subs. (prison).—A leg-shackle.
AS MUCH NEED OF A WIFE AS A DOG OF A SIDE-POCKET, phr. (old).—‘Said of a weak, old debilitated man’ (GROSE).
WIFE IN WATER-COLOURS, subs. phr. (common).—(1) A morganatic wife; and (2) a mistress or concubine: cf. Fr. collage à la détrempe.
