lib n.1
1. a sleep.
Scoundrel’s Dict. |
2. as long lib, death.
O per se O O2: Bein darkmans then, bouse, mort, and ken / the bien coue’s bingd a wast; / On chates to trine, by Rome-coves dine / for his long lib at last. | ‘Canting Song’||
Eng. Rogue [as cit. 1612]. | ||
‘Canting Song’ Canting Academy (1674) 23: [as cit. 1612]. | ||
Academy of Armory Ch. iii item 68c: Canting Terms used by Beggars, Vagabonds, Cheaters, Cripples and Bedlams. [...] Long lib, long lying, last end. | ||
Triumph of Wit 196: [as cit. 1612]. | ||
Discoveries (1774) 42: Mill the Cull to his Long Libb; kill the Man dead. | ||
Whole Art of Thieving [as cit. 1753]. | ||
‘Cant Lang. of Thieves’ Monthly Mag. 7 Jan. n.p.: Mill the Cull to his long lib, Kill the Man you rob. |