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History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 13: [T]hey all got dished, done brown, basted [...] or wiped out.at baste, v.
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 13: [T]hey all got dished, done brown, basted [...] or wiped out. History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 10: A simple knight stood in some such relation to [...] the Duke of Y— as the jack-boots of an Inn would to a country squire.at boots, n.2
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 4: [T]he low blackguard who ‘cuts the broads’ or ‘goes upon the chucking rig’ for half-pence.at cut the broads (v.) under broads, n.
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 5: O’K— was engaged in the various pursuits that turn upon animal exertion, or on the chances, which he [...] endeavoured to controul.at on the chances (phr.) under chance, v.
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 4: [T]he low blackguard who ‘cuts the broads’ or ‘goes upon the chucking rig’ for half-pence.at chucking-rig (n.) under chuck, v.2
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 38: [A] scurrilous tongue, well adapted to blow up a pigeon who might whine at his ill luck, or come down upon the play.at come down on, v.
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 44: The poor plucked pigeon (now become a bald coot) lost his reason.at bald coot (n.) under coot, n.1
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 55: His Lordship and Co. failed in the dead-set they then made upon a certain Duke.at dead set, n.
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 57: [B]ut for his speed in packing off, it had been all dickey with Dick.at all dicky with under dicky, adj.1
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 57: He was obliged to cut, on account of his having dropped a certain gambling brewer in a duel, a termination to his mashing career.at drop, v.3
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 18: The Irish themselves do denominate their countrymen ‘Grecians’ and ‘Greeks’.at Greek, n.
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 38: The late Earl was of the cart-horse breed, heavy, lump, mutton-headed, sixteen stone weight.at mutton-headed, adj.
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 41: Two others [i.e. gambling clergymen], very irreverently packed up in a little house across the yard, not usually talked of at dinner time.at little house, n.
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 42: [A] slight incarceration in a neghbouring building ycleped the stone jug, i.e. Newgate.at stone jug, n.1
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 11: [A] promise [...] regarding the deceased Duke’s great knowledge of legism.at leg, n.
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 52: [She is] ‘neither a wooden-leg, nor even a broken-leg, nor belonging to those emigres from our soil who have taken leg.at take leg (v.) under leg, n.
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 12: He who could lift more money than a steam engine.at lift, v.
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 57: He was obliged to cut, on account of his having dropped a certain gambling brewer in a duel, a termination to his mashing career.at mash, v.
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 40: Augustus figured away as a bludegon-man, beoming the leader in many a Paddy-row.at paddy, adj.
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 47: In the Fleet-prison and around it, did our so-called Captain reside nearly twenty years, and it was he who set the name park upon the pace in which the rulers were circumscribed.at park, n.1
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 22: [of the champion racehorse, Eclipse] [I]ts owner naturally enough became desirous of ‘putting on the pot’.at put the pot on (v.) under pot, n.1
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 16: [They] came here to punt for single guineas.at punt, v.1
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 20: [O]ur deluded plucked pigeon [...] lost all the ready rhino he could muster.at rhino, n.1
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 51: For what precise misdeed he got rumped at C—n-house [is] uncertain [...] 53: Wehn the subject to be rumped (or cut) approaches the great man, the latter eyes him over from top to toe [...] and our subject wretch raiseth his downcast eyes [...] and discovereth nought but the royal rump presented to his view.at rump, v.
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 7: Bill Drts got hooted out of society, he retired to his native Bath [...] and there died — upon the shambles.at upon the shambles (adj.) under shambles, phr.
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 28: The back parlor (vulgo slum,) of an extremely low-bred Irish Widow.at slum, n.1
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 34: [W]hen he thought proper to ‘turn her up,’ as the gamblers phrase it, he took on with the wife of a more humble person still.at turn up, v.2
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 41: He taught the art of doing the flats, cutting the broads right, and throwing uphills.at uphills, n.
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