RANK, complete; absolute, downright, an emphatical manner of describing persons or characters, as a rank nose, a rank swell, &c. &c.
RATTLER, a coach.
READER, a pocket-book.
READER-HUNTERS. See [Dummy-hunters].
REGULARS, one’s due share of a booty, &c. on a division taking place. Give me my regulars, that is, give me my dividend.
REIGN, the length or continuance of a man’s career in a system of wickedness, which when he is ultimately bowled out, is said to have been a long, or a short reign, according to its duration.
RESURRECTION-COVE, a stealer of dead bodies.
RIBBAND, money in general.
RIDGE, gold, whether in coin or any other shape, as a ridge-montra, a gold watch; a cly-full of ridge, a pocket full of gold.
RIG. See [Racket].