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LACED MUTTON . A prostitute. LACING . Beating. I'll lace your jacket handsomely. LADDER . To go up the ladder to rest; to be hanged. LADY . A crooked or hump-backed woman. LADY DACRE'S WINE . Gin. LADY OF EASY VIRTUE . A woman of the town, an impure, a prostitute. LADYBIRDS . Light or lewd women. LAG . A man transported. The cove was lagged for a drag. The man was transported for stealing something out of a waggon. LAG FEVER . A term of ridicule applied to men who being under sentence of transportation, pretend illness, to avoid being sent from gaol to the hulks. LAGE . Water. CANT.

Old English 'word lottery' pick Sycophancy : n. The character or characteristic of a sycophant.; n. False accusation; calumniation; talebearing.; n. Obsequious flattery; servility.

Based on the Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit and Pickpocket Eloquence by Francis Grose published originally in 1811
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