without powder (which shall be better than thief or b-—' all to nothing), by reason of his pertinaceous cry, during the season, for thirty years.

Cawch-Cawchery; an irregular mixture of food. See Stew (Irish), Squad-pie, Colcannon. A left-handed meaning, not straightforward: hence Cowch hand' for the left. Certificate, Jack Ketch's; given under his hand'—a sound flogging.

Chair. Call a chair'-appoint a president-at a tavern party, when discussion ensues.

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Challenge (Chase ;) at the finding of game, the good hounds open or challenge, curs babble. So in ring affairs, some chaps are ever challenging, never accepted: Tom Shelton has been four years at this bawl. Ha, fine Lemmonn, he shallinge al de voorld," says old Jack Gardolio, the orange-man, and his pupils. Chancery (Ring.) A man whose head is under his antagonist's left arm while the right is punishing out his day-lights, is in a Chancery suit,' from which Lord Eldon could not relieve him, though old Thurlow might.

Changes, in a battle-are those turns which give the odds now to one side, now to the other.

Chap-any body; said of one below the speaker in his esti

mation.

Chapel-an assembly of journeymen printers, debating on

the economy of their trade: 'Call a Chapel;' come together. Charity, (Bon-ton)—the cloak of sin, which even gamblers put on; like Artemi's priest, they must rob ere they can bestow. Charley a watchman. A Charley-man no sooner gets on his coat and rattle, than he becomes choleric, accusatory, and venal.'

Chase (the) generally speaking, all hunting or following of animals with dogs compriseth the chase. Coursing is the first artificial exception, and formerly they divided the remaining species of hunting into Venary, Chase, and Warren: in the first are found all red deer of antler, hare, boar and wolf; in the second buck and doe, fox and martin. So divided, inasmuch as the first seek for food at night, and go into coverts by day, the habitude of the second being quite contrary. A chase,' a good portion of open land with cover for game. See Forest. In France all field-sports are la chasse, and they describe the kind, as 'la chasse au fusil, for shooting, and so on; but the French are not

sportsmen-in any sense whatever; they shoot the chase before the dogs (!) &c. &c. In law, landholders selling their lands mostly reserve 'free chase' or right to hunt over them.

Ye sportsmen come forth, quit your slumber and sloth

And join in the musical chase;

Let fops of the Town our diversions cry down,

Yet their sports to ours must give place.

Chatter-box-either masculine or feminine. A talkative person, whose tongue runs fourteen to the dozen. A chatterer' in ring-affairs-a blow on the teeth.

Chattsi. e. Chattels, abbreviated-Lice; being the live stock in trade of beggars. Encamped gypsies lose their acquisitions of the sordid insect, and replace these by colonies of ants in their hair.

Chaunt-a song and singing. The best conducted chaunt in London is at the White Hart, Bishopsgate-street; a good one is the Eccentrics' in May's-buildings; glee-singing by the Harmonics at the Ram, and also at the Globe, in Titchfield-street are prime chaunts.

"The men struck up a chaunt, and the beer went round galore, Till the publican sent word, he wou'dn't trust no more." Chant-to chant, to praise off, inordinately. Chanting a horse, is to get one or more independent persons apparently, to give him a good name, swear to his perfections and make a bidding-by way of teazer.

Cheapen-to ask the price of a horse, a dog, or other goods -declare them too dear, and offer little, though probably more than the cheapener possesses.

Check-in the plural, is the sitting part, but when any one becomes a greedy guts and sups up all, he takes it all to his own cheek.'

Cheerer a glass of grog, or of punch.

See Chise.

"Cheese-parings and candle-ends."-Windham's description of the perquisites of offices of state. Chemistry-Man was inspired with the art divine for the promotion of science and the amelioration of his lot; but the evil-disposed have perverted its tendencies, and coculus indicus, quackery and gunpowder, loudly proclaim the fact. Copperas in gin; wine sweetened with lead; puff paste raised by potassium; snuff and hellebore-lie in ambuscade for us after running the gauntlet of the preceding crew and a hundred of their companions. See Intire (addenda) Porter.

Chevy a bawling of one, or many. In field-sports, a chevy is the blast of a horn, the notes whereof are intelligible of their import to the sportsman.

Cheveaux-pron. Shivaugh by Jack Burdett, who often holds one at Bill Wendy's, or up at the Popper: Dinner, wine, song, and uproar, constitute a cheveaux.

Chief muck of the crib-literally, principal lump of dirt; but, freely, meant to designate a head director in small affairs, and cannot possibly mean the Governor of the Bank of England, the Lord President of the Council, &c. since every one knows that crib implies a single place, as a taproom, a drinking-booth, coffee-shop, &c. Yet some there are who perversely extend the term to the first gentleman of England, and call that the crib where he presides when Parliament is opened or shut-and he " Chief," &c. Chigger-a still, Working the chigger or jigger;' a private still. 'Ask my jigger-driver, ye pig,' is the retort upon any impertinent question. Gigger, is also a door.

Chiltern hundreds, to accept the'- to vacate a favourable seat at the alehouse.

Chink-Money. The chink rolls in at Shoulder-of-Mutton Jack's on Saturday nights.'

