_Pad-the-hoof_, journeying on foot.
_Panum_, bread.
_Panter_, a heart.
_Pantler_, a butler.
_Peaches_, discovers, informs.
_Peeper_, a looking-gla.s.s.
_Peter_, a portmanteau, or cloak-bag.
_Peg tandrums_, as, gone to peg tandrums, dead.
_Penance boards_, a pillory.
_Penthouse nab_, a very broad-brimmed hat.
_Periwinkle_, a peruke or wig.
_Philistines_, sergeants, bailiffs, and their crew.
_Porker_, a sword.
_Property_, a mere tool or implement to serve a turn; a cat"s foot.
_Prig_, a thief.
_Quail pipe_, a woman"s tongue.
_Queer cuffin_, a justice of peace, also, a churl.
_Rabbit suckers_, young spendthrifts, taking goods on tick of p.a.w.nbrokers or tallymen, at excessive rates.
_Rattling_ cove, a coachman.
_Red rag_, a tongue; _your red rag will never lie still_, your tongue will never be quiet.
_Regraters_, forestallers in markets.
_Ribben_, money.
_Rotan_, a coach, or wagon, or any thing that runs upon wheels, but princ.i.p.ally a cart.
_Royster_, a rude roaring fellow.
_Ruffin_, the devil.
_Ruffmans_, the woods or bushes.
_Rumbeck_, a justice of peace.
_Rumbo_, a prison.
_Rumboozling welts_, bunches of grapes.
_Rumboyled_, sought after with a warrant.
_Rum clank_, a large silver tankard.
_Rum degen_, a silver-hilted or inlaid sword.
_Rumdropper_, a vintner.
_Rum ogle"s_, fine, bright, clear, piercing eyes.
_Rum-strum_, a long wig.
_Rum-swag_, full of riches.
_Scab_, a sixpence.
_School b.u.t.ter_, a whipping.
_Sconce_, to run in debt, to cheat.
_Seeds_, poor, moneyless, exhausted.
_Setters_, or _setting-dogs_, they that draw in bubbles for old gamesters to rook; also a sergeant"s yeoman, or bailiff"s follower; also an excise-officer.
_Sharper_, a swindler, a cheat.
_Sharper"s tools_, false dice.
_Shot_, clapped or poxed.
_Shove the tumbler_, whipped at the cart"s tail.
_Skin-flint_, a griping, sharping, close clown; also, the same as flat.
_Smearer_, a painter, or plasterer.
_Smeller_, a nose.
_Smelling cheat_, a nosegay; also an orchard, a garden.
_Smiter_, an arm.