Burnt in the hand. They have palmed the character upon him; they have burned him in the hand, Cant.—See Lettered.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
See also the definition in Nathan Bailey's 1736 dictionary of canting and thieving slang.
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