Lay reader

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• Reader

  ·noun One who reads. II. Reader ·noun A proof reader. III. Reader ·noun One who reads much; one wh...

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• reader

  A pocket-book. CANT. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Lay

  ·vt A plan; a scheme. II. Lay ·noun An obligation; a vow. III. Lay ·Impf of Lie, to recline. IV. ...

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• lay

  Enterprize, pursuit, or attempt: to be sick of the lay. It also means a hazard or chance: he stands ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• lay

  1) Terms or conditions of a bargain; price. Ex. 'I bought the articles at a good lay;' 'He bought hi...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Blind reader

  ·add. ·- A post-office clerk whose duty is to decipher obscure addresses. ...

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• reader merchants

  Pickpockets, chiefly young Jews, who ply about the Bank to steal the pocket-books of persons who hav...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Lay shaft

  ·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Layshaft>>. ...

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• chiving lay

  Cutting the braces of coaches behind, on which the coachman quitting the box, an accomplice robs the...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• clouting lay

  Picking pockets of handkerchiefs. ...

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• drag lay

  Waiting in the streets to rob carts or waggons. ...

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• dub lay

  Robbing houses by picking the locks. ...

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• fam lay

  Going into a goldsmith's shop, under pretence of buying a wedding ring, and palming one or two, by d...

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• kid lay

  Rogues who make it their business to defraud young apprentices, or errand-boys, of goods committed t...

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• mill lay

  To force open the doors of houses in order to rob them. ...

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• peter lay

  The department of stealing portmanteaus, trunks, &c. ...

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• prad lay

  Cutting bags from behind horses. CANT. ...

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• roost lay

  Stealing poultry. ...

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• smug lay

  Persons who pretend to be smugglers of lace and valuable articles; these men borrow money of publica...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• toby lay

  The highway. High toby man; a highway-man. Low toby man; a footpad. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• o'er- lay

  a surcingle. Lane. ...

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• lay, to

  To come or go; as, lay aloft, lay forward, lay aft, lay out. This is not the neuter verb lie mispron...

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• lay-days

  The time allowed for shipping or discharging a cargo; and if not done within the term, fair weather ...

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• lay in

  The opposite of lay out. The order for men to come in from the yards after reefing or furling. It al...

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• lay lords

  The civil members of the admiralty board. ...

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• lay out

  See lie out! ...

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• lay-to

  To bring the weather-bow to the sea, with one sail set, and the helm lashed a-lee. (See lie-to, to.)...

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• lay, by the

  When a man is paid in proportion to the success of the voyage, instead of by the month. This is comm...

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• avoir du pois lay

  Stealing brass weights off the counters of shops. CANT. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• lay-overs for meddlers

  A reply to a troublesome question on the part of a child, in answer to 'What's that?.' A turn-over i...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• lay a gun, to

  So to direct it as that its shot may be expected to strike a given object; for which purpose its axi...

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• lay her course, to

  To be able to sail in the direction wished for, however barely the wind permits it. ...

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• lay in the oars

  Unship them from the rowlocks, and place them fore and aft in the boat. ...

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• lay of a rope

  The direction in which its strands are twisted; hawser is right-handed; cablet left-handed. ...

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• lay or lie on your oars!

  The order to desist rowing, without laying the oars in. ♦ Lay out on your oars! is the order to gi...

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• lay the land, to

  Barely to lose sight of it. ...

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• lay in sea-stock, to

  To make provision for the voyage. ...

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• lay up a ship, to

  To dismantle her. ...

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• the crack, or all the crack. the fashionable theme, the go. the crack lay, of late is used, in the cant language, to signify the art and mystery of house-breaking.

  Crust, sea biscuit, or ammunition loaf; also the backside. Farting crackers; breeches. ...

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