subs. (old: now recognised).—See quots.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. LANTERN-JAW’D, a very lean, thin-faced fellow.
1725. A New Canting Dictionary, s.v.
1753. FOOTE, The Englishman in Paris, i. I lent him a Lick in his LANTHORN JAWS. Ibid. (1765), The Commissary, i. This here LANTHORN-JAW’D rascal won’t give me an answer.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. LANTHORN JAWED, thin visaged, from their cheeks being almost transparent, or else lenten jawed, i.e., having the jaws of one emaciated by a too rigid observance of lent.
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
1859. G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v.
