Thorough go nimble. A looseness, a violent purging.
Thorough cough. Coughing and breaking
wind backwards
at the same time.
Thorough stitch. To go thorough stitch;
to stick at nothing;
over shoes, over boots.
Thought. What did thought do? lay’in
bed and beshat
himself, and thought he was up; reproof
to any one who
excuses himself for any breach of positive
orders, by
pleading that he thought to the contrary.
Three to one. He is playing three
to one, though sure to
lose; said of one engaged in the amorous
congress.
Three-penny upright. A retailer
of love, who, for the
sum mentioned, dispenses her favours standing
against a
wall.
Three-legged mare, or stool.
The gallows, formerly
consisting of three posts, over which
were laid three
transverse beams. This clumsy machine
has lately given place
to an elegant contrivance, called the
new drop, by which
the use of that vulgar vehicle a cart,
or mechanical
instrument a ladder, is also avoided;
the patients being left
suspended by the dropping down of that
part of the floor on
which they stand. This invention
was first made use of for
a peer. See drop.
Three threads. Half common ale, mixed
with stale and
double beer.
THREPS. Threepence.
To throttle. To strangle.
Throttle. The throat, or gullet.
To thrum. To play on any instrument
sttfnged with wire.
A thrummer of wire; a player on the spinet,
harpsichord,
of guitar.
THRUMS. Threepence.
Thumb. By rule of thumb: to do any
thing by dint of
practice. To kiss one’s thumb
instead of the book; a vulgar
expedient to avoid perjury in taking a
false oath.
THCMMIKINS. An instrument formerly used in Scotland,
like a vice, to pinch the thumbs of persons
accused of
different crimes, in order to extort confession.
Thump. A blow. This is better than
a thump on the back
with a stone; said on giving any one a
drink of good liquor
on a cold morning. Thatch, thistle,
thunder, and thump;
words to the Irish, like the Shibboleth
of the Hebrews.
Thumping. Great! a thumping boy.
Thwack. A great blow with a stick across the shoulders.
TIB. A young lass
TIBBY. A cat.
TIB of the buttery. A goose.
Cant. Saint Tibb’s
evening; the evening of the last day,
or day of judgment:
he will pay you on St. Tibb’s eve.
Irish.
Tick. To run o’tick; take up goods
upon trust, to run in
debt. Tick; a watch. See
sessions papers.


