_Pad-the-hoof_, journeying on foot.

_Panum_, bread.

_Panter_, a heart.

_Pantler_, a butler.

_Peaches_, discovers, informs.

_Peeper_, a looking-gla.s.s.

_Peter_, a portmanteau, or cloak-bag.

_Peg tandrums_, as, gone to peg tandrums, dead.

_Penance boards_, a pillory.

_Penthouse nab_, a very broad-brimmed hat.

_Periwinkle_, a peruke or wig.

_Philistines_, sergeants, bailiffs, and their crew.

_Porker_, a sword.

_Property_, a mere tool or implement to serve a turn; a cat's foot.

_Prig_, a thief.

_Quail pipe_, a woman's tongue.

_Queer cuffin_, a justice of peace, also, a churl.

_Rabbit suckers_, young spendthrifts, taking goods on tick of p.a.w.nbrokers or tallymen, at excessive rates.

_Rattling_ cove, a coachman.

_Red rag_, a tongue; _your red rag will never lie still_, your tongue will never be quiet.

_Regraters_, forestallers in markets.

_Ribben_, money.

_Rotan_, a coach, or wagon, or any thing that runs upon wheels, but princ.i.p.ally a cart.

_Royster_, a rude roaring fellow.

_Ruffin_, the devil.

_Ruffmans_, the woods or bushes.

_Rumbeck_, a justice of peace.

_Rumbo_, a prison.

_Rumboozling welts_, bunches of grapes.

_Rumboyled_, sought after with a warrant.

_Rum clank_, a large silver tankard.

_Rum degen_, a silver-hilted or inlaid sword.

_Rumdropper_, a vintner.

_Rum ogle's_, fine, bright, clear, piercing eyes.

_Rum-strum_, a long wig.

_Rum-swag_, full of riches.

_Scab_, a sixpence.

_School b.u.t.ter_, a whipping.

_Sconce_, to run in debt, to cheat.

_Seeds_, poor, moneyless, exhausted.

_Setters_, or _setting-dogs_, they that draw in bubbles for old gamesters to rook; also a sergeant's yeoman, or bailiff's follower; also an excise-officer.

_Sharper_, a swindler, a cheat.

_Sharper's tools_, false dice.

_Shot_, clapped or poxed.

_Shove the tumbler_, whipped at the cart's tail.

_Skin-flint_, a griping, sharping, close clown; also, the same as flat.

_Smearer_, a painter, or plasterer.

_Smeller_, a nose.

_Smelling cheat_, a nosegay; also an orchard, a garden.

_Smiter_, an arm.