FIGDEAN. To kill.
FIGGER. A little boy put in at a window to hand out goods to the diver. See DIVER.
FIGGING LAW. The art of picking pockets. CANT.
FIGURE DANCER. One who alters figures on bank notes, converting tens to hundreds.
FILCH, or FILEL. A beggar's staff, with an iron hook at the end, to pluck clothes from an hedge, or any thing out of a casement. Filcher; the same as angler. Filching cove; a man thief. Filching mort; a woman thief.
FILE, FILE CLOY, or BUNGNIPPER. A pick pocket. To file; to rob or cheat. The file, or bungnipper, goes generally in company with two assistants, the adam tiler, and another called the bulk or bulker, Whose business it is to jostle the person they intend to rob, and push him against the wall, while the file picks his pocket, and gives'the booty to the adam tiler, who scours off with it. CANT.
FIN. An arm. A one finned fellow; a man who has lost
an arm. SEA PHRASE.
FINE. Fine as five pence. Fine as a cow-t—d stuck with
primroses.
FINE. A man imprisoned for any offence. A fine of eighty-four
months; a transportation for seven years.
FINGER IN EYE. To put finger in eye; to weep: commonly applied to women. The more you cry the less you'll p-ss; a consolatory speech used by sailors to their doxies. It is as great a pity to see a woman cry, as to see a goose walk barefoot; another of the same kind.