White-livered, or LIVER-FACED, cowardly, much afraid, very mean.
White prop, a diamond pin.—East London.
White satin, gin,—term amongst women. See [SATIN].
White serjeant, a man’s superior officer in the person of his better half.
White tape, gin,—term used principally by female servants. See [RIBBON].
White un, a silver watch.
White wine, the fashionable term for gin.
“Jack Randall then impatient rose,
And said, ‘Tom’s speech were just as fine
If he would call that first of GOES
By that genteeler name—WHITE WINE.’”
Whitewash, to rehabilitate. A person who took the benefit of the Insolvent Act was said to have been WHITEWASHED. Now said of a person who compromises with his creditors.
Whitewash, a glass of sherry as a finale, after drinking port and claret.