Part 82 (1/2)

A man with a woman behind him; 30.

A flock of sheep; 20.

A flock of geese; 10.

A post chaise; 5.

A horseman; 2.

A man or woman walking; 1.

TRAY TRIP. An ancient game like Scotch hop, played on a pavement marked out with chalk into different compartments.

TRENCHER CAP. The square cap worn by the collegians.

at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

TRENCHER MAN. A stout trencher man; one who has a good appet.i.te, or, as the term is, plays a good knife and fork.

TRESWINS. Threepence.

TRIB. A prison: perhaps from tribulation.

TRICk.u.m LEGIS. A quirk or quibble in the law.

TRIG. The point at which schoolboys stand to shoot their marbles at taw; also the spot whence bowlers deliver the bowl.

TO TRIG IT. To play truant. To lay a man trigging; to knock him down.

TRIGRYMATE. An idle female companion.

TRIM. State, dress. In a sad trim; dirty.--Also spruce or fine: a trim fellow.

TRIM TRAM. Like master, like man.

Tr.i.m.m.i.n.g. Cheating, changing side, or beating. I'll trim his jacket; I'll thresh him. To be trimmed; to be shaved; I'll just step and get trimmed.

TRINE. To hang; also Tyburn.

TRINGUM TRANGUM. A whim, or maggot.

TRINING. Hanging.

TRINKETS. Toys, bawbles, or nicknacks.

TRIP. A short voyage or journey, a false step or stumble, an error in the tongue, a b.a.s.t.a.r.d. She has made a trip; she has had a b.a.s.t.a.r.d.

TRIPE. The belly, or guts. Mr. Double Tripe; a fat man. Tripes and trullibubs; the entrails: also a jeering appellation for a fat man.

TO TROLL. To loiter or saunter about.

TROLLY LOLLY. Coa.r.s.e lace once much in fas.h.i.+on.

TROLLOP. A l.u.s.ty coa.r.s.e s.l.u.ttish woman.