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Hints to men about town, or, Waterfordiana: containing a list and description of the most known,swell, flash-up, and downright introducing houses and celebrated seraglios ... with the means employed to prevent venereal infection choose

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[UK] ‘A Sporting Surgeon’ Waterfordiana 6: The revels, which consist of chaunting and chaffing, are under the direction of the ‘Lady Abbess,’ Mrs. J., and her lovely daughter Rachael.
at abbess, n.
[UK] ‘A Sporting Surgeon’ Waterfordiana 6: A nightly resort for all the coves who are in the habit of ranging about town after the ‘witching hour of night,’ bloaks of all sorts, sizes, and description.
at bloke, n.
[UK] ‘A Sporting Surgeon’ Waterfordiana 7: The damsels here are [...] really and truly traders ‘on their own bottoms,’ since each house is inhabited by different girls who pay for their lodgings, dress, board, &c, out of their own ‘earnings’.
at bottom, n.1
[UK] ‘A Sporting Surgeon’ Waterfordiana 15: A servant girl admitted the embraces of a gentleman, a casual acquaintance, who was suffering from gonorrhœa or clap.
at clap, n.
[UK] ‘A Sporting Surgeon’ Waterfordiana 5: [W]e resolved to betake ourselves to the nunnery of the worthy Mrs. J. [...] Here we found collected [...] a vast number of the aristocracy of the frail sisterhood.
at frail sisterhood (n.) under frail, n.1
[UK] ‘A Sporting Surgeon’ Waterfordiana 23: When urethris or gonorrhœa has nearly disappeared, there is often a thin, watery discharge from the urethra, which is termed gleet.
at gleat, n.
[UK] ‘A Sporting Surgeon’ Waterfordiana 20: When the mucous membrane of the vagina is irritated by other causes, or secretes abundantly, there will be a whitish or yellowish discharge, termed ‘whites,’ or leucorrhoea.
at whites, n.
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