author - "James Hardy Vaux"

x.CHATS: lice. CHATTY: lousy, CHAUNT: a song; to chaunt is to sing; to throw off a rum chaunt, is to sing a good song. CHEESE IT. The same as Stow it. CHEESE THAT. See STOW THAT. CHINA STREET: a cant name for Bow Street, Covent Garden. CHIV: a knife; to chiv a person is to stab or cut him with a knife. CHRISTEN: obliterating the name and number on the movement on a stolen watch; or the crest, cipher, etc., on articles of plate, and getting others engraved, so as to prevent their being

x.CHATS: lice. CHATTY: lousy, CHAUNT: a song; to chaunt is to sing; to throw off a rum chaunt, is to sing a good song. CHEESE IT. The same as Stow it. CHEESE THAT. See STOW THAT. CHINA STREET: a cant name for Bow Street, Covent Garden. CHIV: a knife; to chiv a person is to stab or cut him with a knife. CHRISTEN: obliterating the name and number on the movement on a stolen watch; or the crest, cipher, etc., on articles of plate, and getting others engraved, so as to prevent their being