Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK Und.) a parson.

a.1704		T. Brown Letters from the Dead to the Living in Works (1760) II 108: A man that would make a parish bull jealous.
1751		Smollett Peregrine Pickle (1964) 158: A goatish ram-fac’d rascal! Why he’s a perfect parish bull, as I hope to live.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum n.p.: parish bull A parson.
1828		Lytton Pelham III 268: Suppose Bess were to address you thus: ‘Well you parish bull prig, are you for lushing jackey, or pattering in the hum box?’.
1830		Lytton Paul Clifford III 128: The parish-bull, who was as poor as if he had been a mouse of the church instead of the curate, lugs out another [sovereign].
1845		G.W.M. Reynolds Mysteries of London vol. 2 142: Parish prig Parson.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict. 195: Parish prig or parish bull, a parson.
1873		Sl. Dict.

the moon.

1847–81		Halliwell Archaic and Provincial Words II.
1866		Letters by an Odd Boy 161: I can trace something like an idea in [...] cold water [being] ‘Adam’s ale,’ the moon ‘a parish-lantern,’ and ‘a blue moon’ an indefinite period.
1873		Sl. Dict.
1887		J. Ashton 18C Waifs 235: [note] The link-boy’s natural hatred of the parish lantern which would deprive him of his livelihood .
1894		G.F. Northall Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 28: To go home with the parish lantern, i.e. the moon.
1895		C. Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 56: Parish Lantern, the moon.

a prominent nose.

1909

J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era.

(orig. naut.) a badly rigged ship; thus an ill-dressed man.

1929

F.C. Bowen Sea Sl.

a militia-man.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: parish soldier a jeering name for a militia man, from substitutes being frequently hired by the parish, from which one of its inhabitants is drawn.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.

a parson.

1890–1904

Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.