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The life and glorious actions of the most heroic and magnanimous Jonathan Wilde, generalissimo of the prig-forces in Great-Britain and Ireland. [...] With an explanation of the most usual terms of art in the canting dialect choose

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[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 50: His old Wife the Mother of Beelzebub, took a leap in the Dark and thereby friend Jonathan became a very good Bawdy Batchelour (or as the Old Women term it, a Young Widower).
at bawdy bachelor (n.) under bawdy, adj.
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 25: These bottles of Wine [...] are sold for two Bords per Bottle, viz. Two Shillings per Bottle.
at bord, n.
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 9: A Sneaking Budge [...] one that privately steals away Great Coats, Cloaks, Riding Hoods, &c. when people pull them off, at their coming into a House.
at sneaking budge, n.
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 8: Being by his father made a compleat diving and Bulking File (that is to say, a compleat Pickpocket).
at bulk, v.
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 16: Cackling cove, a mean sort of Thieves, who only steal hens, Cocks, Chickens, &c.
at cackling cove (n.) under cackle, v.
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 51: Clout Files or Pocket pickers of handkerchiefs only).
at clout file (n.) under clout, n.1
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 26: A Servant is sent up to know [...] if he has the Cly thick upon him, viz. good store of Money.
at cly, n.
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 31: He must of necessity [...] convey him thereunto [i.e to Newgate] provided he doth not come down the Civil Coal (viz. Civility Money).
at cole, n.
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 24: The Master-Debtors prison in Newgate [...] that University in wuch our friend Jonathan is now for his Honesty a Collegian .
at collegian, n.
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 31: He must of necessity [...] convey him thereunto [i.e to Newgate] provided he doth not come down the Civil Coal (viz. Civility Money).
at come down, v.1
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 14: Vulcan Coves [...] whose Business is to pick and open all kinds of Locks, vut Iron Bars, &c. to make Way for others of their Confederacy.
at vulcan cove, n.
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 16: One of the Bulking Files snabbles hill Poll (which is snatching away his Hat) and there by the Cull to save his Hat whips his Hands out of his Pockets [...] and in the mean time a Diving File Picks his Pocket.
at diver, n.
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 135: Family fellows are such Thieves as are stout and sturdy, and will fight well, when obliged, in the Eexecution of any Robbery.
at family fellow (n.) under family, n.1
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 13: A Glazier is a Sort of Thieves or House-breakers that [...] take their Opportunity to enter at a Window, and steal away immediately what comes to their Hands, but Plate in particular; or otherwise conceal themselves in the House, till the Family is at rest, then let in a number of Family Fellows, who then plunder as they please.
at family, n.1
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 16: The last of this black tribe, is what the thives call [...] Fencers, which are receivers of their stoln Goods .
at fence, n.1
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 13: A Glazier is a Sort of Thieves or House-breakers that [...] take their Opportunity to enter at a Window, and steal away immediately what comes to their Hands, but Plate in particular; or otherwise conceal themselves in the House, till the Family is at rest, then let in a number of Family Fellows, who then plunder as they please.
at glazier, n.
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 58: He was now equipt with an able Horse and all Accoutrements necessary for a Gentleman Surveyor of His Majesty’s High Roads.
at surveyor of the highways, n.
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 25: These bottles of Wine [...] are sold for two Bords per Bottle, viz. Two Shillings per Bottle; and sometimes for two Bords and a Kick, viz. Two Shillings and Six pence.
at kick, n.2
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 135: Knowing fellows are Highwaymen, the best sort of Thieves (tho’ none good).
at knowing fellow (n.) under knowing, adj.
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 13: The second Sort of these kind of Thieves called Snablers, are Men who make it their Business to be out late at Night, watching for Gentlemen disorder'd by Drinking (which in their canting Language is called a Lapygagger).
at lappy-gag(g)er (n.) under lappy, adj.
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 14: Merry Coves are Thieves that make it their Practice to wasl through the several Allies, Courts, &c. of London , selling and singing of Songs, Ballads, &c. which disguises them, while they are finding out a convenient House of break open at Night.
at merry cove (n.) under merry, adj.
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 26: In the Thieves Language, a Farthing is called a Neck or Nubb.
at neck, n.
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 26: In the Thieves Language, a Farthing is called a Neck or Nubb.
at nub, n.1
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 22: [He] was justly nubb’d by the Quilting Cove, at the Nubbing-cheat of West-Chester .
at nub, v.
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 22: [He] was justly nubb’d by the Quilting Cove, at the Nubbing-cheat of West-Chester .
at quilting cove (n.) under quilt, v.
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 14: Ripping Coves are a Sort of House-breakers who make it their business to know when any Gentleman’s Family is gone or going into the Country, &c. and [...] come to the Roof of the House wherein they design to break, which they do by untiling and ripping the same.
at ripping cove (n.) under rip, v.
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 49: He was glad to take up with his old Trade of being a Setter to a Marshall’s Court Bailiff.
at setter, n.1
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 22: This Youth (like his Ancestors) was bred to his Father’s Trade of Shoulder-clapping, or rather a Shoulder-clapper’s Dog (viz. a Bailiff’s Bull-dog) .
at shoulder-clapper (n.) under shoulder, n.
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 9: A Snabler [...] is a Sort of Thieves.
at snabbler (n.) under snabble, v.
[UK] Life and Glorious Actions of [...] Jonathan Wilde 8: [He] afterwards snabbled their Wins and Tatlers, (that is pick’d their pockets of their Pence and Watches) .
at tatler, n.
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