WIGANNOWNS.  A man wearing a large wig.

Wigsby.  Wigsby; a man wearing a wig.

Wild rogues.  Rogues trained up to stealing from their
  cradles.

Wild squirt.  A looseness.

Wild-goose chase.  A tedious uncertain pursuit, like the
  following a flock of wild geese, who are remarkably shy.

Willing tit.  A free horse, or a coming girl.

Willow.  Poor, and of no reputation.  To wear the willow;
  to be abandoned by a lover or mistress.

Win.  A penny,

To win.  To steal.  The cull has won a couple of rum
  glimsticks; the fellow has stolen a pair of fine candlesticks.

Wind.  To raise the wind; to procure mony.

Winder.  Transportation for life.  The blowen has napped
  a winder for a lift; the wench is transported for life for
  stealing in a shop.

Wind-mill.  The fundament.  She has no fortune but
  her mills; i.e. she has nothing but her **** and a*se.

Windfall.  A legacy, or any accidental accession of property.

Windmills in the head.  Foolish projects.

Window peeper.  A collector of the window tax.

Windward passage.  One who uses or navigates the
  windward passage; a sodomite.

Windy.  Foolish.  A windy fellow; a simple fellow.

Wink.  To tip one the wink; to give a signal by winking
  the eye.

Winnings.  Plunder, goods, or money acquired by theft.

Winter cricket.  A taylor.

WINTER’S day.  He is like a winter’s day, short and dirty.

Wipe.  A blow, or reproach.  I’ll give you a wipe on the
  chops.  That story gave him a fine wipe.  Also a handkerchief.

Wiper.  A handkerchief.  Cant.

Wiper drawer.  A pickpocket, one who steals handkerchiefs. 
  He drew a broad, narrow, cam, or specked wiper;
  he picked a pocket of a broad, narrow, cambrick, or coloured
  handkerchief.

To wiredraw.  To lengthen out or extend any book, letter,
  or discourse.

Wise.  As wise as Waltham’s calf, that ran nine miles to
  suck a bull.

Wise men of Gotham.  Gotham is a village in Nottinghamshire;
  its magistrates are said to have attempted to
  hedge in a cuckow; a bush, called the cuckow’s bush, is
  still shewn in support of the tradition.  A thousand other
  ridiculous stories are told of the men of Gotham.

Wiseacre.  A foolish conceited fellow.

WISEACRE’S hall.  Gresham college.

Wit.  He has as much wit as three folks, two fools and a
  madman.