=Cabbage.=--Cloth, stuff, or silk, purloined by tailors and sempstresses, who are for ever, _snip! snip!! snipping!!!_ _Cuttings_ that serve for _trimmings_ to an occasional merry-making leg of mutton.
=Cadge, Cadger, Cadging.=--To beg, a beggar, begging of the lowest degree; a mean sort of thief. Very indefatigable persons in their vocation.
=Cads of the Aristocracy.=--Liveried footman, servants, and all other hangers on upon the nobility and gentry.
=Cake.=--A silly fellow, cakes being made like him, of very soft dough, and not over well baked.--Our cake’s dough on both sides.--_Shakespeare._
=Call me cousin=--but cozen me not--Quoth Mrs. Saunders.
=Calves gone to Grass.=--Said of a man with slender legs. “He’s put some hay in his boots, and his _calves_ have gone down to feed.”
=Calves’ Head.=--A tallow-faced fellow, with a large meaty head. “Calves’ head is best hot,” was the apology for one of those who made “no bones” of dining with his hat on.
=Came up to the Scratch.=--A pugilistical phrase; also said of a person who keeps his appointments in money matters.
=Canary.=--A sovereign. _Canary Birds_, inmates of prisons.
=Canister.=--The head, with a sly allusion to its emptyness. _Cracked canister_, a broken head.
=Cant.=--A language made use of among beggars, gipsies, thieves, and the _Fancy_ in general.
=Captain.=--A travelling title, adopted by adventurers, who have no other good enough.
Captain is a good travelling name, and so I took it, it stops a good many foolish enquiries that are generally made about gentlemen who travel; it gives a man an air of something, and makes the drawers obedient. And thus far I am a captain, and no farther.--_Farquhar’s, The Beaux’s Stratagem._
=Captain Flasham.=--A blustering, bounceable fellow.
=Captain Queernabs.=--A shabby ill-dressed fellow.
=Carcase Lords.=--Wholesale butchers who monopolise and forstall the markets.--“For wheresoever the _carcase_ is, there will the eagles be gathered together.”
=Card.=--A man, who may be a _knowing_, a _downy_, _cunning_, _shifting_, _queer_, or any other sort of CARD according to circumstances.
=Castle Tavern.=--_The Castle Tavern, Holborn_, was first opened as a Sporting House by the well-known BOB GREGSON; but designated at that period under the familiar title of BOB’S CHOP HOUSE:--