Taw.  A schoolboy’s game, played with small round balls
  made of stone dust, catted marbles.  I’ll be one upon your
  taw presently; a species of threat.

Tawdry.  Garish, gawdy, with lace or staring and discordant
  colours:  a term said to be derived from the shrine
  and altar of St. Audrey (an Isle of Ely saintess), which
  for finery exceeded all others thereabouts, so as to
  become proverbial; whence any fine dressed man or woman
  said to be all St Audrey, and by contraction, all
  tawdry.

TAWED. Beaten,

TAYLE.  See tail.

TAYLE drawers.  Thieves who snatch gentlemens swords
  from their sides.  He drew the cull’s tayle rumly; he
  snatched away the gentleman’s sword cleverly.

Taylor.  Nine taylors make a man; an ancient and
  common saying, originating from the effeminacy of their
  employment; or, as some have it, from nine taylors having
  been robbed by one man; according to others, from the
  speech of a woollendraper, meaning that the custom of
  nine, taylors would make or enrich one man—­A London
  taylor, rated to furnish half a man to the Trained Bands,
  asking how that could possibly be done? was answered,
  By sending four, journeymen and and apprentice.—­Puta
  taylor, a weaver, and a miller into a sack, shake them
  well, And the first that, puts out his head is certainly a
  thief.—­A taylor is frequently styled pricklouse,
  assaults on those vermin with their needles.

Taylors goose.  An iron with which, when heated,
  press down the seams of clothes.

Tea voider.  A chamber pot.

Tea GUELAND.  Ireland.  Teaguelanders; Irishmen.

Tears of the tankard.  The drippings of liquor on a
  man’s waistcoat.

Teddy my Godson.  An address to a supposed simple
  fellow, or nysey,

TEIZE.  To-nap the teize; to receive a whipping.  Cant.

Temple pickling.  Pumping a bailiff; a punishment
  formerly administered to any of that fraternity caught
  exercising their functions within the limits of Temple.

Ten toes.  See bayard of ten toes.

Ten in the hundred. An usurer; more than five in
  the hundred being deemed usurious interest.

Tenant at will, One whose wife usually fetches him
  from the alehouse.

Tenant for life.  A married man; i.e. possessed of a
  woman for life.

Tender Parnell.  A tender creature, fearful of the least
  puff of wind or drop of rain.  As tender as Parnell, who
  broke her finger in a posset drink.

Termagant.  An outrageous scold from Termagantes, a
  cruel Pagan, formerly represented in diners shows and
  entertainments, where being dressed a la Turque, in long
  clothes, he was mistaken for a furious woman.