CAFFAN. Cheese. Cant.
CAGG. To cagg; a military term used by the private
soldiers,
signifying a solemn vow or resolution
not to get
drunk for a certain time; or, as the term
is, till their cagg
is out: which vow is commonly observed
with the strictest
exactness. Ex. I have cagg’d
myself for six months.
Excuse me this time, and I will cagg myself
for
a year. This term is also used in
the same sense among
the common people of Scotland, where it
is performed
with divers ceremonies.
CAG. To be cagged. To be sulky or out of
humour. The
cove carries the cag; the man is vexed
or sullen.
CAG Magg. Bits and scraps of provisions. Bad meat.
CAGG Maggs. Old Lincolnshire geese, which
having been
plucked ten or twelve years, are sent
up to London to
feast the cockneys.
Cake, or CAKEY. A foolish fellow.
Calf-skin fiddle. A drum.
To smack calf’s skin; to
kiss the book in taking an oath.
It is held by the St.
Giles’s casuists, that by kissing
one’s thumb instead of
smacking calf’s skin, the guilt
of taking a false oath is
avoided.
Calves. His calves are gone to grass; a
saying of a man
with slender legs without calves.
Veal will be cheap,
calves fall; said of a man whose calves
fall away.
Calves head club. A club instituted
by the Independents
and Presbyterians, to commemorate the
decapitation
of King Charles I. Their chief fare was
calves heads; and
they drank their wine and ale out of calves
skulls.
CALIBOGUS. Rum and spruce beer, American beverage.
Calle. A cloak or gown. Cant.
Cambridge fortune. A wind-mill and
a water-mill,
used to signify a woman without any but
personal endowments.
Cambridge oak. A willow.
CAMBRADE. A chamber fellow; a Spanish military
term.
Soldiers were in that country divided
into chambers, five
men making a chamber, whence it was generally
used to
signify companion.
CAMESA. A shirt or shift. Cant. Spanish.
Camp candlestick. A bottle, or soldier’s bayonet.
Campbell’s academy. The hulks
or lighters, on
board of which felons are condemned to
hard labour.
Mr. Campbell was the first director of
them. See
academy and floating academy.
Canary bird. A jail bird, a person
used to be kept in
a cage; also, in the canting sense, guineas.
Candlesticks. Bad, small, or untunable bells.
Hark!
how the candlesticks rattle.
Candy. Drunk. Irish.
Cane. To lay Cane upon Abel; to beat any
one with a
cane or stick.


