Beak (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Beak

A justice of peace, or magistrate. Also a judge or chairman who presides in court. I clapp’d my peepers full of tears, and so the old beak set me free; I began to weep, and the judge set me free.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

Bayard of Ten Toes * Bean

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Nathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang

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