Cold burning. A punishment inflicted
by private soldiers
on their comrades for trifling offences,
or breach of their
mess laws; it is administered in the following
manner:
The prisoner is set against the wall,
with the arm which is
to be burned tied as high above his head
as possible. The
executioner then ascends a stool, and
having a bottle of
cold water, pours it slowly down the sleeve
of the delinquent,
patting him, and leading the water gently
down his
body, till it runs out at his breeches
knees: this is repeated
to the other arm, if he is sentenced to
be burned in both.
Cold cook. An undertaker of funerals,
or carrion hunter.
See carrion hunter.
Cold iron. A sword, or any other weapon
for cutting or
stabbing. I gave him two inches of
cold iron into his beef.
Cold meat. A dead wife is the beat
cold meat in a man’s
house.
Cold pig. To give cold pig is a punishment
inflicted on
sluggards who lie too long in bed:
it consists in pulling off
all the bed clothes from them, and throwing
cold water
upon them.
Cold pudding. This is said to settle one’s love.
Cole. Money. Post the cole: pay down the money.
COLIANDER, or coriander Seeds. Money.
Collar day. Execution day.
College. Newgate or any other prison.
New College:
the Royal Exchange. King’s
College: the King’s Bench
prison. He has been educated at the
steel, and took his
last degree at college; he has received
his education at
the house of correction, and was hanged
at Newgate.
College cove. The College cove has
numbered him, and if he
is knocked down he’ll be twisted;
the turnkey of Newgate
has told the judge how many times the
prisoner has been
tried before and therefore if he is found
guilty, he certainly
will be hanged. It is said to be
the custom of the Old Bailey
for one of the turnkeys of Newgate to
give information to
the judge how many times an old offender
has been tried,
by holding up as many fingers as the number
of times the
prisoner has been before arraigned at
that bar.
COLLEGIATES. Prisoners of the one, and shopkeepers
of
the other of those places.
Collector. A highwayman.
To collogue. To wheedle or coax.
Cook ruffian, who roasted the devil in his
feathers. A
bad cook.
Cool Crape. A shroud.
Cooler. A woman.
Cooler. The backside. Kiss my cooler.
Kiss my a-se.
It is principally used to signify a woman’s
posteriors.
Cool lady. A female follower of the
camp, who sells
brandy.


