and Rain; also the part next to the Deer's Head.
Burlesque, Raillery in Verse, or Verse in Ridicule.
Burnish, to spread, or grow broad; also to refresh Plate, being the Trade of a
Burnisher, depending on Gold and Silver-Smiths.
Burnt, Poxt, or swingingly Clapt.
Burnt the Town, when the Soldiers leave the Place without paying their Quarters.
Burre, a Hanger on, or Dependant.
Bustle, a Fray, Stir, Tumult in the Streets; also a Noise in any Place. What a Bustle you make? What a Hurry or Rattle you Cause? Bustle about, to be very Stirring, or bestir one's Stumps.
Butcher'd, Barbarously Murder'd on the Ground, or Kill'd before his Sword is out; also in Cold Bloud.
Butter, c. to double or treble the Bet or Wager to recover all Losses: No Butter will stick on his Bread, nothing thrives or goes forward in his Hand. He knows on which side his Bread is Butter'd, or the Stronger side, and his own Interest.
Butter-boxes, Dutchmen.
Butter'd Bun, Lying with a Woman that has been just Layn with by another Man.
Buttock, c. a Whore.
Butteck-broker, a Bawd, also a Match-maker. A Buttock and File, c. both Whore and Pickpocket.
Buttock and Twang, or a downright Buttock and sham File, c. a Common Whore but no Pickpocket.
Buzzard, c. a foolish soft Fellow, easily drawn in and Cullied or Trickt.
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By-blow, a Bastard.
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