Bantling.  A young child.

Banyan day.  A sea term for those days on which no
  meat is allowed to the sailors:  the term is borrowed
  from the Banyans in the East Indies, a cast that eat
  nothing that had life.

Baptized, or christened. Rum, brandy, or any other
  spirits, that have been lowered with water.

BARBER’S chair.  She is as common as a barber’s chair, in
  which a whole parish sit to be trimmed; said of a prostitute.

BARBER’S sign.  A standing pole and two wash balls.

Bargain.  To sell a bargain; a species of wit, much in
  vogue about the latter end of the reign of Queen Anne,
  and frequently alluded to by Dean Swift, who says the
  maids of honour often amused themselves with it.  It
  consisted in the seller naming his or her hinder parts, in
  answer to the question, What? which the buyer was
  artfully led to ask.  As a specimen, take the following
  instance:  A lady would come into a room full of company,
  apparently in a fright, crying out, It is white, and follows
  me!  On any of the company asking, What? she sold
  him the bargain, by saying, Mine a-e.

BARGEES. (Cambridge.) Barge-men on the river.

Barker.  The shopman of a bow-wow shop, or dealer in
  second hand clothes, particularly about Monmouth-Street,
  who walks before his master’s door, and deafens every
  passenger with his cries of—­Clothes, coats, or gowns—­what
  d’ye want, gemmen?—­what d’ye buy?  See bow-wow shop.

Barkshire.  A member or candidate for Barkshire, said of
  one troubled with a cough, vulgarly styled barking.

Barking irons.  Pistols, from their explosion resembling
  the bow-wow or barking of a dog.  Irish.

Barn.  A parson’s barn; never so full but there is still room,
  for more.  Bit by a barn mouse, tipsey, probably from an
  allusion to barley.

Barnaby.  An old dance to a quick movement.  See Cotton,
  in his Virgil Travesti; where, speaking of Eolus he has
  these lines,

      Bounce cry the port-holes, out they fly,
      And make the world dance Barnaby.

Barnacle.  A good job, or snack easily got:  also shellfish
  growing at the bottoms of ships; a bird of the goose
  kind; an instrument like a pair of pincers, to fix on the
  noses of vicious horses whilst shoeing; a nick name for
  spectacles, and also for the gratuity given to grooms by the
  buyers and sellers of horses.

Barrel fever.  He died of the barrel fever; he killed
  himself by drinking.

Barrow man.  A man under sentence of transportation;
  alluding to the convicts at Woolwich, who are principally
  employed in wheeling barrows full of brick or dirt.