Captain.  Led captain; an humble dependant in a great
  family, who for a precarious subsistence, and distant hopes
  of preferment, suffers every kind of indignity, and is the
  butt of every species of joke or ill-humour.  The small
  provision made for officers of the army and navy in time of
  peace, obliges many in both services to occupy this wretched
  station.  The idea of the appellation is taken from a led horse,
  many of which for magnificence appear in the retinues
  of great personages on solemn occasions, such as processions,
  &c.

Captain COPPERTHORNE’S crew.  All officers; a saying
  of a company where everyone strives to rule.

Captain lieutenant.  Meat between veal and beef, the
  flesh of an old calf; a military simile, drawn from the
  officer of that denomination, who has only the pay of a
  lieutenant, with the rank of captain; and so is not entirely
  one or the other, but between both.

Captain PODD.  A celebrated master of a puppet-shew, in
  Ben Johnson’s time, whose name became a common one
  to signify any of that fraternity.

Captain QUEERNABS.  A shabby ill-dressed fellow.

Captain sharp.  A cheating bully, or one in a set of
  gamblers, whose office is to bully any pigeon, who, suspecting
  roguery, refuses to pay what he has lost.  Cant.

Captain tom.  The leader of a mob; also the mob itself.

Caravan.  A large sum of money; also, a person cheated
  of such sum.  Cant.

Carbuncle face.  A red face, full of pimples.

Cardinal.  A cloak in fashion about the year 1760.

To carouse.  To drink freely or deep:  from the German
  word expressing all out.

Carriers.  A set of rogues who are employed to look out
  and watch upon the roads, at inns, &c. in order to carry
  information to their respective gangs, of a booty in
  prospect.

Carriers.  Pigeons which carry expresses.

Carrion hunter.  An undertaker; called also a cold
  cook, and death hunter.  See cold cook and death
  hunter.

Carrots.  Red hair.

CARROTTY-pated. Ginger-hackled, red-haired.  See
  ginger-hackled.

Carry WITCHET.  A sort of conundrum, puzzlewit, or
  riddle.

Cart.  To put the cart before the horse; to mention the
  last part of a story first.  To be flogged at the cart’s a-se or
  tail; persons guilty of petty larceny are frequently
  sentenced to be tied to the tail of a cart, and whipped by the
  common executioner, for a certain distance:  the degree
  of severity in the execution is left to the discretion of the
  executioner, who, it is said, has cats of nine tails of all
  prices.