To chuck.  To shew a propensity for a man.  The mors
  chucks; the wench wants to be doing.

Clout.  A blow.  I’ll give you a clout on your jolly nob;
  I’ll give you a blow on your head.  It also means a
  handkerchief.  Cant.  Any pocket handkerchief except
  a silk one.

CLOUTED shoon.  Shoes tipped with iron.

CLOUTING lay.  Picking pockets of handkerchiefs.

Clover.  To be, or live, in clover; to live luxuriously. 
  Clover is the most desirable food for cattle.

Clowes.  Rogues.

Cloy.  To steal.  To cloy the clout; to steal the handkerchief. 
  To cloy the lour; to steal money.  Cant.

Cloves.  Thieves, robbers, &c.

Club.  A meeting or association, where each man is to spend
  an equal and stated sum, called his club.

Club law.  Argumentum bacculinum, in which an oaken
  stick is a better plea than an act of parliament.

Clump.  A lump.  Clumpish; lumpish, stupid.

CLUNCH.  An awkward clownish fellow.

To clutch the fist. To clench or shut the hand.  Clutch
  fisted; covetous, stingy.  See close-fisted.

Clutches.  Hands, gripe, power.

Clutter.  A stir, noise, or racket:  what a confounded
  clutter here is!

Cly.  Money; also a pocket.  He has filed the cly; he
  has picked a pocket.  Cant.

Cly the jerk:  To be whipped.  Cant.

Clyster pipe.  A nick name for an apothecary.

Coach wheel.  A half crown piece is a fore coach wheel,
  and a crown piece a hind coach wheel; the fore wheels of
  a coach being less than the hind ones.

To coax.  To fondle, or wheedle.  To coax a pair of stockings;
  to pull down the part soiled into the shoes, so as to
  give a dirty pair of stockings the appearance of clean ones. 
  Coaxing is also used, instead of darning, to hide the holes
  about the ancles.

Cob.  A Spanish dollar.

Cob, or cobbing.  A punishment used by the seamen for
  petty offences, or irregularities, among themselves:  it
  consists in bastonadoing the offender on the posteriors with
  a cobbing stick, or pipe staff; the number usually inflicted
  is a dozen.  At the first stroke the executioner repeats
  the word watch, on which all persons present are to take
  off their hats, on pain of like punishment:  the last stroke
  is always given as hard as possible, and is called the purse. 
  Ashore, among soldiers, where this punishment is sometimes
  adopted, watch and the purse are not included in the