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Hereford Times 3 Nov. 4/5: Description of a Sailor — He [...] is an odd fish.at odd fish (n.) under fish, n.1
Hereford Times 3 Nov. 4/5: Description of a Sailor — He [...] is an odd fish. Hereford Times 3 Nov. 4/5: Description of a Sailor[...] He is called Jack; but as his taste for rum or tobacco prevails, he is either a Bottle-jack or a Smoke-jack.at jack tar, n.1
Hereford Times 12 July 4/4: Yes [...] me and master have both got up together to stop her molrowing.at molrowing, n.
Hereford Times 11 June 3/1: Our skin can never be injured to the extent of a scratch by the finger of such a whipster.at whipster, n.
Hereford Times 28 Jan. 2/3: The shadow of our grannum [...] in wild terror while she screamed.at grannam, n.2
Hereford Times 6 Oct. 3/6: A full-grown love-sick painter’s apprentice was brought before the Magistrates [but] even their authority could not restrain the amorous propensity of this ‘knight of the brush’.at ...the brush (and shovel) under knight of the..., n.
Hereford Times 21 July 4/5: He ogles me so — ’tis so shocking ill-bred.at shocking, adj.
Hereford Times 21 July 4/5: Oh split me [...] if I’m afraid.at split me! (excl.) under split, v.
Hereford Times 15 June 4/3: Apron-String Hold. An estate held by a man during his wife’s life.at apron-string hold (n.) under apron-strings, n.
Hereford Times 15 June 4/3: That’s the barber; a ridiculous and unmeaning phrase; in the mouths of the common people [...] signifying their approbation.at that’s the barber under barber, n.1
Hereford Times 15 June 4/3: It is a common saying of milk that is burnt to, that the bishop has set foot in it.at bishop, v.1
Hereford Times 15 June 4/3: A term among horse-dealers for burning the mark into [a] horse’s tooth [...] by bishoping a horse is made to appear younger than he is.at bishop, v.2
Hereford Times 23 Feb. 4/5: Do you [...] suppose that I am so clod-brained as to believe that?at clod-brained (adj.) under clod, n.1
Hereford Times 10 Aug. 4/2: He might, indeed, be said to be 'in high feather'.at in high feather under feather, n.
Hereford Times 15 June 4/3: To ride bayard of ten toes is to walk on foot.at ride Bayard of ten toes (v.) under ride, v.
Hereford Times 12 Sept. 4/4: A Yankee once strayed to a wine-merchant’s vaults; / Quoth the wine-merchant after a ‘booze’: / ‘Here’s a capital sort; shall I send you a pipe?’ / Quoth the Yankee: ‘Why, no friend, I chews’.at booze, n.
Hereford Times 28 Aug. 4/4: S’help me tatur, my lord, and may I be spiflicated and die in a horse’s nightcap [...] if we didn’t kill more nor two hundred on ’em.at horse’s nightcap (n.) under horse, n.
Hereford Times 31 July 2/8: A singular litttle man in olive brown coat and blue indescribables.at indescribables, n.
Hereford Times 28 Aug. 4/4: S’help me tatur, my lord, and may I be spiflicated and die in a horse’s nightcap [...] if we didn’t kill more nor two hundred on ’em.at spiflicate, v.
Hereford Times 25 Nov. 1/8: He threw [the ring] and jokingly said, ‘You must not come it [...] over me too often’.at come it over (v.) under come it, v.1
Hereford Times 14 Jan. 3/6: Completely Tossicated. Ann Reid was charged with being drunk and disorderly at St. Owen’s-gate.at tossicated, adj.
Hereford Times 28 Dec. 2/2: He is not always so fortunate in escaping the [...] cane of a cautious father, or the more dangerous ‘oaken towel’ of an irascible brother.at oaken towel, n.
Hereford Times 31 Aug. 2/9: Two men were apprehended by Newent police at ‘a padding-ken,’ on suspicion of robbing the house.at padding ken (n.) under pad, v.1
Hereford Times 2 Nov. 3/3: We have heard ladies who live apart from their busbands usually called ‘widows betwitched’.at widow-bewitched (n.) under widow, n.1
Hereford Times 28 June 4/1: She was tall, high-nosed, complexion fair as well as her hair.at high-nosed, adj.
Hereford Times 22 Mar. 3/7: The poor, unsuspecting youth, being completely taken up with the pony, together with the flash slang of the knowing one, of course believed all he said.at knowing, adj.
Hereford Times 11 July 6/2: Davy Crockett [...] was half-horse, half-alligator and a bit of a snapping turtle.at half-horse, half-alligator, adj.
Hereford Times 17 Jan. 8/5: A village plumber —who united Caleb Quotem’s various occupations to find constant employment.at Caleb Quotem, n.
Hereford Times 24 Oct. 3/6: Oh, but I’ll make yes look two ways for Sunday.at look seven ways for Sunday (v.) under look, v.
Hereford Times 6 Mar. 8/1: [It] must be hard pushed when it resorts to such unmanly tactics.at hard-pushed (adj.) under hard, adj.
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