Anglers or starrers, an order of thieves who break show glasses in jeweller’s windows to steal the goods
Angling cove, a receiver of stolen goods
Angelics, young unmarried ladies
Anointed, knowing, ripe for mischief
Arm props, crutches
Arch rogue, the chief of a gang of thieves, or gypsies
Arch doxey, the same among female canters or gypsies
Astronomer, a star gazer, a horse that carries his head high
As right as a trevit, the tippy all right
A pig’s whisper, a grunt, ‘a word ’twixt you and me’