Luck, or good luck.  To tread in a surreverence, to be
  bewrayed:  an allusion to the proverb, Sh-tt-n luck is good
  luck.

LUD’S bulwark.  Ludgate prison.

Lugs.  Ears or wattles.  See wattles.

Lullaby cheat.  An infant.  Cant.

LULLIES.  Wet linen.  Cant.

LULLY triggers.  Thieves who steal wet linen.  Cant.

Lumb.  Too much.

Lumber.  Live lumber; soldiers or passengers on board a
  ship are so called by the sailors.

Lumber Troop.  A club or society of citizens of London.

Lumber house.  A house appropriated by thieves for the
  reception of their stolen property.

To lump.  To beat; also to include a number of articles
  under one head.

To lump the lighter.  To be transported.

LUMPERS.  Persons who contract to unload ships; also
  thieves who lurk about wharfs to pilfer goods from ships,
  lighters, &c.

Lumping.  Great.  A lumping penny worth; a great quantity
  for the money, a bargain.  He has’got a lumping penny-worth;
  frequently said of a man who marries a fat woman.

LUN.  Harlequin.

Lurch.  To be left in the lurch; to be abandoned by one’s
  confederates or party, to be left in a scrape.

Lurched. Those who lose a game of whist, without scoring five,
  are said to be lurched.

Lurcher.  A lurcher of the law; a bum bailiff, or his setter.

LURRIES.  Money, watches, rings, or other moveablcs.

Lush.  Strong beer.

To lush.  To drink.

LUSHEY.  Drunk.  The rolling kiddeys hud a spree, and got
  bloody lushey; the dashing lads went on a party of pleasure,
  and got very drunk.

Lye.  Chamber lye; urine.

Maccaroni.  An Italian paste made of flour and eggs. 
  Also a fop:  which name arose from a club, called the
  Maccaroni Club, instituted by some of the most dressy
  travelled gentlemen about town, who led the fashions; whence
  a man foppishly dressed, was supposed a member of that
  club, and by contraction styled a Maccaroni.

Mace cove.  A swindler, a sharper, a cheat.  On the
  mace; to live by swindling.

Machines.  Mrs. Phillips’s ware.  See Cundum.

Mackerel.  A bawd:  from the French maquerel.  Mackerel-
  backed; long-backed.

Mad tom, or tom of bedlam, otherwise an Abram
  Man.  A rogue that counterfeits madness.  Cant.

Madam.  A kept madam; a kept mistress.

Madam ran.  A whore.  Cant.

Made.  Stolen.  Cant.