Blue pigeons.  Thieves who steal lead off houses and
  churches.  Cant.  To fly a blue pigeon; to steal lead
  off houses or churches.

Blue plumb.  A bullet.—­Surfeited with a blue plumb;
  wounded with a bullet.  A sortment of George R—­’s
  blue plumbs; a volley of ball, shot from soldiers’ firelocks.

Blue skin.  A person begotten on a black woman by a
  white man.  One of the blue squadron; any one having
  a cross of the black breed, or, as it is termed, a lick of
  the tar brush.

Blue tape, or sky blue.  Gin.

Blue Ruin.  Gin.  Blue ribband; gin.

Bluff.  Fierce, surly.  He looked as bluff as bull beef.

Bluffer.  An inn-keeper.  Cant.

Blunderbuss.  A short gun, with a wide bore, for carrying
  slugs; also a stupid, blundering fellow.

Blunt.  Money.  Cant.

To bluster.  To talk big, to hector or bully.

Boarding school.  Bridewell, Newgate, or any other
  prison, or house of correction.

Bob.  A shoplifter’s assistant, or one that receives and carries
  off stolen goods.  All is bob; all is safe.  Cant.

Bob.  A shilling.

Bobbed. Cheated, tricked, disappointed.

BOBBISH.  Smart, clever, spruce.

Bob stay.  A rope which holds the bowsprit to the stem or
  cutwater.  Figuratively, the frenum of a man’s yard.

Bob tail.  A lewd woman, or one that plays with her tail;
  also an impotent man, or an eunuch.  Tag, rag, and bobtail;
  a mob of all sorts of low people.  To shift one’s bob;
  to move off, or go away.  To bear a bob; to join in chorus
  with any singers.  Also a term used by the sellers of game,
  for a partridge.

Body SNATCHERS.  Bum bailiffs.

Body of divinity bound in black calf.  A parson.

Bog Lander.  An Irishman; Ireland being famous for its
  large bogs, which furnish the chief fuel in many parts
  of that kingdom.

Bog Trotter.  The same.

Bog house.  The necessary house.  To go to bog; to go to
  stool.

Bog Latin.  Barbarous Latin.  Irish.—­See dog Latin,
  and apothecaries Latin.

Bogy.  Ask bogy, i.e. ask mine a-se.  Sea wit.

Boh.  Said to be the name of a Danish general, who so terrified
  his opponent Foh, that he caused him to bewray
  himself.  Whence, when we smell a stink, it is custom
  to exclaim, Foh! i.e.  I smell general Foh.  He cannot say
  Boh to a goose; i.e. he is a cowardly or sheepish fellow.