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New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].at blow with a French faggot-stick, n.
New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. New Canting Dict. [as cit. c. 1698].at jack-a-dandy, n.
New Canting Dict. n.p.: bing-awast Get you hence: Begone; haste away; Bing’d awast in a Darkmans; i.e. Stole away in the Night-time.at bing a waste, v.
New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].at hot and heavy like a tailor’s goose, phr.
New Canting Dict. n.p.: abram, Naked, without Cloaths, or scarce enough to hide the nakedness.at abram, adj.
New Canting Dict. n.p.: abram-cove, a lusty strong rogue, with hardly any Cloaths on his Back; a Tatterdemallion.at abram-man, n.
New Canting Dict.at academy, n.
New Canting Dict.at adam tiler, n.
New Canting Dict.at adam tiler, n.
New Canting Dict. n.p.: Jack-adams, a Fool. [...] Jack Adam’s Parish, Clerkenwell.at Jack Adams, n.
New Canting Dict.at affidavit man, n.
New Canting Dict. n.p.: Humming Liquor, Double Ale, Stout, Pharoah.at humming ale, n.
New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].at Sir Timothy (Treat-all), n.
New Canting Dict. n.p.: Alsatia the higher White-Fryers, once a Privileg’d Place, as the Mint was lately; but suppress’d, on Account of the notorious Abuses committed in it [...] This Place also, when subsisting, used to furnish the corrupt Members of the Law with Affidavit-Men, or Knights of the Post; who were afterwards obliged to resort to Alsatia the lower, the Mint in Southwark, the Liberties whereof being abus’d, occasion’d an Act to pass in the Session of Parliament, 9o. Georgii, to suppress the same. Since which, they have refug’d themselves in Wapping, and erected a New Mint there; but have so irregularly and riotously behaved themselves in it [...] that they have brought themselves under the Cognizance of the Parliament, who are now actually taking effectual Measures to suppress them.at Alsatia, n.
New Canting Dict.at altamel, n.
New Canting Dict.at ambidexter, n.
New Canting Dict.at ambidexter, n.
New Canting Dict. n.p.: To amuse, in a Canting Sense; to fling Dust in the Eyes; to invent strange Tales to delude Shop-keepers and others, from being upon their Guard.at amuse, v.
New Canting Dict.at half-an-ounce, n.
New Canting Dict. n.p.: Yea and Nay-Men Quakers.at yea and nay (man), n.
New Canting Dict. n.p.: yea-and-nay-men [...] any simple Fellows.at yea and nay (man), n.
New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].at haberdasher of (nouns and) pronouns, n.
New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].at six-and-eightpence, n.
New Canting Dict.at black and white, n.1
New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].at rump-and-kidney men, n.
New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].at suit and cloak, n.
New Canting Dict. n.p.: Anglers, alias hookers; the Third Order of Villains: Petty Thieves, who have a Stick with a Hook at the End, wherewith they pluck Things out of Windows, Grates, & […] Make ready your Angling-stick; a Word of Command used by these petty Villains to get ready the Stick with which they perform their Pranks, and as a Signal of a Prey in Sight.at angler, n.
New Canting Dict. n.p.: A Rogue who is Old or out of Date; who has forgotten or left off his Trade of Thieving, is said, in a Canting Sense, To be Antiquated.at antiquated rogue, n.
New Canting Dict. n.p.: Ark Ruffians Villains, who, in Conjunction with Watermen, &c. rob and murder on the Water; by picking a Quarrel with the Passenger when they see a convenient Opportunity, and then plundering and stripping the unhappy Wretches, throw him or her over-board, &c.at ark-ruff, n.
New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].at linen armourer, n.
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