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 squint; duster; Dutch clock; dyke.

Eel-pot (or -trap); eel-skinner; End of the Sentimental Journey (Sterne); entrance; Et-cetera (Rochester and Clelland); evergreen; everlasting wound; Eve's custom-house ('where Adam made the first entry': Grose); exchequer (Donne); Exeter-hall; eye that weeps most when best pleased (Stevens).

Factotum; fancy bit; Fanny; Fanny-Artful; Fanny-Fair; faucett; fiddle (Burns); fie-for-shame (schoolgirls'); fig; firelock; fireplace; firework; fish (generic); fish-market; flap; flapdoodle; fleshly-idol (Brown); fleshly-part; flower; flower of chivalry; flower-pot; fly-by-night; fly-cage; fly-trap; forecaster; forecastle; fore-*hatch; fore-room; forewoman; forge; fort; fortress; fountain of love; free fishery; front-garden; front-gut; front-parlor; fruitful vine ('which bears flowers every four weeks, and fruit every nine months': Grose); Fumbler's-Hall; funniment; furrow (Burns).

Gallimaufry; gap (Durfey); garden; Garden of Eden; gash; Gate of Horn; Gate of Life (Burns); G.C.; gentleman's pleasure garden; garrison (Crowne); gear (Florio); gigg (Grose); goatmilker; goldfinch's nest; gravy-giver; greens (generic); green meadow; grotto; Grove of Eglantine (Carew); grummett; gully; gut-entrance; gutter; gymnasium; gyvel (Burns).

Hair-court; Hairyfordshire; hairy ring; half-moon (Killigrew); Hans Carvel's ring (Urquhart and Prior); happy hunting-grounds; harbour; harbour of hope; hatchway; heaven; hell; hole of content (Florio); hole of holes; Holloway; home-sweet-home; horse-collar; hotel; house under the hill; housewife; hypogastrian cranny (Urquhart).

India (Donne); ineffable; inglenook; intercrural trench (Urquhart); It; itcher; Itching Jenny; Ivory Gate.

Jacob's Ladder; Jack Straw's Castle; jam-pot; jelly-bag; jewel; jigger; jock; justum (Urquhart).

Kaze; keifer (generic); kennel (Rochester); kettle (Durfey, etc.); kitchen; Kitty; knick-knack.

Ladder; Lady Berkeley; lady-flower (Whitman); Lady Jane; lady-star (Hall); lamp of love; Lapland; lather-maker; leading article; lea-rigs (generic: Burns); leather (generic: Urquhart, Lyndsay, Burns); Leather-Lane; leavingshop; Life's Dainty (G. A. Stevens); ling; little sister; little spot where uncle's doodle goes; living fountain (Herrick); lobster-pot; lock; locker; lock of all locks (Stevens); Love-lane; Love's harbour (Carew); Love's Paradise (Marston); Lowlands; Low Countries; lucky-bag.

Machine; maddikin; Madge (Grose); Madge Howlett; magnet; main avenue (Clelland); malkin (Lyndsay); mangle; man-*hole; man-trap; Marble Arch; mark (Durfey); mark-of-the-beast; Mary-Jane; masterpiece; meat (generic); meat-market; medlar; melting-pot; merkin (R. Fletcher, and A. Smith); Middle Kingdom; Midlands; milker; milking-pail; milk-pan; milt-market; mill (Durfey, Burns, etc.); milliner's shop; mine of pleas