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Entries releated to CLUB

 

CALVES HEAD CLUB		A club instituted by the Independents and Presbyterians, to commemorate the decapitation of King Charles I. Their chief fare was calves heads; and they drank their wine and ale out of calves skulls.
CATCH CLUB		A member of the patch club; a bum bailiff.
CLUB		A meeting or association, where each man is to spend an equal and stated sum, called his club.
CLUB LAW		Argumentum bacculinum, in which an oaken stick is a better plea than an act of parliament.
HEN		A woman. A cock and hen club; a club composed of men and women.
KILL CARE CLUB		The members of this club, styled also the Sons of Sound Sense and Satisfaction, met at their fortress, the Castle-tavern, in Paternoster-row.
KIT-CAT CLUB		A society of gentlemen, eminent for wit and learning, who in the reign of queen Anne and George I. met at a house kept by one Christopher Cat. The portraits of most of the members of this society were painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller, of one size; thence still called the kit-cat size.
LUMBER TROOP		A club or society of citizens of London.
MACCARONI		An Italian paste made of flour and eggs. Also a fop: which name arose from a club, called the Maccaroni Club, instituted by some of the most dressy travelled gentlemen about town, who led the fashions; whence a man foppishly dressed, was supposed a member of that club, and by contraction styled a Maccaroni.
PAM		The knave of clubs.
PISCINARIANS		A club or brotherhood, A.D. 1743.
PIZZY CLUB		A society held, A. D, 1744, at the sign of the Tower, on Tower Hill: president, Don Pizzaro.
SHOULDER CLAPPER		A bailiff, or member of the catch club. Shoulder-clapped; arrested.
SPOUTING CLUB		A meeting of apprentices and mechanics to rehearse different characters in plays: thus forming recruits for the strolling companies.
SWABBERS		The ace of hearts, knave of clubs, ace and duce of trumps, at whist: also the lubberly seamen, put to swab, and clean the ship.
SWIZZLE		Drink, or any brisk or windy liquor. In North America, a mixture of spruce beer, rum, and sugar, was so called. The 17th regiment had a society called the Swizzle Club, at Ticonderoga, A. D. 1760.
TOW ROW		A grenadier. The tow row club; a club or society of the grenadier officers of the line.
WIBLING'S WITCH		The four of clubs: from one James Wibling, who in the reign of King James I. grew rich by private gaming, and was commonly observed to have that card, and never to lose a game but when he had it not.