AVOIR Du POIS lay.  Stealing brass weights off the counters
  of shops.  Cant.

Autem.  A church.

Autem bawler.  A parson.  Cant.

Autem cacklers, autem PRICKEARS.  Dissenters of every
  denomination.  Cant.

Autem CACKLETUB.  A conventicle or meeting-house for
  dissenters.  Cant.

Autem dippers.  Anabaptists.  Cant.

Autem divers.  Pickpockets who practice in churches;
  also churchwardens and overseers of the poor.  Cant.

Autem GOGLERS.  Pretended French prophets.  Cant.

Autem mort.  A married woman; also a female beggar
  with several children hired or borrowed to excite charity. 
  Cant.

Autem quavers.  Quakers.

Autem quaver tub.  A Quakers’ meeting-house.  Cant.

Awake.  Acquainted with, knowing the business.  Stow the
  books, the culls are awake; hide the cards, the fellows
  know what we intended to do.

Babes in the wood.  Criminals in the stocks, or pillory.

Babble.  Confused, unintelligible talk, such as was used at
  the building the tower of Babel.

Back biter.  One who slanders another behind his back,
  i.e. in his absence.  His bosom friends are become his back
  biters, said of a lousy man.

Backed. Dead.  He wishes to have the senior, or old
  square-toes, backed; he longs to have his father on six
  men’s shoulders; that is, carrying to the grave.

Back up.  His back is up, i.e. he is offended or angry; an
  expression or idea taken from a cat; that animal, when
  angry, always raising its back.  An allusion also sometimes
  used to jeer a crooked man; as, So, Sir, I see somebody
  has offended you, for your back is up.

Bacon.  He has saved his bacon; he has escaped.  He has a
  good voice to beg bacon; a saying in ridicule of a bad voice.

Bacon-faced. Full-faced.

Bacon fed. Fat, greasy.

Back Gammon player.  A sodomite.

Back door (usher, or gentleman of the).  The same.

Bad bargain.  One of his majesty’s bad bargains; a
  worthless soldier, a malingeror.  See malingeror.

Badge.  A term used for one burned in the hand.  He has got
  his badge, and piked; he was burned in the hand, and is
  at liberty.  Cant.

Badge-coves.  Parish Pensioners.  Cant.

Badgers.  A crew of desperate villains who robbed near
  rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they
  murdered.  Cant.