Douglas.  Roby Douglas, with one eye and a stinking
  breath; the breech.  Sea wit.

Dowdy.  A coarse, vulgar-looking woman.

Down Hills.  Dice that run low.

Down.  Aware of a thing.  Knowing it.  There is no down. 
  A cant phrase used by house-breakers to signify that the
  persons belonging to any house are not on their guard,
  or that they are fast asleep, and have not heard any noise
  to alarm them.

To Dowse.  To take down:  as, Dowse the pendant.  Dowse
  your dog vane; take the cockade out of your hat.  Dowse
  the glim; put out the candle.

Dowse on the chops.  A blow in the face.

Dowser.  Vulgar pronunciation of douceur.

Doxies.  She beggars, wenches, whores.

Drab.  A nasty, sluttish whore.

Drag.  To go on the drag; to follow a cart or waggon, in
  order to rob it.  Cant.

Drag lay.  Waiting in the streets to rob carts or waggons.

DRAGGLETAIL or DAGGLETAIL.  One whose garments are
  bespattered with dag or dew:  generally applied to the
  female sex, to signify a slattern.

DRAGOONING it.  A man who occupies two branches of
  one profession, is said to dragoon it; because, like the
  soldier of that denomination, he serves in a double capacity. 
  Such is a physician who furnishes the medicines, and
  compounds his own prescriptions.

Drain.  Gin:  so called from the diuretic qualities imputed
  to that liquor.

Dram.  A glass or small measure of any spirituous liquors,
  which, being originally sold by apothecaries, were estimated
  by drams, ounces, &c.  Dog’s dram; to spit in
  his mouth, and clap his back.

Dram-A-Tick.  A dram served upon credit.

Draper.  An ale draper; an alehouse keeper.

Draught, or bill, on the pump at Aldgate.  A bad
  or false bill of exchange.  See Aldgate.

Draw latches.  Robbers of houses whose doors are
  only fastened with latches.  Cant.

To draw.  To take any thing from a pocket.  To draw a
  swell of a clout.  To pick a gentleman’s pocket of a
  handkerchief.  To draw the long bow; to tell lies.

Drawers.  Stockings.  Cant.

Drawing the king’s picture.  Coining.  Cant.

To dress.  To beat.  I’ll dress his hide neatly; I’ll beat him
  soundly.

Dribble.  A method of pouring out, as it were, the dice
  from the box, gently, by which an old practitioner is
  enabled to cog one of them with his fore-finger.