Part 10 (2/2)

_Cheat-the-devil_, a dicky

_Chife_, a knife, file, or saw

_Chosen Pells_, highwaymen who rob in pairs, in the streets and squares of London; to prevent being followed by the sound of their horses' shoes on the stones, they shoe the_, a parish clerk

_Clank napper_, a silver tankard

_Clickman Toad_, a watch; also, an appellation for a west-country-a westcountryman, who had never seen a watch, found one on a heath near Pool, which, by the motion of the hand, and the noise of the wheels, he concluded to be a living creature of the toad kind; and, fro, he naues

_Cloy_, thief, robber, &c

_Cloyes_, thieves, robbers, &c

_Cly_, money; also, a pocket He has filed a cly; he has picked a pocket

_Cold burning_, a punishment inflicted by private soldiers, on their co offences of theirainst the wall, with the arh above his head as possible; the executioner then ascends a stool, and having a bottle of cold water, pours it slowly down the sleeve of the delinquent, patting hiently down his body, till it runs out at the bottom of his trowsers-this is repeated to the other arm, if he is sentenced to be burned in both

_Cloak_, a silver tankard

_Coach wheel_, or _a fore coach wheel_, half-a-crown; _a hind coach wheel_, a crown

_Cobblecotter_, a turnkey

_Collar day_, execution day

_Colquarron_, a man's neck

_Comefa_, a shi+rt, or shi+ft

_Commission_, a shi+rt

_Comfortable impudence_, a wife

_Cooler_, a woay fluttering coxcomb

_Cow's baby_, a calf

_Cow-handed_, aard, not dextrous

_Crab shells_, shoes

_Crae:-he has just undergone the cramp word; sentence has just been passed upon him