Hence bedawb'd with Gold or Silver-Lace, when it is laid thick or close on.
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Dead Cargo, not a quarter or half freighted. To wait for dead mens shoes, for what is little worth, or may never come to pass. To play or work for a dead horse for a trifle.
Dead-men, empty-Pots or bottles on a Tarvern-*table.
Dear Joies, Irishmen.
Debauchee, a Rake-hel
Decayed Gentleman or Tradesman, broken.
Deckt-out, tricked up in fine Cloaths,
Decus, c. a Crown or five shilling-piece. The Cull tipt me a score of Decuses, c. my Camerade lent me five Pounds.
Deft-Fellow, a tidy, neat little Man.
Defunct, dead and gone.
Degen, c. a Sword Nimm the Degen, c. steal the Sword, or whip it from the Gentleman's Side.
Deists, against the Trinity.
Dells, c the twenty sixth order of the canting Tribe; young bucksome Wenches, ripe and prone to Venery, but have not lost their Virginity, which the upright man pretends to, and seizes: Then she is free for any off the Fraternity; also a common Strumpet.
Dequárting, throwing of the left Poot and Body backwards.
Dergin, a very short Man or Woman.
Desperate Fellow, fit for any lewd Prank or Villany, desperate condition, without any hopes.
Devil drawer, a fory Painter.
Deuseavile, c. the Country.
Deuseavile-Stampers, c, Country-Carriers.
Dews wins, c. two Pence.
Dewitted, cut in pieces, as that great States-
