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Nomenclator in Nares Glossary (1859) 396: Farcimen, Varro. Intestinum concisa minutim carne similive fartura oppictum [...] Boudin, saucisse, ou andouille. A gut pudding.at gut pudding (n.) under gut, n.
Nomenclator in Nares Glossary (1859) 396: Farcimen, Varro. Intestinum concisa minutim carne similive fartura oppictum [...] Boudin, saucisse, ou andouille. A gut pudding. in Gloss. (1888) I 124: The Frenchmen at that siege got the buttons of Naples (as we terme them) which doth much annoy them at this day.at Neapolitan, adj.
‘Discovery by Sea’ in Nares Glossary (1901) II 29: And so I leave her to her hot desires, / ’Mongst pimps and pandars, and base apple-squires, / To mend or end, when age or pox will make [...] whore-masters all forsake her.at pox, n.1
in Nares Glossary (1822) I 144/1: For though he was drunke as any rat, / He hath but catch a fox, or whipt the cat .at whip the cat, v.
in Nares Glossary (1822) II 723/2: And I my necke unto the rope would pawne / That if our hackney rattlers were so drawne / With cords, or rope, or halters.at rattler, n.
Char. Diurnal-maker in Nares Glossary (1822) 385/182: He is a perfect Sea-man, a kind of Tarpawlin .at tarpaulin, n.
Gloss. (1888) I 3: abraham-men, or tom of bedlam’s men, or bedlam beggars, A set of vagabonds, who wandered about the country, soon after the dissolution of the religious houses; the provision for the poor in those places being cut off, and no other substituted.at abraham-man, n.
Gloss. (1888) I 7: A serjeant, or bailiff, is jocularly called Adam, from wearing buff, as Adam wore his native buff.at adam, n.1
Gloss. (1888) I 8: †admiral of the blue, was the old popular term for a tapster, from the colour of his apron.at admiral of the blue (n.) under admiral of..., n.
Gloss. (1888) I 12: agate. used metaphorically for a very diminutive person, in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings.at agate, n.
Gloss. (1888) 13: ajax. The name of this hero furnished many unsavoury puns to our ancestors [...] Sir John Harington, in 1596, published his celebrated tract, called ‘The Metamorphosis of Ajax’, by which he meant the improvement of a jakes, or necessary, by forming it into what we now call a water-closet, of which Sir John was clearly the inventor.at ajax, n.1
Gloss. (1888) I 16: †alderman’s pace. A slow stately pace.at alderman’s pace (n.) under alderman, n.
Gloss. (1888) I 17: †ale-knight, s. A haunter of ale-houses; a tippler.at ale-knight (n.) under ale, n.
Gloss. (1888) I 16: †ale-draper. A humorous term for the keeper of an ale-house.at ale-draper (n.) under ale, n.
Gloss. (1888) I 16: alecie, s. Drunkenness; the state of being influenced by ale: a word coined in imitation of lunacy, which means being under lunar influence.at alecie, n.
Gloss. (1888) I 22: †ambodexter. One who keeps fair with both parties, who is the friend of whoever is uppermost.at ambidexter, n.
Gloss. (1888) I 297: fast and loose. A cheating game, whereby gipsies and other vagrants beguiled the common people of their money. It is said to be still used by low sharpers and is called pricking at the belt or girdle.at fast and loose, n.
Gloss. (1888) I 155: cheeks and ears. A fantastic name for a kind of head-dress, of temporary fashion.at cheeks and ears, n.
Gloss. (1888) I 29: †apple-monger. Literally a dealer in apples; but applied to a dealer in fruit in general. The sellers of fruit seem to have been not unfrequently employed in love intrigues, and hence apple-monger is sometimes used in the sense of a bawd, or apple-squire.at apple-monger (n.) under apple, n.1
Gloss. (1888) I 29: apple squire. A cant word, formerly in use to signify a pimp.at apple squire (n.) under apple, n.1
Gloss. (1888) I 29: apple squire is also used for a kept gallant.at apple squire (n.) under apple, n.1
Gloss. (1888) I 36: †arsie-versie. upside down.at arsey-varsey, phr.
Gloss. (1888) I 38: aste. An old cant term for money.at aste, n.
Gloss. (1888) I 42: aunt. A cant term for a woman of bad character, either prostitute or procuress.at aunt, n.
Gloss. (1888) I 42: autem mort. Cant language, a married woman.at autem mort (n.) under autem, adj.
Gloss. (1888) I 44: baccare. A cant word, meaning, go back, used in allusion to a proverbial saying, ‘Backare, quoth Mortimer to his sow;’ probably made in ridicule of some man who affected a knowledge of Latin without having it, and who produced his latinized English words on the most trivial occasions.at baccare!, excl.
Gloss. (1888) I 47: †baker’s dozen: Thirteen. It was originally called a devil’s dozen, and was the number of witches supposed to sit down at table together in their sabbaths. Hence thirteen at table. The baker, who was a very unpopular character in former times, seems to have been substituted for the devil.at baker’s dozen, n.1
Gloss. (1888) I 47: †balductum. A mediaeval word meaning literally buttermilk, but it was used apparently in a burlesque sense for a paltry affected writer, and also for his compositions.at balductum, n.
Gloss. (1888) I 54: bardash. An unnatural paramour. Bardaschio, Ital.at bardash, n.
Gloss. (1888) I 54: bar’d cater tra, or more properly, barr’d quatre trois. The name for a sort of false dice, so constructed that the quatre and trois shall very seldom come up.at barred, adj.
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