1819. Vaux, Memoirs, s.v. Move, any action or operation in life; the secret spring by which any project is conducted, as, There is a move in that business which you are not down to. To be flash to every move upon the board, is to have a general knowledge of the world, and all its numerous deceptions.
1853. Wh. Melville, Digby Grand, xiii. The champion glared . . . putting in play all the different manœuvres of the King, which the initiated call moves.
1891. Lic. Vict. Gaz., 16 Jan. He said he had as good as given me a fortune, for he had made me a tip-top player, put me up to every move upon the board, and the next time I played I should sweep it clean.
Moveables, subs. (thieves').—1.
Furniture; and (2) see quots.
1599. Shakspeare, Henry V. ii. 8. 50. Look to my chattels and my movables.
1607. Middleton, Trick to Catch the Old One, iii. 1. He's rich in money, movables, and land.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Moveables. . . . We bit all the Cull's cole and moveables, we won all the man's money, rings, watches etc.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Moveables. Rings, watches, or any toys of value.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
Moved, adv. (American thieves').—See
quot.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v. Moved. Bowed to.
Mow, verb. (American).—1. To kiss.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v. Mow. To kiss.
2. (venery).—See quots. For synonyms see Greens and Ride. Also Mowe.
d.1554. Lyndsay, Kitteis Confessioun, l. 16. Quod scho, Will Leno mowit me.
1597-8. Haughton, A Woman will have her Will [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), x. 493]. I am no meat for his mowing.
1719. Durfey, Pills to Purge, v. 18. For when at her Daddy's Ise gang to Bed, Ise mow'd her without any more to do.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. To Mow. A Scotch word for the act of copulation.
1793. Burns, (In Title) Poor Bodies do Nothing but mow. May the deil in her arse Ram a huge prick of brass, An' damn her to hell wi' a mow.
1808-25. Jamieson, Dict., s.v. Mow . . . to copulate.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1850. Halliwell, Archaic & Provincial Words, s.v. Mow . . . Futuo.
Mowdiwort (or Mowdiwark), subs.
(venery).—The penis. For synonyms
see Creamstick and Prick.
17[?]. Old Song [quoted by Burns in Merry Muses], 'The Modiewark.' The Modiwark has done me ill, And under my apron has biggit a hill.
Mower, subs. (Old Cant).—A cow.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1728. Bailey, Eng. Dict., s.v. Mower . . . Cant.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
Mow- (or moo-) heater, subs.
(old).—See quot.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v. Mow Heater. A drover: from their frequent sleeping on hay mows. Cant.
1870. All the Year Round, 5 Mar. 'Bye-gone Cant,' s.v.
Mozzy, subs. (showmen's).—Judy.
Swatchell = Mr. Punch.
M. P., subs. phr. (common).—A
policeman. For synonyms see
Beak.
Mr. Ferguson, Mr. Knap, Mr.
Nash, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Pullen.
See Ferguson, Knap, Nash,
Palm, and Pull.
