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 RANK

 

ARCH DELL, or ARCH DOXY		Signifies the same in rank among the female canters or gypsies.
BAWDY BASKET		The twenty-third rank of canters, who carry pins, tape, ballads, and obscene books to sell, but live mostly by stealing.
BLACK EYE		We gave the bottle a black eye, i.e. drank it almost up. He cannot say black is the white of my eye; he cannot point out a blot in my character.
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.
CAPSIZE		To overturn or reverse. He took his broth till he capsized; he drank till he fell out of his chair. SEA TERM.
CAPTAIN LIEUTENANT		Meat between veal and beef, the flesh of an old calf; a military simile, drawn from the officer of that denomination, who has only the pay of a lieutenant, with the rank of captain; and so is not entirely one or the other, but between both.
COUNTERFEIT CRANK		A general cheat, assuming all sorts of characters; one conterfeiting the falling sickness.
CRANK		Gin and water; also, brisk, pert.
CRANK		The falling sickness.
CRINKUM CRANKUM		A woman's commodity. See SPECTATOR.
FOXEY		Rank. Stinking.
FRENCH CREAM		Brandy; so called by the old tabbies and dowagers when drank in their tea.
HANS IN KELDER		Jack in the cellar, i.e. the child in the womb: a health frequently drank to breeding women or their husbands.
HIGHGATE		Sworn at Highgate - a ridiculous custom formerly prevailed at the public-houses in Highgate, to administer a ludicrous oath to all travellers of the middling rank who stopped there. The party was sworn on a pair of horns, fastened on a stick: the substance of the oath was, never to kiss the maid when he could kiss the mistress, never to drink small beer when he could get strong, with many other injunctions of the like kind; to all which was added the saving cause of "unless you like it best." The person administering the oath was always to be called father by the juror; and he, in return, was to style him son, under the penalty of a bottle.
ISLAND		He drank out of the bottle till he saw the island; the island is the rising bottom of a wine bottle, which appears like an island in the centre, before the bottle is quite empty.
MUNDUNGUS		Bad or rank tobacco: from mondongo, a Spanish word signifying tripes, or the uncleaned entrails of a beast, full of filth.
NOB		A king. A man of rank.
PATRICO, or PATER-COVE		The fifteenth rank of the canting tribe; strolling priests that marry people under a hedge, without gospel or common prayer book: the couple standing on each side of a dead beast, are bid to live together till death them does part; so shaking hands, the wedding is ended. Also any minister or parson.
PIN		In or to a merry pin; almost drunk: an allusion to a sort of tankard, formerly used in the north, having silver pegs or pins set at equal distances from the top to the bottom: by the rules of good fellowship, every person drinking out of one of these tankards, was to swallow the quantity contained between two pins; if he drank more or less, he was to continue drinking till he ended at a pin: by this means persons unaccustomed to measure their draughts were obliged to drink the whole tankard. Hence when a person was a little elevated with liquor, he was said to have drunk to a merry pin.
RAMMISH		Rank. Rammish woman; a sturdy virago.
RANK		Stinking, rammish, ill-flavoured; also strong, great. A rank knave; a rank coward: perhaps the latter may allude to an ill savour caused by fear.
RANK RIDER		A highwayman.
ROBERT'S MEN		The third old rank of the canting crew, mighty thieves, like Robin Hood.
RUFFLERS		The first rank of canters; also notorious rogues pretending to be maimed soldiers or sailors.
SCANDAL PROOF		One who has eaten shame and drank after it, or would blush at being ashamed.
SIMEONITES		At Cambridge, the followers of the Rev. Charles Simeon, fellow of King's College, author of Skeletons of Sermons, and preacher at Trinity church; they are in fact rank methodists.
STIRRUP CUP		A parting cup or glass, drank on horseback by the person taking leave.
TOAST		A health; also a beautiful woman whose health is often drank by men. The origin of this term (as it is said) was this: a beautiful lady bathing in a cold bath, one of her admirers out of gallantry drank some of the water: whereupon another of her lovers observed, he never drank in the morning, but he would kiss the toast, and immediately saluted the lady.
UNWASHED BAWDRY		Rank bawdry.
VELVET		To tip the velvet; to put one's tongue into a woman's mouth. To be upon velvet; to have the best of a bet or match. To the little gentleman in velvet, ie: the mole that threw up the hill that caused Crop (King William's horse) to stumble; a toast frequently drank by the tories and catholics in Ireland.
WHISKY		A malt spirit much drank in Ireland and Scotland; also a one-horse chaise. See TIM WHISKY.