IRISH TOYLES. Thieves who carry about pins, laces, and
other pedlars wares, and under the pretence of offering
their goods to sale, rob houses, or pilfer any thing they
can lay hold of.
IRON. Money in general. To polish the king's iron with
one's eyebrows; to look out of grated or prison windows,
or, as the Irishman expresses them, the iron glass
windows. Iron doublet; a prison. See STONE DOUBLET.
IRONMONGER'S SHOP. To keep an ironmonger's shop by
the side of a common, where the sheriff sets one up; to be
hanged in chains. Iron-bound; laced. An iron-bound
hat; a silver-laced hat.
ISLAND. He drank out of the bottle till he saw the island;
the island is the rising bottom of a wine bottle, which
appears like an island in the centre, before the bottle is
quite empty.
IVORIES. Teeth. How the swell flashed his ivories; how
the gentleman shewed his teeth.
ITCHLAND, or SCRATCHLAND. Scotland.
JUG. See DOUBLE JUG.
JUGGLER'S BOX. The engine for burning culprits in the hand. CANT.
JUKRUM. A licence.
JUMBLEGUT LANE. A rough road or lane.