Quill driver.  A clerk, scribe, or hackney writer.

Quim.  The private parts of a woman:  perhaps from the
  Spanish quemar, to burn. (Cambridge) A piece’s furbelow.

Quinsey.  Choked by a hempen quinsey; hanged.

QUIPPS.  Girds, taunts, jests.

Quire, or choir bird.  A complete rogue, one that has
  sung in different choirs or cages, i.e. gaols.  Cant.

Quirks and QUILLETS.  Tricks and devices.  Quirks in
  law; subtle distinctions and evasions.

Quiz.  A strange-looking fellow, an odd dog.  Oxford.

Quod.  Newgate, or any other prison.  The dab’s in quod;
  the poor rogue is in prison.

Quota.  Snack, share, part, proportion, or dividend.  Tip
  me my quota; give me part of the winnings, booty, or
  plunder.  Cant.

Rabbit.  A Welch rabbit; bread and cheese toasted, i.e.
  a Welch rare bit.  Rabbits were also a sort of wooden
  canns to drink out of, now out of use.

Rabbit catcher.  A midwife.

Rabbit suckers.  Young spendthrifts taking up goods on
  trust at great prices.

Rack rent.  Rent strained to the utmost value.  To
  lie at rack and manger; to be in great disorder.

RACKABACK.  A gormagon.  See gormagon.

RAFFS.  An appellation given by the gownsmen of the university
  of Oxford to the inhabitants of that place.

Rag.  Bank notes.  Money in general.  The cove has no
  rag; the fellow has no money.

Rag.  A farthing.

To rag.  To abuse, and tear to rags the characters of the
  persons abused.  She gave him a good ragging, or ragged
  him off heartily.

Rag carrier.  An ensign.

Rag fair.  An inspection of the linen and necessaries of a
  company of soldiers, commonly made by their officers on
  Mondays or Saturdays.

Rag water.  Gin, or any other common dram:  these
  liquors seldom failing to reduce those that drink them to
  rags.

Ragamuffin.  A ragged fellow, one all in tatters, a
tatterdemallion.

Rails.  See head rails.  A dish of rails; a lecture, jobation,
  or scolding from a married woman to her husband.

Rainbow.  Knight of the rainbow; a footman:  from being
  commonly clothed in garments of different colours.  A
  meeting of gentlemen, styled of the most ancient order of
  the rainbow, was advertised to be held at the Foppington’s
  Head, Moorfields.

Rainy day.  To lay up something for a rainy day; to
  provide against a time of necessity or distress.

Rake, rakehell, or RAKESHAME.  A lewd, debauched
  fellow.