"I am happy to think

I have got so much chink."

Chip (brother)-one of the same trade, originally confined to carpenters, who are all chips.'

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A Chirruper,--from cheer-up, an additional glass. Chirrup-said of birds; and a man that sits and quaffs and talks gaily, and a good deal, is said to chirrup-probably from the "cheer ups" he has taken.

Chise-a knife, saw, or file. Chise-it-is also a verb inactive, and means give over,' whether that be the talk, or some uction, as robbery. Chise is a knife, sometimes called a chiser, from chisel, a carpenter's sharp instrument: all mean to cut, to divide, or separate; to cut the string, thread, or concatenation of a discourse, and to cut or sever the design from the execution thereof, is to chise it. Chiver, (pron. shiver and shliver or shlivey) is derived from the same, but a little corrupted. When a certain Trojan chief visited Venus on Ida's mount, he would, of course, ‘return to town' of a morning, like a modern cockney; and 'tis fair to presume he said to the lady, I must get up, dear Venny, and-chise it;' but she, regretting his absence, and

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repeating his last words, and-chise, an-chise, wherefore art thou, Anchises?" Whence the name of him who begat Eneas on such occasion.

Chitterlings-properly the small guts of a pig, and by resemblance the frill of a tulip's shirt.

' Choice Spirit'-a high fellow, who enters into the merits of the bottle and glass, is always frisky, and drops his blunt freely.

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Chop upon a Hare-to come unexpectedly upon and kill her without a run. Fox-hounds Chop a hare' at times: "Tis spoiling sport. A chop, is long-shore for a letter, a newspaper, and an act of parliament.

Chopper (ring)-a blow that descends straight down the features, the knuckles making fine work thereon. Not a desirable strategie; originating with Dan Mendoza; now little used.

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Chorus Come, gemmen, bear a hand in the chorus,' says a chaunter, and the assembled gobs open like alligators.' Choruses are of various sorts, and differ in different countries, [we will not, however, travel]; and they bear some affinity to the subject. "Down, down, down derry down" belongs to plain John Trot narrative ditties. Madrigals sport their Lira, Lira, la,' and Roundelays repeat the last lines and sometimes entire stanzas. Hunting songs and such-like cheerings of numbers, terminate with And a hu'nting we will go, we'll go, we'll go,' Tantivy, my boys, lets away,' Tally ho,' and Hark forward! Thieves' chorusses drop plaintively in the gamut, and the words slide. off the tongue flashily; they are long-" Fol lol de ra, Fol lol de ray; fol de riddle, diddle diddle i-do:" ido is a very common termination, and indicates a do or' diddle,' which is generally a ' riddle diddle ray.' Soldiers use Row dow dow;" their trade lying in rows and a dow or down. Politicians Bow wow wow,' as if they would worry each other like dogs, as they are. Butchers, and other fullfeeders, emit the last syllable of each verse hard and loud to hammer the sense in' to the thick skulls of their hearers. Our national songs (Dibdin's) conclude with the repetition of the last stanza of each verse, or a line or two, which is itself a repetition that is brought in' to make up the sense. He also shook over again the best meaning phrases in medio, with repetitions at the end of each stanza, when the verse consisted of several. The

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Irish chorus is fantastic; and the reader who would know how, must see and sing 'Pip.' Scotch chorusses contain the reason (generally metaphysical) why the song was made at all; e. .g.

"There's nae luck about the house, there's nae luck at a';

There's nae luck about the house, when my good man's awa." Chuckle-head-Heavy supper-eaters, nappers after dinner, turtle, fish, and venison mangers, who thus supply new blood too fast and determine it towards the head, nor e'er perspire but by overaction of the lacteals-become meaty about the nob, throw out carbuncles, large lumps of fat impede the brain,' and the tongue chuckles like an old hen in the poultry-yard. In such an effort, the whole meat of the head seems to join joyfully, wagging in unison with the clapper-hence the term.

Chum-A companion or partner in lodgings, chiefly used among imprisoned debtors.

Circumvendibus-going to a point by a roundabout way-whether that be an argumentative point, or one upon the highway.

Clack-Woman's talk, incessant, from its resemblance to the clack of a grist-mill:

"The Miller he laid down on his back,
Whilst his mill went clicketty clack."

Clank-silver vessels, spoons, candlesticks.

Clapper-the tongue. Stop your clapper'-i. e. Silence! Clapper-claw. Domestic prattle in St. Giles's, in which a woman or two join to tell a third (usually the husband) a little bit of his own. The performance is carried on in the manner of a fugue in music, one party holding on while the other capers through the gamut, the husband now and then adding a running-bass; whereupon the treble weeps, and the counter-voice gets up an octave or two higher, shakes a Catalina in A in alto, and falls into a swoon, or goes off-for some gin. Higher folks than they entertain family discussions occasionally.

"had not Vulcan seen 'em,

"Tis two to one but their dispute
Had ended in a scratching bout.
Juno, at length, was over-awed,

Or Jove had been well clapper-clawed."

Claret-(ring,) not fit to drink. A softened term for the stream of life-' blood' in a slaughter-house.