and seraphim continually
do cry.

_Cheat-the-devil_, a dicky.

_Chife_, a knife, file, or saw.

_Chosen Pells_, highwaymen who rob in pairs, in the streets and squares
of London; to prevent being followed by the sound of their horses' shoes
on the stones, they shoe them with leather.

_Chuck farthing_, a parish clerk.

_Clank napper_, a silver tankard.

_Clickman Toad_, a watch; also, an appellation for a west-countryman,
said to have arisen from the following--a westcountryman, who had never
seen a watch, found one on a heath near Pool, which, by the motion of the
hand, and the noise of the wheels, he concluded to be a living creature
of the toad kind; and, from its clicking, he named it a clickman toad.

_Clowes_, rogues.

_Cloy_, thief, robber, &c.

_Cloyes_, thieves, robbers, &c.

_Cly_, money; also, a pocket. He has filed a cly; he has picked a
pocket.

_Cold burning_, a punishment inflicted by private soldiers, on their
comrades, for any trifling offences of their mess laws; it is
administered in the following manner--the prisoner is set against the
wall, with the arm which is to be burned tied as high above his head as
possible; the executioner then ascends a stool, and having a bottle of
cold water, pours it slowly down the sleeve of the delinquent, patting
him, and leading the water gently down his body, till it runs out at the
bottom of his trowsers--this is repeated to the other arm, if he is
sentenced to be burned in both.

_Cloak_, a silver tankard.

_Coach wheel_, or _a fore coach wheel_, half-a-crown; _a hind coach
wheel_, a crown.

_Cobblecotter_, a turnkey.

_Collar day_, execution day.

_Colquarron_, a man's neck.

_Comefa_, a shirt, or shift.

_Commission_, a shirt.

_Comfortable impudence_, a wife.

_Cooler_, a woman.

_Costard_, the head.

_Court card_, a gay fluttering coxcomb.

_Cow's baby_, a calf.

_Cow-handed_, awkward, not dextrous.

_Crab shells_, shoes.

_Cramp word_, sentence of death passed on a criminal by a judge:--he has
just undergone the cramp word; sentence has just been passed upon him.

_Crew_, a knot or gang: the canting crew are thus divided into
twenty-three orders:--

MEN.

1. Rufflers.

2. Upright Men.

3. Hookers, or Anglers.

4. Rogues.

5. Wild Rogues.

6. Priggers, or Prancers.

7. Pailliards.

8. Fraters.

9. Jarkmen, or Patricoes.

10. Fresh Water Mariner's or Whip Jackets.

11. Drummerers.

12.