Knights of the rainbow, waiters, footmen, lacqueys
Ky-bosh on, to put the, to turn the tables on any person, to put out of countenance
Lady's man, an obsequious fellow to females
Lame ducks, defaulters at the Stock Exchange
Lantern, dark, a servant or agent that receives a bribe to conceal a robbery
Leg o'mutton sleeves, large sleeves worn by the ladies
Levanters, persons who run away from their debts of honour
Lighting a candle, sneaking out of a public house with out paying the reckoning
Lightning, a noggen of, a quartern of gin
Lily white, a snowball, a black, a chimney sweep
Line, getting into a, confusing a person, imposing on any body's belief by joking
List, or Loist, shop-lifting, robbing a shop
Lock, a warehouse for the reception of stolen goods
Lock, rum, being in good health; rich, clever, expert
Lully priggers, the lowest order of thieves, who decoy children to some bye place and rob them of their clothes
Lully snow prigging, stealing wet linen from hedges
Lurch, in the, to be left behind, to sneak, to hang on
Mad Toms of Bedlam, fellows who counterfeit madness in the streets, and after beating themselves about, spit out some blood, in order to convince the too feeling multitude that they have injured themselves by violent struggles, and so obtain relief: they have a small bladder of sheep's blood in their mouth and when they choose can discharge it
Mat macers, fellows and old women who go round in a morning when the servants are cleaning the doorways and steal the mats, &c.
Mill the glaze, breaking windows or lamps
Mother, a name for the keeper of a brothel
Mounter, a common perjurer, villains who give false evidence and become bail for fellows of their own stamp
Muck, to, to clean out, to win all a person's money
Mummers, strolling players, mountebank speakers, gypsies, and beggars who tell pitiful stories to excite compassion
Mumbling cove, a sturdy ill-natured landlord, shabby fellow
Nabs, a person to either sex; a familiar way of talking; as, How are you my Nabs
Nab the cramp, having sentence of death passed
Ne'er a face but his own, not a farthing in his pocket
Newlicks, or Noolucks, a person not known, an imaginary being, said to be a kin to Joe, Cheeks, &c.
Niggers, fellows who clip and file gold coin