The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue dates from 1811 and this is probably the only full, uncensored and searchable version of this dictionary on the internet. All the original crudities have been restored and it offers an interesting perspective on Common English from the time of the Regency and Jane Austen.

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Entries releated to EWE

 

BOARDING SCHOOL		Bridewell, Newgate, or any other prison, or house of correction.
BREECHES BIBLE		An edition of the Bible printed in 1598, wherein it is said that Adam and Eve sewed figleaves together, and made themselves breeches.
BREWES, or BROWES		The fat scum from the pot in which salted beef is boiled.
BUNG		A brewer
CHOUDER		A sea-dish, composed of fresh fish, salt pork, herbs, and sea-biscuits, laid in different layers, and stewed together.
COLCANNON		Potatoes and cabbage pounded together in a mortar, and then stewed with butter: an Irish dish.
CRONE		An old ewe whose teeth are worn out; figuratively, a toothless old beldam.
DOLL		Bartholomew doll; a tawdry, over-drest woman, like one of the children's dolls at Bartholomew fair. To mill doll; to beat hemp at Bridewell, or any other house of correction.
EWE		A white ewe; a beautiful woman. An old ewe, drest lamb fashion; an old woman, drest like a young girl.
FART		He has let a brewer's fart, grains and all; said of one who has bewrayed his breeches. Piss and fart. Sound at heart. Mingere cum bumbis, Res saluberrima est lumbis. I dare not trust my arse with a fart: said by a person troubled with a looseness.
FAULKNER		A tumbler, juggler, or shewer of tricks; perhaps because they lure the people, as a faulconer does his hawks.
FLOGGING COVE		The beadle, or whipper, in Bridewell.
FORK		A pickpocket. Let us fork him; let us pick his pocket. - 'The newest and most dexterous way, which is, to thrust the fingers strait, stiff, open, and very quick, into the pocket, and so closing them, hook what can be held between them.' N.B. This was taken from a book written many years ago: doubtless the art of picking pockets, like all others, must have been much improved since that time.
HUE		To lash. The cove was hued in the naskin; the rogue was soundly lashed in bridewell.
IVORIES		Teeth. How the swell flashed his ivories; how the gentleman shewed his teeth.
LOBSCOUSE		A dish much eaten at sea, composed of salt beef, biscuit and onions, well peppered, and stewed together.
MILL		To rob; also to break, beat out, or kill. I'll mill your glaze; I'll beat out your eye. To mill a bleating cheat; to kill a sheep. To mill a ken; to rob a house. To mill doll; to beat hemp in bridewell.
NASK, or NASKIN		A prison or bridewell. The new nask; Clerkenwell bridewell. Tothil-fields nask; the bridewell at Tothil-fields.
OLD DOSS		Bridewell.
PRINT		All in print, quite neat or exact, set, screwed up. Quite in print; set in a formal manner.
STAR THE GLAZE		To break and rob a jeweller's show glass.
STEWED QUAKER		Burnt rum, with a piece of butter: an American remedy for a cold.