1599. Breton, Dream of Strange Effects, 17. Love and Rage kept such a reakes that I thought they would have gone mad together.
d. 1599. Spenser, View of Ireland, 445. Thinke it to be the greatest indignity to the queene that may be, to suffer such a caytiffe to play such rex.
1605. Sylvester, Du Bartas, 504. Then plaies he rex, tears, kils, and all consumes.
1611. Cotgrave, Dict., s.v. Faire le diable de Vauvdt To keepe an old coyle, horrible, bustling, terrible swaggering; to play monstrous reaks, or raks-jakes.
1616. Court and Times Chas. I., 1. 256. Then came the English ordnance, which had been brought to land, to play such reaks among the horse that they were forced to fly.
1622. Fletcher, Sea Voyage, iv. 11. In that rage (for they are violent fellows) they play such reaks!
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, 111. ii. Playing reeks with the high and stately timber, and preparing . . . for the eve of the great Day of Judgment.
1655. Fanshawe, Luciad, x. 65. With fire and sword he overcomes and breaks; In Beadala shall his blade play REX.
Rheumatism in the Shoulder,
subs. phr. (common).—Arrest.—Grose.
Rhino, subs. (old).—Money:
generic; specifically ready money.—B.
E. (c. 1696); Dyche (1748);
Grose (1785). Whence rhino-*fat
(or rhinoceral) = rich.
Synonyms.—Generic. Actual; ballast; beans; bit (bite or byte); blunt; brads; brass; bustle; Californians; captain (the); caravan; change; charms; checks; chink; chinkers; chips; clink; coal (or cole); cod (q.v.); coin; coliander-seeds; coppers; cork; corn in Egypt; crap (or crop); crisp; cuckoos; darby; delog (back slang); dibs; dimmock; dinarly (or dinarlies); dingbat; dirt; dollars; dooteroomus (or doot); dots; ducats; dues; dumps; dust; dye-stuffs; evil (the); family-plate; fat; feathers; flimsy (or flim); flour; gent; gilt (gelt, gelter, or gilt-tick); gingerbread; gingleboys; ginglers; glanthorne; goree; greed; grocery; haddock (q.v.); hard; hardstuff; hen; honey; horsenails; hoxters (or huxters); iron; jink; John (John Davis or ready-John); kelter (or kilter); King's (or Queen's pictures); lawful pictures; legem pone; loaver; lour (or loure); £ s. d.; lurries; mammon; metal; mopusses; mouldy-'uns; moss; muck; needful; nobbings; nonsense; nuggets; ochre; oil of angels; oil of palms; ointment; old; oof (or ooftish: Yiddish); paint; palm-oil; pan; pap (cf. soft); paper; pee; penny; pewter; pieces; pile; plate; plums; pocket; pony; portcullis; posh; pot; powder; prey; punchable (q.v.); purse; queer; quids; rags; ready (ready-gilt or ready-John); redge (or ridge); reek; regulars; ribbon; ring; rivets; root of all evil; rowdy; salt; sawdust; scads; screens; screeves; scuds; shadscales (or scales); shan; shekels; shells; shigs; shiners; shot; shin-*plasters (or plasters); sinews of war; skin; soap; soft; soft-flimsy (base); Spanish; spanks; spankers; spondulicks; spoon; stamps; steven; stevers; stiff; stuff; stumpy; sugar; tin; tea-*spoons; tow; wad; wedge; wherewith (or wherewithal); yellowboys; yennoms (back slang). £1,000,000 = marigold. £100,000 = plum. £1,000 = cow. £500 = monkey. £100 = century. £25 = pony. £10 = double-finnup; long-tailed finnup (also of notes of higher
