of any one having a new suit of clothes.

BIBLE. A boatswain's great axe. Sea term.

BIBLE OATH. Supposed by the vulgar to be more binding
than an oath taken on the Testament only, as being the
bigger book, and generally containing both the Old and New
Testament.

BIDDY, or CHICK-A-BIDDY. A chicken, and figuratively
a young wench.

BIDET, commonly pronounced BIDDY. A kind of tub, contrived
for ladies to wash themselves, for which purpose they
bestride it like a French poney, or post-horse, called in
French bidets.

BIENLY. Excellently. She wheedled so bienly; she coaxed
or flattered so cleverly. French.

BILL AT SIGHT. To pay a bill at sight; to be ready at all
times for the venereal act.

BILBOA. A sword. Bilboa in Spain was once famous for
well-tempered blades: these are quoted by Falstaff, where
he describes the manner in which he lay in the buck-basket.
Bilboes, the stock; prison. Cant.

TO BILK. To cheat. Let us bilk the rattling cove; let us
cheat the hackney coachman of his fare. Cant. Bilking a