a parish clerk.

_Anodyne Necklace_, a halter.

_Arch Rogue_, or _Dimber Damber Upright Man_, the chief of a gang of
gipseys.

_Arch Doxy_, signifies the same in rank among the female canters or
gipseys.

_Ard_, hot.

_Autumn Mort_, a married woman; also a female beggar with several
children, hired to excite charity.

_Autumn_, a church; also married.

_Autumn bawler_, a preacher.

_Autumn cacklers_ or _prick-ears_, dissenters of whatever denomination.

_Autumn divers_, church pickpockets; but often used for churchwardens,
overseers of the poor, sidesmen, and others, who manage the poor's money.

_Autumn jet_, a parson.

_Babes in the Wood_, criminals in the stocks.

_Back'd_, dead.

_Badge Coves_, parish pensioners.

_Balsam_, money.

_Bam_, a jocular imposition, the same as humbug.

_Bandog_, a bailiff, or his followers; a sergeant, or his yeomen; also a
fierce mastiff.

_Bandero_, a widow's mourning peak; also a musical instrument.

_Baptised_, rum, brandy, or any other spirits that have been lowered with
water.

_Barker_, a salesman's servant that walks before the shop, and cries,
coats, gowns, &c., what d'ye buy?

_Barking irons_, pistols, from their explosion resembling the barking of
a dog.

_Barnacles_, a good job, or a snack easily got; also, the irons worn by
felons in gaols.

_Barrel Fever_, he died of the barrel fever; he killed himself by
drinking.

_Battner_, an ox.

_Bawbee_, a halfpenny.

_Baudrons_, a cat.

_Beak_, a justice of peace, or magistrate.

_Beard splitter_, a whoremaster, or a beadle.

_Beater cases_, boots.

_Bellows_, the lungs.

_Belly cheat_, an apron.

_Bill of sale_, a widow's weeds.

_Bing_, to go, bing avast; get you gone. Binged avast in a darkmans;
stole away in the night. Bing we to Rumvilck; shall we go to London.

_Bingo_, brandy, or other spirituous liquor.

_Bingo boy_, a dram drinker.

_Bingo mort_, a female dram drinker.

_Bingowaste_, get you hence.

_Black fly_, the greatest drawback on the farmer is the black fly, i.e.
the parson.

_Bleating rig_, sheep-stealing.

_Blind harpers_, beggars counterfeiting blindness, playing on fiddles,
&c.

_Black box_, a lawyer.

_Black Indies_, Newcastle, from whence the coals are brought.

_Black spy_, the devil.

_Blind cheek_, the breech.

_Blowen_, a whore.

_Bluffer_, an innkeeper, or victualler.

_Boarding school_, Bridewell, Newgate, or any other prison, or house