MOVE: any action or operation in life; the secret spring by which any project is conducted, as, There is a move in that business which you are not down to. To be flash to every move upon the board, is to have a general knowledge of the world, and all its numerous deceptions.
Mr. KNAP. See Knap.
Mr. NASH. See Nash.
Mr. PALMER. See Palm.
Mr. PULLEN. See Pull or Pull up.
MUFF, an epithet synonymous with mouth.
MUG, the face; a queer mug is an ugly face.
MURPHY’S COUNTENANCE, a pig’s face.
MYNABS, me, myself.
N
NAIL, to nail a person, is to over-reach, or take advantage of him in the course of trade or traffic; also, to rob, or steal; as, I nail’d him for (or of) his reader, I robbed him of his pocket-book; I nail’d the swell’s mantra in the push, I picked the gentleman’s pocket of his watch in the crowd, &c. A person of an over-reaching, imposing disposition, is called a nail, a dead nail, a nailing rascal, a rank needle, or a needle pointer.
NANCY, the posteriors.
NAP the BIB, to cry; as, the mollisher nap’d her bib, the woman fell a crying.
