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 Rh Whinyard, a Sword.

Whipper-snapper, a very small but sprightly Boy.

Whip-Jacks, c. the tenth Order of the Canting Crew; Counterfeit Mariners Begging with false Passes, pretending Shipwrecks, great Losses at Sea, &c. narrow escapes; telling dismal Stories, having learnt Tar-terms on purpose, but are meer Cheats.

Whirlegigs, Testicles.

Whisk, a little inconsiderable, impertinent Fellow.

Whisker, a great Lie.

Whiskins, c. shallow, brown Bowls to Drink out off

Whistle, a derisory Term for the Throat. Wet your Whistle, to Liquor your TroatThroat [sic].

Whit, c. Newgate. As five Rum-padders, are Rub'd in the Dark man's out of the Whit, and are pik'd in to the Deuseaville, c. five Highway-men in the Night broke Newgate,and are gone into the Countrey.

White-liver'd, Cowardly; also Pale Visag'd.

White-wool, c. Silver.

White-chappel-portion, two torn Smocks, and what Nature gave.

Whow-ball, a Milk-*maid.

Whur, the rising or fluttering of Partridge or Pheasant.

Wicket, c. a Casement, also a little Door. As toute through the Wicket, and see where a Cully pikes with his Gentry-mort, whose Munns are the Rummest I ever touted before c. look through the Casement and see where the Man walks with a Gentle-woman, whose Face is the fairest I have ever seen.

Wicher-Cully, c. a Silver-smith.

Wide, when the Biass of the Bowl holds not enough.

Widows-Weeds, Mourning Cloths. A Grass-Widow, one that pre-