Content (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Content

The cull’s content; the man is past complaining: a saying of a person murdered for resisting the robbers. Cant.

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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