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_Jacobites_, sham or collar s.h.i.+rts.
_Jack_, a seal.
_Jet_, a lawyer
_Ken_, a house.
_Kicks_, breeches.
_Kill devil_, row.
_Kinchin_, a little child.
_King's pictures_, money of any description.
_Laced mutton_, a woman.
_Lag_, last; lagging behind, to be hindmost.
_Lage_, water.
_Lage duds_, a buck of clothes.
_Lambskin men_, the judges of several courts.
_Lansprisado_, he that comes into company with only two-pence in his pocket.
_Lantern_. _A dark lantern_, the servant or agent that receives the bribe at court.
_Libben_, a private dwelling-house.
_Libbege_, a bed.
_Lifter_, a crutch.
_Lightmans_, the day, or day-break.
_Line of the old author_, a dram of brandy.
_Little Barbary_, Wapping.
_Lop'd_, run away; he lop'd up the dancers, he whipped up the dancers.
_Loge_, a watch.
_Louse-trap_, a comb.
_Low tide_, when there's no money in a man's pocket.
_Lushy cove_, a drunken man.
_Maik_, a halfpenny.
_Mannikin_, a dwarf or diminutive fellow.
_Maunders_, beggars.
_Maundering breath_, scolding.
_Meggs_, guineas.
_Meet_, to spend money.
_Millclapper_, a woman's tongue.
_Mist_, a contraction of commission, signifying a s.h.i.+rt, smock or sheet.
_Mishtopper_, a coat or petticoat.
_Moabites_, sergeants, bailiffs, and their crew.
_Moon-curser_, a link-boy.
_Mower_, a cow.
_Muck_, money, wealth.
_Muttonmonger_, a lover of women.
_Mutton in long coats_, women; a leg of mutton in a silk stocking, a woman's leg.
_Nab_, a hat, cap, or head; also a c.o.xcomb.
_Ne'er a face but his own_, not a penny in his pocket.
_Nim gimmer_, a doctor, a surgeon, an apothecary.
_Nubbing cheat_, the gallows.
_Nut-crackers_, a pillory.
_Oak_, a rich man of good substance and credit.
_Ogles_, eyes.
_Old flick_ a knowing fellow.
_One in ten_, a parson.
