined on an extensive frolic or spree. Scotch, BUSTUOUS; Icelandic, BOSTRA.

BUSY-SACK, a carpet-bag.

BUTCHA, a Hindoo word in use among Englishmen for the young of any

BUNK, to decamp. "BUNK it!" i.e., be off.

BURERK, a lady, a showily-dressed woman.

"BURY A MOLL," to run away from a mistress.

BUSKER, a man who sings or performs in a public-house.--Scotch.

BUSK, (or BUSKING,) to sell obscene songs and books at the bars and in the tap-rooms of public-houses. Sometimes implies selling any articles. BUSTLE, (money;)" to draw the BUSTLE."

animal. In England we ask after the children; in India the health of the BUTCHAS is tenderly inquired for.

BUTCHER, the king in playing-cards.

BUTCHER'S MOURNING, a white hat with a black mourning hat-band. This meaning is given on the authority of Mr George Cruikshank. BUTTER, or BATTER, praise or flattery. To BUTTER, to flatter, cajole. Punch defines flattery as "the milk of human kindness churned into BUTTER."

BUTTER-FINGERED, apt to let things fall.

BUTTON, a decoy, sham purchaser, &c. At any mock or sham auction seedy specimens may be seen. Probably from the connexion of buttons with Brummagem, which is often used as a synonyme for a sham. -See BONNET.

BUTTONER, a man who entices another to play. See BONNETER. BUTTONS, a page,—from the rows of gilt buttons which adorn his jacket. BUTTONS, "not to have all one's BUTTONS;" to be deficient in intellect. BUTTY, a word used in the mining districts to denote a kind of overseer. (2.) Also used by the Royal Marines in the sense of comrade; a policeman's assistant, one of the staff in a mêlée.

BUZ, to share equally the last of a bottle of wine, when there is not enough for a full glass to each of the party.

BUZ, a well-known flash game, played as follows:-The chairman commences saying "one," the next on the left hand "two," the next 'three," and so on to seven, when "BUZ" must be said. Every seven and multiple of 7, as 14, 17, 21, 27, 28, &c., must not be mentioned, but "BUZ" instead. Whoever breaks the rule pays a fine, which is thrown on the table, and the accumulation expended in drink for the company. See "SNOOKS and WALKER" for more complicated varieties of a similar game.

BY GEORGE, an exclamation similar to BY JOVE.

The term is older than

is frequently imagined-vide Bacchus and Venus, (p. 117,) 1737. "'Fore (or by) GEORGE, I'd knock him down." A street compliment to Saint

Buz, to pick pockets; BUZ-FAKING, robbing.

BUZ-MAN, an informer.

BUZZER, a pickpocket. Grose gives BUZ-COVE and BUZ-GLOAK; the latter is very ancient Cant.

BUZ-BLOAK, a pickpocket, who principally confines his attention to purses and loose cash. Grose gives BUZ-GLOAK, (or CLOAK?) an ancient Cant word. BUZ-NAPPER, a young pickpocket.

BUZ-NAPPER'S ACADEMY, a school in which young thieves are trained. Figures are dressed up, and experienced tutors stand in various difficult attitudes for the boys to practise upon. When clever enough they are sent on the streets. It is reported that a house of this nature is situated in a court near Hatton Garden. The system is well explained in Dickens's Oliver Twist. Also BUZ-KNACKER.

George, the patron Saint of England, or possibly to the House of

Hanover.

BY GOLLY, an ejaculation, or oath; a compromise for "by God." BY GUM, is another oblique oath. In the United States, small boys are permitted by their guardians to say GOL DARN anything, but they are on no account allowed to commit the profanity of G-d dg any. thing. An effective ejaculation and moral waste-pipe for interior passion or wrath is seen in the exclamation-BY THE EVER-LIVING JUMPINGMOSES-a harmless phrase, that from its length expends a considerable quantity of fiery anger.

CAB, in statutory language, " a hackney carriage drawn by one horse.” Abbreviated from CABRIOLET, French; originally meaning "a light, low chaise." The wags of Paris playing upon the word (quasi cabri au lait) used to call a superior turn-out of the kind a cabri au crême. Our abbreviation, which certainly smacks of Slang, has been stamped with the authority of "GEORGE, Ranger." See the notices affixed to the carriage entrances of St James's Park.

CAB, to stick together, to muck, or tumble up.-Devonshire.
CABBAGE, pieces of cloth said to be purloined by tailors.

CABBAGE, to pilfer or purloin. Termed by Johnson a “Cant word,” but adopted by later lexicographers as a respectable term. Said to have been first used in the above sense by Arbuthnot.

CABBAGE-HEAD, a soft-headed person.
CABOBBLE, to confuse.-Suffolk.

CABBY, the driver of a cab.

CACKLING-COVE, an actor: Also called a MUMMERY-COVE. Theat.
CACKLE-TUB, a pulpit.

CAD, or CADGER, (from which it is shortened,) a mean or vulgar fellow; a beggar; one who would rather live on other people than work for himself; a man who tries to worm something out of another, either money or information. Johnson uses the word, and gives huckster as the meaning, but I never heard it used in this sense. Apparently from CAGER, or GAGER, the old Cant term for a man. The exclusives at the English Universities apply the term CAD to all non-members. CAD, an omnibus conductor.

CADGE, to beg in an artful wheedling manner.-North.

In Scotland

to CADGE is to wander, to go astray. See under CODGER. CADGING, begging with an eye to pilfering when an opportunity occurs. CAG, to irritate, affront, anger. CAG-MAG, bad food, scraps, odds and ends; or that which no one could relish. Grose gives CAGG MAGGS, old and tough Lincolnshire geese, sent to London to feast the poor cockneys. Gael., French, and Welsh, CAC, and MAGN. A correspondent at Trinity College, Dublin, considers this as originally a University Slang term for a bad cook, κakòs payeipos. There is also a Latin word used by Pliny, MAGMA, denoting dregs or dross.