A halt and a resting on a stick, as practised by pedlars.
·vi A light or hasty luncheon. II. Bait ·vt To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook. III....
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The natural or artificial charge of a hook, to allure fish. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A slight cut or incision; a score. II. Scotch ·noun Collectively, the people of Scotland. II...
The large sea-worm or lug, dug from the wet sands. The squid or cuttle, herrings, caplin, any meat, ...
, or groundling. A loach or loche. ...
The Clupea alba, a well-known fish caught in the Thames, but strictly a sea-fish, erroneously held t...
·noun A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. ...
·add. ·- The ceremonial observed by one of the Masonic systems, called in full the Ancient and Accep...
·add. ·- One of a breed of small terriers with long, rough hair. ...
·noun <<Hopscotch>>. ...
Hall of the Corporation of the Scottish Hospital of His Majesty's Foundation in Blackfriars, 1676 (L...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
See Scott's Yard. ...
Lice. The headquarters of the Scotch greys: the head of a man full of large lice. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A bottle containing two quarts. ...
Brimstone and milk. ...
The itch. ...
A sober soaking rain; a Scotch mist will wet an Englishman to the skin. ...
Mizzle, or small soaking rain. ...
A mistake; worse than no prize, or one liable to hamper the captors with heavy law expenses. ...
A wench; also a fart. ...
to stop it from going backward. Lane. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose