CUT THE STRING. See String.
CUT THE YARN. See Yarn.
CUTTING-GLOAK, a man famous for drawing a knife, and cutting any person he quarrels with.
D
DAB, a bed.
DAB IT UP, to dab it up with a woman, is to agree to cohabit with her.
DANCERS, stairs.
DANNA, human, or other excrement.
DANNA-DRAG, commonly pronounced dunnick-drag. See Knap a Jacob, &c.
DARBIES, fetters.
DARKY, night.
DARKY, a dark lanthorn.
DEATH-HUNTER, an undertaker.
DICKY, or DICK IN THE GREEN, very bad or paltry; any thing of an inferior quality, is said to be a dicky concern.
DIMMOCK, money.
DING, to throw, or throw away; particularly any article you have stolen, either because it is worthless, or that there is danger of immediate apprehension. To ding a person, is to drop his acquaintance totally; also to quit his company, or leave him for the time present; to ding to your pall, is to convey to him, privately, the property you have just stolen; and he who receives it is said to take ding, or to knap the ding.
DINGABLE, any thing considered worthless, or which you can well spare, having no further occasion
