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married man whose wife lives in adultery with another); mandilejo (vulgar).

Fancy-piece, subs. (venery).—A prostitute. For synonyms, see Barrack-hack and Tart.

Fancy-work. To take in fancy WORK, verb. phr. (popular).—To play the prostitute on the sly; in the language of venery, 'to work for one's living and do the naughty for one's clothes.' Said of women (as milliners, dressmakers, shop girls, and so forth) in receipt of low wages yet dressing well and having plenty of money. 'How does she do it?' 'Oh! she TAKES IN FANCY-WORK!' Cf., Fancy-house and Ride.

Fang-faker, subs. (common).—A dentist. [From Fang, a long pointed tooth + Faker (q.v.).] FANG-CHOVEY = a dental establishment.—See Chovey.

Fanning, verb. subs. (thieves').—1. Stealing; Cross-fanning = robbery from the person, the arms of the manipulator being folded.

2. (old).—A beating. [From Fan (q.v.), to beat + ing.]

Fanny (also Fanny-Artful and Fanny-fair), subs. (venery).—The female pudendum. For synonyms, see Monosyllable.

Fanny Adams, subs. phr. (naval).—Tinned mutton.

Fanny Blair, subs. phr. (rhyming slang).—The hair. For synonyms, see Top-dressing.

1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, or Rogue's Lexicon, s.v.

FANTAIL, subs. (common).—A sort of round hat with a long leathern fan-shaped flap at the back; worn by coal-heavers and dustmen; a SOU'-WESTER (q.v.).

1851-61. H. Mayhew, London Lab. and Lon. Poor, vol. II., p. 199. He had good strong lace boots, gray worsted stockings, a stout pair of corduroy breeches, a short smockfrock and fantail.

1877. J. Greenwood, Dick Temple, ch. xiii. I fancy I see you, for example, with knee breeches and calves and a fantail, shouldering an inky sack and shooting its contents into a hole in the pavement.

Fanteague. On the fanteague, adv. phr. (colloquial).—On the 'burst,' or on the 'loose.'

Far-back, subs. (tailors').—An indifferent workman; an ignoramus.

FARDEN, subs. (common).—A farthing. For synonyms, see Fadge.

1880. Milliken, Punch's Almanack, May. Otherwise don't care one brass farden, For the best ever blowed in Covent Garden.

Farm, subs. (common).—1. An establishment where pauper children were lodged and fed at so much a head; also for illegitimate children. Also verbally = to contract to feed and lodge pauper or illegitimate children.

1838. Dickens, Oliver Twist, ch. ii. The parish authorities magnanimously and humanely resolved, that Oliver should be farmed, or, in other words, that he should be despatched to a branch workhouse some three miles off, where twenty or thirty other juvenile offenders against the poor-laws, rolled about the floor all day, without the inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing, under the parental superintendence of an elderly female, who received the culprits at and for the consideration of sevenpence-halfpenny per small head per week.

1869. Greenwood, Seven Curses of London. There can be no question that