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 Hence ''bedawb'd with Gold or Silver-Lace'', when it is laid thick or close on.

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Dead Cargo, not a quarter or half freighted. ''To wait for dead mens shoes'', for what is little worth, or may never come to pass. To play or work for a dead horse for a trifle.

Dead-men, empty-Pots or bottles on a Tarvern-*table.

Dear Joies, Irishmen.

Debauchee, a Rake-hel

Decayed Gentleman or Tradesman, broken.

Deckt-out, tricked up in fine Cloaths,

Decus, c. a Crown or five shilling-piece. ''The Cull tipt me a score of Decuses'', c. my Camerade lent me five Pounds.

Deft-Fellow, a tidy, neat little Man.

Defunct, dead and gone.

Degen, c. a Sword Nimm the Degen, c. steal the Sword, or whip it from the Gentleman's Side.

Deists, against the Trinity.

Dells, c the twenty sixth order of the canting Tribe; young bucksome Wenches, ripe and prone to Venery, but have not lost their Virginity, which the upright man pretends to, and seizes: Then she is free for any off the Fraternity; also a common Strumpet.

Dequárting, throwing of the left Poot and Body backwards.

Dergin, a very short Man or Woman.

Desperate Fellow, fit for any lewd Prank or Villany, desperate condition, without any hopes.

Devil drawer, a fory Painter.

Deuseavile, c. the Country.

Deuseavile-Stampers, c, Country-Carriers.

Dews wins, c. two Pence.

Dewitted, cut in pieces, as that great States