The age of Elizabeth, is considered her golden days,' though freedom lay in fetters till Cromwell's time. Aged men are esteemed but codgers and fogeys, though aged horses (full six and a day) are then at their prime, but aged women are never forty. All-age stakes, or plates,—are those for which start any horse, mare, or gelding, including 3-year olds; with onus' rising by grades from these, capriciously, but with allowances, and sometimes extras, according to circumstances.

Air and Exercise-the pillory, revolving; or being flogged at

the cart's tail.

A-la-mode-without further explanation—' beef,' is to be understood; clods and stickings, stewed to rags and seasoned high. 'Tis used in throwing off against a person's dress, talk, &c. 'Some folks are all a-la-mode to-day;' showy, frenchified. All-agog-women are so affected when they expect marriage, a trip to the fair, or the playhouse; Derived from the goggle of their eyes on such-like occasions. All agroundis that man's affairs who has not a bob to bless himself with. Alderman—a fat turkey, roasted and hung in chains-of sausages.

Aldgate Pump-a draft upon this hydraulic, when promised, is negative payment.

All my eye-See Betty.

Allowances (turf) mares and geldings running against horses are allowed weight (usually 3lbs. each); also, if coming of untried parents, 3lbs. each and either. Fillies always carry less than colts 2, 3 or 4, and sometimes 5lbs., but this is not called by any name. Allowance-Bub and Grub, with a, clean shirt, and a guinea, twice a-week, is good allowance. See Monkey's allowance.

All-set. Desperate fellows, ready to start upon any kind of robbery, or other mischief.

All sorts, or All Nations-spirits compounded of all the drippers in a cellar, and the pewter save-all on a gin-shop counter. Amateur-applied to frequenters and backers of pugilistic contests; most of whom sparr a bit, if they be not proficients. See Ring. Musical amateurs also exist. Ambidexter-having the use of both hands alike; said also of a lawyer who takes fees from both plaintiff and defendant. Amen Curler-a parish-clerk, or assistant at any chapel or

conventicle.

A. M.-Ancaster Mile, at Newmarket, is 1778 yards long. In another sense: 66 at 10 o'clock A. M." is ante meridian, -forenoon.

Amuse (v.)-Co-thieves, who keep in talk or otherwise amuse persons to be done. Snuff thrown in the eyes, will amuse the person practised upon, while he is robbed by the amusers. Anglers.-Thieves who with a hook at the end of a mopstick drag to them the ends of cloth which may lie exposed, and so pull out entire pieces.

Anticks-those who practise distortions and tricks, to attract notice and extract brownies.

Apple-cart-To upset any one's apple-cart, is to toss or knock him down, or otherwise harm him.

April-fool-one sent upon a bootless errand, or to obtain a nullity on the first of April.

Aqua pumpagine-water, cold; pump-water.

Arguefy the topic—a phrase used of boxing-matches formerly, by Captain Topham.

Argument. He attains the best of any tavern argument, who has the best pair of lungs; whence we are inclined to fall in with that pronunciation of the word which calls it ' Hard gumment.' The next best to him, is he who can offer to lay very heavy sums that are quite uncoverable.

Ark- -a boat or wherry. Ark-man-waterman; and ark-ruffs, ruffians who assist game watermen in robbery. Ark pirates, the same. 'Ark and winns ;' boat and sculls, or oars. A-e. Hang an a-;' to keep behind, having the backside in view. See Bum. Backside. Article-a woman, comeatable, is an article. an agreement; also, a brace of pistols. my breeches.

"The articles,'

My articles'

in a

Ass-familiarly called Jack, and treated accordingly; he is the emblem of patient stupidity, and the man who enacts himself like Jack, is an Ass, and should be told of his Asinine conduct. The ass's mode of sitting is his most graceful attitude; hence, the name of the sitting part in man, with the trivial introduction of an (r). ""Tis all my aband-box," when usinine stories are hatched up. Attic-the upper story of a house as well as of a person's head. Attica was the place in Greece where people were most up to wit and learning-heads well filled. Cockneyshire, with all its faults, is the present Attica of the world -Paris a second rater-Lutetia avaunt.

Autem (from the Latin Auditio) a church, and a clergyman is Autem bawley. Autem cacclers; Methodists, and dissenting chapels generally, are Autem caccle-tubs: the Autem sneak, is robbing in churches and chapels. Autem-jet; a parson, any how. Autem quaver tub,' a Quaker's meeting-house. Autem Mott, or mort, a she-beggar pretending to religious fervour; and a w- -e with the same aspect. ' Autem divers,' pick-pockets, who attend places of religion. Autem gogglers; conjurors, witches, and fortune-tellers, of either sex. See All-agog.

Aunt-a bawd or old procuress, or hanger-on upon wh--s; sometimes called Mammy or Mother My Aunt's,' an accommodation-house, where half-modest women resort, as to a relative or aunt's.

B.

Babes of grace-sanctified-looking persons, not so. Rogues in the stocks, are Babes in the wood,' and so are persons in the pillory. Almost out of vogue.

Backgammoner, or Back-doors man or gentleman-a fellow whose propensities lie out of the natural order of things in England.

