## Canting Dictionary

A Collection of the Canting Words and Terms, both ancient and modern, used by Beggars, Gypsies, Cheats, House-Breakers, Shop-Lifters, Foot-Pads, Highway-Men, &c.

Taken from The Universal Etymological English Dictionary, by N. Bailey, London, 1737, Vol. II, and transcrib'd into XML Most Diligently by Liam Quin.

> English spelling has evolved greatly since this dictionary was publish'd. In the Eighteenth Century, Capital Letters were generally used for Nouns, and the spelling of a word could vary from one occurrence to the next. Cloaths, Clothes and Cloathes all seem to have been used, for example. You'll just have to deal with it.

> Note also that i and j are treated as if they were the same letter, as are u and v, so that Urchin appears in the dictionary quite a way after Vamp, since the U is sorted as if it were a V.