subs. (old).—1. An upholsterer. Cf. BURN-CRUST.
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
1859. G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v.
2. (old).—See quot.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. MOHAIR, a man in the civil line, a townsman, or tradesman, a military term, from the mohair buttons worn by persons of those descriptions, or any others not in the army; the buttons of military men being always of metal; this is generally used as a term of contempt.