Backside, of a house which has a front-side; 'tis an open space, illustrated by Lord Erskine in the House of Commons,

"There was an old woman who lived at Dundee
And out of her backside there grew a plum tree."

His lordship meant to pun upon her sitting-place.

Bacon, to save one's,'-to escape danger, of hanging, of the lag, or loss of blunt. Bacon face-fat chops, full and brawney.

Badge Coves-Paupers who wear the livery of their parish.
Madge Coves,' infamy itself-men who enact the parts of
women: not to be confounded with the first in false elision.
Badger (v.)—to bully, to confound, perplex, or teaze.
Bad manners.-An exclamation accusatory of the

person addressed. Bad manners! cried I, of politeness don't crack!' Bag.-To give the Bag to any one; to leave him suddenly. Bagatelle-play upon a board in which are nine holes, numbered, into which as many balls are to be knocked or shoved : it came up in 1804, was called the new French game, and the word signifies-a trifle, or thing of small importance. Baggage-a saucy minx, a slut or w-e. Heavy baggage women and children.

Bags, Old Bags.-Ld. E-n had the first name bestowed
on him by his Royal Master, while his daddy and mammy
yet lived at the Crown and Sceptre; old was added by Will.
Hone, and since then the lord has used green bags for hold-
ing his incipient counter-plots, which he lays before the
house, sealed up.

A Baker's dozen; 14, that number of rolls being given as 12.
Balsam-money.
"Here's Saturday night come and no bal-
sam in the rookery! Here, pop my ticker at my uncle's."
Ballum-rankum-a hop or dance of prostitutes naked.
Bam-a jocular imposition.

Bandogs-bailiff and follower. Iron utensils, still used in
country fire-places, where wood only is burnt.
Bang-to beat, to excel. Banging; great, big.
Bang-up-quite in fashion, at the top of the mode. All-right.
Bank-some thirty or forty different associations in Town,
and about nine times as many in the provinces, form those
extensive pawn-shops called Banks. Very convenient and
very dangerous, they resemble much those other Banks in
the Hells of St. James's, which consist of congregated
black-legs, who club together their numerous trifles and
play against all comers. Strangers stand but a poor chance
at play with such numbers, some of whom do not confine
their hands to shuffling tricks, but rob outright.
Bankrupt cart-an one-horse chaise, of a Sunday.
Baptised-is the spirit, which has been diluted with water.
Baptist-a pickpocket caught and ducked.

Barber-That's the barber;' a thing well done. And a
barber's knock' (at a door) double:-the first hard, the se-
cond soft, as if done by accident. Both, however, are be-
coming as obsolete as the barbers themselves. "That is
no news, gemmen; I heard it from my barber, yesterday."
Vide speech of Sir W. Curtis in H. C.

Barkers. Fellows placed at the door of Mock Auctions to invite soft people to get shaved; also bidders and pretended buyers planted within to entrap the unwary-of both genders. Barkers also invite vehemently passengers to buy household goods in Moorfields, and dresses in Cranbournalley.

Barking creek-persons troubled with a short cough are said
to have been there, or to Barkshire.

Barking irons.-Pistols, in allusion to the report on explosion.
Barnacles.-Spectacles of a common kind. An instrument

for controlling unruly horses; and which usually spoils them. Basket.-At Cock-fights, when a man bets beyond what he can pay down, he observes he will go into the basket, or owe so much. Children nnborn, are said to be in the basket: a joker says, "I have no children myself, but my wife has four, besides one in the basket, and two in the grave.' "The old trade of basket-making" alludes to the same kind of thing. See Addenda.

Baste-to beat, without a chance of opposition; originally performed with a stick called baston in old French. Bastille-Coldbath-fields Prison received this name, 1796, by reason of the close seclusion of its inmates; a discipline resembling that of the original Bastille recently destroyed near Paris.

Battle-royal-(Cockpit), several cocks put in the pit together. Men (Irish mostly) enact the same kind of Pell-mell trick, at times: "Tis ever a scandalous proceeding; and often attended with loss of life.

Baubee-a halfpenny. Scotch-bala. Bawdy-house glass-little measure, half-sized, as at the Vine in Holborn, and other such sleek and slum shops. 'Tis a good mode of keeping their customers' upper-works in order, and making the most of a bad thing.

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Bays Bay-leaves, laurels placed on the heads of poets anciently, and now practised on play-wrights in France; when successful, the author is called for, and crowned with the bays before the audience. O'Keefe wore the bays. Beak the sitting Magistrate, or indeed one who walks or rides abroad, is frequently recognized by his former customers, as "the beak that quodded me last winter; I hopes he may 'just break his b- -y neck before he gets home again"that's all the harm as I vishes him." Beck, is a Beadle.— Beak's-man-a Police officer. The clerks and others about the Police-offices receive the same appellation. Bear-leader (Bon-ton)—a travelling tutor; generally one of the clergy, leading young sprigs of fashion the tour of Europe. Bears, in the City-are persons who would depress, tread upon, or keep down, the price of Public Stock. See Bull. Beau-trap-A loose-stone in the pavement, which in wet weather soils the hose of our beaux. Beau-nasty, is he who affects the beau, but is dirty withal.

B. C.-The Beacon Course, and the longest at Newmarket (or