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 HARE

 

CHUMMAGE		Money paid by the richer sort of prisoners in the Fleet and King's Bench, to the poorer, for their share of a room. When prisons are very full, which is too often the case, particularly on the eve of an insolvent act, two or three persons are obliged to sleep in a room. A prisoner who can pay for being alone, chuses two poor chums, who for a stipulated price, called chummage, give up their share of the room, and sleep on the stairs, or, as the term is, ruff it.
CLICKER		A salesman's servant; also, one who proportions out the different shares of the booty among thieves.
GRIMALKIN		A cat: mawkin signifies a hare in Scotland.
HARE		He has swallowed a hare; he is drunk; more probably a HAIR, which requires washing down,
LAW		To give law to a hare; a sporting term, signifying to give the animal a chance of escaping, by not setting on the dogs till the hare is at some distance; it is also more figuratively used for giving any one a chance of succeeding in a scheme or project.
LONG ONE		A hare; a term used by poachers.
MOIETY		Half, but vulgarly used to signify a share or portion: as, He will come in for a small moiety.
MONEY DROPPERS		Cheats who drop money, which they pretend to find just before some country lad; and by way of giving him a share of their good luck, entice him into a public house, where they and their confederates cheat or rob him of what money he has about him.
QUOTA		Snack, share, part, proportion, or dividend. Tip me my quota; give me part of the winnings, booty, or plunder.
REGULARS		Share of the booty. The coves cracked the swell's crib, fenced the swag, and each cracksman napped his regular; some fellows broke open a gentleman's house, and after selling the property which they had stolen, they divided the money between them.
SCUT		The tail of a hare or rabbit; also that of a woman.
SHOT		To pay one's shot; to pay one's share of a reckoning. Shot betwixt wind and water; poxed or clapped.
SLEEPING PARTNER		A partner in a trade, or shop, who lends his name and money, for which he receives a share of the profit, without doing any part of the business.
SNACK		A share. To go snacks; to be partners.
TOTTY-HEADED		Giddy, hare-brained.
UPRIGHT MAN		An upright man signifies the chief or principal of a crew. The vilest, stoutest rogue in the pack is generally chosen to this post, and has the sole right to the first night's lodging with the dells, who afterwards are used in common among the whole fraternity. He carries a short truncheon in his hand, which he calls his filchman, and has a larger share than ordinary in whatsoever is gotten in the society. He often travels in company with thirty or forty males and females, abram men, and others, over whom he presides arbitrarily. Sometimes the women and children who are unable to travel, or fatigued, are by turns carried in panniers by an ass, or two, or by some poor jades procured for that purpose.
WHACK		A share of a booty obtained by fraud. A paddy whack; a stout brawney Irishman.
WHIDDLE		To tell or discover. He whiddles; he peaches. He whiddles the whole scrap; he discovers all he knows. The cull whiddled because they would not tip him a snack: the fellow peached because they would not give him a share, They whiddle beef, and we must brush; they cry out thieves, and we must make off.
WHIP-BELLY VENGEANCE		Pinch-gut vengeance, of which he that gets the most has the worst share. Weak or sour beer.