Jack Nasty-face

a sailor.— Sea. Nasty-face is a term applied often in London streets to an ugly or unpleasant-looking person. Jacks , AND HALF-JACKS , card counters, resembling in size and appearance sovereigns and half-sovereigns, for which they are occasionally pa ed to simple persons. In large gambling establishments the “heaps of gold” are frequently composed of JACKS . Jacks are not, as they are sometimes supposed to be, counterfeit coins; they are simply little medals, and so “magsmen” and “street muggers” carry them with le concern than they would feel were their pockets loaded with spurious money.