Page:Science vol. 5.djvu/413

 3S1

��arranged his glossary in alpliabetk-al form, and have in a few cases analyzed a phrase into its component words; but I have not al- tered his definitions. In tlie table that fol- lows, his list of words will be found compared with various other lists of the same descrip- tion.

The books which I have selected for com- parison were published at various dates, some before and some after Tufts's glossary, which was compiled at least as early as 1798, he lia\-iDg been a prisoner at the Castle for the five yeai-s preceding. These books are as follows, arranged in order of date, and they are designated in the accompanying table by this date alone.

��1573, llarman's (Thomas) 'Caveat for com- mon cursetors,' reprinted in J. C. Hotten's ' Slang dictionary,' ed. 1873, p. 15.

1673, Head's (Richard) ' Canting academy, to which is added a compleat Canting Diction- ary.'

1785, Grose's (Francis) 'Classical diction- ary of the vulgar tongue.'

1790, Potter's (Henry T.) ' New dictionary of the cant and flash languages.'

ISll, 'Lexicon Balatronieum * [founded on Grose].

185a, Matsell's (George W.) 'Dictionary of the thieves' jai^on' [New York].

1873, Hotten's 'Slang dictionary,' a new edition.

��I

��Darky,

��Oor».

��Homey

��Tufls's gloisars, 1793-9S (Boston).

��HUhwi, rob1«

�ry.

� �A pocket

�Aihoe

�A iboemoker't To brekk upCD

ClDDdj. ..

�.b»p.

� �A dirk night

� � � �To pill oni the 1 Aprltoner.

Oolnrin"'«hoi •There Uwdoo

�light.

�nighl,' open.

��iTbe b»t laif, or d**lce. Obvlooi lulosy-l

��Lay rUodeaf>l«Uni]

��1; IIM: IBII; 18W; I

��IgbiJi ieT3, ltS3, 1' twltlKbl). rOjn£i = »ery, eiewdlng. HiJllwell, Konh. [TDdtuff^todrlnlB. Hulllwell.] t7U (dinoy O^rtMan ^ ■ mnliUlo) ; 1811 (u

ISllI 19M; K13[fltn M aUm]. [One draagrd by the polfee?]

hst; im(duACU(^n-' lock the door):

��. ]7B5(afdri»-='a wlndow-thleT): 1811; ISiDj 1R73, . ia73(iJlnmar<'flre): 1«T3, ITM (the Htoe)', U

, lan {gorffrr ' m gemleRun). [Gyp(fFr<«^lhlov«of prkriortrnnkili ISJK ( neltr-»(ln" ume).

, 17»S;?7W; 1811; ]»»; 1873.

. U-.^lprauwrr)-, 1873 (praneiT) ; 1T»0; Mil; ISiB; 1873 ('old cant '1.

. I5T3 ((fnuB- *™l; lfl7S {mwr ktn); 17W Wnod); 1ST3 Iqaad or qu. abbniiTaUoD ur qnadraogle).

��J; lgM(7i.(d = »i|.

S \'^=rtai^B'' "o

lulbly a earrnpUoB a

��callnd beeaoM plaited like a qoallpipe) ; 1311 (un: kIngfstJow); U73 (^utiAv^oo «°P< 17BS).

�� �