Low Water Mark.—Without cash. “A most damnable condition.”
Lug.—The ear from its being very often lugged.
Lump.—The workhouse.
Lush.—Beer and other intoxicating drinks, so called from Lushington the brewer. Lush-crib, a public-house.
Lushy.—Drunk. Introduced by Leigh Hunt and Keats, and others of the Cockney School into the service of poetry—“Trees lush with bliss,” i.e., Trees drunk with love, possibly of the succulent sort.
Lushington.—Intoxication—“the best of life is but intoxication,” so said Byron over his gin and water: “there is more truth in it than folks may generally imagine.” To join Captain Lushington, to get drunk—“See how snugley Captain Lushington’s getting aboard of Logic,” said Jerry to Corinthian Tom on the night of their visit to “All Max, in the East.”
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Mab.—A cabriolet, from the projector, Mr. Maberly.
Mace.—To cheat, impose, rob.
Mace Cove.—A swindler, a sharper, a cheat. A gentleman from the Spice Islands, i.e., a fellow living on his wits. On the mace, to live by swindling.