Execution day. Washing day.
Expended. Killed: alluding to the gunner’s
accounts,
wherein the articles consumed are charged
under the title
of expended. Sea phrase.
Eye. It’s all my eye and Betty Martin.
It’s all nonsense, all
mere stuff.
Eye-sore. A disagreeable object.
It will be an eye-sore as
long as she lives, said by a limn whose
wife was cut for a
fistula in ano.
Face-making. Begetting children.
To face it out; to
persist in a falsity. No face but
his own: a saying of one
who has no money in his pocket or no court
cards in his
hand.
Facer. A bumper, a glass filled so full
as to leave no room
for the lip. Also a violent blow
on the face.
Fadge. It won’t fadge; it won’t do. A farthing.
To fag. To beat. Fag the bloss;
beat the wench; Cant.
A fag also means a boy of an inferior
form or class, who
acts as a servant to one of a superior,
who is said to fag him,
he is my fag; whence, perhaps, fagged
out, for jaded or tired.
To stand a good fag; not to be soon tired.
FAGGER. A little boy put in at a window to rob the house.
Faggot. A man hired at a muster to appear
as a soldier.
To faggot in the canting sense, means
to bind: an allusion
to the faggots made up by the woodmen,
which are
all bound. Faggot the culls; bind
the men.
Faithful. One of the faithful; a taylor
who gives long
credit. His faith has made him unwhole;
i.e. trusting
too much, broke him.
Fair. A set of subterraneous rooms in the Fleet Prison.
FAKEMENT. A counterfeit signature. A forgery.
Tell
the macers to mind their fakements; desire
the swindlers
to be careful not to forge another person’s
signature.
FALLALLS. Ornaments, chiefly women’s, such
as ribands,
necklaces, &c.
Fallen away from A horse load
to A cart load.
A saying on one grown fat.
Family man. A thief or receiver of stolen goods.
Fam lay. Going into a goldsmith’s
shop, under pretence
of buying a wedding ring, and palming
one or two, by
daubing the hand with some viscous matter.
FAMS, or FAMBLES. Hands. Famble cheats;
rings or
gloves. Cant.
To Famgrasp. To shake bands: figuratively,
to agree
or make up a difference. Famgrasp
the cove; shake hands
with the fellow. Cant.
Family of love. Lewd women; also, a religious sect.
Fancy man. A man kept by a lady for secret services.
To Fan. To beat any one. I fanned
him sweetly; I beat
him heartily.


