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Rh Seize, Take or Arrest. I'll Bone ye, c. I'll cause you to be Arrested. We shall be Bon'd, c. we shall be Apprehended for the Robbery. The Cove is Bon'd and gon to the Whit, c. the Rogue is taken up and carried to Newgate, or any other Goal. The Cull has Bon d the Fen, (for Fence) or Bloss that bit the Blow, c. the Man has Taken the Thief that Robb'd his House, Shop, or Pickt his Pocket. He has bit his Blow, but if he be Bon'd, be must shove the Tumbler, c. he has Stole the Goods, or done the Feat, but if he be Taken, he'll be Whipt at the Cart-tail. I have Bon'd her Dudds Fagg'd, and Brush'd, c. I have took away my Mistress Cloathes, Beat her, and am troop'd off. Boning the Fence, c. finding the Goods where Conceal'd, and Seizing, he made no bones of it, he swallow'd it without Drinking after it.

Bonny-clapper, sower Butter-milk.

Booby, a dull heavy Lob.

Booberkin, the same.

Boon, a Gift, Reward, or Gratification.

Boon-companion, a merry Drinking Fellow.

Boot, a Scotch Torture, or Rack, for the Leg, is to draw to Confession.

What Boots it? What Avails it?

Booty-play, false, Cheating, also Plunder, he Bowls Booty, when great Odds are laid, and he goes Halves, his Cast is designed by Bad.

Boracho, a But, a Drunkard, and a Hogskin.

Borde, c. a Shilling, half a Borde, c. Sixpence.

Bordel-lo, a Bawdy-House.

Boreson or Bauson, a Badger.

Bottle-head, void of Wit.

Bottom, a Man of no Bottom, of no Basis of Principles, or no setdement of Fortune, or of