FIDDLERS money.  All sixpences:  sixpence being the
  usual sum paid by each couple, for music at country
  wakes and hops.  Fiddler’s fare; meat, drink, and money. 
  Fiddler’s pay; thanks and wine.

Field lane duck.  A baked sheep’s head.

Fieri facias.  A red-faced man is said to have been served
  with a writ of fieri facias.

FIGDEAN.  To kill.

FIGGER.  A little boy put in at a window to hand out
  goods to the diver.  See diver.

FIGGING law.  The art of picking pockets.  Cant.

Figure dancer.  One who alters figures on bank notes,
  converting tens to hundreds.

Filch, or FILEL.  A beggar’s staff, with an iron hook at
  the end, to pluck clothes from an hedge, or any thing out
  of a casement.  Filcher; the same as angler.  Filching
  cove; a man thief.  Filching mort; a woman thief.

File, file cloy, or bungnipper.  A pick pocket.  To
  file; to rob or cheat.  The file, or bungnipper, goes
  generally in company with two assistants, the adam tiler, and
  another called the bulk or bulker, Whose business it is to
  jostle the person they intend to rob, and push him against
  the wall, while the file picks his pocket, and gives’the booty
  to the adam tiler, who scours off with it.  Cant.

Fin.  An arm.  A one finned fellow; a man who has lost
  an arm.  Sea phrase.

Fine.  Fine as five pence.  Fine as a cow-t—­d stuck with
  primroses.

Fine.  A man imprisoned for any offence.  A fine of eighty-
  four months; a transportation for seven years.

Finger in eye.  To put finger in eye; to weep:  commonly
  applied to women.  The more you cry the less
  you’ll p-ss; a consolatory speech used by sailors to their
  doxies.  It is as great a pity to see a woman cry, as to
  see a goose walk barefoot; another of the same kind.

Finger post. A parson:  so called, because he points out
  a way to others which he never goes himself.  Like the
  finger post, he points out a way he has never been, and
  probably will never go, i.e. the way to heaven.

Finish.  The finish; a small coffee-house in Coven Garden,
  market, opposite Russel-street, open very early in the
  morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out
  of every other house:  it is also called Carpenter’s coffee-
  house.

Firing A gun.  Introducing a story by head and shoulders. 
  A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the
  company, Hark! did you not hear a gun?—­but now we are
  talking of a gun, I will tell you the story of one.

To fire A slug.  To drink a dram.