moving goods by moonlight
Shoulder knot, a bailiff
Shuffle, go, morriss, begone
Slum, gammon, sham
Shy cock, a person afraid of a bailiff
Sigster, a nap, after dinner, a short sleep
Sidle, come close to
Sighers, _See_ Groaners
Sight, take a, a manner of expressing contempt or ridicule by putting
the thumb to the nose, with the fingers straight up in the air
Sight, a lot, a great many, a great deal
Sinkers, old stockings that have sunk the small parts into the heel
Sipper, a tea spoon
Six and eight pence, a lawyer
Sink hole, the throat
Skewer, a sword
Skin, a purse
Skinners, villains who steal children; kidnappers who entrap unwary
men to enlist for soldiers
Sky parlour, a garret, or first floor next the sky
Slang, flash language, patter
Slanged, ironed on one leg
Slap bang, victuals sold at a cook shop
Slate, a sheet
Sling tale and galena, fowl and pickled pork
Slipped cove, got away
Slogg, to thump hard
Slogger, a miller, a boxer
Sluicery, a gin shop
Sluiced their gobs, drank heartily
Sluice, wet, moisten
Slubber, a heavy stupid fellow
Sly, contraband
Smack the bit, share the booty
Smart blunt, forfeit money
Smart, regular, up, awake
Smashing cove, housebreaker
Smash, to break, strike, also bad coin
Smash, a thigh of mutton and, leg of mutton, turnips, and capers
Smasher, passer of bad money
Smell, half a guinea
Smell a rat, to surmise something
Smeller, the nose
Smiter, the arm
Smicket, a shift
Smug, steal, nibble
Shaffle, highwayman
Sneak, on the morning, sneaking down in the kitchen, &c., just as the
servants are up, and purloining any small articles, commonly practised
by cadgers
Sneezer, the nose
Snitch, to turn, to nose, to tell tales, to turn sneak
Snorter, the nose
Snooze, to sleep, doze
Snoozing ken, a sleeping room
Snow ball, a black man
Snuffle, the nose
Snuge, thief under a bed
Solomon, the mass
Some tune, a large amount
Something short, a glass of liquor
Soul driver, methodist parson
South sea mountain, gin
Speck, a bad, a bad undertaking
Specks, barnacles, spectacles
Spicer, footpad, robber
Spicer, high, highwayman
Spike hotel, the Fleet, or King's Bench
Spilt, overturned in a carriage
Spittleonian, yellow handkerchief
Spoke with, to rob
Spoke to, he's taken by the officers, cast for death
Spooney, a foolish fellow
Spoil, to bruise, i
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