RUNNING HORSE, or NAG. A clap, or gleet.
RUNNING SMOBBLE. Snatching goods off a counter, and throwing them to an accomplice, who brushes off with them.
RUNNING STATIONERS. Hawker of newspapers, trials, and
dying speeches.
RUNT. A short squat man or woman: from the small cattle
called Welsh runts.
RUSHERS. Thieves who knock at the doors of great houses in London, in summer time, when the families are gone out of town, and on the door being opened by a woman, rush in and rob the house; also housebreakers who enter lone houses by force.
RUSSIAN COFFEE-HOUSE. The Brown Bear in Bow-street, Covent Garden, a house of call for thief-takers and runners of the Bow street justices.
RUSTY. Out of use, To nab the rust; to be refractory; properly applied to a restive horse, and figuratively to the human species. To ride rusty; to be sullen; called also to ride grub.
RUSTY GUTS. A blunt surly fellow: a jocular misnomer of
RESTICUS.
RUTTING. Copulating. Rutting time; the season, when
deer go to rut.
SACHEVEREL. The iron door, or blower, to the mouth
of a stove: from a divine of that name, who made himself
famous for blowing the coals of dissension in the latter
end of the reign of queen Ann.