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The Albany Microscope choose

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[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 1 Dec, n.p.: [T]he airy and speculative belief of the ancients fled before the philosophy of the moderns.
at airy, adj.1
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 2 June n.p.: This ‘ninth part of a man’ has shear-ed us of 1.30.
at ninth part of a man, n.
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 1 Dec. n.p.: The Judge has a clear ‘meat-axe dispoistion’ — and [...] not having had ‘a fight for ten days,’ he felt ‘wolfy about the head and shoulders’.
at meat axe, n.
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 2 June n.p.: Wm. Gillespie [...] has made us bleed to the amount of 2.00.
at bleed, v.1
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 2 June n.p.: E.L. Mallary, formerly a dealer in ‘blue ruin’.
at blue ruin (n.) under blue, adj.1
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 2 June n.p.: Joh C> Gardiner [...] ‘whipping the cat,’ owes 3.00.
at whip the cat, v.
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 2 June n.p.: S.C. Keller [...] has ‘come it over’ us to the amount of 4.00.
at come it over (v.) under come it, v.1
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 2 June n.p.: E. Whipple [...] ‘scratch’d gravel’ for Michigan.
at scratch (the) gravel (v.) under gravel, n.
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 2 June n.p.: The police have not yet discovered the all keepers of tipling shops.
at tippling-house, n.
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 2 June n.p.: This puppy [...] has ‘walk’d into’ us to the sum of 1.25.
at walk into, v.
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 2 June n.p.: C. Dunbar Troy is ‘into to us’ to the amount of 4.00.
at into, prep.2
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 2 June n.p.: John Carmichael, baker [...] This knight of the dough [etc].
at knight of the..., n.
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 2 June n.p.: Bogardus and Clark, knights of the thimble, goose and bodkin.
at ...the shears under knight of the..., n.
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 2 June n.p.: Ivers Barton [...] took ‘leg bail’ and cleared for Buffalo.
at leg bail (n.) under leg, n.
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 2 June n.p.: [cartoon caption] i’m o.p.h.
at o.p.h., adv.
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 1 Dec. n.p.: His son, generally distinguished by the appellation of ‘Master Punk’.
at punk, n.1
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 1 Dec. n.p.: Second clerk [...] was suspected of handling his master’s rhino.
at rhino, n.1
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 2 June n.p.: Bogardus and Clark, knights of the thimble, goose and bodkin [...] have shear-ed us out of 3.75.
at shear, v.
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 2 June n.p.: Alexander Douglass [...] ‘shot the pit’ for New York.
at shoot the pit (v.) under shoot, v.
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 1 Dec. n.p.: The Judge has a clear ‘meat-axe dispoistion’ — and [...] not having had ‘a fight for ten days,’ he felt ‘wolfy about the head and shoulders’.
at wolfy (adj.) under wolf, n.
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 1 June n.p.: ‘She’s an all-fired handosme gal, that’.
at all-fired, adv.
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 28 Dec. n.p.: ‘Don’t you open your mouf, Cato till I’m done [...] you too, Pompey’.
at Cato, n.
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 5 Jan. n.p.: The claret running [...] from the proboscis. Pretty considerable strong proof [...] that some knock down arguments had been used.
at knock-down, adj.
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 28 Dec. n.p.: We have only time to ‘halter’ a few delinquents this week [...] We have a host now under sentence, but have allowed them a little time.
at halter, v.
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 28 Dec. n.p.: This white-livered, long-shanked biped [...] told him to ‘go to hell’.
at white-livered, adj.
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 5 jan. n.p.: In Europe a fierce game is playing, / Kings and Peeps to their principles stick; / While the one are their honors displaying, / The other must try the odd trick.
at peeps, n.
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 28 Dec. n.p.: This scab, as the craft term such allows, has pack’d up his kit and cut stick.
at scab, n.1
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 28 Dec. n.p.: This land shark owes 5.00.
at land shark (n.) under shark, n.
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 5 Jan. n.p.: Those who are called the best of men; / Those who in ‘sheep-skin’ covering cheat and lie.
at sheepskin, n.
[US] Albany Microscope (NY) 28 Dec. n.p.: J. Maddix, formerly a ‘shoulder taper’ [sic] of this city .
at shoulder-tapper (n.) under shoulder, n.
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