PECULIAR. A mistress.
CONVENIENT. A mistress. Cant.
MADAM. A kept madam; a kept mistress.
MISS. A miss, or kept mistress; a harlot.
NATURAL. A mistress. [For all meanings see NATURAL]
TACKLE. A mistress The cull has tipt his tackle rum rigging; the fellow has given his mistress good clothes. [For all meanings see TACKLE]
FROE, or VROE. A mistress. Brush to your froe, or bloss, and wheedle for crop; run to your mistress, and sooth and coax her out of some money. Dutch. [For other meanings see FROE, or VROE]
TUCKER UP. A tucker up to an old bachelor or widower; a supposed mistress. [For all meanings see TUCKED UP]
GRASS WIDOW. A discarded mistress. [For all meanings see WIDOW'S WEEDS]
LEFT-HANDED WIFE. A concubine; in allusion to an ancient German custom, according to which, when a man married his concubine, or a woman greatly his inferior, he gave her his left hand.
WIFE IN WATER COLOURS. A mistress, or concubine: water colours being, like their engagements, easily effaced, or dissolved.
PUNK. A soldier's trull. See TRULL. [For all meanings see PUNK]
TRULL. A soldier or a tinker's trull; a soldier or tinker's female companion.--Guteli, or trulli, are spirits like women, which shew great kindness to men, and hereof it is that we call light women Trulls. Randle Holms's Academy of Armory.
BLOWER or BLOWEN. A mistress or whore of a gentleman of the scamp.
KEEPING CULLY. One who keeps a mistress, as he supposes, for his own use, but really for that of the public.
RUM CULL. A rich fool, easily cheated, particularly by his mistress.